Charlene Zietsma

Charlene Zietsma

York University, Schulich School of Business Canada

Charlene Zietsma is the Ann Brown Chair and Associate Professor of Organization Studies, and Director of Entrepreneurial Studies, at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.  She earned her doctorate at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on contexts involving significant, large-scale change.  She studies institutional work, institutional change processes, and social emotions usually in the context of social and ecological issues and social movements.  In entrepreneurship, she focuses on managing rapid growth, sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial cognition/emotion.  She has lectured extensively on these topics in a number of countries around the world and her work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing and others.  She is a Senior Editor for Organization Studies, guest editor for special issues in Business & Society, Strategic Organization and Organization Studies, and serves on the editorial board for several other journals.

Research stay at UC3M: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Project:  Dynamics of Institutional Fields.  Professor Charlene Zietsma intends to focus on projects related to the dynamics of institutional fields, which are the social spaces within which interactions among members (individuals and organizations) are frequent, cultural understandings come to be shared, and formal and informal forms of power and governance guide actions and interactions. A key concept within institutional theory in particular, and social theory more broadly, institutional fields remain poorly defined and dimensionalized, leading to limited ability to cumulate scholarship on dynamic processes within fields. Together with UC3M researchers and others, Dr. Zietsma will examine field formation, power and social capital within fields. She will also focus on field infrastructures, and the association of different types and conditions of fields with the trajectories of institutional change processes.

Stay period: SEPT - DEC 2015 and APR - JUNE 2016