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 2026 organizers
jairsantos@uneb.br
➤ SCOS board
scosboard@gmail.com
Recent Articles in C&O
Seeking immortality: an empirical exploration of the significance of work for the non-religious
This paper draws on in-depth interviews to explore whether work is metaphysically meaningful to ‘Nones’: those who do not have faith in religious traditions or spiritual movements. In particular, it asks how this meaning is a reflection of their beliefs, and why work is metaphysically meaningful if they deny religious and/or ...
Power, institutional protectionism and the disinclination of minoritised employees to raise complaints in UK universities
In UK universities, racism and microaggressions experienced by minoritised employees and their inclinations to raise informal and/or formal complaints, warrants further scrutiny due to the persistence of racism within society and Higher Education settings. Drawing from Critical Race Theory and adopting an Interpretative …
Out of breath! All the ‘time’: a cri(p)oetic exploration of ‘undefined’ dis/ability in the ableist world/academia
This paper confronts a dual failure in management and organization studies, which includes the inability of typical academic prose to articulate ‘undefined’ experiences of disability and the systemic silencing of racial-colonial debilitation. Through autobiographical cri(p)oetry, I explore the uneasiness of my …
A culture of reconciliation: talking about wages in a Czech factory context
The aim of this study is to examine the processes of sense-making around wages among working-class employees in a factory setting. Based on long-term participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the study finds a ‘culture of reconciliation’ characterized by wage inequalities, which are considered functional and …
Leadership development with reality TV: identity work with the Kardashians
As a form of popular culture, film provides alternative female role models often missing from leadership development programs, while generating affect and offering aesthetic experiences, making it a valuable resource for identity work. This study draws on the global phenomenon of the Kardashian – Jenner family and …
Alienation, identity, and resistance in Caio Fernando Abreu’s Morangos Mofados: insights for contemporary …
This article examines the socio-political dynamics of 1980s Brazil through Morangos Mofados (1982) by Caio Fernando Abreu. Composed of short stories, the collection portrays alienation, emotional fragmentation, and existential uncertainty within a society shaped by political transition, neoliberal reforms, and the …
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.