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[ecrea] cfp 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts

Thu Mar 05 00:09:12 GMT 2015


Call for PAPERS – ICDC1

Extended deadline for submission: April 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 April 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: April 1 2015

Notification of acceptance: May 8 2015

PhD-workshop: August 18 2015

Sessions: August 18 – 21 2015 (Welcome reception on August 18)



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