We are very happy to announce that the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) has approved to launch a new Standing Working Group (SWG) “Organization as Communication”. The SWG will be coordinated by Dennis Schoeneborn (Copenhagen Business School), Consuelo Vasquez (UQAM Montréal), Timothy Kuhn (University of Colorado at Boulder), and François Cooren (Université de Montréal). The SWG will feature EGOS sub-themes from 2015-2018 that each will address the formative and constitutive role of communication for organizations and organizing. Worth noting, the SWG will provide “Egosians” with a new home for anybody interested in organizational communication, discourse, narratives, rhetoric, or tropes. For more information on the new SWG – see here: http://www.egosnet.org/swgs/current_swgs/swg_16.

At the EGOS 2015 Colloquium in Athens, Greece (July 1-4, 2015), the new SWG will start its activities by hosting a sub-theme entitled “Organization as Communication: The Performative Power of Talk” (convenors: François Cooren, Lars Thøger Christensen, and Dennis Schoeneborn). While the this sub-theme places a special focus on talk, we also invite conceptual or empirical papers that, more generally, apply a communication-centered lens to study organizational phenomena (for more details, see the Call for Papers below or on the EGOS website: http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1392376003637&subtheme_id=1368705980214).

We are very much looking forward to your submissions (short papers of max. 3,000 words) by January 12, 2015!

With kind regards,

Consuelo, François, Lars, Tim, and Dennis