Young Management Scholars' Reading Club - What is (not) theory and how to theorize? (Next session: January 20, 2021) [07.01.21]
The Young Management Scholars' Reading Club is an initiative started by doctoral students and postdocs for young management scholars at the University of Hohenheim. They get together to discuss and collectively make sense of fundamental, pressing and/or fascinating management literature and challenges in the publication process.
The topic for the next reading club session will be "What is (not) theory? How to theorize?" with Henrik Berglund as special guest, a "young at heart" European researcher who just published an article in the most renowned theory journal in the field of management (Academy of Management Review).
The reading club will attempt to shed light to the mystery of theorizing in a twofold approach. First, participants prepare for a discussion by reading important articles on the topic based on a reading list. Second, after the reading club discussion Henrik Berglund is welcomed.
Date: January 20, 2021, 3.30 pm - 6 pm
Location: Zoom (invitation link upon registration)
Registration: Please write a brief mail to: leif.braendle@uni-hohenheim.de before January 14, 2021. Signing up for the next reading club requires your commitment to thoroughly read the articles from the reading list in order to prepare a lively discussion.
Timetable:
3:30 pm - Introduction
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm - Reading Club
4:50 pm - 5 pm - Break
5 pm - 6 pm - Q&A with Henrik Berglund
Reading List:
Berglund, H., Bousfiha, M., & Mansoori, Y. (2020). Opportunities as Artifacts and Entrepreneurship as Design. Academy of Management Review, 45(4).
Colquitt, J. A., & Zapata-Phelan, C. P. (2007). Trends in theory building and theory testing: A five-decade study of the Academy of Management Journal. Academy of Management Journal, 50(6), 1281-1303.
Corley, K. G., & Gioia, D. A. (2011). Building theory about theory
building: what constitutes a theoretical contribution?. Academy of Management Review, 36(1), 12-32.
Sutton, R. I., & Staw, B. M. (1995). What theory is not.
Administrative science quarterly, 40(3), 371-384.
Weick, K. E. (1995). What theory is not, theorizing is. Administrative science quarterly, 40(3), 385-390.