OOW Referendum on the ASA ballot this Spring

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OOW Council has decided to add an OOW Referendum for your consideration on the Spring ASA ballot.  You may vote Yes or No.

If passed, the Referendum would change our existing practice of selecting our Student Council member.  We currently appoint the Thompson best paper awardee to the position of Student Council member.  Those members have served us well.  However, this practice precludes us from recruiting and selecting from some of the other very active and able students interested in serving the Section.   If passed, the Referendum would change the practice to electing one of two Students running for this position.  As another policy matter, the Council will set up – on a trial basis – a larger Student Affairs committee to help lead the Section’s efforts of serving the graduate student community, student involvement in Section activities, and increasing student recruitment.

2014 OOW Section Awards

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We are excited to announce that the 2014 OOW Section Awards committees have been organized. For those of you unfamiliar with our awards process, we offer three awards on a yearly basis:

Details on each award, including award committees and submission processes, can be found on each award’s webpage. Follow the links above, or from the site menu, for additional information.

Submissions for 2014 Annual Meeting now open, including 7 OOW sessions

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The submission site for the 2014 Annual Meeting has opened; the deadline is January 8, 2014:  http://www.asanet.org/am2014/am2014.cfm  The Call for Papers includes seven submission-based sessions from the OOW Section:

·         Getting a Job – 40 Years Later: Advances in Labor Markets and Networks Research (co-sponsored with Section on Economic Sociology).

·         Changes in Employment Relations and Their Consequences

·         Organizations and Social Inequality

·         Work and Family: New Challenges, New Directions

·         Work and Occupations Inside Organizations

·         Work, Careers, Organizations, and Labor Markets in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Fields

·         Roundtables

2013 Research in Organizational Behavior

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The new 2013 Research in Organizational Behavior (Vol 33) has been released.

Contents:

Preface by Barry M. Staw, Arthur P. Brief

The reorganization of legitimate violence: The contested terrain of the private military and security industry during the post-cold war era  by Joel A.C. Baum, Anita M. McGahan

Understanding stability and change in fields by Neil Fligstein

Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it  by Celia Moore, Francesca Gino
Freeing organizational behavior from inhibitory constraints by E. Allan Lind, Kees van den Bos

Underestimating our influence over others at work  by Vanessa K. Bohns, Francis J. Flynn

Empathy wages?: Gratitude and gift exchange in employment relationships  by James N. Baron

Chemicals, companies, and countries: The concept of diffusion in management research by Jennifer Whitson, Klaus Weber, Paul Hirsch, Y. Sekou Bermiss

Mini-conference on “The Political Economy of Work and Labor Markets”

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Mini-conference on “The Political Economy of Work and Labor Markets: Workplace Regimes in Comparative Perspective”, SASE Chicago 2014

We would welcome abstracts for the mini-conference on “The Political Economy of Work and Labor Markets: Workplace Regimes in Comparative Perspective” at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Chicago.

This mini-conference is designed to bridge the gap between micro analyses of the workplace and macro political economy by fostering dialogue across disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries. We invite papers that address different aspects of workplace organization (e.g. working time, security, pay, career ladders, the labor process, collective action, etc), their connections with macro-political institutions and actors, and adopt a comparative perspective. Submissions may use a range of methodological approaches (including case studies, quantitative methods, and qualitative comparative analysis), operate at different levels (national, regional, sectoral, corporate, etc.), and explore a wide variety of relevant topics.

Further details are available at: https://sase.org/mini-conferences/themes_fr_182.html#MC6

Paper abstracts must be submitted by January 20, 2014. Candidates will be notified by February 17, 2014. Please note that Mini-Conferences require an extended (~1,000 word) abstract, and ask that you submit a full paper by March 31, 2014.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you might have.

Best wishes,

Rossella Ciccia, National University of Ireland Maynooth (rossella.ciccia@nuim.ie)
Seán Ó Riain, National University of Ireland Maynooth (sean.oriain@nuim.ie)
Andrew Schrank, University of New Mexico (schrank@unm.edu)

CfP: Visualizing Institutions at EGOS, Rotterdam July 3-5, 2014

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STANDING WORKING GROUP (SWG) 7
VISUALIZING INSTITUTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE
SUB-THEME FOR THE 30TH EGOS COLLOQUIUM IN ROTTERDAM, JULY 3-5, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Markus A. Höllerer, University of New South Wales, Australia
markus.hoellerer@unsw.edu.au

Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, USA
woodyp@stanford.edu

Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
tammar.zilber@mail.huji.ac.il

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Special Issue on Artistic Careers, Work and Occupations

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See the Special Issue in Work and Occupations on “Artistic Careers” in Work and Occupations, Nov. 2013.  http://wox.sagepub.com/content/40/4.toc and the podcast interview of special-issue contributor Kristin Thomson, Co-Director of the Future of Music Coalition’s “Artist Revenue Streams project”:   http://wox.sagepub.com/site/misc/Index/Podcasts.xhtml