Keith,
I would think you would agree with what I think might be their guiding
principle, that the profit motive does not, de facto, solve the world's
prpoblems. They have a mail-list.
Harv
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Adler [mailto:
dr_adler@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 6:21 PM
To:
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES WORKSHOP IN CHICAGO (AUG 6-8)
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES WORKSHOP IN CHICAGO (AUG 6-8)
A number of Academy Divisions (BPS, CAR, GDO, HR, IM, MC, MED, MH,
OB,ODC, OM, OMT, ONE, PNP, RM, SIM, and TIM) are co-sponsoring the 2nd
Critical Management Studies Workshop on Aug 6-8 at part of the Academy
of Management meeting in Chicago. For a description of CMSW's aims,
information about our listserver, and a partial list of supporters, see
our website at
http://aom.pace.edu/cms/. An updated program is shown
BELOW.
We welcome proposals for the poster-paper and caucus sessions -- these
are particularly popular and important sessions in our program. The
submission deadline has been extended to July 1 - send us an abstract.
Preregistration and a fee will be required - see details BELOW.
Contact the program coordinator, Paul Adler, at
padler@usc.edu if you
are interested in participating.
All our sessions are designed as workshops, with no more than half the
allotted time devoted to presentations and the remainder to dialogue
among all the participants.
Background reading for many of the sessions will be made available on
our website.
PROGRAM
Fri (Aug 6) 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Doctoral workshop and working dinner
(DETAILS BELOW)
Sat (Aug 7) 7:30 - 8:00am: Breakfast, Opening and orientation to the
program
Sat 8:00 am - 11:00 am: Parallel topic workshop sessions:
* Critical traditions in the study of work organization: Chair: John
Jermier (USF), Panelists: Paul Thompson (Strathclyde): Marxist
perspectives, Graham Sewell (Melbourne): Foucauldian perspectives, Bill
Kaghan (Sakson & Taylor, Inc, Seattle, WA) Hughesian/Chicago School
perspectives. This session is
desinged as a tutorial/discussion of three key theoretical traditions.
Presentations and background readings will provide an overview of key
ideas and debates.
* Meet the Author: Sandy Jacoby (UCLA) on "Modern Manors." Chair:
Marleen O'Connor (Stetson). Panelists: Bill Domhoff (Santa Cruz),
Walter Nord (USF), Tom Kochan (MIT). The panelists will open a
discussion of Sandy's widely-acclaimed book on employee relations in
non-union settings.
* Doctoral workshop cont'd
Sat 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: lunch break
Sat 1:00 pm-4: 00 pm: Parallel topic workshop sessions:
* Foucault workshop: Chair: Ralph Stablein (U. Otago). Discussion
leaders: Steve Best (Texas, El Paso), David Knights (Keele). This
session is designed as a tutorial/introduction to Foucault's thought
and to its relevance to critical management studies. Discussion leaders
will review key ideas and debates, and facilitate a dialogue for both
novices and those more knowledgeable in this area.
* Teaching workshop: "Bringing critical perspectives into the
classroom." Panelists: Leon Levitt (Madonna), Hugh
Willmott(Manchester), Mary Jo Hatch (Cranfield), David Boje (New Mexico
State), Richard Marens (Washington), Dvora Yanow(Hayward).
This session will first discuss two recent critically oriented
textbooks, one by Mary Jo Hatch and the other a collection edited by
Hugh Willmott and Mats Alversson. Then we will discuss bringing
critical perspectives into our teaching in various kinds of
institutions -- small colleges, schools of public administration,
larger business schools -- and how these institutions -- and our
challenges -- are likely to evolve in the coming years.
* Work organization: "High performance work practices: what's in it for
workers?" Chair: Arne Kalleberg (UNC). Panelists: Eileen Applebaum
(EPI) and Peter Berg (MSU); Harvie Ramsay (Strathclyde), Dora
Scholarios (Strathclyde), and Bill Harley (Melbourne); Steve Frenkel
(AGSM). Speakers will present empirical research from several
industries and countries. This data will serve as a foundation for
discussion of a key controversial question for critical scholarship.
Sat 4:00-4:30: coffee break
Sat 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Plenary: writer and interviewer-extraordinaire,
Studs Terkel (Working, The Good War, Hard Times, etc.) will be
interviewed by Paul Hirsch. Friends of CMSW welcome!
Sat 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Reception, social time, and caucus and poster
session I. Friends of CMSW welcome! (So far, about 15 papers and
caucuses have been accepted for this session; more to come.)
Sun (Aug 8) 7:30 am - 9:00 am: breakfast, caucus and poster session II.
(So far, about 15 papers and caucuses have been accepted for this
session; more to come.)
Sun 9:00 am - 11:00 am: parallel topic workshop sessions:
* Researcher/movement collaborations: "The point is to change it!":
Chair: Rose Batt (Cornell). Panelists: Gil Preuss (Case Western
Reserve) and Jim Bielke, Ann Frost (Western Ontario) and Leo Gerard, C.
Sandberg (National Institute for Working Life, Sweden). This session
will discuss several collaborative research efforts bringing together
academics and people from the labor movement, leading to a broader
discussion on opportunities and impediments to these kinds of
collaborations.
* Gender and class: speakers: Maureen Scully (MIT), Evangelina Holvina
(Simmons), Irene Padavic (FSU). This session will open a discussion on
questions of gender and class as they are posed in a number of
settings.
* Critical perspectives on strategy: Chair: Stewart Clegg (UT Sydney).
Panelists: Barbara Townley (Alberta), Paul Hirsch (Northwestern), Nancy
DiTomaso (Rutgers). Speakers will propose several different ways in
which critically-oriented strategy scholarship could progress.
Sun 11:00 am - 12:00: CMSW organizational meeting
Sun pm: tour of some important sites in Chicago's working-class
history. Leaves the Hyatt at 12:30 (see BELOW)
CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES: DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
As part of the Critical Management Studies Workshop meeting at the
Academy of Management in Chicago, doctoral students and faculty are
meeting on Friday evening, August 6 and Saturday morning, August 7.
Last year's event was a highlight for participants! So we are looking
forward to an even better meeting this year. We will begin with dinner
and roundtable discussions on research issues on Friday and continue
with discussion of career issues on Saturday morning. Faculty will
include: Jim Barker, David Boje, Marta Calas, Mary Jo Hatch, Roy
Jacques, Debra Meyerson, Walter Nord, Michael Rosen, Linda Smircich,
Barbara Townley, Sandra Waddock, and Hugh Willmott. You can find more
information about the CMSW at our website,
http://aom.pace.edu/cms/.
For more details on this doctoral workshop, contact Erica Foldy at
Foldy@BC.EDU.
PREREGISTRATION FOR CHICAGO CMSW MEETING
If you are planning to join our Critical Management Studies Workshop in
Chicago, you will need to preregister, as we need to arrange and charge
a fee to cover catering costs.
To preregister, send me an email message and a contribution of $45 ($25
for students). Please make your check (or money order) payable to
"Academy of Management - CMS" and send it to Paul Adler, M&O Dept,
Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421.
Foreign participants may find it easier to pay on arrival with a
travellers check. But please pre-register with me and tell that this is
your intention.
If you are interested in participating in the Doctoral workshop, pls
contact Erica Foldy at
Foldy@bc.edu -- but you will also need to
preregister with me.
TOUR OF WORKING-CLASS CHICAGO
On Sunday afternoon, we have organized a tour focused on Chicago's
working-class history. Leah Axelrod, who works with "My Kind of Town"
tours and specializes in this kind of tour, will pick us up by bus from
the hotel at 12:30 and take them thru the following itinerary:
* Maxwell Street Market - open-air multiethnic neighborhood street
market -- people buy whatever they want to have for lunch from vendors
* narrated bus ride thru working class neighborhoods of "Battle of the
Viaduct" (1877) and Haymarket Affair (1886)
* visit Pullman District, the "model company town" built by George
Pullman in 1881 for the workers and their families -- and site of the
famous Pullman strike (see historical note below). Tour of facilities
and slideshow/presentation. (Some background on the Pullman strike is
available on the CMSW website.)
* visit Jane Addams Hull House -- the first "settlement house" in
America. Jane Addams sought to improve the quality of life of immigrant
workers and create a sympathetic climate for labor and union causes
* stop in at neighborhood Italian bakery (run by same family for 80
years). Demonstration, coffee, snacks.
* return to hotel at 5pm.
Families are welcome.
Fee: $38, includes entrance fees for visits and Italian bakery
refreshments, but not lunch.
You must pre-pay (or make prior arrangements directly with Leah to pay
on the spot).
Send your check made out to MKOT to Leah Axelrod at:
MKOT, 2100 Linden Av, Highland Park, IL 60035. Leah's phone number is
(847) 432-7003. Her fax is (847) 432-7703. Her email is
tourtime@worldnet.att.net.
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