CfP “Technology and the Organization of Fields” – Journal of Organizational Sociology Special Issue

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We invite paper proposals for this upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Organizational Sociology. The special issue brings together theoretical and empirical contributions that advance our understanding of the link between technology and the organization of social fields. Papers will address the role of technology in field constitution and change and/or the role of fields in the design, production, and use of technology. Interested authors are asked to submit a 500-word abstract to the editors (dzifa.ametowobla@b-tu.de, david.seibt@jku.at) by December 15, 2024. The special issue will be published in fall 2026.

Please find more information on the topic and submission details in the full call: https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/JOSO/downloadAsset/JOSO_JOSO_CFP_Technology%20and%20the%20Organization%20of%20Fields.pdf

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CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025

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CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025

The OOW call for submissions for our annual conference is now out!
Call for Submissions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/

Section Sessions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/

1 – Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of organizations, including studies that assess the implications of their structures, norms, policies, and practices.
(Session Organizer) Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan; (Session Organizer) Matthew Clair, Stanford University 

2 – Professions and Occupations
We invite paper submissions on the broad topic of professions and occupations, including studies that focus on their emergence, evolution, and implications. 
(Session Organizer) Nicholas Occhiuto, Hunter College; (Session Organizer) Alexandrea Ravenelle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

3 – Gender Inequality in Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the topic of gender inequality in organizations.
(Session Organizer) Sharla Alegria, University of Toronto; (Session Organizer) Alexandra Kalev, Tel-Aviv University

4 – Labor Markets
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of labor markets, including studies that examine their structures, dynamics, and consequences.
(Session Organizer) Koji Chavez, Indiana University; (Session Organizer) Steve McDonald, North Carolina State University

5 – Future of Work
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of the future of work.
(Session Organizer): Angèle Christin, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Steve Vallas, Northeastern University

6 – Informal and Unregulated Economies
We invite paper submissions under the topic of informal and unregulated economies, including studies that examine migrant and transnational dynamics.
(Session Organizer) Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University; (Session Organizer) Patricia Ward, Bielefeld University

7 – AI in the Workplace (joint with Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section)
We invite paper submissions under the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace. (NB: Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2025 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall.)
(Session Organizer) Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Simone Zhang, New York University.

8 – Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Refereed Roundtables
(Session Organizer) Michel Anteby, Boston University; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Luhr, University of Illinois, Chicago

https://oowsection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/call-for-submissions_asa_2024.docx

Section Sessions

Announcement: Co-editors Needed for the Journal Regulation & Governance; Apply by Nov 15, 2024

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Co-editors Needed for Regulation & Governance

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024

At the end of 2024, David Levi-Faur will be stepping down as co-editor of Regulation & Governance, after nearly two decades of dedicated service to the academic community. We are looking for two new co-editors to work together with the remaining editorial team members, Alketa Peci (Fundação Getulio Vargas) and Yves Steinebach (University of Oslo).

Candidates should be renowned researchers in any of the journal’s main areas of interest (political science, socio-legal studies, psychology, criminology, sociology, organization and public management, management, economics, or other parts of the social sciences), who have the passion to continue to drive the journal forward.   To complement the strengths of the existing editorial team members, we particularly look for applicants with an interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretically-driven lens who have backgrounds in sociology,  criminology, management, economics, psychology, or law and who have significant experience with interdisciplinary research on regulation.  

We strongly encourage applications from women and members of other historically marginalized groups or categories.  The current co-editors are based in Europe and Latin America, and we would welcome applications that further internationalize the journal.   Previous experience as an editor or in comparable activities is an important asset.  

All co-editors will jointly hold responsibility for editorial governance and oversight on submissions for papers assigned to them, including managing peer review processes and making decisions on acceptance/rejection of manuscripts.   Together, the editorial team will collaborate on matters of editorial strategy and establish a governance framework and division of labor.

Becoming a co-editor is a rewarding and fulfilling experience in which you can contribute to the vibrancy of the journal, help shape an interdisciplinary field of research, and gain recognition for your contributions.  

The post will initially be for a period of three years (renewable). We hope to have new co-editors in place by January 2025, though somewhat later starting dates will be considered if necessary.

About the Journal
Regulation & Governance is the leading journal dedicated to the study of regulatory governance. The journal publishes interdisciplinary research on regulation, governance, and emerging associated challenges worldwide, with broad implications beyond geographic and intellectual boundaries.

Key Skills and Attributes

·      A record of scholarly excellence in any of the fields covered by Regulation & Governance.

·      Strong knowledge of the relevant scholarly communities, in order to facilitate effective and timely peer review

·      Confidence in engaging with authors and researchers.

·      Commitment to ensure manuscripts are considered in a prompt, consistent and professional manner.

·      Passion to promote and continuously develop the journal.

Application Instructions
If you wish to apply for the position of co-editor for Regulation & Governance, please submit your academic CV and a very brief letter of interest (1-2 pages) via email to alketapecirg@gmail.com

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024

We are planning to hold interviews online during the last week of November. 

If you have any questions about the role of co-editor, please feel free to contact the journal’s co-editors, Yves Steinebach (yves.steinebach@stv.uio.no), Alketa Peci (Alketa.Peci@fgv.br) and David Levi-Faur (levifaur@mail.huji.ac.il). The final selection will be conducted by a selection committee, which includes the three current editors, as well as Benjamin van Rooij (University of Amsterdam) and Tim Bartley (Georgetown University).

New Publication: Work After Lawful Status: Formerly Undocumented Immigrants’ Gendered Relational Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims-making

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Tenorio, Luis Edward. “Work After Lawful Status: Formerly Undocumented Immigrants’ Gendered Relational Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims-making.” Law & Society Review. 58(3): 383-414.  https://doi.org/10.1017/lsr.2024.29

Abstract: Undocumented status impedes immigrants’ workplace claims to legal rights and better treatment. But what happens when they obtain lawful permanent residency – does the reluctance to make claims in the workplace change? If so, how? Drawing on timeline interviews, I examine changes in the relational legal consciousness and reported workplace claims-making of 98 formerly undocumented Latino immigrants. Most respondents reported increased willingness to engage in, and follow through with, workplace claims. However, gendered differences emerged. Men’s claims largely revolved around wage negotiations, moving to a better paying position, and enforcement of legal rights with an attached monetary value. They were also more likely to frame claims as legal rights. In contrast, women’s claims largely revolved around better work treatment, access to job benefits, and workplace accommodations. They were also more likely to frame claims as moral rights. I explain these outcomes as a function of three relational mechanisms: lawful status being understood relative to experiences being undocumented; gendering in the legalization process; and social ties promoting gendered expectations of lawful permanent residency. My findings highlight the importance of gendered differences in relational legal consciousness and how lived reference points (e.g., prior undocumented experience) inform how legal consciousness changes over time.

Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”; ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

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Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”
ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

Workshop details and paper submission
Deadline for abstracts: November 21, 2024

The organization of work has undergone tremendous change in recent decades, yet we know little about how this has impacted the political outlook of the employed. We ask: How does the changing organization of work, how do well-being and social relations at the workplace, and how do job quality and job satisfaction impact political conflict in advanced democracies? Linking established literature in political economy and political science with that in the sociology of work and organization, this workshop aims to set an agenda for studying the political implications of what happens at the heart of the economy: at work.

An extensive literature in political economy shows that globalization, automatization and sectoral change have impacted labor markets and occupational class structure, what in return has reshaped political conflict in advanced democracies. This literature has left surprisingly untouched, however, the blackbox of what happens at work, i.e., inside enterprises or public organizations. Work organization, management practices, job quality, and well-being at work are, in return, subject to an extensive literature in sociology, psychology, and economics – which, however, rarely establishes connections with outcomes at the political level.

This missing link is surprising, as work is a site where people spend much of their awake time, experience intergroup contact and collaboration, authority, and conflict about entitlements. It is a site where we gain a sense of social status and recognition, of efficacy, security, and fairness –or, on the contrary, experience powerlessness, insecurity, and injustice. This has a formative impact on political outlooks, including on major phenomena of our time such as preferences for redistribution, political populism, or affective polarization.

“Bringing politics back to work”, we aim to shed light on mechanisms that link work and politics. We are looking forward to receiving paper proposals that contribute to the following questions by the deadline of 21st November 2024:

▪ 1: How do the organization of work, wellbeing at work, job quality, or contact/ conflict at the workplace inform individual political preferences in advanced democracies?

▪ 2: How does this relationship between work and politics vary by groups and context (countries, sectors, occupations, gender, age)?

▪ 3: How do political actors such as parties or unions address and politicize contemporary experiences at work?

▪ 4: How do social policies and welfare state arrangements influence these dynamics?

Organizers:
Paulus Wagner, European University Institute, paulus.wagner@eui.eu
Bruno Palier, Sciences Po Paris, bruno.palier@sciencespo.fr

Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Economy and Welfare State Politics

Socio-Economic Review Cafe, Nov 13th

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Socio-Economic Review Cafe, 13.11.2024

Featuring a conversation with SER authors Terri Friedline (University of Michigan), Anna K. Wood (University of Michigan), Bengt Larsson (Linnaeus University), and Alex Lehr (Radboud University). The event will take place on Wednesday, November 13th, at 8AM PST/11AM EST/5PM CET. Register at this link!

Join us for a discussion of FinTech and FinTech companies and broader theories of how they impact markets and society. Friedline, Stewart, Bolinger, and Wood’s article “Fintech as invasive infrastructure: a critical discourse analysis of corporate newswires and press releases, 1995-2021” uses Indigenous theorizing to argue how “FinTech” is a predatory infrastructure that extracts from people and accumulates for others. Larsson, Rolandsson, Ilsøe, Larsen, Lehr, and Masso’s paper “Digital disruption diversified—FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive  market ecosystem” investigates FinTech companies in four European countries, and they propose that FinTech firms aid in the creation of “coopetitive” market where cooperation and competition are combined.

Together, these papers offer insights into how FinTech has impacted markets and inequality. Finance and digital technologies are rapidly shaping modes of accumulation and society, and these two recent articles make important contributions to our understanding of the consequences.

As with all SER Cafe events, we will facilitate a dynamic conversation with the authors rather than lengthy talks. Come ready to engage.

Call for Abstracts: The Organization of Illegal Marketplaces; Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; Due Dec 1, 2024

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PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (PDW)

THE ORGANIZATION OF ILLEGAL MARKETPLACES

April 3 & 4, 2025, Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Abstract Submission:
Please send an abstract of 500 words and a short biographical note to gdumont@emlyon.com and loic.pignolo@unisg.ch by December 1, 2024. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1, 2025.

Papers must be submitted by March 6, 2025. There is no registration fee. They will cover lunch on both days and the dinner on the first day. Partial grants for travel and accommodation can be provided to a small number of participants with limited resources. Please indicate if you require financial support. Participation in the workshop is open to all upon registration.

Please click on the link for more details: https://oowsection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cfp-pdw-the-organization-of-illegal-marketplaces.pdf

Organizing Committee:
Loïc Pignolo, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
Guillaume Dumont, Emlyon Business School, France

Illegal marketplaces are “organized places, whether physical (e.g., a weekly trading event in the town square) or virtual (e.g., an electronic platform, such as Etsy) for ztrade” (Aspers and Darr, 2022; p.824). They operate based on shared norms, roles, meanings, and routines implemented by marketplace organizers or derived from mutual adjustment among actors, thereby shaping trade in important ways (e.g., Aspers and Darr, 2022; Dewey and Buzzetti, 2024; Tzanetakis, 2018; Tzanetakis et al., 2016). They offer the means to facilitate illegal transactions and provide opportunities and sources of power for marketplace organizers through place-based cooperation, gathering of people, infrastructure, digital technologies, and/or pooling of resources. No less importantly, they are a focus of attention for policymaking and law enforcement, with most state institutions striving to eradicate them (e.g., Beckert and Dewey, 2017; Coomber et al., 2019; Gottschalk, 2010; Paoli, 2014).

Whether online or offline, illegal marketplaces are places where the dynamics of markets, illegality, state institutions, vulnerability, and power intersect, raising important questions that have yet to be addressed by the emerging stream of scholarship in this field: What social, spatial, and technological conditions allow for the emergence of illegal marketplaces? How are they organized to face the coordination problems associated with illegality? Who are the organizers, how do they make decisions, and what resources do they use? How do they help to set prices, facilitate product supply, and protect traders? Who are the market participants, and how is power distributed among them? What are the differences between online illegal marketplaces and physical ones?

This third edition of the “Ethnographies of Illegality” Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will focus on selected organizational and managerial aspects of illegal marketplaces. We welcome proposals that investigate illegal marketplaces using ethnographic and, more broadly, qualitative approaches and address one or more of the following four themes.

Regulation: Illegal marketplaces are legally embedded, making the study of regulations and legal frameworks crucial for understanding them. The fourth theme explores the relation between illegal marketplaces and their local regulatory contexts. We encourage authors to uncover the complexity of the relation between state institutions and law enforcement agencies, their role in shaping markets, and marketplaces’ organizational, spatial, and working characteristics.

By exploring these themes across contexts and activities, the workshop aims to produce new knowledge in three areas: the infrastructure(s) and organizations that enable illegal marketplaces to emerge, grow, and transform; the contemporary cultural forms of illegal exchange in different geographical locations; and the differences and similarities between illegal marketplaces and their legal counterparts.

Organization: The operation of illegal marketplaces requires organizational structures, governance, and cultures, as well as conventions, maintenance, and development strategies. This theme focuses on the organizational aspects, particularly the organizational forms, rules, monitoring mechanisms, and sanctions enabling the operation of illegal marketplaces, as well as the socialization of market participants, their coordination problems, and power distribution.

Space: Illegal marketplaces are often located at the intersection of online and offline spaces. This theme focuses on rethinking the notion of space in relation to illegal marketplaces. We encourage authors to consider how market participants appropriate specific spaces and places to develop their activities and how multiple spaces are intimately connected in the design and operation of marketplaces.

Work: Illegal marketplaces involve the work and labor of different actors. This third theme will approach the activities and tasks performed in markets and marketplaces through the conceptual lens of work, allowing for the exploration of essential aspects of their functioning, such as the division of labor, labor relations among actors, consequences of organizational elements for their working conditions and careers, and meaning of their work.

Call for Abstracts: ICOS2025

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Call for Abstracts
International Conference on Organizational Sociology
ICOS 2025

Organizing Plurality

March 27/28, 2025
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany

Submission Deadline for abstracts (1-2 pages): November 30, 2024

Joint conference by:

1. Section on Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association www.organisations-soziologie.de

    2. Research Committee 17 “Sociology of Organizations” of the International Sociological Association www.organizational-sociology.com

    3. Research Cluster OPAL (Organisation, Personal, Arbeit, Leadership) at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg www.hsu-hh.de/orgasoz/en/ | www.hsu-hh.de/opal/

     4. “Organization & Society” Research Group at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU Trondheim www.ntnu.edu/web/iss/organization-and-society

    In modern society, organizations typically face a myriad of expectations from numerous groups, individuals, and systems. These expectations come from various societal domains, ranging from the micro to the macro level and from the local to the global. They include moral, political, and environmental concerns, as well as macro-level values and norms attributable to different “value spheres” (Weber 2009), “institutional logics” (Friedland & Alford 1991), “orders of worth” (Boltanski & Thévenot 2006), “function systems” (Luhmann 2012), and “organizational fields” (DiMaggio & Powell 1983), among others.

    Many of these expectations tend to be competing or contradictory, and accordingly, scholars have observed that heterogeneous demands often lead to conflict (e.g., Battilana & Dorado 2010; Berkowitz & Grothe-Hammer 2022; Pache & Santos 2013; Valentinov & Roth 2022; Gluch & Hellsvik 2023). Nevertheless, organizations are usually quite successful in handling these demands on a daily basis (McPherson & Sauder 2013; Besio & Meyer 2014; Matinheiki et. al. 2019). Moreover, organizations not only cope with these societal demands, but also play a crucial role in shaping and implementing them. However, we still know relatively little about the impact of these internal organizational solutions on broader societal contexts and how they contribute to shaping such societal trends (Apelt et al. 2017).

    We invite papers that address questions revolving around the role and relevance of organizations in addressing the challenges of an increasingly plural society. The conference will feature the following four broad themes:

    ·         Organizations and Valuation

    ·         Organizations and Sustainability

    ·         Organizations and Digitalization

    ·         Organizations and Governance

    Organizing Committee:
    Nadine Arnold (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Cristina Besio (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
    Michael Grothe-Hammer (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
    Marco Jöstingmeier (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
    Uli Meyer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
    Kurt Rachlitz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

    Please consider the “Journal of Organizational Sociology“:
    Michael Grothe-Hammer
    Associate Professor in Sociology (Organization & Technology)
    Head of the “Organization & Society” Research Group
    Department of Sociology and Political Science
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
    NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
    Web: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/michael.grothe-hammer

    Conference Call: Organizing Plurality – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS), March 2025 in Hamburg, Germany

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    Organizing Plurality

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS)

    March 27 & 28, 2025  Hamburg, Germany

    Call for Abstracts is now open!

    Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024

    The German Section of Organizational Sociology and its European peers are organizing the International Conference on  Organizational Sociology ICOS 2025 at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, in March 2025.

    The main topic is “Organizing Plurality,” which will be discussed in relation to several societal trends:
    1) Organizations and  Valuation
    2) Organizations and Sustainability
    3) Organizations and Digitalization
    4) Organizations and Governance

    Additional details can also be found on the pdf: icos2025_organizing-plurality.pdf

    You can find the full Call for Papers and more information on their homepage, icos2025.com.

    New Publication: A Moral Dilemma of ‘Selling Out’: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students

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    Joyce J. Kim. 2024. “A Moral Dilemma of ‘Selling Out’: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students.” Social Problems. Online First.  https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae056

    Abstract: Research on occupational choice focuses on individualistic work values and emphasizes economic returns. Drawing from 62 in-depth interviews with Asian, Black, and White first-generation, low-income (FGLI), and middle-class students at an elite university, I argue that students’ career decisions comprise a moral dimension. How students contended with this dimension varied based on the intersection of their racial and class backgrounds. Specifically, patterns broadly align with two categories: contingent objections to certain high-prestige, high-paying careers arising from individual priorities or concern for social good, and linked obligations to broader collectivities, such as ethnoracial groups or families. While students across all racial and class backgrounds raised objections based on different individual priorities, FGLI students primarily mentioned objections based on the value of social good. Across class backgrounds, Asian and Black students more often cited obligations based on ethnoracial uplift compared to their White peers. Asian and Black FGLI students prioritized family contributions more strongly than their White FGLI counterparts. Paradoxically, some students used these evaluative logics to justify “selling out” in pursuit of high-prestige, high-paying jobs, whereas others used these justifications to reject them. This study furthers understanding of the cultural processes behind social inequalities and highlights how the intersection of race and class shapes moral understandings.