Dear RC17 members,
Here comes our new newsletter. We hope that you are all doing well and will enjoy reading!
While the ISA Congress has been postponed to 2023, many of our members are organizing sub-themes for the EGOS Colloquium 2022 Check out their Calls for Papers!
We also want to remind you of the RC17 activity grants. The procedure is simple. If you have an idea, just contact our Secretary Michael Grothe-Hammer.
If you have any suggestions, announcements, publications, or call for papers for the next newsletter, please contact our newsletter editor Michael Grothe-Hammer (Michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no).
Activity grants
Possible support by RC17
RC17 can support selected activities by members (e.g., workshops) with up to $500. Informal applications can be addressed to the RC17 board via the Secretary Michael Grothe-Hammer (Michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no). The board will then discuss the proposal and issue a decision soon. One central requirement is the thematic connection to RC17 and that some advertising for RC17 takes place at the sponsored event.
Calls for Papers
EGOS Colloquium 2022: Doing Sociology in Organization Studies
Call for Papers
38th EGOS Colloquium
Sub-theme 25: Doing Sociology in Organization Studies
Vienna, July 7–9, 2022
Convenors:
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Kathia Serrano Velarde, Heidelberg University, Germany
Mikaela Sundberg, Stockholm University & SCORE, Sweden
The past few years have seen a plethora of debates regarding the nature of theorizing in organization research and the position of sociological theory therein (Besio et al., 2020; Clegg et al., 2020). There is little doubt that the divide between organization scholars and sociologists has widened considerably (Clegg & Cuhna, 2019; Adler et al., 2014; Clegg, 2002; King, 2017). For many, if not most, it has become unclear what the sociological is supposed to be or mean in organization studies. Against this backdrop we ask, irrespective of a classic canon: What is “organizational sociology” today?
This sub-theme seeks to explore the new boundaries of organizational sociology. It sets out to map a community of scholars that transcends disciplinary limitations by following one simple epistemic logic: society is constituted in, between, across and around organizations (Powell & Brandtner, 2016).
We invite papers from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that investigate the sociological dimensions of organization and organization studies. We explicitly welcome contributions from junior as well as well-established scholars.
You can find the full-length CfP on the EGOS website here.
Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 23:59:59 CET.
You can find the guidelines for submission here.
EGOS Colloquium 2022: New Studies of Business Elites: Imperfection Writ Large?
Call for Papers
38th EGOS Colloquium
Sub-theme 45: New Studies of Business Elites: Imperfection Writ Large?
Vienna, July 7–9, 2022
Convenors:
Maja Korica, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, USA
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Business elites can be defined as “the possessors of power and wealth and celebrity […] whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women, [their decisions] having major consequences” (Mills, 1956: 13, 3-4). This includes senior organizational leaders, often coterminous with owners of capital. Investigating them involves examining resources they control, positions this enables, and other forms of capital this facilitates. It means “studying power and inequality – from above” (Khan, 2012: 362).
Despite the sweeping implications of these findings for organizations, management and the political economy, dedicated studies of business elites remain relatively rare in our field. Where empirical work has been done on chief executives, top teams and boards, it has seldom been situated within the broader elites literature. The effect is a narrowing of such works’ explanatory scope and a reduction of its potential for inter-disciplinary relevance, as well as a lessening of scholarly capacity to gain broader societal resonance at this critical time.
The full CfP is available on the EGOS website: https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1630409885853&subtheme_id=1604725620625
Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 23:59:59 CET.
You can find the guidelines for submission here.
EGOS Colloquium 2022: The Organization of Society: Meta-, Macro-, and Partial Organization
Call for Papers
38th EGOS Colloquium
Sub-theme 62: The Organization of Society: Meta-, Macro-, and Partial Organization
Vienna, July 7–9, 2022
Convenors:
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Héloïse Berkowitz, CNRS, LEST, Aix Marseille University, France
Sanne Bor, LUT University, Finland
There is a long and strong tradition in organization theory to study formal organizations under the explicit or implicit assumption that the phenomenon of organization is concentrated to these formal organizations, whereas their environment is not organized and therefore must be analysed by other concepts than organization. In contrast to that perspective, in this subtheme we are interested in describing and analysing all the organization that happens outside of and among formal organizations. Such organization is often needed for social systems to adapt to new challenges, though we still understand relatively little about its dynamics.
The full CfP is available on the EGOS website: https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1630409885853&subtheme_id=1604725620613
Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 23:59:59 CET.
You can find the guidelines for submission here.
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