Decentralization in Organizations (DiO) Conference 2024 – Program Information

DiO 2025

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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 Onnovation 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 Larence

‘‘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


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