Dear Colleagues, dear PhD Fellows
Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management welcomes
applications for
the PhD course Critical Organization Studies:
Conceptualizing Movement,
Process and Organizing with Robert Cooper
<http://www.cbs.dk/mpp_phd_courses> taking place 9-11
October 2006 (see
http://www.cbs.dk/mpp_phd_courses).
The purpose of the course is to examine the scope of
current studies in
critical management and organization, focusing on the
conceptualization
of movement, process and organizing in the works of
Robert Cooper.
The course is organised around events and discussions
of three
compulsory, selected readings by and with Robert
Cooper. The seminar
offers a unique opportunity to pinpoint and discuss
with Robert Cooper
and PhD colleagues how participants' projects work to
study specific
empirical or theoretical lines of movement, process
and organizing.
Best Regards
Martin M. Nielsen (
mn.ioa@cbs.dk) and Anders Bojesen
(
ab.ioa@cbs.dk)
For further information please contact the organizers
or Tine Buskjær
Rasmussen at
tbr.lpf@cbs.dk <mailto:
tbr.lpf@cbs.dk>
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Critical Organization Studies:Conceptualizing
Movement, Process and
Organizing with Robert Cooper
Faculty
Professor Robert Cooper, Centre for Culture, Social
Theory and
Technology, University of Keele, Associate Professor
Bent Meier
Sørensen, Department of Management, Politics and
Philosophy, CBS,
Associate Professor Pia Bramming, Department of
Organization &
Industrial Sociology, CBS, External Lecturer, PhD,
Christine M.
Cleemann, CBS, Doctoral researcher Sverre Spoelstra,
Centre for
Philosophy and Political Economy, University of
Leicester
Course Coordinator
PhD Fellow Anders Bojesen,
ab.ioa@cbs.dk, and Phd
Fellow Martin M.
Nielsen,
mn.ioa@cbs.dk
Prerequisite
The seminar is designed for PhD fellows. Each
participant is asked to
produce an abstract of no more than 900 words in which
they relate their
project to Coopers work (specific references must be
made). NB: We
reserve the right to select participants on the basis
of the abstracts
received.
Aim of the course
The purpose of the seminar is to examine the scope of
current studies in
critical management and organization, focusing on the
conceptualization
of movement, process and organizing in the works of
Robert Cooper. Since
the publication of 'The Open Field' (1976) in Human
Relations, Robert
Cooper has proven to be one of the most persistent
voices advocating new
conceptualizations and studies of organizing that
connect to empirical
expressions of the innate human compulsion to seek the
open and unknown,
the vague and indeterminate (Cooper; 2001). In doing
this we must expand
and transgress the boundaries of social science - not
just
deconstructing the structure/process image of thought,
but also
affirming what could become of 'organization' and
'human' as particular
planes of existence and production.
The seminar is organised around events and discussions
of three
compulsory, selected readings by and with Robert
Cooper. The seminar
offers a unique opportunity to pinpoint and discuss
with Robert Cooper
and Ph.D. colleagues how participants' projects work
to study specific
empirical or theoretical lines of movement, process
and organizing.
Course content
The seminar is carried out over three days and starts
from three
different sessions with readings of Cooper:
1. First a general reading of selected texts by
Cooper.
2. Second a reading of Cooper related to
Organisational theory and
Organisational thinkers (dealing with the
'beyond' of organisation
towards organising. How and what happens to
organisation and
process?)
3. Thirdly a Philosophical reading (what
philosophical heirlooms are
attached to Cooper, why and how does it matter.)
Each of these sessions has two chairs. The
participants are
divided/chooses in which reading session (1, 2 or 3)
they want to
energize with an oral presentation. The presentation
must be based on a
short abstract of no more than 900 words. Each session
has 2x3-4
PhD-presenters. Prior to the presentations the
presenters, chairs and
Robert Cooper will adjourn for an hour discuss of the
main points and
discussions in which they want to energize in the
following session. The
remaining group will prepare themselves in formulating
central questions
and discussion points. Each day ends with an informal
session.
Participants max: 20
Related Events
Please note that the seminar is closely linked to two
other PhD events
in Copenhagen
* October 12-13, the 2nd Critical Management
Studies PhD Forum, to
be held subsequent to the course at
CarlsbergAcademy [see
invitation
<http://uk.cbs.dk/content/view/full/39351>].
* October 16-19, PhD Course in Foucault and
Practice, course
responsible Professor Sverre Raffnsoe and
Associate Professor
Asmund Born, Department of Management, Politics
and Philosophy,
CopenhagenBusinessSchool
Course literature
In their abstracts we urge participants to relate
their PhD project to
at least one text/theme discussed by Robert Cooper (it
should be stated
clearly which text/theme). The following texts should
be regarded as
background literature and the themes discussed known
stuff to the
participants.
* Cooper, R. (1976) The Open Field, Human
Relations, vol. 29, no.11,
pp.999-1017
* Cooper, R. (1986) Organization/Disorganization,
Social Science
Information, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 299-335
* Cooper, R. (1998) Assemblage Notes in Chia,
R.C.H. Organized
Worlds - explorations in technology and
organization with Robert
Cooper, Routledge
* Cooper, R. (2001) Un-timely mediations: Questing
thought,
Ephemera, vol. 1(4), pp.321-347
* Cooper, R. (2005): Relationality, Organization
Studies, vol. 26
(11), pp.1689-1710, Sage publications
* Spoelstra, S. (2005) Robert Cooper: Beyond
Organization, in
Contemporary Organization Theory, Jones, C. and
Munro, R. (eds.),
Blackwell/The Sociological Review Monographs,
pp. 106-119 beyond
organization
<http://www.cbs.dk/content/download/42152/620562/file/beyond%20organization.pdf>
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