What’s an Organization to do? How Organizations Accommodate, Navigate, and Resist Authoritarianism

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (60 minute)

Description

In a time of unprecedented challenges to institutions like higher education in the U.S., an organizational sociology perspective can help us understand what organizations face and how people in organizations may resist authoritarian pressures. This panel has been convened to spark conversations about meso-level navigation of macro-level forces. How do organizations face pressures to accommodate, find space to navigate, and develop strategies to resist authoritarianism? Discussion will leverage comparative cases and organizational variation to uncover strategies and develop knowledge about tools that have worked in other times and places–both inside and between organizations–to resist authoritarianism.

Sub Unit

• Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section / What’s an Organization to do? How Organizations Accommodate, Navigate, and Resist Authoritarianism

Panelists

• Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis

• Brayden G King, Northwestern University

• Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa

• Enobong (Anna) Branch, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Session Organizers

• Laurel Smith-Doerr, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Lucius Couloute, Trinity College