Seventh Conference on Actor-Reality Construction

Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
30th August-1st September 2017

Guidelines for Presenters

In the forthcoming SEVENTH CONFERENCE ON ACTOR-REALITY CONSTRUCTION at Tampere University of Technology 30th August – 1st September 2017, the guidelines for the presenters are the following:

The papers have been divided into thematic sessions according to the conference program that is available below. In each thematic sessions there will first be 20 minutes for each paper, and after the presentations of the papers, there will be a long discussion session ‘salon’ with respect to the overall theme. We expect the salons to be organized around 4 groups with 7-8 participants in each.

Accordingly, when preparing your presentation, please note that:
• The presentation should take no more than 15 minutes, with a possibility to 1-2 quick prompt questions immediately after the presentation. Make sure to reserve sufficient time to your particular findings and contribution (potentially at the cost of presenting generic literature background etc.)
• Quite obviously, your presentation may as such facilitate interesting discussion at the end of the session. Besides, make sure that your presentation enables connections to the overall theme of the session.

Thank you already in advance for your valuable contribution in the conference. Looking forward to interesting presentations and discussion!

 

Program

Wednesday Afternoon 30th August

12:00-13:00 WELCOME and LUNCH
Tuomas Korhonen, Teemu Laine and Petri Suomala

Public Sector

13:00-14:00 NPM
(Chair: Lisa Jack)
1. Is the New Public Management an Illusion? Insights from Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector
Lino Cinquini, Sara Giovanna Mauro, Daniela Pianezzi
2. Inter organisational decision making and the Role of Actors: A Case Study Of Commissioning In English NHS
Pinar Guven-Uslu
3. Topography of “Faceless” Actors in a Context: Examples from Public Management
Tuomas Korhonen, Ossi Heino, Teemu Laine, & Anni Lindholm

14:00-15:00 University Management
(Chair: Cristina Campanale)
4. The use and non-use of management accounting information in universities
Timo Hyvönen, Hannele Mäkelä, Jukka Pellinen, Antti Fredriksson
5. The Illusion of ‘Objective and Result-Based Management’: A Universal NPM Tool in the Danish Public Sector
Kristian Røge, Nikolaj Kure, Hanne Nørreklit
6. Narrating Paranoia or Orchestrating Performance
Lennart Nørreklit, Lisa Jack, Hanne Nørreklit

COFFEE

15:00-16:30 Salons on public sector performance management
Based on the presentations what can we conclude about the status and problems of public sector performance management?
What are the successful cases of (co)-authorship in public sector management?
What are the principals of good and bad performance management?
What research needs to be undertaken to develop NPM?

16:30-17.00 Plenum
(Chair: Hanne Nørreklit)
Preliminary conclusion from salons

 

Thursday morning 31th August

Human Values and Management of Construct Causality
COFFEE available

9:00-10:00 Human values
(Chair: Nikolaj Kure)
7. Hybridity as a value embedded: the role of management accounting and accountants in the case of co-production
Cristina Campanale, Lino Cinquini, Giuseppe Grossi
8. Taking organizational values into account in management control
Chris Chapman, Anja Kern, Lili Kihn,
9. Accountability undermined: Clashes between temporal subject positions emphasizing the objectified character of time
Terhi Chakhovich and Tuija Virtanen

10:00-11:00 Management of construct causality
(Chair: Lino Cinquini)
10. When the Disciplinary Power of Numbers Fails – Beyond Customer Performance Measurement in a Social Media Context
Hanne Nørreklit and Mihaela Trenca
11. Servitization strategy as a roadmap for the accounting machine
Antonio Leotta, Carmela Rizza, Daniela Ruggeri
12. Constructing pro-active truth for hiring flexible robots
Morten Jakobsen

11:00- 12.00 Salons on human values and management of construct causality
Based on the presentations what can we conclude about the status of the human values and the management of construct causality?
What are the performance management problems calling for solutions?
What are the societal forces hindering sustainable values and construct causality?

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

 

Thursday Afternoon 31th August

Methodology

13:00-14:30 Interventionist research approach and pragmatic constructivism
(Chair: Tuomas Korhonen)
13. System builders’ intentions and methods in forming biogas ecosystems
Saukkonen, N., Särkilahti, M., Suonio, S., Laine, T., Jokinen, A., Rintala, J.
14. The obstacles of constructing performance measures in Social Enterprises and Non-profit Organizations
Janni Grouleff Nielsen
15. Interventionist research and pragmatic constructivism
Lennart Nørreklit

COFFEE

14:30-16:00 Salons on methodology
How can interventionist research and pragmatic constructivism contribute to develop management logos aiming to solve the problems we have raised?
Which projects should be formulated?
Which methods do we have to address them?
What kinds of request do they put on the researchers as actors?
How can we cooperate and interact with organisations?

16:00-16:30 Report from groups on status
(Chair Hanne Nørreklit)

18:30 DINNER

 

Friday Morning 1st September

Digitalisation, Numbers, and Sustainability
COFFEE available

9:00- 9:40 IT and numbers
(Chair: Rafael Heinzelmann)
16. Developments in Information Technology Innovations for Financial Accounting and Administration during 1971–2016
Pirkko Jaatinen, Lili Kihn, Salme Näsi
17. Pragmatic Constructivism and Revenue Management Analytics: A Tale of Two UK Hotel Chains
Ruth Mattimoe

9:40-10.40 Salons on further research
What are the implications of digitalization for the production of numbers and sustainability?
What research projects needs to be undertaken to facilitate performance management and sustainability
How can we approach such research projects?
How can we cooperate on this?

10.40-12:00 Plenum
(Chair: Hanne Nørreklit)
Group presentations on conclusion on further research
Conclusion on further research

12:00-13:00 WHAT NEXT, LUNCH AND GOODBYE
(Chair: Teemu Laine)