Symposium „Partizipationspraktiken in Genossenschaften“ – Manuskripte und Folien

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Zu unserem Symposium „Partizipationspraktiken in Genossenschaften“ im April in Chemnitz stehen nun die Manuskripte und Foliensätze als Download zur Verfügung. Herzlichen Dank an alle Beitragenden für das zur Verfügung stellen der Manuskripte! Hier die einzelnen Beiträge:

Jürgen Keßler, HTW Berlin: Genossenschaften zwischen unternehmerischer
Effizienz und Teilhabe – eine ökonomische und rechtliche Analyse

Herbert Klemisch, Wissenschaftsladen Bonn: (Post)Demokratie und Unternehmensmitbestimmung in Genossenschaften

Walter Vogt, IG Metall: ‚Mehr Teilhabe wagen‘: Belegschaftsgenossenschaften
als Möglichkeit für die Förderung betrieblicher Partizipation im Kontext von Standort- und
Beschäftigungssicherung

Ronald Hartz, Melanie Hühn, Irma Rybnikova, Markus Tümpel: Partizipationspraktiken in Genossenschaften – Ergebnisse und Diskussion der Fallstudien
Hier der Link zu den Materialien:

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/ppig/projekt/aktivitaeten/

 

 

 

 

CfP – DISSENSUS! RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND BUSINESS ETHICS. Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics

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Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics

DISSENSUS! RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND BUSINESS ETHICS

Submission Deadline: 4 June 2018

GUEST EDITORS:

Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. carl.rhodes@uts.edu.au

Iain Munro, Newcastle University, UK. iain.munro@ncl.ac.uk

Torkild Thanem, Stockholm University, Sweden. tt@sbs.su.se

Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia. alison.pullen@mq.edu.au

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE

In an era of prolonged financial crisis, political instability and worldwide injustice, the economic and ethical legitimacy of corporate power requires continued challenge. Scandal after scandal has revealed corporations showing little regard for the institutions of liberal democracy. Whether it be tax evasion, law breaking, political lobbying or outright corruption, corporations are content to flout notions of justice, equality and freedom in an escalating pursuit of profit (see Barkan 2013; Brown 2015). Liberal democracy promises opportunity and inclusion, yet democratic states are complicit in strengthening the power of the corporations they glorify as wealth creators and job securers. In ‘post-democracy’ (Crouch, 2004) politics revolves around the conflated interests of corporations and politicians, reinforcing injustice and inequality on a global scale and resulting in poverty, torture, trafficking, imprisonment, and death. This special issue will investigate and challenge this state of affairs by exploring business ethics as it relates to ‘radical democracy’ (Mouffe, 1996; Robbins, 2011). This is democracy conceived as an ethical alternative to the potent marriage of the liberal democratic state and corporate power. As Rancière (2015) explains, the political dissensus required for democracy bears witness to marginalized voices excluded from the prevailing status quo. Such dissensus also enacts a particular ethics rested in the radical questioning and subversion of the totalizing tendencies of power. In response to what Ziarek (2001) has called ‘the ethics of dissensus’, the political task is to fight against the powers, injustices and inequalities that affect people not just politically, but also materially. This ethics goes beyond the questioning of corporate power, and projects us towards trajectories where people already live and work independently of the corporate-government complex. The ethics and politics of dissensus becomes the radically democratic alternative, directed towards sustainable futures at the level of life itself.

POSSIBLE THEMES AND TOPICS

Papers are called for which explore the ethics and politics of radical democracy as it manifests in dissensus and the subversion of corporate power by alternative democratic practices and realities. This is no fantasy, it is witnessed by struggles in domains as diverse as environmentalism, agriculture, affective labour, domestic work, craftwork, art, and the hacker ethic of the open source community. Acknowledging that contemporary politics have created an inverse relationship between corporate power and democracy, we seek to consider the character of this inversion, how it has been resisted, and the alternatives to it. We do not just ask whether democratic alternatives to the liberalistic reign of corporations, markets and corporate governments are possible, but how they are and can be realized. Required is a profound ethico-political engagement; a struggle that moves from critique, to resistance, to alternative realities. This evokes, in Spivak’s (1993) words, an ‘impossible intimacy of the ethical’ that strives for a genuine respect of the value of difference. Such intimacy can also invoke a politically aware and democratic business ethics built on the potential of dissent, alterity and critique as a means of refusing hegemony of all types. Papers might consider, but are by no means limited to, the following topics:

• The effects of Free Trade Agreements and trade wars on democracy.

• Spaces, places and strategies for ethicso-political democratic dissent.

• The politics, ethics and aesthetics of dissensus, through feminism and critical race theory.

• The ethico-political struggle for alternative ways of life, work and organization in the context of global and nationalist capitalism.

• Alternative economies and the subversion of free market liberalism.

• The development of a heterodox management studies to better imagine alternatives within the field of management studies.

• The ‘depoliticization’ of theory and academic work more generally

• The praxis, organization and effectiveness of anti-corporate movements.

• Business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility as anti-democratic forms of corporate consensus.

• Inequality, difference and class struggle.

• Critiques of corporate sovereignty, justice and dissent.

• Tensions between the materiality of democracy, neoliberal rationality and neoconservative ideology.

SUBMISSION PROCESS AND DEADLINE

Authors should refer to the Journal of Business Ethics website for instructions on submitting a paper and for more information about the journal: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/10551. Submission to the special issue by 4 June 2018 is required through Editorial Manager at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/busi/. Upon submission, please indicate that your sub- mission is to this Special Issue. Questions about potential topics and papers should be directed to the guest editors.

REFERENCES

Barkan, J. (2013) Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government Under Capitalism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Brown, W. (2015) Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, New York: Zone Books.

Crouch, C. (2004) Post-Democracy, Cambridge: Polity.

Mouffe, C. (1996) Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community. London: Verso.

Rancière, J. (2015) Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, London: Continuum

Robbins, J. W. (2011) Radical Democracy and Political Theology, New York: Columbia.

Spivak , G. (1993) Outside the Teaching Machine, London: Routeldge.

Ziarek, E. P. (2001) Postmodernity, Feminism and the Politics of Radical Democracy. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Special Issue on Critical Performativity in M@n@gement

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*Special issue – Putting Critical Performativity to work – 20(1)* Available here: http://www.management-aims.com/index.php?l=en

 

*Introduction To The Special Issue: The evolving debate about critical performativity*

Isabelle Huault, Véronique Perret, André Spicer, Dan Kärreman.

 

*Conditions for critical performativity in a polycontextural society*

Morten Knudsen (Copenhagen Business School)

*Abstract.* This paper argues that practice, not science, decides the performativity of science. The argument is inspired by Austin’s question of what it is that gives language its performative force. What are the conditions which connect sentences to certain effects? Advancing this question from the level of sentences to a societal level, and taking inspiration from the failure of Marxist notions of the relation between theory and practice, the paper suggests thinking critical performativity under the conditions of differentiation. This idea is qualified by means of Niklas Luhmann and his theory of a functionally differentiated – or polycontextural – society. Functional differentiation and polycontexturality mean that systems cannot communicate with each other; there is no real transfer of scientific knowledge into practice. Unhappy performativity is the rule. Based on this insight the paper discusses elements of a critical research strategy – under polycontextural conditions – and four guidelines for a critical science are suggested.

*How can performativity contribute to management and organization research? Theoretical Perspectives and analytical framework*

Franck Aggeri (MINES ParisTech)

*Abstract.* The issue of performativity reverse the classical perspective in the social sciences, for they revolve less around describing a pre-existing reality than understanding how reality is produced by intentional interventions. Yet the link between intervention and performativity is by no means automatic. On the contrary, this approach encourages us to focus on the pragmatic conditions that allow this performation to be constructed. In this sense, the aim of this article is threefold. First, it expands the field of performativity, which is structured around three dominant approaches (Austinian, Callonian and Butlerian), to encompass lesserknown research on writing and calculation. Second, it proposes a comparison between theoretical perspectives of research on performativity, and two other research trends in social science and in organizations. These, without using the term performativity, present strong similarities to it from a theoretical and methodological point of view: Foucauldian approaches and instrument-based approaches to organizations. Based on the concepts thus introduced, this article then proposes an analysis framework for performation processes in organizations, articulated around three levels of analysis: i) the study, on an elementary level, of speech acts, acts of calculation, and acts of writing organized around instrumented activities; ii) their insertion within the management dispositifs that give them meaning and contribute to defining their boundaries; and iii) the putting into perspective of these dispositifs in historical transformations in forms of governmentality. This analytical framework is applied in the case of the car project referred to as L, an instance of collaborative research in which a crisis situation characterized by the disalignment between the elementary acts studied and the management dispositif implemented by the company was examine. This case illustrates a more general phenomenon in which management dispositifs produce negative effects on the skills dynamics in a company, and on individuals’ involvement in these collective projects. It also explains the infelicity of certain performative acts.

*Art performance as research, friction and deed*

Emilie Reinhold (Stockholm Business School)

*Abstract.* To extend and enrich the debate on critical performativity, this paper proposes that critical management studies should create a strategic link with organisational aesthetics through an alliance with critical artists doing interventions in organisations. These artists produce social change at the margin of organisations and our task as critical researchers is to give a voice to their artistic action in the field of management. Art performance is presented as a research method and a political action able to give critical performativity a new impulse. Two dance performances in a bank are described and analysed: while the first one is a failure the second produces confusion and embodied tension in the bank’s lounges. The aesthetic tactics used in this art performance are counter-performative: dancers introduce slowness and hesitation of bodies in a context of extreme closure and discipline. Art performance is described as a deed: its only value is that it could be done, which calls for more artistic action in corporate everyday life.

*Critical Performativity and Embodied Performing as materio-socio-cultural Practices – Phenomenological Perspectives on performative Bodies at work*

Wendelin Küpers (ICN Business School)

*Abstract.* One of the most elementary way in which members in organisations are involved in their performances are their embodied and expressed relations and interactions. The paper shows how phenomenology can help to render explicit these incorporated experiences and dimensions of performances in organizational life-worlds. Particularly, Merleau-Ponty`s phenomenology allows to understand the interlacing role of body-related, interrelations of performing processes in and through organising. These embodied dimensions of performance will be demonstrated by examples of performative bodies at work. By concluding some perspectives on embodied performing in organisation are offered.

CfP Workshop „Ästhetik und Organisation“ – Neue Deadline 7. Juli

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Neue Deadline: Für unseren 5. Workshop „Kritische Organisationsforschung“ zum Thema „Ästhetik und Organisation – Inszenierung und Ästhetisierung von Organisation, Arbeit und Management“ am 5.-6. Oktober 2017 an der Universität Duisburg-Essen können noch bis zum 7. Juli Beiträge in Form von Short Papers eingereicht werden.

Hier der aktualisierte Call: CfP Ästhetik und Organisation_KOF_2017_3

Call for Abstracts – „Entgrenzung von Markt und Staat? Wirtschaftssoziologische Untersuchungen zur Krise der Ordnungsbildung“, 26.-27. Oktober 2017 an der Universität Hamburg

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Hier der interessante Call for Abstracts  für die Jahrestagung der DGS-Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie: WirtSoz_Sektionstagung_EntgrenzungMarktStaat_CallForAbstracts

Beiträge können in Form von Abstracts bis zum 24. Juli eingereicht werden.

Heterotopian Studies (Blog)

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An interesting blog devoted to the Foucauldian concept of heterotopia: Heterotopian Studies

„The site is devoted to Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia. Foucault outlines the notion of heterotopia on three occasions between 1966-67. A talk given to a group of architects is the most well-known explanation of the term. Overall, Foucault attempts to describe certain relational principles and features of a range of cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘different’:  disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. In a nutshell, heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside. Foucault provides examples: ships, cemeteries, brothels, prisons, gardens of antiquity, fairs, Turkish baths and many more.

Foucault presents a few thumb-nail sketches which he never develops into a coherent idea. And yet his tantalisingly brief words on the subject have provoked a cottage industry, producing dozens of interpretations and applications from many disciplines and professions throughout the world.

[…]

The site offers thorough on-going bibliographies, background information and resources, which are updated through my blog, a selection of personal reflections and essays and some of my own specific studies of sites related to gardens and cemeteries.“

Filme und TV-Serien über Arbeit (aus einem Beitrag von Rolf Parr)

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In seinem instruktiven Beitrag „>Arbeit< diskursanalytisch in den Blick nehmen. Das Promotionskolleg ‚Die Arbeit und ihre Subjekte – Mediale Diskursivierungen von Arbeit seit 1960′“ in der Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung verweist Rolf Parr (Universität Duisburg-Essen) auf eine Reihe von Filmen und Serien seit den 1970er Jahren, welche Arbeit in unterschiedlicher Weise ‚in den Blick nehmen‘. Hier die genannten Titel in alphabetischer Reihenfolge (danke an Rolf Parr für die Erlaubnis, diese Liste hier wiederzugeben):

  • „Acht Stunden sind kein Tag“ (R.W. Fassbinder, BRD 1972-1973)
  • „Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik“ (H. Farocki, BRD 1995)
  • „Brassed off“ (M. Herman, GB/USA 1996)
  • „Freigestellt. Die Zukunft der Arbeit in Zeiten des Überflusses.“ (C. Stigel, BRD 2012)
  • „Frohes Schaffen. Ein Film zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral“ (K. Faigle, BRD 2012)
  • „Hände weg vom Interessenausgleich“ (Arbeit und Film (AUF), BRD 1978)
  • „Hat er Arbeit?“ (K. Wessels, BRD 2001)
  • „Jede Menge Kohle“ (A. Winckelmann, BRD 1981)
  • „Lichter“ (H.C. Schmid, BRD 2003)
  • „Mit Schlips und Kragen“ (Arbeit und Film (AUF), BRD 1981)
  • „Out of Darkness: The Mine Worker’s Story“ (B. Kopple/B. Davies, USA 1990)
  • „Prinzessinnenbad“ (B. Blümner, BRD 2007)
  • „Riff-Raff“ (K. Loach, GB 1991)
  • „Roger & Me“ (M. Moore, USA 1989)
  • „Rosetta“ (J.-P. und L Dardenne, BE/F 1998)
  • „The Wire“ (USA 2002-2008)
  • „Union Maids“ (J. Klein/J. Reichert/M. Mogulescu, USA 1976)
  • „Wohin? Angestellte und Arbeiter im Kampf um die Sicherung ihrer Arbeitsplätze“ (Arbeit und Film (AUF), BRD 1979)
  • „Work hard, Play hard“ (C. Losmann, BRD 2012)
  • „Yella“ (C. Petzold, BRD 2007)
  • „Working Stiffs“ (Fernsehserie, USA 1979)

 

 

Die Rückkehr des Dorfladens als Genossenschaft – 2

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Vor einiger Zeit habe ich, auf einen Hausbesuch der taz verweisend, über die Rückkehr des Dorfladens als Genossenschaft am Beispiel des Ortes Bernitt in Mecklenburg berichtet. Im DLF-Magazin des Deutschlandfunk wurde gestern unter der Überschrift „Dorfladen statt Discounter“ über einen anderen, bisher erfolgreich laufenden Fall einer solchen Neugründung in Jagsthausen (Landkreis Heilbronn) berichtet . Hier geht es zur Reportage:

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/dorfladen-statt-discounter-wiederbelebung-eines-sozialen.862.de.html?dram:article_id=386545

 

 

Die Genossenschaft – Bürgerschaftliches Engagement soll leichter werden. Feature im Deutschlandfunk

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Ein instruktives Feature über Genossenschaften als mögliche Form (nicht nur) bürgerschaftlichen Engagements und über geplante Veränderungen im Sinne von Vereinfachungen der Genossenschaftsprüfung. Angesichts der nicht zuletzt durch die Prüfung bedingten niedrigen Insolvenzrate von Genossenschaften ein nicht unproblematisches Unterfangen …

Hier geht es zur Sendung und zum Podcast:

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-genossenschaft-buergerschaftliches-engagement-soll.724.de.html?dram:article_id=386114

CfP Tagung „Von der Künstlerkritik zur Kritik an der Kreativität“

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Im Rahmen des Promotionskollegs „Die Arbeit und ihre Subjekte. Mediale Diskursivierungen seit 1960“ an der Universität Duisburg-Essen findet vom 12.-14.10 die Tagung „Von der Künstlerkritik zur Kritik an der Kreativität“ statt. Aus der Ankündigung:

„Die interdisziplinäre Konferenz möchte Subjektivierungsprozesse im Bereich kreativer Arbeit als einen Ausgangspunkt nehmen, um aktuelle Forschungsfragen und Positionen zur Debatte um Projekthaftigkeit und Kreativität als scheinbare Paradigmen aller Arbeits- und Lebensformen im ‚neuen Kapitalismus‘ zu diskutieren. Dabei sollen neben kritischen wissenschaftlichen Positionen verschiedener Disziplinen (von Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften bis zu empirischer Sozialforschung) auch Ansätze praxisorientierter Kritik an Subjektivierungweisen und dem Kreativitätsdispositiv in den Blick genommen werden.“

Weitere Informationen und der vollständige Call finden sich hier:

https://www.uni-due.de/promotionskolleg_arbeit/konferenz_kreativitaet