Forwarded from the Critical Management list. This may be of interest
to those concerned with technology and organisations .

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

SPACING & TIMING:

Rethinking globalization & standardization

Palermo, Italy: 1st– 3rd November 2001

Conference Committee: Bruno Latour, Anthony Hopwood, Nigel Thrift



- Conference themes


Organizations are usually viewed in terms of their various components,
such as individuals working "in" them. But another perspective
considers organizations and institutions as being constantly produced
by an ongoing process of organizing and instituting. This view
highlights the range of practical tools necessary for ‘achieving’
organizations, such as speech acts, writings, flow charts, accounting,
and inscriptions of many sorts. These tools have been examined within
a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. technology studies, cognitive
anthropology, distributed cognition, geography, accounting, management
and organization studies). This conference seeks to bring together
academics from these different domains to discuss two of the key
resources and creations of organizations: space and time. Rather than
taking space and time as a normal feature of an organization existing
per se, the conference aims to examine them as achievements which
require many practical tools, technologies and practices to exist and
be sustained. Hence the verb forms: spacing and timing.

- Call for papers and extended abstracts:


We welcome papers and extended abstracts which seek to explore the
theoretical and empirical issues related to the above themes from a
wide range of disciplines and approaches. While contributions may
cover a whole range of issues (relating to organizing, space and
time), the following issues provide an indication of some of the
topics you may wish to examine:

The fabrication of multiple times, spaces, and actants, and the role
of inscriptions and standardised practices in this process of
fabrication.

- The maintenance of certain standards and constants and their role in
creating current notions of space and time (e.g. the delegation of
measurement and categorization to different forms of instrumentation).

- The role of practical tools in achieving organizations, and in
particular how different ‘spacings’ are achieved and how faster
‘timings’ are produced.

- The desire to achieve transportation of information, without
deformation.

- Globalisation and notions of space and time within our
‘networked’ society.

- Relevant dates:

July 20th: Papers/Extended abstracts submitted

August 6th: Notification of Acceptance

October 6th: Submission of Final Papers


- Speakers:


Geoff Bowker; Gibson Burrell; Barbara Czarniawska, Wai Fong Chua;
Francois Cooren; Niels Viggo Hansen; Keith Hoskin; Jan Mouritsen &
Isabelle Stengers have all expressed a keen interest in attending and
participating in the conference.


- Journals:

We are planning to publish papers from this conference in a special
issue of a leading journal. In addition, other journals have shown an
interest in publishing papers from this conference.


- Send your email contributions to:

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or write to:

Dr Geoff Jones (S&T)

Keble College

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Oxford OX3 1PG

UK.

- For further details view our web page:
http://columbia.uc3m.es/~quattron/conference/home.html

- Or email the Organising Committee:

Geoff Jones, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford:

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Chris Mclean, School of Management, Manchester:
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Paolo Quattrone, University Carlos III, Madrid: [log in to unmask]

Vincent Lepinay, Ecoles de Mines; Paris: [log in to unmask]

Hugh Willmott

Home Page : http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/hr22/hcwhome

Web site for Critical Management Studies Conference 2001:

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/hr22/cms2001

Web site for ESRC Critical Management Studies Seminar Series 2000-2002
:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/hr22/cmsseminars
Web site for Learning and Critique Network :
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/hr22/lcnsite

Web site for Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs:

http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/aaba.htm

Hugh Willmott
Professor of Organizational Analysis
Manchester School of Management
UMIST
Manchester M60 1QD
United Kingdom

Tel  :  0161 200 3412
Fax :  0161 200 3505
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Visiting Professor
Department of Business Administration
Lund University
PO Box 7080
S-220 07 LUND, Sweden

Visiting Professor
Strategic Management Division
Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield University
Bedford MK43 OAL
England

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