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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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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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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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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