We are excited to announce that our final guest of 2018 are a home coming scholar that defended her dissertation at the department of Economics here in Umeå; Andrea Mannberg. She will be visiting TripleEd for week 51 and among other things give a presentation titled “Are you keeping up with the (Jeremy) Joneses?: An attempt to link social aspirations to risk-taking behavior in avalanche terrain”
WHAT: Are you keeping up with the (Jeremy) Joneses?: An attempt to link social aspirations to risk-taking behavior in avalanche terrain
WHEN: 17th of December
TIME: 13.15-14.15
WHERE: S 206
Looking forward seeing you there!
Bio:
Andrea Mannberg is an associate professor in Economics at the School of Business and Economics and the Center for Avalanche Research and Education (CARE), at UiT- the Arctic University of Norway. She is currently the project leader of a four-year research project, which focuses on motivating factors behind risk-taking behavior in high risk environments. Mannberg acquired her PhD in economics at the School of Business and Economics, at Umeå University.
Yesterday we again had the great pleasure of listening to Robert Gephart from the University of Alberta, Canada. This time he presented/had a workshop based on his book chapter “Interpretative Social Science” – reference below. The chapter is not only useful for people interested in qualitative research at large, but also a call for really considering what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how we are doing it.
Per and Eivor Wikströms stiftelse gracefully approved our application related to theory and method development in grand challenges associated with extreme contexts. The idea behind the program is to develop an exchange program with scholars in french speaking academic environments. The program is a continuation from the Riksbanken funded exchange program and will run during 2019.
Today we had the great pleasure to listen to Professor Robert Gephart giving a presentation on “Narrative resistance: Temporal work, risk sensemaking, and institutional legitimation” The paper is co-authored with Marc Bonnet and Roy Suddaby. The paper is really interesting, developing theory on the difficulties of resistance and how resistance bring about oppression by institutional entities set in place to protect citizens.
This Friday Virginia Rosales went from a promising doctoral student to a promising Ph.D. After a successful defense of her dissertation titled “The interplay of roles and routines: Situating, patterning, and performances in the emergency department” she can now call herself a “doctor”! TripleEd´s members are of course extremely proud and happy for her! Next step is to continue her work at HEC Montreal.
We, TripleEd and the research profile “Leadership, Organization and Working life” @ the Department of Pedagogy, are excited to welcome Professor Robert Gephart from University of Alberta to Umeå. Professor Gephart is an extremely well-known professor in the broad field of organization studies, with a particular interest in crises and qualitative methods. You find his biography below. We really hope that you take the opportunity to attend the two events. There will be one seminar and one workshop. Please see information below.
David Buchanan and Markus Hällgren have their leadership article based on the zombie classic “Day of the Dead” by George Romero published in pre-print. Available at the journal of “Management Learning”. If you´d like a copy drop any of the authors an email.
Today we had the pleasure of having the first ODD seminar of the semester. Ulrica told the story about the paper “Multi-professional teamwork in human services: The mutual shaping of professional identity and team activities” (