BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: The third meeting of our Scientific Network focused on relati ons of organizations and individuals as an aspect that is fundamental to u nderstanding field-configuring events (FCEs). The meeting took place during May 19-21\, 2014 at the Freie Universität Berlin. The two international gu ests and keynotes were Amalya Oliver (Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University Jerusalem\, Israel) and Joseph Lampel (Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Cass Business School\, London / UK). Elke Schüßler ope ned the meeting by briefly presenting the previous work of the network and introducing relevant research questions pertaining to FCEs and relations. A fter a brief introduction to the motivation of the network partners and a w arm welcome round of introductions across participants\, the meeting moved on to discussing the seminal text by Mark Granovetter on the “Strength of W eak Ties”\, which was presented by Uli Meyer (TU Berlin\, Germany). Uli\, w ho had met Granovetter personally while at Stanford\, elucidated the backgr ound of Granovetter’s study with its focus on how people get a job and sens itized us for the use and frequent misuse of Granovetter’s conception. Af ter a first round of coffee and snacks we listened to the first keynote by Joe Lampel on "Unconferences as Field-Configuring Events". He offered insig hts from a venue that he visited in Turkey where participants discussed top ics related to the internet. This meeting was highly unstructured when comp ared to what usually counts as field-configuring events and was thus called “unconference” (related terms include barcamps or meet-ups). Joe stressed that the FCE concept should not be viewed only from a neo-institutional per spective\, but should remain open to a wide range of approaches in order to be sensitive to such phenomena as unconferences. In his presentation he co nnected the idea of FCEs to Fligstein’s work on social skills\, analyzing w hich skills actors can bring to FCEs\, to Bourdieu concerning different for ms of resources and capital\, and to Weick’s notion of sensemaking. What is more\, Joe sensitized us for a gradual understanding of (un)conferences in the light of FCE research. After lunch\, Guido Möllering (Jacobs Univers ity Bremen\, Germany) and Helge Svare (Work Research Institute\, Norway) pr esented findings from a study of three Norwegian networks that built trust by meeting and convening. Towards this end they viewed events also as nexus for building and maintaining networks (rather than fields)\, while being i nextricably intertwined with affecting trust across organizations. Then J oachim Thiel from the HafenCity University Hamburg (Germany) reported his a ctivities regarding the connection of so called smart city conceptions and FCEs. He offered insights into the various smart city conferences that coex ist to establish and maintain a field of FCEs related to smart city concept ions. From a theoretical perspective he contrasted a rather harmonious view (in line with the conceptions of Scott\, Powell\, DiMaggio and others) vis -à-vis a conflict-laden view (in line with Bourdieu) on FCE. What is more\, he elucidated that events from the FCE line of inquiry have been primarily researched as venues of competition ‘within events’ (such as e.g. the Gram my awards)\, but have rarely shed light on FCE as competing for reputation\ , legitimation\, attention etc.\, either within or across event series. I n a related talk on FCEs in urban regions\, Jan-Henrik Voss from the Techni cal University of Berlin (Germany) reported on purposeful change in cities. He classified cities as a non-market environment and argued that cities co nsist of a number of different actors with different logics. He introduced a perspective that focuses on capabilities to explain how cities might act purposefully. Towards this end\, one of the key objectives of cities ought to be to establish common frames of reference. After another coffee break we took a campus tour to follow the traces of Nobel Prize winners that tau ght or researched in the area and buildings surrounding the FU Berlin. We s aw the grave of Clara Immerwahr\, a talented chemist and the first women to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany\, who was married to Fritz Haber\, Director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Physical Chemistry. Ha ber became responsible for developing chemical weapons in the WW I period\, resulting in the first ever use of weapons of mass destruction. An avid pa cifist\, Immerwahr asked her husband to stop his work\, but when he didn’t\ , she shot herself out of desperation. In the evening Amalya Oliver and J oe Lampel gave a joint keynote speech in the course of the open lecture ser ies “Forschungswerkstatt” at the School of Business Administration of the F U Berlin. Their presentation was entitled “Inter-Organizational Committees as Field Configuring Events: The Case of Israel’s High Tech Industry” and t old the fascinating history of the industry’s development resulting from a meeting of military and government officials. We finished the first day o f the workshop with a joint dinner. The second day was marked by more ope n discussion formats. First\, Amalya provided us with comprehensive “food f or thought” regarding the role of relations in the study of FCEs and\, base d on her extensive research experience in this field\, we discussed methodo logical opportunities and challenges. Then Elke and Clemens presented their conceptual contribution to FCE research derived from their study of climat e summits\, the analytical distinction between temporal boundedness and int eractional openness\, and the group discussed the value and implications of this distinction. (by Gordon Müller-Seitz and Elke Schüßler) DTEND:20140521T180000 DTSTAMP:20150704T214400 DTSTART:20140519T100000 CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Freie Universität Berlin SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:3rd Workshop - FCEs and Relations UID:42901877@/www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de URL:https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/bwl/management/schuessler/F orschung/Projekte/dfg-field-configuring-events/meetings/3rd-meeting.html END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR