Call For Papers on Pragmatic Constructivism and Actors’ Construction of Organised Reality
The purpose of the conferences on actor-reality construction is to exchange research ideas and contributions to deepen insight into the problems and possibilities of constructing social human practices and strengthen the output of research articles and books. We welcome submissions within any topics that provide insight into the construction of (dys-)functional practices. However, responding to the dynamics of the present social conditions, the conference will address issues of human values, markets, measurement, digitalisation, and learning, as well as the role of live communication that enables organisational practices to cope meaningfully with these issues. Specifically, the conference will illuminate the impact of different forms of communicative practices, including practices of accounting, management, marketing, ethics, teaching, research, innovation, human cultivation, social interaction, etc. and the role AI-languages and systems may play or are already playing in such practices. A major concern is the soundness, ethics and the role of communicative practices in organisations – i.e. the language games used in practice – in creating or negating intelligent learning- and value-oriented organisations. The possible subject areas of the desired submissions include (but are not limited to) the following: learning processes, costing, performance measurement, organisational processes, pedagogic, psychology, sociology methodology, and communication.
The conference invites three categories of contributions: i) Full papers, ii) Abstracts and iii) PhD-projects. There will be enough time for in-depth discussions and reflections among the participants, which will hopefully develop their thoughts and paper writings further.
About pragmatic constructivism and actor-reality construction
Pragmatic constructivism conceives reality as a complex set of constructs created by the actors in interaction with their environment. Interacting with others and ‘things’ in the world through language and actions, actors produce common reality constructs, which are the basis of practice. Pragmatic constructivism offers some conceptual fundamentals for understanding and analysing how actors construct a successful actor-world relationship in a dynamic environment. In particular the following are considered to be conceptual fundamentals: practice constructed through actorship, language games and co-authorship; four dimensions of reality – facts, possibilities, values, and communication – must be integrated in the actor-world relation if the construct is to form a successful basis for effective actions, organisational learning, and an integrative learning theory of truth involving a learning circle between proactive truth and pragmatic truth. The previous conferences have produced various theoretical and empirical contributions within different academic fields.
Organizing committee:
– Camilla Kølsen Petersen, SDU, Denmark, ckp@sdu.dk
– Michael Paulsen, SDU, Denmark
– Hanne Nørreklit, Aarhus University, Denmark, hannenorreklit@mgmt.au.dk
Submission and contacts to: hannenorreklit@mgmt.au.dk and ckp@sdu.dk
Deadline for submissions: 1st Sept. 2019
Deadline for registration: 5th Sept. 2019
Registration: https://www.conferencemanager.dk/theactor
Fee: €180,00
Tuesday, 15 October
12:00–13:00: Registration and light lunch
13:00–13:30: Welcome by Michael Paulsen. Presentations by Camilla Kølsen on language games and Hanne Nørreklit on pragmatic constructivism
13:30–14:15: Talk by Lennart Nørreklit on language games and understanding, followed by discussion (Chair: Michael Paulsen)
14:15–14:45: Coffee break
14:45–17:00: Paper presentations
Digitalisation of Love by Annick Bourguignon & Hanne Nørreklit (Chair: Lars Bo Henriksen)
Controlling creativity in art museums by Jakob Liboriussen (Chair: Camilla Kølsen)
Climate sustainability reporting by Gudrun Baldvinsdottir (Chair: Annick Bourguignon)
19:00: Dinner
Wednesday, 16 October
09:00–12:30: Paper presentations
Quality management in schools by Camilla Kølsen Pedersen (Chair: Gudrun Baldvinsdottir)
Learning through advising by Antonio Leotta, Carmela Rizza, Daniela Ruggeri (Chair: Pinar Guven-Uslu)
Accounting techniques for understanding by Morten Jakobsen (Chair: Henrik Fladkjær & Moataz Elmassri)
Managing without hierarchy by Tuomas Korhonen and colleagues (Chair: Carmela Rizza)
12:30–13:30: Lunch
13:30–15:00:
Understanding the world today by Michael Paulsen (Chair: Antonio Leotta)
Control through attention by Lennart Nørreklit (Chair: Jakob Liboriussen)
15:00–15:30: Coffee break
15:30–16:15: Family business control systems by Moataz Elmassri (Chair: Morten Jakobsen)
16:15–16:30: Preview of next year’s conference by Antonio Leotta and Hanne Nørreklit
Thursday, 17 October
09:15–10:45:
Digital universities by Pinar Guven-Uslu & Lisa Jack (Chair: Teemu Laine)
University governance by Lars Bo Henriksen (Chair: Lennart Nørreklit)
10:45–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:15:
Methods for analyzing language games by Hanne & Lennart Nørreklit, Camilla Kølsen, Michael Paulsen (Chair: Tuomas Korhonen)
Final discussion on methods and future projects (Chair: Hanne Nørreklit)
12:15–13:00: Greetings and light lunch