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
Backlash against wokeness in contemporary organizational fields: a critical discourse analysis of anti-woke discourses in...
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)…
From vision to action: fostering a culture of sustainability in organisations
This article explores the concept of culture of sustainability in various contexts, considering different definitions of sustainability, such as environmental, social, and economic. Sustainable choices require radical change to the extent that companies must change their organisational structure and strategies to promote…
The worker-priests: care as a composition of love and solidarity
This article explores the moral lessons organization studies can draw from the worker-priest movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The first section gives an account of the worker-priests and their organization in France. The second section, drawing on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and Leonardo Boff…
‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop
Drawing on a 10-month ethnographic study of a private prison in the UK, this paper examines how humour is used between prisoners and prison staff to negotiate working relationships in prison. We show how both the presence and absence of humour can shape power relations. Three situations are presented to understand…
Studying the moments of encounter and (im)mobilities in artists’ creative processes
This article advances management and organization (MOS) research on the everyday creative process through an explorative study of artists. In this paper, we investigate moments of encounter–the coming together of different bodies and forces that create change in processes. We explore how encounters are enacted by…
Between co and solo writing: experimenting with constraint, composition, and community through writing 100s
In this article, we describe what we’ve learned about writing through the development of our academic-creative writing group, a community initiated during the first lockdown of Spring 2020. Called The 100s, we adopted and adapted a format of writing popularised by the writer-theorists Lauren Berlant and Kathleen...
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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For matters related to the conference of this year, please email the conference organizers’ email mentioned above.