Dear RC17 members,
We hope you are well! In this month’s newsletter, we are pleased to share a call for papers (CfP), the new issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology as well as RC 17’s calls for the next ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gwangju, Korea. Please find the details below.
CFP: Special Issue for Feminism and Organization (Bristol University Press) on standards, governance, and the politics of equality
Guest Editors Matthias Schneider (Freie Universität Berlin), Tsamiyah Levi (University of Campinas), and Elisabeth Prügl (Geneva Graduate Institute) are asking for submissions to a Special Issue of Feminism and Organization on standards, governance, and the politics of equality. The deadline for 500-word abstracts is 15 September 2026. You can find the full call here.
New Issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology
We are pleased to present the following papers featured in Issue 2/2026 of JOSO. We hope you enjoy exploring these new contributions!
Are Loosely Coupled Organizations Resilient to Crises? Five French Higher Education Institutions Facing Covid
Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard, Christine Musselin, Aline Waltzing
Translation Agencies as Distribution Heads: Organizing Persuasion of Climate Solutions in a Multiply Differentiated Society
Marc Mölders
Reining in Hubris: Recall as a Pragmatic Instrument of Democratic Accountability
Jan Simon Danko
Institutional Legacies, Imprinting, and Founder Embeddedness: The Adoption of the Two-Tier Governance Model in German Foundations
Stefanie Wüstenhagen, Michael Hunoldt, Simon Oertel
Theorizing and the Study of Organizations: Four Early Exemplars
Richard Swedberg
RC17 at the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027 in Korea
RC17 will be strongly represented at the upcoming ISA World Congress, with a rich and diverse program of sessions. We warmly invite you to explore the program and consider submitting your work by the deadline of 14 October 2026. You can find the full RC17 program here.