Global Community Where Serious Ideas Meet Fun Collaboration!
SCOS is a global network of academics and practitioners, who hail from a hugely diverse range of disciplines and professional backgrounds. We were formed in 1981, originally as an autonomous working group of the European Group for Organizational Studies, but have been an independent academic venture for over 25 yearly conferences. Our central interest is in the interlinked issues of organizational symbolism, culture and change, articulated in the broadest possible sense and informed by our commitment to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary understandings of organization and management. Thus our work draws, inter alia, from organization studies, social anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, history, politics and social psychology.
The SCOS philosophy is ‘serious fun,’ which perfectly captures the experience of attending our annual international conferences or regular workshops. Serious, because we are dedicated to the development of unusual and groundbreaking ideas in the analysis of organization, organizing, management and managing. Fun, because the members of our network provide a continual source of enthu-siasm, support and inspiration for each other: for SCOS the social side of our activities is an essential – indeed indistinguishable – element of our intellectual and practical endeavours.
Contact
➤ SCOS 2026 organizers
jair.santos@ulife.com.br
➤ SCOS board
scosboard@gmail.com
Recent Articles in C&O
Inner-focused Sage & Outer-Focused King: sustainable leadership research from two Chinese companies’ cases
‘Inner-focused Sage & Outer-focused King’ describes the Confucian perspective on an individual's transition from self-cultivation to societal contribution. This study applies the concept to leadership, illustrating how business leaders achieve family well-being, corporate success, and social …
National culture as a lens to improve ecosystem innovation maturity: a cross-cultural analysis
Innovation is a key driver of economic growth and organisational success, particularly in complex and regulated sectors like healthcare. In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the role national culture plays in shaping and supporting innovation processes. This conceptual research …
Blurry service relationships – exploring recurrent encounters in personal training through photo-elicitation interviews
There are a variety of service occupations characterised by recurrent contact with familiar customers. Through the performance of emotional labour, these service worker/customer relationships can potentially flourish as part of ongoing relational trajectory that evolves with each encounter. Using data …
In-betweenness of doctoral students in co-authoring with English L1 academics: an emotion-based duoethnography …
This duoethnography unveils our emotional odysseys during the co-authoring process as women early career researchers (ECRs) with English as an additional language (EAL) who collaborated with scholars whose first language is English (L1). The use of duoethnography allows us to engage ...
Minor miracles – the play: a co-ethnographic exploration of intimate encounters at work by diverse bodies and minds
Minor Miracles is a play that depicts a three-and-a-half-day experience in silence and darkness undertaken by a group of mere strangers whose diverse bodies and minds afford unexpected intimate encounters, surprizing emotional intimacy, and reflections about intimacy and disability at work.
On the persistence of gender inequality: the case of informal workload allocation in a research-intensive university in the UK
This paper extends Martin’s framework of ‘practicing gender’ by showing how practices of informal workload allocation often contribute to reproducing the gender order, even in an organisation that claims to be committed to equality. As a case, the paper analyses informal workload allocation .…
Special Events Fund
The SCOS philosophy is ‘serious fun’. Serious, because we are dedicated to the development of unusual and groundbreaking ideas in the analysis of organised life. Fun, because our members provide a continual source of enthusiasm, support and inspiration for each other. For SCOS, the social side of our activities is an essential – indeed indistinguishable – element of our intellectual and practical endeavours.
To encourage the development of often marginalised perspectives on organised life, and the ethico-political promises of such perspectives, the SCOS Board is delighted to offer funding for ‘special events’. The Special Events Fund will be offered every year although the total amount disbursed will depend on the surplus available. Events should challenge and blur the boundaries of conventional thinking in keeping with the SCOS ethos of ‘serious fun’.
“Serious Fun; Innovating with Purpose.”
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For matters related to the conference of this year, please email the conference organizers’ email mentioned above.