The international conference “A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms” at Johannes Kepler University Linz is re-evaluating the importance of the works by Karl Polanyi for contemporary social theory and analysis. All submitted papers are openly available at the conference website.
My talk on “Sharing Economy between Commons and Commodification” (PDF of the paper) is scheduled for the session on Friday, January 12, 9.00 a.m. at Science Park 1, MT 132.
In the course of the joint research seminar by Julia Brandl and myself, we are happy to host Elke Schüßler, Professor on Organization at Johannes Kepler University Linz, with a guest lecture on “Focusing Events and Changes in the Governance of Garment Global Production Networks: The Case of Rana Plaza“.
Elke Schüßler does research and teaches on issues of management, focusing especially on dynamics of globalization, digitalization and climate change and the development of new forms of value creation. A particular interest revolves around the governance of organizations and interorganizational relationships on regional, national and transnational levels and the tension between path dependence and creativity in organizational and institutional change. She has recently co-edited a Special Issue on digital technology and creative industries in Technological Forecasting and Social Change and a book on new forms of value creation in the music industry. She is the winner of the Academy of Management Best Paper Award 2014 for her innovative research on UN climate conferences as field-configuring events.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, December 6, 2016, from 18:00-19:30 at SOWI SR 8 and it is open to anyone.
Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2016, 17:00 Uhr, findet im Kaiser-Leopold-Saal der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, A-6020 Innsbruck die Antrittsvorlesung von Richard Weiskopf zum Thema “Wieviel ‚Wahrheit’ verträgt die Organisation? Die Praktik der parrhesia als Herausforderung für moderne Organisation.”
Antrittsvorlesungen richten sich an ein breites Publikum und wir würden uns freuen, bekannte Gesichter aus der Organization Studies Innsbruck Community dort zu sehen.
Details und eine ausführliche Biographie von Richard Weiskopf finden sich im Flyer zur Veranstaltung. Um Anmeldung wird bis spätestens Freitag, 11. November 2016, an veranstaltung-bw@uibk.ac.at gebeten.
After Disneyworld Orlando in 2013, this year’s Academy of Management Annual meeting was again in a Disney resort, only this time in Anaheim, California. A lot happened during five days packed with workshops, meetings, presentations and, of course, receptions at the world’s largest gathering of management and organization scholars. What follows is a short list of my personal highlights at this year’s meeting:
I was honored to contribute to the first edition of the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group’s “Doctoral & Early Career Program” in a Professional Development Workshop on post-PhD career strategies.
At the end of March I was invited speaker at a workshop on “Balancing Intellectual Property Claims and the Freedom of Art and Communication” at Bielefeld University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). The talk was mainly based upon thoughts sketched out in two posts on “Algorithm Regulation” over at governance across borders:
Please find a video auf my talk and the respective slideshare embedded below:
Slides:
This is a crosspost from governance across borders.
Von 2. bis 4. Mai findet in Berlin bereits zum 10. Mal die als Blogger-Konferenz gestartete re:publica statt, die mittlerweile zur wohl größten Digitalkulturkonferenz Europas geworden ist. Das Themenspektrum ist dementsprechend breit und gemeinsam mit Volker Grassmuck, Kathrin Passig und Monic Meisel bin ich bei einem Panel rund um Bewegungen und digitale Communities sowie mit ihnen verbundene, formale Organisationen mit an Board. Aus der Ankündigung des martialisch betitelten Panels “Clash of Cultures“:
Wikipedia, Freifunk und der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk – drei Wissensinstitutionen, die dem Gemeinwohl, der res publica verpflichtet sind. So unterschiedlich sie sind, besteht das Verhältnis von Basis zu Institution jeweils aus den drei Schritten: Beauftragen, Bezahlen, Begutachten.
Zur Einstimmung auf die re:publica sei an dieser Stelle noch auf das Video meines letztjährigen Vortrags zur “Bewilligungskultur im Netz” verwiesen:
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