About the conference
Research on pragmatic constructivism emphasizes the role of the actor – as a controller, manager, entrepreneur, agent, etc. – in the construction of organized reality. Through interaction, organizational actors seek to establish and construct certain intended processes and effects in the organization and hence to establish a joint “construct causality”. Four dimensions of reality – facts, possibilities, values, and communication – must be integrated in the actor-world relation if the construct is to form a successful basis for effective actions. During this eighth conference, we intend to consolidate and further develop the pragmatic constructivist framework and the Actor-Reality Perspective on management and accounting.
This year’s conference welcomes submissions within a variety of topics such as management, accounting, performance management, cooperation, new public management, etc. The possible focus areas of the desired submissions include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
Possibilities, digitalization, numbers and actors
• If everything is digitalized, what are the important consequences for human actors and what are (should be) their roles?
• Artificial “intelligence” and Big Data are alarming indications of that decision-making would be un-contextualized, but are people and local setting then irrelevant?
• How do actors interact with the post-truth culture, where the value of truth and trustworthy performance measurement has collapsed?
• made How do actors identify and construct possibilities in a context of digitalistion; how do they evaluate whether possibilities are factual?
• How can organsiational actors produce proactive and pragmatic truth accounting information?
Ethics, values and accountability
• What are values and their roles in a reality construction?
• Who’s values are and should we be made accountable to?
• How can we develop more fair and valid instruments for making managers and employees accountable?
• What is the relation between communication and values?
• How can we develop succesful forms of co-authorship?
Pragmatic constructivist methodology
• What is relevant methodology of pragmatic constructivism
• What is the relation between interventionist and actor-based research
• How to make changes in language games
This year’s conference invites three categories of contributions: i) Full papers, ii) Abstracts and iii) PhD-projects. The conference organizers will provide sufficient time for in-depth discussions and reflections among participants and hopefully further develop their thoughts and paper writings.
This year’s organizing committee consists of:
– Gudrun Baldvinsdottir, Göteborg University, Sweden
– Lino Cinquini, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa, Italy
– Lisa Jack, Portsmouth Business School
– Falconer Mitchell, Edinburgh University, UK
– Hanne Nørreklit, Aarhus University, Denmark
– Olivier Saulpic, ESCP, Paris, France
– Petri Suomala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
– Andrea Tenucci, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa, Italy
Submission to: hannenorreklit@mgmt.au.dk
Deadline for submissions: 31st July 2018
Deadline for registration: 31th August 2018
Fee: €150
Contacts:
hannenorreklit@mgmt.au.dk
lino.cinquini@santannapisa.it
andrea.tenucci@santannapisa.it
Wednesday 24th October
12:00–13:00
Registration and Light Lunch (Room 14)
13:00–13:15
Welcome from the Director of the Institute of Management (Andrea Piccaluga) (Room 14)
13:15–13:30
Introduction and organization of the Conference (Lino Cinquini and Hanne Norreklit) (Room 14)
13:30–14:15
Plenary I: David Kergel – Towards a dialogue between learning and management theory in the digital age (Room 14)
14:15–14:45
Coffee break (Room 14)
14:45–16:15
Parallel Sessions – 3 Papers:
PS I – Digital Learning and Language Games (Room 14)
Chair: Hilde Kinserdal
Camilla Kølsen Petersen – Scripted and live language games in educational reality
Michael Paulsen – The good, the bad and the ugly – how schools construe digitalization
Frederik Koepp – Big data for the accounting function – Opportunities and risks – A mapping study
PS II – Costing and Digitalization (Room 4)
Chair: Teemu Laine
Morten Jakobsen – Cost management and Big Data – searching for possibilities
Trond Bjørnenak & Hanne Nørreklit – Costing vs. prediction machines in pricing decisions
Jakob Liboriussen, Hanne Nørreklit & Mihaela Trenca – Performance management of cultural events – Aarhus 2017
16:15–16:30
Track Discussions (PS I & PS II)
16:30–17:00
Plenary Salon (Room 14)
Thursday 25th October
09:00–10:15
Plenary II: Thomas Bolander – Human vs machine intelligence (Room 14)
10:15–10:45
Coffee break (Room 14)
10:45–12:15
Parallel Sessions – 3 Papers:
PS III – Decision Making and Methodology (Room 14)
Chair: Camilla Kølsen
Lars Bo Henriksen – Language Games, Dialogue and the Other
Pinar Guven Uslu, Zlatinka Blaber, Pawan Adhikari – Pragmatic constructivism and inter-organisational decision making
Martyn Jones, Sally-Ann Krzyzaniak – Management accounting research approaches and the evolution of pragmatic constructivism
PS IV – Research and Technology (Room 4)
Chair: Cristina Campanale
Janne Mämmelä et al. – Design knowledge in technology management
Riccardo Giannetti et al. – Management accounting in academic-based product development
Antonio Leotta et al. – Digitalization in learning processes
12:15–12:30
Track Discussions (PS III & PS IV)
12:30–13:30
Lunch (Room 2)
13:30–14:00
Teemu Laine et al. – Employing pragmatic constructivism in managerial processes (Room 14)
14:00–14:45
Plenary III: Lennart Norreklit – IT and paranoiac rule (Room 14)
14:45–15:15
Panel Discussion: Language and AI (Room 14)
15:15–15:45
Coffee break (Room 14)
15:45–17:00
Plenary Salon on Projects (Room 14)
19:45
Conference Dinner (Ristorante La Clessidra)
Friday 26th October
09:00–10:00
Parallel Sessions – 2 Papers:
PS V – Validity in Planning and Control (Room 14)
Chair: Pinar Guven Uslu
Antonio Leotta et al. – Digitalization and validity in business planning
Sally-Ann Krzyzaniak et al. – Failures of Management Control
PS VI – Values and Validity (Room 4)
Chair: Michael Paulsen
Lennart Norreklit – The foundation of value
Gudrun Baldvinsdottir – Pragmatic Constructivist Framework and Institutional Logics
10:00–10:15
Track Discussions (PS V & PS VI)
10:15–10:45
Coffee break (Room 14)
10:45–11:45
Parallel Sessions – 2 Papers:
PS VII – Performance Measurement (Room 14)
Chair: Morten Jakobsen
Stefan Schaper et al. – IC reporting in Denmark and Italy
PS VIII – Language Games (Room 4)
Chair: Sally-Ann Krzyzaniak
Hilde Inger Kinserdal – Changing the language game of financial accounting
Sara Giovanna Mauro et al. – (Un)Performing universities
Lennart Nørreklit et al. – Digital-based performance management
11:45–12:00
Track Discussions (PS VII & PS VIII)
12:00–13:00
Plenary Salon and Conclusions (Room 14)
13:00–14:00
Greetings and Light Lunch (Room 2)