The notion of The Good Organization can be approached from a variety of different conceptual and normative positions and generate discussions about a range of contemporary organizational phenomena. We encourage the submission of sub-theme proposals for this Colloquium, which seek to explore and...

Conference Theme: Spaces, Constraints, Creativities: Organization and Disorganization

We propose that the EGOS 2006 general theme be devoted to studying how different forms of organizing interact in shaping contemporary society and how society shapes organizing in turn. The research implications are far reaching, involving all traditions of the social sciences and the humanities.

The relationship between work and life was once a major focus of analysis but disappeared with the decline of manufacturing and the death of traditional occupational communities. Recent developments suggest that the work-life boundary should again become an analytical focus. These developments...

Organizations often get locked in specific ways of seeing and doing things. Sometimes, they even get trapped. Such lock-ins occur at different levels ranging form the individual, group, departmental, alliance, regional, industrial and societal level. They can also be found in different types...