Developmental papers
Developmental Papers
Organization Design across Fitness Landscape: Conceptualising formal organisations using I-space (745)
Author/s: Kajari Mukherjee
Track: Organisational Studies
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Fitness Landscape, Organisational Design, Complexity Paradigm, I space
Abstract: Choices about organization design represent a powerful strategic lever available to management. Design is an architecture which connects and weaves together all aspects of organizations activities, its external and internal contexts, so that it functions as a complete dynamic entity. This study aims to produce novel understanding of factors that shape organization design, using concept of fitness landscape across framework of I information space, and transactional relationship based on information asymmetry about raw material and or transformation process. It suggests likely organizational forms for various categories of organizations, and raises questions about encouraging self organization mode in every type of firm rather than engineering premeditated structure, system and control. as energy needed to maintain such selforganized forms in mismatched typology of organizations will be very high.
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5000 to 1 Lessons On Luck And Leadership From Football Great Ever Upset (816)
Author/s: Andy Coleman
Track: Organisational Studies
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: leadership, football, luck, distributed leadership, post-heroic
Abstract: Leicester Citys 2015 to 16 Premier League title triumph has been widely recognised as one of the most unlikely sporting successes of recent years e.g. Tanner 2016, James 2016. Offered at odds of 5000 to 1 at the start of the season, this achievement was considered by bookmakers to as likely to happen as Elvis being found alive or Kim Kardashian becoming the next US president Hill 2016, Northcroft 2016, Harris 2016. However, while the achievement itself is well chronicled, little academic consideration has been given to the potential wider lessons it offers for organisational performance. This developmental paper examines this success in more depth, with a specific focus on the roles that chance, and leadership played in this context. The paper finds that a combination of luck as counterfactual and serendipity, rather than random chance, was an important factor in Leicester Citys success Liu and de Rond 2016. At the same time, it also highlights the significant contribution that several individual leaders incumbent and previous manager, and the chairman and a wider shared leadership philosophy i.e. the players, wider coaching staff made to this title triumph. It concludes by highlighting the need to develop multi causal explanatory frameworks for exceptional organisational performance of this nature. In doing so, it advocate more inclusive leadership discourses which simultaneously reject romanticised views of leadership Meindl et al. 1985 while continuing to recognise the significant difference individual leaders can make.
Organisationality in Collaborative Workspaces (1085)
Author/s: Felix Arndt
Track: Organisational Studies
Paper Type: Developmental Papers
Keywords: Collaborative Workspaces, organising, permeability
Abstract: In this paper, we look at a new forms of organizing. We classify collaborative workspaces as a new form of organising following an adapted criteria catalogue of Puranam et al. (2014) and argue that collaborative workspaces do not fit the traditional binary classification of organisation and non-organisation, but constitute a form of organising in a continuum between non-organisation and organisation. We contribute to the discussion on theorizing new organisational forms by identifying a new organisational form and critically evaluating the existing criteria for this kind on the example of collaborative workspaces. In addition, we contribute to the literature on organisationality by providing arguments how partial organisational elements can exist without constituting a full-blown organisation with clear boundaries.