Sub-theme 44: Marxist Studies on Organization
Convenors:
Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, USA
Rick Delbridge, Cardiff University, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, S-D250
Chair: Rick Delbridge
Yrjö Engeström and Annalisa Sannino
Volition and agency in organizations: An activity-theoretical perspective
David Levy
Strategic power in complex governance systems: The carbon disclosure case
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, S-D250
Chair: David Levy
Johan Söderberg
There is power in an automated garage shed: Homebrewed 3-D printing and open manufacturing
Marcus Vinícius P. Gomes, Mário Aquino Alves, Eduardo H. Diniz and Manuella Maia Ribeiro
Information technology, communication and the civil sphere: A critique of the fetish
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, S-D250
Chair: Paul Adler
Matt Vidal
On the persistence of labour market insecurity and slow growth in the US: Reckoning with the Waltonist growth regime
Asami Watanabe
The case study on how to reduce non-scheduled hours
Abigail Marks and Laura Galloway
Understanding ICT workers' opportunities for achieving professional status by examining their 19th century accounting counterparts:
Social mobility, gender, occupational status and social class
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, S-D250
Chair: Matt Vidal
Peter Armstrong
Discourse discourse and the sugar plantations of Hawaii
Jacques Bélanger and Paul Edwards
Compliance, cynicism and resistance in the contemporary workplace: A materialist re-statement
Thomas Klikauer
Reassembling critical management studies. Critical theory or servants of power
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, S-D250
Chair: Jacques Bélanger
Laszlo Czaban
Emergence of capitalism: Reconstructing the development of capitalist economy in Eastern Europe
Han Min Huang and Chris Smith
Applying dialectics perpective to understanding growth of HR service SMEs in China
Burçak Özoğlu Poçan
New ways of organizing work in the public sector: The Turkish public education case
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, S-D250
Chair: Paul Edwards
Jonas A. Ingvaldsen
A paleo-Marxist theory of organizational learning: Bringing the forces of production back in
George Tsogas
Towards a labour theory of value in cognitive capitalism
Paul S. Adler
The ambivalence of bureaucracy
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, S-D250
The Future of Marxist Organization Studies
Chair: Paul Adler and Rick Delbridge
An opportunity for our international group to reflect on their own experiences and views of the future and the value of Marx
and Marxist theories