Dear RC17 members,
We hope that you are all enjoying the summer/winter. In this newsletter we have the publication of the first issue of our Journal of Organizational Sociology, several interesting calls and a PhD position announcement. If you have anything for the newsletter, please let us know!
Journal of Organizational Sociology
First Issue published
We are very happy to announce the publication of the first issue of RC17’s new Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOSO). JOSO is supposed to be a platform for debating the role of organization in, for, and throughout society. JOSO is for anyone doing sociology with a focus on organization(s).
Enjoy reading, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and consider submitting! www.degruyter.com/joso
Volume 1 Issue 1
Editorial
A Platform for Debating the Role of Organization in, for, and Throughout Society
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Robert Jungmann
Research Articles
Relational Agency as a Dialectic of Belonging and Not Belonging within the Social Ecology of Plantation Life in Sri Lanka
Ann L. Cunliffe, Geetha Karunanayake
Exploring Terrorism Prevention: An Organizational Perspective on Police Investigations
Henrik Dosdall, Teresa Löckmann
Organizing Expertise During a Crisis. France and Sweden in the Fight Against Covid-19
Olivier Borraz, Bengt Jacobsson
Beacon of Organizational Sociology
Organisation as Reflexive Structuration
Günther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow, Arnold Windeler
Calls for Papers
Organizing Exclusion: Tackling Inequities by Dealing with Organizations
NEON-dagene 2023
November 21-23, 2023
Trondheim, Norway
Deadline for submission of abstracts (max 500 words) is August 31, 2023.
More information under: https://www.neondagene.no/call-for-papers-2023/
Track Organizers:
Svenja Hammer, Disability and Society Research Group, Department of Social Work, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Organization and Society Research Group, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Håkon Leiulfsrud, Welfare and Inequality Research Group, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Center for Gender Research, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Organizations have been found to be both the main cause and the main solution for social inequities (Acker, 2006; Amis et al., 2020; Luhmann, 2013; Powell & Brandtner, 2016; Tomaskovic-Devey & Avent-Holt, 2019). In this thematic track, we want to further investigate how organizations exclude and include, how they manage exclusion and inclusion, how they produce inequalities, and how these processes effect inequities. We thereby also welcome discussions of how to counteract undesirable forms of exclusion and inequalities. Contributions can be conceptual, empirical, or methodological in nature. We welcome submissions from all social sciences including but not limited to sociology, social work, organization and management studies, disability studies, cultural studies, educational science, and gender studies. The full call can be found here: https://www.grothe-hammer.com/2023/07/19/cfp-organizing-exclusion-tackling-inequities-by-dealing-with-organizations/
New forms of organization in times of uncertainty
NEON-dagene 2023
November 21-23, 2023
Trondheim, Norway
Deadline for submission of abstracts (max 500 words) is August 31, 2023.
More information under: https://www.neondagene.no/call-for-papers-2023/
Track organizers
Charlie F. Thompson, Organization and Society Research Group Department of Sociology and Political Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Organization and Society Research Group Department of Sociology and Political Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Grand challenges and matters of turbulence, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, wars, and corresponding large-scale migrations (e.g. 2015 refugee crisis) are increasingly recurrent issues that test the resilience and robustness of both public governance systems and society. The complexity and variety of society’s challenges appears to have grown immensely in the past decades, as has the complexity of modern society as such. This increase in complexities has been paralleled by an unsolicited increase in both the number of organizations around the globe and the different forms that organization can take.
Topics of interest include:
- new forms of organization unconventional forms of organization
- new theories of organization
- interorganizational relations
- networks
- hybrid organization
- network governance
- governance networks
- meta-organization
- partial organization
The full call can be found here: https://www.grothe-hammer.com/2023/07/19/cfp-new-forms-of-organization-in-times-of-uncertainty/
SCANCOR 2023 Organization Theory workshop
You are hereby invited to the 2023 Organization Theory workshop put on by the Norwegian branch of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research (SCANCOR). SCANCOR is a 35-year research and exchange cooperative project between participating Scandinavian universities and Stanford University, California. Its remit is to advance organizational theory and its manifold applications. In 2016 Harvard University became an active partner in this ongoing program.
The workshop will take place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim on 15-16 November 2023.
We are open to contributions from academics broadly focused on organization and institution theories, their empirical applications, and methodological design. The unifying element of the workshop is a shared interest in organizational and institutional approaches in the broader sense.
Please submit your name, title, affiliation, and abstract (300-500 words) to: cristina.parau@ntnu.no using “SCANCOR workshop” in the subject of the email by 1 September 2023. Papers from doctoral candidates must be of excellent quality to be considered.
The deadline for full submission is 15 October 2023.
More information: https://www.ntnu.edu/iss/scancor
Jobs
PhD position in Sweden
Doctoral (PhD) Position in Sociology
Mid Sweden University, The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Östersund
Application deadline: 15 September 2023.
More information: https://www.miun.se/en/work-at-the-university/career/jobs/vacancy/doctoral-phd-position-in-sociology/