Deadline: March 15th, 2024. Español or English
Organizational culture as an aspect of study is an essential resource to interpret the needs of the organizations of our time. Organizations are experiencing frenetic changes in recent decades, and it will be important to read this evolution based on culture. We face an increasingly globalized and acculturated organizational world, in a continuous call for new approaches from the social sciences.
New trends in the work society gradually dilute the ties of the old corporation. Teleworking and intense digitalization allow more and more citizens to work from anywhere, while the office – an organizational icon of the 20th century – is no longer the axis of all activity. Furthermore, corporations currently face strong individualistic tendencies that challenge the cohesion of work teams (e.g. phenomena such as 'quite quitting' or 'job atomization').
All of this leads us to rethink the role of organizational culture in the immediate future. Will strengthening corporate culture lead to success again? This is what happened in the 1980s, when authors such as Ouchi, Schein, Smircich or Peters and Waterman convinced the management world that managers capable of uniting their teams and the solidity of their values, through strengthening culture, would dominate the end of the last century. Will a new wave be able to solve the loss of cohesion of organizations in the 2020s? Or should the corporation give ground to new organizational trends?
Through this call, we aim to collect papers that respond to these questions, and/or allow us to open the intense debate underway. To this end, we are interested in the contributions of both academics, managers and professionals from the business world, being their approach to the organization from cultural approaches the common denominator.
Contributions from the sociocultural approach (national cultures), the institutional approach (leading the culture) or the interpretive approach (network of subcultures) will be welcome. In addition, works on intercultural relations within the organization will be considered, with approaches from branches such as organizational communication, organizational analysis, sociology of work or sociology of migrations, among others. Along these lines, priority will be given to those works that ponder on the emerging changes within current organizations and their consequent cultural repercussions.
Guest Editor:
Alberto Vallejo Peña
Department of State Law and Sociology
University of Málaga
favallejo@uma.es