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AOM Showcase Symposium: Linking Formal Organization and Informal Social Structure

  • 1.  AOM Showcase Symposium: Linking Formal Organization and Informal Social Structure

    Posted 08-06-2017 10:47

     

    Linking Formal Organization and Informal Social Structure

     

     

    If you are interested in social networks, organization design, organizational adaptation, and innovative methods to bring these topics together, you will enjoy our showcase symposium in Atlanta!

     

    The starting point of our symposium is that formal and informal structures have been investigated by separate research streams, but we know intuitively that these structures are linked: we know that formal structures such as organizational boundaries, hierarchy, and physical workspace constrain how people interact, and we also know that people's interactions deviate in several ways from the formal structure. This means that we can generate important insights (and potentially avoid significant biases in our studies) by investigating these structures simultaneously.

     

    Join us on Monday, August 7th at 4.45PM in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis (Marquis M302) for four presentations and an extensive discussion of how the interplay between formal and informal structures affects organizations, and of the future opportunities for research on this topic.

     

    Organizer:

    Julien Clement, INSEAD

     

    Discussants:

    Bill McEvily, U. of Toronto

    David Krackhardt, Carnegie Mellon U.

     

    Presenters:

    Trevor Young-Hyman, U. of Pittsburgh

    Adam M. Kleinbaum, Dartmouth College

    Maxim Sytch, U. of Michigan

    Yong Hyun Kim, U. of Michigan

    Mijeong Kwon, U. of Michigan

    Julien Clement, INSEAD

    Bill Foster, Dalhousie U.

     

    Add us to your program: http://my.aom.org/Program2017/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=12565

     

    We look forward to your participation!

     

    Julien CLEMENT

    PhD in Strategy, INSEAD

    Email: julien.clement@insead.edu

    Tel: +33 (0)1 60 72 92 24

    Europe Campus - Bvd de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau - France

    The Business School for the World® www.insead.edu