Course coordinator: Eva Boxenbaum, Department of Organization (IOA)

Faculty

Eva Boxenbaum, Professor
Department of Organization, CBS

Lecture plan

Monday April 8

9.00 –   9.30: Introduction to course (Eva Boxenbaum)

9.30 – 11.30: Theorizing impact: professional aspirations (Stine Grodal, Anders Krabbe)

11.30 – 12.00  Individual project plan 

13.00 – 16.00: Enacting impact: Audiovisual storytelling & academia (Cathrine la Cour)

16.00 – 16.30: Individual project plan 

Tuesday April 9

9.00 –   9.30: Theorizing impact: pathways (Eva Boxenbaum)

9.30 – 11.30: Theorizing impact: changing roles and expertise of scholars (Ruthanne Huising)

11.30 – 12.00  Individual project plan 

13.00 – 16.00: Enacting impact: Communication skills (Vivi Lena Andersen)

16.00 – 16.30: Individual project plan
 

Wednesday, April 10

9.00 – 10.30 Theorizing impact: Modes of communication (Eva Boxenbaum & Silviya Svejenova)

10.30 – 11.30 Theorizing impact: Art & Aesthetics (Silviya Svejenova )

11.30 – 12.00 Individual project plan

13.00 – 16.00: Enacting impact: workshop (Cathrine La Cour, Eva Boxenbaum)

16.00 – 16.30  Course evaluation

Teaching style

The pedagogical approach revolves around an individual project plan related to societal impact, which participants submit in a rough draft before the course and further develop throughout the course. Participants build insights from lectures, discussion, group work, and exercises into their individual project plan as the course unfolds.  

Indicative Course Literature

Abbott, A. (1981). Status and status strain in the professions. American Journal of Sociology, 86(4), 819-835.

Benco, R. C. (2020). Why science needs art. Smithsonian Magazine (April 15, 2020).  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/04/15/why-science-needs-art/

Boxenbaum, E., Jones, C., Meyer, R., & Svejenova, S. (2018). Towards an articulation of the material and visual turn in organization studies. Organization Studies, 39(5-6), 597-616. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618772611

Huising, R., “Epistemic travel and its dangers: Academic impact seeking, influencing, and posing” in preparation for Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Jones, C., Svejenova, S., Pedersen, J. S., & Townley, B. (2016). Misfits, mavericks and mainstreams: Drivers of innovation in the creative industries. Organization Studies, 37(6), 751-768.

Kacprzyk, J., Clune, S., Clark, C., & Kane, A.  (2023). Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness, Annals of Botany, 131(2), 255–260.  

Khoury, C. K., Kisel, Y., Kantar, M., Barber, E., Ricciardi, V., Klirs, C., ... & Novy, A. (2019). Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact. Communications Biology, 2(1), 295. 

Krabbe, A. D., & Grodal, S. “The mediation dilemma and power hybris in the hearing aid industry (1945-2015)”, working paper.

Li, N., Villanueva, I. I., Jilk, T., Van Matre, B. R., & Brossard, D. (2023). Artistic representations of data can help bridge the US political divide over climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 195.

McKee, R., & Fryer, B. (2003). Storytelling that moves people. Harvard Business Review, 81(6), 51-55.

Meyer, R. E., Jancsary, D., Höllerer, M. A., & Boxenbaum, E. (2018). The role of verbal and visual text in the process of institutionalization. Academy of Management Review, 43(3), 392-418.

Pakarinen, P., & Huising, R. (2023). Relational expertise: What machines can't know. Journal of Management Studies, 10.1111/joms.12915

Reinecke, J., Boxenbaum, E., & Gehman, J. (2022). Impactful Theory: Pathways to Mattering. Organization Theory, 3(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221131061

Vaughan, D. (2006). NASA revisited: Theory, analogy, and public sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 112(2), 353-393.

Villanueva, I. I., Li, N., Jilk, T., Renner, J., Van Matre, B. R., & Brossard, D. (2024). When science meets art on Instagram: Examining the effects of visual art on emotions, interest, and social media engagement. Science Communication,  https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470241228279

Registration deadline and conditions

The registration deadline is 26 February 2024. If you want to cancel your registration on the course it should be done prior to this mentioned date. By this date we determine whether we have enough registrations to run the course, or who should be offered a seat if we have received too many registrations.

If there are more seats available on the course we leave the registration open by setting a new regsitration deadline in order to fill remaining seats. Once you have received our acceptance/welcome letter to join the course, your registration is binding and we do not refund your course fee. The binding registration date will be the registration deadline mentioned above.