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Research Seminar || SoSe 2016 || Michael SMETS (University of Oxford)

10. Mai 2016

Michael SMETS, University of Oxford: "'GOD AT WORK': RESPONDING TO COMPETING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS THROUGH ELASTIC HYBRIDITY"

Michael SMETS, University of Oxford: "'GOD AT WORK': RESPONDING TO COMPETING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS THROUGH ELASTIC HYBRIDITY"

Location: TC.3.10

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 17th, 2016; 16.00-19.00

Based on a 24-months ethnographic case study of the opening of KT Bank, the first Islamic Bank in Germany and the Eurozone, this paper makes three contributions to the literature on organizational hybridity: First, it outlines polysemy and polyphony as organizational responses to institutional complexity which straddle organizational and individual levels, mutually reinforce each other, and allow competing logics to coexist without structural separation or blending. Second, it explains the state of elastic hybridity, the joint product of polysemy and polyphony, which makes organizations more resilient vis-a-vis competing institutional pressures by allowing them to bend without breaking. Third, it shows how hybrid organizations can accommodate logics that are both central and incompatible – arguably the most conflict-prone instance of institutional complexity.

Dr Michael Smets is Associate Professor in Management and Organisation Studies at Said Business School and a Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Michael’s research focuses on institutional complexity, change and leadership - especially in professional services. He is a lead author of the “CEO Report”, which was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2015 and has received world-wide media coverage. The report is based on interviews with over 150 CEOs worldwide, exploring what it takes to lead a corporation in the fast-changing, hyper-connected business world of today. Prior to that, he conducted a widely-noted “fly on the wall” study of Lloyd’s of London, one of the UK’s oldest financial institutions. He is deeply rooted in qualitative methods, using new forms of ethnography, such as team and video ethnography.   His research has appeared in leading management journals, academic handbooks and practitioner publications. It has been covered by the Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, the Guardian and other international media. He has won the 2012 Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management Journal, his study of Lloyd’s of London has received the ESRC’s inaugural award for “Outstanding Impact in Business” in 2013 and Poets and Quants currently ranks him among the world’s top 40 under 40 business school professors.   Michael obtained the equivalent of a BA in Business and Economics from Cologne University in Germany before joining Saïd Business School for his postgraduate education. There he obtained an MSc in Management Research and a DPhil in Management before accepting a post-doc position jointly held by Saïd Business School and the School of Management at the University of Alberta, Canada. Before re-joining Saïd Business School full-time in 2013, Michael was a Lecturer in Strategy at Aston Business School, Birmingham. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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