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Universitaet Mannheim
ABWL und Organisation
Ostflügel O52/O53
D-68131 Mannheim
Dipl.Kffr./Dipl.Rom. Anja Muley
Universitaet Mannheim
Romanistik II / Linguistik
Schloss
D-68131 Mannheim
Dr. Andreas Mueller
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CALL FOR PAPERS
AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON THE
COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM
March 29-31, 2001
The Departments of Business Administration and Organizational Behavior
(Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Kieser), and Romance Languages - Linguistics
(Prof. Dr. Christine Bierbach), take great pleasure in extending to you the
invitation to attend the 1st International, Interdisciplinary Symposium on
the Communication in Organizations, to be held at the University of
Mannheim, Germany, from the 29 to 31 of March, 2001.
Over the last two or three decades, the communication within organizations
has been an ever increasing topic of interest, due to the fast qualitative
changes taking place within organizational 'worlds'. Whole series of
scientific disciplines (economics, organization theory, administration,
sociology, sociolinguistics, anthropology) have sought new concepts or
rediscovered older ones to serve as descriptions of communicative and
interactive processes within organizations, when faced with this all new
development. Within such discussions, special attention is paid to the
symbolic significance of the concrete (verbal) behavior and the
corresponding interpretations made by the organizational agents. Some of the
questions raised have not yet been completely answered, for example: how do
organizations influence communication; how do employees constitute
organizational reality through the use of communication; what roles do
metaphors and stories play in organizations; and, what role do power and
dominance play in management systems that are said to be participatory?
Another series of questions are to be considered in interdisciplinary
research, such as: What is the association between organizational
macrostructures and interactive microstructures in organizational and
sociolinguistic theory and methodology; and, which concepts are adequate
enough to explain the complex association between sociocultural contexts and
interactive behavior?
The Departments of Business Administration and Organizational Behavior, and
Romance Languages - Linguistics here at the University of Mannheim have been
working together very intensively in the fields of research and teaching
over the last years. Their goal has been to study the interaction between
communication and organization from an economic and a sociolinguistic, as
well as an anthropological linguistic, standpoint. Both departments have
pursued the common goal of creating an interdisciplinary point of view on
the aforementioned subject. Their cooperation has not only resulted in an
increased level of communication between the departments of economics and
linguistics, but has also led to the development of interdisciplinary
lectures. In order that the benefits of such an interdisciplinary discussion
may be made much more accessible to a broader scientific audience, we would
like to establish a dialog by organizing this conference and discussing
together the topic of Communication within Organizations from a number of
points of view, such as business management, sociology, linguistics, and
anthropology amongst others.
We are proud to announce that among our guest list of speakers are:
Christine Bierbach/Andreas Müller from the University of Mannheim, D
Anni Borzeix from the Ecole polytechnique, F
Norman Fairclough from Lancaster University, UK
Sandra Harris from Nottingham Trent University, UK
Christian Heath from King´s College London, UK
Alfred Kieser from the University of Mannheim, D
John Sillince from the University of London, UK
We would like to encourage scholars from all related disciplines to send us
abstracts for suggested presentations on the aforementioned topic,
consisting of 300 words, in English and unformated, which should be sent no
later than the First of October, 2000. All abstracts should be addressed as
Word attachments to the email address of one of the organizers mentioned at
the top or on disk to the University of Mannheim (see also above for
addresses).
Around the middle of October we will inform you about our decision on which
issues presented would be of most interest for our conference. The writers
of those abstracts will be requested to give a presentation of approx. 30
minutes on their issues to be followed by a discussion. All speakers will be
asked to bring their presentation in written form (one printed version in
Word and on disc, no longer than 12 pages or 24 000 characters) along to the
conference. We are currently looking for a suitable publisher.
The conference will be held in English. A detailed program will be sent to
you in due course.
TIME AND PLACE
The conference will start at 1 pm on Thursday the 29 of March and end the
following Saturday afternoon on the 31 of March. Registration starts
Thursday morning from 9 am until 1 pm.
The activities will take place in the university facilities of Mannheim's
baroque castle. The castle is located near Mannheim's main railway station,
which is well connected to Frankfurt International airport. In addition,
the University can be easily reached by car. Mannheim hosts a number of
hotels within walking distance of the conference. Attached to this email you
will find a form where you can express your wish for a hotel reservation.
The hotel must be paid upon arrival and a reservation is mandatory. We have
already reserved a number of rooms for the reduced price of 90 DM, however
the number of rooms to be offered are limited.
The conference fee is 100 DM including beverages, a booklet of the abstracts
of the presentations and the proceedings. On Friday evening we have planned
a banquet. The supplementary costs for participation in the banquet amounts
to 40 DM. Those who would like to take part are requested to indicate so in
the form attached below.
For registration please fill out the form attached below and return it to
one of the two email-addresses mentioned above.
We would like to urge you to please pass this Call for Papers on to anyone
who you believe might be interested in participating!
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REGISTRATION FORM
1st International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Communication
within Organizations
March 29-31, Mannheim
Last Name, First Name:
Address:
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
I would like to participate in the conference: Yes/No
I have attached an abstract to this registration: Yes/No
Title of abstract:
I would like to book a hotel for .......... nights.
(please be sure to indicate which nights)
I would like to attend the banquet: Yes/No
German participants should pay the conference fee in advance by transferring
the amount of 100 DM or 140 DM (in the case that you plan to attend the
banquet) to the following account:
Account number: 510 487 1800
Bank code (BLZ): 670 200 20 (Baden-Wuerttembergische Bank Mannheim)
Please make sure to mention the following reference number in regards to the
purpose of the transfer: BA 510 210
International guests are requested to pay the corresponding amount upon
their arrival.
To help us organize, please register before January 1, 2001. If you are
interested in presenting a paper, we would like to ask you to have please
registered and submitted your abstract before October 1, 2000.
Please send your registration to:
Universitaet Mannheim or: Universitaet Mannheim
Romanistik II / Linguistik ABWL und Organisation
Schloss Ostflugel O52/O53
D-68131 Mannheim D-68131 Mannheim
Dr. Andreas Mueller Dipl.Kffr./Dipl.Rom. Anja Muley
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