Global Community Where Serious Ideas Meet Fun Collaboration!
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 Organizational 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 enthu-siasm, 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.
Contact
➤ SCOS 2025 organizers
panayiotou.alexia@ucy.ac.cy
➤ SCOS board
scosboard@gmail.com
Recent Articles in C&O
On the persistence of gender inequality: the case of informal workload allocation in a research-intensive university in the UK
This paper extends Martin’s framework of ‘practicing gender’ by showing how practices of informal workload allocation often contribute to reproducing the gender order, even in an organisation that claims to be committed to equality. As a case, the paper analyses informal workload allocation .…
The experiences of a transgender woman in Brazilian accounting: an autoethnography
In this article, I present an autoethnography of my experiences as a white transgender woman in corporate and university environments in the accounting field in Brazil. To do so, I use reflexivity to question and denounce the oppressive structures present in accounting with the theoretical support of Transfeminism, which …
Enterprising subjects and gendered-ageing: economization of gendered life course and career temporalities among …
This article theorizes the economization of gendered-aged life courses and careers as a temporal technology of the self, mobilized by enterprising subjects to navigate the competing temporal demands of heteropatriarchal masculinity/femininity and career stages. Through a qualitative analysis of the …
Going pro in the business of influence: unfolding influencers’ trajectories through influencing capital
This study examines the rise and professionalisation of fashion influencers, focusing on their visibility and legitimacy achieved through professional content production and social media monetisation. It draws on the concept of ‘trajectories’ to capture the dynamic nature of influencers’ professional …
This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics
In this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as Early Career Academics (ECAs) at a Dutch University to demonstrate our complex relationship between academic life and parenthood. Building on the sensemaking literature, we employ a collective autoethnography to unveil six distinct new parent scripts that...
Backlash against wokeness in contemporary organizational fields: a critical discourse analysis of anti-woke ...
In this paper, we focus on backlash against wokeness as a phenomenon that contributes to the denial of the ubiquity of racism in contemporary organizational fields. We conduct a critical discourse analysis of these anti-woke discourses that play out at the macro-level (politicians) and meso-level (university presidents)…
Special Events Fund
The SCOS philosophy is ‘serious fun’. Serious, because we are dedicated to the development of unusual and groundbreaking ideas in the analysis of organised life. Fun, because our members 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.
To encourage the development of often marginalised perspectives on organised life, and the ethico-political promises of such perspectives, the SCOS Board is delighted to offer funding for ‘special events’. The Special Events Fund will be offered every year although the total amount disbursed will depend on the surplus available. Events should challenge and blur the boundaries of conventional thinking in keeping with the SCOS ethos of ‘serious fun’.
“Serious Fun; Innovating with Purpose.”
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