XIII RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

The study of institutional environments and organizational arrangements has been developed traditionally by different disciplines. For a long time, economists, sociologists, management scholars and political scientists have devoted efforts in the study of institutions and organizations. These efforts, however, have been conducted almost independently through different theoretical lenses. For instance, while scholars associated with organizational economics have largely focused on formal mechanisms to govern exchanges (such as explicit contracts and hierarchies), sociologists and other social theorists have stressed the role of informal mechanisms including trust-based networks, political relations, and social-cognitive processes.

Being interdisciplinary in nature, the Research Workshop on Institutions and Organizations (RWIO) is a joint endeavor led by five research-oriented schools in Brazil (University of São Paulo – USP, Insper, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS,  Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar, and Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV). The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from distinct academic traditions to discuss relevant issues of institutions and organizations. Although the Workshop is jointly organized by five schools in Brazil, the organizers encourage the participation of scholars from all over the country, as well as from abroad.

The XIII RWIO will be divided in two parts:

The first part of the event will bring together a group of senior researchers who will present their ongoing research projects. Each presentation will be followed by a plenary debate in which the audience is expected to participate actively. The aim of the discussions is to develop an academic exchange environment.

The second part of the event will be organized as paper development sessions. The sessions are targeted at junior faculty, PhD candidates, and advanced master students. The main objective of the workshop is to provide a supportive setting where participants can receive feedback on current research projects and network with scholars.

In its thirteenth edition, the RWIO has a new partnership:

This year the XIII RWIO is jointly organized with XXI SemeAd 2018 (http://semead.com.br/21/) that will also take place at FEA/USP, on November 07th – 09th 2018.

This year the seminar is also sponsoring the 20 hours mini course “CHALLENGES IN INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS” (5 – 9, November), with the professor Gaetano Martino (University of Perugia) e Claude Menard University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne), see the syllabus (http://cors.usp.br/events/challenges-in-institutions-and-organizations/).

The registration enables access to both conferences.