18556: New Directions in Organization Design Research: Exploring Emergence in Design

Sunday, July 27, 2025

17:15 - 18:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C1-m2

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/yKAjgK

Organizer(s)

DH

Dorthe Doejbak Haakonsson

Aarhus U., Denmark
JJ

John Joseph

U. of California, Irvine, United States
MS

Metin Sengul

McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, United States

Discussant(s)

DL

Daniel Levinthal

U. of Pennsylvania, United States

Panelist(s)

DA

Daniel Albert

Drexel, United States
DH

Dorthe Doejbak Haakonsson

Aarhus U., Denmark
MK

Markus Kreutzer

EBS Business School, Germany
HP

Henning Piezunka

University of Pennsylvania, United States

This symposium aims to shed light on new theoretical advances in the study of emergence in organization design. Emergence is the idea that organization designs are not always formally planned and that design choices may have unintended consequences on behavioral and performance outcomes. Our goal is to identify and feature promising new lines of research, and to help Ph.D. students and junior faculty conceive of and develop high quality scholarship in this vein of research. By bringing together a diverse set of well-established and younger scholars that approach the field from different, but complementary perspectives and by including short, in-depth presentations, open Q&A, and discussion, we seek to encourage a constructive multi-way conversation and provide participants with very clear direction on the greatest opportunities for research on the toughest challenges in organization design today.