On February, 19-20, organization scholars from Innsbruck will host a small workshop titled “Communication as a Practice – Bridging Communication and Practice Perspectives in Organization Studies”. In the context of this workshop, our three international guests offer a great program open to everyone interested! Come and join us for a fantastic keynote and an insightful workshop session!
Keynote by Timothy Kuhn, University of Colorado Boulder – “What Do Corporations Want?: Communicative Capitalism and Authority in ‘Responsible’ Firms“
Monday, February 19th, 4 pm – 5:15 pm, Fakultätssitzungssaal, SOWI
Under late capitalism, ‘corporate purpose’ has become a societal battleground. I argue that understanding how corporations pursue purpose requires that we see them not as stable entities guided by solitary aims, but as complex communication practices continually bound up in struggles over meaning and action. Drawing on a unique combination of Communicative Constitution of Organization and Deleuzian new materialist thinking, I show how authority—rendered as promises of value and claims to property—is the driving force in firms’ existence and operations. Drawing on a study of firms obligated to serve pro-social goals alongside profitability, I illustrate how oversimplifying purpose paradoxically disorders their practices, yet can foster new forms of imagination for both firms and analysts’ engagement with them.
Workshop session by Dennis Schoeneborn and Ellen Nathues – The Communicative Constitution of a Scholarly Contribution: How to Publish Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Studies”
Tuesday, February 20th, 11 am – 12:30 pm, Seminarraum 16, SOWI
Dennis Schoeneborn (Copenhagen Business School & Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) and Ellen Nathues (University of Twente) will jointly host a workshop session on how to publish qualitative research in management and organization studies. Based on their experiences in author, reviewer, and editor roles, they will place a particular emphasis on the communicative constitution of a scholarly contribution. Their considerations will center around the notion of academic writing as a process of joining a party conversation – and sometimes even creating the party conversation in the first place.
[The workshop idea/concept was jointly developed with Nicolas Bencherki, TÉLUQ University Montréal & Audencia Business School]
Please register for this workshop session by sending an email to milena.leybold@uibk.ac.at including brief information on your career stage and research area (e.g., “junior, strategic management”). Deadline for registration: February 16, 2024.
A big thank you to the Dekanat Betriebswirtschaftslehre and EPOS for sponsoring the events!
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