Decentralization in Organizations (DiO) Conference 2024 – Program Information
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Tuesday, June 17
8:00-8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30-8:45 AM
Welcome and Introduction
8:45-10:15 AM
Framing the Frontier: Rethinking Decentralization in Organizations
(Session)
Presenter: Kathy Eisenhardt
‘Decentralization in Organizations: A Revolution or a Mirage?’
Presenter: Michael Lee, Trevor Young-Hyman, John Eklund
‘The Building Blocks of Decentralization: Towards an Integrative Framework for Comparative Organization Design Research’
Moderator: Markus Reitzig
10:15-10:35 AM
Coffee Break
10:35-12:05 PM
Leading Without Control? Examining Leadership in Decentralized Systems
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Marya Besharov
‘The Paradox of Participatory Leadership: How Containing Anxieties Enriches the Organization but Depletes the Leader’
Presenter: Helge Klapper
‘What is the Role of Managers in Organizations that Promote Autonomy? A Model of Team Formation’
Discussant: Bex Hewett
12:30-2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00-3:30 PM
Decision Making in DAOs
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Robert Gregory
‘Beyond Market Value: Exploring the Interplay of Market and Civic Worth in Blockchain Token Design and Use’
Presenter: Oliver Baumann
‘‘Interdisciplinary Pathways in Research on DAOs (with Giorgia Sampò)’
Discussant: Tobias Kretschemer
3:30-3:50 PM
Coffee Break
3:50-4:15 PM
Update on DREAM project
Presenter: Ying-Ying Hsieh
4:15-5:45 PM
Counter-Normative Organizing: Paths to Institutional Change
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Trevor Young-Hyman
‘From Utopianism to Pragmatism: How Ontological Shifts Enable the Emergence of Organizational Democracy’
Presenter: Paolo Leone
‘How Scientists Cope with Research Pathologies: The Development of Post-Publication Peer Review’
Discussant: Simone Santoni
5:45-6:30 PM
Break
6:30 PM
Dinner: La Papote, Bourron-Marlotte (by bus)
Wednesday, June 18
8:30-9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00-10:30 AM
Coordinating Autonomy: Participatory Structures in Innovation Work
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Oliver Alexy
‘Managing Complex Innovations within Decentralized Forms of Organizing through Structural Mirroring’’
Presenter: Vivianna Fang He
‘Co-creation of Innovation Controls’
Discussant: Sonali Shah
10:30-10:50 AM
Coffee Break
10:50-12:20 PM
Participation in Decentralized Organizations: Its Maintenance and Consequences
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Sherry Wu
‘The Global Impact of Local Group Participation: Field Experiments on Work and Civic Groups’
Presenter: Felipe Massa
‘When the Time Comes: Pursuing Social Change through a Points-based Participation Architecture’
Discussant: Phanish Puranam
12:20-1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30-3:00 PM
Structural Evolution in Nascent Firms
(Paper Session)
Presenter: Ronnie Lee
‘Structural Evolution of New Ventures: Large-scale Evidence from U.S. Employer-employee-matched Data’
Presenter: Megan Lawrence
‘‘Hierarchy Expansion in Young Firms: The Impact of Internal versus External Hiring on Performance’
Discussant: David Clough
3:00-04:30 PM
Forest Walk in Small Groups
4:30-6:00 PM
Looking Forward: Shaping the Future of Decentralization Research
Moderators: Phanish Puranam, Michael Lee, Vivianna He, Ying-Ying Hsieh
6:00-7:00 PM
Break
7:00-10:00 PM
Dinner and drinks: Gina Restaurant, Fointainebleau
Contact Information
Organizers
- Vivianna Fang He
- Email: vivianna.he@ucl.ac.uk
- Ying-Ying Hsieh
- Email: y.hsieh@imperial.ac.uk
- Mike Lee
- Email: mike.lee@insead.edu
- Phanish Puranam
- Email: phanish.puranam@insead.edu