What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency and Discourse

http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/whatorg.asp

Date: May 21 ­ 22, 2008 (right before the start of the 2008 meeting of
the International Communication Association (ICA) in Montréal).

Location: HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada

Co-Sponsors:


Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de Montréal
HEC Montréal
Language and Social Interaction Division (International Communication
Association)
Organizational Communication Division (International Communication
Association)
Public Relations Division (International Communication Association)
Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato, New
Zealand

Conference Theme

Agency is a concept that is receiving increasing attention from
organization scholars. While some approach this notion from a
discursive point of view, others propose a more hybrid view that also
takes into account materiality. Organized in honor of James R.
Taylor's contributions to the study of organizing, this conference
aims to engender new, thought-provoking views on this debate.

Guidelines for Submission

All submissions and conference communications will be conducted via
email. Prospective contributors interested in presenting a paper
should send an abstract of approx. 1,000 words to the conference
organizers by October 1, 2007. Notification of acceptance of papers
will be given by December 15, 2007. Authors will need to send full
papers by April 1, 2008 if they want their paper to be included in
the conference proceedings. Abstracts should be typed, double spaced,
and include:

a title
name(s), and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
author contact information
Please make sure you follow the APA style guidelines when writing the
full paper.

Copies of submissions should be sent as an email attachment (saved as
a Word document) to the LOG email address at: groupelog@...

Stewart Clegg and Ralph E. Stablein, the two editors of the Advances
in Organizations Studies series, Copenhagen Business School Press,
have expressed an interest in publishing the best contributions as
book chapters in an edited volume. For more information on this
series: http://organizationstudies.org/


Keynote Speakers

Barbara Czarniawska (U Göteborg, Sweden)
Bruno Latour (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, France)
Haridimos Tsoukas (ALBA, Greece, University of Warwick, UK)
Linda Putnam (UC Santa Barbara, USA)