Dear RC17 members and Newsletter subscribers,
On Sunday the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology will begin! Our RC has compiled an exciting program with contributions by scholars from 26 nations. We are looking forward to meeting many of you soon in Toronto!
If you have any suggestions, announcements, publications, call for papers, for the next newsletter, please contact our newsletter editor Michael Grothe-Hammer (Michael.grothe-hammer@hsu-hh.de).
Our Program in Toronto
You can find the RC17 program here: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogram/Symposium454.html
RC17 Tracks and Sessions
Location: 205C (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
Disappearing Organization?
Monday, 16 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Monday, 16 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-19:20
Office As a Vocation: Re-Instating an Ethics of Office in Public Service and Organizational Life
Monday, 16 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Organizing Organizations: Meta-Organizations and Their Role in Modern Society
Thursday, 19 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Friday, 20 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Beyond Words: Visuality, Materiality, and Multimodality in Organizational Theory
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Ranking Organizations: The Double Role of Organizations in the Production and Impact of Rankings
Thursday, 19 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Organisations, Work and Society
Thursday, 19 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
The Global Financial Class: Global Class Formation at the Juncture of Organizations, Places and Markets
Thursday, 19 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Joint Sessions
Professions and Professional Service Firms: Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
with RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups
Location: 705 (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Corruption and Whistleblowing
with RC46 Clinical Sociology
Location: 713B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Business Meeting
Location: 205C (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 19:30-20:50
Call for Papers
CfP Special Issue “Organization and Membership”
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science
[SSCI: IF 0.86; ABS: **; ABDC: A]
Topic: Organization and Membership
Guest Editors:
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany
Anders la Cour, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Submission Deadline for Papers (5000-8000 words) is January 15th, 2019
The CfP can be found here: https://bit.ly/2tkDlE9
The journal homepage can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991743a
Call for Contributions to our Newsletter
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- New book publications
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