Please could you circulate this to interested parties.  It looks like an interesting event.

 

Many thanks

CArole Brooke



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	Subject: Announcing an International Agenda Setting Conference on Governance without Government

	

	

	Announcing an International Agenda Setting Conference with David Cooper (Alberta), Barbara Czarniawska (Gotenborg) and Stan Deetz (Colorado) as Plenary Speakers 



	 



	GOVERNANCE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY



	 





	                  AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA SETTING CONFERENCE





	CARDIFF BUSINESS SCHOOL, CARDIFF, WALES; 11-13 MAY 2005



	 



	                                                  CALL FOR PAPERS



	The rise of the knowledge economy and society from 1980s onwards has radically de-stabilized the, seemingly ordered and stable 'governance systems' that emerged in the OECD countries after World War II. The cumulative effect of the complex interaction between globalisation, 'informationalisation', 'individualisation' and 'marketisation' also seem to undermine the ideological foundations and political viability of governance strategies and structures dominated by the logic of rational bureaucratic organisation and control. In addition, a protracted sequence of relatively spectacular 'governance failures' over the last four decades (from 'bargained corporatism' to the 'enterprise culture') has forced social scientists and policy makers to reconsider both the intellectual frameworks and institutional forms through which organisational co-ordination and control is understood and implemented. Overall, there seems to be a long-term shift away from forms of governance based on bureaucratic hierarchy to more complex, hybridised forms in which self-renewing networks play a more pivotal role. In turn, the latter is seen to be more consistent with the emphasis on governing through extended inter-organisational networks and the 'new localism' that now dominates policy thinking and implementation.



	 



	We appear to be entering and era of 'governance without government'; a policy making environment in which co-ordinating power and control is shared between the major 'collective actors', requiring more sophisticated organising mechanisms to make it possible. The underlying dynamic and trajectory of change in governance systems suggests a move away from the 'hierarchy paradigm' towards the 'network paradigm'. This shift in governance introduces a higher degree of decision-making complexity. In particular, the decoupling of previously vertically integrated corporate decision-making hierarchies, in both the private and public sectors, presents intractable co-ordinating and control problems. Nevertheless, these developments seem to demand innovative ways of thinking about and practising the 'new arts of network governance'. 



	 



	The conference is intended to provide a forum for international academics and policy makers in which the new forms and systems of governance associated with the rise of the knowledge economy and society can be debated and evaluated. Conference sessions will include plenaries, open fora and paper presentations. Three plenary presentations will be given by distinguished international speakers: David Cooper (Alberta), Barbara Czarniawska (Gotenborg) and Stan Deetz (Colorado). The fora (on, respectively, ‘knowledge’, ‘identity’, ‘money’ and ‘ethics’) will be facilitated by Frank Blackler (Lancaster), Hugh Willmott (Cambridge), Prem Sikka (Essex) and Barbara Townley (Edinburgh). Extended abstracts of no less than 1000 words to be submitted to [log in to unmask] no later that 31 October 2004 and notification of acceptance will be received within six weeks of the deadline.     



	



	 

	  Hugh Willmott

	 

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	  Diageo Professor of Management Studies

	  The Judge Institute of Management

	  University of Cambridge

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