Organizing Practices
Call for papers for a paper development workshop 2013 in Sydney
In collaboration with Organization Studies, and co-sponsored by OMT and EGOS
Co-hosted by:
• Centre for Management and Organization Studies (CMOS), UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
• School of Management, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales
Venue and date:
• UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
• April 4-‐5, 2013
Organizers:
• Stewart Clegg, Antoine Hermans, Emmanuel Josserand, & Danielle Logue (UTS)
• Markus Höllerer, Hokyu Hwang, Jaco Lok, & Gavin Schwarz (UNSW)
Partners:
• Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management
• European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
• Organization Studies
• Management Disciplinary Group, UTS Business School
Theme and format:
This workshop offers the opportunity for scholars to present and develop their ongoing work related to the broad theme of "Organizing Practices". The overall theme is deliberately indexical and open-‐ ended: we see it as signifying analysis of both practices that organize as well as analysis of theories of how practices are organized. In this way, we intend to cross-‐fertilize the fields of practice studies and institutional theory which have been remarkably fecund in recent years. The combined insight is the co-‐constitutive relationship between institutions and social practices: institutionalized meaning systems and power relations essentially structure social practices, which in turn sustain and transform institutions.
The two-‐day workshop will seek papers that address potential sub-‐themes such as:
• Practices and institutions: institutional work and rethinking agency/structure dualities
• Institutional logics: emergence and translation of embedded rationalities
• Strategy as practice: the doing and institutionalizing of strategy
• Power and elites: inequality and stratifying practices
• Networks and practices: managing, altering, appropriating network dynamics
The workshop will be developmental, with each paper having a senior editor or senior scholar as a discussant. Authors will also receive feedback from peers with similar research interests. It should be of interest to both more junior scholars (i.e., early career researchers and advanced doctoral students) and senior scholars, all with manuscripts under development.
Submission information:
The papers should fit the workshop, both in theme and stage of development. Selection of papers will be done through submission of extended abstracts (maximum 5 pages). The deadline for submissions of abstracts is December 10, 2012, with full papers due by March 15, 2013.
Individual sessions will address the potential sub-‐themes outlined above and evaluate papers in terms of their potential and possible outlets. The workshop will also include professional skills development, and features sessions with members of the leadership team of both EGOS and our partner journal for the workshop, Organization Studies.
The workshop will provide a limited number of sponsored places (including accommodation and meals); however, participants must make their own travel arrangements. We strongly encourage participation of junior researchers; additional support will be provided for a limited number of doctoral students with accepted workshop papers.
Key dates and further information:
• Abstract deadline: December 10, 2012
• Confirmation of acceptance: December 21, 2012
• Full paper deadline: March 15, 2013
• Submit your extended abstract to cmos@uts.edu.au
Please direct enquiries about the workshop to danielle.logue@uts.edu.au or
markus.hoellerer@unsw.edu.au