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We would like to draw your attention to the sub-theme we are co-convening at this annual\u00a0organisation studies\u00a0conference (see full call-for-papers below) and invite you to consider\u00a0submitting a short paper (deadline: Mon, 13 Jan 2014, 23:59:59 CET). Our sub-theme is explicitly open to researchers from organisation studies and to researchers from related traditions and disciplines. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and feel free to circulate this to anyone else who might be interested, otherwise we very much look forward to receiving your submissions.<\/div>\n
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30th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium<\/div>\n

Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
\n3\u20135 July, 2014<\/p>\n

Sub-theme 59<\/b><\/p>\n

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Things Ain’t What They Used to Be: Objects, Relations, Materiality<\/a><\/p>\n

Call for short papers (deadline: Mon, 13 Jan 2014, 23:59:59 CET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Guidelines and criteria<\/a><\/div>\n
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Organization studies is contributing to a broader effort in the social sciences and humanities to reconceptualise how objects participate in social practices. This commitment to eclipse the subject-object divide is evidenced by rising interest in ontological problems across otherwise incompatible organizational research and methods. For example, organizational scholars focusing on very different objects \u2013 such as institutions, financial instruments, technologies, decision-making, design, service delivery, strategies and discourses \u2013 have all called for increased attention to materiality in recent years. New communities are forming within organization studies, developing different ontologies of objects and their relations. We explicitly seek to bring together researchers from different communities, including other disciplines, to explore, compare and extend the ontologies of objects and relations that are developing in organization studies.<\/p>\n

While some relevant scholarship already exists \u2013 e.g. Cooper’s (2005) essay on\u00a0relationality<\/em>\u00a0and Munro’s (2005) essay on\u00a0partial organization<\/em>, but also recent work in\u00a0process organization studies<\/em>\u00a0(e.g. Carlile et al., 2013; Hernes, 2008),\u00a0actor-network theory<\/em>\u00a0(e.g. Alcadipani & Hassard, 2010),\u00a0economic sociology<\/em>\u00a0(e.g. Pinch & Swedberg, 2008) and\u00a0practice theory<\/em>\u00a0(e.g. Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011) \u2013 this list could be significantly expanded. We therefore invite papers that open up or extend organization studies in new directions, such as:<\/p>\n