View Thread

RSO Expertise In and Around Organizations - Call for Abstracts

  • 1.  RSO Expertise In and Around Organizations - Call for Abstracts

    Posted 09-23-2022 15:25

    Dear SAP

     

    Is it possible to advertise a special issue in the SAP digest/newsletter?

     

    We would like to advertise a call for abstracts for a special issue if possible – the text is below.

     

    Very best,

    Kasper

     

    Topic: RSO Expertise In and Around Organizations - Call for Abstracts

    Research in the Sociology of Organizations

    Expertise In and Around Organizations

    Call for Abstracts

    There is ample evidence that expertise is in crisis due to increasing distrust in and the diminished authority of experts. We have witnessed – in relation to climate change and the pandemic – the public, visible struggles among expert groups in which knowledge claims are revealed as incommensurable and related courses of action are contested, further diminishing the authority of expertise. Expertise also faces renewed challenges from intelligent technologies and efforts to codify and institutionalize expertise in ways that increase managerial and organizational control over experts. Despite these and other challenges, society continues to rely on expertise. Organizations routinely turn to and depend on experts to address some of our most pressing and important problems, including public health, issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity, the management of the economy, and the reduction of CO2 emissions. We also observe the emergence of new forms of expertise in and around organizations and changes in how expertise is organized. Expertise – specialized knowledge and techniques about a class of social problems and related solutions or responses to these problems – continues to be important.

     

    Scholars from different fields of research (e.g., Organization Theory, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Policy Studies) have grappled with the topic of expertise through various related concepts such as knowledge work, professions, specialization, and institutional elites. These theoretical conversations create overlapping, complementary, and – at times - incommensurate understandings of the constitution and production of expertise, its role and mobilization in and around organizations, and its consequences for employees, organizations, and institutions.

     

    The goal of this volume is to bring these various ways of conceptualizing expertise into conversation to understand the dynamics of expertise in and around organizations. We welcome submissions that examine expertise empirically or conceptually. This includes, but is not limited to, submissions that examine 1) new forms of expertise and new ways of organizing expertise, 2) expertise in the context of work and professions, 3) expertise in various policymaking arenas, and 4) expertise in relation to old and new technologies. We welcome a range of methodologies and perspectives.

     

    Those interested in contributing to this volume should submit an extended abstract that articulates the main argument of the paper as well as the setting, methods, preliminary findings, and contributions by October 17th 2022. Abstracts should not exceed 3000 words excluding references and tables. Abstracts for the volume should be submitted via EasyChair. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to participate in a paper development workshop in the spring of 2023. Final papers will be due by autumn of 2023.

     

    If you have any questions about the volume, please contact a member of the editorial team.

    Kasper Elmholdt, Aalborg University, elm@dps.aau.dk 

    Ruthanne Huising, Emlyon Business School, huising@em-lyon.com

    Elina Mäkinen, Tampere Universityelina.makinen@tuni.fi

     

     

     

    Kasper Trolle Elmholdt

     

    Associate Professor, PhD 

    Centre for Information Management (CIM)

    Centre for Organization, Management and Administration (COMA) 

    Centre for AI for the People

     

    Department of Politics and Society

     

    T(US): (+1) 650 272 9707

    T(Denmark): (+45) 2077 1709 Email: elm@dps.aau.dk |  

    Aalborg University | Fibigerstraede 3, office 94 | 9220 Aalborg Ø |

    AAU_UK_blue_rgb_mail