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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:33:05 +0100
From: Paula Jarzabkowski <paulajarz@YAHOO.CO.UK>

The Third Organization Studies Summer Workshop:

‘Organization Studies as Applied Science:
The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations’

7-8 June 2007, Crete, Greece

Convenors:      

Paula Jarzabkowski, Aston Business School and AIM, UK
Susan Mohrman, University of Southern California, USA
Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote Speakers:      

Helga Nowotny,  Wissenschaftszentrum Wien, Austria &  co-author of Rethinking Science

Sara L. Rynes, University of Iowa, USA & Editor of the Academy of Management Journal

Richard Whitley, University of Manchester, UK & author of The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences

ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍøt the Workshop

The Organization Studies Summer Workshop is an annual activity, launched in June 2005, to facilitate high-quality scholarship in organization studies. Its primary aim is to advance cutting-edge research on important topics in the field by bringing together in a Greek island, in early summer, a small and competitively selected group of scholars, who will have the opportunity to interact and share insights in a stimulating and scenic environment. The Third OS Summer Workshop will take place at Perle Hotel (), Chania, Crete, on 7 & 8 June 2007.

The Workshop will be limited to about 50 papers to ensure in-depth discussion. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers that demonstrate rigorous analyses and approaches. Papers could consider, but are not restricted to, the following topics on the generation and use of academic knowledge about organisations:

1. Epistemological issues concerning what counts as valid knowledge (including aspects such as truth, objectivity vs. subjectivity, etc.);
2. Methodological issues about how valid knowledge is generated;
3. Praxeological issues about how valid knowledge is used in practice;
4. Sociological issues regarding the social settings in which academic knowledge is produced and the forms that knowledge traffic between academics and practitioners takes; and
5. Critical issues regarding the political nature of knowledge and the various interests that are served during the process of knowledge production and application (including aspects such as power, dependency, legitimacy, etc.);
6. Learning in terms of teaching management students; how and why understanding the relationship between knowledge production and consumption might inform our teaching practices.

Special Issue of Organization Studies

The Workshop will be followed by a Special Issue of Organization Studies on this topic, which will be published in 2009.

Submissions

Interested participants must submit to the Editor-in-Chief (OSeditor@alba.edu.gr) an abstract of no more than 1000 words for their proposed contribution plus a brief biographical note by January 31st, 2007. The submission must be made via email and it must be a Word attachment. It should contain authors’ names, institutional affiliations, and email and postal addresses, while the subject matter line of the email should indicate the title of the Workshop. Authors will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by February 28th, 2007. Papers should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief by May 15th, 2007 and will be uploaded on the journal’s web site.

To see a more detailed Call for Papers, please visit:

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