Description
Doing Process Research for Insight and Impact
November 12 – 14, 2026
Aalto University, School of Business, Ekonominaukio 1
6 ECTS
Led by Emerita Professor Ann Langley
This doctoral course, organized in close collaboration with CARMA, concentrates on process research and process theorizing, and covers the following topics:
• The nature of process research and process research questions
• Choices and challenges in designing process studies
• Strategies for theorizing from process data
• Navigating the involvement paradox in process research
• Visualizing processes
• Writing up process research: unpacking a case history
The course is led by Ann Langley, Emerita Professor of management at HEC Montréal and Distinguished Research Environment Professor at University of Warwick. Until August 2020, she held the Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings and was codirector of the Strategy as Practice Study Group at HEC Montréal. She completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in the United Kingdom and obtained her Ph.D. in management at HEC Montreal in 1987 after several years working in both private and public sectors as an analyst and consultant. Her research deals with strategic management processes and practices appropriate to “pluralistic” settings, i.e., organizational contexts where objectives and values are multiple and ambiguous, where power and influence are shared among a variety of stakeholders, and where the knowledge required to make decisions is distributed among people at many levels and in different positions.
More information about the course is coming up soon! Please save the dates in your calendar already in case you are planning to attend, as we have limited spots on the course.