Research Seminar Series
Seminars feature cutting-edge work by qualitative researchers around the world. Join our mailing list or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn to receive sign up information for our events.
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We welcome suggestions for seminars! Please note that we plan well ahead and we are a team of volunteers, so it might take time before we can incorporate any ideas. In organizing our activities, we strive to follow our ethos, treasure diversity, and be inclusive of various approaches and profiles.
Upcoming events
Past events

11 April 2023, 15 - 16.30
Relational projectivity in impossible mandates: the case of reentry counselors in the United States
Audrey Holm
HEC Paris

14 March 2023, 15 - 16.30
One Drop of Water in a River: How Organizations Identify Global Issues
Haitao Yu
IESEG School of Management



14 February 2023, 15 - 16.30
The dynamics of structuring and silencing: how audibility enacts asymmetrical power relations in online meetings
Blagoy Blagoev
Technical University Dresden
Lena Rieck
Technical University Dresden
Boukje Cnossen
Leuphana University Lüneburg

13 December 2022, 15 - 16.30
Hybrid auction sales of fine art and antiques: The role of auctioneers as frontline workers in digital transformation through sociomaterial practices
Sylvaine Tuncer
King’s Business School, King’s College

8 November 2022, 15 - 16.30
Crooked Teams: Coordination for Deviant Purposes
Marlys Christianson
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

11 October 2022, 15 - 16.30
Maintaining the Institutional Order throughout a Crisis: Reconstructions of Place, Time and Emotions in Israeli High-Tech 2001-4
Tammar B. Zilber
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

13 September 2022, 15 - 16.30
Ethnographic action research: Learning about changing industry cultures from the ground up
John Paul Stephens
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

31 May 2022, 14 - 15.30
Paradoxes of protection: When responses to disaster sit between markets and society
Paula Jarzabkowski
Professor in Strategy
University of Queensland & City, University of London
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Rebecca Bednarek, Victoria University, Wellington
Eugenia Cacciatori, City, University of London
Konstantinos Chalkias, Birkbeck, University of London

3 May 2022, 15 - 16.30
Sustaining Complex Collaboration
Pedro Monteiro
Assistant Professor
Copenhagen Business School

5 April 2022, 15 - 16.30
From Knowledge Mediators to Disenchantment with Big Data Analytics
Elina Mäkinen
Associate Professor
Tampere University

1 March 2022, 15 - 16.30
Mission invisible? Managing inter-organizational collaboration boundaries
Evelijn Martinius
PhD Candidate
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam


1 February 2022, 17 - 18.30
From Dreams of the Overworked To Time Cascades for the Ideal Worker
Christine Beckman
The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy
University of Southern California
Melissa Mazmanian
Professor and Chair of the Department of Informatics, and Professor of Organization and Management, University of California, Irvine

11 January 2022, 15 - 16.30
Learning to Labor Like a Hard-working Immigrant
Michel Anteby
Professor of Management and Organizations
Questrom School of Business, Boston University

7 December 2021, 15 - 16.30
Meaning, Mission, and Measurement: How Organizational Performance Measurement Shapes Perceptions of Work as Worthy
Marya Besharov
Professor of Organisations and Impact
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

2 November 2021, 15 - 16.30
Connecting actions and creating recognizability in routines

Giada Baldessarelli
Research Fellow
Imperial College Business School
Scott Turner
Associate Professor
University of South Carolina


5 October 2021, 15 - 16.30
A multi-sited team ethnography of "Financially redesigning the Anthropocene"
Katharina Dittrich
Associate Professor
Warwick Business School
Julius Kob
Postdoctoral Researcher
Warwick Business School

7 September 2021, 15 - 16.30
Front-line Professionals in the Wake of Public Scrutiny
Arvind Karunakaran
Assistant Professor
McGill University

25 May 2021, 15 - 16.30
The political is also personal: responsibilization in a voluntary organization
Samantha Ortiz Casillas
PhD Student
emlyon business school

9 March 2021, 12 - 13.30
'Plants in the Office': Internal Regulatory Agents and Interaction Orders of Organizational Compliance
Kartikeya Bajpai
Assistant Professor
emlyon business school


8 December 2020, 12 - 13.30
The strength of backlash: collective identity in fragmented mass movements
Lisa Buchter
Assistant Professor
emlyon business school
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​Elise Lobbedez
PhD Student
emlyon business school

3 November 2020, 12 - 13.30
Category formation in the vicinity of a stigmatized product category: The case of e-cigarettes
Thinley Tharchen
Assistant Professor
emlyon business school

6 October 2020, 12 - 13.30
Célina Smith
Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship
emlyon business school
Rising Every Time We Fall: Organizational Resilience in a Family Business Setting

15 September 2020, 12 - 13.30
Pauli Pakarinen
Postdoctoral Researcher
emlyon business school
Experts and machines: How economists produce inferences and verify their diagnosis through the episodes of interaction with a simulation model

20 February 2020, 12 - 13.30
General Deterrence of Systemic International Misconduct: How Swiss Banks’ Territoriality Beliefs Shaped their Responses to U.S. Government’s Claims of Legal Authority
Florian Überbacher
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
University of Zurich

16 January 2020, 12 - 13.30
Professor of Management and Organizations
emlyon business school
Governing Professional Practice: Expertise Voids, Evaluative Experts and Professional Autonomy

POSTPONED
Renate E. Meyer
Professor for Organization Studies
WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Visual and multimodal instantiations of role identities and stakeholder relations

31 January 2019, 12 - 13.30
Varieties of Entrepreneurship: Social Change Through Entrepreneurial Initiatives in Disadvantaged Communities
Nevena Radoynovska
Assistant Professor
emlyon business school

8 November 2018, 12 - 13.30
Narrating Social Structure
Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.
14 June 2018, 12 - 13.30
Publishing Qualitative Research in Top Journals
Professor of Management and Organizations
emlyon business school
24 May 2018, 12 - 13.30
The Low-Power Trifecta: Unlocking the ‘Power’ of Low-Power Actors through
IT-enabled Open Strategy Formulation
Dr Matt Mount
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Deakin Business School
Tyrone Pitsis
Professor of Strategy and Organization Studies
Leeds University Business School
19 October 2017, 12 - 13.30
Acceleration as Mitigation: Whether and when Process Solutions can Address Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship
Sarah Kaplan,
Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy,
Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy,
Professor of Strategic Management,
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto