Organization and Management Theory OMT

Submit your paper to Sub-theme 06: Performing the Future Communicatively: How What Does Not Yet Exist Already Makes a Difference

Dead line: Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 23:59:59 CET

Convenors: Laure Cabantous, Mie Plotnikof and Matthias Wenzel

Call for Papers
Many contemporary challenges – e.g., climate change, diversity issues, artificial intelligence, and COVID-19 – push the future right to the center of our attention (e.g., Glaser et al., 2021; Gümüsay & Reinecke, 2022; Nyberg & Wright, 2016; Stjerne et al., 2021). When these complex issues are discussed, the future – as a temporal category of the potential that lies ahead – carries different valences. It raises concerns, even fears, about what may come, as well as hopes and desires, all of which pose different demands on present organizational activity. In this regard, imagining and negotiating futures is central to creating and 'organizing for the good life' as a potential that has yet to be realized. But how do actors and organizations come to envision and express such futures? What are the communicative practices and events, tools, and technologies through which actors (attempt to) perform specific futures, through what struggles, and with what consequences? Or more generally, how do anticipated futures "organize" our present, and how do we organize to envision those futures? This sub-theme will revolve around discussing and answering these and related questions.

More information here:
https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1658501434997&subtheme_id=1633951213998

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Laure Cabantous
City, University of London
LONDON
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