Organization Science Winter Conference 2008
Main Conference
Thursday, February 7
4:30-5:00
Introduction to the Conference: Arie Y. Lewin and Bill McKelvey
Greeting and Shepherding (Emigrant Peak)
5:00-7:00
Keynote Talk: Dave Snowden: (Monument Peak)
7:00-10:00
Poster Session I (Emigrant Peak)
Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
Mary Han
Michael Shayne Gary
Robert Wood
Gerald C. Kane
Vibha Gaba
Alan Meyer
Koen Heimeriks
Marjorie Lyles, Jeffrey J.
Reuer
Debra Meyerson
Robin Ely
Oliver F. Gottschalg
Degenhard Meier, Malte
Brettel
Irma Becerra-Fernandez
Michael Prietula
Jacqueline R. Meszaros
Felipe Csaszar
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Organizing the hodgepodge of organizational
knowledge processes: A typology and an
assessment based on critical incidents
Toward a Social Capital Theory of
Technology-Based New Ventures as Complex
Adaptive Systems
Mental Models and Decision Rules
Underpinning Boom and Bust Behavior
Crisis by Consensus: Wikipedia and the
Virginia Tech Massacre
Oscillating Environment and
Organizational Change
Learning-Before-Doing in Complex Events:
An Analysis of Multiple Learning Effects in
International Strategic Alliances
The Organizational Reconstruction of Men’s
Identity on Offshore Oil Platforms
How Acquirers Contribute to Post-Investment
Value Addition in Buyouts: A Resource
Dependence Perspective
Structured Emergence & Learning: EOCs,
Extreme Events & Community Continuity
Research Funding Opportunities for
Organizational Scientists
How much to copy? The contingent value of
imitation capabilities
Friday, February 8
7:00-8:30
Breakfast served in (Montagnas) guest welcome
8:00-10:00
Plenary Panel: On the Nature of Extremes: Panel Chair: Kathy Eisenhardt (Monument Peak):
Robert Axtell: Nonexistence of a Typical Firm in the U.S. Economy: Extremely Heavy Tails in Firm
Size and Growth,
Paul Ormerod: Extreme Events and the Resilience of Capitalism
Nicolaj Siggelkow: Learning from Extreme Events
10:15-4:00
Winter Activities and other social networking
4:30-6:30
Plenary Panel: Non-“Normal” Distributions: Panel Chair: Kevin Dooley (Monument Peak)
Pierpaolo Andriani: Modeling the Multiple Causes of the Italian Wealth Distribution
Jim Hazy: Emergent Agency in Collectives: Influence Power Laws & Evolutionary Selection in the
Garbage Can
Kim Bloomquist and Edward Emblom: Estimation of Corporate Tax Underreporting Using
Extreme Values from Operational Audit Data
Bill McKelvey: Pareto-Based Organization Science
7:00-10:00
Poster Session II (Emigrant Peak)
Jim Hazy
Russ Marion
Edward G. Anderson
Tammy L. Madsen
Kyle Lewis
Dara Szyliowicz
Hans Berends
Sam Jelinek, Isabelle Reymen
Ji-Yub (Jay) Kim
Benyamin Lichtenstein
Paul Adler
William Tracy
Thomas Hutzschenreuter
Liisa Valikangas
Antoaneta Petkova
Scott Rockart
Mr. Arnold
Sari Stenfors
Violina Rindova, Anil K.
Gupta
When Organizing in Extreme Situations, Is FarFrom-Equilibrium (FFE) a Meaningful Concept?
A Dynamic Model of Learning amid Disruption
Waves of Investing: Institutional Dynamics in the
Venture Capital Sector
Designing Processes: The Co-Structuration of
new product development
Learning from Extreme Events: The Case of
Bank Fraud
The Driver of Emergence is from Extreme Events
Genetic Drift and Extreme Events in
Evolutionary Systems
Coming Back From a Near Dead Experience
Social Mobilization through Extreme Framing:
Teaching Entrepreneurship in Afghanista
How Can New Ventures Build Reputation? An
Exploratory Study
The Distribution, Persistence, and Disruption of
Relative Positions in Professional Services
Industries. Competitive positions and rewards in
various professional services industries show
power law distributions on dimensions such as
reputation and fees. This paper investigates what
drives the distribution of relative positions within
these industries, why the distributions persist
despite firms' frequent attempts to equalize or
invert relative positions, and what allows some
firms to substantially shift their own positions in
those industries
Saturday, February 9
7:00-8:30
Breakfast served in (Montagnas)
8:00-10:00
Plenary Panel: Methods: How Better to Study Extremes: Panel Chair: Alan Meyer (Monument
Peak)
Fabrice Cavaretta: Getting Disoriented by Performance Variability: A Peek through the Looking-glass
Separating Average and Extreme Outcomes,
Arie Y. Lewin, Silvia Massini, Lawrence Seiford and Joe Zhu.: Organizational Efficiency as
Determinants of Learning and Selection: Insights from a Pareto Efficiency Frontier Analysis,
Colin Beech, Rachel A. Dowty and William A. Wallace.: Modeling Organizational Culture and
Disaster Response with ORCiDS,
Ehsan S. Soofi, Paul Nystrom and Masoud Yasai: Identification and Analysis of Extremes with Two
Examples: Executives’ Economic Forecasts after 9/11 and CEO Salaries
10:15-4:00
Winter Activities and other social networking
4:30-6:30
Plenary Panel: Organizational Learning from Extreme Events: Panel Chair: Christina Fang
(Monument Peak)
Sungho Kim et al.: How the Presence of Hubs Influences the Balance between Exploration and
Exploitation in a Series of Simulation Experiments,
Frances Milliken et al: How Power Clouds our Sense-making and Learning from Hurricane
Katrina: Based on Actual Speeches by a Networked Group of Actors,
Michael Tamuz et al: How Groups of Actors Interpret a Severe Hospital Accident: An In-depth
Qualitative Stud,
Jerker Denrell and Christina Fang: Dangers of Learning from Extreme Success
6:35-7:35
Dinner (Emigrant Peak)
7:40-9:40
Plenary Panel: Complexity Leadership Panel Chair: Mary Uhl-Bien (Monument Peak)
Mary Uhl-Bien: Overview of Complexity Leadership Theory,
Lyndon Rego: Description of Katrina Aftermath,
Max Boisot: Chaotic vs. Highly Ordered vs. Emergent Complexity Leadership after Katrina
Sean Hanna: A Practitioner Perspective
Sunday, February 10
7:00-8:15
Breakfast served in (Emigrant Peak)
8:00-10:00
Scalability Dynamics: Panel Chair: Russ Marion (Emigrant Peak)
Denis Smith and and Moira Fischbacher: Managerial Responses to Catastrophic Events,
Ken Colwell: The Scale-free Dynamics of Complex Organizational Systems: The Emergence of
Structure in the Alliance Network of Nanotechnology Firms,
Cristophe Belleval & Christophe Lerch: Overcoming Technical, Organizational & Cognitive
Contradictions in New Product Design Processes: How a Minor Innovative Project Can Destabilize
an Entire Organization,
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein: A Scale-free Theory of Emergence: Four Sequences of Emergence
Within, Of, and Across Organizations
10:00-11:15
Closing: Linda Argote
CLOSING AND FAREWELLS, TRAVEL AND/OR OTHER WINTER ACTIVITIES