Call for Short Papers to the EGOS Sub-theme 'Open Organizations for an Open
Society? Practicing Openness in Innovation, Strategy and Beyond'
Athens, Greece 2-4 July 2015
The growing popularity and diversity of openness as a concept deserve more
comprehensive theories of openness, looking at both limits and potentials of
organizational openness. This sub-theme, therefore, seeks to advance our
understanding of openness in different fields. Respective questions include,
but are not limited to:
Openness as a paradigm:
- What are the different conceptions of 'openness' we find in both theory
and praxis?
- How did 'openness' emerge as a guiding organizing principle? Historically,
what were the predecessors and alternatives to the concept?
- Does openness require or lead to new forms of closure or even exclusion?
- What are different dimensions of openness and why do they matter?
- What types of technologies change or enable different types of openness?
- How does 'openness' differ in fields such as open innovation, open
strategy or open government?
Organizational openness:
- How is openness grounded in sociomaterial practices of everyday
organizing?
- How does organizational change unfold under the banner of 'openness'?
- What are benefits, what are downsides, what are potentially unintended
consequences of open approaches to innovation, strategy or science?
- How is 'openness' perceived on different organizational levels? Who
profits from, who looses with greater openness?
- Can we identify generically 'open practices' across different fields? Do
'open practices' include a typical working style?
- How do organizations cope with different types of technologies of
openness?
- How do regulatory institutions such as government mandates or subsidies
foster or prohibit openness on the organizational level?
- How does governance work in ecosystems of openness comprising of firms,
civil-society and government actors?
- How does organizational openness contribute to an 'open society' in
general?
Please check out the full call for papers and submit your short paper here:
http://bit.ly/EGOS15Open
Georg von Krogh
Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics ETH Zurich
WEV J411
Weinbergstrasse 56/58
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone +41 44 632 88 50
gvkrogh@ethz.ch
www.smi.ethz.ch
Regards,
Darlene
Darlene J. Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Moderator