Group Activites

The Research Group “Organization & Society” regularly conducts meetings to discuss ongoing research, project ideas, and manuscript drafts. Furthermore, the group also organizes workshops, conferences, and invites guest speakers. Below you can find come noteworthy activities in the past years.

If you are interested in the activities of the research group or would like to participate, please contact Michael Grothe-Hammer.

2024

December

• Presentation of a paper by Lucy Piggott, Jorid Hovden and Annelies Knoppers entitled: “Why Organization Studies Should Care More about Gender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport Organizations” combined with presentation of new book “Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship” edited by Stewart Clegg, Kathia Serrano Velarde, and Michael Grothe-Hammer

November

• Presentation by Richard Hoberg entitled: “Richard Hoberg: Investigating Equity in the Reorganization of Norway's Rural Schools”

April

• Two-day Joint Paper Development Workshop of the Research Groups “Organization and Society” and “Public Policy and Administration” in Brekstad, Norway.

2023

November

• Showcase of ongoing research of the Research Group and its friends with guest Paul du Gay (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
• Organization of 6 tracks at the NEON-dagene 2023 by members of the Research Group.

March

• Presentation by Annelies Knoppers (Utrecht University): "Who fits? Querying and queering research on diversity in (sport) organisations" (in cooperation with the Gender & Inequality Group)

2022

December

• Co-organization of the International Conference on Organizational Sociology (ICOS) “Organizations in a plural society” with 60 participants
• Co-Organization of Paper Development Workshop (PDW) - ICOS 2022 Pre-Conference Workshop – with 14 contributions that were discussed at 4 roundtables.
• Presentation by David Fasenfest (Wayne State University): “How to publish organization-related research in sociology”.

September

• Presentation by Christian Morgner (Sheffield University): "System versus Personal Trust in the UK Fire Service from the Perspective of Ethnic Communities"

August

• Presentation by Héloïse Berkowitz (CNRS, LEST, Aix-Marseille University, France): "From organizations as systems of ocean destruction to organizations as systems of ocean thriving"

March

• Professional Development Session “How to Publish Sociology in Organization & Management Journals”

2021

November

• Presentation by Nadine Arnold (University of Lucerne) and Allison Loconto (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)): “Addressing urgent societal challenges: Why organization matters and how to study it” (in cooperation with the Research Group “Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development” [now: “Environment, Sustainability and Governance”]
• Joint discussion forum of the Research Groups “Organization and Society” and “Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development” [now: “Environment, Sustainability and Governance”] on “The role of meta-organizations in international governance” With guests Nadine Arnold (University of Lucerne) and Allison Loconto (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)): how to study it” (in cooperation with the Research Group “Energy, 

October

• Paper Development Workshop of the Research Group in Brekstad with 13 participants.
• Presentation by Raimund Hasse (University of Lucerne): “Contemporary challenges (theoretical, disciplinary, methodological) connected to conducting research on organizations”