The Organization Studies Workshop is an annual activity, originally launched in June 2005, to facilitate high-quality scholarship in organization studies. Its primary aim is to advance cutting-edge research on important topics in the field by bringing together a small and competitively selected group of scholars, who will have the opportunity to interact in depth and share insights in a stimulating and scenic environment.
7th OS Workshop
Organizations as Spaces of Work
24-26 May 2012, Elysium Hotel, Rhodes, Greece
Conveners:
Rick Delbridge, Cardiff Business School
Jeff Sallaz, University of Arizona,
Ofer Sharone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keynote Speakers:
Steven Vallas, Northeastern University
Ruth Milkman, The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
8th OS Workshop
Organization Studies and the Day to Day Life of Cultures and Communities
23-25 May 2013, Saint John Hotel, Mykonos, Greece
Conveners:
John Weeks, IMD
Galit Ailon, Bar-Ilan University
Mary Yoko Brannen, University of Victoria and INSEAD
Keynote Speakers:
Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, USA
Gideon Kunda, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
9th OS Workshop
Resistance, resisting, and resisters in and around organizations
22-24 May 2014,Corfu Holiday Palace, Corfu, Greece
Conveners:
Ignasi Martí, EMLYON Business School, OCE Research Center
Dennis K Mumby, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Seidl, University of Zurich
Robyn Thomas, Cardiff Business School
Keynote Speakers
Karen L. Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder
David Courpasson, EM LYON Business School
10th OS Workshop
Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship
21-23 May 2015, Chania, Crete, Greece
Conveners:
Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, Politics and Philosophy
Antonio Strati, University of Trento, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics
Elke Weik, University of Leicester, School of Management
Keynote Speakers
Chris Steyaert, St Gallen University
Anna Scalfi Eghenter, www.scalfiandeghenter.com
11th OS Workshop
Spirituality, Symbolism, and Storytelling
19-21 May 2016, Mykonos, Greece
Conveners
Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Yochanan Altman, Middlesex University Business School
Juliette Koning, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
Keynote Speakers
Metropolitan Gabriel of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia (Church of Greece)
Ann Jordan, Professor of Anthropology, University of N. Texas, USA
Monika Kostera, Professor of Management, Jagiellonian U., Poland
12th OS Workshop
Food Organizing Matters: Paradoxes, Problems and Potentialities
18-20 May 2017, Chania, Crete, Greece
Conveners:
Grégoire Croidieu (GEM, France)
Frank den Hond (Hanken, Finland & VU, Netherlands)
Christine Moser (VU, Netherlands)
Juliane Reinecke (WBS, UK)
Silviya Svejenova (CBS, Denmark & BI, Norway)
Keynote Speakers
Zack Denfeld, Artist, Designer and Co-Founder – together with Cathrine Kramer – of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Dublin
13th OS Workshop
Responding to Displacement, Disruption, and Division:
Organizing for Social and Institutional Change
24-26 May 2018, Samos, Greece
Conveners
W.E. Douglas Creed, University of Rhode Island, USA & University of Melbourne, Australia
Barbara Gray , Pennsylvania State University, USA
Charlotte M. Karam, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Markus A. Höllerer, WU Vienna, Austria & UNSW Sydney, Australia
Trish Reay, University of Alberta, Canada
14th OS Workshop
Technology and organization
23-25 May 2019, Mykonos, Greece
Conveners:
Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
JJean Clarke, EM. Lyon, France
Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Robin Holt, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Keynote Speakers
Xenophon Moussas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Wendy Chun, Simon Fraser University, Canada
15th OS Workshop
Organizing Sustainably: Actors, Institutions, and Practices
20-23 May 2020, Online
Conveners
Rick Delbridge, Cardiff University, Wales
Markus Helfen, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andi Pekarek, Melbourne University, Australia
Elke Schuessler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Charlene Zietsma, Pennsylvania State University, USA
16th OS Workshop
Dialogic organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity
19-21 May 2022, Chania, Greece
Conveners:
Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Nottingham Business School, UK
Maddy Janssens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Marjana Johansson, University of Glasgow, UK
Chris Steyaert, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sheena Vachhani, University of Bristol, UK
Keynote Speakers
Karen Dale, Lancaster University
Kate Kenny, NUI Galway
Seppe Baeyens (Choreographer) & Chisom Onyebueke Chinaedu (Artist)
