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Colleagues, This might be of interest. Best and apologies for cross-posting. Jenny 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies (LAEMOS) Viña del Mar – Chile, 6-9 April 2016 Call for Abstracts - Sub-theme 16: The Regulation of Work, Employment and Organisation Convenors: Jenny K Rodriguez, Newcastle University (UK) - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Gregorio Perez Arrau, University of Santiago de Chile (Chile) - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Jacob Carlos Lima, Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) - [log in to unmask] Anabella Davila, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Call for Contributions Regulation is simultaneously a central organising principle that sustains the reconfiguration of work, employment and organisation, and a challenging contradiction: on the one hand, notions of the free market promote the idea that individuals negotiate directly with labour markets and through their actions co-create work and employment dynamics, and new and diverse forms of organisation. On the other hand, the controlled homogenisation promoted by economic globalisation has led to increasing and diverse forms of regulatory regimes that are linked to precariousness, informality and labour insecurity. Within this dichotomy, regulation emerges from understandings of ways of being, performing, enacting and inhabiting work, employment and organisation that materially shape and are shaped by frameworks of global restructuring driven by Neoliberal policies. This sees regulation serving different purposes; e.g. self-regulation or professional regulation helps individuals to legitimise themselves in work and employment, while regulation mandates create frameworks of monitoring and control used by organisations to shape procedural (e.g., recruitment) as well as political (e.g., right to strike) dynamics. This sub-theme is interested in how individuals and organisations interact with regulatory regimes to shape dynamics of work, employment and organisation. Fundamental questions for this sub-theme are: what are the systems of regulation that shape and reproduce notions and dynamics of work, employment and organisation? How do these systems operate? Who are the actors that shape these systems? How do these actors interact with systems of regulation and amongst themselves? And what role do these diverse actors have in shaping these systems? The sub-theme understands the study of work, employment and organisation as interdisciplinary in theoretical, conceptual and methodological terms, and we invite contributions that reflect this diversity. Topic areas that the sub-theme is particularly interested in exploring are detailed below. Please note this list is not exhaustive; we welcome novel contributions that broadly interpret the call for contributions. - Impact of regulation on dynamics of work, employment and organisation. The regulation of work, employment and organisation highlights competing demands between economic concerns (e.g., competitiveness and productivity), and social concerns (e.g., worker rights, equality and social justice). We invite contributions that problematise how/whether these competing demands are reconciled and their implications for individuals and organisations. - Individual experiences of regulation. The impact of regulation is normally discussed in relation to the interplay between the state, regulatory bodies and organisations. We invite contributions that discuss how individuals navigate, subvert and resist regulatory regimes. - Regulation, employing organisations and the employment relationship. Regulation is central to the employment relationship and organisations face imperatives to translate and embed regulatory mandates into everyday processes. Competing demands, awareness about regulatory regimes and their scope as well as sectorial/industrial responses see organisations struggle to come to terms with regulation. We invite contributions that discuss the diverse organisational responses to regulation of work, employment and organisation. - Substitutes of regulatory agencies. Emerging economies have being characterised by nascent market-oriented institutions that fail to provide the means for strengthening labour markets. However, research fails to identify alternative institutions that contribute to the regulation of employment and by extension organisational, employment practices. We invite contributions that identify societal arrangements, organisations or international agencies that perform the role of labour institutions in the context of emerging economies (e. g., informal economy, social contracts, NGOs, corporate foundations, family firms, business groups, emerging multinationals, or international supply chains) and discuss their impact on employment practices. - Self-regulation and work, employment and organisation. Ideas of the weakening of the labour movement are associated with the notion that in negotiating directly with labour markets, individuals’ self-regulation co-creates dynamics of work, employment and organisation. We invite contributions that discuss self-regulation of/in/at work, employment and organisation. Deadlines Abstract submission: 10 November 2015 Notification of acceptance: 10 December 2015 Submission of full paper (6000 words): 10 March 2016 Abstracts of about 1000 words should be submitted through the website form at www.laemos.com<http://www.laemos.com/>. The abstracts should be in English, including the name and email address of the author(s). ------------------------------- Jenny K. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Lecturer in Human Resource Management Degree Programme Director, BA(Hons) International Business Management<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/n120/courseoverview/> Book Reviews Editor, Gender in Management<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=gm&PHPSESSID=3chh1j6cd5qhuivbuknlgafkc7> Principal Investigator, ESRC Seminar Series Regulation of Work & Employment<http://www.regulationseminars.org.uk/> Newcastle University Business School 5 Barrack Road Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4SE United Kingdom T. +44 (0) 191 208 1718 F. +44 (0) 191 208 1738 E. 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