Dear All,
*Apologies for Cross postings!*
Please find below the links to the Calls for Papers for the nine streams that will form the 2011 APROS (Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies) Conference to be held on the Auckland University of Technology's central city campus Nov29-Dec 1 2011. Abstracts for APROS 2011 are due to the stream convenors by April 1, 2011.
Please note the 2011 ANZAM Conference at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand will be held in the following week (December 6-9).
APROS 2011 Streams:
1. Rethinking the Business School
o Recent advances in management education research have highlighted the need to rethink the purpose of business schools . .
o Convenors: Anabella Davila, Maribel Blasco, Laura Zappa-Cantu and Jacobo Ramirez)
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1-Rethinking-the-business-school_cfp_APROS-2011.pdf
2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Processes
o The importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and small firm growth to economies is undisputed. Entrepreneurship and innovation is embedded in local environments, requires local legitimacy, resource mobilization and agency to surmount significant barriers to market, whether in localized or across international markets . . .
o Convenors: Martie-Louise Verreynee, Marcus Ho and Retha de Villiers Scheepers
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2_Innovate-and-Entrepreneurship_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-2.pdf
3. Liminal Organizing: Daring to Imagine and the Power of Ideas
o Imagination is the supreme human capacity enabling us to transcend limitations and convert 'absence into presence, actuality into potentiality, what-is into something-other-than-it-is' . . . .
o Convenors: Arne Carlsen, Stewart Clegg, Elena Antonacopoulou, Kjersti Bjorkeng and Tyrone Pitsis
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3_Daring-to-imagine_cfp_APROS-2011-Stream-3.pdf
4. Art and Design in Management
o ' Discussion on the use of art in management has grown exponentially in the last few years. . . '
o Convenors: Damian Ruth and Ralph Bathurst
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/4_Art-in-Management_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-4.pdf
5. (re)Organizing Cosmopolitanisms
o ' Cosmopolitanism is figured in multiple ways across disciplines as an ethical challenge to processes and practices of totalitarianism, globalisation, localisation, citizenship, diaspora, boundaries and figurations of the 'other'. . . .'
o Convenors: Paul White, Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/5_Cosmopolitanism_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-5.pdf
6. From the Outside-In: Re-Historicizing and Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies
o ' Until quite recently we might have been forgiven for imagining that management and organisation studies (MOS), and even professional management practice itself, were the inventions of North Atlantic elites. . . . '
o Convenors: Bob Westwood and Gavin Jack
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/6_Organization-Studies-from-the-Periphery_cfp_APROS-2011_Stream-6.pdf
7. Topography and Organization
o 'Topography in organisational studies has to do with the study of role of place in organizing. . . .'
o Convenors: Janet Sayers, Bronwyn Boon and Wendelin Kupers
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/7_Topography-and-Organisation_cfp_APROS-2011-stream-7.pdf
8. Local Organizing and Sustainability: What's possible?
o 'Sustainability, or the 'S' word, is in danger of being overused to the point of meaning everything and nothing. But as a concept, it seriously does matter when one's local environment or experience of the global commons is degraded or impinged upon, now or for future generations. . . .'
o Convenors: Sara Walton and Kate Kearins
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/8_Organizing-for-Sustainability_cfp_APROS-2011_stream-8.pdf
9. Open Stream
o The Open Stream welcomes papers that address a current research theme, issue or problem in the organization studies field . . (Convenors: Deborah Jones and Todd Bridgman).
o http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/9_Open-Stream_-cfp_APROS_-2011_Stream-9.pdf
All Calls for Papers (3mb, need Adobe Reader 9+)
http://www.apros.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/APROS-Call-for-papers.pdf
Please contact stream convenors for further stream details.
Conference details please email: APROS14.NewZealand@massey.ac.nz
Website: http://www.apros.org/
With kind regards
Craig Prichard (School of Management, Massey University)
On behalf of the Conference committee:
• Kate Kearins (AUT)
• Ella Henry (AUT)
• Janet Sayers (Massey)
• Damian Ruth (Massey)
• Deborah Jones (Victoria)
• Todd Bridgeman (Victoria)
• Wayne Pihema (Victoria)