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Organization Studies Special Issue | Call for Papers
Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division, and Displacement
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2018
Guest Editors
W.E. Douglas Creed | University of Rhode Island, USA & University of Melbourne, Australia
Barbara Gray | Pennsylvania State University, USA
Charlotte M. Karam | American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Markus A. Höllerer | WU Vienna, Austria & UNSW Sydney, Australia
Trish Reay | University of Alberta, Canada
The world today is experiencing jarring manifestations of disruption, division, and displacement, making for a troika of societal and institutional upheaval. In its 2018 Report on Global Risks, the World Economic Forum identified risks stemming from disruptions in five distinct categories: economical, technological, environmental, geopolitical, and social. In terms of economic risks, inequality in wealth distribution is increasing across the globe (Anand & Segal, 2015); Oxfam reports that the richest 1% has accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world's population combined (BBC News, 2016). Technological risks threaten privacy and security of individuals, organizations, and nations. Extreme weather conditions and the failure to mitigate climate change are among the most pressing environmental risks. Finally, a rise in religious and national identity conflicts has created geopolitical and social risks resulting in a substantial increase in global migration and a variety of tensions and fault lines. According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, there is an estimated 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons in the world, with 21.3 million numbering as refugees. Forces such as populism, nationalism, coupled with increasing economic inequity, sectarianism, and extreme political polarization look to be undermining the 'habits of the heart' that are fundamental to democracy (Putnam, 2000). Some even argue that the very heart of democracy is in need of healing and we must work for a politics commensurate with human dignity (Palmer, 2011). Separately and together, patterns of disruption, division, and displacement will likely rock global society for the foreseeable future – and call for robust organizational and/or institutional responses.
For this Organization Studies Special Issue, we encourage organizational scholars to address these and related grand challenges through the development of research that attempts to further investigate and better understand such disruption, division, and displacement as well as its consequences from varied perspectives and levels of analysis. With this call for papers, we hope to foster academic attention to this broad topical area. Consistent with the mandate of Organization Studies, we aim to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized, and the social relevance of that understanding in relation to the challenges identified here.
Submissions
To be considered for publication in the Special Issue, papers must be submitted via the OS website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies by October 31, 2018. There you can also find guidelines for submission and information on the review procedures.
For any questions contact: douglascreed@uri.edu
Full CFP is available: http://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/OSS/CfP_Social_Intstitutional_Change-1530525245800.pdf
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Charlotte Karam
American University of Beirut
Beirut
+961 137 4374 x3764
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