Decentralization in Organizations (DiO) Conference 2024 – Program Information
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Monday, June 17
8:00-9:00 AM
Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:10 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Organizers & President of University of St. Gallen: Manuel Ammann
9:10-10:30 AM
Blockchains: Meaning & Functionality
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Semi Min
‘Computational Text Analysis in the Study of the Evolution of the Meaning of Novel Technologies’
Presenter: Brian Wu
‘Blockchains: Fusing Extant Organizational Functionalities Under the CAP Tradeoff’
Discussant: Phanish Puranam
10:30-10:50 AM
Coffee Break
10:50-12:30 PM
Prospects for Platforms
(Panel Session)
Panelists: Melissa Schilling (lead), Tammy Madsen, Joost Rietveld, & Danny Sokol
12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00-3:20 PM
The Human Side of Decentralization
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Bex Hewett
‘Decentralization and High Employee Involvement: A Configurational Perspective’
Presenter: Mike Lee
‘Is Decentralization Better for Everyone? Investigating Employee Characteristics that Drive Preferences for Decentralized Structures’
Discussant: Markus Reitzig
3:20-3:40 PM
Coffee Break
3:40-5:00 PM
Democratizing Organizations
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Trevor Young-Hyman
‘Demanding but Committed: The Organizational Consequences of Broadening Stakeholder Governance’
Presenter: Felipe Massa
‘Fostering Dignity at Scale: Jaipur Rugs and the Reflexive Management of Artisanal Craftwork’
Discussant: Martin Kornberger
5:00-6:00 PM
Decentralized Feedback: The Community as Your Sounding Board
MC: Oliver Alexy
Pitch Presenters: Xule Lin, Philipp Reineke, Charlie Williams, Phanish Puranam
7:00 PM
Reception: Central Terrace, Executive Campus
Tuesday, June 18
8:30-9:00 AM
Breakfast & Registration
9:00-10:20 AM
Tradeoffs in Decentralization
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Helge Klapper
‘How to Limit the Negative Effects of Misalignment: The Case of Decision Structures in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations’
Presenter: Vivianna Fang He
‘Balancing Convergence and Deliberation in Decentralized Consensus Formation’
Discussant: Charlie Williams
10:20-10:40 AM
Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 PM
Decentralized Design and Governance
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Linus Dahlander
‘Selection Regimes and Selection Errors’
Presenter: Gurneeta Vasudera Singh
‘Governance of Data Resources and Market Valuation’
Discussant: Carliss Baldwin
12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30-2:50 PM
Opportunities for Decentralization Research
(Special Session)
Presenter: John Eklund
‘A New Organizational Structure Database: Examining Structure through Top Management Team Compositions’
Presenter: Ying-Ying Hsieh
‘A Deeper Look at DAOs: Introducing the DREAM Project’
Discussant: Tobias Kretschmer
2:50-3:50 PM
Aesthetics & Synthetics
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Paolo Leone
‘Work as Play: A Model of Aesthetics Control’
Presenter: Alex Murray
‘Synthetic Stakeholders: Combining Acknowledged Personhood and Emergent Technologies to Achieve Stakeholder Salience’
Joint Discussion: Alexy Murray and Paolo Leone
3:50-04:10 PM
Coffee Break
4:10-5:30 PM
Decentralization for Good?
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Katherine Chen
‘Expanding Model Cases: How Do Groups Develop Relational, Emergent, Transformative, and Change-Oriented Organizations (RETCOs)?’
Presenter: Paul Adler
‘The Climate Crisis and the Democratic-Transformative State: New Directions for Management Research’
Discussant: Johanna Mair
5:30-6:00 PM
Reflection and Outlook
7:10-10:00 PM
Dinner: Restaurant Sauceria
Contact Information
Organizers
- Vivianna Fang He
- Email: viviannafang.he@unisg.ch
- Ying-Ying Hsieh
- Email: y.hsieh@imperial.ac.uk
- Mike Lee
- Email: mike.lee@insead.edu
- Melissa Schilling
- Email: mas28@stern.nyu.edu