Dear colleagues and friends,
We are glad to inform you we organize a doctoral symposium dedicated to critical management research in Paris (France) the 22 & 23 April 2013. You are warmly welcome there (as your PhD students!).
Please find the call here below (in English, and here in French: http://www.uclouvain.be/427364.html), proposals are due for Jan. 31.
With our best wishes for 2013,
Véronique Perret, Paris-Dauphine & Laurent Taskin, UCLouvain
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Doctoral workshop
Critical perspectives on management
Paris, 22-23 April 2013
Université catholique de Louvain & Université Paris-Dauphine
Critical perspectives on management attract a rising number of scholars in management
studies. Their work may be characterized by its multidisciplinary, the reintroduction of power
and control to the analysis of management theory and practice, but also by the researcher’s
reflexivity and her/his ability to denaturalize some of the taken-for-granted managerial
assumptions (see e.g. Golsorkhi, Huault and Leca, 2009 ; Taskin and de Nanteuil, 2011 ;
Alvesson and Willmott, 2012). Critical management studies covers a significant number of
theoretical referents from a large range of epistemological positions: constructivist, symbolic,
postmodernism or critical realist, for example. These positions call for a particular way to do
research: methodologies are most often qualitative, research aims at being comprehensive
and the knowledge production project avoids being instrumental or functionalist. Developing
doctoral research in these heterodox currents thus calls for new engagements and
justifications that critical scholars may contribute to building. From that perspective, the
doctoral workshop on critical management studies aims at offering a welcoming place and
supportive exchanges for researchers who (intend to) locate their thesis in this stream.
Programme
The workshop aims at advancing the progress of PhD students and more precisely in the
development of a critical perspective on management studies. To this end, each participant is
invited to submit a contribution in the format of an article, a thesis proposal, a methodology or
a paper about the epistemological issues raised by the adoption of a critical stance.
In order to guide the doctoral students in their projects, several activities will be planned and
(co)created by Professors and doctoral students:
Presentation and discussion of doctoral research: organized around the same topics,
the presentations will be supervised by one or more members of the faculty (see below).
In order to promote interesting discussions, the work of each participant will be
distributed among their respective group members: each paper will be read and reviewed
by an academic and a doctoral student of the group. Each PhD student will have 30
minutes for her/his work : 10 minutes of presentation and 20 minutes of feedback.
International and invited Professors will attend some sessions. Therefore, presentation and
discussion of your research in English could be very welcome.
Individual meetings: The doctoral students will have the opportunity to meet
individually the members of the faculty in order to discuss some elements of their doctoral
research.
Informal discussions: Specific times will be organized in the schedule to allow
maximum informal exchange between researchers.
The workshop will be held in Paris at Université Paris-Dauphine over two days (22/04/2013 –
23/04/2013). The number of places is limited to around twenty participants in order to
guarantee the quality of discussions and reviewing.
Registration and practicalities
To attend the workshop, the PhD students must have begun their thesis at least six months
ago. Each must submit a brief application including :
A CV (one page)
A summary (one and a half pages maximum) of the critical contribution which will be
presented: either a thesis proposal1, theoretical or empirical paper, case study, literature
review, methodological perspective or epistemological position.
If accepted, the PhD students will be invited to submit their full paper written in French or
English. The contribution will be composed of an introduction and conclusion and won’t
exceed 20 pages (excluding references). The paper will be submitted to a double blind review
process by an academic and a PhD student from your topic group.
Fees will be limited to +/- 50€ for each participant (not including transport, accommodation
and the social event of 22/04). You will find all the information about the submission process
on the following website: http://www.uclouvain.be/427364.html.
You also may send us an email if you have any questions: [log in to unmask] This is also the official address to
submit your documents.
Key dates:
31/01/2013 : Submission of application
15/02/2013 : Notification of acceptance
01/04/2013 : Full paper and final registration
22-23/04/2013 : Doctoral workshop in Paris
Faculty
Florence Allard-Poesi (Université Paris-Est Créteil, FR)
Rachel Beaujolin (Reims Management School, FR)
Didier Cazal (IAE Lille, FR)
Françoise Dany (EM Lyon, FR)
Matthieu de Nanteuil (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Frank Janssen (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Pierre-Yves Gomez (EM Lyon, FR)
Chris Grey (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Isabelle Huault (Paris-Dauphine, FR)
Evelyne Léonard (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Jean Nizet (UNamur, BE)
Florence Palpacuer (Université Montpellier, FR)
Martin Parker (University of Leicester, UK)
Véronique Perret (Paris-Dauphine, FR)
Anne Pezet (HEC Montréal, CA)
François Pichault (HEC-ULg, BE)
Benoit Raveleau (UCO, FR)
Géraldine Schmidt (IAE Paris, FR)
Laurent Taskin (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Organizing committee
Véronique Perret (Université Paris-Dauphine, FR), Chair
Laurent Taskin (Université catholique de Louvain, BE), Chair
Céline Donis (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Julia Parigot (Université Paris-Dauphine, FR)
Stephan Pezé (Université Paris-Dauphine, FR)
Julien Raone (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
Gabriel Van Bunnen (Université catholique de Louvain, BE)
References
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2012). Making sense of management: a critical introduction
(2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks:Sage.
Golsorkhi, D., Huault, I. and Leca, B. (sous la direction de), (2009). Les études critiques en
management. Une perspective française. Québec:Presses de l'Université de Laval.
Taskin, L. and de Nanteuil, M. (sous la direction de), (2011). Perspectives critiques en
management. Pour une gestion citoyenne. Bruxelles:de Boeck.
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