Franziska Hein, Marcel Maurer, Dr. Simon Oertel, and Nicole Philippczyck represented the Management/ Organization Group at the 35th EGOS Colloquium from 04/07/2019 to 06/07/2019 in Edinburgh with three different papers:
Hein, F., & Oertel, S. (2019): Organizational identity crafting in new ventures: the role of rhetorical history, 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh. (Sub-theme 30: Realizing the Potential of Historical Organization Studies).
Maurer, M., Bach, N., & Oertel, S. (2019): Middle management as target of change: middle managers and their role in implementing post-bureaucratic structures, 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh. (Sub-theme 59: Actor-centered Institutionalism: Comparing Actors, Contexts, Interactions and Change).
Oertel, S., Philippczyck, N., & Söll, M. (2019): The adoption of mission statements in European universities: the roles of founding conditions and institutional control, 35th EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh. (Sub-theme 14: Missions of Present-Day Universities).
The EGOS conference is one of the largest and most important conferences held annually in the world in terms of organizational research. Over 2,500 members from 60 countries are part of the EGOS alliance, which aims to advance the theoretical and empirical progress of knowledge about organizations.
We would like to thank you for the numerous contributions to the discussion and suggestions we received at the conference regarding the empirically oriented papers!
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