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[ecrea] cfp: Organisational Communication – from Academic and Practical Perspectives

Thu Dec 18 10:25:12 GMT 2014




CALL FOR PAPERS – ICDC1
Submission deadline: March 1 2015

Organisational Communication – from Academic and Practical Perspectives
1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts
http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
August 18-21 2015

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Mats Alvesson (Lund University, Sweden)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Per Linell (Linköping University, Sweden)
Nana Balle (Arla Foods, Denmark)

PHD WORKSHOP WITH MATS ALVESSON ON AUGUST 18 2015
Reflexive Methodology – A Workshop (http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk/phd-workshop/)

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE AND THEMES
The key purpose of the conference is to explore and further develop organizational communication from different perspectives and address opportunities and limitations of the interaction between different social actors in professional contexts. In an increasingly complex world, where groups with different interests and expectations are contesting dominant discourses, the adaptation of organizational communication constitutes a strategic, linguistic and communicative challenge. Where previously the primary concern of organizations would have been to communicate with a clearly defined and relatively small number of stakeholder groups (e.g. customers, investors, suppliers and employees) about issues that relate to the financial and commercial aspects of the business, they are now required to address and communicate with a much more diverse set of stakeholders about matters that involve social and environmental change from local as well as global perspectives.

In part, this development has arisen from the increasingly global nature of business and its concomitant imprint on natural and social environments across the world. However, the increased public awareness of the contestability of professional and expert knowledge has also led to intensified interaction among professionals and non-professionals, among other things as a result of new web based possibilities of making one’s voice heard, In this environment, communication becomes less predictable and less controllable, requiring that organizations adopt new modes of interaction. As an example, in recent years this has included focus on more dialogic forms of communication and the recognition of multiple and potentially conflicting identities among stakeholder groups. By bringing practitioners and researchers together, the conference provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and sharing of interests across the field of organizational communication, highlighting the value of the Humanities to the analysis and solution of pertinent issues in business and society. The broadness of the conference theme supports this vision. Conference themes include, but are not restricted to, the following:

    * Stakeholder dialogue
    * Intercultural interaction
    * Organizational culture
    * Identity construction
    * Digital media

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
We invite you to submit abstracts for paper and poster sessions dealing with discourse and communication aspects relating to organizational communication. Papers may focus on empirical cases as well as conceptual or theoretical issues within the above or related themes: Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should include title of paper, research topic, method, empirical data, theoretical approach, (expected) findings and references (max. 5 references).
English is the working language of the conference.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 1st 2015.
For more information, see http://www.discourse-communication.aau.dk/abstracts/

REGISTRATION
Details about the registration procedure and deadlines will be made available no later than around the time for abstract submission. There will be reduced registration fees for students as well as reduced early-bird fees.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
The conference is organized by the research group ‘Communication and Culture in Professional Settings’ at Aalborg University (http://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/research-groups/procom/

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 1 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 15 2015
PhD-workshop: August 18 2015
Sessions: August 18 – 21 2015 (Welcome reception on August 18)

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