Organisation and Co-sponsors

 

Conference Organisers

• Ida Sabelis and Sierk Ybema, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Tom Keenoy and Robyn Thomas, Cardiff Business School, UK
• Cliff Oswick, Cass Business School, City University, UK.
• Nic Beech, University of St. Andrews, UK
• Cynthia Hardy, University of Melbourne, Australia

Conference Secretariat

Elles Bandringa, VU University Amsterdam, organizational-discourse@vu.nl

Conference CO-sponsers

VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Cardiff Business School, UK	Cass Business School, City University, UK
University of St. Andrews, UK	University of Melbourne, Australia

Department: VU University Organization Sciences

The Conference will be hosted by the Department of Organization Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. The Department of Organization Sciences, which is co-hosting the Conference, is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Faculty has about 2800 students and 140 members of staff and is one of the VU's larger faculties. The Department is relatively new. It is a merger of the department of Culture, Organization and Management and Organization Science. The focus of both the teaching programme and research activity involves a pre-eminent concern with the political, cultural and symbolic dimensions of management and organization. Current research projects include work on cultural change in organizational networks; processes of identity formation under globalisation; diversity-management; the temporal aspects of management and organizational intervention strategies. The teaching programme includes both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in organisational anthropology as well as a thriving doctoral programme. There are 60 staff including seven professors and researchers.

Location: VU University Amsterdam

VU University Amsterdam was established in 1880 in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, which has been a renowned cultural, scientific and commercial centre for many centuries. VU University or – as it is known locally – ‘the VU’, is a thriving international institution comprised of twelve faculties – Arts, Earth and Life Sciences, Dentistry, Human Movement Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology and Education, Sciences, Social-Cultural Sciences and Theology. It has around 15,000 students and offers over fifty undergraduate and almost a hundred postgraduate programmes. The university campus and university hospital are situated in the south-western part of Amsterdam, one of the most dynamic and fast-growing business districts in the Netherlands. It is within easy reach of both Amsterdam-Schiphol airport and all the various attractions of central Amsterdam.

ICRODSC

The conference is organized by the department of Organization Sciences under the auspices of the International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change (ICRODSC). This international research centre acts as umbrella for a number of discourse-related research activities and initiatives and provides links between researchers from leading international management schools who share an interest in developing and applying discourse methods in the study of organizations.

ICRODSC was launched in 2001. It is supported by leading international management schools at the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, Cardiff University, Lund University, McGill University, Queen Mary at the University of London,Texas A&M University, the University of California, the University of Cambridge, the University of Colorado, the University of Leicester and Meij University and VU University Amsterdam. The Centre links international researchers who share an interest in developing and applying discourse methods in the study of organizations. It brings together researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, provides a critical mass in research expertise, facilitates cross-disciplinary research, provides a banner for new research initiatives, provides contacts and support for doctoral students, and provides resources for workshops, studies, and other activities. For further details see: http://www.managementmarketing.unimelb.edu.au/icrodsc/

International Advisory Network

Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University, USA. Mats Alvesson, Lund University, Sweden. David Boje, New Mexico State University, USA. Gerrit Broekstra, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands. Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester, UK. Didier Cazal, Groupe ESC Marseille, France. Francois Cooren, University of Montreal, Canada. Stan Deetz, University of Colorado, USA. Richard Dunford, Macquarie University, Australia, Norman Fairclough, University of Lancaster, UK, David Grant, University of Sydney, Australia, Steve Maguire, McGillUniveristy, Canada,  Robert Marshak, The American University, USA. Gareth Morgan, York University, Canada. Ian Palmer, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Martin Parker, University of Leicester, UK, Linda Putnam, Texas A&M University, USA. David Sims, City University, UK. Hari Tsoukas, Athens Laboratory for BusinessAdministration, Greece. Anne Wallamacq, Namur University, Belgium. Karl Weick, University of Michigan, USA.