Organizing Extreme Contexts

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…

More great news! There is certainly some momentum to the interest of extreme contexts. Happy to announce that Journal of Management Studies will run a special issue directly related to extreme contexts in general, and temporality, embodiment and materiality, in particular! See further details in the call, here. The special issue is organized by Markus…

Happy to see that the next PROS conference will be about extreme contexts! Quite a fitting theme after having lived through most (hopefully) of a major global crisis, a.k.a. the COVID-19 pandemic. There are some excellent speakers lined up, including Beth Bechky (see her video video from our seminars here), Dan Zahavi and Loïc Wacquant.…

We are excited to let you know that the theme of the 4th ECVW is “Theorizing from routine behaviors in Extreme Contexts” featuring Professor Beth Bechky (NYU Stern School of Business) and Professor Daniel Geiger (Hamburg University)!! WHEN? Thursday, June 3, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC. Please note that if you want to “hang out and chat” before…

Greetings! We are delighted to share that the first Extreme Context Research Brown Bag Session will be hosted on Thursday, April 15th from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST / 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT / 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CEST via zoom. The Extreme Context…