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The Third Organization Studies Summer Workshop:
'Organization Studies as Applied Science:
The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations'
7- 9 June 2007, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Crete</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Convenors:
Paula Jarzabkowski, <st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">AIM</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Susan Mohrman, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Southern California</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Andreas Georg Scherer, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Zurich</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Keynote Speakers:
Helga Nowotny, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Wissenschaftszentrum Wien</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place> & co-author of Rethinking Science
Sara L. Rynes, <st1:city w:st="on">University of Iowa</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> & Editor of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:personname w:st="on">Management</st1:personname></st1:placename></st1:place> Journal
Richard Whitley, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Manchester</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> & author of The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences
About the Workshop
The academic community has long been concerned about the nature of knowledge produced in management and organization theory and its application to practice. Whilst academic management knowledge is not produced in a vacuum, as it arises from the study of management problems and issues, academic theory and management practice have canonically been seen as separate endeavours. While academics are usually concerned with methodological rigor managers seek the practical relevance of knowledge. Much existing empirical research is based on ontological assumptions that academic knowledge precedes practical action, for example examining the extent to which current academic knowledge is relevant to practice. Increasingly, however, research is being designed with specific regard for the nature and objectives of co-produced knowledge and the different ways that it is consumed by different audiences. This Workshop seeks to address the relationship between academic theory and practical action in novel ways that can address the different assumptions underlying knowledge production and consumption. Full Call for Papers: www.egosnet.org/journal/os_summer_workshop_2007.shtml
The Organization Studies Summer Workshop is an annual activity to facilitate high-quality scholarship in organization studies. Its primary aim is to advance cutting-edge research on important topics in the field by bringing together in a Greek island, in early summer, a small and competitively selected group of scholars, who will have the opportunity to interact and share insights in a stimulating and scenic environment. The Third OS Summer Workshop will take place at Grecotel Rithymna Beach Hotel (http://www.grecotel.gr/grecotel-rithymna-beach/welcome_444_1.aspx), Rethymnon, <st1:place w:st="on">Crete</st1:place>, between 7-9 June 2007.
The Workshop will be limited to about 50 papers to ensure in-depth discussion. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers that demonstrate rigorous analyses and approaches. Papers could consider, but are not restricted to, the following topics on the generation and use of academic knowledge about organisations:
- Epistemological issues concerning what counts as valid knowledge (including aspects such as truth, objectivity vs. subjectivity, etc.);
- Methodological issues about how valid knowledge is generated;
- Praxeological issues about how valid knowledge is used in practice;
- Sociological issues regarding the social settings in which academic knowledge is produced and the forms that knowledge traffic between academics and practitioners takes; and
- Critical issues regarding the political nature of knowledge and the various interests that are served during the process of knowledge production and application (including aspects such as power, dependency, legitimacy, etc.);
- Learning in terms of teaching management students; how and why understanding the relationship between knowledge production and consumption might inform our teaching practices.
Special Issue of Organization Studies
The Workshop will be followed by a Special Issue of Organization Studies on this topic, which will be published in 2009.
Submissions
Interested participants must submit to the Editor-in-Chief (OSeditor@alba.edu.gr) an abstract of no more than 1000 words for their proposed contribution plus a brief biographical note by <st1:date year="2007" day="31" month="1" w:st="on">January 31st, 2007</st1:date>. Authors will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by February 28th, 2007. Papers should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief by May 15th, 2007.
Dr Paula Jarzabkowski
AIM Ghoshal Fellow
Reader in Strategic Management
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>