Back from Montreal

A set of interesting discussions around strategy as practice, the socio-material and digital, and new forms of work at the Academy of Management conference. Particular highlights were the workshop on 'strategy as practice' at HEC before the main conference, and a range of presentations by researchers who are starting to theorise about new forms of work - for example around issues of building trust in 'remote management'; and of projects with different levels of 'membership intensity.' Steve Barley's keynote on 'IT in the Wild' provoked thought about the changing forms of labour relations involved....

The paper that I discussed at the Academy is now published as: Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 6, 557-567.