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DESCRIPTION: The fifth meeting of our Scientific Network opened up the rese
 arch agenda on field-configuring events (FCEs) towards other kinds of event
 s of a less “organized”\, possibly unexpected nature. The meeting took plac
 e during April 20-21\, 2015 at the Freie Universität Berlin. The two intern
 ational guests and keynotes were Cynthia Hardy (Professor of Management and
  Marketing at the University of Melbourne) and Steve Maguire (Professor of 
 Strategy and Organization at McGill University). Both have worked on FCEs i
 n their paper on “Discourse\, field-configuring events\, and change in orga
 nizations and institutional fields: Narratives of DDT and the Stockholm Con
 vention”\, but are now studying risk and thus focus more on events of a mor
 e unexpected nature. At FU Berlin a number of scholars are interested in th
 e nature of uncertainty and ways of managing and organizing uncertainy\, an
 d our aim in this workshop was to bring these different debates together an
 d start a possibly fruitful exchange.   Elke Schüßler opened the meeting by
  briefly presenting the previous work of the network and introducing releva
 nt research questions pertaining to FCEs and other kinds of events. Network
  members as well as guests introduced themselves and their research interes
 t.   Focusing on FCEs\, Steve and Cynthia then held their first keynote spe
 ech and introduced us in depth to their fascinating study on DDT and the St
 ockholm Convention and their discourse analytical method\, an aspect we foc
 used on in more depth on the second day of the workshop since our network a
 ims to explore both conceptual and methodological issues.   After a coffee 
 break\, Gordon Müller-Seitz started off the debate on FCEs vs. other kinds 
 of events by presenting the core arguments of a paper he co-authored with E
 lke Schüßler on “A Process Perspective on Organized and Unexpected Field-Le
 vel Events” in a first attempt to bridge different research streams on even
 ts. This presentation was followed by a fruitful discussion\, in which the 
 notion of “unexpected events” was questioned. If events are socially constr
 ucted\, they might be unexpected for some actors\, but not for others. The 
 label “unexpected events” blurs over such differences.   The rest of the da
 y was dedicated to research projects on different ways of organizing uncert
 ainty. Simone Ostermann\, a former doctoral student at FU Berlin\, presente
 d a study co-authored by Georg Schreyögg on how an ICU unit copes with even
 t-based uncertainty through different organizing practices. The study highl
 ighted the need of both adapability and stability and\, coming from a syste
 ms theoretical perspective\, argued that events can indeed be unexpected fr
 om the perspective of an organization. Then Gordon Müller-Seitz presented a
  study co-authored by Jörg Sydow on how the semiconductor industry consorti
 um SEMATECH is coping with environmental uncertainty through\, among others
 \, the practice of convening\, i.e. through organizing events.   The first 
 day ended with a joint dinner in Schöneberg.   The second day began with a 
 methodological discussion based on the second keynote speech by Cynthia and
  Steve\, who gave us in-depth insights into their methodology on the DDT st
 udy. This session was particularly valuable to the doctoral and postdoctora
 l students who were invited to attend the workshop.   After lunch\, Elke Sc
 hüßler then opened up the FCE research agenda again and presented an ongoin
 g study on the role of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh as a 
 so-called “focusing event”\, a concept used in the political science litera
 ture. Focusing events are said to trigger stakeholder activity towards inst
 itutional change. The presentation was followed by an intense debate on the
  need to unpack the focusing events concept from a social constructivist pe
 rspective. Subsequently Marie Brüning\, a doctoral student at Jacobs Univer
 sity Bremen\, presented her doctoral project on supply network disruptions 
 and possibilities for collaborative recovery.   After a coffee break\, Guid
 o Möllering kicked off a debate on the methodological challenges of researc
 hing unexpected events by using the crash of the Germanwings 4U9525 flight 
 as an example. A main challenge in researching thus events in real time is 
 the question of how to get resources to support the research\, for which th
 e National Science Foundation in the US has a grant format called “Rapid Re
 sponse Research”. Intense discussions then revolved around the need for suc
 h rapid response research in the social sciences\, and ethical issues stemm
 ing from such research shortly after an accident or other kind of disaster.
    Before a longer break\, Elke Schüßler briefly presented the Special Issu
 e on “Field-Configuring Events as Arenas for Innovation and Learning” just 
 out at Industry &amp\; Innovation. Several network members contributed to t
 his Special Issue.   The workshop ended with a final keynote by Cynthia and
  Steve in the open “Forschungswerkstatt” seminar. They presented their ongo
 ing work on “Ecologies of Risk: Synergies\, Antagonisms and the Organizing 
 of Risk”\, showing how risk is discursively constructed as ever-present\, w
 hich is then counteracted by increasingly intense organizational attempts t
 o control such risks.    (by Elke Schüßler) 
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LOCATION:Freie Universität Berlin
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SUMMARY:5th Workshop - FCEs and Unexpected Events
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