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The 24th European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium: sub-theme on Identity Work and Organization
July 2008
This sub-theme focused on the dynamic interactions between organization and individual identity work, conceptualizing identity as an ongoing accomplishment and seeing organizations as important sites and resources for identity work. The aim was to focus on papers that recognized that identity can be a "disorganized" phenomenon as a result of the ways in which actors engage with multiple others; and that identity work can be a form of resistance to the organization (or disorganization) to which individuals are subjected. In keeping with the general theme of the colloquium - upsetting organizations - papers were solicited which explored organizational practices that are upsetting to individuals, as well as the processes whereby individuals try to upset existing practices. The theme attracted over 70 papers, of which 32 were accepted for presentation. Participants came from 13 countries, representing institutions in South and North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Participants reported on studies that had been conducted on Dutch railway employees, female Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, French labor unionists, Scottish community addiction teams, the Dutch police force, Indian call centre workers, Swiss physicians, Italian sex workers, and New Zealand scientists. Theoretical issues ranged from age work and disrupted identity to the micro-processes of identity fortification to the materiality of identity. An interactive format was developed which allowed for considerable debate as well as feedback on individual papers. The sub-theme was convened by Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne), Steve Maguire (McGill University), Leisa Sargent (University of Melbourne) and Robyn Thomas (Cardiff University), all ICRODSC members.
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8th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Translations, Transformations and Transgressions
July 2008
Following two successful events in Amsterdam, the Conference returned to London in 2008. It was hosted by the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London and organized under the auspices of the International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change (ICRODSC). As with previous conferences, the primary aim of the 8th Conference was to develop further insights into the field of organizational discourse. As such, the Conference provided a forum in which academics with contrasting epistemological and ontological perspectives on both organization and discourse were able to engage in open and constructive debate and dialogue. Approximately 150 people attended the conference and heard plenary addresses from Joep Cornelissen, Leeds University Business School, Ann Cunliffe, Hull University Business School and University of New Mexico, and David Sims, Cass Business School, City University.
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The 7th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy
July 2006
The conference was again hosted by the Department of Culture, Organization and Management at the Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam . And, once again, the conference theme was designed to accommodate a wide range of papers and presentations. There were some 130 participants and the plenary speakers included René ten Bos, Radboud University , The Netherlands, Wanda Orlikowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney . A Special Issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy is in preparation and another special issue is being negotiated. A list of accepted papers can be found at: http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/discourse2006/
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The 22nd European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium: Dis/Organizing identities sub-stream
July 2006
The nature of identity, the construction and effect of categories of identity, as well as processes of identification and identity work in the context of different organizational arrangements has become an increasingly popular area of research for organizational analysts. In this stream, we deepened our understandings of these processes by exploring three broad themes: (1) organizing identities, (2) disorganised identities and (3) resisting identities. The sub-theme struck a chord, with over 80 papers submitted and 29 accepted for presentation. Participants ranged from doctoral students through to well-established experts in the field and represented 11 countries from Finland to Australia. The papers created a great deal of interest covering topics such as artifacts, identity and culture in corporate museums and entrepreneurial identities of Islamic women in the Netherlands. A diverse set of methodologies (e.g., discourse, archival, texts and interviews) were used in empirical works and proved to be a contested issue for discussion in the round table sessions. The sub-stream was convened by Robyn Thomas (Cardiff University), Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne), Susan Ainsworth (University of Sydney), Leisa Sargent (University of Melbourne) and Stefan Sveningsson (University of Lund), all ICRODSC members.
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Professional Development Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management on Technology Evaluation Metrics: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives
August 2004
This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) co-organized by Steve Maguire focused on the processes whereby technology evaluation metrics come into existence, are operationalized and institutionalized, and how they eventually change. It was specifically interested in how firms can act strategically to influence these processes by engaging in institutional entrepreneurship by engaging in processes through which dimensions of merit are constructed, contested, "locked-in" and periodically changed. In addition to the causes and consequences of particular metrics, participants also explored how "black boxed" understandings are opened, how new categories of meaning emerge, how closure is accomplished, and how metrics of valuation emerge or are transformed. In other words, besides and beyond value creation and value appropriation as important foci of organizational research, value construction - those processes whereby value metrics themselves are created - is also important.
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The 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse
July 2004
For the first time, this conference, co-sponsored by ICRODSC, was held in Amsterdam on 28th-30th July 2004 under the title of Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts. As ever, the conference theme was designed to accommodate a wide range of papers and presentations. It finds its origins in the work of Gerard Genette who has argued that all text is built out of primordial 'architexts': the architextual is visible everywhere in and about and around the text. It was hosted by the Department of Culture, Organization and Management at the Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam. There were some 150 participants and the plenary speakers included François Cooren (Université de Montréal), Yiannis Gabriel (Imperial College, University of London), Martin Parker (University of Leicester) and Karen Salamon (The Design Research Centre, Copenhagen). Special issues of Time & Society and the Organization Management Journal are in progress from the conference. A list of the Accepted Papers is available at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/management/events/org_disc_6.htm
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The 3rd Critical Management Studies Conference: Stream on Technology, Language and Power
July 2003
ICRODSC members Bill Harley and Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne) together with Nelson Phillips and Kamal Munir (University of Cambridge) convened a stream on Technology, Language and Power at the Third Critical Management Studies Conference in Lancaster in July. The stream was very well attended and there were presentations from Australia, the United States and Europe on topics as diverse as the labour process, e-commerce and globalisation.
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The 19th EGOS Colloquium: Sub-theme on Broadening the Scope of Discourse Analysis
July 2003
Discourse analysis is a powerful methodology in organization and management theory for understanding ongoing changes in organizations and societies. It relies on the systematic study of talk and texts to explore the socially constructive effects of discourse. In doing so, it acknowledges that discursive activity does not occur in a vacuum, but rather that discourses are shared and social, emanating out of interactions between social groups and complex societal structures in which discourses are embedded. Accordingly, to understand discourses and their effects, we must also understand the context in which they arise. This sub-theme, organized by ICRODSC members, brought a number of people together to examine these issues, especially the difficulties in connecting the micro and the macro; to explore theoretical developments that focus on this relationship; and to discuss how organizational discourse analysts can combine both in their empirical work.
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The 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse
July 2002
This series of conferences is now well established on the management and organization studies international conference calendar. The fifth in the series, held in July 2002, was co-sponsored by ICRODSC. It attracted 160 delegates and over 90 papers were presented. The theme of the conference was From Micro-utterances to Macro-inferences. To date, the conferences have resulted in three co-edited volumes (two with Sage and one with Pitman), five special issues of international journals and four edited volumes of conference proceedings). Many members of the Centre have contributed to these publications. As with the four previous conferences, the Conference provided a forum in which academics with contrasting epistemological and ontological perspectives on both organization and discourse developed a dialogue. Keynote presenters included David Boje, Stan Deetz, Norman Fairclough and John Hassard.
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The 18th EGOS Colloquium: Sub-theme on Directions for Organizational Discourse
July 2002
ICRODSC members organized a sub-theme at the 2002 EGOS colloquium in Barcelona. Over thirty position papers were submitted, of which 21 were accepted for the sub-theme. Over 30 authors attended the sub-theme, from universities in the UK, Europe, USA, Brazil and Australia. The sub-theme was designed to provide a forum for debate and discussion about the directions organizational discourse might take in helping to develop new methods to study organizational phenomena. In so doing it explored whether and how organizational discourse can inform and influence the broader fields of organization and management theory. The contributors held different views regarding the contributions and challenges of organizational discourse, and the sub-theme enjoyed a vigorous debate.
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Professional Development Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management on Studying Organizational Discourse
August 2001
ICRODSC, represented by David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, Nelson Phillips and Tom Keenoy, hosted a Professional Development Workshop on Studying Organizational Discourse at the 2001 Academy Conference in Washington D.C. This workshop was designed in response to the increasing interest in the study of organizational discourse and provided participants with a forum in which to share the latest developments in the application of discourse analysis in organizational contexts, to develop skills in applying discourse analysis in organizational settings, and to obtain feedback on their current work. Over 30 papers were accepted for the workshop, which allowed individual authors to work through their papers with the help of other participants well versed in organizational discourse theory.
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