Dear Colleagues,
In today's climate of recurrent economic and financial crises, institutional instability, and sudden and dramatic geopolitical changes, the study of organizational resilience has become critical. Organizations and their members continuously confront a wide range of adverse events. While the majority of these events occur frequently, and trigger routine responses, others pose significant threats to organizational adaptation and survival. These severe adversities are experienced by individuals and organizations in terms of high stresses and strains. Scholars and practitioners report that the typical response to such pressures is a rigid one, characterized by the narrowing of knowledge sharing, the tightening of control, and conservation of resources. However, some individuals and organizations develop the ability to recover quickly from high-impact disruptions, and even to thrive in such conditions. Why some organizations and individuals exhibit a rigid, maladaptive response to adversity while others adapt and flourish remains uncertain.
The positive adjustments in responses to challenging situations have been studied under the concept of organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is not a fixed trait that can be deterministically found in some extraordinary individuals or organizations. Rather, it is a purposefully developed set of practices and processes that help individuals and organizations alike cope with adverse situations, emerging with a greater repertoire of skills and knowledge. While, developing organizational resilience does not guarantee that adverse situations will be overcome, it maximizes the probability of a successful adaptive resolution.
In the face of recurrent economic, political and financial crises, examining how individuals, groups, and/or organizations adapt and develop becomes critical. Studies of organizational resilience should also take into consideration the cognitive, behavioural and contextual dynamics that constitute resilient responses. Finally, this view of organizing resilience should focus not only on individual, group, and organizational practices, but also on aspects of resilience affecting the broader society.
LAEMOS is the premier conference on Latin American and European Organization Studies. Its purpose is to strengthen the Latin America-Europe scholarly link by encouraging interdisciplinary studies of organizations in Latin American and European societies. The conference takes place every two years and its previous editions have been held in countries like Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba.
The 2018 conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between March 22-24, 2018, under the theme "Organizing for Resilience – Scholarship in unsettled times". The meeting will be hosted by IAE Business School (http://iae.edu.ar/en/Pages/default.aspx).
Conference website is: https://www.laemos2018.com/
We encourage you to participate and submit your ongoing work! The sub-themes of LAEMOS 2018 are listed on the link below:
https://www.laemos2018.com/sub-themes
Deadlines
Abstract submission (up to 1000 words): October 10, 2017
Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2017
Submission of full paper: March 10, 2018
Please note:
+Abstracts of up to 1000 words should be submitted here (http://os-workshop.com/laemos2018-abstractsubmitform/laemos2018-abstractsubmitform.html)
+The abstracts should include the name and email address of the author(s). Please, contact the convening team in case you want to send your abstract in Spanish, Portuguese or French. Prior LAEMOS experiences suggest that to interact with most of the attendees, it is better to present your work in English.
+In case that your abstract were accepted by the subtheme convenors, you are then expected to upload a full paper version via www.laemos.com website form by March 10, 2018 – which you will present in your sub-theme at the LAEMOS Conference 2018 in Buenos Aires.
For more information, don't hesitate to contact the Local Organizing & International Advising Committee via e-mail: laemos2018@gmail.com
Best Regards,
Tomas Farchi
Pablo Fernandez
Natalia Weisz
Ignasi Marti
Daniel Friel
Gerald A. McDermott
&
Silvia Dorado
David Courpasson
Silviya Svejenova
Marcela Mandiola
Markus A. Höllerer
Julia Brandl