BSA Postgraduate Conference - 'Who and what is management for?'
The University of Leicester School of Management is running a one day BSA postgraduate conference on 10 January 2013.
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted to events@britsoc.org.uk by 8 October 2012, or on the BSA website, including the name and date of the conference. Conference papers should be 6,000 - 8,000 words.
Please download a call for abstracts here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Date: 10 January 2013.
Contact: Please contact Juan Espinosa C. (jfe3@le.ac.uk) for more information.
The conference is broadly themed around Critical Management, based on the multi-disciplinary 'Leicester Model' that draws from across the social sciences. Unlike mainstream Business Schools, at Leicester we are concerned with challenging the status quo and giving voice to those individuals, groups and societies who are traditionally overlooked in global management.
Costs and Travel Grants
The costs to BSA members is £10, and £25 to non-BSA members. This money goes towards lunch and drinks for all attendees.
Thanks to generous support from the Graduate Dean at the University of Leicester, we can also offer up to ten PhD travel grants of £50 each. To apply for these please include a short grant application statement (50-100 words) stating your travel costs and needs.
Themes:
We welcome contributions around these themes:
1. Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Building on our global, critical and multi-disciplinary approach we welcome research in the fields of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Topics might include leadership, diversity, equality, employment law, workplace violence, the career experiences of minorities and the labour process in developing countries. Participants should focus on the values that global management does, or does not, ascribe to difference.
2. Critical finance. Critiques of mainstream macroeconomics, financialisation and modern finance theory are welcome. Suggested topics include global financial reform, post-Bretton Woods institutions, 'risk-free' rates of return, stock-flow modelling and central banking theory. Empirical contributions might study alternative economies, or describe financial crises from the perspective of disadvantaged groups.
3. Social studies of management and organisation. Building on Science and Technology Studies, this stream invites contributions in the use of 'market devices' and 'organising devices'; other actor-network approaches; and anthropological, ethnographic and sociological studies of organisations.
Respondents and Speakers
Fiona Wilson, Professor of Organisation Behaviour, Glasgow University Business School Fiona Wilson's research focuses on the relationships between men and women at work. She has been involved in research on romance at work, gender and the professions and sexual harassment. She recently finished a project on banks' lending to male and female business owners.
Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School Malcolm Sawyer is the author of 11 books, has edited 24, and contributed to over 100 chapters. He has published 90 papers in refereed journals. His research interests are in macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy, the political economy of the European Monetary Union, nature of money, causes and concepts of unemployment, and the economics of Michal Kalecki.
Dirk Bezemer, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen Dirk Bezemer's 2009 paper "No One Saw This Coming: Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting Models" has been widely downloaded and discussed, and he was recently awarded funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking for research into financial instability.
Daniel Neyland, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School Daniel Neyland's research interests cover governance, accountability and ethics in the form of science, technology and organization. He draws on ethnomethodology, science and technology studies, constructivism, Actor-Network Theory and the recent STS turn to markets.
Javier Lezaun, Lecturer, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Javier Lezaun's research interests focus on the legal, political and social dimensions of techno-scientific change, particularly in the life sciences and biomedicine.
Complete CfP here:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/research/conferences/BSAPGConference
Friday, 21 September 2012
De krant De Morgen bant de term 'allochtoon' uit haar kolommen
De Wereld Morgen vroegen Jef Verschueren en Jan Blommaert die in 1992 het ophefmakende boek 'Het Belgische migrantendebat' schreven, of dat een goed idee is.
Lees hun antwoorden op
The Educational and Labor Market Trajectories of Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States
The Migration Policy Institute organizes an event on “The Educational and Labor Market Trajectories of Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States” with a panel discussion and the launch of the following book: The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States.(editors: Maurice Crul and John Mollenkopf). The volume presents a systematic, data-based comparison of the lives of young adult children of immigrants in 17 cities in Western Europe and the United States, and offers important lessons for devising more effective public policies.
Thursday, 27 September 2012
14.00 - 16.00
Residence Palace, Maelbeek Room
155 Rue de la Loi
1040 Brussels
More information: http://my.migrationpolicy.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=50175
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Slotevent EOS project - Allochtoon ondernemerschap in Vlaanderen
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Thursday, 23 August 2012
International Seminar "Diversity and Inequality in Contemporary Organizations" 11-12/09/2012
An EqualDiv@Work International Seminar
Diversity and Inequality in Contemporary Organizations
September 11th: Keynote speeches by two international scolars
- 14:00-15:15 Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Relational Inequalities"
All inequalities are produced in and through social relations. This talk outlines some key processes that generate inequalities, argues that they operate in concrete social fields, and that we should expect inequalities to be institutionally, interactionally, and historically contingent. These ideas are illustrated with comparisons of gender inequality in the US and Japan in 1980, class inequalities in the US and Australia today, the impact of financial conceptions of the firm on capital-labor inequalities in the US, and long-term institutional changes in gender and racial segregation in the US private sector over the last half century. - 15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
- 15:45- 17:00 Speech by Ahu Tatli (Queen Mary Business School, University of London) "Researching intersectionality: A Bourdieuan emic approach"
There is a dominant tendency of using etic approaches in equality and diversity research. One possible outcome of etic approaches is a pecking order between various categories of difference leading to overtly or covertly universalistic claims, ahistorical and contextual accounts. In this talk, I propose an emic approach in order to unpack the complexity of intersectionality of difference. The suggested approach operationalises Pierre Bourdieu's theory of capitals, which allows researchers to have power relations rather than fixed categories of difference as their starting point. - 18:00 Social dinner in Hasselt
September 12th, PHD-seminar
- 10:00-12:00 PhD seminar: discussion of two papers in progress
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-16:00 PhD seminar: discussion of three papers in progress
Please contact Patrizia Zanoni at patrizia.zanoni@uhasselt.be if you are interested in presenting and discussing your work on diversity at work during this session by September 3rd, 2012.
Register here: http://www.uhasselt.be/seindiversityseminar
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Zwangere topmanager is unicum in VS
Marissa Mayer, die deze week benoemd werd tot nieuwe CEO van internetbedrijf Yahoo! , is zwanger. Ze verwacht in oktober een zoontje, zo liet ze zelf weten aan het zakenblad Fortune. Dat een groot beursgenoteerd technologiebedrijf in de Verenigde Staten een zwangere topvrouw aanwerft, is ongezien. Het wakkert alvast het debat aan over het combineren van carrière en gezin.
De 37-jarige Mayer was vicepresident bij Google en kondigde deze week haar overstap aan naar concurrent Yahoo!. Dat bedrijf verkeert in financiële problemen en heeft het strategisch moeilijk om stand te houden tussen internetgiganten Google en Facebook. Mayer krijgt er echter nog een uitdaging bij: in oktober verwacht ze een eerste kindje.
Enkele weken out
Maar de vrouw meent dat de gezinsuitbreiding geen grote impact zal hebben. "Ik wil mijn werkritme behouden. Mijn zwangerschapsverlof zal slechts enkele weken duren en ik zal in die tijd ook aan de slag blijven", verklaarde ze aan Fortune, al was het om de aandeelhouders gerust te stellen.
Zeldzame zaak
Een vrouw aan het hoofd van een technologiebedrijf is sowieso al zeldzaam in de VS, slechts 19 van de 500 grootste Amerikaanse bedrijven worden geleid door een vrouw. Een zwangere topmanager is al helemaal een unicum. Het debat over het combineren van carriere en gezin, wordt hiermee geopend.
Lof
"Laat ons hopen dat ze bedrijven zal aanzetten om betere oplossingen te vinden voor alle werkende mama's", twitterde actrice Mia Farrow, zelf moeder van dertien kinderen. "Ik kan Marissa Mayer alleen maar feliciteren, uitstekend nieuws", liet Anne-Marie Slaughter weten. Zij is professor aan de universiteit van Princeton en moeder van twee. Slaughter verliet eerder wel haar post van diplomaat bij Buitenlandse Zaken om meer tijd te hebben voor haar gezin.
Ook kritiek
Maar er is ook kritiek op het voornemen van Mayer om te blijven werken aan een hoog tempo. "Doen alsof men het werkritme behoudt, is geen rekening houden met een realiteit die we moeten aanvaarden: baby's hebben nood aan aandacht en moeders moeten tijd met hen doorbrengen", aldus een bloggende moeder uit New York.
Mayer zal door haar royale loon wel makkelijk een beroep kunnen doen op hulp van buitenaf. Het zwangerschapsverlof in de VS duurt twaalf weken, maar wordt niet betaald.
(einde bericht)
Onderzoeksters Lieve Lembrechts en Elke Valgaeren voerden onderzoek uit naar zwangerschapsgerelateerde discriminatie bij werkneemsters. Het rapport kan geraadpleegd worden via: http://igvm-iefh.belgium.be/nl/nieuws/nieuwe_publicatie_zwanger_op_het_werk_de_ervaringen_van_werkneemsters_in_belgi_.jsp?referer=tcm:336-101844-64
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2012
5th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, 2012, Toulouse, France
23-25 July, 2012, Toulouse Business School
Conference theme: country and comparative perspectives on equality, diversity and inclusion
The 5th EDI conference will be held in Toulouse, Southwest France, 23-25 July 2012. It will provide an exciting forum for encounters and publication projects in a stimulating intellectual, cultural and historical environment.A wide range of streams is being welcome about all types of research questions and strands of diversity. However, regardless the area and research question of the stream, at paper submission stages, authors of empirical papers will be invited to provide a section albeit brief, about the country or countries of data collection. Transnational streams and papers involving multiple countries will be welcome to this conference. However the indications above should not be seen as limitative in terms of stream themes and approaches.
There will be a doctoral workshop under the supervision of Professor Judith Pringle and Annie Cornet.
The 2012 edition also welcomes pre-conference workshops to be held July 23.
Publication partnerships of EDI 2012 Toulouse conference
Associated to this conference are British Journal of Management, Cross-Cultural Management : an International Journal ; Equality, Diversity, Inclusion: an International Journal, European Journal of International Management and the European Journal of Industrial Relations. Pre selected best papers of the conference will be submitted to these journals who will process them according to their usual standards.Relevant papers will be eligible to be included in the second edition of the International Handbook on Diversity Management at Work (to be published in 2013 with Edward Elgar), under the chief-editorship of Alain Klarsfeld. Stream organizers alongside participants to their stream may also want to write a summary comparative paper which might then qualify for this book project. See call http://www.viadeo.com/fr/event/006gnzvl84zvhv0/diversity-and-equality-international-research-project
Stream organizers are also advised that the book series Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work (Book series by Emerald) headed by Professor Mustafa Özbilgin is associated to the conference and relevant stream proposals will be eligible for this book series subject to acceptance decision by professor Özbilgin who will attend the conference.
Info: http://www.edi-conference.org/
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