Olivier Berthod

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• Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
• Date de publi. : 07/07/2016
• Auteurs : Olivier BerthodMichael Grothe-HammerJörg Sydow
• Organismes : Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School Freie Universität Berlin Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Armed Forces Hamburg Freie Universität Berlin
• Publié dans Organizational Research Methods le 02/11/2020

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Résumé : A general interest in the study of social practices has been spreading across a diversity of disciplines in organization and management research, relying mostly on rich ethnographic accounts of units or teams. What is often called the practice-turn, however, has not reached research on interorganizational networks. This is mainly due to methodological issues that call, in the end, for a mixed-method approach. This article addresses this issue by proposing a research design that balances well-established social network analysis with a set of techniques of organizational ethnography that fit with the specifics of interorganizational networks. In what we call network ethnography, qualitative and quantitative data are collected and analyzed in a parallel fashion. Ultimately, the design implies convergence during data interpretation, hereby offering platforms of reflection for each method toward new data collection and analysis. We discuss implications for mixed-method literature, research on interorganizational networks, and organizational ethnography.

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• Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
• Date de publi. : 19/04/2016
• Auteurs : Michael Grothe-HammerOlivier Berthod
• Organismes : Freie Universität Berlin Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School
• Publié dans Current Sociology le 01/11/2020

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Résumé : Organizations managing disasters face a paradox. They need to build stable, reliable structures that are flexible enough to allow adaptation to such unexpected events. Much planning for concrete disaster response operations involves scenarios. From a Luhmannian perspective, this approach is characteristic of a form of ‘if-then’ conditional programming. Extant research on emergencies and disaster management, however, has remained silent about other than scenario-based planning. This article draws on sociological decision theory to highlight alternative forms of planning for disasters. It presents the possibilities to build stable structures for disaster management by making use of conditional programmes that rely on space instead of scenarios, and by making use of what Luhmann calls ‘programme nesting’. It illustrates this argument with a case study of emergency management in a large German city at the origin of this new planning method.

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• Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
• Date de publi. : 02/02/2015
• Auteurs : Olivier BerthodMichael Grothe-HammerJörg Sydow
• Organismes : Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität Berlin
• Publié dans Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management le 31/10/2020

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Résumé : This research note documents the initial findings of an ongoing ethnographic study at a fire and emergency service. This particular organization has become a focus of attention because of its skilled coordination of handling large‐scale organized events in cooperation with a large number of other organizations, thereby increasing their reliability. First of all, we will introduce the case and our observations, then discuss our findings against the backdrop of high‐reliability theory. We use these findings to characterize high‐reliability networks.

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• Type de publi. : Chapître d'ouvrage
• Date de publi. : 07/05/2014
• Auteurs : Olivier BerthodGordon Müller-SeitzJörg Sydow
• Organismes : Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität Berlin

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Résumé : Crisis situations represent a key managerial concern, as they are heavily imbued with uncertainty, implying, in contrast to calculable risks, the necessity to deal with the unexpected. Previous management research has focused predominantly in this regard upon the way organizations face crises once they have occurred; that is, on the reactive measures of single organizations. Against this background, this chapter sketches extant research on these predominantly organizational crisis management activities and offers options for practice and for future research geared towards interorganizational constellations and how they can prepare proactively for such situations.

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• Type de publi. : Chapître d'ouvrage
• Date de publi. : 02/08/2013
• Auteurs : Olivier Berthod
• Organismes : Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School

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• Type de publi. : Chapître d'ouvrage
• Date de publi. : 01/01/2013
• Auteurs : Olivier BerthodJörg Sydow
• Organismes : Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises ICN Business School Freie Universität Berlin

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Résumé : In his influential essay, Powell (1991, p. 186) stresses how little we know about the genesis and emergence of institutions. To him, neo-institutional theory consequently fails to look at issues of reproduction adequately. Path dependence, in his opinion, could contribute to these issues, not least due to its endogenous focus on the constitution and distributed reproduction of collective rationalities. And yet, studies in the neo-institutionalism tradition continue to mention the concept of path dependence with little consideration for its theoretical foundations (e.g. Holm, 1995; Thornton, Jones, and Kury, 2005; Modell, Jacobs, and Wiesel, 2007). In fact, and as we will see later, path dependence is more often evoked for rhetorical purposes than for the usage of its analytical tools (for a similar criticism see Sydow, Schreyögg, and Koch, 2009). As a result, the potential of path dependence has not yet really been exploited by institutionalists.

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