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
Notions of safety: observing cultural perspectives in a homeless youth hostel
The preservation of a person’s ontological security plays a vital role in the cultural formation of social groups. Using ethnographic data, the following paper demonstrates how young people, who reside in homeless hostels deal with feelings of anxiety and ontological insecurity. The paper argues that within the institutional setting of…
An empirical analysis of how national culture influences banks’ sustainability via ESG criteria
In today's world, addressing the topic of sustainability is crucial due to its profound impact on financial and non-financial corporations. Although interesting, previous studies underinvestigate the issue, especially concerning financial institutions and the potential impact of national context by means of culture. This paper aims …
Caring to write, writing to care: a feminist care approach to doctoral supervision in the intimate encounters of co-writing
My autoethnography examines intimate encounters of co-writing with four former doctoral students and how I juggled the ethical dilemma of performative ways of being in the neoliberal university juxtaposed with care for students and myself as women scholars. I do this from a feminist care perspective, barely considered in…
Performing intimate publics in academia: speak-writing as affective politics for sustainability transformation
Ecological and social systems are in poly-crisis, whose present is mediated not only materially but also affectively. This article introduces the concept of speak-write – a form of writing to be performed for an audience – to address affective states that belong to processes of transformation but are silenced in organisational…
When ‘struggling with English’ becomes ‘passivity’: how language asymmetries in higher education get masked as ‘cultural…
This paper contributes to the study of power imbalances in intercultural encounters by investigating the role of language differences in the construction and deconstruction of ‘cultural differences’. Adopting a Critical Discursive Psychological approach, it demonstrates how self- and other-perceived language ...
Friendships on the stage: co-writing feminist theatrical accounts
We, as friends, feminists, and Early Career Academics, explore the complex interplay between friendships and the Neoliberal University through an experimental genre blending text: a collaborative performance combining duoethnographic theater, poetry and artistic-academic writings. We offer intimate…
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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