The XII European Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) will take place in Düsseldorf on 5-7 September 2019 and intends to explore and analyse the changes in labour and employment relations across Europe and in a comparative perspective. In particular, proposals can refer to the following four tracks: “Social Europe: Equality and Poverty”, “Regulations of Labour: Actors, Institutions and Law”, “Workers’ Voice and Industrial Democracy” and “Human Resources, Quality of Work and Digitalisation”. They are also looking forward to papers which discuss these topics with reference to gender, migrant and disabled workers.

Deadlines:

• Deadline for abstracts extended to 25 January 2019
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 28^th of February 2019                                    
• Registration for the Congress will start on 31^st of January 2019

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Die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen konfrontiert Beschäftigte, Personalmanager*innen und Betriebsratsmitglieder mit großen Veränderungen in zwei Bereichen: zum einen entstehen durch die zunehmende Datafizierung und Algorithmisierung neue Expertisen, Berufe und Arten der Zusammenarbeit (Faraj et al., 2018). Zum anderen führen Unternehmen begleitend unter dem Terminus „New Ways of Working“ neue Arbeits- und Organisationsformen (z.B. agiles oder mobiles Arbeiten) ein (Breu et al., 2002), die das traditionelle Fortbestehen von Betrieben in Frage stellen (Davis, 2013) und damit Grenzen der Mitbestimmung aufzeigen (Prassl & Risak, 2015). In diesem Herausgeberband werden mögliche Herausforderungen und Chancen von „Datafizierung und Neuen Arbeitsweisen“ aus Sicht des Personalmanagements und der betrieblichen Mitbestimmung beleuchtet.

Ziel ist es, die Aufmerksamkeit auf moderne Formen der Beteiligung zu lenken und Ansätze für gemeinsame Zukunftsvisionen zu generieren. Zu diesem Zweck laden die Herausgeber sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle Beiträge als auch qualitative und quantitative empirische Studien ein, die aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen entstammen dürfen und sich mit den Fragen der Digitalisierung im Bereich Personalmanagement und Mitbestimmung beschäftigen, ein. 

Einreichungsprozess & Deadlines:

Der Herausgeberband soll sowohl wissenschaftliche als auch Praxisbeiträge enthalten.

Für den wissenschaftlichen Teil werden Beträge im Umfang von max. 40.000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen begrenzt.

Für Praxisbeiträge und Stellungsnahmen gilt der Umfang von 30.000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen).

Zeitplan der Einreichung und Veröffentlichung:

1. Einreichung von Abstracts (zwei Seiten): verlängert bis 20.02.2019
2. Zusagen: bis 29.03.2019
3. Einreichung der vollen Beiträge: bis 30.06.2019
4. Geplante Veröffentlichung: Herbst 2019

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The 11^th International Critical Management Conference takes place from June 27^th– 29^th2019 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. The sub-theme is “Between subjugation and emancipation: Recognizing the power of recognition”. Recognition is an important factor shaping individual and collective well-being, dignity and flourishing, both within organizations and society more generally (Honneth 1996; Fraser and Honneth 2003; Sayer 2007a, 2007b). Giving voice to the complexities arising from these two traditions of thinking about recognition, their stream aims to develop a more fully-fledged notion of recognition at the workplace. The convenors welcome conceptual and empirical papers that deal with questions of recognition at the societal, organizational or individual workplace level and which pay tribute both to the emancipatory and subjugating character of recognition.

Deadlines:

• Abstracts (max. 1000 words): 31^stJanuary 2019                                    
• Notification of paper acceptance: 1^stMarch 2019                                                  
• Full papers will be expected by 1^stJune 2019.

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Join the 11^th Symposium on Competence-Based Strategic (SKM) in September, 26-27, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. The organisers invite you to participate in the debate about “Agile Organisation – Adaptive strategies, inspiring leaders & flexible structures”. The aim of the 11^th SKM symposium is to explore how organizations can use coordination mechanisms to cope with an unpredictable world. Such coordination mechanism are, for instance, adaptive strategies, inspiring leaders, and/or flexible structures (e.g., projects, networks and routines). 

Deadlines:

• Abstracts (max. 500 words): 31^st of March 2019
• Acceptance decisions will be communicated by 15^th of May 2019.
• Full paper submissions (max. 6000 words): 15^th of August 2019

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The so called and partly overemphasized “digital revolution” _is certainly affecting the way firms will be organized with regard to value creation and delivery (Tilson, Lyytinen, & Sorensen, 2010; Yoo, Boland Jr., Lyytinen, & Majchrzak, 2012), how they will efficiently manage their production and operations, and how they will engage with their suppliers and customers. With regard to internationalization it will, on the one hand, change the competitive and collaborative landscape dramatically especially through providing opportunities for new collaborative relationships with private and public organizations across the globe (Coviello, Kano, & Lish, 2017). On the other hand, it may render traditional international partnerships obsolete as it will enable newcomers and incumbents to circumvent previously necessary intermediaries and establish direct relationships with customers, suppliers, and complementors. 

In particular, digitalization has the potential to impact the main elements of the internationalization process of firms, for example, in terms of timing, pace, and rhythm of internationalization, location and entry mode choices, learning and knowledge recombination, and accessibility of resources and capabilities in home and host markets. It will change firms’ ability to mitigate and manage the liability of foreignness and outsidership (Coviello, Kano, & Liesh, 2017). This becomes especially apparent in the case of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that –fostered by digitalization– will find effective ways to compete with large firms on a global scale through reducing their liability of smallness, i.e. especially their lack of financial and human resources.

Important research questions that may be explored are for example the following: How will foreign entry mode choice or market management modes be affected by digitalization? In which way will digitalization change the organizational structure and the culture of an SME and subsequently its internationalization processes? Will export based on internet sites and platforms that are accessible globally reduce the need to establish foreign service units and operations or does it depend on the business model? Will digitalization ease or impede the search for international business partners? To what extent will digitalization change the way foreign subsidiaries are staffed and managed? Will Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 alter the ways SMEs conduct business on an international level? How will SMEs cope with this challenge as they may suffer from a liability of smallness with this respect? Do SMEs have the financial resources to compete against MNEs as new electronic systems, software, and content has to be developed, adopted, and implemented?

Deadlines & Dates 

Submission of extended abstracts: December 20, 2018 

Acceptance Notifications: January 31, 2019

Preliminary Program published: February 28, 2019

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Convenors: Markus Helfen, Rick Delbridge, Andreas Pekarek

Continuing the interdisciplinary exchange between the fields of organization studies and employment relations from two preceding EGOS sub-themes in 2017 and 2018, next year’s theme concentrates on the ideologies, struggles and solutions around the labour dimension of the sustainable organization. We invite contributions that explore how labour shapes and is shaped by questions of organizational sustainability and what this means for future world(s) of work.

Deadline for short paper submissions: January 14, 2019

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Short description:

Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) is a novel methodology, recently published in Organizational Research Methods. The method has already been applied in fields such as innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, organizational behaviour, and human resource management. Given the novelty of the method the goal of this track is twofold:

• Give a platform to researchers who apply NCA to present their draft papers (contributions based on full paper, competitive sessions).

• Support researchers who have started or intend to apply NCA and help them to develop this towards a publication (contributions based on extended abstract, paper and idea development sessions).

They encourage submissions of advanced research projects (full paper, competitive sessions) as well as work in progress (extended abstract, paper and idea development sessions). Papers are welcome from any field as long as they use NCA either as core method or a complement to other methods.

Proponents:

Sven Hauff, Helmut Schmidt University; Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management; Florence Allard-Poesi, Université Paris-Est; Nicole Richter, University of Southern Denmark

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