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Call for Papers, Submissions and Expressions of Interest<\/span><\/h1>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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Call for Papers<\/span><\/h1>\n

Streams<\/span><\/p>\n

Alternative Management and Business Education \u2013 Tracing Histories, Mapping Contemporary Practices, Imagining Possible Futures <\/a> <\/strong>Stephen Allen, Nivedita Kothiyal, and Laure Leglise\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Critical Management Education: Beyond and Below Academia <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Alessia Contu, Amon Barros, Hellen Cordeiro Alves Marquezini, Jennifer Manning, and Martina \u015aliwa<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Foods for Critical Thought: Critical Management Studies, agri-food systems, and doing-with food politics <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Am\u00e9lie Gabriagues, Sarah Serval, Giorgia Trasciani, and Lucie Wiart<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Critically Organising for Grand Challenges<\/a> <\/strong>Brendan Whitty, Daniel Semper, Arun Kumar, and Carole Elliott<\/em><\/p>\n

Art as Alternative Organising<\/a> <\/strong>Kathleen Hughes, Sara Zaeemdar, Richard Longman, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Patricia McCarroll, and Alexia Panayiotou<\/em><\/p>\n

The Unfinished Business of CMS: Anthropology <\/a><\/strong><\/span>Antoine Inglebert-Frydman and Laurent Taskin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Nobody Leads Alone: Rethinking Leadership, Authority and Organizational Power<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>Leo McCann, Diansha Wang, and Sean Irving<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Regaining Legitimacy and Impact of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI): Rethinking EDI Research and Practice through Critical Self-Reflexivity<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>Janet Zhangyan Johansson, Eva-Lena Lundgren-Henriksson, and Suvi Heikkinen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Alternative Organizing Within and Beyond Alternative Organizations<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>Daniel King, Clemens Dieler, and Juliana Mainard-Sardon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Beyond the Horrors of the Academy: The end of academia, and other ghost stories<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>Dave Watson, Yousaf Nishat-Botero, and Benjamin Richards<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Reclaiming Care: Crafting spaces of\/for care in (Un)caring Institutions<\/a> <\/strong>Divya Jyoti, Beth Suttill, Lara Pecis and Toma Pustelnikovaite\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Landscape Commons: Organizing Livelihoods for a Sustainable Presence<\/a> <\/strong>Anke Strau\u00df, Alex Pazaitis, Ivana Luke\u0161 Rybansk\u00e1, and Rajeshwari Chennangodu<\/em><\/p>\n

Learning beyond the Academy: Power relations, intersecting inequalities, and the politics of learning<\/a> <\/strong>Uzair Shah, Dermot O’Reilly, and Kiran Trehan<\/em><\/p>\n

The Military Unconscious of Management and Organisations: genealogies of power, secularisation and the return of the repressed<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>Charles Barthold, Layla Branicki, and Guillaume Delalieux<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Management Studies: An ontological turn?<\/a> <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Stephanie Daher, Damian O’Doherty, James Scott Vandeventer, and Rowland Curtis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Moral Injury as an Occupational Hazard: Structural Determinants and Organisational Dynamics<\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/span>Ebru I\u015f\u0131kl\u0131, Ayca Y\u0131lmaz, and Gulnur Elcik<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Reimagining Hope Beyond the Neoliberal Academy<\/a><\/strong> Craig Jones and Beth Suttill<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Open Stream: Critical Management Studies- Beyond the Conference Theme<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Peter Watt<\/em><\/p>\n

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Call for Submissions<\/span><\/h1>\n

Exhibition and Workshop<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the Text: Reimagining Critical Management Scholarship through Creative and Sensory Forms <\/a><\/strong>Jacqueline Kirk and Divya Jyoti\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n

Transgressing the Academy with half-baked ideas:\u00a0Critical development workshops <\/a><\/strong>Victoria Pagan, Carolyn Hunter, Ilaria Boncori, and Jenny Davidson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Shape of Universities to Come: Ephemera Special Issue Paper Development Workshop<\/a> <\/strong>Jack Davis, Christopher Woods, Fabian Maier, and Chahrazad Abdallah<\/em><\/p>\n

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Call for Expressions of Interest<\/span><\/h1>\n

Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring where the magic happens: Creating impact beyond the academy<\/a> <\/strong>Carolin Ossenkop, Marjolein Dennissen, Dr Sofija Pajic, Tina Miedtank, and Yvonne van Rossenberg\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Building a Refugee and Migration Research Community: Caring Epistemologies, Methodologies, Vocabularies, Imaginaries and Passions<\/a><\/strong> (On behalf of Refugee and Migration Research Network – RAMnet) Elif Nur Duman-Cogen and Nosheen Khan<\/em><\/p>\n

Affective Solidarity: Poetry as Decolonial Praxis in the Borderlands<\/a> <\/strong>Saunak Sarkar, Adriana Guedes Arcuri, and Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday<\/em><\/p>\n

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Timeline<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Calls for papers, open from:<\/td>\n1 September 2026<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Deadline for paper abstract submissions:<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
1 Dec 2026<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Communication of decisions:<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
31 Jan 2027<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Deadline for full papers (if desired by stream organisers):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Streams decide<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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