Ohhh, this sounds much better! Well done everyone! Now I only hope that I can attend!!!
 
Love,
 
Jo

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From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network on behalf of Daved Barry
Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 10:09 AM
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Subject: EGOS Lifeful Dances Track__Call for Papers



 

Hi Everyone,

 

We would like to alert you to our EGOS track "Lifeful Dances in Organization Studies." Our original submission was pretty vague, so we've tightened it up a bit below. Basically, we invite you to bring along a favourite piece of research (can be someone else's or your own)-one that illustrates good scholarship  from an aesthetic perspective. We would like to have an enlivening  discussion about these papers. What makes them so good and appealing?  What makes them dance? And what can we subsequently  do with our own writing and presentation?

 

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.

 

Daved, Stefan, Mary Jo, and Pierre

 

 

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

EGOS Sub-theme 21: Lifeful dances in organization studies

 

Convenors:

 

Daved Barry, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

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Stefan Meisiek, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

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Mary Jo Hatch, University of Virginia (USA)

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Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockholm University (Sweden) 

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Overview

 

For some time now, Management and Organisation Studies (MOS) has been trying to find some better dance steps and nicer music. For example, the Aesthetics and Management Conferences point to a rising interest in organizational studies that we can not only dance to, but want to dance to. Increasingly, we see calls for studies that move and are moving, that sing, sway, and turn science and organizations into more lively and livable places. Yet we are far short of this goal; a quick glance at any of the major MOS journals shows that the content rarely dances and almost never sings.

 

There is certainly something to Porter's "aaaand ... one, two, three, four, five" forces (Porter, 1998) and Mintzberg's "one, two, three, four, five" structure in fives (Mintzberg, 1992) that make scholars and organizations line up and go through those motions. Yet, though everyone is dancing, could it be that they are all doing a kind of dead-footed Waltz, clumping around the halls of organizational science? Could it be that in teaching giants to dance (Kanter, 1990), the only thing we could think to teach them was a waltz?

 

In this track, we want to explore the kinds of papers and studies that move us in MOS. Along these lines, we invite you to bring along a moving paper/piece of research that you are fond of. This can be your own work or someone else's, something classic or a contemporary piece. The main idea is to bring something that you would like to explore relative to its aesthetic power. Since we wish to avoid 'talking papers', please plan on using the paper as a 'conversation piece' rather than as a presentational device; in other words, think of the track as a gathering of friends and not as a stage. In selecting the paper, you might also want to bring in 'accompaniments'-other works (including music, pictures, stories, dances, poems, etc.) that might amplify and resonate with the paper.

 

When you submit an abstract for this stream, we ask that you 1) identify what you will bring and 2) say a bit about how it moves you and why it is important. When developing your writeups for the stream, we ask that you keep them short-5 pages or less is good (this does not include your 'dancing partner' paper-the one you will bring along as your fond friend). The writeup should revolve around the abstract, extending your thinking about why and how this work is aesthetically important, good, and potentially helpful.

 

As co-conveners, we will be looking for ways to join the works together in provocative ways. In other words, we will be trying to avoid the usual long progression of paper after paper. By the end of the track, we will ask all participants to reflect on how they will move forward-how will everyone attending use what they've heard and felt to fashion some future steps, whether those be in research, teaching, or consulting.

 

We look forward to your conference proposals-please feel free to get in touch with Stefan Meisiek ([log in to unmask]) or Daved Barry ([log in to unmask]) if you have any questions about the track.

 

 

About the convenors

 

Daved Barry is the Banco BPI Chair of Creative Organization Studies at Nova University, Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) His general research interests are in the area of lifeful organization and more specifically arts-based organizational research. He also co-founded AACORN (Arts, Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organization Research Network), a global groupthat is working towards more lifeful organizational approaches.

 

Stefan Meisiek is Asst. Professor at Nova University (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) in Lisbon. Stefan has worked extensively in the arts & business field and is editing a Guide to Organizational Theatre, as well as researching artful approaches to entrepreneurship and innovation.

 

Mary Jo Hatch is the C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. She has long worked in the areas of art and organization, particularly using music-based (jazz) and visual-based approaches. She is the author of the world's most popular OT textbook: Organization Theory (Blackwell).

 

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux is Professor at the Stockholm University School of Business. His specialty is in the aesthetics and arts of organization. Along with his many other contributions, he is the well-known author of "Art Firm" (Stanford University Press), and organizer of the Aesthetics & Organization Conferences (along with Antonio Strati).