Call
for Papers & Proposals
2011 Critical Management Studies
(CMS) Division
Program Chair: Alex Faria, [log in to unmask]
The Critical Management Studies
(CMS) Division welcomes contributions for the 2011 Academy of Management
Meeting (San Antonio, Texas, August 12-16).
CMS serves as a forum within the Academy of Management for the expression of views critical of established management practices and knowledge and socio-political order and the generation of alternatives. Our premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, international hegemony, patriarchy, racial inequality, and ecological irresponsibility often turn organizations and management into instruments of domination and exploitation and that organizations and management both reinforce and change those structural features. Areas of concern include but are not limited to:
·
critiques of
managerialist theories and managerial authority;
·
resistance to
managerial authority, identity, affectivity, rationality, and subjectivity;
·
critiques of
political economy and world politics;
·
critical
perspectives on globalization, entrepreneurship, marketization, technological
innovation;
·
critical analyses
of discourses of management, development, and progress;
·
critical
perspectives on class, gender and race;
·
critical
assessments of emerging alternative forms of organization and management;
·
the
profit-imperative and the natural environment;
·
critical
epistemologies and methodologies.
The CMS Division welcomes (a) conceptual and empirical papers and (b) proposals for symposia. We encourage papers and proposals that cross the boundaries of divisions and interest groups, and bring together members from the far corners of the Academy and engage with ‘reality out there’.
We are also interested in papers and
symposia that critically address the 2011 conference theme:“West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, and
Transcending”. In the words of the Program
Chair, “The world economic crisis has destroyed vast amounts of wealth and
millions of jobs… the world is looking for new sources of growth and
alternative business models... the world appears to be in a transition from
“West leads East” to “West meets East.”... this is an opportune
moment for us to ask how we can learn (or re-learn) from the business practices
and cultures of the world’s emerging economic powers… China’s re-emergence and
the ascendance of India and other burgeoning economies offer an opportunity for
revolutionary thinking based on the promise of “East-West” integrative thinking
and practice... Enlightening, balancing,
and transcending open up opportunities for a richer and more expansive platform
for new paths of scholarly, managerial, and human pursuits…”. [1]
The neo-Orientalist /neo-Occidentalist conference theme raises a number of interesting questions for CMS scholars, among them:
· How could the notion of “Global South” be used to challenge the dominant West-East dichotomy? How to de-marginalize ‘non-emerging’ economic powers?
· How to engage with South-South relationships and the emerging alternatives and knowledges from the “Global South”?
· How to learn (or re-learn) from the other(s) by fostering a field of management ‘knowledges’ (in plural) rather than management knowledge? How to highlight new forms and possibilities of management knowledge(s) as vehicles for establishing and extending relations of power?
· How to engage the “West meets East” proposition with the dominant representations of emerging powers as “rise of the rest” and world politics as “clash of civilizations” in the Anglo-American literature and foreign policies?
· How could the notion of “worlds in transitions” (in plural) be used to challenge the notion of “world in transition” to foster and reframe transcendence, balance and enlightenment in management?
Further details on the CMS Division at: http://group.aomonline.org/cms/. For details on Critical Management Studies beyond the Academy of Management see at: http://www.criticalmanagement.org/.
Division Awards: Awards will be given for the best paper authored by a doctoral student or students, for the best paper overall, and for the best (development-oriented) reviewer.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 5:00 PM (EST) January 11, 2011 through the AOM submissions website http://submissions.aomonline.org/2011