The following Conference Call for Papers, similar in many ways to the Juris Diversitas Conference just held, was just announced. SPD
Warsaw, 12-13
May 2014
Organizing
Institutions: Polish
Sociological Association: Sociology of Law Section & Warsaw Department
Key-note Speaker: Marie-Laure Djelic -- ESSEC Business School
Call for Papers: The
problem of diffusion situates us at the junction of theoretical perspectives
and methodological approaches of various research fields in social sciences.
The common tendency of recent sociological treatments of diffusion is the
zooming in on the processes taking place when ideas and objects circulate –
such as mobilization, adaptation, theorization, dis-embeddedness and
re-embeddedness, construction, hybridization and editing. Such focus is
considered to link diffusion with heterogeneity and to challenge the
institutional isomorphism perspective which depicted it as leading to
homogeneity in organizational fields. It is also an approach to diffusion which
advances a deeper, more ethnographic and descriptive analysis of the
phenomenon.
The Workshop depicts this theoretical turn as the
evolution of research interest from the diffusion of practices to practices of
diffusion. The formula is suggestive as it also catches the nowadays research
interest in diffusion as a social phenomenon in itself, and not just as one of
the stages within a sequential process. The Workshop wishes to discuss and
reconsider these theoretical developments on the basis of diffusion studies
pertaining to the circulation of ideas, rules, procedures, regulations,
classification systems and standards in culture, law and economy. The research
of practices diffusion across organizations and legal systems evolved from the
study of diffusion paths and means to the content and form of the ideas
circulating. In addition to these developments, the Workshop also aims to
consider diffusion processes at various levels of formalization, unsuccessful
circulation processes, as well as efforts aimed at curbing the spread of
certain practices and regulations.
The Workshop welcomes papers dealing with such
topics as:
- Theories and models of diffusion in social sciences;
- Mediation, abstraction, transformation and editing of ideas, procedures and regulations during their implementation phase;
- Diffusion of practices and the construction of cultural categories of adopters;
- Social and cultural embeddedness of diffusion processes;
- The relationship between diffusion and institutionalization;
- The relationship between diffusion and institutional isomorphism;
- Unsuccessful diffusion phenomena in legal, organizational and economic fields
- Anti-diffusion activities and processes in legal, organizational and economic fields.
Registration
and Deadlines:
Deadline for
submitting paper proposals - 15 December 2013
Notification of
paper acceptance - 15 January 2014
Deadline for
registration - 15 March 2014
Abstracts
should be submitted to Adriana Mica (a.mica@uw.edu.pl)
Please provide
your personal information and institutional affiliation along with your
proposal.
Conference Fee:
Regular fee -
110 Euro
Members of
Polish Sociological Association in good standing - 90 Euro
The conference
fee covers lunch breaks, conference dinner in the evening of the first day of
the conference.
Venue: To be
announced.
Organizing
Committee:
Anna Krajewska
(University of Warsaw)
Adriana Mica
(University of Warsaw)
Rafał
Wiśniewski
(Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw).
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