Dear RC17 members,
We hope you are well! In this month’s newsletter, we are pleased to share a call for papers (CfP) as well as job opportunities. Please find the details below.
CFP: Special Issue of Marketing Theory – Imaginaries of organizations and markets in (un)livable worlds
Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Héloïse Berkowitz, LEST, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, France; Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School, UK
This special issue invites conversations that bridge organization studies with marketing theory to examine how imaginaries that scaffold and inspire organizational processes shape and are shaped by livable and unlivable worlds. Imaginaries affect how organizations, markets, and societies are organized. Imaginaries offer “collective projections of a desirable and feasible future” (Benjamin, 2024, p. vii; Taylor, 2004). They are not merely abstract representations, but shared frameworks that frame the ways people live, work, and organize. In the current conjuncture, we witness a ‘crisis of imagination (Haiven, 2014). Or, what Rivera Cusicanqui (2020) called a ‘colonization of the imaginary.’ Even as we encounter manifold political, social, economic, and ecological crises that render this world unlivable, our responses to these remain enclosed within dominant neoliberal imaginaries.
We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions, conceptual essays, and shorter think pieces (see article types at Marketing Theory) that invigorate marketing theory through organizational lenses. Through this project, we explore how an organizational lens can inform marketing theory, and what novel contributions can arise from this dialogue towards broader scholarship and praxis in organizing more livable worlds.
The deadline for submission is 1st November 2026.
More information here
Job Opportunity: Two Associate Professorships in Organization Studies at Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for two vacant Associate Professorships in Organization Studies at the Department of Organization (IOA). The deadline for applications is June 2, 2026. For more information see here