Sub-theme 47: Marxist Organization Studies: Building Bridges

Convenors:
Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, USA
Rick Delbridge, Cardiff Business School, UK
Matt Vidal, King's College London, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
Financialization
Chair: Paul S. Adler
Thomas Clarke
The financialisation of Anglo-American corporations: Deconstructing agency theory and shareholder value
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Matt Vidal
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
Praxis and Resistance
Chair: Matt Vidal
Ismael Al-Amoudi
Organising occupy
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Nicolas Balas
Eric Faÿ, Ignasi Martí and Pablo Fernández
Power, affectivity and praxis. Bridging Marx with Henry’s phenomenology of life and the Bauen employees’ recovery
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Ismael Al-Amoudi
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
The Labor Process
Chair: Paul S. Adler
Matt Vidal
Between the low road and the high road: Logics of valorization and regimes of lean production in US manufacturing
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Greg Schwartz
Nicolas Balas
Entangled controversies: An historical perspective on how technology interacts with the social in workplace struggles
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Paul S. Adler
Terri Byers
Re-theorizing organizational control: A multi-level perspective
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Thomas Clarke
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
Cooperation and Communism
Chair: Matt Vidal
Paul S. Adler
Who wants socialism?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Séverine Le Loarne
Séverine Le Loarne and Christine Noël-Lemaître
Worker cooperatives: An organizational Eldorado? Lessons from the spirituality of Simone Weil
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Fernando Ramalho Martins
Gregory Schwartz
The communism in organisation and the critique of organisation theory
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Eric Faÿ
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
Critical Theory and Hegemony
Chair: Paul S. Adler
Fernando Martins
Organization theory: A critical reading
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Paul Goldman
Paul Goldman
Critical management theory, institutional theory & hegemony: An analysis of American educational reform
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Terri Byers
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
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Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, CSC, 1st floor, Green Section, Trudeau Corporation
Group Discussion: Taking Stock and Moving forward
Chair: Paul S. Adler