The Work, Expertise, Technology, Organization (WETO) group  

Invites you to a seminar on:

“Alternative modes of organization”

Date November 29, 2024 from.13.00 -16.00
Location Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14 A, 2000 Frederiksberg in Room K1.53 

Register here before November 26, 2024

Alternative organization scholarship has emerged as a distinct subfield of management and organization studies in recent decades, focused on empirical contexts including social movement organizations, cooperatives, intentional communities, maker spaces, alternative food networks, etc. These forms of organizing seem to diverge from the mainstream in their commitment to unconventional principles and uncommon organizational practices. Rather than a clear definition, however, these clusters of characteristics seem to add up to a ‘you know it when you see it’ test for whether a given organization can be considered ‘alternative’. In this seminar, we try to address questions of what the notion of ‘alternative organization’ might mean, and how the study of alternatives should progress. The seminar includes four talks and subsequent plenum discussion:

• Genevieve Shanahan (Cardiff University): Alternative organizations’ innovations in democracy