EGOS sub-theme "Activity Theory and Formative Interventions in Organising"

Colloquium of the European Group for Organisation Studies

SUB-THEME 41: ACTIVITY THEORY AND FORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN ORGANIZING

Programme

 

1.Opening session

Introduction of the sub-theme by the convenors:

Yrjö Engeström (University of Helsinki), David Allen (University of Leeds) and Annalisa Sannino (Tampere University)

 

Keynote address:

A Change Lab for maternity care in Brazil: Gender, evidence and rights in times of uncertainty  

Carmen Simone Diniz, University of São Paulo

 

2.Change Laboratory and formative interventions

A multi-site formative intervention study for inclusive organizational design in the United States

Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kemal Afacan, Artvin Çoruh Üniversitesi

Halil Ibrahim Cakir, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

The Change Laboratory as a research instrument: From methodology to methods and back

Yrjö Engeström, Univesity of Helsinki

Annalisa Sannino, Tampere University

 

3. Formative interventions and expansive learning

Change Laboratories for all schools in a Swedish municipality – towards a systemic approach

Maria Spante, University West

 

Expansive learning and change of practice for nurses collaborating in transitional care of older adults

Rikke Buus Bøje, Peter Musaeus, Dorthe Sørensen, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Aarhus University

 

Modeling degrowth: Long cycle of expansive learning in a food cooperative

Juhana Rantavuori, University of Helsinki

 

4. Agency and expansive learning

Expansive learning for the enactment of a utopia? The case of the Homelessness strategy in Finland

Annalisa Sannino, Tampere University

 

Education as a collaborative intervention: Toward building a community of agency in disaster prevention learning

Katsuhiro Yamazumi, Kansai University

 

Fostering transformative agency through collective volitional action at work: The history of sustained change in responding to emergencies during birth

Nick Hopwood, University of Technology Sydney

Johanna Dahlberg, Marie Blomberg& Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Linköping University

 

5. Contradictions and tensions

Supporting a policy of success for disadvantaged schools: Identification of contradictions around hierarchical power issues between activity systems

Yannick Lémonie, Cnam, Paris

Vincent Grosstephan, ESPE Champagne-Ardennes, Reims

Jean-Luc Tomàs, Cnam, Paris

 

“CO” in coworking as a short of contradictions? 

Silvia Ivaldi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Annalisa Sannino, University of Tampere

Giuseppe Scaratti, Università Cattolica di Milano

 

Activity theory as a framework for analysing service provision in a prison system: A case study from Norway

William Dugdale, Bournemouth University

Päivikki Lahtinen, University of Helsinki & University of Stavanger

Anu Kajamaa, University of Helsinki

 

6. Digital tools and technologies

An Activity Theory perspective on digital inclusion

Sharon Wagg, Boyka Simeonova & Louise Cooke, Loughborough University

 

BIM visualizations promoting multi-party discussion of a future building in a knotworking session

Hannele Kerosuo, Tampere University

 

Enlightening the pre-implementation of a digital tool and anticipate individual change by analyzing the activity. An illustration through the activity of French teachers-researchers

Marie-Laure Weber & Florence Rodhain University of Montpellier

 

7. Collaboration and materiality

Inter-organisational collaboration in the public sector: An activity theory approach

Fatema Zaghloul, Alistair Norman & David Allen, University of Leeds

 

Social movement learning in a food cooperative: Opening up sociomateriality with activity theory

Sami Paavola, University of Helsinki

 

What does organizational learning have to learn from material things?

Gabriel do Carmo Yamamoto & Marcio P. Cassandre, State University of Maringa

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