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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

CAU

819: Discursive Foundations of Responsible and Sustainable Innovation (14101)

Sunday, August 11, 2024
13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Swissotel: Élevé River View 2
Session Number: 819
Caucus
Orientation: Theme,Research
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This caucus builds on previous AOM symposia and presentations, addresses researchers working on discursive institutional approaches and focuses on responsible and sustainable innovation. It provides a platform for participating scholars to discuss results and methods, aims at establishing a network of researchers and at exploring potential future joint actions.

Why this caucus? This caucus builds on a variety of previous AOM symposia and presentations (e.g. AOM 2022 “The Role and Relevance of Discourse and Discursive Perspectives in Organizational Change”). It will bring together scholars working on discursive institutional theory in areas related to sustainability, responsibility and innovation and provides a platform for participating scholars to discuss results and methods. It aims at establishing a network of researchers working in this area and at exploring potential future joint actions, such as AOM symposia, special issues or even joint research projects. As the topic of the caucus is strongly related to the general theme of the AOM 2024 meeting, we expect a broad outreach to AOM members, especially in the TIM, SIM, ONE and ODC division. Discursive institutionalism and organizational change Discursive institutionalism, a key concept of new institutional theory, focuses on the interplay of ideas, discourse and institutions, on competing logics and on how content and interactive processes of discourse lead to change (Campbell and Pedersen 2001; Schmidt 2002, 2008, 2010). Discursive institutionalism aims at understanding narratives, discourses and framing strategies that influence policy, governance and social practices. While discursive institutionalism originates from political science, it also influenced organization scientists, who developed a discourse-centered understanding of organizational change (Grant and Marshak 2011; Heracleous and Barrett 2001; Marshak 2002). Focusing on innovation, responsibility and sustainability While application of discursive institutionalism in innovation management is rather at the beginning (e.g. Knox 2023), several studies applied such approaches to analyze the dissemination of Corporate Social Responsibility (Coraiola & Barros 2022), institutional aspects of Responsible Innovation (Ivanova et al. 2023), corporate engagement for sustainable development (Vidra & Van den Broek, 2019) and sustainability transitions (Genus 2016). These studies have in common that discourses are perceived as a foundation of legitimacy on the one hand, and as instruments of change on the other (e.g. through re-framing, adaptation and/or adoption of discursive frames). Relating to the conference theme Addressing innovation from the perspective of discursive institutionalism provides an innovative lens for examining the interplay of innovation, policy, and purpose in the organization, while providing insights for managers to navigate the tensions that arise between the profit-oriented purpose of business on the one hand and responsibility and sustainability-oriented expectations of society on the other. What we want to achieve The main desired outcome of this caucus is to establish a network of scholars interested in the discursive foundations of responsible and sustainable innovation. It provides a platform for participating scholars to discuss results and methods, aims at establishing a network of researchers and at exploring potential future joint actions in applying discursive institutionalism in organization studies and organization change. In order to encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas the agenda of the caucus consists of (a) short introduction of the topic and the participants (b) discussions of joint actions in smaller groups, (c) wrap up of future collaborations and planning of next steps.