Inhabited Institutionalism and Multi-level Change: Re-imagining Community Healthiness
15 Mar 2024
14:30 -16:00
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Room W4.05 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Organisational Theory and Information Systems seminar
Speaker: Professor Trish Reay, University of Alberta School of Business
About the seminar topic
Grounded in an inhabited institutionalism approach (see: Hallett and Hawbaker, 2021; Leibel et al, 2019), we investigate how actors at multiple levels within a field engage in innovative practices and new ways of thinking as they interact with each other as part of a large scale change initiative to re-imagine community healthiness. We focus on the power dynamics and ups and downs of emotional energy as micro- and macro-level actors ‘bring their whole selves’ to interact in a process of institutional change. Consistent with the literature on inhabited institutionalism, we direct our attention to the importance of multi-level actor interactions as critical sites for understanding change dynamics.
Our study is based on interview, observation and document data collected over 11 years; we followed macro- and micro level actors over time as they tried to design and implement new ways of integrating healthcare and community services to address long-standing concerns about population healthiness. Our analyses reveal a slow process of change over time characterised by the following phases: (1) Imagining and Trying Out Local Experiments, (2) Managing Frustrations of Imposed Slow Down, (3) Reconciling Loss and Reviving Engagement, and (4) Renewing Energy and Capacity for Innovation. We give attention to how the interconnections, interactions and integrated power dynamics are associated with the rise of energy and different social emotions at different points of the change process.
Speaker bio
Professor Trish Reay holds the TELUS Chair in Management at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where she is currently serving as Vice-Dean for the Business School. She also holds a partial appointment at Warwick Business School as Distinguished Research Environment Professor. Her primary research interests include institutional and organisational change, professional identity, and identity work.
She has investigated these topics primarily in the context of health care organisations and family business. Her research articles have been published in journals such as: Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organisation Studies, and Human Relations. She is Past Editor-in-Chief at Organisation Studies, and currently serves as JMS Says Section Editor at the Journal of Management Studies. She is also a member of the Editorial Review Boards for: Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Journal of Management Studies, and Organisation Theory.
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