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Welcome to SCOS!
SCOS is a global network of academics and practitioners,
who hail from a hugely diverse range of disciplines and
professional backgrounds. We were formed in 1981,
originally as an autonomous working group of the European
Group for Organization Studies, but have been an
independent academic venture for over 25 yearly
conferences. Our central interest is in the interlinked
issues of organizational symbolism, culture and change,
articulated in the broadest possible sense and informed by
our commitment to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
understandings of organization and management. Thus our
work draws, inter alia, from organization studies, social
anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy,
history, politics and social psychology.
The SCOS philosophy is 'serious fun', which perfectly
captures the experience of attending our annual
international conferences or regular workshops. Serious,
because we are dedicated to the development of unusual and
groundbreaking ideas in the analysis of organization,
organizing, management and managing. Fun, because the
members of our network provide a continual source of
enthusiasm, support and inspiration for each other: for
SCOS the social side of our activities is an essential -
indeed indistinguishable - element of our intellectual and
practical endeavours.
As well as our conferences and workshops, we also support
our official journal, Culture and Organization.
Published by Taylor and Francis, the journal was
launched in 1995. C&O represents a unique platform
for some of the most original and innovative
scholarship in the broad field of qualitative
management and organization studies. It exemplifies
the SCOS tradition of a critical approach to
qualitative research that crosses traditional
disciplinary and functional boundaries as well as
providing reflection on the forms this work takes, the
methods it adopts and the voices it represents.
Overall, the SCOS network, which comprises of hundreds of
members worldwide, aims to produce and progress
theoretically and practically innovative views of
organization and management, and in particular to encourage
and foster new approaches in the study of culture and
symbolism of everyday life in organizations. We encourage
discussion of marginalized perspectives on the
understanding of organized life, as well as consideration
of the ethico-political promise of such perspectives. Our
network has always provided an arena where the boundaries
of conventional thinking about organized life can be
challenged and blurred, and we are committed to sustaining
both continuity and development in our ever-growing field
of study. Finally, given our global reach, we also work to
enable the continued exchange of information and the
development of community amongst a highly dispersed group
of researchers, scholars and practitioners.
We can think of nothing we would like more than to welcome
you to SCOS. Come join us!