Please join us for an All Academy Theme PDW:
"Is Postcapitalist Organization and Management Possible?
Some Answers to Matters of Concern"
Sunday, Aug 11 2013 11:45AM - 1:45PM at WDW Swan Resort in Swan 2
http://program.aom.org/2013/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=
997
In response to the Academy theme, "Capitalism in Question", this PDW
attempts to provide some answers for theorizing, researching, and
practicing organization and management under alternative perspectives
for economic organization. The core elements of the PDW are based on
the works of J.K. Gibson-Graham, the pen name of two economic
geographers whose theorizing and research transcends academic
boundaries toward the active creation of alternative (and alternative
understandings) of economic organization, projects, and practices.
Their ideas were first developed in the book The End of Capitalism (as
we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (1996a). This
was followed ten years later by another book, A Postcapitalist
Politics (2006), and more recently, with colleagues, by Take Back the
Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities (2013).
These works have had a profound influence on interests and research
agendas of activist scholars in geography, anthropology, and political
science, among other social sciences. Yet, despite the relevance these
works can have for organization and management scholarship and
practice they also are much less known in our field.
This PDW will bring these ideas to center stage in organization and
management studies, and provide space for imagining and discussing
what may be possible for the future of our disciplines. If the
economy is shifted from a space of inevitability, inexorability, and
necessity to a space of ethical action, would it become possible to
imagine and enact economies capable of responding to shared ethical
and ecological concerns?
The PDW starts with presentations of the theoretical arguments and
examples of existing projects around the world which, one way
or another, follow these approaches. How would practicing these ideas change
organization and management studies? Roundtable activities will focus on answering
this question by imagining teaching, theory development and research, and actual projects
'in the world', for building community economies.
Presenter: Marta B. Calás; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Presenter: Stephen Healy; Worcester State U
Presenter: Stella M. Nkomo; U. of Pretoria
Presenter: Linda Smircich; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
References:
Gibson-Graham, J.K. (1996a) The end of capitalism (as we knew it): A
feminist critique of political economy. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1996b) Queer(y)ing capitalist organization.
Organization 3(4): 541-45.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2006) A postcapitalist politics. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Gibson-Graham, J.K., Cameron, J., & Healy, S. (2013) Take back the
economy: An ethical guide for transforming our communities.
Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.
Linda Smircich
Professor of Organization Studies
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
413 545 5693