Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 22-26, 2008
Pre-conference:
What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency, and Discourse
Wednesday and Thursday, May 21-22, 2008 - 9:00-5:00PM HEC Montréal
Sponsored Sessions Chair - François Cooren, U de Montreal, CANADA
Participants
Barbara Czarniawska, U of Goteborg, SWEDEN
Bruno Latour, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, FRANCE
Haridimos Tsoukas, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, GREECE
Linda L. Putnam, U of California, Santa Barbara, USA
James R. Taylor, U de Montreal, CANADA
Leading international scholars from various disciplines will gather in Montreal, Canada, to discuss and debate central issues of contemporary organization theory. Obviously, the concept of an organization as primarily a social and economic reality has been challenged from many sides in the past 20 years. Critics coming from various fields of the social sciences (sociology of science, anthropology, discourse analysis, and semiotics, among others) have offered new metaphors and constructs to recast the reality of contemporary organizations in very different realms: culture and meaning, interaction and discourse, and materiality and artifacts, among others. The work of James R. Taylor is an outstanding example of an attempt at synthesizing these various trends in a conception of organization that gives new meaning to basic concepts of organizational studies such as agency, conversation, text, and materiality. With a view to advance the discussion on the fundamental issues of the nature of organizing, agency, and text, this conference brings together the contributions of leaders in the fields of communication
Program of Organizational Communication Division:
Multiple Perspectives on Organizational Crisis and Change, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:00-10:15AM - Hemon Room
Researching Organizational Socialization, Idenitification, and Commitment, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:30-11:45AM - Hemon Room
Theory and Research in Organizational Leadership Studies, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:30-11:45AM - Salon 6
Why Institutions Matter: Considering Macro Phenomena in Organizational Communication Research, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 2:30-2:45PM - Hemon Room
Top Three Papers in Organizational Communication, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 3:00-4:15PM - Hemon Room
Organizational Communication Division Business Meeting, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 4:30-5:45PM - Hemon Room
Organizational Communication Division Reception, Friday, May 23, 2008 - 6:00-7:15PM - Hemon Room
Organizational Communication in China: On a Society in Transition and Rapid Development, Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 9:00-10:15AM - Hemon Room
The Use of Complexity Science in Applied Organizational Settings, Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 10:30-11:45AM - Hemon Room
Organizational Communication and Work-Life Issues, Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 1:30-2:45PM - Hemon Room
Sense-Making and Organizing: Multiple Perspectives, Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 3:00-4:15PM - Hemon Room
Perspectives on Communication Technology and Organizing, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:00-10:15AM - Salon 6
The Social Impact of Strategies and Tactics in Activist Organizing, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 9:00-10:15AM - Hemon Room
Problems and Possibilities in Group-Based Organizing, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 10:30-11:45AM - Hemon Room
Scholar to Scholar: A Plenary Interactive Paper Poster Session, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 12:00N-1:15PM - Ballroom East
Beyond the Profit Motive: Values-Based Organizing, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 1:30-2:45PAM - Hemon Room
Examining Social Justice in Multiple Organizational Forms: Nonprofits, Community Groups, NGOs, and For-Profits, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 3:00-4:15PM - Hemon Room
Researching the Virtual Organization, Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 4:30-5:45PM - Hemon Room
Discursive Approaches to Organizing: Advances in Theory and Research, Monday, May 26, 2008 - 9:00-10:15AM - Hemon Room
Constructing the Employee: Multiple Approaches to Workplace Communication, Monday, May 26, 2008 - 10:30-11:45AM - Hemon Room
Current Research on Network-Based Approaches to Organizational Communication, Monday, May 26, 2008 - 12:00N-1:15PM - Hemon Room
ICA Division IV Paper Readers, 2007-2008
Slate Approved at the Business Meeting, May 2007, San Francisco, CA
Nominating Committee: Marya Doerfel (Rutgers University),
Joel Iverson (Texas A&M University), Stacey Connaughton
(Purdue University)