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Call for Short Paper Submissions
Deadline: Please submit a short paper of not more than 3,000 words (incl. references and all other materials) by January 16, 2012 at the EGOS website: http://www.egos2012.net
Convenors:
Thomas B. Lawrence, Simon Fraser University, Canada (tom_lawrence@sfu.ca)
John M. Amis, University of Memphis, USA (johnamis@memphis.edu)
Over recent years, we have seen inequities grow in many of our societal institutions, prompting debates, demonstrations, and crises, in countries around the world regarding the state of nations' governance, health care, education, and economic systems. Our aim in this sub-theme is to examine such changes and explore the roles that institutions play in shaping systems of exclusion and inequality around the world. More specifically, our focus is on the relationship between institutions, inequality and institutional work (Lawrence, Suddaby & Leca, 2009). Institutional work describes "the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions" (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 215). In keeping with the Colloquium theme of "Design?!", we are interested in exploring the roles that individual and organizational actors play in the formation, ongoing operation, and potential transformation of institutions that work to include certain groups while excluding others, reinforce unequal access to power and decision-making mechanisms, and provide freedom and wealth to some parts of society while impoverishing and constraining others.
We are interested in institutional work that leads, or has led, to the formation, operation, transformation, or destruction of institutions associated with a broad range of social inequalities, including, but not limited to: differential access to health care, education, housing, food, economic resources, power structures, or areas of recreation; degradation of living conditions, the environment, social structures, or relationships; and direct or indirect exploitation of groups on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, disability, or sexuality.
Submissions are encouraged across a wide range of levels of analysis: world-systems, regional or national societies, organizational fields or populations, organizations or subunits within organizations, and individuals or groups. We are especially encouraging of work than spans multiple levels of analysis, and that adopts a longitudinal view of institutions, either historically or in real time. Further, we are interested in work that seeks engagement with a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, including but not limited to institutional logics, practices and/or routines, feminism, critical theory, actor network theory, sensemaking, semiotics, network analyses, discourse analyses, and action research approaches. We equally welcome case studies, comparative research projects, ethnographies, survey-based work, large statistical analyses, and conceptual pieces.
Thomas B. Lawrence is the W. J. VanDusen Professor of Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on the dynamics of power, change and institutions in organizations and organizational fields. It has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Studies. He is a co-editor of Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organization (2009), and the Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd Edition (2006).
John M. Amis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Memphis. His research interests center on issues of organizational and institutional change in the public and private sectors. In addition to two books, he has had articles published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Research Methods, and American Journal of Public Health. He has recently received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Tennessee Board of Regents to investigate the creation and implementation of policies designed to combat childhood obesity.
Kamal A. Munir is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at University of Cambridge, where he has been based since 2000. He obtained his PhD in Organization and Management Theory from McGill University, Canada. Kamal has published several articles in organizational and technology journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Organization Studies and Research Policy. In addition, he has written numerous articles for prominent newspapers and magazines such as The Financial Times, The Guardian, Financial Express India, Dawn, Herald and World Business, and his work has been cited in several forums, including BBC's Hard Talk, Wired magazine, and BusinessWeek.
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