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CfP: Living the Network: Practices of Connecting and Bridging at Work
(subtheme 49)
http://bitly.com/Q3DbG9
Extended abstracts due Jan 14, 2013
Full papers due May 30, 2013
European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
July 4–6, 2013
HEC Montréal, Canada
http://www.egosnet.org
CONVENORS
Maria Binz-Scharf, City College of New York,
mbinzscharf@ccny.cuny.edu
Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University,
emmanuelle.vaast@mcgill.ca
João Vieira da Cunha, School of Social and Political Sciences at
Technical University of Lisbon,
jvcunha@iscsp.utl.pt
CALL FOR PAPERS
In organizations, people from various cultures and worldviews need to
work together to achieve their own and their organization’s goals
(Armstrong and Cole 1995; Northcraft et al. 1995). Research has
emphasized how networks connect people and bridge various boundaries
keeping them apart (Brass et al. 2004; Tichy 1981). This subtheme
explores networks in organizations from a practice perspective that
views organizational networks as something that people do, instead of
something that people have. In a practice perspective, structures of
meanings, rules and norms are (re-) produced as people adopt, adapt,
and improvise practices to address their everyday challenges
(Orlikowski 2002). This approach has often been applied to prescribed
procedures and ties of authority and cooperation. Our subtheme calls
for practice-based research on the formation and negotiation of
informal ties.
Topics of interest include:
1. Practices of building and maintaining social ties among people who
do not have prescribed ties of authority and cooperation;
2. Practices of seeking and negotiating others’ help to address
challenges at work; i.e. how people use their networks;
3. Practices of bridging occupational cultures, worldviews and
geographic locations.
We intend to host conversations that uncover the practices that
generate and extend networks of informal relationships in
organizations. We call for original, theoretical and / or empirical
contributions that rely on a variety of methods and theories.
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Maria Binz-Scharf, PhD
Associate Professor of Management
City College of the City University of New York