Research Committees

RC17 Sociology of Organizations

Objectives

To establish contacts and to encourage collaboration among scholars working in the field of the sociology of organizations throughout the world; to enhance international cooperation and exchange in theoretical and empirical research in the sociology of organizations; to link theoretical and empirical research in the sociology of organizations with related specialist fields or disciplines such as economics, industrial relations, organizational behaviour, and management theory.

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Board 2023 - 2027

President	Michael GROTHE-HAMMER, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no
Vice-President	Kathia SERRANO VELARDE, Heidelberg University, Germany
Secretary	Christopher DORN, Bielefeld University, Germany, christopher.dorn@uni-bielefeld.de
Treasurer	Robert VAN KRIEKEN, University of Sydney, Australia, robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au
Board Members	Heloise BERKOWITZ, CNRS, LEST, Aix Marseille Université, France Catherine CASLER, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Stewart CLEGG, University of Sydney, Australia Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Paul DU GAY, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Adrienne HAWLEY, Ireland Robert JUNGMANN, Trier University, Germany Dean PIERIDES, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Leopold RINGEL, Bielefeld University, Germany Anna SKRIPCHENKO, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany

Program Coordinators for 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 are:
Christopher DORN, christopher.dorn@uni-bielefeld.de
Michael GROTHE-HAMMER, michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no

Forthcoming Activities

Organizing Plurality

ICOS 2025
Co-organized with ISA RC17
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany
March 27-28, 2025
Abstracts: November 30, 2024

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Publications

The Journal of Organizational Sociology is an open access journal published by De Gruyter in association with ISA RC17. It seeks to offer a specifically sociological perspective on organization(s) and regards itself as a vehicle for the promotion of the ISA’s general conception of a global sociology. Editors-in-chief: Michael Grothe-Hammer and Robert Jungmann.

Journal

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Regular B & C	USD 10
Students	USD 10

Life
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