Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: cfp Social Movements,
Civil Societies and Corporation
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> Please find attached a call for papers for the 5th Organization
> Studies Workshop that might be of interest to members of this list.
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> Best regards,
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> Frank de Bakker
> VU University, Amsterdam
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> Call for Papers: The Fifth Organization Studies Workshop
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> Social Movements, Civil Societies and Corporation
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> 26-28 May 2010, Margaux, France
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> Conveners:
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> Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences
> Frank den Hond, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences
> Brayden King, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management,
> Evanston (IL)
> Klaus Weber, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management,
> Evanston (IL)
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> About Organization StudiesWorkshops:
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> The Organization Studies Workshop is an annual activity, originally
> 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 a
> small and competitively selected group of scholars, who will have
> the opportunity to interact in depth and share insights in a
> stimulating and scenic environment. From 2010 on, the OS Workshop
> will be sponsored by Sage in order to help attracting talented
> scholars from diverse regions of the world, following on editorial
> purposes of Organization Studies (Courpasson, Arellano-Gault, Brown
> and Lounsbury 2008).
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> Following on the tremendous success of the first four Organization
> Studies Workshops, we are happy to announce that the Fifth Workshop
> will take place at theRelais de Margaux - Golf & Spa Resort,
> Margaux, France (http://www.relais-margaux.fr/) between the 26th
> and the 28th of May, 2010 . Margaux lies in the Haut Médoc wine
> making region on the left bank of the Garonne estuary, North West of
> the city of Bordeaux (30kms away) and 40 kms away from theBordeaux
> airport. The Gironde, covering a total surface area of 10,000 km2,
> is the biggest department in France and its estuary, formed by the
> convergence of the Garonne and the Dordogne, is so large that we
> even talk of the "European Mississipi". It has the highest dune in
> Europe, at Le PYLA (112 m), a string of lakes, the forest of Les
> Landes and Gascony (the biggest forest in Europe) and 1,000,000
> hectares of vineyards with legendary names and exquisite vintages.
> The Workshop venue, originally the château of one of the premier
> wine-producing families of France, Relais de Margaux, blends a
> prestigious past with all the facilities of a top class hotel,
> standing in a 55-hectare estate.
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> About the topic
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> Rationale:
> Corporations and other private sector organizations are embedded in
> wider societal and political arrangements and participate in local,
> national, and transnational polities. They are subjects and objects
> of civil society, and venues in which conflicts over domination are
> played out and settled. Contentious politics are a particularly
> intriguing and understudied aspect of how private sector
> organizations interact with civil society. In addition to a focus on
> the state and the formal political environment in more traditional
> political economy approaches, researchers have recently begun to
> examine the intersection of social movements and organizations
> (e.g., Davis et al., 2005). The study of movements promises to
> address the intermingling of economic and political aspects in
> organizations, including questions of social and cultural change
> through the mobilization of informal and non-elite actors at the
> periphery and the use of extra-institutional tactics and strategies
> in the process (McAdam, Tarrow & Tilly, 2001). Corporate practices
> are frequent targets of contemporary movements, including movements
> against globalization or genetically modified foods and those that
> promote human rights or international labor standards (e.g., della
> Porta, Kriesi & Rucht, 1999). Movements are a critical fulcrum that
> links the informal realm of civil society with formal organizations
> in the private sector, both in Western and in developing polities.
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> While an impressive literature examines the relationship of
> movements to the state, movement activities targeted at non-state
> organizations have been examined less thoroughly (Walker, Martin &
> McCarthy, 2008). Even less attention has been given to the reverse
> dynamic: of private sector organizations targeting or seeking to
> influence social movements. We believe that much theoretical and
> empirical work lies ahead to put this budding area of research on
> more solid ground. This involves a need to better situate the
> interplay of movements and corporations in perspectives that pay
> more attention to larger historical and societal structures, a more
> careful theorization of how movement activity impinges on central
> organizational processes, and a spatial and temporal expansion of
> empirical focus beyond nation-centric studies of movements in
> contemporary Western societies. The goals of this Special Issue are
> to (a) stimulate innovative studies of movement dynamics in a
> variety of corporate, geographic and economic settings, (b) develop
> the conceptual foundations, frameworks and methods for analyzing the
> intersection between movements, corporations and societies, and (c)
> to advance our understanding of mobilization and civil society
> processes in the political economy from diverse regional and
> disciplinary perspectives.
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> We invite theoretical and empirical papers and are agnostic about
> epistemological and ontological perspectives. We especially welcome
> papers that are situated in diverse geographies and disciplinary
> traditions. We conceive of social movements as loosely organized
> coalitions that contest social, economic and cultural practices or
> structures through sustained mobilization. We treat the category of
> the corporation broadly to include private sector organizations of
> all types.
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> The following is a list of indicative, but not exhaustive, topic
> areas, all of which could be addressed in different geographical
> spheres:
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> Stakeholders and governance: Movements in mobilizing stakeholders
> and the social control of corporations; explorations of the
> mechanisms of mobilized stakeholder influence.
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> · Civic engagement: Collective mobilization around notions
> of citizenship, rights and duties in corporations; movement
> activists and dynamics inside organizations.
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> Identities, networks and audiences: Interplay of movements with
> organizational identities, images, and reputations; how movement
> work with each other and their relationships with other
> organizational audiences, including analysts, shareholders, and the
> media.
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> Participation, resistance, subversion and cooptation: Corporations
> as participants, targets and opponents in movements, practices of
> corporate engagement and conflict with movements.
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> Regime change: Origins of critique and transformation of industry
> and economic regimes; movement processes in the creation of
> institutional alternatives and organizational heterogeneity.
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> Technology and entrepreneurship: Movements in the construction and
> regulation of economic and technological development; the
> legitimation of new organizational forms and construction of
> entrepreneurial identities.
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> The local and the global: Local, national and transnational
> mobilization in the face of local, national and transnational
> organizations; postcolonial, development and indigenous
> perspectives; the politics of economic globalization.
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> History, society and institutions: Movements and changes in the
> relationship between civil society and corporations.
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> Submissions
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> The Fifth Organization Studies Workshop will take place in May 2010,
> in Margaux, France. Interested participants must submit to osofficer@???
> an abstract of no more than 1,000 words for their proposed
> contribution by December 10th 2009 indicating on the subject: 5th
> Organization Studies Workshop. The proposal must be submitted as an
> email attachment (formatted as .doc or .rtf) and should contain
> authors names, institutional affiliations, email and postal
> addresses. Authors will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by
> January 10th 2010. Full papers must be submitted by April 30th 2010.
> Further details on the venue of workshop will be published through
> the EGOS website (http://www.egosnet.org). Any further questions
> may be directed to osw2010@???.
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> Following the workshop, a Special Issue will be announced in
> Organization Studies. To be considered for publication, papers must
> be electronically received byNovember 30th 2010. The latest
> guidelines for submission and information on the review procedures
> can be found on the Organization Studies internet pages. It should
> be made clear that participation in the workshop is not a
> prerequisite to submit a paper for the Special Issue.
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> References
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> Courpasson David, Arellano-Gault David, Brown Andrew and
> Lounsbury Michael, 2008. Organization Studies on the Look-out?
> Being Read, Being Listened to, Organization Studies, Nov 2008; vol.
> 29: pp. 1383-1390
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> Davis, Gerald F, Dough McAdam, W Richard Scott, and Mayer N Zald.
> 2005. Social Movements and Organization Theory. New York: Cambridge
> UniversityPress.
> Della Porta, Donatella, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Dieter Rucht. 1999.
> Social Movements in a Globalizing World. New York: St Martins.
> McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly. 2001. Dynamics of
> Contention. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
> Walker, Edward T, Andrew W Martin, and John D. McCarthy. 2008.
> Confronting the State, the Corporation, and the Academy: The
> Influence of Institutional Targets on Social Movement Repertoires.
> American Journal of Sociology. 114(1): 35-76.
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