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Call for Papers
Organizing by and for the Commons: Alternative Values and Affective Intensities
at the 39th EGOS Colloquium
”Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination”

Deadline for submission: January 10, 2023

By EGOS - European Group for Organizational Studies, 39th Colloquium (July 6-8, 2023 at Cagliari, Italy)

Call for papers: Sub-theme 53: Organizing by and for the Commons: Alternative Values and Affective Intensities

Convenors: Emmanouela Mandalaki (NEOMA Business School, France - em_mandalaki@yahoo.gr), Gazi Islam (Grenoble École de Management, France - gazi.islam@grenoble-em.com) and Christina Lüthy (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - christina.luethy@unisg.ch)

Short papers should focus on the main ideas of the paper, this means, they should explain the purpose of the paper, theoretical background, the research gap that is addressed, the approach taken, the methods of analysis (in empirical papers), main findings, and contributions. In addition, it is useful to indicate clearly how the paper links with the sub-theme and the overall theme of the Colloquium, although not all papers need to focus on the overall theme. Creativity, innovativeness, theoretical grounding, and critical thinking are typical characteristics of EGOS papers.

Your short paper should comprise 3,000 words (incl. references, appendices and other material).

Please take note of the Guidelines and criteria for the submission of short papers at EGOS Colloquia.

Time period for submission of short papers:

  • Start: Monday, September 26, 2022

  • End:  Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 23:59:59 CET [Central European Time]

Introduction of the session here.

More about the conference here.

 

Call for Papers
”Comparative ethnographies and qualitative studies of workers organising”
at the 9th International Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference

Deadline for submission: January 16, 2023

Journal: Studi Organizzativi

Call for papers: Still in search of Organizational Democracy: New Opportunities and Constraints

Panel Organizers: Paolo Borghi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Member of the ERC SHARE project - paolo.borghi@unimore.it) and Petr Mezihorák (Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. Member of the ERC SHARE project - petr.mezihorak@savba.sk)

Abstracts are now being invited for the Panel Session (21) on Comparative ethnographies and qualitative studies of workers organising, at the 9th International Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference June 7-10, 2023 – University of Trento

Deadline for submission of the full paper is 16 January 2023. We ask you for the title of your talk and an abstract of maximum 1000 words in English. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 13, 2023.

Please follow the instructions on this page.

Full papers before the conference are welcome (but not compulsory) especially if you are interested in participating in the special issue we would like to propose to the journal Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa.

In this session, we invite an interdisciplinary conversation, and we welcome participation by academics, activists and unionists. We encourage submissions from different disciplines and fields of study, such as sociology, organisation studies, geography, cultural studies, political science, anthropology, social movements and industrial and employment relations.

Key words: Precarious workers, mobilising, organising, unions, social movements, alternative organisations, comparative ethnography and qualittive studies.

Introduction of the session here.

More about the conference here.

 
 

Past announcements

Call for Papers
“Employability”

Deadline for submission: January 1, 2023

Journal: Research in the Sociology of Work

Call for papers: Employability

Editorial Team: Rick Delbridge (Cardiff University), Andreas (Andi) Pekarek (University of Melbourne), Markus Helfen (Freie Universität Berlin), Gretchen Purser (Syracuse University)

View the full call for paper here.

Deadline for submission is 1 January 2023.

Please submit your manuscript to RSWEditors@gmail.com and include “Employability” in the subject line.

Papers will go through the standard review process of the journal and should be 8,000 words (maximum) in length, including abstract, tables, figures and reference section.

For more detailed information: please visit this webpage

Enquiries are welcome and may be directed to the editorial team (RSWEditors@gmail.com).

 

Book release
”An enterprise of all?”

The Platform for Democratizing Economy of Spain is happy to announce that the book An Enterprise of all? (original title: ¿Una empresa de todos? La participación del trabajo en el gobierno corporativo) written by José Ángel Moreno Izquierdo and Bruno Estrada López, is now out in Spanish at Catarata.

El propósito de este libro es analizar y actualizar las posibilidades que plantea la participación del trabajo en los sistemas de gobierno de las empresas y, para desarrollarlo, se apoya en un amplio plantel de profesionales de prestigio de la academia, el sindicalismo, la sociedad civil y la política. Arranca abordando los cambios en las condiciones económicas que permiten actualizar el debate en nuestro tiempo y continúa sopesando los argumentos jurídicos, morales y económicos que la justifican. Después, examina el estado de la cuestión en los numerosos países europeos en los que existe legislación al respecto. A continuación se profundiza en tres aspectos fundamentales: los condicionantes de la imparable digitalización de la economía, las enseñanzas que aporta el cooperativismo de trabajo para una gestión empresarial más atenta a la centralidad de las personas y los problemas específicos que plantea la voluntad de desarrollar esquemas participativos en las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores, a la luz de la experiencia española. El volumen se cierra con un capítulo en el que tres destacados representantes de formaciones políticas progresistas analizan las posibilidades y dificultades de la participación laboral en el gobierno empresarial en España. 

Book discussion on November 3, 2022

 

Call for Papers
“Still in search of Organizational Democracy: New Opportunities and Constraints”

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2022

Journal: Studi Organizzativi

Call for papers: Still in search of Organizational Democracy: New Opportunities and Constraints

Guest Editorial Team: Luca Carollo (University of Bergamo), Lisa Dorigatti (University of Milan), Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan), Simon Parker (Nottingham University Business School), Thomas Steger (University of Regensburg)

View the full call for paper here

Deadline for submission of the full paper (in English) is 30 September 2022. Papers will go through the standard review process of the journal and should be 8,000 words (maximum) in length, including abstract, tables, figures and reference section.

For more detailed information: please visit the journal’s submission center (click on the upper left corner of the page to turn it to English) and the Editorial guidelines