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Call for Papers The Conference is organized as a series of streams. Participants are normally encouraged to participate in multiple streams unless the stream convenors specifically request that contributors remain within the stream for the duration of its operation. The Open Stream is intended to accommodate specialist and generalist papers that extend beyond the boundaries of the CMS4 conference streams. Stream convenors are responsible for :
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Papers are invited to be submitted to the following streams:
The Movements and Moments of Organizational Change CONVENORS Göran Ahrne; Stockholm University, Sweden Email: goran.ahrne@sociology.su.se Raphael Alcadipani; EAESP, Brazil Email: Rafael.Silveira-2@manchester.ac.uk Steve May; University of North Carolina, USA Email: skmay@email.unc.edu Craig Prichard; Massey University, New Zealand Email: c.prichard@massey.ac.nz Stream Description Critical Management Studies provides a space for working at or across the boundaries between existing explanatory, conceptual and methodological traditions in the social sciences. It also provides a space to work on ways to respond to issues of culture, location, distance, control, power, inequality, domination, exploitation and subjection. This proposed stream invites contributions that address these issues as they bear on organizational change. This proposed stream invites papers and contributions from scholars and activists engaged in attempts to reshape organizations, and reinvigorate established modes of organizational change analysis. In relation to the latter, the stream seeks contributions that ‘work’ the boundaries between social, political, economic, technological, and ideological analyses of organizational change. Our hope would be that such work would support the development of compelling theoretical, conceptual, political and practical approaches to organisational analysis and action. The convenors also invite contributions that draw on unconventional, challenging or multiple explanatory and conceptual traditions and literatures. Call for Papers In brief we invite papers that engage with one or more of the following issue areas:
Examples of work that might follow these themes include papers or presentations that:
These issue areas are regarded as a starting point, and papers which develop alternatives are welcome. Timeline
Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
CONVENORS David Boje; New Mexico University, USA Slawomir Magala; Erasmus University, Netherlands Grace Ann Rosile; New Mexico State University, USA Raymond Saner; Center for Socio-Economic Development Stream Description We seek symposium presentations that integrate theatre with critical management theory and global capitalism. Four thematic perspectives are suggested below but these are not intended to be all encompassing. One theme is that theatre can bring change to organizations and society. In Europe and North America, plays are written for specific organizational problems, and staged in front of organizational audiences with the aim to change management and employee’s work behaviors (Clark and Mangham, 2002; Schreyogg, 2001). A critical view would examine, for example, how it is usually management that orders and controls the theatre intervention to raise awareness and to change organizational structures and thinking on the part of spectators (employees and other mangers). These plays reflect in both their organisation and performance the organisational hierarchy. The spectators attend to celebrate the heroic endeavours of management as they are portrayed on stage. Consequently, organizational theatre does not forsake the stage or the script, fearing that “improvisatory anarchy” will preempt the official and sanctioned ways of representing power (Derrida, 1978: 239). This kind of theatre has important links to other genres such as the masques of the Tudor and Stuart courts, which sought to celebrate the achievement of those in power. Key questions include, how is control exercised, what is the spectators experience and do these plays achieve their objectives? Is agit prop and forum theatre possible in organizational context? A second theme is theatre as metaphor, to look at corporations as performers on the global stage (to look at the spectacle on stage, what is back stage, and what is in the corridor of power between off and on stage). Spectacle work by Guy Debord and others may be a useful critical perspective. Spectacle work of Guy Debord (1967, Society of the Spectacle) has something important and critical to say about how spectacles of production and consumption relate to post-Marxist critique. Another example is Hopfl’s (2001) work on how theatricality of organizations can create and re-create metaphoric appearances that suppress critical differences, mask ambivalence, and sustain a world of make believe would equally apply. Submissions could critically examine how theatre as metaphor enacts a metaphoric space within which critical assessment is marginal or outlawed. A third theme is complexity and theatrics. If organization and interorganizational behavior is a network of theatrical production, in distributed networks of consumption, then the question is what are the complexity and chaos dynamics? For example, in the Tamara play, a wandering audience chases a dozen actors on a dozen stages, never able to see all actions at once (Boje, 1995, 2001b). Moreover, Tamara helps explain the dynamics of performers caught in a network of stages, as they make choices of whose drama to participate in next. Global Theatre is a 'Tamara-land' of many stages, wandering audiences chasing characters from stage to stage, to trace the web of storylines. And off-stage there are characters that never seem to make it into the carefully scripted storylines. For example, if spectacle is the theatre of sanctioned power, then part of the dynamics of complexity is the carnival theatre of resistance, such as the protests against globalism and WTO in Seattle, and the succeeding encounters of spectacle and the street theatre of carnival (Boje, 2001a). Carnivalesque refers to strategies of resistance to power and hegemony that take the form of culture jamming, street theatre, and varied forms of parody and satire of state and capital forms of power. Fourth, organizations are using theatre to accomplish Disneyfication, McDonaldization, Las Vegasization, and Enronization (Boje, 2002a, b) Each is a different style of theatre. For example Disney organizes themselves explicitly as theatre, where employees are no longer employees but cast members, wearing not uniforms but costumes, and instead of working, being on stage. Disney theme parks are theatres within which people walk on the stages of Tomorrowland, Adventureland, etc. Increasingly we witness organizations and city centers becoming more themed in acts of Disneyfication. Firat and Dholakia (1998) write about the new Theatres of Consumption, the political economy being changed by theatre. McDonald’s uses a more mechanistic theatre, one where every word, gesture, and action of employee and manager is scripted. So, how is theatre inveigling itself into organisational life? How are these new forms of theatre impacting on employees? How are they being resisted and modified? What other genres are in use and emerging? Call for Papers
These issue areas are regarded as a starting point, and papers which develop alternatives are welcome. Timeline
Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
CONVENORS Prof. Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University Email: s.ackroyd@lancaster.ac.uk Prof.Jean-Francois,Université Paris-Dauphine Email: jean-francois.chanlat@dauphine.fr Dr Daniel Muzio, Lancaster University Stream Description: Currently the professions are one of the fastest growing sectors of western economies. The traditional professions (law, medicine, accountancy, architecture, engineering, etc) despite inevitable ebbs and flows, have enjoyed throughout the last century, an explosive growth with regards to their size, prosperity and more crucially to their centrality and pervasiveness in contemporary societies and political systems. More recently, a series of new occupations based on alternative forms of knowledge, organisational modes, and service delivery methods have began to prosper and to compete with the established professions. These new forms of expert labour, largely centred around the various forms of consultancy, advertising and IT related occupations, have if anything outgrown and outshone their more orthodox rivals. Moreover, their success has been based on occupational tactics, cultural capital and organisational structures, which are profoundly different from those deployed by more traditional forms of professional knowledge. In turn, the established professions have been forced to reorganise in order to retain legitimacy against these more managerial, entrepreneurial and informational forms of expertise. This makes the development of the knowledge-based occupations and the relationship between old and new form of expert labour a particularly interesting topic. In light of this, the stream wants to encourage debate, dialogue and new thinking on the professions and knowledge based occupations around the following themes:
These issue areas are regarded as a starting point, additional issues are welcome as long as they address the issues of professionalism, knowledge-work and their relationship. Timeline Abstracts to convenor (e-mail) 1 October 2004 Decisions on acceptance/rejection communicated 1 January 2005 Full papers to convenor (e-mail) 1 April 2005
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Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Psychoanalytic Thought and the Critical Management Project CONVENORS Paul Freedman (Lead Convenor); Bournemouth University, UK Email: pfreedma@bournemouth.ac.uk Yiannis Gabriel; Imperial College, UK Email: y.gabriel@imperial.ac.uk Russ Vince; University of Hull, UK Email: R.Vince@hull.ac.uk Stream Description
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convenors of this stream invite papers that address the links and connections between
varieties of psychoanalytic thought and critical Call for Papers Particularly welcome are contributions that reveal/discuss the manner in which psychodynamic processes are employed to disguise, hid, and appropriate false interests. To this end papers which seek to reconnect psychoanalytic insights to theorising about critical management, forms of organization, and managerial practice more widely will be welcomed. Timeline
Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References in Harvard format
Critical Perspectives on International Business CONVENORS George Cairns; Essex University, UK Joanne Roberts; Durham Business School, UK Email: joanne.Roberts@durham.ac.uk Phil Graham; University of Waterloo, Canada Email: phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edy.au http://www.dur.ac.uk/dbs.cpoib//
Stream Description The topic of ‘globalization’ is currently written about in a wide range of popular literature, in the works of Ritzer, Klein, Moore, Pilger, Monbiot and others. These writers are highly critical of current organizational, economic and political structures. However, they also criticise universities and academics that they represent as being largely uncritical of, and in some cases complicit in the worst excesses of organizational and political hegemony. At the same time, these authors’ works are held by some academics to be lacking in empirical evidence and academic rigour. In this stream, we wish to cultivate the critical academic discourse on international business that exists at a global level, but that is spread across a wide range of disciplines, from political economy to critical geography, from transportation studies to business ethics, and in the critical management arena. This stream is linked to a new trans-disciplinary journal, Critical Perspectives on International Business (CpoIB) that will be officially launched by Emerald at the conference. The stream will contribute to at least one special edition of CPoIB Call for Papers We invite papers that:
These areas are regarded as a starting point, and papers which develop alternatives are welcome. Timeline
Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
Talk and Text: Rhetoric, Reality and Research CONVENORS Ann L. Cunliffe; University of New Mexico, USAEmail: cunliffe@mgt.unm.edu Jeanie M. Forray; Western New England College USA Cliff Oswick; University of Leicester, UK Stream Description This conference stream invites papers and interactive sessions from those wishing to explore, in a critical way, the relationship between language, reality, and research. Recent debates in Organization Studies raise questions about the nature of language, moving its role from a taken-for-granted periphery to a problematic centre. Postmodern, poststructural, and social constructionist scholars are amongst those seeking to replace notions of language as a means of representing an external reality, with notions of language as constituting reality. Language is viewed in a multiplicity of ways, as eliding, evoking, literal, metaphoric, rhetorical, a ‘game’, dramatic, poetic, unstable, transparent, creative … all bringing the complexities and uncertainties of language to the fore. Such views have had far reaching implications for the way we conceptualize and thus research organizational life. If we accept that we cannot step outside language to explain our experience – that the very act of speaking and explaining give order to experience – then how can we possibly hope to say anything meaningful about the management of organizations? Organization theorists employing a linguistic perspective address this question by taking a wide variety of theoretical and analytical approaches, from interpretive analyses of the variety of implicit meanings in discourse, to poststructuralist analyses of the instability of text, and postmodern analyses of discourse as a process of discipline and control. What ties these research streams together is their underlying sensitivity to a relationship between language and reality and an ongoing effort to re-present organizations and organizing through this link. In this stream, we will continue these conversations. We are interested in papers, panels, or interactive sessions that explore the philosophical, theoretical, and practical aspects of linguistic approaches to conceptualizing, researching, and managing organizations. We encourage the submission of interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary papers (i.e. from communications, poststructuralism, sociology, psychology, education, organization studies, philosophy, public administration, political science, and other cognate areas). Papers may also explore the ontological, epistemological, and/or methodological aspects of language from a variety of perspectives, including; semiotic, discursive, textual, ethnomethodological, deconstructive, narrative, and poetic. Call for Papers
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Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
Development and Globalization – Organizing Rhetoric and Power CONVENORS Sadhvi Dar; University of Cambridge, UK Email: sd326@cam.ac.uk Bettina Wittneben; University of Cambridge, UK Email: bbfw2@cam.ac.uk Stream Description This stream will provide a new and exciting space for meaningful debate within the development field. We are inviting papers from diverse world views and are striving to facilitate not only new ways of apprehending perennial problems, but also, and most importantly, asking new questions about international organization. Development and globalization employ rhetoric of progress and growth to legitimate their systems of power and domination. Discussing the differences and similarities between the organizational forms and structures that have been utilized over time and space is the aim of this stream. Scholars may also be interested in exploring how organizational structures will evolve beyond globalization, adding a future dimension. The political nature of “development” has been observed and critiqued by post-developmentalists, geographers, post-colonialists, historians, and feminists. These works have often explored the macro-level or policy implications of the development “machine” but have neglected the specific organizational forms that have emerged, disappeared or endured. This stream also hopes to open up the challenges of exploring how institutions of rhetoric have constructed a particular reality through the proliferation of images, texts and campaigns driven by organizations in the North. Call for Papers The stream will cover four main themes:
Open workshop with Arturo Escobar This workshop will cover issues relating to the tensions created between the academe and practice development. Arturo Escobar will take on the role of discussant and present his own experience related to conflicts created within development discourses-the academic and the practice-orientated repertoires. We suggest that researches are compelled to take position on the continuum between the academic and the practitioner orientation. This has implications for the conceptualization of development; for whichever pole of the continuum we are dawn to will inform our perception of what developments is. If you wish to participate, we encourage you to draw up your ideas and send them to the stream convenors Bettina Wittneben and Sadhvi Dar (sd326@cam.ac.uk by November 2004. However, you can also bring your ideas directly to the workshop. This workshop will be open to all conference participants. Timeline
Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
Organizational Dynamics: Knowledge, Information and Innovation CONVENORS Lisa Daniel; University of Queensland, Australia Francois Therin; Grenoble Ecole de Management, France Stream Description Organisational dynamics is a significant research area in critical management theory and practice, particularly when the dynamics are related to issues of knowledge, information and innovation. Research from different areas (such as Organisational Behaviour/Theory, Technology and Innovation Management, and Strategic Management) all touch on the subject in unique ways and from varying perspectives. The aim of this stream is to provide an arena in which researchers from different backgrounds can build understandings as well as debate and develop theories, methodologies, epistemologies and interpretations of organisational dynamics as they arise from intangible beginnings to explicit outcomes and forms. Call for Papers We invite papers that engage with one or more of the following issue areas:
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Abstracts should fit the following requirements:
Title Authors (affiliation, contact details) Body of Text References
The Virtuality Challenge: Gender, Organizing, and the Net CONVENORS Eva Gustavsson; Göteborg University, Sweden Email: eva.gustavsson@gri.gu.se Jerzy Kociatkiewicz ; Polish Academy of Sciences, PolandMonika Kostera; Warsaw University, Poland Email: mkostera@poczta.onet.pl Stream Description One of the challenges in today’s organizations is the increasingly prominent role of IT. As virtuality becomes ever more fully incorporated into organizational practices and relations, its manifold consequences are never easily foreseen nor described, and are not limited to affecting everyday organizational life. While we can think of consequences in terms of practical, managerial, political, organizational, and social aspects, a particularly significant locus can be found around the issue of gender, and we would like to take this opportunity to bring together and discuss current research dealing with the interplay between gender and virtuality. Call for Papers While we do not wish to limit the choice to predefined themes, the following list of topics can serve as an inspiration for contributions:
The list is, of course, not exhaustive. Similarly, contributions are not restricted to any particular perspective: we welcome different voices and many kinds of stories. Our preference, however, is for papers based on field research and emphasizing the various modes and sources of local knowledge and practices. Timeline
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