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
Crossings: witnessing Gaza
This essay explores Gaza, Gazan writing, and writing about Gaza through the framework of crossings and the denial of crossings, with particular focus on the poetry of witness as an act of border crossing. By attending to Elaine Scarry’s concept of language as a form of self-extension and agency, a way to move beyond ...
The fashioning of the researcher
This essay explores the process of becoming or fashioning the researcher. It focuses on the becoming and being of the ‘self-as-researcher’. It will be posited that such a ‘self’ is created interactively and is thus inherently social. In particular, the researcher is fashioned by the relatedness of interacting with the …
Not so banal binationalism: the organisational reproduction of nationalism in a cross-border …
While the reproduction of nationalism has received considerable attention in the social sciences at both the macro and micro levels, it has been largely overlooked at the meso-organisational level. Nationalism is often difficult to discern, as we tend to distance ourselves from it by focusing on its most extreme forms, …
Influence of traditional ethics on the corporate social responsibility reporting of restaurant firms
Despite the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR), traditional ethics’ influence on CSR implementation in international business remains unclear. To fill this gap, this study investigates how the CSR initiatives of restaurant firms from Taiwan and the US embody the traditional ethics underlying …
The end of alternative organising (just as we were getting to know it)? A conjunctural analysis of the …
The last fifteen years have seen a rise in interest in alternative organising within CMS. Although this work covers a diverse world of organisational forms, this academic interest is commonly connected to the prefigurative turn in social movements. Yet the momentum of such movements has recently stalled, and …
Feminist theorizing as collective practice: staying with the art of reading
A group of feminist scholars met and collectively read feminist texts aloud. As an alternative to hegemonic modes of theorizing dominant in Management and Organization Studies (MOS), we propose ‘readinglistening’ as a feminist intervention: a practice in which collective reading aloud and embodied listening are …
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.