Call for papers - EGOS Subtheme 29 Values and Emotions as Animating Forces of Institutions
Interested in the relationship between values and emotions in institutions? Then send us your best work and interesting ideas!
The subtrack focus on the centrality of purposefulness across the various types of "work" proliferating in the organizational literature. We invites to special attention to values and emotions work as animating forces behind all manner of purposefulness. In this sub-theme, we seek to extend our understanding and creativity of how emotions and values work figure in the nexus of social-symbolic work underpinning the construction of organizational life. The social-symbolic work perspective (SSW; cf. Lawrence & Phillips, 2019) integrates the burgeoning, but increasingly fragmented research in the organizational literature on "work", by attending to how diverse forms of work are interconnected within and across three broader classes of SSW: self work, organization work, and institutional work. This suggests that as an integrative framework, the SSW could be particularly useful for engaging in creativity that goes a long way with "how organizations, their context, and the selves that inhabit them are purposefully constructed, how this happens, and the contributions of this activity to the ongoing construction of the social world" (Lawrence & Phillips, 2019: 49).
The existing research on values and emotions work suggests not only that neither type of work sits solely in one of these three broad categories, but also that they may be distinct as mechanisms that connect and combine self, organization, and institutional work. Thus, they offer the opportunity to address important questions as to how self, organization, and institutional work are empirically connected and how actors combine these types of work in their efforts to construct organizational and social life.
Without limiting the scope of questions, we hope to see submissions that address questions such as:
How do values and emotions play a creative role in creating the purposefulness common to all types of SSW?
How are values and emotions work implicated in each of the broad classes of SSW, self-work, organizational work and institutional work and how do they connect or span those classes?
How do actors deploy values and emotions work in strategies that focus on specific classes of SSW, e.g., institutional work?
How do actors align or integrate values and emotions work with social symbolic work targeting specific social symbolic objects, e.g., strategies, policies, or norms?
How do emotions and values work play a role in sequencing, aligning, and integrating or other strategies for combining self, organization or institutional?
When does values work collide with emotional work or the other way around?
What are the roles, uses and misuses of values and emotions in SSW involving the valorizing or demonization of contentious SSO?
What is the role of the material in values and emotions work?
We invite colleagues to contribute to this endeavour through conceptual papers, empirical studies, and methodological reflections.
Afull description of the sub-theme can be found here:
https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1721760205556&subtheme_id=1701662512162
Convenors:
Gry Espedal, VID Specialized University, Norway, gry.espedal@vid.no
Tim Edwards, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, edwardstj@cardiff.ac.uk
Marta Struminska-Kutra, VID Specialized University, Norway, marta.struminska@vid.no
If you have any questions, please contact us. We are very much looking forward to receiving your paper submissions. Please circulate this to anyone else who may be interested.
Sincerely
Gry Espedal, Associate professor
Head of The Department of Values-based leadership and Centre of values-based leadership and innovation
Faculty of Theology and Social Science
VID Oslo, Campus Diakonhjemmet
+4722451970 | +4790747150
www.vid.no
Committed to humanity – locally and globally
VID vitenskapelige høgskole / VID Specialized University