2014 New Year and Renewed Memberships: Please renew your membership in the ASA and the OOW Section: http://www.asanet.org/members/joinasa.cfm
Vicki Smith’s *Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia* named “Outstanding Academic Title” of 2013
Vicki Smith’s Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, (Sage 2013) has been named one of Choice magazine’s “Outstanding Academic Titles” of 2013.
Congratulations, Vicki!
2014 OOW Section Awards
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:
- W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship – granted for an outstanding contribution to the discipline in an article on organizations, occupations and work published within the last three years
- James D. Thompson Award – given for an outstanding graduate student paper on organizations, occupations, and work written in the last three years
- Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship – granted for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work in a book published within the last three years
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
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
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
OOW Leadership
The OOW Section encourages nominations and self-nominations for our leadership positions: Chair Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and Council. By December 9, please forward names to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Martin Ruef(Duke) at mr231@duke.edu. The other committee members are Emily Barman, Erin Leahey, and Woody Powell.
Mini-conference on “The Political Economy of Work and Labor Markets”
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
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
Continue reading “CfP: Visualizing Institutions at EGOS, Rotterdam July 3-5, 2014”
Special Issue on Artistic Careers, Work and Occupations
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
Other Call for Papers and Conferences
Three conferences:
1. Call for Papers: 16th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
2. INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGISTS (INAS) CONFERENCE, June 6 and 7, 2014 in Mannheim.
3. 2014 Junior Theorists Symposium, Berkeley, CA 15 August 2014. Submission Deadline: 15 February 2014
More details below.
Organizations, Occupations and Work 