RC 17 Sociology of Organizations
***Call for session proposals***
The V ISA Forum of Sociology
Rabat, Morocco, July 6-11, 2025.
Programme Coordinators
- Christopher Dorn, Bielefeld University, Germany (christopher.dorn@uni-bielefeld.de)
- Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway (michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no)
Call for sessions
The Research Committee on the Sociology of Organizations is calling for proposals for sessions for the 2025 ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat. We will be organizing a total of 19 sessions of 105 minutes each, including a timeslot for our business meeting.
Deadline
Session proposals need to be submitted to Christopher Dorn & Michael Grothe-Hammer by June 20, 2024, for review and final submission via the Confex website by July 01, 2024.
Following discussions of future programmes at previous meetings and amongst board members, some of the possible additions to the core themes and topics usually covered in RC17 could include:
- Sociology of organizations: Contributions from certain world regions/continents (e.g., Africa, Australasia, the South Pacific and SE Asia.)
- Environmental change and ecological problems
- How organizations make people
- New technologies in organizations
- Standards and valuation
- Organization and inequality
- Historical sociology of organizations
- Theorizing organizations
- Meta-organizations – grand challenges.
- Societal Grand Challenges and organizations
- Advances in innovative theories of organization
- Organizing crises – pandemic, global warming, Ukraine.
- Sociology of temporary and project organisations
- Geopolitics, sovereignty, international relations & organizations
- Organizing democracy, organizing autocracy
- Paradox & organizations
- Organization as strategy
- Crisis, disasters, emergencies
- Any joint sessions with other RCs
We encourage proposals for sessions which facilitate the participation of PhD students and early career scholars as well as of scholars from the Global South. Some of the sessions may be jointly organized with other ISA Research Committees. We are also open for proposals for sessions and papers in Spanish or French.
Submissions, to be sent to both Programme Coordinators by June 20, should include the following information:
- Title of the Session
- Format of the session:
- Regular session – up to five presentations
- Featured or Keynote Speaker
- Author meets their Critics
- Panel sessions – a larger number of shorter papers on a specific theme
- Joint session – identifying the other participating RC
- A 250-word description of the session
- Language(s) of session
- Full name, affiliation and contact details of the session organizer(s) and/or session chair(s) (if different). A brief statement on previous conference session organization experience (if applicable).
For further information, please check the guidelines for session organizers under
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/visaforumguidelines
You are also very welcome to approach the programme coordinators Christopher Dorn and Michael Grothe-Hammer with early stage ideas and suggestions. Please do also not hesitate to contact the coordinators if you have any questions or need assistance.
The Programme Coordinators will exercise the final decision on the selection of sessions for inclusion in the RC17 Programme.