EOR - Organizational Studies

Theme 1: Institutional Approach in Organizational Studies
Leader: Valéria Silva da Fonseca - PPAD/PUCPR
The institutional approach and analysis of organizations. Regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive organizations and institutions. Isomorphic mechanisms. Technical environment and institutional environment. Organizational field. Agency and structure. Social actors and institutions. Structured cognition and interpretation. Legitimacy, domination, power, and institutions. Rationality and institutional standards. Institutional entrepreneurship. Institutional logic. Organizational identity in the institutionalized context. Processes of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, and reinstitutionalization.

Theme 2: Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation
Leader: Ana Sílvia Rocha Ipiranga - PPGA/UECE
Papers dealing with learning, knowledge, and innovation in organizations from various approaches and methods such as follows: types, strategies, motivations and learning styles, driving factors or inhibitors of learning, sharing of learning, its determinants and implications, individual, group, organizational, and social learning, scales and learning modules, links between learning, "reflexivity", motivation, commitment, climate, infrastructure, and organizational policies, relationships between learning, creation, and knowledge management, and innovative organizational practices.

Theme 3: Work, Organization, State, and Society
Leader: Fabio Bittencourt Meira - PPGA/EA/UFRGS
Working with relations between organization, State, and society (including here the sense of community). Ideological, political-economic, and/or social dimensions of the relationships between organizations, between organization and society, and between organization and State. Contemporary forms of work and its centrality in the structure of society and of the organizations.

Theme 4: Communication, Discursive Process, and Production of Meanings
Leader: Adriana Machado Casali - DECOM/UFPR
Contributions of the "linguistic turn" to organizational studies. The communication/organization relation. Language and organizational analysis. Organizations as discursive constructions. Genres and discursive processes in organizational contexts. The centrality of interactions and the production of meanings in organizational practices. Theoretical-empirical analyses of the assumption of communication.

Theme 5: Ontology, Epistemologies, Theories, and Methodologies in Organizational Studies
Leader: Maurício Serva - CPGA/UFSC
Brings together papers of an epistemological or methodological nature with an exclusive focus on organizational studies. The conception of epistemology is contemporary, which means that it also includes the development of sociology of science that addresses the dimensions of the scientific field: nature of this field, sociopolitical problem of the players, the processes of production and dissemination of knowledge in this case on organizational studies. It is hoped that the papers focused on the methodological perspective will promote discussions on the rigor in scientific production with an emphasis on issues that characterize the use of qualitative methodologies in organizational studies considering both classical as well as new research strategies.

Theme 6: Critical Studies and Transformational Practices in Organizations
Leader: Francis Kanashiro Meneguetti - DAGEE/UTFPR
Organizational studies of critical perspectives. Studies of Marxist, Frankfurdian, poststructuralist, critical phenomenological, and psychoanalytic approaches. Studies on power, ideology, resistance, subjectivity, criticism of management, critical pedagogy, violence, and suffering. Studies with analysis of transforming organizational practices such as self-management, cooperatives, solidarity economy, social movements, and alternative experiences.

Theme 7: Gender and Diversity
Leader: Darcy Mitiko Mori Hanashiro - PPGA/Mackenzie
Theoretical basis of the diversity study (theoretical essay). Diversity in the workplace: concept, challenges, and opportunities. Management of diversity: organizational models and practices. Gender relations and power. Women in organizations: glass ceiling, gender identity, stigma. Racial relations in organizations. Persons with disabilities: beyond quotas. The heterosexism: challenges for a diverse workforce. Creating an inclusive workplace: concept of inclusion, potentials, and challenges. Corporate and diverse social responsibility. Diversity and public policies: importance of a regulatory environment.

Theme 8: Family Organizations
Leader: Janete Lara de Oliveira Bertucci - CEPEAD/FACE/UFMG
The intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics of family organizations. The organization relationships - family, inter and intra organizational context. Interdisciplinary studies and research on topics that focus the family business such as organizational practices in and from the family company, the impact of family dynamics on organizational practices and vice versa, succession & succession planning, professionalism, governance, networks, gender issues, power relations, ethics, symbolism, identity, among others.

Theme 9: Individuals, Groups, and Behavior in Organizations
Leader: Débora Coutinho Paschoal Dourado - PROPAD/UFPE
Studies that analyze, discuss and broaden the reflection on individuals, groups and human behavior at work. Research on individual and group perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and values, as well as on behaviors at work that advance in the discussion of the theme. Studies that present innovative and/or instigating perspectives for the comprehension of motivation, emotions, commitment, organizational citizenship, health, well-being and quality of life at work. Research that investigate issues relative to groups, interpersonal relationships, socialization, atmosphere and performance. Studies that articulate micro and macro organizational processes, such as culture, power, control, decision making processes and societal context.

Theme 10: History and Memory in Organizations
Leader: Mônica de Aguiar Mac-Allister da Silva - EA/UFBA
Organizational and also historical studies from any epistemological, ontological, theoretical, and methodological of history perspective. Including organizational analysis developed from historical approaches with the construction of theoretical frameworks and historical concepts and that use historical methods. Historical constructions of organizational reality in Brazil and that bring the organizational knowledge closer to this reality. Historical research that contributes to innovation in the production of knowledge about organization.

Theme 11: Intra and Inter-organizational Networks and Relationships
Leader: Charles Kirschbaum - PMPA/Insper
This theme invites papers to: Seek greater relevance and theoretical contribution by expanding the use of historical methods. Adopt a theoretical and conceptual framework based on historical approaches. And get the researchers closer to the context of Brazil's reality. The idea is that the historical research will contribute to serve as a foundation researches and researchers who seek new perspectives and are committed to alternative approaches to hegemonic ones, expanding the possibilities of organizational studies.

Theme 12: Symbolisms, Cultures, and Identities in Organizations
Leader: Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva - PPGADm/UFES
Includes studies related to inter- and intra-organizational networks and relationships including companies-in-network, Constellations, Markets-in-network, and social ties among social actors. Concepts traditionally addressed: Trust, embeddedness, transaction costs, structural equivalence, and connectivity. Quantitative and qualitative approaches and emerging methods such as analysis of widely used social networks.