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Organization Studies
The Third Organization Studies Summer Workshop:
‘Organization Studies as Applied Science:
The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge
about Organizations’
7–9 June 2007, Crete, Greece
Convenors:
Paula Jarzabkowski, Aston Business School and AIM, UK
Susan Mohrman, University of Southern California, USA
Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Keynote Speakers:
Helga Nowotny Wissenschaftszentrum Wien, Austria, co-author of Rethinking
Science
Sara L. Rynes University of Iowa, USA, Editor of the Academy of Management
Journal
Richard Whitley University of Manchester, UK, author of The Intellectual and
Social Organization of the Sciences
Submissions
Interested participants must submit to the Editor-in-Chief (OSeditor@alba.edu.gr) an
abstract of no more than 1000 words for their proposed contribution plus a brief
biographical note by 31 January 2007. The submission must be made via email and
it must be a Word attachment. It should contain authors’ names, institutional
affiliations, and email and postal addresses, while the subject matter line of the email
should indicate the title of the Workshop. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
otherwise by 28 February 2007. Papers should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief by
15 May 2007 and will be uploaded to the journal’s website.
Notes
1 D. C. Pelz (1978) ‘Some expanded perspectives on use of social science in public
policy’ in M. Yiner and S. J. Cutler (eds), Major social issues: A multidisciplinary
view, pp. 346–357, New York, Free Press.
2 M. Gibbons et al. (1994) The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of
science and research in contemporary societies, London, Sage.
3 For example, Academy of Management Journal (2001), ‘Special research forum:
Knowledge transfer between academics and practitioners’, 44(2), pp. 340–440;
Academy of Management Conference (2004), Creating Actionable Knowledge,
New Orleans, August; British Journal of Management Vol 12/1 (2001), ‘Bridging
the Relevance Gap’, special issue.
4 For example, EU 6th Framework, Advanced Institute of Management, ESRC;
recent calls from the US National Science Foundation to fund research jointly
proposed and implemented by academics and corporations.