Program of "Knowledge and Institutions"
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Saturday, September 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Lunch (12:00)
Welcome Address and Introduction (13:00)
Johannes Glückler, Department of Economic Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Session 1: Institutions, Knowledge and the Regional Economy
Chair: Johannes Glückler, Department of Economic Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
The Knowledge Economy and Territory: A Research Agenda (13:45)
Michael Storper, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles (United States)
Coffee Break (14:45)
Locating the Collective Identity of an Institutional Field: Israeli Hi-Tech between Silicon Valley and Silicon Wadi (15:15)
Tammar B. Zilber, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Global Challenges, Localized Learning and Institutional Change in Italian Industrial Districts: The Case of Ivrea (16:15)
Harald Bathelt, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto (Canada)
General Discussion (17:15)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Session 2: Institutions, Conventions and Societal Outcomes
Chair: Harald Bathelt, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto (Canada)
Institutions, Time, and Territory: Path Dependencies - Path dependent Institutional Development within Geographic Boundaries (09:00)
Frans van Waarden, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University College, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Conventions, Institutions and Knowledge - Perspectives on Institutions and Knowledge from the Standpoint of the “Economics of Convention” (10:00)
Rainer Diaz-Bone, Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne (Switzerland)
Coffee Break (11:00)
The Truncated Development of an Intangible Commons Logic: A Study of Open Access Academic Publishing (11:30)
Shaz Ansari, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK)
Lunch (12:30)
Session 3: Emergence, Diffusion and Translation of Institutions
Chair: Tammar B. Zilber, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
The Professionalization of the Corporate Historian/Archivist (13:30)
Roy Suddaby, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria (Canada)
Government Quality and the Economic Returns of Transport Infrastructure Investment in European Regions (14:30)
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (UK)
Coffee Break (15:30)
General Discussion (16:00)
Springer Series 'Knowledge and Space' Volume 13: Technical Editor's Speech (16:30)
David Antal
Friday, September 11, 2015
Session 4: Institutions and Institutional Change
Chair: Roy Suddaby, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria (Canada)
Law, Policy and Social Control amidst Flux (09:00)
Reza Banakar, Sociology of Law Department, Lund University (Sweden)
Spatial Institutional Work: Mediation Across Contexts (10:00)
Tiina Ritvala, Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business (Finland)
Coffee Break (11:00)
The Impact of Formal Monitoring on Financial Development: From Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice (11:30)
Yadira González de Lara Mingo, Department of Economic Analysis, University of Valencia (Spain)
Lunch (12:30)
Session 5: Institutional Change and Maintenance
Chair: Pamela Tolbert, Department of Organizational Behavior, ILR School, Cornell University (USA)
Norm Change: The Role of Trendsetters (13:30)
Alexander Funcke, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
The End of the World as You Know It: The Limits of Institutionalized Knowledge in a War Zone (14:30)
Jaco Lok, School of Management, The University of New South Wales Business School (Australia)
Coffee Break (15:30)
Institutional Change, Innovation and Policy Coordination (16:00)
Jerker Moodysson, Department of Human Geography, Lund University (Sweden)
General Discussion (17:00)
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Session 6: Institutions of Entrepreneurship and Cooperation
Chair: Jaco Lok, School of Management, The University of New South Wales Business School (Australia)
Institutional Logics in the Process of Family Firm Succession (09:00)
Johannes Glückler, Department of Economic Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Studying Entrepreneurship as an Institution (10:00)
Pamela Tolbert, Department of Organizational Behavior, ILR School, Cornell University (USA)
Coffee Break (11:00)
Plebeian Culture, Moral Economy, Reluctant Modernization: The Basque Case (11:30)
Andreas Hess, Department of Sociology, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Final Discussion (12:30)
Lunch (13:00)
