SAP Reading Club

SAP Reading Club

Program 2024 to 2025

In the 2024 to 2025 academic year, we explored “how to” questions relevant to early career researchers. Four accomplished scholars or author teams joined us, each sharing insights and practical advice based on one of their publications on how to conduct and publish high-quality research.

  • Session #1 with Sara Soderstrom
    Topic: How to convert a dissertation to a publication?
    Reading: Organizational Structure from Interaction: Evidence from Corporate Sustainability Efforts (co-authored by Klaus Weber)
    Date: November 21, 2024
  • Session #2 with Kevin Rockman (George Mason University)
    Topic: How to write about “empirically driven insights?”
    Reading: Contagious offsite work and the lonely office: The unintended consequences of distributed work (co-authored by Mike Pratt)
    Date: January 15, 2025
  • Session #3 with Hille Bruns and Elizabeth Lingo
    Topic: How to analyse data when theory mirrors life: Reflections on navigating the tedious work of publishing academic research?
    Reading: Tedious Work: Developing Novel Outcomes with Digitization in the Arts and Sciences
    Date: February 26, 2025
  • Session #4 with Violetta Splitter
    Topic: How to manage multiple papers from one ethnography
    Reading: Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes (co-authored by David Seidl and Richard Whittington)
    Date: May 14, 2025

Program 2023 to 2024

In the 2023 to 2024 academic year, Reading Club: Behind the Scenes welcomed highly accomplished scholars around the globe, at various career stages, to discuss challenges encountered in conducting and publishing qualitative studies. Under the theme “What is the challenge(s) here?”, speakers shared experiences, insights, and tips. All sessions last one hour, live on Zoom.

  • Session #1 with Charlotte Cloutier and Fannie Couture
    Reading: Comfortably Uncomfortable: Unpacking the Micro-Dynamics of Field Stability and Change, Academy of Management Journal
    Date: November 3, 2023 (4pm UK)
  • Session #2 with Corentin Curchod
    Reading: Working for an algorithm: Power asymmetries and agency in online work settings, Administrative Science Quarterly
    Date: January 31, 2024 (4pm UK)
  • Session #3 with Scott Sonenshein
    Reading: When the symphony does jazz: How resourcefulness fosters organisational resilience during adversity, Academy of Management Journal
    Date: March 6, 2024
  • Session #4 with Tammar Zilber
    Reading: Narrating Institutional Logics into Effect: Coherence Across Cognitive, Political, and Emotional Elements, Administrative Science Quarterly
    Date: April 10, 2024 (4pm UK)

Program 2022 to 2023

We continued the SAP Reading Club: Behind the Scene series, inviting authors at various career stages to share experiences in the challenging process of publishing in leading journals.

  • Session #1 with Madeleine Rauch and Shaz Ansari
    Topic: Reshaping theory in a reviewing process
    Reading: Waging War from Remote Cubicles: How Workers Cope with Technologies That Disrupt the Meaning and Morality of Their Work, Organization Science
    Date: November 23, 2022
  • Session #2 with Vern Glaser
    Topic: Reframing for a different journal
    Reading: Making Snowflakes Like Stocks: Stretching, Bending, and Positioning to Make Financial Market Analogies Work in Online Advertising, Organization Science (co-authors: Peer C. Fiss, Mark Thomas Kennedy)
    Date: January 25, 2023
  • Session #3 with Paula Jarzabkowski
    Topic: Writing, rewriting, and rewriting it again: the journey to get complex findings to publication
    Reading: The social practice of coevolving strategy and structure to realize mandated radical change, Academy of Management Journal (co-authors: Jane Lê, Julia Balogun)
    Date: March 29, 2023
  • Session #4 with Ona Onajomo Akemu and Samer Abdelnour
    Topic: Addressing comments in an R&R
    Reading: Confronting the Digital: Doing Ethnography in Modern Organizational Settings, Organizational Research Methods
    Date: May 24, 2023

Program 2021 to 2022

In the academic year 2021 to 2022, we launched the SAP Reading Club series Behind the Scenes, inviting scholars to share insights on publishing qualitative research and navigating reviewing processes.

  • Session #1 with Neil Thompson and Orla Byrne
    Reading: Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making, Organization Studies
    Date: May 18, 2022
  • Session #2 with Fleur Deken and Hans Berends
    Reading: Strategizing and the Initiation of Interorganizational Collaboration through Prospective Resourcing, Academy of Management Journal (co-authors: Gerda Gemser, Kristina Lauche)
    Date: March 29, 2022
  • Session #3 with Eric Knight and Jarryd Daymond
    Reading: Design-Led Strategy: How to Bring Design Thinking into the Art of Strategic Management, California Management Review (co-authors: Sotirios Paroutis)
    Date: October 20, 2021
  • Session #4 with Anne Smith and Paula O'Kane
    Reading: Building Transparency and Trustworthiness in Inductive Research Through Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software, Organizational Research Methods (co-authors: Mike Lerman)
    Date: December 8, 2021

Program 2020 to 2021

Starting out the Reading Club.

  • #1 Meeting: Blending topics, with David Seidl
    Sensemaking meets collaboration & open strategy, co-authored by Felix Werle, Strategic Management Journal
    Date: May 5, 2021
  • #2 Meeting, with Davide Nicolini
    Practice theories meets practices and processes in entrepreneurship context, co-authored by Maja Korica, Organization Science
    Date: June 2, 2021