SCOS Update: January, part I
Happy new year to you all, and many best wishes for 2012! Here are three items to kick off the new year:
1) Professorships at Copenhagen Business School
2) A conference on management and film in Paris
3) The Second International Health at Work Workshop in Sweden
1) Professorships at Copenhagen Business School
2) A conference on management and film in Paris
3) The Second International Health at Work Workshop in Sweden
Item 1:
Three professorships and one associate professorship at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.
ICM carries out multidisciplinary research on the relationship between business and society. Its members study the interaction and intersection between organisational forms and practices in the socio-economic contexts in which they occur, using the lens of culture and communication to investigate organisations and the effect of organizations on society. Our findings and activities are of relevance to reflective business practitioners, as well as to academic colleagues at home and abroad.
The ICM department is announcing the following positions:
Professor in Business in Society
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Business in Society. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. The successful applicant will have an international profile, a strong record of research publications, and teaching experience in the interface between Governance and Management Studies with a strong orientation toward the broader societal role of business. S/he will be capable of providing dynamic leadership in the development of research and teaching in the field, in securing external research funding, and in establishing strong ties with industry.
Professorship in Communication and Organisation
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Communication and Organisation. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. The successful candidate’s research will be located at the interface between Organisational Communication, Corporate Communications and Organisation Studies. The successful candidate will provide a significant contribution to ICM’s research outputs. Moreover, candidates whose research is of relevance for the theory and practice of Corporate Social Responsibility will be preferred.
Professorship in Globalisation and Organisation
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Globalisation and Organisation. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. Candidates for the post should have a strong research record in studying the boundaries between Globalisation and Organisation Studies and a documented interest in studying the implications of globalisation for organisations and organisational life. Candidates with an orientation towards Business Anthropology or a Business in Society approach to his/her field will be preferred. The successful candidate will provide a significant contribution to ICM’s research outputs. Moreover, candidates whose research can be seen to be of relevance for two or more of ICM’s research groups will be preferred, e.g. Communication, Organisation & Governance; CBS’ CSR Centre; Creative Encounters; Center of Business and Development Studies.
Associate Professorship in Brazilian Business Development
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Associate Professorship in Brazilian Business Development. The successful candidate’s research will emphasize strategic, organisational and/or managerial aspects of business development in Brazil from a foreign market entry perspective and have a strong orientation toward understanding the particular societal, institutional and cultural context of business development in Brazil and more broadly, Latin America. It will be an advantage if the candidate has experience in conducting research on policy and governance related aspects of business development in emerging markets such as Brazil.
More information about the positions can be found at:
http://www.cbs.dk/Om-CBS-Campus/Jobs-paa-CBS/Ledige-stillinger
Item 2:
Conference on Management and Film: The pharmakon of film & new media
2-3 May 2012, American University of Paris, 6 rue Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris
Film has been lauded as a creative medium for expression and experimentation, and condemned as a carrier of consumerist ideology. If anything, opinions about the new media are even more extreme. Thus film and the new media can be thought of as a pharmakon --- a possibility and/or a blight, a valuable medium and/or a poison.
In fact, ever since Mickey Mouse appeared on the scene there has been fierce debate about the social/cultural/political significance of film and media. Walter Benjamin saw Mickey as an anti-establishment figure offering possibilities for rebellious anti-capitalist modeling. But film has more often been seen as ideological poison, indoctrinating the public in consumerist dreams and materialist passivity. And too often, current writing on the subject of management and film offer conventional organizational or managerialist approaches (e.g. Bell 2008), in confirmation of managerial clichés.
From Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ to Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ there has been a critical tradition in film showing organizational dysfunctionality and absurdity. But such films focused on plot and character development; and it is the question if contemporary media still represent these, or do the new media reject such Aristotelian categories of drama? While most organization theory and narrative is pervaded by a representative logic wherein intentionality and causes command the narrative line and every resource is aligned to serve explanative plot, the new media it can be claimed reject all such principles of explanation.
It has been asserted that film proposes a doubled and contradicted fable (Rancière, 2001); and that cinema exists in the gaps, tensions and operations (or alterations of resemblance) between dramatic line, play of images/angles, music, voices, speeds and movements (Rancière, 2011). Some argue that moviemakers and cinematographic theorists, have the power to embark on new adventures of thought, having invented images and signs, and brought novel concepts and fresh perspectives (Deleuze, 1983, 1985). But is this celebration of the art film justified or relevant? Has not Hollywood propaganda, which markets soporifics for the consumer society, really always dominated?
Is film as a carrier of plot and character a technologically and culturally outdated and increasingly irrelevant media? And do not the new media champion a decentered self with a compulsive and addictive hold on attention, while selling violent and primitive storylines to socially dysfunctional monads?
We would like to take the opportunity of this conference to discuss and challenge organization theory and its pedagogy by examining the challenges presented by cinematographic images, concepts, and culture and/or by new forms of media (internet, on-demand, paid content, video games etc.).
In particular, we are interested in the following:
· How does the cinematographic fable affect views and stories about management and organizations?
· Can new insights be imported from the movie sphere?
· Are traditional forms of film narrative and character development dead in the landscape of new media?
· Do new media outlets offer pedagogical opportunities/traps heretofore unconsidered in the field of management and organization?
· Can film and/or new media be used to challenge traditional management thought and its pedagogy?
· Critical approaches and perspectives to management, film, pedagogy in a new media context.
· Does film and new media in management pedagogy do more harm than good by strengthening consumerism?
Deadline for abstracts is 15 February 2012. The final selection of papers and presentations will be by 1 March, 2012. Abstracts may be submitted in French, English or Dutch. Presentations of papers are to be in English. Approximately, 15-18 papers can be accepted for presentation.
The conference will take place 2-3 May in Paris. Approximately, 15-18 papers can be accepted for presentation.
Selected papers will be published in a special edition of a journal or a book. A book contract from an American publisher has been offered to us. More specific information will be available on the publication plans in early 2012.
Organizing Committee
Robert Earhart, American University of Paris
Rémi Jardat, ISTEC
Hugo Letiche, UvH Utrecht
Geoff Lightfoot, University of Leicester
Simon Lilley, University of Leicester
Jean-Luc Moriceau, Institut Telecom/Telecom Business School
Yvon Pesqueux, CNAM
Richard Soparnot, ESCEM
Contact and paper / abstract submission
Prof. Robert Earhart, American University of Paris
6 rue Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris, France
rearhart@aup.fr
+33 6 25 20 44 20
References
Bell, E (2008) Reading Management & Organization in Film London: Palgrave.
Deleuze, G (1983) L’image-Mouvement, Paris: Les éditions de minuit.
---- (1985), L’image-Temps, Paris: Les éditions de minuit.
Rancière, J (2001) La Fable cinématographique, Paris : Les éditions du Seuil
---- (2011) Les écarts du cinéma, Paris: La Fabrique éditions
Item 3:
Welcome to join us for the Second International Health at Work Workshop, 19-20th April 2012, Stockholm University School of Business, Stockholm, Sweden. This year’s topic is Workplace Health Promotion between Bodily Affects and Capitalist Politics.
We invite health researchers and professionals across disciplines to join our group of Swedish and international organizational researchers to critically interrogate the bodily, managerial and political-economic aspects of workplace health promotion under contemporary capitalism.
Whilst health and wellbeing are heralded as strategic factors in the management and growth of organizations, industries and economies, workplace health promotion has taken on a significant role in the management of people and organizations. Whether or not workplace health promotion really creates healthier, happier and more productive employees, more organizations seem to invest more time and money in promoting the health and wellbeing of their employees. This workshop therefore attempts to:
· examine how people manage, enact and challenge workplace health promotion
· address the bodily and emotional feelings that people experience in relation to workplace health promotion and health activities at work
· interrogate the economic logic and labour process which surrounds workplace health promotion under contemporary capitalism
Confirmed speakers and topics
Health and biomorality under capitalism – Dr Carl Cederström, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff
Healthy elites – Professor Mikael Holmqvist & Ms Janet Johanson, Stockholm University School of Business
Workplace health promotion and the capitalist labour process – Dr Christian Maravelias, Stockholm University School of Business
One or many healths? – Professor Iain Munro, Universität Innsbrück
Employee embodiment and emotion in workplace health promotion – Professor Torkild Thanem & Mr Carl Lundevi, Stockholm University School of Business
Workshop sessions
During the conference there will also be two interactive workshop sessions. Here speakers and participants will have the opportunity to explore areas for further research along with methodological and theoretical challenges in critical health promotion research.
Practicalities
The workshop takes place at Konferens 7A, Strandvägen 7a, Stockholm. 19th of April 09.00-17.00 and 20th of April 09.00-13.00.
The conference is free of charge if attending. A no-show or cancellation after the registration deadline will be charged with SEK 1,000. Substitutes are welcome.
The registration deadline is February 28th. For registration or any other practical issues please contact Mr Carl Lundevi on clu@fek.su.se. The number of participants is limited.
Organizing committee
Professor Torkild Thanem (chair) and Mr Carl Lundevi, Stockholm University; Ms Lisbeth Rydén, Lund University.
Three professorships and one associate professorship at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.
ICM carries out multidisciplinary research on the relationship between business and society. Its members study the interaction and intersection between organisational forms and practices in the socio-economic contexts in which they occur, using the lens of culture and communication to investigate organisations and the effect of organizations on society. Our findings and activities are of relevance to reflective business practitioners, as well as to academic colleagues at home and abroad.
The ICM department is announcing the following positions:
Professor in Business in Society
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Business in Society. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. The successful applicant will have an international profile, a strong record of research publications, and teaching experience in the interface between Governance and Management Studies with a strong orientation toward the broader societal role of business. S/he will be capable of providing dynamic leadership in the development of research and teaching in the field, in securing external research funding, and in establishing strong ties with industry.
Professorship in Communication and Organisation
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Communication and Organisation. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. The successful candidate’s research will be located at the interface between Organisational Communication, Corporate Communications and Organisation Studies. The successful candidate will provide a significant contribution to ICM’s research outputs. Moreover, candidates whose research is of relevance for the theory and practice of Corporate Social Responsibility will be preferred.
Professorship in Globalisation and Organisation
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Professorship in Globalisation and Organisation. The position is a full Professorship with research and teaching obligations. Candidates for the post should have a strong research record in studying the boundaries between Globalisation and Organisation Studies and a documented interest in studying the implications of globalisation for organisations and organisational life. Candidates with an orientation towards Business Anthropology or a Business in Society approach to his/her field will be preferred. The successful candidate will provide a significant contribution to ICM’s research outputs. Moreover, candidates whose research can be seen to be of relevance for two or more of ICM’s research groups will be preferred, e.g. Communication, Organisation & Governance; CBS’ CSR Centre; Creative Encounters; Center of Business and Development Studies.
Associate Professorship in Brazilian Business Development
Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) invite applications for a vacant Associate Professorship in Brazilian Business Development. The successful candidate’s research will emphasize strategic, organisational and/or managerial aspects of business development in Brazil from a foreign market entry perspective and have a strong orientation toward understanding the particular societal, institutional and cultural context of business development in Brazil and more broadly, Latin America. It will be an advantage if the candidate has experience in conducting research on policy and governance related aspects of business development in emerging markets such as Brazil.
More information about the positions can be found at:
http://www.cbs.dk/Om-CBS-Campus/Jobs-paa-CBS/Ledige-stillinger
Item 2:
Conference on Management and Film: The pharmakon of film & new media
2-3 May 2012, American University of Paris, 6 rue Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris
Film has been lauded as a creative medium for expression and experimentation, and condemned as a carrier of consumerist ideology. If anything, opinions about the new media are even more extreme. Thus film and the new media can be thought of as a pharmakon --- a possibility and/or a blight, a valuable medium and/or a poison.
In fact, ever since Mickey Mouse appeared on the scene there has been fierce debate about the social/cultural/political significance of film and media. Walter Benjamin saw Mickey as an anti-establishment figure offering possibilities for rebellious anti-capitalist modeling. But film has more often been seen as ideological poison, indoctrinating the public in consumerist dreams and materialist passivity. And too often, current writing on the subject of management and film offer conventional organizational or managerialist approaches (e.g. Bell 2008), in confirmation of managerial clichés.
From Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ to Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ there has been a critical tradition in film showing organizational dysfunctionality and absurdity. But such films focused on plot and character development; and it is the question if contemporary media still represent these, or do the new media reject such Aristotelian categories of drama? While most organization theory and narrative is pervaded by a representative logic wherein intentionality and causes command the narrative line and every resource is aligned to serve explanative plot, the new media it can be claimed reject all such principles of explanation.
It has been asserted that film proposes a doubled and contradicted fable (Rancière, 2001); and that cinema exists in the gaps, tensions and operations (or alterations of resemblance) between dramatic line, play of images/angles, music, voices, speeds and movements (Rancière, 2011). Some argue that moviemakers and cinematographic theorists, have the power to embark on new adventures of thought, having invented images and signs, and brought novel concepts and fresh perspectives (Deleuze, 1983, 1985). But is this celebration of the art film justified or relevant? Has not Hollywood propaganda, which markets soporifics for the consumer society, really always dominated?
Is film as a carrier of plot and character a technologically and culturally outdated and increasingly irrelevant media? And do not the new media champion a decentered self with a compulsive and addictive hold on attention, while selling violent and primitive storylines to socially dysfunctional monads?
We would like to take the opportunity of this conference to discuss and challenge organization theory and its pedagogy by examining the challenges presented by cinematographic images, concepts, and culture and/or by new forms of media (internet, on-demand, paid content, video games etc.).
In particular, we are interested in the following:
· How does the cinematographic fable affect views and stories about management and organizations?
· Can new insights be imported from the movie sphere?
· Are traditional forms of film narrative and character development dead in the landscape of new media?
· Do new media outlets offer pedagogical opportunities/traps heretofore unconsidered in the field of management and organization?
· Can film and/or new media be used to challenge traditional management thought and its pedagogy?
· Critical approaches and perspectives to management, film, pedagogy in a new media context.
· Does film and new media in management pedagogy do more harm than good by strengthening consumerism?
Deadline for abstracts is 15 February 2012. The final selection of papers and presentations will be by 1 March, 2012. Abstracts may be submitted in French, English or Dutch. Presentations of papers are to be in English. Approximately, 15-18 papers can be accepted for presentation.
The conference will take place 2-3 May in Paris. Approximately, 15-18 papers can be accepted for presentation.
Selected papers will be published in a special edition of a journal or a book. A book contract from an American publisher has been offered to us. More specific information will be available on the publication plans in early 2012.
Organizing Committee
Robert Earhart, American University of Paris
Rémi Jardat, ISTEC
Hugo Letiche, UvH Utrecht
Geoff Lightfoot, University of Leicester
Simon Lilley, University of Leicester
Jean-Luc Moriceau, Institut Telecom/Telecom Business School
Yvon Pesqueux, CNAM
Richard Soparnot, ESCEM
Contact and paper / abstract submission
Prof. Robert Earhart, American University of Paris
6 rue Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris, France
rearhart@aup.fr
+33 6 25 20 44 20
References
Bell, E (2008) Reading Management & Organization in Film London: Palgrave.
Deleuze, G (1983) L’image-Mouvement, Paris: Les éditions de minuit.
---- (1985), L’image-Temps, Paris: Les éditions de minuit.
Rancière, J (2001) La Fable cinématographique, Paris : Les éditions du Seuil
---- (2011) Les écarts du cinéma, Paris: La Fabrique éditions
Item 3:
Welcome to join us for the Second International Health at Work Workshop, 19-20th April 2012, Stockholm University School of Business, Stockholm, Sweden. This year’s topic is Workplace Health Promotion between Bodily Affects and Capitalist Politics.
We invite health researchers and professionals across disciplines to join our group of Swedish and international organizational researchers to critically interrogate the bodily, managerial and political-economic aspects of workplace health promotion under contemporary capitalism.
Whilst health and wellbeing are heralded as strategic factors in the management and growth of organizations, industries and economies, workplace health promotion has taken on a significant role in the management of people and organizations. Whether or not workplace health promotion really creates healthier, happier and more productive employees, more organizations seem to invest more time and money in promoting the health and wellbeing of their employees. This workshop therefore attempts to:
· examine how people manage, enact and challenge workplace health promotion
· address the bodily and emotional feelings that people experience in relation to workplace health promotion and health activities at work
· interrogate the economic logic and labour process which surrounds workplace health promotion under contemporary capitalism
Confirmed speakers and topics
Health and biomorality under capitalism – Dr Carl Cederström, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff
Healthy elites – Professor Mikael Holmqvist & Ms Janet Johanson, Stockholm University School of Business
Workplace health promotion and the capitalist labour process – Dr Christian Maravelias, Stockholm University School of Business
One or many healths? – Professor Iain Munro, Universität Innsbrück
Employee embodiment and emotion in workplace health promotion – Professor Torkild Thanem & Mr Carl Lundevi, Stockholm University School of Business
Workshop sessions
During the conference there will also be two interactive workshop sessions. Here speakers and participants will have the opportunity to explore areas for further research along with methodological and theoretical challenges in critical health promotion research.
Practicalities
The workshop takes place at Konferens 7A, Strandvägen 7a, Stockholm. 19th of April 09.00-17.00 and 20th of April 09.00-13.00.
The conference is free of charge if attending. A no-show or cancellation after the registration deadline will be charged with SEK 1,000. Substitutes are welcome.
The registration deadline is February 28th. For registration or any other practical issues please contact Mr Carl Lundevi on clu@fek.su.se. The number of participants is limited.
Organizing committee
Professor Torkild Thanem (chair) and Mr Carl Lundevi, Stockholm University; Ms Lisbeth Rydén, Lund University.