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...

The 2016 EGOS Colloquium seeks to engage with the topic of organization and organizing in the shadow of power, exploring and discussing what the shadow of power and organizing as "making do" might mean in and across diverse contexts. In particular, we invite sub-theme proposals that address, but...

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

General Theme Organizations and the Examined Life: Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility The 2015 EGOS Colloquium will be a forum for discussion of the above-mentioned issues and questions. Its general theme transcends disciplinary boundaries, dualisms, and levels of analysis: philosophy/ethics...

Theme: Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times The 2014 EGOS Colloquium thus seeks to bring together diverse talent and insights from around the world, to reflect on the complex problems and challenges that are currently faced by many organizational...

General Theme: Bridging Continents, Cultures and Worldviews The Colloquium will be an opportunity to construct multiple bridges between different ways of understanding contemporary organizations and of doing, communicating and publishing organizational research. The idea of Bridging Worldviews...

The theme of the 28th EGOS Colloquium 2012 in Helsinki is Design!? The concept of design has been defined and used in a multitude of ways in a variety of academic fields, ranging from the classics of organizational design to studies on open sourcing and aesthetics. At the Colloquium, we seek not...

General theme: Knowledge about assembling and reassembling organizations is now more important than ever. In the light of the current economic crisis, globalization, sustainable futures, financial regulation and social welfare are issues of immense importance for the second decade of this...

Theme: Waves of Globalization:Repetition and difference in organizing over time and space. Join us to discuss the connections between the past, the present and the future; micro and macro levels; center and periphery – the organizational, social and societal changes that result from...

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.