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
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 ...
A Mestizo-inspired vista for organization studies: reconciling science and aesthetics in Latin America
Organization and management studies in and concerning Latin America are often caught between two poles: decontextualized universal theories or highly localized, critical decolonial perspectives. This polarity constrains dialogue and obscures the region’s intellectual contributions …
The other in organizational studies: heterological encounters with Quilombola communities in Paraná
This article reflects on the possibilities and limits of heterological research in organizational studies through empirical engagement with Quilombola communitiesAfro-Brazilian groups historically positioned as ‘Other’ by colonial and racial structures in Brazil. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s …
Multiplicity, discretion, and power: enacting school report cards under performance management
School report cards are key audit devices through which New Public Management is enacted in public schools. We examine how educational professionals enact school report cards. We draw on Mol's concepts of coordination, distribution, and inclusion as abductive sensitizing devices. …
Meaningful work across value-laden contexts: how organizational settings shape job crafting pathways
This study examines how employees’ religious and non-religious identities interact with organizational context to shape meaningful work through job crafting. Drawing on 40 interviews conducted in religious and secular organizations in Italy, the study adopts a configurational perspective and …
What can fiction teach us? Proposing a guide to utopian analysis
This paper argues that audiovisual fiction can serve as a valuable empirical and theoretical resource for critically engaging the future through utopian analysis. Drawing on Fredric Jameson’s notions of utopia and the political unconscious, we propose engaging with audiovisual fiction as a mediated …
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.