Dear colleagues,
We want to draw your attention to the online PDW at the upcoming EGOS Colloquium: "Researching through Paradox Theory: Interdisciplinary Thinking to Understand and Address Competing Demands" (on Wednesday, July 1, 2020)
Application Deadline: May 15, 2020
Conveners: Jonathan Schad (King's College London), Miguel Pina e Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Angeliki Papachroni (Warwick Business School)
Keynote: Marianne W. Lewis (University of Cincinnati) and Wendy K. Smith (University of Delaware)
What are the challenges to organize for a sustainable future? Trying to address the economic, environmental, and social challenges of our time inevitably leads to several fundamental tensions. What is a sustainable and desirable future for liberal societies? Are organizations causes of social, economic, and environmental disruptions or key drivers towards a more sustainable future? Is it more important to protect today's productivity or invest in long-term viability? Perhaps not surprising, these tensions are mostly discussed as trade-offs.
Against this background, paradox theory has been positioned as a way of thinking about such tensions as contradictory, yet interdependent. We invite scholars to submit their work to this pre-Colloquium Development Workshop (PDW) on paradox theory. To create a sustainable future, we need to understand the inherent tensions and contradictions both empirically and conceptually. To do so, we aim to leverage interdisciplinary thinking as seeing a problem from different sides and with different tools. Doing and publishing such research, however, is challenging. We thus aim to discuss challenges and opportunities of researching paradoxes with such interdisciplinary approaches.
The PDW will start with a keynote panel, which includes Marianne W. Lewis and Wendy K. Smith – authors of the most influential texts on paradox theory. The panel will give insights on using interdisciplinary lenses and how to write papers that draw from diverse fields. This is followed by a discussion of core questions around publishing paradox papers and the work of the research community. During the roundtable sessions, accepted papers will receive feedback from experts in the field.
We are open to conceptual and empirical work at different levels of analysis and using various methodologies. PhD students and early career scholars are particularly encouraged to submit. We will accept a maximum of 24 participants.
Application
The full call for applications can be found here. All submission must be made via the EGOS website.