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EGOS 2020 CfP Reminder: Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization

  • 1.  EGOS 2020 CfP Reminder: Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization

    Posted 12-26-2019 08:47

    ***Apologies for cross-posting***

    Call for Papers Reminder: 36th EGOS Colloquium, Hamburg, July 2–4, 2020

    Sub-theme 55: "Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization", Deadline for submission of short papers is Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 23:59:59 CET.

    Convenors:

    Héloïse Berkowitz, CNRS, Toulouse School of Management, France

    Michael Grothe-Hammer, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Annachiara Longoni, ESADE Business School, Spain

    Our society faces multiple global challenges such as climate change, digital workforce, algorithmization, datafication, exploitive labor, extreme poverty, gender inequality, mass migration, aging populations, or increasing disaster risks. Scholars have named such problems "grand challenges". Grand challenges are an issue of growing importance in organization studies, and seem to both spawn and require rather fluid and unconventional forms of organization – like, e.g., partial, meta-, macro-, hybrid, multi-referential, boundary, and polyphonic organization. Our sub-theme aims at advancing this line of research. We want to explore how the mentioned as well as other unconventional forms of organization can tackle societal grand challenges and/or how grand challenges spawn the emergence of new organizational forms. Submissions can be both empirical or theoretical in nature.

    The full CfP is available on the EGOS website: http://bit.ly/EGOS2020ST55

    Submission guidelines are available here: https://www.egosnet.org/2020/hamburg/CALL_for_Short_Papers



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    Annachiara Longoni
    ESADE Business School, Barcelona (Spain)
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