Dear RC17 members,
We hope this month’s newsletter finds you well! We are very happy to share RC17’s Calls for Abstracts at the ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 as well as the new issue of our Journal of Organizational Sociology. Additionally, we have a CfP for all those interested in platform organizations. Please see details below.
CfA ISA Forum of Sociology 2025
You may submit abstracts for RC17’s sessions from August 5 until October 15. We offer a broad variety of sessions, including several Joint Sessions with other RCs. You can find the calls and details on the sessions available here. For further information on the submission and presentation process please see the ISA’s website. The session organizers are looking forward to your submissions!
New Issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology
A new and exciting issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOSO) is out.
Please enjoy reading:
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/joso/2/2/html
Research Articles
Organization Studies and the Legal Person
Nils Brunsson
Gaming the Data. How the Finnish School Audit Saved the Profession from New Public Management
Jaakko Turunen
Local Cultures of Advice Tie Formation
Philip Roth, Katharina Scheidgen
Essays
Speaking for Human Being: Institutional Logics, Dragons, and the Supra-Human
Roger Friedland, Diane-Laure Arjaliès
Learning from Surprising Observations in Management – Longitudinal Accounts
Sten Jönsson, Richard Jönsson
Follow JOSO on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn – and consider submitting!
www.degruyter.com/joso
CfP Platform Organizations and Societal Change
Organization Studies is asking for submissions to a special issue on “Platform Organizations and Societal Change”, guest edited by Cristina Alaimo (LUISS U.), Annabelle Gawer (U. of Surrey), Evelyn Micelotta (U. of Vermont), Stefan Haefliger (Stockholm School of Economics & Bayes Business School), and Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business & Johannes Kepler University Linz). The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. For further information please see here.