10313: Bringing Research (and Researchers) to Life Through a Systems Psychodynamic Approach.

This PDW aims to develop participants’ capacity to use the systems psychodynamic approach in their research. After several decades at the margins of organization studies, this scholarly approach is resurging. Unsettling changes in the relations between individuals and institutions, and the reported emergence of a ‘new world of work,’ seem to have made the systems psychodynamic approach useful again, perhaps more useful than ever. Using it to cast light on the unconscious dimensions of novel or problematic features of organizations, organizing, and the organized, scholars have published their work in top American and European journals (e.g. Anicich, 2022; Ashforth & Reingen, 2014; Fitzsimons, Petriglieri & Petriglieri, 2024; Fotaki, 2013; Fotaki & Hyde, 2015; Handy & Rowlands, 2017; Kahn, 2022; Kenny, 2010; Kenny et al., 2020; Maitlis, 2022; Padavic et al., 2020; Petriglieri & Peshkam, 2022; Petriglieri et al., 2018, 2019; Petriglieri & Petriglieri, 2020; Prasad, 2014; Stein, 2011, 2013, 2021; Vince, 2019). We hope to help many others do the same. The workshop will begin with a keynote and a panel open to all Academy attendees. Both will explore why and when this approach is valuable, how leading scholars employ it in their work, and how interested scholars can learn more about using the approach in their own work. In the second session, which will require pre-registration, we will work with participants in small groups, helping them apply the approach in their current research. Specifically, facilitators will help participants interrogate the systemic unconscious dynamics that may be at play in the planning, fieldwork, data analysis, and / or writing up of a specific research project.

If you wish to attend the third part of the PDW, please email a brief (up to 500 word) summary of a qualitative research project that you are currently invested in, or that you wish to pursue, that you suspect has some unconscious dimensions to it, to Jennifer.petriglieri@insead.edu.