Call for Papers, Submissions and Expressions of Interest

Below you will find the call for papers, submissions and expressions of interest for the streams and some of the workshops running as part of ICMS 2027 (updates will be made as we are still waiting for a few calls to be finalised). If you have any questions about these calls, please contact the stream and workshop convenors directly.

Details about other workshops running as part of the conference can be found here (you will be able to attend these workshops on the day without any prior submissions/expressions of interest).

Call for Papers

Streams

Alternative Management and Business Education – Tracing Histories, Mapping Contemporary Practices, Imagining Possible Futures Stephen Allen, Nivedita Kothiyal, and Laure Leglise 

Critical Management Education: Beyond and Below Academia Alessia Contu, Amon Barros, Hellen Cordeiro Alves Marquezini, Jennifer Manning, and Martina Śliwa

Foods for Critical Thought: Critical Management Studies, agri-food systems, and doing-with food politics Amélie Gabriagues, Sarah Serval, Giorgia Trasciani, and Lucie Wiart

Critically Organising for Grand Challenges Brendan Whitty, Daniel Semper, Arun Kumar, and Carole Elliott

Art as Alternative Organising Kathleen Hughes, Sara Zaeemdar, Richard Longman, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Patricia McCarroll, and Alexia Panayiotou

The Unfinished Business of CMS: Anthropology Antoine Inglebert-Frydman and Laurent Taskin

Nobody Leads Alone: Rethinking Leadership, Authority and Organizational Power Leo McCann, Diansha Wang, and Sean Irving

Regaining Legitimacy and Impact of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): Rethinking EDI Research and Practice through Critical Self-Reflexivity Janet Zhangyan Johansson, Eva-Lena Lundgren-Henriksson, and Suvi Heikkinen

Alternative Organizing Within and Beyond Alternative Organizations Daniel King, Clemens Dieler, and Juliana Mainard-Sardon

Beyond the Horrors of the Academy: The end of academia, and other ghost stories Dave Watson, Yousaf Nishat-Botero, and Benjamin Richards

Reclaiming Care: Crafting spaces of/for care in (Un)caring Institutions Divya Jyoti, Beth Suttill, Lara Pecis and Toma Pustelnikovaite 

Landscape Commons: Organizing Livelihoods for a Sustainable Presence Anke Strauß, Alex Pazaitis, Ivana Lukeš Rybanská, and Rajeshwari Chennangodu

Learning beyond the Academy: Power relations, intersecting inequalities, and the politics of learning Uzair Shah, Dermot O’Reilly, and Kiran Trehan

The Military Unconscious of Management and Organisations: genealogies of power, secularisation and the return of the repressed Charles Barthold, Layla Branicki, and Guillaume Delalieux

Management Studies: An ontological turn?  Stephanie Daher, Damian O’Doherty, James Scott Vandeventer, and Rowland Curtis

Moral Injury as an Occupational Hazard: Structural Determinants and Organisational Dynamics Ebru Işıklı, Ayca Yılmaz, and Gulnur Elcik

Reimagining Hope Beyond the Neoliberal Academy Craig Jones and Beth Suttill

Open Stream: Critical Management Studies- Beyond the Conference Theme Peter Watt

Call for Submissions

Exhibition and Workshop

Beyond the Text: Reimagining Critical Management Scholarship through Creative and Sensory Forms Jacqueline Kirk and Divya Jyoti 

Workshops

Transgressing the Academy with half-baked ideas: Critical development workshops Victoria Pagan, Carolyn Hunter, Ilaria Boncori, and Jenny Davidson 

The Shape of Universities to Come: Ephemera Special Issue Paper Development Workshop Jack Davis, Christopher Woods, Fabian Maier, and Chahrazad Abdallah

Call for Expressions of Interest

Workshops

Exploring where the magic happens: Creating impact beyond the academy Carolin Ossenkop, Marjolein Dennissen, Dr Sofija Pajic, Tina Miedtank, and Yvonne van Rossenberg 

Building a Refugee and Migration Research Community: Caring Epistemologies, Methodologies, Vocabularies, Imaginaries and Passions (On behalf of Refugee and Migration Research Network – RAMnet) Elif Nur Duman-Cogen and Nosheen Khan

Affective Solidarity: Poetry as Decolonial Praxis in the Borderlands Saunak Sarkar, Adriana Guedes Arcuri, and Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday

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