{"id":362,"date":"2018-10-02T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/orgasoz\/?p=362"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T13:32:30","slug":"cfp-egos-2019-sub-theme-organization-and-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/orgasoz\/cfp-egos-2019-sub-theme-organization-and-decision","title":{"rendered":"CfP EGOS 2019 Sub-theme „Organization and Decision“"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

for the 35th<\/sup>\u00a0EGOS Colloquium in Edinburgh, July 4\u20136, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sub-theme 60: Organization and Decision: The Theoretical Challenge of a Changing World <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline for submission of short papers<\/strong>\u00a0is Monday,\u00a0January 14<\/strong>, 2019, 23:59 CET.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Convenors:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Cristina Besio<\/b><\/div>\n
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany<\/div>\n
cristina.besio@hsu-hh.de<\/a><\/div>\n
Niels Akerstr\u00f8m Andersen<\/b><\/div>\n
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark<\/div>\n
na.mpp@cbs.dk<\/a><\/div>\n
Michael Grothe-Hammer<\/b><\/div>\n
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany<\/div>\n
michael.grothe-hammer@hsu-hh.de<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Major changes have taken place in the organizational landscape in recent years because of the processes of growing complexity, globalization, and digitalization. Complexity in organizational environments leads to more organizational fluidity, and organizing seems to become more temporary, latent, modular, project-based, boundary-less, fluid, and partial (Ahrne et al., 2016; Br\u00e8s et al., 2018; Schrey\u00f6gg & Sydow, 2010). Large corporations are in decline, whereas the overall number of organizations worldwide is growing rapidly (King, 2017). Organizations coordinate among each other more and more globally as well as in network, latent, or Meta-forms of organization (Ahrne et al., 2016) \u2013 creating even more organizations. Moreover, digitalization is significantly affecting organizations in various forms. How organizations strategize, structure, and decide is increasingly driven by Big Data and algorithms (McAfee & Brynjolfsson, 2012). In the context of these rapid developments, established concepts of bureaucracy, formality, goal orientation, membership, and hierarchies lose their capability to grasp empirical reality, confronting scholars of organizational studies with severe theoretical challenges (Barley, 2016; Davis, 2015).<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, some scholars have started to update the notion of organization. One outcome of this movement is a resurgence of interest in a decision-based understanding of organization. Newer works connect to the classic theory of decision-making developed by James March and Herbert Simon (1993) and put to the core a communication-based understanding of the notion of decision.<\/p>\n

Within the increasingly internationally established \u201ccommunication constitutes organization\u201d (CCO) perspective (Boivin et al., 2017), a growing stream of research has begun to apply an understanding of organization based on decision communications (Schoeneborn, 2011). Scholars, for example, presented new insights on how agency in organizations is constructed by decisions (Blaschke, 2015) and on how fluid collectives construct and maintain their boundaries as organizations by decisions (Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015). Moreover, Ahrne and Brunsson (2011; forthcoming) introduced a definition of organization as decided social order \u2013 a view that has led to inquire such phenomena like membership-less collectives (Grothe-Hammer, forthcoming), intimate relationships, or markets as instances of organization (see Ahrne et al., 2016). Finally, yet importantly, a strong European sociological tradition, that is, the theory of autopoietic and decision-based organizations devised by Niklas Luhmann, has become increasingly popular in organization studies (Apelt et al., 2017; Besio & Meyer, 2015; Czarniawska, 2017; Grothe-Hammer & Berthod, 2017; Seidl & Becker, 2006). With the upcoming publication of the translation of Niklas Luhmann\u2019s (forthcoming) monograph \u201cOrganisation und Entscheidung\u201d\u00a0(Organization and Decision)<\/em>, which in its German original is already immensely famous in several parts of Europe, it is most likely that this discourse will experience a further boost in popularity.<\/p>\n

We believe that these new developments in organization theory provide a promising framework to address the outlined theoretical challenges. Our sub-theme aims to foster a discussion on how a decision-based view of organizations can provide new understandings to capture the abovementioned empirical developments to understand how organizations differ from other phenomena, such as networks or groups, to explain how new organizational forms operate, and to grasp how they affect society in general. Contributions can be conceptual, empirical, or methodological in nature and must address issues of organization theory (and not solely of organizational behavior).<\/p>\n

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n