SCOS Update, September
22/09, 2012 | CALL FOR PAPERS | CONFERENCE
This week, we have two items for you:
1) Final reminder for the call for papers for the ‘Recovery and Organization’ special issue of Culture and Organisation
2) BSA Postgraduate Conference – 'Who and what is management for?' at The University of Leicester School of Management – a one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10th January 2013
1) Final reminder for the call for papers for the ‘Recovery and Organization’ special issue of Culture and Organisation
2) BSA Postgraduate Conference – 'Who and what is management for?' at The University of Leicester School of Management – a one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10th January 2013
Item 1:
Special issue of Culture and Organization – Recovery and organization, Volume 19, issue 5, 2013
Call for papers:
Following the success of the 29th SCOS conference on the theme of ‘Recovery’, we are inviting contributions for a special issue of Culture and Organization that explore the ways in which the world is living on and living through the impact, persistence and aftershocks of the recent economic crisis. What this recovery might look like, and how we might experience it, naturally depends on perspective. The radical left we assume may articulate recovery as an ongoing legitimation crisis, in which recovery involves a global ‘waking’ up to the inequities and environmental degradation which capitalism generates. Moving much further right on the political spectrum, those in the neo-liberal Hayekian camp will presumably construct recovery as a swift return to free market economics without the ‘unnecessary’ intervention of an ‘always clumsy’ government of whatever kind. And of course there will be innumerable way stations in between, and myriad possible recoveries.
Recovery then is an evocative and often circuitous concept which we can approach from multiple vantage points. There is, for example, the possibility of exploring recovery as a process of change leading to improved health and well-being. As such recovery can be framed as a process of healing and transformation for the better, at the level of the individual, the organization and/ or the national and international economies. This also necessitates conceptualizing malaise or decline (which itself can be done in myriad ways) and of what might constitute the converse. Then there is the question here of whether recovery should be seen as a process – perhaps a never-ending one - or as the end state of wellness. But recovery might equally be about (re-)discovery of a real or imagined (or both/ and) organizational/ national/ international time and place. And in any case what exactly is being re(dis)covered here? Considering questions of collective and individual memory requires us to reflect on the inevitably reconstructionist qualities of remembering and nostalgia, as well as the dangers of forgetting what has gone before. Recovering could therefore be interpreted as individual or collective concealment, obfuscation, mystification or revisionism – or, on the other hand, as revelation and unveiling. To recover can also signify to get something back, to have it returned, to reclaim it as the ‘rightful’ owner or to be compensated for its loss. Still further, we can see recovery as the excavation of what lies beneath and is not immediately accessible – as in the extraction of natural substances such as oil, and the enormous environmental controversies surrounding such activities which in their turn link to the ongoing debates around carbon trading and ‘carbon democracies’. And recovery can additionally signify reconstituting useful substances from refuse or waste.
In all of these approaches to framing recovery – which are by no means exhaustive – it is experienced by individuals, organizations and other collectives at various meso and macro levels. And such dualisms might themselves be in crisis in any possible recovery. Recovery also implies a movement from past through present to future, which might be supported, resisted, subverted, imagined, re-imagined and unimagined.
As such, possible themes of recovery as it intersects with organization include, but are absolutely not limited to:
· Rediscovery of frames of the past, present and future at work
· Repair, regeneration and renewal in organizations and beyond
· Memory, nostalgia and forgetting in organizations and elsewhere
· Concealment, deceit, complicity, manipulation and recidivism in organizations and elsewhere
· The limits of recovery and the failure to recover: organizational deterioration, loss, death
· Signs and signifiers of recovery in organizations and beyond
· Body, mind, soul and well-being at work
· Recovery as an organizational/ economic imaginary or utopia
· Redemption, reparation and recuperation: from pre- to post-recovery in organizations and beyond
· Organizational spaces, places and times of recovery
· Ecologies of recovery and work systems as ecologies of healing
· Relationships of organizational and/ or economic recovery
· The East and West, or North and South, of organizational/ national/ transnational recovery
· Organizational heroes and heroics, healing and salvation – and their opposites
· Resistance to recovery in organizations and beyond
· What can be recovered? Organizational reclamations and compensations
In short, we welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the theme of recovery and its relationship to organization.
Guest editors
The guest editors are Jo Brewis, University of Leicester, UK, and Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, UK, and Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
Submission and informal enquiries
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word 2007 if possible to recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk by 1st October 2012. Please ensure that you follow the C and O house style, as outlined at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1475-9551&linktype=44. Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length, and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate.
Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript.
Please direct informal enquiries to Jo Brewis at recovery@le.ac.uk.
Item 2:
BSA Postgraduate Conference - 'Who and what is management for?'
The University of Leicester School of Management
A one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10th January 2013.
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted to events@britsoc.org.uk by 8 October 2012, or on the BSA website, including the name and date of the conference. Conference papers should be 6,000 - 8,000 words.
Please download a call for abstracts here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Date: 10 January 2013.
Contact: Please contact Juan Espinosa (jfe3@le.ac.uk) for more information
The conference is broadly themed around Critical Management, based on the multi-disciplinary 'Leicester Model' that draws from across the social sciences. Unlike mainstream Business Schools, at Leicester we are concerned with challenging the status quo and giving voice to those individuals, groups and societies who are traditionally overlooked in global management.
Costs and Travel Grants
The costs to BSA members is £10, and £25 to non-BSA members. This money goes towards lunch and drinks for all attendees.
Thanks to generous support from the Graduate Dean at the University of Leicester, we can also offer up to ten PhD travel grants of £50 each. To apply for these please include a short grant application statement (50-100 words) stating your travel costs and needs.
Themes:
We welcome contributions around these themes:
1. Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Building on our global, critical and multi-disciplinary approach we welcome research in the fields of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Topics might include leadership, diversity, equality, employment law, workplace violence, the career experiences of minorities and the labour process in developing countries. Participants should focus on the values that global management does, or does not, ascribe to difference.
2. Critical finance. Critiques of mainstream macroeconomics, financialisation and modern finance theory are welcome. Suggested topics include global financial reform, post-Bretton Woods institutions, 'risk-free' rates of return, stock-flow modelling and central banking theory. Empirical contributions might study alternative economies, or describe financial crises from the perspective of disadvantaged groups.
3. Social studies of management and organisation. Building on Science and Technology Studies, this stream invites contributions in the use of 'market devices' and 'organising devices'; other actor-network approaches; and anthropological, ethnographic and sociological studies of organisations.
Respondents and Speakers
Fiona Wilson, Professor of Organisation Behaviour, Glasgow University Business School Fiona Wilson's research focuses on the relationships between men and women at work. She has been involved in research on romance at work, gender and the professions and sexual harassment. She recently finished a project on banks' lending to male and female business owners.
Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School Malcolm Sawyer is the author of 11 books, has edited 24, and contributed to over 100 chapters. He has published 90 papers in refereed journals. His research interests are in macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, the political economy of the European Monetary Union, nature of money, causes and concepts of unemployment, and the economics of Michal Kalecki.
Dirk Bezemer, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen Dirk Bezemer's 2009 paper "No One Saw This Coming: Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting Models" has been widely downloaded and discussed, and he was recently awarded funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for research into financial instability.
Daniel Neyland, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School Daniel Neyland's research interests cover governance, accountability and ethics in the form of science, technology and organization. He draws on ethnomethodology, science and technology studies, constructivism, Actor-Network Theory and the recent STS turn to markets.
Javier Lezaun, Lecturer, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Javier Lezaun's research interests focus on the legal, political and social dimensions of techno-scientific change, particularly in the life sciences and biomedicine.
Complete CfP here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Juan Espinosa
Organisation Team
PhD Student School of Management
University of Leicester
Special issue of Culture and Organization – Recovery and organization, Volume 19, issue 5, 2013
Call for papers:
Following the success of the 29th SCOS conference on the theme of ‘Recovery’, we are inviting contributions for a special issue of Culture and Organization that explore the ways in which the world is living on and living through the impact, persistence and aftershocks of the recent economic crisis. What this recovery might look like, and how we might experience it, naturally depends on perspective. The radical left we assume may articulate recovery as an ongoing legitimation crisis, in which recovery involves a global ‘waking’ up to the inequities and environmental degradation which capitalism generates. Moving much further right on the political spectrum, those in the neo-liberal Hayekian camp will presumably construct recovery as a swift return to free market economics without the ‘unnecessary’ intervention of an ‘always clumsy’ government of whatever kind. And of course there will be innumerable way stations in between, and myriad possible recoveries.
Recovery then is an evocative and often circuitous concept which we can approach from multiple vantage points. There is, for example, the possibility of exploring recovery as a process of change leading to improved health and well-being. As such recovery can be framed as a process of healing and transformation for the better, at the level of the individual, the organization and/ or the national and international economies. This also necessitates conceptualizing malaise or decline (which itself can be done in myriad ways) and of what might constitute the converse. Then there is the question here of whether recovery should be seen as a process – perhaps a never-ending one - or as the end state of wellness. But recovery might equally be about (re-)discovery of a real or imagined (or both/ and) organizational/ national/ international time and place. And in any case what exactly is being re(dis)covered here? Considering questions of collective and individual memory requires us to reflect on the inevitably reconstructionist qualities of remembering and nostalgia, as well as the dangers of forgetting what has gone before. Recovering could therefore be interpreted as individual or collective concealment, obfuscation, mystification or revisionism – or, on the other hand, as revelation and unveiling. To recover can also signify to get something back, to have it returned, to reclaim it as the ‘rightful’ owner or to be compensated for its loss. Still further, we can see recovery as the excavation of what lies beneath and is not immediately accessible – as in the extraction of natural substances such as oil, and the enormous environmental controversies surrounding such activities which in their turn link to the ongoing debates around carbon trading and ‘carbon democracies’. And recovery can additionally signify reconstituting useful substances from refuse or waste.
In all of these approaches to framing recovery – which are by no means exhaustive – it is experienced by individuals, organizations and other collectives at various meso and macro levels. And such dualisms might themselves be in crisis in any possible recovery. Recovery also implies a movement from past through present to future, which might be supported, resisted, subverted, imagined, re-imagined and unimagined.
As such, possible themes of recovery as it intersects with organization include, but are absolutely not limited to:
· Rediscovery of frames of the past, present and future at work
· Repair, regeneration and renewal in organizations and beyond
· Memory, nostalgia and forgetting in organizations and elsewhere
· Concealment, deceit, complicity, manipulation and recidivism in organizations and elsewhere
· The limits of recovery and the failure to recover: organizational deterioration, loss, death
· Signs and signifiers of recovery in organizations and beyond
· Body, mind, soul and well-being at work
· Recovery as an organizational/ economic imaginary or utopia
· Redemption, reparation and recuperation: from pre- to post-recovery in organizations and beyond
· Organizational spaces, places and times of recovery
· Ecologies of recovery and work systems as ecologies of healing
· Relationships of organizational and/ or economic recovery
· The East and West, or North and South, of organizational/ national/ transnational recovery
· Organizational heroes and heroics, healing and salvation – and their opposites
· Resistance to recovery in organizations and beyond
· What can be recovered? Organizational reclamations and compensations
In short, we welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the theme of recovery and its relationship to organization.
Guest editors
The guest editors are Jo Brewis, University of Leicester, UK, and Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, UK, and Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
Submission and informal enquiries
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word 2007 if possible to recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk by 1st October 2012. Please ensure that you follow the C and O house style, as outlined at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1475-9551&linktype=44. Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length, and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate.
Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript.
Please direct informal enquiries to Jo Brewis at recovery@le.ac.uk.
Item 2:
BSA Postgraduate Conference - 'Who and what is management for?'
The University of Leicester School of Management
A one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10th January 2013.
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted to events@britsoc.org.uk by 8 October 2012, or on the BSA website, including the name and date of the conference. Conference papers should be 6,000 - 8,000 words.
Please download a call for abstracts here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Date: 10 January 2013.
Contact: Please contact Juan Espinosa (jfe3@le.ac.uk) for more information
The conference is broadly themed around Critical Management, based on the multi-disciplinary 'Leicester Model' that draws from across the social sciences. Unlike mainstream Business Schools, at Leicester we are concerned with challenging the status quo and giving voice to those individuals, groups and societies who are traditionally overlooked in global management.
Costs and Travel Grants
The costs to BSA members is £10, and £25 to non-BSA members. This money goes towards lunch and drinks for all attendees.
Thanks to generous support from the Graduate Dean at the University of Leicester, we can also offer up to ten PhD travel grants of £50 each. To apply for these please include a short grant application statement (50-100 words) stating your travel costs and needs.
Themes:
We welcome contributions around these themes:
1. Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Building on our global, critical and multi-disciplinary approach we welcome research in the fields of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Topics might include leadership, diversity, equality, employment law, workplace violence, the career experiences of minorities and the labour process in developing countries. Participants should focus on the values that global management does, or does not, ascribe to difference.
2. Critical finance. Critiques of mainstream macroeconomics, financialisation and modern finance theory are welcome. Suggested topics include global financial reform, post-Bretton Woods institutions, 'risk-free' rates of return, stock-flow modelling and central banking theory. Empirical contributions might study alternative economies, or describe financial crises from the perspective of disadvantaged groups.
3. Social studies of management and organisation. Building on Science and Technology Studies, this stream invites contributions in the use of 'market devices' and 'organising devices'; other actor-network approaches; and anthropological, ethnographic and sociological studies of organisations.
Respondents and Speakers
Fiona Wilson, Professor of Organisation Behaviour, Glasgow University Business School Fiona Wilson's research focuses on the relationships between men and women at work. She has been involved in research on romance at work, gender and the professions and sexual harassment. She recently finished a project on banks' lending to male and female business owners.
Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School Malcolm Sawyer is the author of 11 books, has edited 24, and contributed to over 100 chapters. He has published 90 papers in refereed journals. His research interests are in macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, the political economy of the European Monetary Union, nature of money, causes and concepts of unemployment, and the economics of Michal Kalecki.
Dirk Bezemer, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen Dirk Bezemer's 2009 paper "No One Saw This Coming: Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting Models" has been widely downloaded and discussed, and he was recently awarded funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for research into financial instability.
Daniel Neyland, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School Daniel Neyland's research interests cover governance, accountability and ethics in the form of science, technology and organization. He draws on ethnomethodology, science and technology studies, constructivism, Actor-Network Theory and the recent STS turn to markets.
Javier Lezaun, Lecturer, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Javier Lezaun's research interests focus on the legal, political and social dimensions of techno-scientific change, particularly in the life sciences and biomedicine.
Complete CfP here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Juan Espinosa
Organisation Team
PhD Student School of Management
University of Leicester