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CfP EGOS 2022: Performing Creativity, Innovation and Change: Communicating to Reconfigure the Organization

  • 1.  CfP EGOS 2022: Performing Creativity, Innovation and Change: Communicating to Reconfigure the Organization

    Posted 10-15-2021 09:25

    Dear colleagues and friends,

    We hope that you will consider joining us at EGOS 2022 in Vienna for the inaugural sub-theme of the new Communication, Performativity and Organization (CPO) standing working group (SWG), Performing creativity, innovation and change: Communicating to reconfigure the organization.

    This first sub-theme will invite participants to reflect on a key feature of performative theorizing: what it means to do something "new" if nothing is ever permanent (Cooren & Matte, 2010; Taylor & Van Every, 2011). The sub-theme will challenge traditional conceptions of the role of communication, as transmitting manager-initiated decisions to change to other parts of the organization. Instead, a performative view shows that communication performatively brings about change in a continuous way, making salient the dual issue of creating stability and of distinguishing a recognizably "new" reality from an older one (Ford & Ford, 1995). 

    You can read the full call on the EGOS website.

    As it will likely coincide with the publication of the Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (a project initiated during the 2018 EGOS conference in Tallinn), the SWG's inaugural subtheme will also be an occasion to invite reflections on how performativity and communication research can mutually develop to elucidate the ways in which organizing takes place and organizations are practically constituted.

    Special event: The sub-theme will include a panel with F. Cooren, C. Vásquez, J.-P. Gond and P. Dick, on "Communicative performativity, performative communication: Exploring an emerging terrain?"

    You can submit your 3000-word (all-inclusive) short paper until 23:59 CET on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, through the EGOS website. Please follow the guidelines for submission. Accepted authors will need to submit their full paper by June 15.

    You can find more information and keep in touch on the CPO website at www.cpo-network.org

    We look forward to reading your work and to seeing you in Vienna!

    Sincerely,

    Nicolas Bencherki, Sophie Del Fa and Alex Wright



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    Alex Wright
    University of Sheffield Management School
    United Kingdom
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    Alex Wright
    University of Sheffield Management School
    Milton Keynes
    +1902 321728
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