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SCOS in Warsaw 2013!

Please visit the SCOS website for all the details you will need for our exciting 2013 conference being hosted in Warsaw, July 13th – 16th 2013.

You’ll find details of how to register – don’t forget the early bird fee is open until the 20th May!
And don’t forget that there are PhD bursaries available!

Please follow the link http://scos2013.wz.uw.edu.pl/home where you will also find the contact details for our organisers this year…


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Call for Papers for Subtheme at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference: Extending the limits of neo-liberal capitalism, Manchester 10-12 July 2013

Stream 29: ‘Biting the hand that feeds’: Reflections on Power, Politics, Identity and Managerialism at Work in Academia

Convenors

Elisabeth Berg elisabeth.berg@ltu.se

Caroline Clarke caroline.clarke@open.ac.uk

David Knights david.knights@uwe.ac.uk

Marieke van den Brink mcl.vandenbrink@fm.ru.nl

The aim of this stream is to advance contemporary thinking about the consequences of new public management in academia by bringing together international scholars with an interest in critical perspectives on power, politics, inequality and identity in academic settings.

Historically it was thought that academic work was off limits in relation to developments in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. However, this assumption has been wholly contradicted by developments in new public management (NPM) or ‘managerialism’ wherein private sector practices of accountability, audit, control and surveillance have proliferated in the public sector (Willmott, 1995; Thomas & Davies, 2002; Harley, 2003; Adler & Harzing, 2009), including academe. Academic institutions routinely incorporate audits, performance measurement, league tables and targets, and high levels of monitoring and surveillance. A number of conferences and seminars have recently discussed and explored NPM in relation to universities and in particular, business schools. In 2012 two conferences - Doing and Undoing Academic Labour, University of Lincoln 7th June 2012 and What's wrong with the University? Cork University, 5-6 June 2012 - focused directly on the problems of NPM in universities building on a tradition of critical work extending back almost 20 years (Parker and Jary, 1995; Prichard & Willmott, 1997; Slaughter and Leslie, 1997; Worthington & Hodgson, 2005; Ford et al., 2010; Acker, 2012; Acker et al, 2012). During that time academics have become increasingly subjected to managerial control and work intensification in administration, research and teaching and these pressures have served also to distract attention from a broader range of social inequalities around age, class, ethnicity, gender, impairment, and sexuality (Knights and Richards, 2003; Barry et al., 2006; Harding et al., 2008; Acker et al., 2012; Hirshfield and Joseph, 2012; Van den Brink & Benschop, 2012)

Studies of academic work from this perspective have called upon a variety of methods, including analyses of secondary data, interviews with staff to identify their increasingly intensified conditions of work, ethnographic observations and auto-ethnographic reflections on personal experience (Humphreys, 2005; Sparkes, 2007; Learmonth and Humphreys, 2011; Clarke et al., 2012). Results of these studies reflect both the rise of managerialism and aspects of identity politics and the politics of organization. Overall, research is conducted against the context of the changes that academics have experienced since the emergence and development of the neo-liberal economic and political consensus that extends back to Reagan and Thatcher in the US and the UK respectively and has become a global phenomenon.

This track invites theoretically and/or empirically informed papers from different disciplines that reflect on issues of Power, Politics, Identity and Managerialism in Academia. Relevant though not exhaustive topics that may facilitate potential contributions include:
· Autoethnographic narratives of academic work
· The politics of career or career politics in universities
· Power and identity at work in academe
· The stratification of the academic profession: job insecurity and the impact on collegiality
· Work intensification in the university
· Gender, ‘race’ and/or other diversity discriminations in academia
· Publish or perish in higher education
· The discourse of ‘excellence’
· Managing the pressures of New Public Management in the academic workplace
· Working with chaotic management
· The growing academic administration and its consequences
· Balancing teaching and research
· The commodification of education
· Consumerist ideologies and the student fees debate

Abstracts should be a maximum 500/1000 words, A4 paper, single spaced, 12 point font. Deadline 31st January 2013 – CMS deadline extended to 28th February 2013 please see: https://www.meeting.co.uk/confercare/cms2013/introduction.html

Notification of paper acceptance: 22nd February 2013.

Full papers will be expected by 1st May 2013.

Your abstract should include:
· Title
· The focus, aims and objectives of the paper
· The research evidence base underpinning the paper
· How the paper will contribute to the theme

CMS Conference Website

Convenor Profiles

Elisabeth Berg (elisabeth.berg@ltu.se): Professor in Sociology at Luleå University of technology, Sweden and Visiting professor at University of East London, England, for profile see http://www.ltu.se/staff/e/elbe-1.10523?l=en

Caroline Clarke (caroline.clarke@open.ac.uk): Senior Lecturer in Management, Open University Business School. For profile see http://www8.open.ac.uk/business-school/people/dr-caroline-clarke

David Knights (david.knights@uwe.ac.uk): Professor, Bristol Business School and Swansea University’s College of Business, Economics and Law. Visiting Professor, Stockholm University and Lancaster University. For profile see uk.linkedin.com/pub/david-knights/13/163/a7a

Marieke van den Brink (mcl.vandenbrink@fm.ru.nl): Assistant Professor Strategic Human Resource Management, Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Affiliated with GEXcel research centre at Orebro University Sweden. For profile see: http://www.ru.nl/bedrijfskunde/@679804/pagina/

References
Acker, S. (2012) Chairing and caring: gendered dimensions of leadership in academe, Gender and Education, 24(4), 411-428
Acker, S., M. Webber and E. Smyth (2012) Tenure troubles and equity matters in Canadian academe, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33(5), 743-761
Adler, N and Harzing, A.W. (2009) When Knowledge Wins: Transcending the sense and nonsense of academic rankings, The Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 72-95.
Barry, J., Berg, E., & Chandler, J. (2006). Academic shape shifting: Gender, management, and identities in Sweden and England. Organization, 13(2), 275—298.
Clarke, C., D. Knights and C. Jarvis, ‘A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28/1, March 2012, pp.5-15.
Ford, J., N. Harding, and M Learmonth, (2010) ‘Who is it that would Make Business Schools More Critical? British Journal of Management, 21:S71-S81.
Harding, N., Ford, J., & Gough, B. (2010). Accounting for ourselves: Are academics exploited workers? Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 21, 159—168.
Harley, S. (2003). Research selectivity and female academics in UK universities: From gentleman’s club and barrack yard to smart macho? Gender and Education, 15(4), 377—439.
Hirshfield, L., & Joseph, T. (2012). ‘We need a woman, we need a black woman’: Gender, race and identity taxation in the academy. Gender and Education, 24(2), 213-227.
Humphreys, M (2005). Getting Personal: Reflexivity and Autoethnographic Vignettes. Qualitative Inquiry, 11, 840-860.
Knights, D. and Richards, W, ‘Sex Discrimination in UK Academia’, Gender, Work and Organization, 10/2, 2003, pp. 213-38.
Learmonth, M and M Humphreys (2011) Autoethnography and Academic Identity: Glimpsing Business School Doppelgangers. Organization, 19/1 pp. 97-117.
Parker, M., & Jary, D. (1995). The McUniversity: Organization, management and academic subjectivity. Organization, 2(2), 319— 338.
Prichard, C., & Willmott, H. (1997). Just how managed is the McUniversity? Organization Studies, 18(2), 287—316.
Slaughter, S., & Leslie, L. (1987). Academic capitalism: Politics, policies, and the entrepreneurial university. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sparkes, A. (2007). Embodiment, academics, and the audit culture: A story seeking consideration. Qualitative Research, 7, 521-550.
Thomas, R., & Davies, A. (2002) Gender and new public manage- ment: reconstituting academic subjectivities. Gender, Work and Organization, 9(4), 372—396.
Van den Brink, M. and Benschop, Y. (2012). Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence: Sheep with five legs, Organization, 19(4), 507-524.
Willmott, H. (1995). Managing the academics: Commodification and control of university education in the UK. Human Relations, 48(9), 993—1028.
Worthington, F., & Hodgson, J. (2005). Academic labour and the politics of quality in higher education: A critical evaluation of the conditions of possibility of resistance. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 96-110.


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Call for Papers for Subtheme at the 8th International Critical Management Studies Conference: Extending the limits of neo-liberal capitalism
Manchester 10-12 July 2013

Stream 22: Tradition, Revision, Critique

Convenors:

Toru Kiyomiya, Seinan Gakuin University, Japan.
Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Uppsala University, Sweden
Masayasu Takahashi, Meiji University, Japan
David Sköld, Uppsala University, Sweden

In this track we invite attempts that engage with the relationship between tradition and critique. Lately, we have seen an upsurge of discourses hailing tradition as a way towards a better future, and would even hold that this turn has grown into one of the "big stories" of our times. In response to Francis Fukuyama’s (1992) "end of history" thesis, and the accession of U.S. global hegemony, Samuel Huntington (1996) has argued, for instance, that rather than becoming one world, we will increasingly divide ourselves into eight or nine larger civilizational blocs, based mainly around common, traditional values.

In light of this resurgence of the traditional, we are interested in how traditions have been transformed in contemporary organisations to either resist or conform to the universality of neo-liberal modernity. In Japanese businesses, we see for example how a set of very particular traditional Japanese values are being mobilized, such as mottainai ethics (ethics of no-waste), and the concept of the Dojo – the latter not only being interpreted as a place for practicing the Way of the Sword and other martial arts, but increasingly emerging as an important component for modern Japanese corporations to counter, or at least weaken, the impact of globalization discourse and homogenization of local practices. Similar examples can also be seen in other parts of the world. In Thailand and Vietnam, as well as in the U.S., we have seen how a turn to a "Buddhist" tradition has served to create an economically and ecologically sustainable future (Schumacher 1973, Sivaraksa 2000). Furthermore, we have seen Islamic critiques of Western capitalism (Khan and Koshul 2011), which might even have a practical counterpart in Islamic finance. Add to this, the proverbial call for a return to the basics in and of management – but what basics, and what relationships to traditions do such calls envision?
Facing neo-liberal modernity, with increasing individualism, compartmentalization, recurring fractures, and multiple crises, and living an attenuated presence where that which we strive for is just something "a little bit better" (as Badiou 2006 puts it), this turn to tradition might be a sign of yearning for past certainties and communal bonds. But rather than seeing a turn to tradition as a yearning for the past – which might be seen as a nihilistic, escapist, and socially detached tendency – we would like to explore more thoroughly the critical aspect of this turn. Might tradition indeed be that which takes us beyond a present, which otherwise would become just a little bit better?

We imagine that appeals to a turn to traditional values might be a bulwark against the penetration of "globalization" and neo-liberal values, but we also think that a return to tradition need to be subjected to critical scrutiny, since new forms of domination arise in such management and organizational regimes. Certainly, we dismiss essentialist understandings of tradition – tradition is not something that just exists out there, but is constantly being invented, re-interpreted and re-used (Hobsbawm 1983). We are aware that "there seems to be nothing which emerges and evolves as quickly as a "tradition" when the need presents itself" and that it often represents "the conservative instincts of some group threatened with declining social status" (Wallerstein 2011, 356). We assume that appeals to tradition are always a way of re-creating the present, and therefore the use of tradition becomes revisionist (Gioia et al. 2000). And we are inspired by attempts to ground rationality in tradition, because of the failure of the modernist project (MacIntyre 1984, 1989).

Consequently, we invite papers which empirically explore new traditionalisms, and the possibly hybrid and multi-faceted forms that these traditions may take; we invite papers which highlight the potential of resistance that appeals to tradition may have, or papers which empirically critique the use of tradition, and thereby throw light on new forms of power and dominance that such a return to tradition may invoke. Certainly, we also invite pieces on the traditions of neo-liberalism, possibly dealing with perversions in neo-liberal traditions, as well as in the traditions of the left. What new traditionalisms can we, in effect, see in Critical Management Studies? Moreover, we invite theoretical pieces which discuss the relationship between tradition and critique, and which scrutinize the power that the concept of tradition might have for Critical Management Studies.

Suggestions for topics to be addressed:
· The deconstruction of tradition
· Tradition as a counterforce to modernity
· Empirical examples of revisionist history in organizations
· How the present and future in the light of tradition
· Re-fuelling tradition in face of a failing...
· Tradition as topos
· Tradition as fantasy
· The shackles of the present and the freedom of tradition
· Identity and tradition
· Memory and tradition
· Tradition and change
· Tradition and culture

Submission of Abstracts
Please submit abstracts (max 1000 words, A4 paper, single spaced, 12 point font to Thomas Lennerfors (lennerfors@gmail.com): Deadline 28th February 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: Full papers will be expected by 1st May 2013

Your abstract should include:
· Title
· The focus, aims and objectives of the paper
· The research evidence base underpinning the paper
· How the paper will contribute to the theme

We look forward to hearing from you, and any questions in the meantime should be addressed to Thomas Lennefors

References:
Badiou, Alain. 2006. Logiques des Mondes, Paris: Seuil.
Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man, Hamish Hamilton, 1992.
Gioia, D. A., Schultz, M., & Corley, K. G. 2000. Organizational identity, image, and adaptive instability. Academy of Management Review, 25: 63–81.
Hobsbawm, Eric. 1983. Introduction: Inventing Traditions, in Hobsbawm and Ranger, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, p. 1-14.
Huntington, Samuel P., 1996. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York, Simon & Schuster.
Khan, Farzad Rafi, and Koshul, Basit Bilal. 2011. Lenin in Allah’s court: Iqbal’s critique of Western capitalism and the opening up of the postcolonial imagination in critical management studies, Organization, May 2011, vol. 18, no. 3, 303-322.
Macintyre, A. 1985. After virtue: a study in moral theory. London, Duckworth.
MacIntyre, A. 1989. Whose Justice, Which Rationality, University of Notre Dame Press.
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich. 1973, Small is beautiful - Economics as if people mattered, New York: Harper Perennial.
Sivaraksa, Sulak. 2009. The Wisdom of Sustainability - Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century, Koa Books, Hawaii.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2011. 2 ed. The modern world system I, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, University of California Press.

About the convenors
Toru Kiyomiya (Ph.D. in Communication, Michigan State University): Associate Professor at Seinan Gakuin University, Japan. His MA was in Labor Relations and Human Resources (Michigan State University), and he was a visiting researcher in Cardiff Business School. His major field of study is organizational communication and cross-cultural management. Current research interests include critical management studies, organizational discourse, risk management, and communication process in business scandals.
Thomas Taro Lennerfors: Senior lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden and visiting researcher at Meiji University, Japan. His work concerns ethics, corruption and sustainability. Apart from three monographs, and some book chapters, he has published for example in the 'Journal of Business Ethics', 'Business and Society', 'Scandinavian Journal of Management', and 'Culture and Organization'.
Masayasu Takahashi (PhD, Meiji University): Professor of Organization Theory and Management at the School of Business Administration, Meiji University in Japan. He is Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Meiji University. His current research interests are concerned with social constructionism, and focus on organizational discourse theory and storytelling in organizations.
David Sköld: Senior lecturer at Uppsala University, Sweden. His work circles around fantasy, and how its inherent dynamics play into valorization processes unfolding in industrial and post-industrial settings. Besides a several book chapters, and one monograph on customization, Sköld has published in journals such as Group and Organization Management, Organization, Culture and Organization.


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Critical Management Studies Division – Academy of Management. 2013 Dissertation Award Announcement - The Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management announces the 2013 CMS Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation (sponsored by Organization: The critical journal of organization, theory and society)

Ph.D. dissertations/theses completed within the period May 2011 through June 2013 are eligible for this year’s competition.

What work qualifies as 'critical'? The domain statement of the CMS Division reads:

The Critical Management Studies Division serves as a forum within the Academy for the expression of views critical of established management practices and the established social order. Our premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality, and ecological irresponsibility often turn organizations into instruments of domination and exploitation. Driven by a shared desire to change this situation, we aim in our research, teaching, and practice to develop critical interpretations of management and society and to generate radical alternatives. Our critique seeks to connect the practical shortcomings in management and individual managers to the demands of a socially divisive and ecologically destructive system within which manager’s work.

Sample topics include but are not limited to: critical theories of the nature of managerial authority, resistance to managerial authority, identity, affectivity, rationality, and subjectivity; critiques of managerialist theories of management and organization; critical assessments of emerging alternative forms of organization; critiques of political economy; critical perspectives on business strategy, globalization, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, computerization and management consulting practices; critical analyses of discourses of management, development, and progress; critical perspectives on class, gender, and race; the profit-imperative and the natural environment; critical epistemologies & methodologies.

For more information about CMS, go to http://group.aomonline.org/cms/

Submission Process

Submissions should include three separate documents:

1) A title page and abstract with complete author identification/contact information.
2) An abridged version of the dissertation without author identification that will go out to the panel of judges. This should include title, abstract, and a summary of each chapter of the dissertation/thesis [max. total of 40 pages double-spaced, 12 pitch font, plus charts/tables and references].
3) A supporting letter of no more than one page from the dissertation chair certifying the completion date of the project. The chair’s letter may be sent separately.
We will try to accommodate submissions in non-English languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian etc. based on our capabilities). Please contact the organizers by email (listed in the next paragraph) if you would like to submit in a non-English language. A long abstract of 2500 words in English is required to accompany any non-English submissions.

Submissions should be received by June 1, 2013 and should be submitted electronically to Sarah Gilmore sarah.gilmore@port.ac.uk

Please put: “CMS DISSERTATION AWARD SUBMISSION” in the email subject heading

The winner will be announced at the CMS business meeting in Orlando, Florida, and will receive a cash award and two year subscription to Organization.

We are also inviting you to volunteer to review for the Dissertation Competition. Your support in this capacity is very important and we greatly appreciate your willingness to review. Please note that in order to review for the dissertation competition, you must have a Ph.D. To volunteer to review, please send an email to Sarah Gilmore sarah.gilmore@port.ac.uk


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ARCIO at the University of Bristol
Research centre for Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organisations

CONDUCTING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH: ETHICAL CHALLENGES AND ISSUES

A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP TO BE HELD ON THE 11TH APRIL 2013

ARCIO is delighted to be hosting this important and exciting workshop open to doctoral students, established academics and scholar-activists who are using or interested in Participatory Action Research methodologies.

The workshop will be facilitated by Professor Mary Brydon-Miller, Director of the renowned Action Research Centre at the University of Cincinnati. Her recent publications focus on the development of new frameworks for understanding research ethics in community settings including chapters in the Handbook of Social Research Ethics and the Handbook of Action Research. She is currently co-editing the Encyclopedia of Action Research, and is in the UK on a Fulbright Research Fellowship at Keele University.

Speaking of the workshop, she says:

“Expect the unexpected. That’s what I tell new students interested in doing Participatory Action Research. PAR and other forms of community-based research raise a unique set of ethical challenges and demand new approaches to understanding and enacting research ethics.

This interactive workshop will offer a process of structured ethical reflection designed to guide researchers and their community partners in developing a common understanding of the values they feel should inform their research and a critical analysis of how those values are reflected in their shared research practice”.

Where: the Board Room of the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs at 2 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TX
When: 11th April, 2013, starting at 10.00 a.m. and finishing at 4.00 p.m.
Note: Free of charge to participants; refreshments will be provided.

Places are strictly limited to 20 on a first-come-first served basis, so book as soon as possible by contacting Patricia Gaya on patricia.gaya@bristol.ac.uk When booking, it would be helpful if you could indicate whether you have any experience of working in an action research paradigm.


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Gender Work and Organization Call for Papers
Problematizing Gendered Ageing in the New Economy: Deadline 30th November 2013
Kathleen Riach, Monash University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Clary Krekula, Karlstad University, Karlstad, SWEDEN

Recent commentaries have highlighted the importance of age and ageing as holding significant structural and experiential implications for individuals both within organizations and situated in larger social system of organizing. Contra to traditional conceptions of age as linear, biologically determined and chronologically fixed, perceptions of age circulate and intersect with circuits of knowledge which appropriate organizational life, particularly social repertoires surrounding gender. This disadvantage is not only constant in its various manifestations across the life course, with women ‘never the right age’ (Duncan and Loretto 2004), but also cumulative, as evidenced in older women’s overrepresentation in low paid occupations and tertiary employment (Perfect 2011), lack of savings (Fawcett Society 2007), and provision for retirement (Fasang et al. 2012). Whilst the effects of combined disadvantage may play out through the explicit marginalisation of working women, the potential for this to be challenged legally has been dwarfed by equality laws, since many countries have been hesitant to enact legislation which allows claims based on two or more forms of discrimination. For example, the UK shied away from including dual discrimination in their 2010 Equality Act, citing concerns about possible costs of the additional regulation. Whilst labour markets become glocal and working lives increasingly diverse and characterised by ‘choice’, the extent to which these ideas are challenging culturally produced age-sensitive subject positions in the workplace such as ‘the sexual object’, ‘the father’, ‘the sage’ or ‘the old crone’.

However, ageism continues to remain one of the ‘less visible gendered mechanisms’ (Gorman and Kmec 2007: 845). Gendered ageing at work has thus far been restricted to the discussion of heterosexual (and usually chronologically determined ‘older’) women and men’s experiences of social, cultural or labour market disadvantage with little attempt to explore how the dynamics of organizational ageing are constructed in and through other gendered narratives surrounding, for example, class, masculinity and sexuality. Although the demographic, social and economic landscape becomes increasingly complex, the implications of how gendered ageing is woven into the fabric of hegemonic discourses that constitute the lifeworld of organizations remains unknown.

This special issue seeks to challenge the ‘add age and stir’ (to paraphrase Bernard et al, 2001) approach to ageing at work. Rather than view ageing as a post-hoc theoretical or empirical consideration when researching gender, masculinity or sexuality, we encourage submissions to explore how ageing and gender inter alia is experienced, disrupted, challenged.

We invite papers to explore the intersections, clashes and power differentials that emerge in the dialectical constitution of gender, age and ageing in the New Economy. We particularly welcome papers that focus on those individuals or groups who sit on the margins of organizations and organizing systems, either empirically, including the long-term unemployed or discouraged or groups often ignored in current accounts that implicitly equate ‘work’ with a traditional notion of paid, fixed labour or theoretically, such as a studies which challenge Western-centric conceptions of ageing.

Scope
· The experience of gendered ageing: Ageing may be configured or reconfigured through circuits of gendering practices. How do men and women embrace, resist or challenge these biological, discursive or embodied practices in an occupational setting? In what ways might these relate to other experiential categories such as ethnicity, class and nationality?
· The gendering effects of political narratives and policy: How might legislation, ‘best practice’ or carrying assumptions or reproduce orthodox views of ageing or close down space for an appreciation of the diversity of ageing?
· Accumulative disadvantage: in what ways might new forms of working and labour market restructuring, such as graduate labour markets, career changes and the rise of flexible work challenge, reproduce or increase disadvantage over an individual’s life course?
· The intersectionality of ageing working lives: How might age and gender be organised and socially constituted through divisions and values surrounding ethnicity, class or sexuality (c.f. Moore 2009)?
· Gendered bodies across space and time: How is ageing at work experienced by corporeal or embodied forms or situated practice? In what organizational spaces, such as diversity or pensions debates, are age and gender norms shaped or reproduced?
· Creative ways of thinking of ‘doing’ gendered ageing: What approaches, lenses or theories might help to further our understanding of gendered ageing and work? In what ways might dominant norms or discourses surrounding age and gender be subverted by individuals, groups or organizations?

Submissions
Articles should be no more than 7,000 words long and follow the Gender, Work and Organization guidelines for authors
Full Papers (not under review elsewhere) should be submitted through the journals online system, (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gwo), and clearly marked under manuscript type as ‘special issue’.
The deadline for submissions is 30th November 2013.
All papers will be reviewed as per journal guidelines.
Queries relating to the special issue should be directed to Dr Kathleen Riach (Kathleen.riach@monash.edu), Prof. Wendy Loretto (wendy.loretto@ed.ac.uk) and Dr Clary Krekula (clary.krekula@kau.se).

References
Bernard, M., Chambers, P and Granville, G. (2000) ‘Women ageing: changing identities, challenging myths’, pp. 1-22 in M. Bernard , J. Phillips , L. Machin and V. Harding Davies (eds) Women Ageing: Changing Identities, Challenging Myths: London: Routledge
Duncan C. and Loretto, W. (2004) ‘Never the right age? Gender and age-based discrimination in employment’, Gender, Work and Organization, 11: 95-115.
Fasang, A. Aisenbrey, S. and Schomann, K. (2012) ‘Women’s retirement income in Germany and Britain’, European Sociological Review online first doi: 10.1093/esr/jcs075.
Fawcett Society (2007) Saving Lives: A Fawcett Society Briefing on Women's Lifetime Savings Patterns. Available at http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/Saving%20Lives.pdf
Gorman, E.H. and Kmec J.A. (2007) ‘We (have to) try harder: gender and required work effort in Britain and the United States’, Gender and Society, 21(5): 828-856.
Moore, S. (2009) ‘No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position: Age as a factor defining older women’s experience of labour market participation’, Work Employment and Society, 23(4): 655-671.
Perfect, D. (2011) Gender pay gaps. Briefing Paper no. 2. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission. Available at: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/publications/our-research/briefing-papers/index.html


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The University of Bristol:

The Department of Management (part of the University's School of Economics, Finance and Management) is seeking to make appointments at lecturer level.

These are permanent positions, subject to review. (A UK Lecturer position is equivalent to that of an Assistant Professor).

Applications are sought from candidates with research interests within any field of management although we particularly welcome those with expertise in organisation studies, management science/operations management, international management, strategy and social science-related areas of management. Successful applicants should have a strong research background and display evidence of an ability to publish top quality research, and an aptitude to teach to the highest standards at both undergraduate and masters levels.

The Department has a strong and growing international reputation for research and teaching, with staff who are leaders in their field and who are based in a Faculty which is rated as one of the best in the UK. There are many opportunities for inter-disciplinary work.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 21 March 2013. It is expected that interviews will be held in April 2013. The proposed start date is the 1st of September 2013. To discuss the role please contact Professor Andrew Sturdy (telephone Val Harvey on (0117) 3310516 or email Andrew.Sturdy@bristol.ac.uk).


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The University of Bristol: CHAIR IN MANAGEMENT

The Department of Management (part of the University School of Economics, Finance and Management) is seeking to make an appointment at Professor level.

The successful candidate will provide strong academic leadership in both research and teaching and will have a track record of publishing consistently at the highest levels and of securing research funding and wider research impact. S/he will also be able to provide excellent teaching and programme development at all levels.

The Department of Management is relatively new, has grown in recent years and is continuing to develop its research profile and teaching programmes. Its current specialisms are within organisation studies/behaviour and management science/operations management. We are looking for people both to strengthen and complement these areas as the department grows, especially in the fields of international management, strategy and social science-related areas of management. Any established field of management will be considered.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 28th March 2013. The proposed start date is the 1st of September 2013.

For further information please contact Dr Stephen Lyne (Head of School)
Tel: 0117 9288408 or e-mail Stephen.Lyne@bristol.ac.uk. Alternatively,
please contact Professor Andrew Sturdy (Head of Department of Management)
(telephone Val Harvey on 0117 3310516 or email
Andrew.Sturdy@bristol.ac.uk).

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/list.html


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The University of Bristol: Teaching Fellow (or Associate) in Management

The Department of Management at the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow/Associate. The post is full-time and permanent, starting from September 1st 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter.

We are seeking someone with the following:
- an aptitude to teach to the highest standards at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience levels
- experience of designing, organising and delivering subject units in management
- experience and proven skills in leading teaching programmes, at programme director level or equivalent
- experience and skill in supervising Masters’ dissertations

Appointment at Associate level will also be considered.

The Department has a strong international reputation for research and teaching, with staff who are leaders in their field and who are based in a Faculty which is rated as one of the best in the UK.

Applications are welcome from those in any field of management, but especially those which build on existing departmental strengths or the fields of international management, strategy and social science-related areas of management.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 28th March 2013. It is expected that interviews will be held in during April/ May 2013. The proposed start date is the 1st of September 2013.

To discuss the role please contact Professor Andrew Sturdy (telephone Val Harvey on (0117) 3310516 or email Andrew.Sturdy@bristol.ac.uk). Alternatively contact Dr Nicholas Rumens on (0117) 3318226 or email Nicholas.Rumens@bristol.ac.uk.

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Dilemmas for Human Services 2013 – Beyond the Public Sector: Cooperation & Competition with the Private & Third sectors

16th International Research Conference

To be hosted by Staffordshire University, 5th-6th September 2013

Call for Papers
This Conference, organised jointly by Staffordshire University, the University of East London and the University of Lulea, provides a forum for policy, organisational and critical sociological analyses of the dilemmas facing the organisation and delivery of health, housing, education, social services and the human services generally.

The theme of this next conference concerns the promise and perils of cooperation and competition a set of issues that are central to human services at the present time and in the foreseeable future. Government policy in the UK, for example, is heavily promoting partnerships between public, private and voluntary organisations – a scenario that is reflected elsewhere in Europe and North America. With some initiatives, like free schools, the challenge is one of competition, similarly in health with ‘Any Qualified Provider’ being able to contribute to the delivery of NHS services. Elsewhere, partnership between public and the third sector is vital for the delivery of human services, for example in sports, housing, long-term social care. More recently, we see the private provision of employment services and mentoring for recently released prisoners. Many of these UK examples reflect developments already underway in North America, and similar examples are to be found within other European societies.

These policy changes radically change the relations between different providers, professionals, citizens and users, creating a new complex system of service delivery. We invite research papers relating to the problems and issues faced by public, private and voluntary sector organisations and the state in tackling the problems of collaborative working (locally, regionally and globally), as well the ethical issues concerning access, equity and quality of service. We would especially encourage papers that discuss the following:

Contested issues for policy, governance and leadership.
User involvement and citizen engagement.
Implications for gender, ethnicity, disability and class inequalities.
The democratic deficit: is there a future for deliberative democracy?
New social movements, social media and networks.
Questioning the integrative role of information systems

Papers on other related topics will also welcomed for consideration by the conference organisers.

This is the 16th International 'Dilemmas' Conference. Previous conferences have produced a number of publications, including Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge 2003), Questioning the New Public Management (Ashgate 2004) and special editions of the International Journal of Public Sector Management (2003) and Public Policy and Politics (2005) as well as further planned volumes. It is intended that a selection of papers from this conference will also form the basis for an edited collection or a special edition of a journal. Each conference also provides participants with a free copy of proceedings.

Anyone interested in contributing a paper should submit a one-page abstract (400 words) to the Conference Organisers. The deadline for abstracts is the 15th April 2013. Decision on acceptance, following the refereeing process will be notified by mid-May.

For further information please contact the conference organisers:

Mike Dent, Steve Suckling and Jim Radcliffe,

Faculty of Health Sciences,
Staffordshire University,
Blackheath Lane,
Stafford, ST18 0AD,
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)1785 353766
E-Mails: mike.dent@staffs.ac.uk; s.j.suckling@staffs.ac.uk