A special focus in the workshop was on how institutions emerge, persist and transform – and what this means for current social, economic and environmental challenges. The workshop featured experts like Walter Powell, Sarah Soule or Renate Meyer and combined sessions on current research and new methodological tools with in-depth discussions on PhD students’ work.

Lisa researches how large companies change towards more sustainable business models – and how they manage tensions with their established business model, structures and routines – against the backdrop of the Swedish manufacturing industry’s transition to electrification, circularity and digitalization. She uses institutional theory to analyze how companies’ logic of doing business is changing as they adopt new business models. Stay tuned for results!  

For more information please see the following links:

https://scancor.org/

https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/the-18th-scancor-phd-workshop-on-institutional-analysis