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
jairsantos@uneb.br
➤ SCOS board
scosboard@gmail.com
Recent Articles in C&O
‘When AI has helped me get there, is it still my idea?’ identity dissonance in creative work under conditions of …
The article investigates how advertising creatives negotiate their identity in the context of generative AI’s (GenAI) increasing role in concept development. Based on expert interviews and netnographic discourse analysis, the study shows that GenAI disrupts familiar understandings of authorship, …
Amplifying embodiedness through life-art-writing: fleshy encounters as spaces for enlivening synergy and …
Neoliberal portrayals of academic lives as singular formulaic posturings in university settings are disembodying, dangerous, and unproductive. This productivity-driven narrative in academia is unfruitful and lacks an ethic of relational embodiedness. Arts-based research can recreate memories of …
Sacred materialities: transforming academic work through creative engagement with objects
This article proposes that engaging with posthuman spirituality can reveal new insights into how materiality generates meaning in academic workplaces. Posthuman theory can support an understanding of the materiality of meaningful academic work. This reframes spiritual engagement …
‘Work from anywhere’ as a fashionable organizational trend
Since the planetary remote work experimentation ushered in by the Covid-19 pandemic, the idea of working from anywhere, but an office, has become trendier. Seeking to attract talents, some organizations began to propose ‘Work from Anywhere’ (WFA) modalities. This paper explores …
Scaling the castle walls: the affective, relational and attentional labour of innovation in the public sector
This paper explores the situated experience of innovation by managers in the UK National Health Service. We develop the concept of expressive production to theorise the agency enacted by actors who must innovate within systems that simultaneously demand and resist innovation. The concept is …
Organising domestic spaces of professionalisation: selective agency and labour precarity in esports
Drawing on semi-structured interviews and participant-led photography, this study investigates the labour precarity of esports athletes in processes of professionalisation, adopting a sociomaterial framework attentive to domestic spatial arrangements. In line with interest in homeworking within ...
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.”
Contact us!
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For matters related to the conference of this year, please email the conference organizers’ email mentioned above.