A Scandinavian perspective on the travel and translation of management ideas has flourished over the past 25 years. Although this stream of literature has been well represented in contemporary organizational thinking, there are reasons for reinvigorating this discussion and explore what distinctive role that this perspective has in understanding the society of today. The empirical setting that Nordic organizations make up offers important insights into other types of organizing than those found elsewhere. The empirical access given to scholars studying both private and public organizations in Scandinavia is remarkably generous and provides for deep (qualitative) data rich in social context. Insights from Scandinavian institutionalism therewith also hold promise for non-academic organizations as a source of knowledge and new organizational understandings and imageries. This calls for a revision and investigation of the particular potential and contributions of Scandinavian institutionalism to the wider field of organizational theory and to public policy today. The aim of the standing track is to create a platform for discussion between Scandinavian scholars working in the organizational translation tradition.
