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call for papers: EGOS 2013 sub theme 'Connecting the material to the social'

  • 1.  call for papers: EGOS 2013 sub theme 'Connecting the material to the social'

    Posted 09-24-2012 03:01

    *apologies for cross-posting*

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    We invite you to submit to the upcoming EGOS Strategizing Activity and Practice sub theme on "Connecting the material to the social".

    In keeping with the theme, we invite papers from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that apply a sociomaterial lens to the study of strategizing activities and practice.  Related questions might include but are not restricted to the following:

     

    ·         How do strategy tools, objects, bodies and artefacts mediate the activities of strategizing and organizing?

    ·         What effect does the use of various artefacts and material objects have on strategizing? How do these effects vary on account of when and how organizational actors use them or on account of who uses (or misuses) them?

    ·         What role do artefacts, technologies and other objects play in enabling and constraining the occurrence of strategizing across time and space

    ·         How are sociomaterial objects implicated in strategizing in different contexts (e.g. globally dispersed organizations; virtual organizations, etc.)?  What factors integrate or disrupt sociomaterial relations of strategizing and with what effect on the work of strategy?

    ·         What are the performative capacities of sociomaterial objects in strategizing? 

    ·         What impact do various sociomaterial assemblages (the bundle of objects and their associated practices of use) have on strategizing activities in organizations?

    ·         What are the methodological implications for analysing sociomaterial relations in organizations?

    ·         How can we better conceptualize sociomateriality and its various interpretations in the field of strategy as practice? What new questions does it open and enables us to answer?

     

    Please note that because EGOS has acted as an important forum for the development of strategy-as-practice scholarship through the work conducted within the standing working group, strategy-as-practice papers offering contributions beyond the scope of the current theme are also welcomed.

     

    Deadline for short papers is January 14, 2013.

     

    We look forward to seeing you in Montréal.

     

    All the best,

    Charlotte Cloutier, Paula Jarzabkowski, Paul Spee