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| Call for Papers:Critical Postmod OT Theme: (Mis)Managing in a Global Environment | Critical
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Organization Theory Track |
IABD - International Academy of Business Disciplines www.IABD.org
April 5-8, 2001 Orlando, Florida: Holiday Inn-International Drive 800-465-4329 or 407-351-3500
Critical Postmod OT Theme: (Mis)Managing in a Global Environment
It is time to deconstruct the globalization project. What are the implications of post-WTO global organizing on MNC globalization. Last year we deconstructed Las Vegas, this year we take on Disneyfication, McDonaldization and Las Vegasization. Think locally and deconstruct globally!
Track Chair - Grace Ann Rosile garosile@aol.com Board Member - David Boje dboje@nmsu.edu
We would like to have paper theme sessions, with people invited to discuss particular themes.
THEME ONE: Tomorrowland and Mis-managing the Global Environment.
First Idea "Myths of Tomorrowland" - From: "Hugo Letiche" hletiche@hotmail.com and Mike
For Orlando I propose to do a paper on the basis of the Siemens pavilion at expo (Hannover) -- it is an enactment of globalization wherein they show the 'scenario of the future' which is really a 'back to the future' --- all myths of the 'tomorrowland' of the '60s and portrayed as a fractal between Europe, South America & Europe. Their 'globalization' is one culture for all based (I find very interesting) on very old myths.Second Idea "Globalizations as Managerialist Trope" - From: Cliff Oswick coswick@compuserve.com - On a slightly different note, I have seen the IABD call for papers. I am hoping to put together a critique around the notion of "globalization as a form of managerialist trope" (i.e. as a metaphoric, metonymic, synecdochic and ironic device).
Third Idea "Spectacle Play Places" - From Adrian Carr acarr@kilo.uws.edu.au - If Vegas was the playground for gamblers and constituted a site of spectacle, to people outside the US, Florida has to be the 'space' for play. I would like to explore the notion of play and in particular the realm of play as simply another level of reality neither serious nor non-serious.
Fourth Idea Slawomir Magala of Erasmus University smagala@fac.fbk.eur.nl
GATED COMMUNITIES
(global dialectics of inequalities and transparencies)
Globalization yields contradictory results. On the one hand individuals are tearing down window curtains - turning their private lives into soap operas for neighbors and passers-by (a trend increased by TV programs like Big Brother or Jerry Springer show). One’s own domestic life can be turned into a phantasy, one’s living room can become a theme-park. On the other hand they construct fenced-off and guarded "gated communities", which isolate them from the city and from the underclass. The latter has not yet come up with the urban equivalent of the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization, and city governance is slow in shaping up. On yet another, third hand, management of transparent inequalities requires a radical break with the current cross-cultural techniques for dealing with the expats efficiency. It has to be tuned to the flows, mobilities and new technologies of togetherness. Higher education can play a role, provided it escapes the traps of Disneylandized edutainment.
Fifth Idea David Boje, dboje@nmsu.eduI wrote a paper on what has happened to Disney since the 1995 Tamaraland paper I published in AMJ. It is titled "Phenomenal Complexity Theory and Change at Disney: Response to Letiche."
On the subject of TAMARA, that is the name for a new journal I am starting on Critical Postmodern Organization Science. It is an IABD sponsored journal and dedicated to this track. Check it out at http://www.zianet.com/boje/tamara/ There are calls for papers for the next two years. It is the Rock and Roll journal for our interdisciplinary effort; a scholars version of Mother Jones and UTNE reader. Write for TAMARA, become a board member or ad hoc reviewer. Spread the word....
Sixth idea -- The Nike Research Proposal -- Lets talk about it. http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/nike/call_for_nike_research.html Nike called Boje and asked him to write a proposal. Now what would any critical postmodernist do?
AS YOU SEND ME IDEAS AND PROPOSALS I WILL POST THEM DBOJE@NMSU.EDU
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