The next Organizing in Extreme Contexts seminar is scheduled over Zoom on April 28th (3:30pm-5:00pm GMT)! We’ll have Lucy Easthope (University of Bath and author of When the Dust Settles) and Graham Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin) presenting on the theme of perspectives on disaster, followed by discussion. Registration is free and available at the following…

In case you missed it, we sent out a newsletter in January 2025. You find it here.

Hello,It has been quiet on the website for quite a while. You may have noticed that it has not looked properly for some time. I (Markus) am working on fixing the problem – but I am more of a researcher than a website “hacker”. So, please bear with me. If you happen to have website…

Upon very popular request, we have decided to extend the deadline of the extreme context SI to September 10 (2022). If you know someone planning on submitting, please pass the word along. We have tried to contact people that have been in contact about the deadline of the SI, too. Here is the “old” information…

Please note that we are organizing a PDW for the Special issue on “ORGANIZING AND STRATEGIZING IN AND FOR EXTREME CONTEXTS: TEMPORALITY, EMBODIMENT, MATERIALITY” to be published in Journal of Management Studies. During the PDW we will tell you a bit about what we envision with the special issue and there will be plenty of…

There will be a paper development workshop on EGOS in Vienna, 2022! Please check out this link for more information (and make sure to apply!) Deadline 30th of April (see EGOS website for any changes) Link: Theorizing Extreme Contexts     

Time for the seventh(!) virtual seminar! This time on Writing Extreme contexts with Professor April Wright and Assistant professor Derin Kent – both at Warwick University. Good writing benefits all scholars, but it seems especially valuable to ECR. We write about contexts that fall outside the life experience of many readers, where contextual detail is essential…

Please find the videos from the last workshop here! Featuring Professor Barbara Czarniawska (Gothenburg University) and Professor David A. Buchanan (Cranfield University).

It is our absolute pleasure to let you know that the theme of the sixth workshop is “Fiction & Extreme Contexts,” featuring Professors Barbara Czarniawska (Gothenburg University) and David Buchanan (Cranfield University)! An enduring problem with researching extreme contexts is the issue of access. Extreme events may be hard to access as they happen, or…