CfP: Special Issue – Organizational Working Time Regimes: Managerial, Occupational and Institutional Perspectives on Extreme Work

This Special Issue invites empirical and conceptual papers that examine and theorise organizational regimes with excessive working hours: their emergence, evolution, persistence, consequences for employee well-being, including work−life balance, and, in particular, approaches to changing these regimes.

Contributions could focus on one or more of the following questions:

  • Which forms of long working hours regimes are applied in different organizations, industries and institutional environments?
  • How are employees’ bodies entangled in the continuous (re-)production of regimes with extreme work?
  • What dynamics arise when different rhythms of families, organizations, industries and countries meet and/or collide?
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Editors: Renate Ortlieb (University of Graz), Georg Schreyögg (Freie Universität Berlin), Sara Louise Muhr (Copenhagen Business School) and Blagoy Blagoev (Freie Universität Berlin).

Deadline for submissions: 31.08.2017

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