This sub-theme seeks to bring together researchers studying change in organization and management in transforming societies and emerging economies. The ambiguous and turbulent nature of these societies offers a challenging and valuable opportunity for scholars to examine the nature and exercise of power. This is because the processes of organizational change as the normally hidden and taken-for-granted assumptions and understandings that either are not yet in place or being negotiated.
They are interested in studies of the various forms of exercise of power, in particular, between unequal organizational partners in joint ventures; or the imposition of organizational change on local actors in acquired organizations; or changes in local management and employment practices. They believe studies located within the challenging context of transforming and emerging societies can serve to advance organization theory in a significant way. Studying processes of power enables researchers to explore the successful and unsuccessful responses of organizational actors when confronted with radical environmental changes and challenges to adapt to new rules and frameworks.

Deadline: 11.01.2016

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Track: 06_07 Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation

Searching to facilitate creative processes, organisations recognise that the source of new ideas and information lies in the interaction between different functional departments, as well as in the cooperation with external actors. That is why increasingly, organisations from multiple sectors (i.e., government, business and civil society) are collaborating to tackle larger and more complex challenges beyond the organisation and sectorial boundaries.

However, the involved actors have to bridge high cognitive distances. Government, business and civil society have their own logics and practices, and these profound differences may inhibit understanding and learning across sectoral boundaries. Moreover, although cross‐sector collaborations build on shared overall goals, the partners may also pursue diverging interests and hidden Goals.

They welcome theoretical and empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) papers and give no priority to a specific field of operation or kind of collaboration. However, a strong focus on the relational aspects of knowledge, learning and innovation will be appreciated.

Deadline: 12.01.2016

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Call for Papers of the Journal of Competence-based Strategic Management (JCSM); Volume 9: Approaching Dynamic Capabilities from a Multi-Level Perspective

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The Journal of ‘Competence-based Strategic Management’ provides a forum for academic contributions to the issues of organizational competences and dynamic capabilities at the interface between strategic management and organization studies. All papers are to be submitted in English language and in line with the publication standards. Their publication prerequisites a successful double-blind peer-review process.

 
Volume Background and Scope

 
The 9th volume of JCSM gives emphasis to dynamic capabilities from a multi-level perspective. The purpose of the volume is to enhance the understanding of the interdependence between higher-level entities and lower-level entities that contribute to the development and deployment of dynamic capabilities.
Such a multi-level perspective includes both directions, micro-foundations of organizational phenomena as well as the organization itself as an entity of a higher-level construct, e.g. the regional ecosystem or the institutional environment. Micro-foundations give emphasis to issues such as leadership and individual behavior, managerial cognition and action, working systems and team interactions but also organizational structures, rules and routines. Treating organizations as entities of a higher-level construct includes the consideration of market-shaping activities, regional innovation systems and ecosystems as well as further aspects of the institutional or business System.

Deadline: December 2015

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Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik (April 11-15th, 2016) & Special Issue of Management Revue

Working life is undergoing a radical change in which new digital technologies are changing the nature of labour and its organizational forms in a pervasive manner, regardless of whether it concerns qualified professionals or labourers. The framework, which previously regulated the content of work, as well as when, where and how it would be conducted is being reconsidered. A process that presents both challenges and possibilities.

One fundamental aspect of ICT is that it can make employees more accessible to others and allow work to become more available to the employee. Easy access to ICT functions (e.g., email, text and voice messages), for example, enable employees to continue working after leaving the office for the day. This ease of access may have both positive and negative effects. Although much of the research focus to date has concentrated on how ICT may act as demands, stressors or certain characteristics of ICT can enhance work-life balance, employee satisfaction, well-being and productivity.

Another aspect of new digital technologies concerns the manner in which the work process is monitored and controlled. Surveillance in the workplace is not a novelty. Nor is it unreasonable to expect that employers have both rights and reasons to do so. To a certain extent, of course. However, increasing availability of relatively inexpensive and easy to use technology, for example software monitoring programs, enables employers to expand the range and scope of their control over their employees’ activities. The increase in potential methods to track and monitor employee behaviour poses questions that concern where the borders for personal integrity are drawn. Who has the right to personal details, and at what point? In what way does this monitoring affect the social relations between employer and employee in terms of control, autonomy and trust?

Digital technology, in computers, phones or in the “Internet of things” also provides tools that enable the standardization of work on a completely different level than previously. For some workers, we see a degradation and depletion of work, and also that the control of work is increasing; a development that is usually described using the concept of “Digital Taylorism.” How does this development affect the working man or the working class?

In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, http://www.iuc.hr, 11.-15.April 2016), we would like to discuss our topic in an appropriately broad and interdisciplinary manner. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

• Virtual work and stress
• Digital technologies and work-family boundaries
• Virtual teams and E-leadership
• Digital Taylorism
• Virtual work and trust
• Digital surveillance

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline
Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to submit an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st, 2016 electronically via Management Revue’s online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘IUC Dubrovnik’ as article section.

All contributors to the seminar are invited to submit their paper for the special issue of Management Revue. Full papers must be submitted by July 31st, 2016. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due October 31st, 2016. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘SI Digital Working Life’ as article section.

Hoping to hear from you!

Mikael Ottosson
Calle Rosengren
Doris Holtmann
Wenzel Matiaske

Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sind für die Betriebswirtschaftslehre aus mehreren Gründen interessant und relevant. Zum einem stellen Sie in der Mehrheit der Volkswirtschaften nicht nur die große Zahl der Unternehmen- gemessen an deren Zahl- dar, sondern erwirtschaften auch den Großteil der Leistung gemessen an der Beschäftigung, Wertschöpfung und Wachstum. Zum anderen werden die Belange der KMU innerhalb der BWL erfreulicherweise in den letzten Jahren zwar stärker gewürdigt, erreichen jedoch noch immer nicht die Aufmerksamkeit der Projekte im Kontext internationaler Großunternehmen.

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Die Forschung zu KMU hat sich bisher nicht ausführlich mit Geschäftsmodellen befasst. Umgekehrt lag auch der Fokus der Business Model-Forschung eher auf Großunternehmen. Daher lädt die ZfKE zur Einreichung von theoretisch konzeptionellen und empirischen Beiträgen sowie Literature Reviews für dieses Sonderheft der ZfkE ein. Neben weiteren sind insbesondere die folgenden Themen von besonderem Interesse:

• KMU- spezifische Ausprägung von Geschäftsmodellen
• Business Model Innovation in KMU
• Verbindung von Geschäftsmodellen und Strategischem Management in KMU
• Rolle von Entscheidungsträgern für KMU-Geschäftsmodelle
• Einfluss der Digitalisierung auf Geschäftsmodelle von KMU
• Geschäftsmodelle von KMU im Kontext von Industrie 4.0
• Unterscheide der Geschäftsmodelle junger und etablierter Unternehmen.

Beiträge können bis zum 01. März 2016 mit dem Stichwort „ZfKE Special Issue Geschäftsmodelle“ per Email bei patrick.ulrich@uni-bamberg.de eingereicht werden.

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This sub-theme invites researchers from all over the world who study organizational working time regimes, their evolution, persistence, consequences for work-life balance, and approaches to changing them. Recent studies reveal the difficulties in advancing changes in the temporal organization of work, in particular in professional service firms which have traditionally expected their highly qualified employees to commit to a regime of long working hours, constant availability to clients and superiors, and an ever-increasing pace of work (e.g. Costas & Grey, 2012; Michel, 2011; Perlow, 1999; 2012). Such working time regimes have been widely criticized for their detrimental effects on productivity, employee well-being and gender equality in the workplace. However, reports on firms’ experiences with change initiatives reveal disappointing results (for a recent review, see Putnam et al., 2014): managerial efforts to attenuate the long hours patterns often fail, whilst the established working time regimes largely persist despite their drawbacks for individuals and companies.

The sub-theme particularly invites contributions that focus on one or more of the following questions:

• How are working time regimes enacted in different organizations, industries and institutional environments?
• What kind of organizational temporal structures (e.g. boundaries of work vs. non-work), rhythms (e.g. periods of intensive vs. non-intensive work), and orientations (e.g. concerning the past, present and future) are prevalent in different organizational contexts?
• What are the effects of existing working time regimes for individuals, organizations and societies (e.g. in terms of work-life conflict, health, gender issues, changing demographics, etc.)?
• How are bodies entangled in the continuous (re-)production of working time regimes? What dynamics arise when the different rhythms of bodies, families, organizations and industries meet and/or collide?
• How do business models and corporate strategies relate to working time regimes?
• How do working time regimes become path dependent? What role do initial conditions play in triggering such path dependence?
• What processes and mechanisms drive the persistence and/or path dependence of working time regimes?
• What processes and mechanisms advance change in the temporal organization of work?
• What is the impact of organizational control and unobtrusive forms of power on the stability and/or change of working time regimes?
• What is the relation between systemic and self-reinforcing processes, on the one hand, and individual agency, on the other, in particular when individuals do not conform to and/or resist established working time regimes?
• What processes and interventions are most likely to succeed at modifying and/or breaking highly institutionalized working time regimes?
• What kinds of working time regimes can foster sustainable forms of working and living?

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Call for Papers

Cooperatives as a Fortress of Participation?

 32th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 55
7.-9. Juli 2016; Naples, Italy

Convenors: Irma Rybnikova, Christopher Land, Ronald Hartz

In the face of the current financial crisis a vivid revival of interest in alternative organizational forms, including cooperatives, can be observed in the literature (Cheney et al., 2014). Cooperatives are mainly considered as an alternative way of organizing in the shadow of private and public sectors which is often presumed to be able to respond to economic challenges and at the same time to maintain social values, such as organizational participation and democracy.

The sub-theme invites contributions addressing a range of issues, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Different forms and initiatives of participation in cooperatives
• The mutual relationship between the (ascribed) identities of cooperatives‘ members and participation practices
• The interlink between the participation of members and of employees in cooperatives
• The relationship between direct and representative participation in cooperatives, including the role of trade unions and works councils in these organizational contexts
• Country-specific legal and institutional contexts of cooperatives and their impact on participation practices
• Conceptual contributions to the analysis of participation in cooperatives, e.g. exploring the appropriateness of democratic theory or concepts of organizational participation in the context of cooperatives
• Methodological and methodical issues of empirical undertakings in this field, such as critical discussion of suitable research methods or approaches for theory generation

Deadline for the submission of short papers: 11.1.2016

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Call for Papers

Studies of Organisational Management & Sustainability

The Editorial Board of Studies of Organisational Management & Sustainability (SOMS) invites submissions of a paper to its forthcoming issue.

Focus and Scope:

SOMS is an international, double-blind-peer-reviewed, open access, online academic journal. It publishes two issues per year and does not charge any publication/processing fee. Being a multidisciplinary publication, SOMS publishes research papers, literature and book reviews, short communications and letters to editors, covered by the three main sections of the journal:

a) Economics, Management and Entrepreneurship;

b) Marketing, Innovation and Services;

c) Human Capital and Organisational Behaviour.

The journal brings out research of empirical, methodological or conceptual nature in the following topics:

• strategic management;
• human resource management;
• financial management;
• accounting;
• marketing management;
• innovation management;
• entrepreneurship;
• knowledge management;
• operations management;
• economy;
• sustainability.

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Call for Papers

Challenges in Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies

Edinburgh PhD Workshop

3.12.2015; University of Edinburgh Business School

Scientific Committee: Joseph Fan, Seth Armitage, Wenxuan Hou, Till Talaulicar, Li Jin, Subrata Sarkar

A Corporate Governance: An International Review Special Issue Conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on December 4-5, 2015. Prior to this CGIR conference, there will be a pre-conference workshop for PhD students on December 3, 2015.
The scientific committee invites submissions from PhD students for the workshop. PhD students who are interested to present and discuss their research in this workshop are invited to submit their research papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15.10.2015

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Call for Abstracts

Aggressive Steuergestaltung

Beiträge für das Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft, Band 2017

Herausgeber des Bandes: Ute Schmiel, Werner Nienhüser

Steuern sind – so lange es sie gibt – Gegenstand politischer wie wissenschaftlicher Debatten. Aktuell entzündet sich die Diskussion an publik gewordenen aggressiven Steuergestaltungs-praktiken vor allem international agierender Konzerne. Aggressive Steuergestaltung (aggressive tax planning) ist nach herrschender Auffassung legal und nicht mit (strafbarer) Steuerhinterziehung zu verwechseln. Gleichwohl werden auch die legalen Praktiken als problematisch angesehen. Dies zeigt beispielsweise die Initiative auf Ebene der OECD (http://www.oecd.org/ctp/beps.htm), mit der aggressiver Steuergestaltung entgegengewirkt werden soll.

Für das im Metropolis-Verlag erscheinende Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft „Aggressive Steuergestaltung“ wollen die Herausgeber wissenschaftliche Beiträge zu diesem Thema einwerben und veröffentlichen. Um die Einreichung von Abstracts (bis zu 1500 Wörter) wird gebeten.

Ende der Einreichfrist: 15.11.2015

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