From: Renee Rottner <rottner@tmp.ucsb.edu>
Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 5:19 PM
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Subject: Update - CalO2 2016 - new date and topics

Hold the date! the California Theory Workshop on Organizations and Organizing (CalO2) conference will be Oct 21-22, 2016, with a dinner on Oct 20th for those who arrive early.  We will email you with hotel and travel info in the near future. While we hope you can join us, we are trying to keep the conference small and may move to a wait list for additional invitees.  Please let us know if your plans change so that we may give your spot to someone else.

Thank you for your feedback on potential topics. There were three clusters that garnered the greatest enthusiasm--climate, inequality, and technology--which are elaborated a bit below.  We are currently planning on three half-day sessions (Friday am/pm, plus Saturday am), one for each topic with a few panelists, possibly some pre-readings, and several hours to work together on each topic.  Our questions back to you are:

        1. provide a focal question (on climate, inequality or technology) that could guide a panel discussion?
        2. any speakers (outsiders or experts) you might recommend?
        3. how do you see those speakers contributing?
        4. is there a session you like to volunteer to help run?

We would especially welcome suggestions for sharp focal questions around which we could design a panel.  Here are some ideas the group came up with to light your imagination:

INEQUALITY
·       New/alternative forms of organization that can address cultural/educational/geographic dislocation?
·       How to measure and ameliorate the effects of the financial system on society?
·       Pursuing economic prosperity and political equality/inclusion despite growing bifurcation of societies into young and old, rich and poor, etc.?

CLIMATE
·       Coordination and control among societies for environmental sustainability
·       Environmental innovation, specifically sustainable energy and food sources
·       New forms of political engagement by firms and industries

TECHNOLOGY
·       How is tech changing how we think about what "work" is as well as how we think about what a "firm" is? what an” occupation” is?
·       New theory needed for new digitally-enabled organizational forms
·       Digital transformation of the economy and the related implication for OT research

We look forward to hearing from you!

CalO2 2016 organizing committee:

Paul Adler
Steve Barley
Paul Leonardi
Renee Rottner


On 4/24/2016 9:33 PM, Renee Rottner wrote:
We would like to invite you to UC-Santa Barbara on Nov 4-5, 2016 for the 2nd annual California Theory Workshop on Organizations and Organizing (CalO2).  Building on the terrific kick-off meeting hosted by USC last November, we invite you to participate in a small workshop in which we bring together colleagues from the California region to explore new directions in theorizing organizations and organizing. [We're also exploring whether the alternative of Oct 21-22 works better for the group.]
The first meeting revealed great interest in how OT research (and teaching) can contribute to society’s ability to understand and respond to the big, urgent challenges in the world. We are planning three half-day sessions, each of which focuses on one such challenge. Each session would start off with a panel that includes subject-matter experts (scientists, engineers, journalists, activists, policy-makers, etc.) and perhaps an OT colleague who can review relevant OT work. We would then discuss in small groups and plenary sessions how OT scholarship can better help us understand and respond to that challenge.
With that in mind, we’d like to know (a) if you can join us November 4-5 (the current plan), (b) or October 21-22 (the alternative), and (c) which challenges you’d like to see us focus on.
We would like to get a rough headcount by May 1, so if you could RSVP (yes, no, maybe) by then, we’d be most grateful.
Concerning the challenges, please tell us, again by May 1, which you think would be most interesting to discuss, and if you have any speakers (subject matter experts or OT colleagues) you’d recommend for the panel. We will compile your input, circulate the list, and give everyone an opportunity to identify the most compelling challenges.
Although the venue has changed, the CalO2 spirit is the same:
* “California” – because we think it would be great to create a scholarly community in a region renown for innovation, creativity, technological dynamism, environmental concern, mobile careers, networked organizations, and access to Pacific Rim.
* “Organizations and organizing” – because we like the organization as the object of analysis, and want to include a broad range of theoretical perspectives on the organizing process -- not only sociological but also individual-cognitive and strategic.
* ”Theory” – because we think many of our colleagues are eager to interact around theory development, but are rarely afforded the opportunity to do so.
* “Workshop” – because we want to create a context for in-depth mutual intellectual engagement.

The dates and location:
* optional dinner on Thursday Nov 3, all day and dinner on Friday Nov 4, and the morning of Saturday Nov 5
* on UC-Santa Barbara campus

The funding:
* We have funding to cover all our meals, but not travel or accommodation

The format:
* a mix of panels, debates - with lots of time for informal discussion
* perhaps a poster session

 The reason to come:
*  small-scale intense discussion around theoretical issues that excite us with some of our most esteemed colleagues
*  opportunity to build a “new, west coast thing” that helps enrich our field
*  sunsets by the beach

The participants:
* about 50 people total
* a mix of senior and junior scholars
* mainly from California, with a few invitees from outside the region

The initial invitees:

Paul Adler, USC

Steve Barley, UCSB

Christine Beckman, Maryland

Nicole Biggart, UC Davis

Geoffrey Bowker, UC Irvine

Jenny Chatman, UC Berkeley

Tom Cummings, USC

Gina Dokko, UC Davis

Robert Eberhart, Santa Clara Univ

Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford

Kim Elsbach, UC Davis

Nicole Esparza, USC

Martha Feldman, UC Irvine

Peer Fiss, USC

Neil Fligstein, UC Berkeley

Roger Friedland, UCSB

JP Furgeson, Stanford

Amir Goldberg, Stanford

Andreea Gorbatai, UC Berkeley

Andy Hargadon, UC Davis

Sharique Hasan, Stanford

Heather Haveman, UC Berkeley

Shon Hiatt, USC

Pam Hinds, Stanford

Greta Hsu, UC Davis

Sarah Kaplan, U Toronto

Keyvan Kashkooli, Santa Clara Univ

Sharon Koppman, UC Irvine

Barbara Lawrence, UCLA

Paul Leonardi, UCSB

Ming Leung, UC Berkeley

Kyle Lewis, UCSB

Jim Lincoln, UC Berkeley

Ann Majchrzak, USC

Melissa Mazmanian, UC Irvine

Anita McGahan, U Toronto

John Mohr, UCSB

Frank Nagle, USC

Gerardo Okhuysen, UC Irvine

Don Palmer, UC Davis

Kelly Patterson, USC

Woody Powell, Stanford

Jo-Ellen Pozner, UC Berkeley

Nandini Rajagopalan, USC

Aruna Ranganathan, Stanford

Huggy Rao, Stanford

Marlo Raveendran, UC Riverside

Violina Rindova, U Texas & USC

Renee Rottner, UCSB

Marc Schneiberg, visiting UCLA

Kaye Schoonhoven, UC Irvine

Jesper Sorenson, Stanford

Sarah Soule, Stanford

Sameer Srivastava, UC Berkeley

Adina Sterling, Stanford

Toby Stuart, UC Berkeley

Richard Swedberg, Cornell

Sarah Thébaud, UCSB

Melissa Valentine, Stanford

Ed Walker, UCLA

Robb Willer, Stanford

Lori Yue, USC

Lynne Zucker, UCLA


If you have thoughts on other people we should add to this mix, please send us your suggestions and we’ll certainly make room for them if we can.

Best wishes,

CalO2 2016 organizing committee:

Paul Adler
Steve Barley
Paul Leonardi
Renee Rottner