We are eager to make this Workshop as accessible as possible to graduate students as well as faculty who are interested in learning and exchanging ideas about how Marxist ideas can enrich organization studies.
The deadline for applications is April 3.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
EGOS 2017 Copenhagen
Wednesday July 5, 2017
09:00 to 13:00
Pre-Conference Professional Development Workshop on Marxism and organization studies – updated program description
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
Facilitators:
Claes Belfrage (U. of Liverpool)
Chris Nyland (Monash U.)
Chris Smith (Royal Holloway U.)
Juliane Reinecke (U. of Warwick)
David Levy (U. Mass. Boston)
Patrizia Zanoni (Hasselt U.)
Chris Land (U. Leicester) (to be confirmed)
Steffen Boehm (U. Exeter) (to be confirmed)
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.
Format
The workshop will be structured in two parts. In the first part, the workshop will feature the two convenors discussing where Marxist theory is similar to and differs from the main lines of contemporary organization theory, and how Marxist theory has been used in empirical research at the organization level.
In the second part, we will be in two streams:
* In one stream, facilitators will lead small-group discussions on specific topics of contemporary interest, such as understanding the rise of right-wing populism, financialization, Marxist approaches to globalization, the shifting nature of corporate power, the rise of the gig-economy and algorithmic control, and contemporary modes of resistance.
* In the other stream, participants will have an opportunity to discuss a project or draft paper in more depth with one of the facilitators.
Application
To be considered for the workshop, authors need to submit a statement of interest via the EGOS website. The statement (.doc, .docx or .pdf file) should include a cover page with your name, affiliation, email address, and a personal website if that is available, and a short description of your area(s) of interest and/or your proposal/working paper of whatever length seems appropriate.
The workshop will move forward conditional on enough applications being received by April 3, 2017.
