RC17 “Sociology of Organizations” of the ISA

The ISA

The International Sociological Association (ISA) was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of the ISA is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world.

The on-going scientific activities of the ISA are decentralized in Research Committees, Working Groups and Thematic Groups, each dealing with a well recognized specialty in sociology. These groups bring together scholars who wish to pursue comparative research on a transnational basis and they constitute basic networks of scientific research, intellectual debate and professional exchange. The Research Committee 17 was founded in 1971 and is concerned with “Sociology of Organizations”. You can find RC17’s page on the ISA website HERE.

RC17

Research Committee 17 “Sociology of Organizations” was founded in 1971 with its first provisional board:

• Chair: Michel Crozier (France)
• Members: Nikolai I. Lapin (USSR), Kazimierz Doktor (Poland), Roumen Yanakiev (Bulgaria), Renate Mayntz (GDR), William M. Evan (USA), Kunyo Odaka (Japan), Cornelis Lammers (The Netherlands)

In 1972, RC17 constituted as its first regularly elected board:

• President: Michel Crozier (France)
• Members: Kazimierz Doktor (Poland), David J. Hickson (UK), Nikolai I. Lapin (USSR), Hiroshi Mannari (Japan), B.F. Mannheim (Israel), J.G. March (USA), Kunyo Odaka (Japan), A.L. Stinchcombe (USA), Michael Aiken (USA – added later), William M. Evan (USA – added later)

RC17 builds on a longer tradition within the ISA. Its institutional predecessors were the Sub-Committee on Industrial Sociology (1957–1964) and the Sub-Committee on Sociology of Work and Organization (1966–1971). You can find more about the history of RC17 HERE.

Objectives

To establish contacts and to encourage collaboration among scholars working in the field of the sociology of organizations throughout the world; to enhance international cooperation and exchange in theoretical and empirical research in the sociology of organizations; to link theoretical and empirical research in the sociology of organizations with related specialist fields or disciplines such as economics, industrial relations, organizational behaviour, and management theory.

Board 2023-2027

President	Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no
Vice President	Kathia Serrano-Velarde, Heidelberg University, Germany, kathia.serrano-velarde@csi.uni-heidelberg.de
Treasurer	Robert van Krieken, University of Sydney, Australia, robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au
Secretary	Christopher Dorn, Bielefeld University, Germany, christopher.dorn@uni-bielefeld.de
Board Members	Héloïse Berkowitz, CNRS, UMR 7317, LEST, Aix Marseille Université, France Catherine Casler, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Stewart Clegg, University of Sydney, Australia Thiago Duarte Pimentel, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Paul Du Gay, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Adrienne Hawley, Ireland Robert Jungmann, Trier University, Germany Dean Pierides, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Leopold Ringel, Bielefeld University, Germany Anna Skripchenko, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany

Board 2018-2023

President	Robert van Krieken, University of Sydney, Australia, robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au
Vice President	Kathia Serrano-Velarde, Heidelberg University, Germany, kathia.serrano-velarde@csi.uni-heidelberg.de
Treasurer	Dean Pierides, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Secretary	Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no
Board Members	Héloïse Berkowitz, CNRS, UMR 7317, LEST, Aix Marseille Université, France Cristina Besio, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Thiago Duarte Pimentel, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Paul Du Gay, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, & Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Adam Hayes, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA Robert Jungmann, Trier University, Germany Leopold Ringel, Bielefeld University, Germany Karem Sánchez de Roldán, Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia Alan Scott, University of New England, Australia
Newsletter Editor	Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no

An overview of the past boards can be found here on the ISA website.