2018 COSI Meeting

Business+Impact at the Ross School of Business is proud to bring the Community of Social Innovation (COSI) scholars group to the University of Michigan May 11-13, 2018. The group has a mission to foster and advance the sharing of insights around teaching, data, theory and methods in the social innovation space, and to provide focused opportunities to mentor junior scholars in the domain.

Summit Guests:

Full Bios in the Program

 
Sharon Alvarez

Tom W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurship, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh

Christine Beckman

Professor of Management and Organizations Director of the Center of Social Value Creation, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Marya Besharov

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Christine Bode

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Technology, Universita Bocconi


Lindsey Cameron

PhD Candidate, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Natalie Carlson

PhD Candidate, Columbia Business School

Rodrigo Canales

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

Giulia Capellero

Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Universita Bocconi


Johan Chu

Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy, Chicago Booth, University of Chicago

J. Adam Cobb

Assistant Professor of Management Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Tina Dacin

Stephen J.R. Smith Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

Jerry Davis

Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology Co-Director, ICOS (Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies) Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan


Teddy DeWitt

PhD Candidate, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Stefan Dimitriadis

PhD Candidate in Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Harvard Business School

Laura Doering

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Jim Ferris

Professor; Emery Evans Olson Chair in Non-Profit Entrepreneurship and Public Policy; Director, Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California


 
Mary Ann Glynn

Joseph F. Cotter Professor; Director of Research, Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Michael Gordon

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Social Entrepreneurship Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Ling Han

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University

Shon Hiatt

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California


Julie Hui

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Information, University of Michigan

Matt Kelterborn

Program Director, Center for Social Impact, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Anna Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montreal

Suntae Kim

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Caroll School of Management, Boston College


Brandon Lee

Associate Professor, Business Strategy, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Chengpang Lee

China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Matt Lee

Assistant Professor of Strategy, INSEAD-Singapore

Bjoern Mitzinneck

PhD Student in Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University


 
Nancy McGaw

Deputy Director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO

Kelley Packalen

Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

Aruna Ranganathan

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Francesco Rullani

Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Management of Innovation, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy


Maureen Scully

Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Angelique Slade Shantz

Assistant Professor, Strategic Management and Organization, Alberta School of Business, Edmonton, Alberta

Sara Soderstrom

Assistant Professor in Organizational Studies and Program in the Environment, College of Literature, Science & Arts, University of Michigan

Tracy Thompson

Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Masters in Cybersecurity and Leadership Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA


Marc Ventresca

Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Said Business School, University of Oxford

Chris White

Managing Director, Center for Positive Organizations, Adjunct Faculty in Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Trevor Young-Hyman

Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh

Sylvia Dorado-Banacloche

Associate Professor of Management, University of Rhode Island


   
Andy Hoffman

Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

Tanya Upthegrove

Division of Student Affairs – Student Success, University of Michigan–Flint

   

History of COSI

In 2010 a small group convened in Montreal to discuss how to collaborate and build a community of scholars with an interest at the intersection of social innovation and social movements. This culminated in the official launch of COSI at the first annual COSI workshop. Those founding Steering Committee members include:

– Tina Dacin, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University
– Jerry Davis, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
– Klaus Weber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

The first COSI workshop was in collaboration with local hosts, Julie Battilana and Alnoor Ebrahim, of Harvard Business School and its affiliated Social Enterprise Initiative.

The group developed a mission is to foster and advance the sharing of insights around teaching, data, theory and methods in the social innovation space, and to provide focused opportunities to mentor junior scholars in the domain. The first workshop focused on roundtable discussions on paper development, presentations from junior scholars on their ongoing work and a dialogue on how to facilitate interaction amongst the group.

 

 


Getting to Ann Arbor

Our events will be held at the Ross School of Business (701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109) and our opening session on Friday will be at the Executive Residence (710 East University [at Hill]), where most of you will be staying. The Executive Residence is your first stop to check in for the meeting.

Detroit Metro is North America’s greatest airport and is only 20 miles from Ann Arbor. Unfortunately, it is not overrun with cabs. Here are some options:

1. Pre-arrange a car service

  • Metro Car (800-456-1701)
  • Royal Limousine (866-697-6925)
  • Golden Limo (800-300-5151)

2. Take a bus (http://michiganflyer.com/) – runs 8-12 trips per day

3. Rent a car (surprisingly cheap on weekends; can share with other conferees). Park at Forest Street lot, 1.5 block from Executive Residence, and we will provide voucher

4. Uber/Lyft/other ride-hailing software


Program Line-up

Friday, May 11, 2018

5:00 – 6:00 pm Check-In (B1590 Corner Commons)
6:00 – 7:00 pm Cocktail Hour & RRBM Update (Corner Commons)
7:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner (Executive Residence Dining Room)
8:00 – 9:30 pm Open mic for non-presenters (Corner Commons)
9:30 pm – ? Afterglow at Jerry’s house (1047 Martin Place)

Saturday May 12, 2018

8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast (B0570)
9:00 – 10:30 am Meet a social entrepreneur and share insights: Emily Staugaitis of Bandhu Gardens (B0570 and breakout rooms B0574, B0576, B1564, B1566, B1576, B2564)
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – Noon Content Session 1: Intrapreneurship (B0570)
  • Sara Soderstrom: “Empowering Intrapreneurship through the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps”
  • Christiane Bode:”Up to no good? Gender, social impact work and employee promotions”
  • Matthew Lee: “Categorical cognition and outcome efficiency in impact investing”
  • Lindsey Cameron: “Making out While Driving: Control, Coordination, and its Consequences in the Gig Economy”
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch/Open Mic (B0570)
1:00 – 2:45 pm Content Session 2: Entrepreneurship
  • Suntae Kim and Anna Kim: “Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? How Growth Perspectives Shape the Development of Nascent Business Ideas”
  • Stefan Dimitriadis: “How reciprocity frames lead to entrepreneurial social capital: A field experiment with micro-entrepreneurs in Togo”
  • Bjoern Mitzinneck and Marya Besharov: “Managing Value Tensions in Collective Social Entrepreneurship: The Role of Temporal, Structural, and Collective Compromise”
  • Shon Hiatt: “State agency discretion and entrepreneurship in the U.S. hydroelectric power sector”
2:45 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00– 3:45 pm Open Mic 2 (Breakout rooms B0574, B0576, B1564, B1566, B1576, B2564)
3:45 – 5:30 pm Designing a curriculum for impact-oriented research (B0570 and breakout rooms B0574, B0576, B1564, B1566, B1576,
B2564)
6:00 pm – ? Dinner at Sava’s (216 S. State St.)

Sunday, May 13, 2018

8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast (B0570)
9:00 – 10:00 am “How to Communicate to non-academics” – Andrew Hoffman (B0570)
10:00 – 11:30 am Content Session 3: Organizational Change and Performance (B0570)
  • Tracy A. Thompson and Marya Besharov: “Institutional Leadership: Integrating Moral Values and Business”
  • Rodrigo Canales: “Building effective, resilient, and trusted police organizations”
  • Francesco Rullani: “Less is More? Logic Multiplicity and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the US Healthcare Industry”
  • Sharon Alvarez: “Conflicting Dimensions of Legitimacy and Pioneering Organizations: The Case of the Cuban Paladares”
11:30 am – Noon Closing Remarks (B0570)
Noon – ? Optional Detroit tour (TBA)

Highlights

 

Conference sponsors:

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See images from the 2015 conference!

Testimonials

“Our community is purposefully small, not dominated by any one school or perspective, and our objectives remain quite simple. Our goal is to build a community of scholars who teach and conduct research in this area” says Tina Dacin.
“It was an extremely valuable experience for all of us, so thank you so much for the invitation, for the work, and for bringing us together. I very much look forward to our work in building and strengthening this community” wrote Rodrigo Canales, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Management in a follow up note to COSI after the first workshop.
This message was echoed by Wendy Smith, Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Delaware, who commented, “It was an honor and a pleasure to be included in this group. I know that a colleague and I received great feedback on both our theory and empirical projects on hybrid organizations. We really appreciated the opportunity to share our work with this community and look forward to future opportunities to connect with the COSI community.”

Workshop Papers

Watch this space for available papers.

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