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Dear Colleague

Please see below details of a call for papers for the next EGOS colloquium. We would be very pleased to have submissions from colleagues from different regions and countries around the world including Africa, South America and Asia. The deadline for short paper submissions is the 16 January 2012. If you have any questions, or require additional information, please feel free to contact me.

With best wishes

Anna

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28^th EGOS Colloquium: Design!?

Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, July 5–7, 2012

Proposal for Sub-theme: Revealing Processes of Design and Change: Organizing and Organizations in Transforming Societies and Emerging Economies.

Deadline: Please submit a short paper of not more than 3,000 words (including references and all other materials) by January 16, 2012 at the EGOS website: http://www.egos2012.net

Convenors

Anna Soulsby, Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

anna.soulsby@nottingham.ac.uk

Rebecca Piekkari, Aalto University, School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.

rebecca.piekkari@aalto.fi

Rainhart Lang, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany.

r.lang@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de

Call for Papers

This sub-theme seeks to bring together researchers from all over the world who have studied organization and management in transforming societies and emerging economies from a multiplicity of disciplines. We invite empirical industry-based and organizational research grounded in any methodological stance, but also encourage purely theoretical contributions. We believe that the ambiguous and turbulent nature of transforming and emerging societies offers a valuable research opportunity for scholars to study processes of organizing as the normally hidden and taken-for-granted assumptions and understandings are either not yet in place or are still being negotiated.

Studying processes of change in transforming societies and emerging economies enables scholars to explore, in a more detailed way, the successful and unsuccessful processes of organizations stuck in historical routines maladapted to current circumstances. At the same time, it is also important to examine the real problems of actors in choosing between strategies and attempting to organize changes in structure and process. We need to be sensitive to the influence of differences in national culture, institutional environment, industrial sector specifics, organizational form, and so on. To gain additional insight into these effects, the convenors seek participation from different countries and regions across the world, including Asia, South America and Africa. We are convinced that studies of the various forms of experimental change and process involved in organizational transformation within the wider, challenging context of transforming and emerging societies can serve to advance organization theory in a significant way.

Areas of interest:

Studies on organizational changes in transformational settings, such as European post-socialism, and Asian, African and South American transitions, other developing countries and emergent market economies.

 Topics might include:

· Studies on the active role of owners, managers, and other actors and their alliances in designing processes and the re-institutionalisation of management structures, systems and practices.

· Studies of new, emergent forms of organization and organizing under conditions of radical environmental change, resulting from international, regional and national pressures, including influences such as foreign direct investment, joint ventures, knowledge transfers and organizational learning.

· Power, resistance and micro political responses to imposed organizational forms.

· Processes of organizational identity change.

· Processes of co-operation and trust in international joint ventures.

· Privatisation processes and changing structures of organizational and managerial control.

· Processes of organizational restructuring and cultural change.

· Comparative studies across different countries and different organizational forms.

· Process studies of language-based shadow structures and informal communication flows in organizations.

· Methodological papers on the issues surrounding the study of organizational process and change in these challenging contexts.

We would welcome papers from researchers working across a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and methods in the above mentioned fields.

Anna Soulsby is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Nottingham University Business School. Her research focuses on organizational transformation in transforming and emerging societies. Her work has been published in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies and International Journal of Human Resource Management. In 2007, she was the guest editor (with E. Clark) of a special issue of Human Relations: "Organization Theory and the Post-Socialist Transformation". She was a member of the SWG 'Organizational Change in Transforming Societies' and a sub-theme convenor at the Ljubljana and Berlin EGOS colloquia.

Rebecca Piekkari is Professor of International Business at the Aalto University, School of Economics. Her primary research interests focus on the challenges of managing people in multinational organisations. She has also written about the use of qualitative research methods, particularly case studies in international business and management. Her work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review and Organizational Research Methods. She was a sub-theme convenor at the EGOS colloquium in Lisbon.

Rainhart Lang is Professor of Organization Studies at the Chemnitz University of Technology. His research focuses on organizational culture, leadership and organizational transformation in transforming and emerging societies. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of World Business, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Human Resource Development International. He is the editor- in - chief of the Journal for East European Management Studies. He was one of the founding members and convenor of several sub-themes of the SWG 'Organizational Change in Transforming Societies' at EGOS colloquia.