Call for Applications

Facilitators:
Frank den Hond, Hanken Business School, Helsinki, Finland
Jenny Helin, Uppsala University, Sweden
Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Barbara Simpson, University of Strathclyde, UK

Purpose

This PDW aims to help scholars, especially at PhD and early career stages, in writing and reviewing empirical process studies research.

Process philosophy encourages us to follow the flows of activities that shape organizing. Organization is here understood as an ongoing process of "relating" (Cooper, 2005), and "world making" (Chia & King, 1998); always becoming. A major consequence for scholars is that any description of organization has to transcribe the continuity of organizational process while refraining from attempts to isolate one stage from another. The craft of doing research in this manner thus involves following the going-on with things, rather than trying to capture and stabilize them. There are still very few articles published within the realm of management and organization studies that have empirically captured the flow of process.

This workshop has two aims:

• first, to find concepts that travel, ideas that suggest multiple rather than singular meanings, and other ways of capturing and analyzing process studies data without resorting to fixed events or outcomes;
• second, to start building a community of scholars who understand what process studies research is, and what it entails to review and write empirical process studies articles.

Format

The workshop aims at understanding what it entails to write, review, and ultimately publish empirical process studies research. Two senior scholars will each present one research manuscript with reviews from a journal. The participants, who will have read the papers in advance, will work in small groups with a facilitator to craft an alternative review for each paper. At the end of the workshop a senior editor will talk about the process of reviewing and publishing empirical process data from a journal's point of view.

 

Application

We encourage applications from doctoral students, early career scholars as well as more senior scholars who are interested in advancing process organization studies.

Please submit – via the EGOS website! – a one-page application (.doc, .docx or .pdf file), stating why you are interested in learning about writing and reviewing empirical process studies research and what experience you have already had in this area. We encourage applications from doctoral students, early career scholars as well as more senior scholars who are interested in advancing process organization studies. All participants will be asked to read two research manuscripts in progress before the workshop.