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
Resistance at the top: exploring re-railing in meetings
This study explores the perpetual struggle between policymakers and bureaucrats in top-level meetings within organizations. We examine how senior bureaucrats resist their superiors’ policymaking and introduce the concept of ‘re-railing’ to identify senior bureaucrats’ resistance by ...
Poetry as research communication: internal exclusion of Deaf older adults
Drawing on qualitative field work – interviews, shadowing and poetry – this study investigates the potential of poetry to communicate the internal exclusion of Deaf older adults receiving old age care support. By presenting poetry to people working in different authorities and …
Beyond the unfashionable boring gray: a collaborative autoethnography on the journey to become …
We explore how young audit professionals navigate identity development as they transition into mature professionals, using fashion as a metaphor to illuminate dynamics within accountancy. Drawing on our own similar career trajectories — from Big Four firms to accounting academia — we …
Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy changes underlying social order: the representation of leadership in Antz and …
This paper offers a critical analysis of Antz, Dreamworks Animation’s first feature film. In many respects, Antz is faithful to what is known about ant colonies. Yet the film departs significantly from ecological reality in its representations of hierarchical leadership and gender. The paper offers a re-evaluation …
Unheard voices: emotional exclusion of migrant students in Spain’s schools through poetic inquiry
This study explores the educational challenges faced by migrant students in Spain, focusing on segregation, discrimination, and emotional exclusion. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted 22 in-depth semi-structured interviews with migrant students in Madrid. Their testimonies were transformed …
Identifying (with) couture
Couture promises individuality, while its worlds of design, retail, and display remain shaped by boundaries around gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. We examine couture beyond the legal designation of Haute Couture as an ambivalent cultural economy, in which inclusion is continually made and unmade. …
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.