The 2nd EIASM workshop on *IMAGINING BUSINESS* "Reflecting on visuality, performances and materialities in practices of management, organising and governing"
*Segovia, Spain - May 19-20, 2011*
Abstract submission deadline - 27th September 2010
Keynote Speakers: Mario Biagioli (Harvard), Jacques Fontanille (Limoges) & Nigel Thrift (Warwick).
Following the success of the 1st Imagining Business Workshop (Oxford, 2008), this second event seeks to explore in further detail the impact of images, pictures, and signs on everyday organizational life. Inspired by the principle that any social activity results from how various organisational actors are tied together (Latour’s idea of ‘socie-ties’), this workshop intends to examine how various organisational performances and material objects of all kinds (e.g. information technologies, forms, charts, plans, models, etc.) help to construct unstable although durable links between organizational actors. This includes exploring how they contribute to the creation of business visions, images and visualizations in ways which allow organizings and organizations to ‘succeed’ (i.e. to happen), as well as ‘fail’. A focus on imagining business has shifted our attention beyond the text and towards the visual. In this second edition of the Imagining Business workshop we wish to develop this further by exploring many other diverse ways and different aspects related to this imagining process. This workshop thus provides an interdisciplinary arena in which academics and practitioners from a wide range of subject areas can come together to debate issues of imagining.
We welcome abstracts (1500-2000 words), extended abstracts (2000-3000 words) and draft papers from a range of disciplines and approaches (organizational theory, accounting, geography, art, sociology, communication studies, architecture, philosophy, social studies of technology...) that seek to explore the theoretical and empirical issues related to a diversity of themes. The format for discussion will include both traditional paper presentations and alternative and non-traditional forums (e.g. performance, exhibition, panel, discussion group, etc).
We look forward to reading your submissions.
The organising committee:
Paolo Quattrone, [log in to unmask]
François-Régis Puyou, [log in to unmask]
Christine McLean, [log in to unmask]
For more information go to:
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=747
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