The 2016 ISRF Essay Competition
Autonomy & Organisation
Essay topic: Autonomy and Organisation (This is a topic, not a title. Accordingly, authors are free to choose an essay title within this field.)
Essay length: Approximately 7, 500 words.
Essay format: Follow the OS Author Guidelines, available on the OS website.
Language: English
Submission deadline: 31 March 2016
_
Submissions should be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies. Authors
must indicate in an accompanying letter to the Editors that they wish
their essay to be considered for the prize when submitting.
Queries: Telephone 
+44 (0) 20 7262 0196 or email essayprize2016@isrf.org
Autonomy & Organisation
The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) and Organization Studies
(OS) intend to award a prize of CHF 7,000 for the best essay on the
topic ‘Autonomy and Organisation’. This is a topic, not a title.
Accordingly, authors are free to choose an essay title within this
field.
Please
read these details carefully before submitting your essay for
consideration or contacting the Independent Social Research Foundation
or Organization Studies with a query.
The
essay will be judged on its originality and independence of thought,
its scholarly quality, its potential to challenge received ideas, and
the success with which it matches the criteria of the ISRF and OS. The
successful essay will be intellectually radical, orthogonal to existing
debates, and may articulate a strong internal critique across the fields
of organisation studies. Its challenge to received ideas will have the
potential to provoke a re-thinking of the topic.
The
ISRF is interested in original research ideas that take new approaches
and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. The full
statement of the ISRF’s criteria and goals may be viewed on the
foundation’s website.
OS
publishes peer-reviewed, top quality theoretical and empirical research
with the aim of promoting the understanding of organizations,
organizing and the organized in and between societies. OS is a
multidisciplinary journal with global reach, rooted in the social
sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in outlook and open to
paradigmatic plurality. More detail about the Journal can be found on
the Journal’s website.
The
ISRF and OS invite submissions from scholars across the social science
disciplines, philosophy, and the humanities, whose work normally lies
either within or outside of the field of organisation studies.
The
submitted essays will be judged and the winning essay will be chosen by
an academic panel (the ISRF Essay Prize Committee). The panel’s
decision will be final, and no assessments or comments will be made
available. The result will be notified to applicants by email during
July 2016 and will then be announced by posting on the websites of the
ISRF and of OS. The ISRF and OS reserve the right not to award the
prize, and no award will be made if the submitted essays are of
insufficient merit.
The
winning essay will be accepted for publication in the Journal; the
author may be asked to make some corrections before publication. Other
applicants may receive encouragement to revise and then re-submit their
essays to OS.
Please read these details carefully
before submitting your essay for consideration or contacting the
Independent Social Research Foundation or Organization Studies with a
query.
The essay will be judged on its
originality and independence of thought, its scholarly quality, its
potential to challenge received ideas, and the success with which it
matches the criteria of the ISRF and OS. The successful essay will be
intellectually radical, orthogonal to existing debates, and may
articulate a strong internal critique across the fields of organisation
studies. Its challenge to received ideas will have the potential to
provoke a re-thinking of the topic.
The ISRF is interested in original
research ideas that take new approaches and suggest new solutions, to
real world social problems. The full statement of the ISRF’s criteria
and goals may be viewed on the foundation’s website.
OS publishes peer-reviewed, top quality
theoretical and empirical research with the aim of promoting the
understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized in and
between societies. OS is a multidisciplinary journal with global reach,
rooted in the social sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in
outlook and open to paradigmatic plurality. More detail about the
Journal can be found on the Journal’s website.
The ISRF and OS invite submissions from
scholars across the social science disciplines, philosophy, and the
humanities, whose work normally lies either within or outside of the
field of organisation studies.
The submitted essays will be judged and
the winning essay will be chosen by an academic panel (the ISRF Essay
Prize Committee). The panel’s decision will be final, and no assessments
or comments will be made available. The result will be notified to
applicants by email during July 2016 and will then be announced by
posting on the websites of the ISRF and of OS. The ISRF and OS reserve
the right not to award the prize, and no award will be made if the
submitted essays are of insufficient merit.
The winning essay will be accepted for
publication in the Journal; the author may be asked to make some
corrections before publication. Other applicants may receive
encouragement to revise and then re-submit their essays to OS.
_
The details and criteria are as follows:_
Essay topic: Autonomy and Organisation (This is a topic, not a title. Accordingly, authors are free to choose an essay title within this field.)
Essay length: Approximately 7, 500 words.
Essay format: Follow the OS Author Guidelines, available on the OS website.
Language: English
Submission deadline: 31 March 2016
_
Submissions should be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies. Authors
must indicate in an accompanying letter to the Editors that they wish
their essay to be considered for the prize when submitting.
_
Queries: Telephone +44 (0) 20 7262 0196 or email essayprize2016@isrf.org