CfP SI Organization Studies: Organizational control and surveillance of new work practices
Abstract from the Call:
Organization Studies, the official journal of the European Group for Organizational
Studies (EGOS), invites submissions for a Special Issue that seeks to advance
research on organizational control and surveillance of and through new work
practices.
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The emergence of new work practices and workplaces, as shown by the joint search
for more mobility, openness (e.g. with open innovation), horizontality (e.g. with coworking practices and collaborative entrepreneurship), digital and collaborative
practices (including more and more external stakeholders, e.g. customers and citizens,
in the co-production of services), has raised new questions of organizational control,
and surveillance. In a global context marked by the invisible revolution of
surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2015) and the resurgence of risk (Beck, 1992),
security fears and terror, which have re-legitimized the need for close surveillance and
control, new work practices and workplaces have transformed the ‘premises of human
involvement in organizations’ (Kallinikos, 2003, p. 595), as well as the mechanisms
and conditions of control and surveillance. In particular, work transformations
(project-based work, teleworking, distributed work arrangements, collaborative
entrepreneurship and the emergence of third and collaborative practices and spaces,
e.g. coworking spaces, maker spaces, innovation labs) are revealing how work
increasingly gets performed outside the typical physical, spatial and temporal
boundaries of the organization or within the context of third spaces and liminal spaces
(Oldenburg, 1989; Garrett et al., 2017; Sewell and Taskin, 2015; Spinuzzi, 2012;
Waber et al., 2014; Johns and Gratton, 2013).
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Guest Editors :
François-Xavier de Vaujany (Université Paris-Dauphine, France)
Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte (CNRS, LEM UMR 9221, IESEG School of
Management, France)
Iain Munro (Newcastle University Business School, United Kingdom)
Yesh Nama (RMIT University, Australia)
Robin Holt (Copenhagen Business School)
Deadline for paper submissions: June, 29th 2018
Call for Papers: Call for papers_Proposal Special Issue_Organization Studies_Control_New Work Practices