SCOS Update, June
We have three thrilling items for you this week:
1) A call for proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization (please see item 1 below and the corresponding 3 attachments, for your information).
2) Panel Session: Can institutional theory be critical? Exploring connections between CMS and Institutional Theory, as part of the up-coming CMS conference in Manchester.
3) A workshop: After Method in Organization Studies, a full day seminar on October 21st at the Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden.
1) A call for proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization (please see item 1 below and the corresponding 3 attachments, for your information).
2) Panel Session: Can institutional theory be critical? Exploring connections between CMS and Institutional Theory, as part of the up-coming CMS conference in Manchester.
3) A workshop: After Method in Organization Studies, a full day seminar on October 21st at the Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden.
Item 1:
Proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization
We are keen to encourage SCOS members and other SCOSsy types to submit proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization. At the moment we have some space in volume 21, 2015, and beyond, with the exception of 21 (5/ December) which has been allocated to the special issue from the Warsaw conference. I attach versions of the call for papers for the Istanbul conference ‘Recovery’ special issue, to be published volume 19 (5/ December) 2013, the Barcelona conference ‘Movement’ special issue, due out volume 20 (3/ June) 2014, and a special issue on ‘Serendipity, accident, chance and misfortune’, due out volume 20 (5/ December) 2014, for your information. These give you an idea of the format, content and the timelines involved. We tend to allow about ten-eleven months between issuing the call and the deadline for first submissions and copy is usually due to Taylor and Francis 15 months before publication. Everything is handled via ScholarOne – formerly Manuscript Central - now so it’s pretty straightforward to keep track of it all! Please note however that the Recovery special issue call was ‘live’ prior to us using S1 so papers for this were requested through the old email submissions system.
The most important things for special issues is that a/ they are SCOSsy; b/ the process runs to time and all copy is submitted to T and F on time.
If anyone is interested in throwing their hat into the ring, or knows someone who might be, please let Damian (d.o’doherty@manchester.ac.uk) and Jo (j.brewis@le.ac.uk) know and we can offer further guidance on submitting a proposal and the available publication slots, timelines and so on.
All the best, Damian O’Doherty, Jo Brewis, Sarah Dempsey and Janet Sayers
Co-editors, Culture and Organization
Item 2:
8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies (University of Manchester)
Extending the Limits of Neo-Liberal Capitalism
Panel Session: Can institutional theory be critical? Exploring connections between CMS and Institutional Theory
11th of July 2013 (6:15 – 7:45 - C16 Renold Building)
This panel seeks to explore links and tensions between recent developments in institutional theory and critical management studies. This is motivated by a growing theoretical interest in bridging “the gulf between research in institutional and critical traditions of organization studies” (Lawrence et al., 2011: 56) and in a proliferation of conference tracks and empirical studies that seek to do so by developing the emancipatory potential of the concept of institutional work. Of course this has also been met with some scepticism on whether institutional theory has more emancipatory potential than perspectives drawing on critical studies (Willmott, 2011; Clegg, 2010) and whether, indeed, institutional theory can be critical at all (Cooper et al, 2008). Against this backdrop our panel members will discuss the connections between institutional theory and CMS. Is this an area for fruitful dialogue or an imperialist project?
Kamal Munir – Cambridge University
Roy Suddaby – University of Alberta
Hugh Willmott – Cardiff University
Item 3:
Workshop: After Method in Organization Studies
Welcome to the After Methods-seminar, a full day seminar on Oct 21 at the Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden, where we will discuss the methodological challenges of understanding the world as "messy", as John Law put it, and the implications for organization studies.
There is a growing concern in social science that current phenomena have outrun the capacity of the social sciences to investigate; a concern that the methods have become outdated. There is, therefore, a need to re-think our methodological approaches that are founded upon distinctions such as global/local, center/periphery, structure/agency, social/material, social/environmental, labor/management, virtual/real, mind/body, masculinity/femininity and so on. These divisions are seriously challenged by multifaceted, multiply connected and fuzzy ‘empirical’ sites.
It’s a messy world, as John Law pointed out in his “After method”. So how can and should organization studies-scholars approach organizations if these are to be viewed as fluid and constantly enacted rather than as fixed and solid entities? How are we to face the challenge of studying and accounting for the fluidity and stability of the phenomena we study without falling back into essentialising categories that exist only when enacted? And how may questions of performativity and relationality be embraced in full when doing, analyzing and writing up empirical studies?
The questions are pressing, not only because present theories to world problems do not seem to lead to solutions that meet the needs of sustainability in all its various forms, but because taking fluidity seriously will open for different kinds of politics than the one based on entititative views. Hence, we, the researchers, need to take a reflective stance towards the methodologies we use to say something about the world we study in order to lead the discussion on what should be studied, why and how.
In order to explore the methodological challenges and opportunities that follow process ontology, i.e the view that organizations as well as the rest of the social world is fundamentally processual, we invite you who are active researcher within organization studies to join us for a full-day seminar: “After Method in Organization Studies”.
The seminar, co-funded by the Management, Organization and Society-department at Stockholm University and Scancor (Stanford University) will take place at Stockholm University School of Business, Monday October 21st and will include lectures that will provide an interdisciplinary perspective on methodological questions in relation to process ontology, as well as a panel discussion. At the end of the day there will be time to socialize over drinks and snacks.
Confirmed participants (so far, more to come):
- Sebastian Abrahamsson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Viviane Sergi, Department of Management and Technology, ESG UQAM, Canada
- Jean-Pascal Gond, Cass Business School, UK
- Anette Hallin, Department of Management, Organization and Society, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden
- Tommy Jensen, Department of Management, Organization and Society, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden
- Hervé Corvellec, Department of Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University, Sweden
- Lucia Crevani, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen university, Sweden
Make sure to register now as places are limited. The seminar is free, but no shows will be charged (SEK 300).
More information may be found through these links. The list of lecturers/panel participants is not yet complete and will be updated.
http://fek.su.se/en/Research/Subdisciplines/Management--Organisation/After-Method-in-Organization-Studies/
Registration: http://www.karriar.fek.su.se/Portal/Public/Event/Apply.aspx?EventID=258
Wishing you a wonderful summer!
Anette Hallin, Lucia Crevani, and the other members of the organizing committee
Proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization
We are keen to encourage SCOS members and other SCOSsy types to submit proposals for special issues of Culture and Organization. At the moment we have some space in volume 21, 2015, and beyond, with the exception of 21 (5/ December) which has been allocated to the special issue from the Warsaw conference. I attach versions of the call for papers for the Istanbul conference ‘Recovery’ special issue, to be published volume 19 (5/ December) 2013, the Barcelona conference ‘Movement’ special issue, due out volume 20 (3/ June) 2014, and a special issue on ‘Serendipity, accident, chance and misfortune’, due out volume 20 (5/ December) 2014, for your information. These give you an idea of the format, content and the timelines involved. We tend to allow about ten-eleven months between issuing the call and the deadline for first submissions and copy is usually due to Taylor and Francis 15 months before publication. Everything is handled via ScholarOne – formerly Manuscript Central - now so it’s pretty straightforward to keep track of it all! Please note however that the Recovery special issue call was ‘live’ prior to us using S1 so papers for this were requested through the old email submissions system.
The most important things for special issues is that a/ they are SCOSsy; b/ the process runs to time and all copy is submitted to T and F on time.
If anyone is interested in throwing their hat into the ring, or knows someone who might be, please let Damian (d.o’doherty@manchester.ac.uk) and Jo (j.brewis@le.ac.uk) know and we can offer further guidance on submitting a proposal and the available publication slots, timelines and so on.
All the best, Damian O’Doherty, Jo Brewis, Sarah Dempsey and Janet Sayers
Co-editors, Culture and Organization
Item 2:
8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies (University of Manchester)
Extending the Limits of Neo-Liberal Capitalism
Panel Session: Can institutional theory be critical? Exploring connections between CMS and Institutional Theory
11th of July 2013 (6:15 – 7:45 - C16 Renold Building)
This panel seeks to explore links and tensions between recent developments in institutional theory and critical management studies. This is motivated by a growing theoretical interest in bridging “the gulf between research in institutional and critical traditions of organization studies” (Lawrence et al., 2011: 56) and in a proliferation of conference tracks and empirical studies that seek to do so by developing the emancipatory potential of the concept of institutional work. Of course this has also been met with some scepticism on whether institutional theory has more emancipatory potential than perspectives drawing on critical studies (Willmott, 2011; Clegg, 2010) and whether, indeed, institutional theory can be critical at all (Cooper et al, 2008). Against this backdrop our panel members will discuss the connections between institutional theory and CMS. Is this an area for fruitful dialogue or an imperialist project?
Kamal Munir – Cambridge University
Roy Suddaby – University of Alberta
Hugh Willmott – Cardiff University
Item 3:
Workshop: After Method in Organization Studies
Welcome to the After Methods-seminar, a full day seminar on Oct 21 at the Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden, where we will discuss the methodological challenges of understanding the world as "messy", as John Law put it, and the implications for organization studies.
There is a growing concern in social science that current phenomena have outrun the capacity of the social sciences to investigate; a concern that the methods have become outdated. There is, therefore, a need to re-think our methodological approaches that are founded upon distinctions such as global/local, center/periphery, structure/agency, social/material, social/environmental, labor/management, virtual/real, mind/body, masculinity/femininity and so on. These divisions are seriously challenged by multifaceted, multiply connected and fuzzy ‘empirical’ sites.
It’s a messy world, as John Law pointed out in his “After method”. So how can and should organization studies-scholars approach organizations if these are to be viewed as fluid and constantly enacted rather than as fixed and solid entities? How are we to face the challenge of studying and accounting for the fluidity and stability of the phenomena we study without falling back into essentialising categories that exist only when enacted? And how may questions of performativity and relationality be embraced in full when doing, analyzing and writing up empirical studies?
The questions are pressing, not only because present theories to world problems do not seem to lead to solutions that meet the needs of sustainability in all its various forms, but because taking fluidity seriously will open for different kinds of politics than the one based on entititative views. Hence, we, the researchers, need to take a reflective stance towards the methodologies we use to say something about the world we study in order to lead the discussion on what should be studied, why and how.
In order to explore the methodological challenges and opportunities that follow process ontology, i.e the view that organizations as well as the rest of the social world is fundamentally processual, we invite you who are active researcher within organization studies to join us for a full-day seminar: “After Method in Organization Studies”.
The seminar, co-funded by the Management, Organization and Society-department at Stockholm University and Scancor (Stanford University) will take place at Stockholm University School of Business, Monday October 21st and will include lectures that will provide an interdisciplinary perspective on methodological questions in relation to process ontology, as well as a panel discussion. At the end of the day there will be time to socialize over drinks and snacks.
Confirmed participants (so far, more to come):
- Sebastian Abrahamsson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Viviane Sergi, Department of Management and Technology, ESG UQAM, Canada
- Jean-Pascal Gond, Cass Business School, UK
- Anette Hallin, Department of Management, Organization and Society, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden
- Tommy Jensen, Department of Management, Organization and Society, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden
- Hervé Corvellec, Department of Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University, Sweden
- Lucia Crevani, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen university, Sweden
Make sure to register now as places are limited. The seminar is free, but no shows will be charged (SEK 300).
More information may be found through these links. The list of lecturers/panel participants is not yet complete and will be updated.
http://fek.su.se/en/Research/Subdisciplines/Management--Organisation/After-Method-in-Organization-Studies/
Registration: http://www.karriar.fek.su.se/Portal/Public/Event/Apply.aspx?EventID=258
Wishing you a wonderful summer!
Anette Hallin, Lucia Crevani, and the other members of the organizing committee