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Reminder cfp: EGOS 2020 Sub-theme 50: Social-Symbolic Work for Societal Grand Challenges

  • 1.  Reminder cfp: EGOS 2020 Sub-theme 50: Social-Symbolic Work for Societal Grand Challenges

    Posted 01-03-2020 16:19

    A friendly reminder to consider submitting your paper to our EGOS 2020 Sub-theme 50: Social-Symbolic Work for Societal Grand Challenges: Constructing Sustainable Selves, Organizations, and Institutions

     

    In this sub-theme, we aim to explore how social-symbolic work is used to address (or undermine) the societal grand challenges that we must overcome to achieve a sustainable future. Such challenges include, but are not limited to, fostering equality in organizations, promoting the inclusion of stigmatized groups in society, providing good and affordable healthcare, and tackling climate change. We are interested in all forms of "work" including but, not limited to, identity work, diversity work, stigma work, institutional work, boundary work, and category work. This sub-theme builds on previously successful and enjoyable sub-themes at the 2017, 2018, and 2019 EGOS Colloquia. We would love to see previous sub-theme participants and welcome all newcomers!

     

    In keeping with the Colloquium theme of "Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance", we are interested in exploring how social-symbolic work is involved in constructing sustainable selves, organizations, and institutions.

     

    We recognize that there may be few existing studies that are explicitly focused on these relationships and so we encourage submissions that only partly address the questions and issues we are raising in this Call, with the understanding that selected presenters will be expected to revise their presentations to more closely connect with the focus of the sub-theme and the Colloquium. Finally, while we welcome theoretical explorations of social-symbolic work, we want to especially encourage empirical investigations that connect social-symbolic work to addressing societal grand challenges.

     

    If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us:

    Stephanie J. Creary, University of Pennsylvania, USA

    sjcreary@wharton.upenn.edu

     

    Tom Lawrence, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    tom.lawrence@sbs.ox.ac.uk

     

    Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    n.phillips@imperial.ac.uk

     



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    Stephanie Creary
    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia PA
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