PLEASE NOTE: We will have all sessions in the same room, set up in a circle or U shape to accommodate 25-30 people, according to the following schedule:

 

March 30 THURSDAY 8:30am-6:30pm INCLUDING DURING LUNCH
March 31 FRIDAY, 8:30am-4pm INCLUDING DURING LUNCH
April 1 SATURDAY 8:30am-5:30pm (not during conference lunch, 12-2pm) More info on this IABD Conference (press here).

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
8:30am-10am Session Chair: David M. Boje

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1. David Boje, New Mexico State University
"Las Vegas as Spectacle" background and paper
"Las Vegas  Spectacles: Organization Power over the Body"

2. Steve Linstead, University of Sunderland, UK
"Death in Vegas: Seduction, Kitsch, and Sacrifice"

3. Steve Best, University of Texas, El Paso, and Douglas Kellner, UCLA
"Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle"
Please consult Kellner's (Texas Site) or (UCLA site) for related papers.

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Discussants will be Barbara Brents and Kate Hausbeck of the UNLV Sociology Department - their research has to do with the spectacle of the LV sex industry. The audience will also be invited into this discussion.

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10-10:30am BREAK

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
10:30-11am

Session Chair: David M. Boje, New Mexico State University

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1. Mark Gottdeiner, Buffalo University
"Las Vegas: The social production of an all American City"

2. "Roast" of Gottdiener's Book (Press Here)
Steven Best, University of Texas, El Paso
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
David M. Boje, New Mexico State University

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
noon-1pm BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG--
Session Chair: Robert Dennehy, Lubin School of Business, Pace University

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1. Robert F. Dennehy, Lubin School of Business, Pace University
"The Celtic Storyteller Visits Las Vegas"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
1-2:30pm Session Chair: Robert P. Gephart, University of Alberta

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1. A. Fuat Firat, Arizona State University West
"The Meanings and Messages of Las Vegas: The Present of Our Future"

2. Slawomir Magala, Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Knowledge Gambles (Academic Casinos and Paradigmatic Roulettes)"

3. Robert Gephart, University of Alberta
"Simulacra, Safe Risk and the Management of Recreation"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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2:30-3pm BREAK

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
3-4:30pm Session Chair: Cliff Oswick, University of Sunderland

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1. Dominique Besson and Slimnae Haddadj IAE, Lille, France
"From Gramsci's Americanism to Postmodern deconstruction of Empowerment and Involvement? Some Notes"

2. Ron Purser, San Francisco State University
"Virtualization of Consciousness or Conscious Virtualization: Las Vegas vs. Lhasa"

3. Cliff Oswick and Tom Keenoy, King's College, The University of London
"Re-Configuring Fiction and Reality: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Cinematic Representations of Las Vegas"

Cliff co-organizes "The 4th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Word-views, Work-views and World-views26th -28th July 2000 - Kings College, London.  (press here).

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The audience will serve as discussants
ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Thursday, March 30, 2000
4:30-6pm Session Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, Horse Sense at Work

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1. Ken Ehrensal, Kutztown University
"Las Vegas -- A Labor Perspective"

2. Alexis Downs, University of Oklahoma and Ken Ehrensal, Kutztown PA.
"Deconstructing Lefty

3. Philip Tietjen, New Mexico Highlands University
"Troubling Threats to Mediation: The Intrusion of 'Legalese'"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Friday, March 31, 2000
8:30-10am Session Chair: Salvino A. Salvaggio, Andersen Consulting of Belgium and Terrence Krell, Deloit and Touche (if available). 

Note: Terence Krell of Deloit and Touche and a longterm Postmod track participant was to be in this session, but our good friend is having a critical surgery and we at IABD pray for his speedy recovery.

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1. Salvino A. Salvaggio, Andersen Consulting; Andrew Grimes, University of Kentucky; Deborah Rood, Troy State University
"Reconstructing Las Vegas: Retrospective Sense Making?"

• Salvino A. Salvaggio - has contributed some material he describes as postmodern -"This report shows how the new rules of the digital economy are being reformulated in a borderless and wireless world where the Muppies (Multimedia Urban People Pushing the Internet Economy) feel themselves at ease. For MAIN Web Site.  Or,
• This is a summary of MUPPIES
• This is how do download a pdf file called MUPPIES

2. Hugo Letiche, University of Humanist Studies Utrecht NL CSTT Keele University UK
"St Saturnin as Deconstruction of Las Vegas"

3. Adrian Carr, University of Western Sidney, Nepean
"Parable of the Oarsmen: Adding to Homer in the Quest to Understand
the "Imago" Las Vegas"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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10-10:30am BREAK

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Friday, March 31, 2000
10:30-noon Session Chair: Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, George Mason University

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1. Gerald S. McCain, Southern Illinois University, and Miguel Alcantara, New Mexico State University;
"Pedagogical Politics as Perceived by Mexican Immigrant Students in U.S. Schools: A Matter of Identity"

2. Vivian Chen, Syracuse University
"Can I be postmodern and Taiwanese at the same time?"

3. Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, George Mason University
"Asian Americans under the model minority gaze: Implications for diversity research"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Friday, March 31, 2000
noon-1pm BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG LUNCH--BROWN BAG--
Session Chair: Robert S. Sardy, California School of Professional Psychology

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1. Robert S. Sardy, California School of Professional Psychology
"Las Vegas and Queer Theory"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Friday, March 31, 2000
1-2:30pm Session Chair: Eduardo Barrera, COLEF-Mexico/The University of Texas at El Paso

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1. José G. Vargas, Centro Universitario del Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
"At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Mexican Organizations in Transition"

2. Maria Elena Alvarado, Centro para la Orientacion de la Mujer Obrera, Mexico, and Eduardo Barrera, COLEF-Mexico/The University of Texas at El Paso
"The Rebellion of the Object: Mimicry and Subversion among Maquiladora Informants"

3. Diane Grimes, Syracuse University
"Making the Book Speak": A Critique of the Organization Studies Literature on Race"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Friday, March 31, 2000
2:30-4:0 0pm Session Chair: Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado

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1. Presentation Title:   “On Decadence and Falling from Grace in Las Vegas”
    Heather Höpfl, University of Northumbria, UK

2. Russell Belk, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
"Las Vegas as Farce, Consumption as Play"

3. Bryan C. Taylor and Stanley Deetz, Both of The University of Colorado
"On (Not) Seeing Casinos as Production: Cultural Studies, Managerialism, and Communication"

Deetz, S., Tracy, S. & Simpson, J. Leading Organizations through
Transition:  Communication and Cultural Change.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Coming soon:
Alvesson, M. & Deetz, S.  Doing Critical Management Research.  London: Sage.

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4:00-??? FUN IN LAS VEGAS!!!

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Saturday, April 1, 2000
8:30-10am Session Chair: Robin Matthews, Kingston University, UK

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1. Usha C. V. Haley, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Rutgers University (Newark) and the Australian National University
"Unveiling the model economy of Singapore Inc"

2. Robin Matthews and Hosein Piranfar, Kingston University, UK
"Three Narratives of Identity and Reputation: Applications to the Financial Sector"

3. Gurpreet Dhillon and James Douglas Orton, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Schizoid Incoherence, Microstrategic Options, and the Management of New Organizational Forms"

 

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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10-10:30 BREAK

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University Saturday, April 1, 2000
10:30-noon Session Chair: Alfonso Montuori, California Institute of Integral Studies

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1. Arzu Iseri, Bogazii University, Istanbul - Turkey
"A Story: of Banks and Nomads"

2. Nancy Landrum, New Mexico State University
"An Ethnostatistical Analysis of the Nike-Tuck Report"

3. Alfonso Montuori, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Beyond Postmodernism: Creativity, Complexity, and the Challenge of Reconstruction"

4.Presentation Title:  “Postmodernity Theory and Narrative: A Few Questions”
  Gilbert Larochelle, Quebec University at Chicoutimi

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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NOON-2pm AWARDS BANQUET LUNCH

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ORGANIZATION THEORY/POSTMODERN THEORY TRACK
Track Chair: Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University

Saturday, April 1, 2000
2:00 PM– 3:30 PM
Conference Room 105

Session Title: New Paradigms of Consumption, Nature, and Ecology
Session Chair: Lori Paris, New Mexico State University
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1.  George Ritzer, University of Maryland
“The Las Vegas Casino-Hotel as the Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption”
 

• This talk is based on the 1999 book:
• ENCHANTING A DISENCHANTED WORLD: REVOLUTIONIZING THE MEANS OF CONSUMPTION (Pine Forge Press, 1999).
• See also, the 2000 edition of THE McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY: NEW CENTURY EDITION (Pine Forge Press, 2000)
• as well as THE McDONALDIZATION THESIS (Sage, 1998) (press here for summary).  (book cover - press here).
• 1995 - The Mcdonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life

.Pine Forge Press, 2000

2. Lori Paris, New Mexico State University
“You, Me, and Ecology: The Spectacle of Perpetuating the McHappy Myth”
 

3. Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University
"The Electric Horseman Revisits Las Vegas: Exploitation and the Nature of Nature"
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3:30-4pm BREAK

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Saturday, April 1, 2000 

4-5:30pm Session Chair: John T. Luhman, New Mexico State University

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1. John Luhman and David Boje, New Mexico State University
"A Literary Perspective of the Meta-Theory Debate"

2. Julianne Kruly, California School of Professional Psychology
"What Do We Think We're Doing? A Study of Social Responsibility in the Organizational Consultant-Client Relationship"

3. Gregory N. P. Konz, John Carroll University & Janice J. Jackson, York College of Pennsylvania
"OPRAH IS NOT BILL GATES: BLACK WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS"

4. John Ogbor, Texas Southern University.
 “Corporate Culture as Corporate Hegemony”

5. Ann L. Cunliffe, University of New Hampshire
"Social Poetics : Possibilities for Critical and Postmodern Research"

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The audience will serve as discussants.

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5pm-??? FUN IN LAS VEGAS!!!

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Sunday April 2: Farewell Brunch location to be announced.

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