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AOM 2019 PDW on Language, Meaning, and Organizing (call for submissions)

1. AOM 2019 PDW on Language, Meaning, and Organizing (call for submissions)

Derek Harmon

Posted 05-13-2019 08:03

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to a PDW at the 2019 AOM meeting in Boston on:

Language, Meaning, and Organizing: The Future of Linguistic Theories, Data, and Methodologies [Saturday, August 10, 8 – 9:30 AM, Boston Hynes Convention Center / 205] [link]

Organizer: Derek Harmon, U. of Michigan

Organizer: Helen Etchanchu, Montpellier Business School

Organizer: Hovig Tchalian, Drucker School of Management

Panelist: Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London

Panelist: Mark Kennedy, Imperial College Business School

Panelist: Renate Elisabeth Meyer, WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School

Panelist: Joseph Porac, New York U.

Panelist: Eero Vaara, Aalto U. School of Business

Panelist: Klaus Weber, Northwestern U.

Discussant: Shahzad Ansari, Cambridge U.

Discussant: Jonathan Nicholas Bundy, Arizona State U.

Discussant: Stine Grodal, Boston U.

Discussant: Yuan Li, Saint Mary's College of California

Discussant: Jeffrey Loewenstein, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant: Michael Pfarrer, U. of Georgia

Discussant: Linda L. Putnam, U. of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant: Tyler Wry, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem

Summary

Over the last 30 years, our field has experienced a proliferation of theoretical perspectives that examine language in organizational and institutional settings (e.g., impression management, framing, rhetoric, discourse, narratives, vocabularies). This proliferation has been accelerated more recently by the increased availability of a large volume of texts as well as methodological developments that enable us to analyze these texts like never before. However, this explosion of theoretical perspectives, data availability, and methodological approaches has challenged researchers to think more carefully about which theoretical and methodological approaches to use for their desired research objectives. This PDW provides a forum for bringing together a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to language as well as to broaden the scope of this growing community by inviting scholars who have used language directly or indirectly in their research and would like to contribute to this area of work in the future.

PART 1 of PDW (open to all participants)

The first part will feature a panel discussion of five experts (Mark Kennedy, Renate Meyer, Joe Porac, Eero Vaara, Klaus Weber), moderated by Nelson Phillips, who will discuss promising new directions at the intersection of linguistic theories, data, and methodologies. This conversation will be followed by a brief Q&A session with the audience.

PART 2 of PDW (requires pre-registration and proposal submission)

The second part involves personalized feedback from our panelists and discussants on a paper proposal submitted by participants who have pre-registered and submitted a paper proposal. Please contact the session organizer to obtain the approval code. Proposals should be 3 – 5 pages long (excluding references) and should, at minimum, describe a) the research question, b) the theoretical audience, c) the data and linguistic methodology, d) a summary of your empirical findings, and e) proposed theoretical contribution. Participants will be selected based on quality of submission, with an eye towards including scholars at different career stages and schools. The deadline to submit your proposal and register online is June 30, 2019. Proposals should be sent to the session organizer, Derek Harmon (djharmon@umich.edu). In this email, please also list your top 3 roundtable preferences (see below).

Roundtables available

Table Topic

Expert 1

Expert 2

Discourse

Nelson Phillips

Imperial College, London

Linda Putnam

UC Santa Barbara

Framing & rhetoric

Shaz Ansari

Cambridge University

Yuan Li

St. Mary's College

Multimodality

Renate Meyer

WU Vienna

Eero Vaara

Aalto University