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Call for papers
“Organisation and Society: Legitimacy in a Changing World”
Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
September 27-30, 2007 Roskilde University (Denmark) and Lund University (Sweden)
EUPRERA (European Public Relations Education and Research Association) and the Nordic research network LOKE invite all interested colleagues to a joint conference at the universities of Roskilde and Lund, September 27-30, 2007. The conference constitutes the 2007 annual EUPRERA congress and the annual LOKE conference.
Deadline for submission of full papers is June 1st, 2007.
Overall perspective: Organisation and Society – Legitimacy in a changing world
-During the second half of the 20th century, the premises of institutions have lost their taken for granted character. The balances between market mechanisms, civil society and political regulations at national and international levels have undergone important changes in different parts of the world. These balances influence the legitimacy of organisational activities and communication, and we are seeing new forms of international as well as national social mechanisms of legitimisation.
-Analyses show how the laws of the welfare state are becoming increasingly overburdened and inadequate when it comes to responding flexibly to the complexity of social processes, also where national legislation in the wake of globalization is concerned.
To support education and research in public relations, papers dealing with the following key issues are welcomed:
-How do we conceive and identify these changing balances in society?
-How do we understand the implications of such changes for organisational responsibility and legitimacy?
-How do we understand the implications of these changes for organisational communication and public relations?
-How can we understand the implications of different forms of political regulation, legislation and legitimacy for public relations functions?
-Can we identify new demands for research and education as the basis for professional organisational communication and public relations?
Perspectives
Papers should address at least one of the perspectives below:
-Macro-level analysis: How can we understand new emerging forms of societal balances and how do they entail different forms of organisational legitimacy and legitimisation?
-Meso-level analysis: What do the overall societal balances imply to the organisation and its environment, and to the organisation’s concept of its environment?
-Micro-level analysis: How are these societal balances reflected in the internal processes of legitimisation and in decision making processes?
Comparative analyses are encouraged, of balances between society and organisations with focus on 1) differences in time and 2) differences in space, i.e. in different regions, nations.
Approaches
All relevant academic approaches are welcomed, from the social sciences as well as from the humanities: sociology, philosophy, politics, business theory, organisational theory, media sciences, linguistics, communication science and interdisciplinary approaches.
For a special session, papers from practitioners are invited. Papers should contribute to the theme of the conference from a practice perspective and comply with the general requirements for papers as specified above.
Submission
All who are interested in presenting a paper on the above and related topics are invited to submit a paper for consideration to EUPRERA and LOKE.
Length: Maximum 25 standard pages, max 56.375 characters with spaces, including notes, excluding references.
Language: English
Form: Electronic submissions in one of the following formats: MS Word for Windows, MS Word for Mac, WordPerfect, or Rich Text Format. All tables, graphs, and pictures must be included with the main text in a single document.
Review process
Every contribution will be submitted to a two person double-blind reviewing process – by representatives from EUPRERA and LOKE – with the main criterion being how the paper contributes to the key issues of the conference.
The reviewing procedure will take place in two steps:
November 15, 2006: Deadline for abstracts of maximum 3 pages
Primo January 2007: Return response on abstracts
June 1, 2007:Deadline for full papers.
Based on the first vetting procedure of abstracts an inspiring and promising number of high quality papers are expected. Full papers without a prior submission of abstracts are welcomed as well. However, in the revieweing procedure these papers will be selected based on how they complement already reviewed papers in terms of new approach, new insight and high quality, directly related to the theme.
Primo August 2007: Return response on full papers
September 1, 2007: Deadline for final version
September 8, 2007: Final papers available on a closed part of the conference website, admission for participants only
Address: euprera@ruc.dk
Registration
All participants in the conference, including those who present papers, must register. Registration will open in May 2007. See registration.