News & CfPs

Job opportunity: Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” at Heidelberg University

Dear RC17 members, we would like to inform you about a current job opportunity in the form of a Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” at the The Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg University. If you are interested, you will find all relevant details regarding the position, requirements, and application…

Call for Sessions: ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027

RC17 Sociology of Organizations Call for Session Proposals XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology Gwangju, Korea, July 4-10, 2027 Congress theme: Global Sociology in Turbulent Times Programme Coordinators Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no Robert van Krieken, University of Sydney, Australia Robert.van.Krieken@sydney.edu.au Call for sessions The Research Committee on the Sociology of Organizations (RC17) invites…

RC17 Newsletter March 2026

Dear RC17 members, We hope you are well! In this month’s newsletter, we are pleased to share information on a postdoctoral fellowship, a call for papers (CfP), and updates on our RC17 mid-term conference ICOS 2026. Please find the details below. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Work and Organizations at LEST At the LEST (CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ), we are looking…

ICOS 2026 Program

The program of the ICOS 2026 is now available. ICOS (International Conference on Organizational Sociology) is the RC17 mid-term conference, co-organized this year with: Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam Section for Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association DFG-Network “Modes of organizational diversity: theories, methodologies and practices“ “Organization & Society” Research Group, Department of Sociology and…

CfP: ESA 2025 – Socialization, Roles, and Identity in Organizations

Dear RC17 colleagues, please find attached the CfP for this year’s ESA (Europ. Soc. Association) session on “Socialization, Roles, and Identity in Organizations”. The ESA conference 2026 will take place in Warsaw from the 25th to 28th of August and Elina and I are very happy to arrange a stream for organizational sociology for the first time in ESA history!…

Newsletter December 2025

Dear RC17 members, As we wrap up the year, we want to thank you for your continued support and collaboration. We look forward to exciting opportunities and shared successes in the year ahead. New Issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology This month, we are pleased to announce that the latest issue of our Journal of Organizational Sociology has been…

RC17 Newsletter November 2025

Dear RC17 members, We are excited to announce that the International Conference on Organizational Sociology (ICOS) has received a record 112 submissions this year—up from 83 in 2025 and 62 in 2022! For more details about the conference, please click here. Moreover, we are happy to share several opportunities to participate and publish, including an ISA Webinar on the use…

CfP: Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations (English, French, Spanish calls)

Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations Guest Editors: Dennis Schoeneborn, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, ds.msc@cbs.dk Héloïse Berkowitz, LEST, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, France, heloise.berkowitz@univ-amu.fr Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck, Austria, leonhard.dobusch@uibk.ac.at Frank de Bakker, IÉSEG School of Management, France, f.debakker@ieseg.fr Consuelo Vásquez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada, vasquez.consuelo@uqam.ca Consulting Editor: Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of…

Webinar and Special Issue on Dynamic Approaches to Context and Change: Moving the Theoretical and Methodological Goalposts

The webinar on contextual approaches to organizational change is connected to a special issue on the topic by the Journal of Change Management. You will meet both the Co-editors of the journal as well as the special issue editors. Please click the links for more information on the webinar and the CfP. The Speakers include: Ninna Meier, Aalborg University Sue…

ICOS 2026 Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts International Conference on Organizational Sociology ICOS 2026 Plurality, Diversity and Social Inequality in Organizations March 16/17, 2026 University of Potsdam, Germany  Joint conference by: Research Committee 17 “Sociology of Organizations” of the International Sociological Association Section for Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam DFG-Network “Modes of organizational diversity:…

ISA Forum of Sociology 2025: RC17 Program

IV ISA Forum of Sociology July 6-11, Rabat Here you can find the RC17 program for the ISA Forum 2025. To view the presentation abstracts click on the session titles below. Program Coordinators:  Christopher Dorn (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Michael Grothe-Hammer (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) RC17 Program Sessions (co-)organized by the RC17 “Sociology of Organizations” Monday, 07…

RC17 Newsletter April 2025

Dear RC17 members, we hope this message finds you well. In this month’s newsletter we would like to draw your attention to the new issue of our Journal of Organizational Sociology. Furthermore, we would like to share a CfP for a Special Issue of the South Africa Review of Sociology on the topic of ‘Sport, Recreation and Leisure in Contemporary…