SCANCOR report of scholarly activity 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS SCANCOR DIRECTORS’ REPORTS 2014…………………….. 3 POSTDOC DIRECTOR REPORT……………………………….. 6 SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS 2014……………………… 7 SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS INDIVIDUAL REPORTS…. 11 PUBLICATIONS BY VISITING SCHOLARS……………………… 63 SCANCOR Seminars 2014 ..……………………………………. 69 Summary tabulations of SCANCOR national contributions…… 70 Summary tabulations of SCANCOR USA utilization by country…. 71 POSTDOC FELLOWS’ REPORTS……………………………… 72 CONTACT INFORMATION………………………………….…… 78 2 SCANCOR Directors’ report - 2014 It is our pleasure to summarize SCANCOR’s activity over the year just past. The vitality, visibility, and intellectual reach of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research continue to grow. As always, SCANCOR’s funders and friends are warmly encouraged to offer their input on our work. We look forward to hearing from you. Mitchell Stevens and Sarah Soule Visiting Director: journal that is disrupting at any one time with an equal academic publishing. She has distribution of charter member While Mitchell Stevens is on served on a number of boards and associate member academic leave for Fall of non-profit organizations, is institutions represented. Quarter 2014 and Winter currently a member Board of Quarter 2015, Sarah A. Advisors to the Hasso Plattner Soule, Morgridge Professor Institute of Design (the Stanford of Organizational d.school) Fellowship program, Behavior Stanford Graduate and also serves on the faculty Reflections from a few of our 2014 School of Business, is advisory board to the Stanford visitors excerpted from the scholar SCANCOR Visiting Director. Center for the Advancement of activities summary report: Women’s Leadership. She has “One thing that I deeply feel after Sarah is a globally taught a number of courses with ending my research at recognized scholar of the Stanford d.school, and is the SCANCOR is that I actually know organizational theory, social Faculty Director for the what it feels to stand on the shoulders of giants now!” movements, and political Executive Program on Social sociology. She has written Entrepreneurship at the “I sharpened my seminar skills, two recent books, the first Graduate School of Business. strengthened my understanding of with Cambridge University Sarah is also a judge for the institutional organizational analysis and was introduced to the Press, Contention and Stanford Social Innovation interdisciplinary study of networks.” Corporate Social Fellowship, and for the Tech Responsibility, and the Awards. “SCANCOR provided a great second with Norton, A Primer opportunity to meet other scholars, on Social Movements. She is and my stay surely allowed me to take a step back and re-evaluate the series editor for the Visiting Scholars: my project in an inspiring Cambridge University Press environment.” Contentious Politics series, SCANCOR hosted 34 Visiting and is a member of the Scholars in 2014, ranging from founding team of Sociological fourteen to eleven in residence 3 12 All scholars become part of the SCANCOR and Stanford communities and attend both SCANCOR seminars and other seminars and colloquia at several departments and schools at Stanford, such as: - Work, Technology and Organizations in the Management Science and Engineering Department - Department of Sociology - Department of Political Science - The Hoover Institute - The Freeman Spogli Publications by Institute of European visiting scholars Studies - Stanford Network Forum Scholars are prolific writers One scholar, Prof. Katarina - Organizational Behavior in while at SCANCOR of book Kaarboe from Norway, received the Graduate School of chapters, books and articles. the David Solomons Prize Business Destinations of manuscripts “Best Paper Award” for a paper • The Center for International prepared or finished at co-authored with Anatoli Security and Cooperation SCANCOR in 2014 include: Bourmistrov titled ’From (CISAC) comfort to stretch zones: A field Die Betriebswirtschaft study of two multinational The Stanford Center on • companies applying “beyond Philanthropy and Civil European Journal of Marketing budgeting” ideas’. Society (Stanford PACS) Journal of Business Research • The Institute for Research For a detailed list of all in the Social Sciences Journal of Comparative Policy publications developed at (IRiss) Analysis SCANCOR over the last year, see page 79 of the SCANCOR • The Clayman Institute for Journal of Consumer Report of Scholarly Activity Gender Research Psychology 2014 at: • The Global Projects Center Organisation and Management http://www.scancor.org/about- • The Graduate School of Oxford Research Review scancor/annual-reports/ Education • Media-X Public Management Review • The Comparative Sociology Public Policy and Workshop Administration 4 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program One Fellow arrived in January 2014 and two Fellows arrived in Fall 2014, each for a two-year stay: Markus Paukku, Aalto University School of Business has been appointed to a position as Postdoctoral Scholar in the Graduate School of Education from January 2014 to December 2015. Markus will be involved in research on education technology and the digital transformation in situ, as a field-emergence problem, together with Assoc. Prof. Mitchell Stevens. Jonna Louvrier, Hanken School of Economics, has been appointed as a SCANCOR Postdoctoral Scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She will be involved in research on gender diversity and corporate leadership with Prof. Shelley Correll and Dr. Andrea Davies. Love Börjesson, Stockholm University School of Business, has been Seminars appointed as a SCANCOR Postdoctoral Scholar at the Graduate School of Education. He will be involved in research on computational social We convened eight Monday science with Prof. Dan McFarland. seminar sessions during Winter Quarter 2014, six during Spring Quarter, 2014 and eight during Fall 2014. Visitors from Boston College, UCLA, UC-Irvine, UC-San Diego, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, WU-Wien, Harvard Business School and several Nordic institutions as well as Stanford drew large audiences. A complete list of seminars may be found at http://www.scancor.org/seminars/. SCANCOR continued its Friday seminar series this year. This is a forum for our visitors to present work in progress and receive critical feedback from the SCANCOR Director. Scholars are enthusiastic about both seminar PhD workshop series and find them to be an important component of their time SCANCOR presents a PhD workshop on Institutional Theory for here. Nordic and European students taking place in Europe and taught by American faculty members. In 2012 the workshop was hosted by WU-Vienna, and in 2014 hosted by Hebrew University in Jerusalem. About 25 attendees are selected from applicant pools of 55 or more. The workshops also generate several applications to SCANCOR, both as visiting scholars and postdocs. One recent EGOS in Rotterdam student expressed her experience this way: The SCANCOR reception at “Whenever I think about the SCANCOR workshop, I get the same EGOS 2014 in Rotterdam was picture in my mind. It is the group picture we had taken at the very last again a very successful event with moment before the workshop ended. After having completed a long around 125 attendees. It was the reading list, five days of very intense lectures from the most influential fourth year SCANCOR hosted a scholars in the field and stimulating discussions with the peers, there I reception and we plan to continue look at my face, and I see a person who had lots of fun and biggest enthusiasm in the world.” this tradition in Athens 2015. 5 POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM REPORT 2014 The SCANCOR Postdoctoral Fellowship enables young organizational scholars of great promise to train and conduct research under the close mentorship of Stanford University faculty members. The fellowships provide opportunities for early career scholars, within three years of their Ph.D., to deepen their skills and gain exposure to new research environments. The goal of the program is to foster close interaction between a new generation of Scandinavian scholars and faculty at Stanford and the wider North American intellectual community. In February of 2014, a Finnish postdoc, Markus Paukku, joined the Graduate School of Education and is working with Assoc. Prof. Mitchell L. Stevens. Markus is involved in research on education technology and the digital transformation in situ, as a field-emergence problem. In September of 2014 SCANCOR welcomed two new postdoctoral fellows; one from Finland and one from Sweden. Jonna Lourier from Hanken School of Economics is working with Prof. Shelley Correll and Dr. Andrea Davies at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Jonna is involved in research on gender diversity and corporate leadership. Love Börjesson, Stockholm University School of Business, is working with Prof. Dan McFarland in the Graduate School of Education on computational social science research. In fall of 2015, another Swedish postdoc, The postdoc positions are two-year appointments. Two of the current postdocs received special recognition in 2014. Johan Christensen was awarded the The Linz- Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology in April 2014 and Laerke Christiansen was the finalist for best student paper at the Academy of Management conference 2014, and was also featured in the Berlingske Business Talent 100 list. The Linz-Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology AoM Student Paper and Berlingske Business Talent 100 list The Department of Political