Dear RC17 members and Newsletter subscribers,
We hope you are all doing well. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the ISA Forum 2020/2021 is going digital! As a consequence, RC17 has re-opened calls for abstracts and invites your submissions. You will find more information below. Our newsletter moreover features some more announcements and calls that might be of interest!
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).
Calls
ISA Forum of Sociology 2021: Call for Abstracts
Forum Online
February 23-27, 2021
Deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) is November 12, 2020, 24:00 GMT
Because of the ongoing pandemic, the ISA Forum of Sociology is going digital. The ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) has re-opened calls for abstracts and invites you to submit. The ISA Forum of Sociology of the International Sociological Association offers a unique forum to discuss current developments with a global scholarship.
In particular, the Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) invites submissions on the following topics:
- Collaborative Management between State Organizations and Civil Society
(organized by Adriana FASSIO & Maria Gabriela RUTTY) - Organized Collective Action: Building Bridges from Social Movements and Formal Organizations
(organized by Thiago PIMENTEL) - Sociology of Organizations: Contributions from Latin América
(organized by Karem SANCHEZ DE ROLDAN & Oscar Iván VÁSQUEZ-RIVERA) - The Continuing Relevance of Bureaucratic Organization
(organized by Paul DU GAY, Thomas LOPDRUP- HJORTH, & Pedro MONTEIRO)
Note that there will be an additional session on “Writing for Publication in Organization Studies”. In this session at least two experienced organizational sociologists, Paul du Gay (Copenhagen Business School) and Robert van Krieken (University of Sydney), will outline the most important aspects of their experience of writing for the publication in organization studies, and they will provide helpful advice in response to questions that session participants raise about difficulties and obstacles that they might have encountered. Anyone interested in publishing organizational sociology is welcome to attend this session and engage in discussion with the presenters (no application needed).
There will also be many other regular, common, joint, and professional development sessions that anyone can attend during the conference. For more information about the 4th ISA Forum of Sociology, please visit:
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020
The session descriptions can be found here:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium583.html
Abstracts must be submitted to RC17 via the submission system: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/rc/cfp.cgi
Deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) is November 12, 2020, 24:00 GMT
If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact the program coordinators Robert van Krieken (robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au) and Michael Grothe-Hammer (michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no).
EGOS Colloquium 2021: Organization outside Formal Organizations
Call for Papers
37th EGOS Colloquium
Sub-theme 50: Organization outside Formal Organizations: Settings, Practices, and Processes
Amsterdam, July 8–10, 2021
Convenors:
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
David Seidl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
In this sub-theme, we explore the potential of theorizing organization outside formal organizations with the help of theoretical and empirical studies. The purpose is to deepen and extend previous work on partial organization (Ahrne & Brunsson 2011, 2019; Ahrne et al., 2018) and organizationality (Dobusch & Schoeneborn 2015; Grothe-Hammer, 2019) or to modify or find alternative conceptualizations. We welcome studies examining how various social settings are partially organized, studies of organizations that function as organizers and studies of reactions from formal organizations and other organized entities. Comparisons between organization within and outside formal organization are also relevant as well as studies of the history and dynamics of organization outside organizations.
The full CfP is available on the EGOS website: http://bit.ly/EGOS2021ST50
Submission guidelines are available here: https://www.egosnet.org/2021_amsterdam/Call_for_Short-Papers
Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 23:59:59 CET.
If you have any questions regarding the sub-theme, please don’t hesitate to contact one of the convenors.
EGOS Colloquium 2021: The Plurality of Meta-organizations
Call for Papers
37th EGOS Colloquium
Sub-theme 73: The Plurality of Meta-organizations: Variations and Dynamics of Collective Action among Organizations
Amsterdam, July 8–10, 2021
Convenors:
Göran Ahrne, SCORE & Stockholm University, Sweden
Héloïse Berkowitz, CNRS, LEST, Aix Marseille University, France
Sanne Bor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Following up on two very successful events in 2019, the MMP workshop in Toulouse and the the sub-theme at the 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019 in Edinburgh, this sub-theme aims to further the theory development in the area of meta-organization. In this sub-theme, we aim to continue developing meta-organization theory and understanding. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers. We also welcome methodological papers that investigate the specificities of meta-organizational research. For inspiration, we provide examples of key topics below. Papers on other topics are also welcome as long as they explicitly contribute to the theorization of meta-organization per se, rather than inter-organizational phenomena in general.
The full CfP is available on the EGOS website: https://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1566433211083&subtheme_id=1574543968892
Submission guidelines are available here: https://www.egosnet.org/2021_amsterdam/Call_for_Short-Papers
Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 23:59:59 CET.
If you have any questions regarding the sub-theme, please don’t hesitate to contact one of the convenors.
Special Issue Announcements
M@n@gement Special Issue “Observation” is available online (Open Access)
From the co-editors in chief of M@n@gement:
Dear colleagues,
In this tough period, we are grateful for the opportunity to share with you this wonderful special issue on ‘observation’ in all its forms, in entirely free and open access journal M@n@gement.
The issue 23(3) starts with an introductory piece by guest editors Thibaut Bardon, Lionel Garreau, Chahrazad Abdallah, Benoît Journé and Maja Korica. You can then read four original research papers dedicated to different methods of observation. Isabelle Royer first investigates techniques and challenges of observing materiality in organizations. Christelle Théron then develops an original methodological device, the “SCI” (Shadowing-Conversations-Interview to the Double), to capture cognitive underpinnings of action. Nathalie Raulet-Croset, Rachel Beaujolin and Thierry Boudes examine multi-shadowing, i.e. multiple simultaneous observators. Justine Arnoud and Hélène Peton study the production of a collective narrative through the emplotment of multiple parallel stories in the nuclear sector. In an invited contribution, Hervé Laroche uses the metaphor of photography to analyze observation.
A nicely complementary Unplugged concludes this issue by focusing on ethnography, with the collective contributions of, in their order of appearance: David Courpasson, Eleunthia Wong Ellinger, Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi, Nesrine Bouguerra, Roscoe Conan D’Souza, David Sanson, Claire Le Breton and Clara Roussey.
We are also pleased to announce that M@n@gement has been awarded the DOAJ Seal of Approval, granted by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) to journals that achieve a high level of openness, adhere to best practices and high publishing standards. M@n@gement is also a signatory member of the San Francisco Declaration on research assessment (DORA).
We would like to thank all those who contributed to this issue and this DOAJ award: authors, reviewers, readers, former co-editors in chief, guest and senior editors, methodology GT AIMS, our publishing editor Open Academia, CNRS INSHS, and AIMS.
Have a good read,
On behalf of the editorial team
Héloïse Berkowitz and Hélène Delacour
Co-editors in chief of M@n@gement
https://management-aims.com/index.php/mgmt/index
M@n@gement 23(3), Special Issue: Observation
EDITORIAL
Rethinking Observation: Challenges and Practices
Thibaut Bardon, Lionel Garreau, Chahrazad Abdallah, Benoît Journé, Maja Korica
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES
Observing Materiality in Organizations
Isabelle Royer
Christelle Théron
Multi-Shadowing: A Gateway to Organizing? The Case of Hunting with Hounds
Nathalie Raulet-Croset, Rachel Beaujolin, Thierry Boudes
Observing to Coproduce a Collective Narrative: Emplotment of Multiple Parallel Stories
Justine Arnoud, Hélène Peton
INVITED CONTRIBUTION
Observation as photography: A metaphor
Hervé Laroche
UNPLUGGED
David Courpasson, Eleunthia Wong Ellinger, Yousra Rahmouni Elidrissi, Nesrine Bouguerra, Roscoe Conan D’Souza, David Sanson, Claire Le Breton, Clara Rousse
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