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Hi Folks
The APROS 2011 conference (November 28 to December )1 will
give you the opportunity to escape the winter blues and indulge in the delights
and refinements of an Auckland Summer. You will see there is a stream which
will appeal to AACORNers (Art and Design in Management). Below are the conference
details.
Cheers
Ralph
Dear
All,
*Apologies
for Cross postings!*
Please
find below the links to the Calls for
Papers for the nine streams that will form the 2011 APROS (Asia
Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies) Conference to be held on the
Auckland University of Technology’s central city campus Nov29-Dec 1 2011.
Abstracts for APROS 2011 are due to the stream convenors by April 1, 2011.
Please
note the 2011 ANZAM Conference at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
New Zealand will be held in the following week (December 6-9).
APROS
2011 Streams:
1.
Rethinking
the Business School
o Recent advances in
management education research have highlighted the need to rethink the purpose
of business schools . .
o Convenors: Anabella Davila,
Maribel Blasco, Laura Zappa-Cantu and Jacobo Ramirez)
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1-Rethinking-the-business-school_cfp_APROS-2011.pdf
2.
Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Processes
o The
importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and small firm growth to economies
is undisputed. Entrepreneurship and innovation is embedded in local
environments, requires local legitimacy, resource mobilization and agency to
surmount significant barriers to market, whether in localized or across
international markets . . .
o Convenors:
Martie-Louise Verreynee, Marcus Ho and Retha de Villiers Scheepers
3.
Liminal
Organizing: Daring to Imagine and the Power of Ideas
o Imagination
is the supreme human capacity enabling us to transcend limitations and convert
‘absence into presence, actuality into potentiality, what-is into
something-other-than-it-is’ . . . .
o Convenors:
Arne Carlsen, Stewart Clegg, Elena Antonacopoulou, Kjersti Bjorkeng and Tyrone
Pitsis
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3_Daring-to-imagine_cfp_APROS-2011-Stream-3.pdf
4.
Art
and Design in Management
o ‘ Discussion on the use of art in
management has grown exponentially in the last few years. . . ‘
o Convenors: Damian Ruth
and Ralph Bathurst
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/4_Art-in-Management_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-4.pdf
5.
(re)Organizing
Cosmopolitanisms
o ‘ Cosmopolitanism is figured in
multiple ways across disciplines as an ethical challenge to processes and
practices of totalitarianism, globalisation, localisation, citizenship,
diaspora, boundaries and figurations of the ‘other’. . . .’
o Convenors: Paul White, Alison Pullen and
Carl Rhodes
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/5_Cosmopolitanism_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-5.pdf
6. From
the Outside-In: Re-Historicizing and Decolonizing Management and Organization
Studies
o ‘ Until quite recently we might
have been forgiven for imagining that management and organisation studies
(MOS), and even professional management practice itself, were the inventions of
North Atlantic elites. . . . ‘
o Convenors: Bob Westwood and Gavin Jack
7. Topography
and Organization
o ‘Topography
in organisational studies has to do with the study of role of place in
organizing. . . .’
o Convenors: Janet Sayers, Bronwyn Boon and Wendelin
Kupers
8. Local
Organizing and Sustainability: What’s possible?
o ‘Sustainability, or the ‘S’ word, is
in danger of being overused to the point of meaning everything and nothing. But
as a concept, it seriously does matter when one’s local environment or
experience of the global commons is degraded or impinged upon, now or for
future generations. . . .’
o Convenors: Sara Walton and Kate Kearins
9. Open Stream
o The Open Stream welcomes papers that address a current
research theme, issue or problem in the organization studies field . .
(Convenors: Deborah Jones and Todd Bridgman).
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/9_Open-Stream_-cfp_APROS_-2011_Stream-9.pdf
All
Calls for Papers (3mb, need Adobe Reader 9+)
http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/APROS-Call-for-papers.pdf
Please contact stream
convenors for further stream details.
Conference details please
email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.apros.org/
With kind regards
Craig Prichard (School of
Management, Massey University)
On behalf of the
Conference committee:
•
Kate Kearins
(AUT)
•
Ella Henry (AUT)
•
Janet Sayers
(Massey)
•
Damian Ruth
(Massey)
•
Deborah Jones
(Victoria)
•
Todd Bridgeman
(Victoria)
•
Wayne Pihema
(Victoria)