Dear RC17 members,
We hope this month’s newsletter finds you well! This month’s newsletter includes a call for submissions of sub-theme proposals for EGOS 2026 as well as information on a special issue of Critical Sociology on “Re-Vitalizing the Concept of Organization: Inspirations from Recent Social Theory” edited by and contributed to by several of our members. Please see the details below.
Call for Sub-Theme Proposal for the 42nd EGOS Online Colloquium
The EGOS Executive Secretariat would like to remind you of the deadline for submissions of sub-theme proposals for the 42nd EGOS online Colloquium, hosted by the University of Bergamo (Italy) from July 9 to 11, 2026. The overall theme of this Colloquium is “Reframing Organizations in the More-than-Human Society”.
Please submit your sub-theme proposal via the EGOS website by Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 23:59:59 CET.
(1) To view the ‘CALL for Sub-theme Proposals’ for this online Colloquium, please go to the EGOS “2026 Bergamo” website:
https://www.egos.org/2026_Bergamo/Call_for_Sub-theme_Proposals
(2) Please take note of the ‘Guidelines and criteria for online submission of SUB-THEME PROPOSALS for EGOS Colloquia’:
https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/releases/de/upload/Guidelines/EGOS-Colloquia_Guidelines_SUB-THEME-submission_EGOS-2026.pdf
(3) Please also take note of the Local Hub Model and further information regarding the EGOS online Colloquium 2026:
https://www.egos.org/2026_Bergamo/Local-Hubs
Special Issue of Critical Sociology on “Re-Vitalizing the Concept of Organization: Inspirations from Recent Social Theory”
We would like to announce the publication of a new Special Issue/Symposium in Critical Sociology:
Re-Vitalizing the Concept of Organization: Inspirations from Recent Social Theory
This Special Issue/Symposium aims to revitalize the concept of organization in the light of pressing societal transformations with recent social theory in mind. The issue was guest edited by Robert Jungmann, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, and comprises the following 9 articles:
(Re-)Vitalizing the Concept of Organization: Inspirations From Recent Social Theory
by Robert Jungmann, Michael Grothe-Hammer, & Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen
Organization for Liquid-Modern Times? An Introduction
by Stewart Clegg
Platform Organizations and Fields: Exploring the Influence of Field Conditions on Platformization Processes
by David Seibt
Waste in Organizations: Discerning (Dis)value in Rational, Natural, and Open Systems Perspectives
by Nadine Arnold & Christopher Dorn
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective
by Cristina Besio & Veronika Tacke
The Organization of Ignorance: The Australian ‘Robodebt’ Affair, Bureaucracy, Law and Politics
by Robert van Krieken
Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks
by Michael Grothe-Hammer & Héloïse Berkowitz
A Critical Realist Model for Organizational Sociology
by Thiago Duarte Pimentel
Reflexive Organization and Radicalized Modernity: Revisiting the Organization–Society Nexus
by Arnold Windeler & Robert Jungmann
Please take also note of the following (previously unpublished) manuscript by Zygmunt Bauman, which was published already last year as a teaser for the Special Issue/Symposium. It was edited for publication by the guest editors and with permission by Bauman’s family.
Organization for Liquid-Modern times?
by Zygmunt Bauman