Position description: The Sociology Department of Brown University seeks applications for a Visiting faculty member in the area of the Sociology of Organizations, to begin 1 July, 2017. The rank of appointment will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience and standing. Applicants at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor must have a PhD in hand by 1 August, 2017. We welcome applicants from a broad array of social science disciplines who can contribution to curricular needs in Brown’s undergraduate program in Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations (BEO), particularly the BEO track of Organization Studies.
Author: Sarah Mosseri
Call for Submissions: AOM Professional Development Workshop on “Trust between Individuals & Organizations”
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to register for the 5th AOM PDW on “Trust between Individuals and Organizations.” Please find the details below or at http://aom.org/meetings/sess2017.asp?id=10941.
New Book: Scott, Kirst and Colleagues on Higher Ed and Silicon Valley
W. Richard (Dick) Scott together with Michael W. Kirst and other colleagues have completed a book on HIGHER EDUCATION AND SILICON VALLEY, to be published summer of 2017 by John Hopkins University Press. The book focuses on higher education as an organization field and also considers colleges as part of the regional economic field of Silicon Valley. They take a longitudinal view, reviewing changes since 1970, and also examine the efforts of a sample of 16 diverse colleges to adapt to conflicting pressures stemming from an attempt to abide by academic norms and also respond to economic challenges.
Call for Abstracts: “Sociology of Organization”, ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto
We are delighted to invite you to submit your abstracts to the forthcoming sessions on organizational sociology at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018 in Toronto. The World Congress of the International Sociological Association offers a unique forum to discuss current developments with a global scholarship.
O3S Call for Papers – SocArXiv
SocArXiv will host the inaugural O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences symposium on October 26-27, 2017 at University of Maryland, College Park. We invite social science papers or presentations related to the following themes:
- Research on any topic that includes open scholarship components. This may entail a demonstration case showing how to do an open scholarship project, providing data and code for results, working with collaborators, or other examples of open scholarship in practice.
- Research about open scholarship itself. This may include mechanisms for making data and code public, workflow processes, publication considerations, citation metrics, or the tools and methods of open scholarship.
- Research about replication and transparency. This includes both replication studies and research about replication and reproducibility issues.
Travel stipends of $1,000 will be available to a limited number of presenters.
Submissions are due by June 1, 2017. Visit https://socy.umd.edu/centers/socarxiv-o3s-conference for details.
Contact: socarxiv@gmail.com
Call for Editors – Social Currents
Social Currents is seeking a new editor or editorial team to begin a three year term that will run from January 1, 2019-December 31, 2022, with the transition between editorial offices beginning summer 2018. Social Currents is the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society and publishes six issues a year. The journal is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly. Currently the journal accepts about 15% of its submissions and receives approximately 225-250 submissions per year.
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Call for Applications: EGOS 2017 Prof. Development Workshop on Marxism & Organization Studies
EGOS 2017 Copenhagen: Pre-Conference Professional Development Workshop on Marxism and organization studies
Wednesday July 5, 2017; 09:00 to 13:00
Note: This announcement was updated on March 29th to incorporate adjustments made to the application requirements. These adjustments are meant to make the workshop more accessible to both graduate students and faculty.
Convenors:
Paul S. Adler
University of Southern California
Website: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~padler/index.html
Email: padler@usc.edu
Yrjö Engeström
University of Helsinki
Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/cradle/Professor_Yrjo_Engestrom.html
Email: yrjo.engestrom@helsinki.fi
Purpose:
This PDW aims to offer interested faculty and doctoral students an opportunity to explore how Marxist ideas can enrich organization studies and the associated empirical research.
Marxist theory has a long history of engagement with the field of organization studies (see Adler 2009 for an overview) and EGOS has hosted a Marxist organization studies sub-theme in each of the previous five years (leading to the publication of several papers in a forum in Organization Studies April 2015). But there are not many opportunities available to faculty and students who want to learn more about this approach and discuss with others how it might help them in their own research. This PDW aims to fill that gap.
Call for Participants: EPIC 2017
EPIC invites proposals to EPIC2017—the premier international conference on ethnography in business. EPIC2017 will take place in Montréal, 22–25 October 2017.
The EPIC2017 theme perspectives explore vantage points, hybridity and subversion in ethnographic practice. Contributions should draw on theoretical advances in social research, coupled with applied best practices from professional fields, to strike new directions for creating and implementing knowledge and affecting change.
Our diverse attendees come from every industry and many scholarly disciplines, including Fortune-500 companies, the world’s top technology firms, management consultancies and design studios, universities and NGOs, public policy organizations and think tanks.
Call for Participation: https://2017.epicpeople.org/submit/
About EPIC2017: https://2017.epicpeople.org/about/
Submission deadline: March 31, 2017
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
Call for Papers: Contesting Markets: How Organizations and Social Movements Shape the Political Economy
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
Guest Editors:
Neil Fligstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Doug McAdam (Stanford University)
Timeline:
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017
Publication of the special issue in the Socio-Economic Review: 2019
Background
For the past 20 years, scholars of social movements and those who study corporations have been in dialogue. We have witnessed a vibrant exchange about how social movements challenge firms to change their strategies, create the conditions to support new industries, and explain the emergence of new markets as reflecting social movement like processes. For example, social movements have successfully altered the tactics of firms in the apparel and forest product industries (Bartley, 2003) and in biotechnology (Weber, Rao, and Thomas, 2009; for a review see King and Pearce, 2010). They have led to the legitimation of new industries like hospice care (Livne, 2014) and the market for insurance viaticals (Quinn, 2008). Scholars interested in the process of market emergence and change have viewed market formation processes as akin to social movements as they require the creation of new products, new firms, new identities, and political solutions to market contentiousness (Haveman, Rao, and Thomas, 2007; Lounsbury, Ventrusca, and Hirsch, 2003). Fligstein and McAdam (2012) have proposed a more general theory of social spaces that explain why these different kinds of links exist between social movements and market fields.
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Job Posting: Sloan Post-Doc in Work and Organization Studies
The Work and Organization Studies (WOS) group, together with the Economic Sociology (ES) Program, at the MIT Sloan School of Management is looking to fill a post-doctoral position for the academic years of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. More information can be found here: https://sloanfacultysearches.mit.edu/wos_postdoc/
Organizations, Occupations and Work 