Theme: "Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection" The 38th EGOS Colloquium’s theme engages with the dynamic and complex nature of organizing by questioning idealized images of ‘perfection’ as being rooted in order, efficiency, symmetry, and predictability. Rarely, if ever, do our theories...

Theme: "Organizing for an Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations, and Mechanisms" Call for Sub-theme Proposals: In line with the EGOS spirit, the 2021 EGOS Colloquium invites scholars not only to revisit established organizational forms and practices but also to imagine novel ones, addressing...

General Theme: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations

The theme of the 2018 EGOS Colloquium thus provides an opportunity for organizational scholars to reflect on the phenomenon of surprise and challenge and rethink its different conceptualizations. It also invites to examine and analyze the meaning of organizational scholarship in light of an...

Sub-themes: - Civic society, cooperation and development in Latin America and Europe - Entrepreneurship and innovation in times of uncertainty - Managing the unexpected? Serendipity, improvisation and sensemaking in times of low predictability - Markets, corporations and the public good - Media,...