Introductory remarks in Sub-theme 55: "Open Organizing for an Open Society? Connecting Research on Organizational Openness" at the 35th EGOS Colloquium, July 4-6, 2019, Edinburgh, UK

1. Open Organizing for an Open Society?
Connecting Research on Organizational Openness
Leonhard Dobusch, Georg von Krogh and Richard Whittington
Convenors
Sub-theme 55 at the 35th EGOS Colloquium
July 4-6, 2019, Edinburgh, UK

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Sub-theme History

3. Athens 2015:
‣ Open Organizations for an Open Society?
Practicing Openness in Innovation, Strategy and Beyond
Copenhagen 2017:
‣ Open Strategy:
Practices, Problems and Perspectives
Edinburgh 2019:
‣ Open Organizing for an Open Society?
Connecting Research on Organizational Openness
From Open Organizations to Open Organizing

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Some Statistics

5. Submissions 2019
36
23
13
0
10
20
30
40
Submissions Accepted short papers Rejected short papers
Submission numbers

6. Main topics 2015 and 2017
6
11
12
16
4
3
7
2
11
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
Open Strategy Open Innovation Other
Athens (2015) Copenhagen (2017) Edinburgh (2019)

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Some Bureaucracy

8. ‣ 15 minutes presentation
‣ Focus on core ideas and results
‣ Please speak slowly and clearly
‣ Bring your slides on USB drive in portable format
‣ Arrive early to your session
‣ Co-presenters have the "right to the first question"
Reminder: Presenter Guidelines

9. ‣ Please abstain from ”track hopping“
‣ It’s all about give and take.
‣ Be critical, but in a respectful and kind way!
‣ Be open for new people and new ideas!
The EGOS Experience

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Schedule

11. Schedule Overview
Thursday,
July 4
Friday,
July 5
Saturday,
July 6
9:00-
10:30
Session III:
Strategizing within Established
Hierarchies
Chair: Josh Morton
Session VI:
New Forms of Organizing
Openness
Chair: Georg von Kroch
11:00-
12:30
Session I:
Introduction: Open
Organizing between
Transparency and Inclusion
Chair: Leonhard Dobusch
Session IV:
Opening up to
External Actors
Chair: Violetta Splitter
Session VII:
Reflecting on Openness in
and beyond Organizations
Chairs: Leonhard Dobusch,
Georg von Krogh, Richard
Whittington
14:00-
15:30
Session II:
Open Organizing the the
Context of Communities
Chair: Ann-Kristin Zobel
Session V:
Organising Crowds for Peer
Production
Chair: Richard Whittington

12. Last Slide
Convenor contact:
‣ leonhard.dobusch@uibk.ac.at
‣ Mobile: +4969911170627