Publication Seminar
Publishing Organizational Philosophy
Publication Seminar on how to publish within Organizational Philosophy and Organization Studies held by Dr Campbell Jones, Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School for the month of November.
Many philosophers today feel an externally imposed pressure that goes beyond the traditional desire of publishing as communication with a public. This appears in the processes such as the Research Assessment Exercise in the United Kingdom (and similar models elsewhere), and in the Danish context appears in the demand to publish more and to publish more in English. How should organizational philosophers respond to these demands?
This seminar, will discuss some of the issues around the publishing of organizational philosophy. It will begin with a discussion of differing understandings of ‘organizational philosophy’ and an account of publishing in organization studies and academic publishing more generally. It will then move to a discussion of the specific question of publishing organizational philosophy and the prospects for doing so today. This account of the current situation will introduce a consideration of different spaces and different ways of thinking about the purpose and strategies for publishing organizational philosophy today.
The seminar is open to all interested parties and doctoral students in particular are welcome. The seminar will also invite discussion and debate about possibilities and difficulties of publishing organizational philosophy.
Dr Campbell Jones is Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy and Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Business ethics at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published essays in organizational philosophy in journals such as Organization and Culture and Organization, and his books include For Business Ethics (Routledge, 2005) Contemporary Organization Theory (Blackwell, 2005) and Philosophy and Organization (Routledge, forthcoming 2006). He is co-founder as was former editor of ephemera: theory and politics in organization and has recently established the publishing house MayFlyBooks which is committed publishing book length monographs in organizational philosophy.