SCOS Update Janaury
For those of you celebrating – may we wish you a happy and healthy 2015!
In January’s edition of the SCOS email update, please find three thrilling items:
1) A reminder that there is still time to send in your abstracts for the SCOS conference in Nottingham, UK, this coming July – the deadline is February 1st
2) Cranfield is seeking a strong PhD candidate to engage in a comparative study of leadership practices…
3) And a fabulous (I’m biased!) call for papers for APROS/ EGOS 2015 in Sydney, Australia – Stream 19 — The Liminality of Organizational Spaces
…as always, details below, enjoy!
In January’s edition of the SCOS email update, please find three thrilling items:
1) A reminder that there is still time to send in your abstracts for the SCOS conference in Nottingham, UK, this coming July – the deadline is February 1st
2) Cranfield is seeking a strong PhD candidate to engage in a comparative study of leadership practices…
3) And a fabulous (I’m biased!) call for papers for APROS/ EGOS 2015 in Sydney, Australia – Stream 19 — The Liminality of Organizational Spaces
…as always, details below, enjoy!
Item 1:
SCOS in Nottingham 2015!
We have received some great abstracts for SCOS 2015 in Nottingham, so much so that we want more of them and have extended the deadline until February 1st 2015. The theme for the 2015 conference is 'Home' and to reflect Nottingham being the home of Robin Hood, there will also be a special symposium within the conference based around this mythical figure. And, if you still can't find a 'home' for your paper within these themes, there will also be an open stream.
The conference takes place between July 11-14, 2015 at Nottingham Trent University. Further conference details, and the call for papers can be found at http://www.scos2015.org.uk
Item 2:
Cranfield School of Management PhD Project: Leadership as Practice
Project Title: Leadership as Practice
Project Description: We are currently seeking a strong PhD candidate to engage in a comparative study of leadership practices. Research on leadership has traditionally focused on individual traits or characteristics of leaders, the dyadic relationship between leaders and followers and the effectiveness of different styles of leadership. However, how leadership is achieved in changing situations and contexts is less well understood. The leadership as practice approach moves beyond an individualistic perspective on leadership and considers how leadership is practised in situated interactions. Drawing on ethnographic methods this research project aims to document, analyse and categorise leadership practices. By shadowing leaders in their organizational settings, it is anticipated that new insights into how leadership is ‘done’ can be generated which will be useful for the theory and practice of management.
Supervisors: Professor Elisabeth Kelan and Professor David Denyer
Application Details: The PhD should hold a minimum 2.1 class undergraduate degree in business and management, sociology, psychology, social psychology, anthropology or related discipline and have passed, or expect to have passed by autumn 2015, a Master’s degree with 65% or above or equivalent research experience in a work setting. In this project ethnographic research methods will be particularly important.
Funding Details: Funding may be available on a competitive basis through the Cranfield School of Management studentship scheme (http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p1005/Programmes-and-Executive-Development/Doctorates/The-PhD-Programme/Studentships).
Deadline: Expressions of interest alongside a CV are invited via email Elisabeth.kelan@cranfield.ac.uk and david.denyer@cranfield.ac.uk
http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p23753/Programmes-and-Executive-Development/Doctorates/The-PhD-Programme/Doctoral-Opportunities/Leadership-as-Practice
Item 3:
Call for papers - The Liminality of Organizational Spaces (APROS/EGOS 2015 stream 19)
Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite your submissions to The Liminality of Organizational Spaces stream (19) of the APROS/EGOS conference, which will take place December 9th – 11th, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. We are seeking short paper submissions of between 3000-4000 words, by May 1st 2015 (11:59pm Sydney Time) (The word count is inclusive of references, appendices and other material). Authors should be explicit about how their paper connects with the stream and more broadly to the overall theme of the conference (‘Spaces, Constraints, Creativities: Organization and Disorganization’). Conference paper submissions can be made at https://www.eventspro.net/consol/cm.esp?id=7530028&pageid=_8O0DJGLWC
Convenors:
Professor Peter Case, James Cook University, Australia, and University of the West of England, Bristol Business School, United Kingdom
Michal Izak, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Professor Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Harriet Shortt, University of the West of England, Bristol Business School, United Kingdom
Despite increased academic interest in advancing new understandings of liquid and fleeting social realities as well as in proposing new ways of dealing with the transience of relationships, emotions or frameworks in organizational contexts, the topic of liminality of organizational spaces is relatively under researched. We would like to invite papers addressing this issue from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches.
Relevant questions might include, but are not restricted to, the following:
· How does the concept of liminal space enhance our understanding of organizational processes and practices?
· Which new (liminal?) organizational spaces and/or forms may emerge from liquid modernity?
· How can the spatial liminality of organizations be studied empirically and what are the methodological consequences of such studies?
· How can liminal spaces be conceptualised theoretically?
· How do relations of power articulate within liminal spaces?
· What role can liminal transience of established categories play in ideological representations of organizational ‘reality’?
The full version of the call is available at:
http://www.apros.org/archives/179
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission please contact Dr Michal Izak (mizak@lincoln.ac.uk)
We are looking forward to receiving your short papers.
Best regards,
Michal, Peter, Pauline and Harriet
SCOS in Nottingham 2015!
We have received some great abstracts for SCOS 2015 in Nottingham, so much so that we want more of them and have extended the deadline until February 1st 2015. The theme for the 2015 conference is 'Home' and to reflect Nottingham being the home of Robin Hood, there will also be a special symposium within the conference based around this mythical figure. And, if you still can't find a 'home' for your paper within these themes, there will also be an open stream.
The conference takes place between July 11-14, 2015 at Nottingham Trent University. Further conference details, and the call for papers can be found at http://www.scos2015.org.uk
Item 2:
Cranfield School of Management PhD Project: Leadership as Practice
Project Title: Leadership as Practice
Project Description: We are currently seeking a strong PhD candidate to engage in a comparative study of leadership practices. Research on leadership has traditionally focused on individual traits or characteristics of leaders, the dyadic relationship between leaders and followers and the effectiveness of different styles of leadership. However, how leadership is achieved in changing situations and contexts is less well understood. The leadership as practice approach moves beyond an individualistic perspective on leadership and considers how leadership is practised in situated interactions. Drawing on ethnographic methods this research project aims to document, analyse and categorise leadership practices. By shadowing leaders in their organizational settings, it is anticipated that new insights into how leadership is ‘done’ can be generated which will be useful for the theory and practice of management.
Supervisors: Professor Elisabeth Kelan and Professor David Denyer
Application Details: The PhD should hold a minimum 2.1 class undergraduate degree in business and management, sociology, psychology, social psychology, anthropology or related discipline and have passed, or expect to have passed by autumn 2015, a Master’s degree with 65% or above or equivalent research experience in a work setting. In this project ethnographic research methods will be particularly important.
Funding Details: Funding may be available on a competitive basis through the Cranfield School of Management studentship scheme (http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p1005/Programmes-and-Executive-Development/Doctorates/The-PhD-Programme/Studentships).
Deadline: Expressions of interest alongside a CV are invited via email Elisabeth.kelan@cranfield.ac.uk and david.denyer@cranfield.ac.uk
http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p23753/Programmes-and-Executive-Development/Doctorates/The-PhD-Programme/Doctoral-Opportunities/Leadership-as-Practice
Item 3:
Call for papers - The Liminality of Organizational Spaces (APROS/EGOS 2015 stream 19)
Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite your submissions to The Liminality of Organizational Spaces stream (19) of the APROS/EGOS conference, which will take place December 9th – 11th, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. We are seeking short paper submissions of between 3000-4000 words, by May 1st 2015 (11:59pm Sydney Time) (The word count is inclusive of references, appendices and other material). Authors should be explicit about how their paper connects with the stream and more broadly to the overall theme of the conference (‘Spaces, Constraints, Creativities: Organization and Disorganization’). Conference paper submissions can be made at https://www.eventspro.net/consol/cm.esp?id=7530028&pageid=_8O0DJGLWC
Convenors:
Professor Peter Case, James Cook University, Australia, and University of the West of England, Bristol Business School, United Kingdom
Michal Izak, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Professor Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Harriet Shortt, University of the West of England, Bristol Business School, United Kingdom
Despite increased academic interest in advancing new understandings of liquid and fleeting social realities as well as in proposing new ways of dealing with the transience of relationships, emotions or frameworks in organizational contexts, the topic of liminality of organizational spaces is relatively under researched. We would like to invite papers addressing this issue from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches.
Relevant questions might include, but are not restricted to, the following:
· How does the concept of liminal space enhance our understanding of organizational processes and practices?
· Which new (liminal?) organizational spaces and/or forms may emerge from liquid modernity?
· How can the spatial liminality of organizations be studied empirically and what are the methodological consequences of such studies?
· How can liminal spaces be conceptualised theoretically?
· How do relations of power articulate within liminal spaces?
· What role can liminal transience of established categories play in ideological representations of organizational ‘reality’?
The full version of the call is available at:
http://www.apros.org/archives/179
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission please contact Dr Michal Izak (mizak@lincoln.ac.uk)
We are looking forward to receiving your short papers.
Best regards,
Michal, Peter, Pauline and Harriet