Speaker: Prof Stewart Clegg, University of Sydney
Title: Research Movements and Theorising Dynamics in Management and Organisation Studies
Date: Thu, 27th Apr 2023
Time: 12pm – 2pm
Venue: Building 24, Copland, Seminar Room 1106
MOSAIC is the host of this visit.
ABSTRACT
A conceptual model of the processes that regulate theory selection and retention in management and organization studies is produced. Considering the many sources of theoretical variety that characterize our field, what requires explanation is both the proliferation of theories as well as the decline of some schools of thought. We argue that research programs (ordered sequences of theories) lose momentum when the research movements that develop and maintain them fail to attend to some organizing priorities. By conceptualizing theorizing as form of organizing, we describe how research movements dynamically arrange sociomaterial elements (grammars, thought styles, material artifacts, and empirical craft), arguing that their sustainability depends on their capacity effectively to navigate the paradoxical tensions that derive from these organizing efforts.
BIO
Stewart Clegg was Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney before joining the Department of Project Management in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney in 2021. He is a Virtual Visiting Professor at University of Stavanger, Norway and at Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal. In the past he has held Chair appointments at the University of New England, University of St. Andrews, University of Western Sydney as well as many Visiting Appointments, including at the Universities of Cambridge, Stanford, Newcastle (UK) and Aston and Copenhagen Business School. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential contributors to organization studies and project management, recognized as such by numerous Fellowships, as well as being one of the most significant contemporary theorists of power relations.
He has held several ARC Linkage Grants investigating phenomena such as alliancing, as well as program delivery, in Sydney Water. Currently he is involved in empirical teamwork for the Asia Pacific Organization, investigating member nation governmental digital strategies, as well as an upcoming ASSA (Academy of the Social Sciences) workshop on Public Private Partnerships.
He is an EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Honorary Member, a lifetime achievement award; he is a Fellow of EURAM (European Academy of Management); Fellow of the AOM (Academy of Management) Distinguished Fellow of ANZAM (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management); Fellow of BASS (British Academy of the Social Sciences); an Aston Fellow and a Fellow of ASSA (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia). He is a prolific contributor to scientific journals as well as the author and editor of over 50 books.