Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC17 Sociology of Organization

Program Coordinators: Christopher DORN (Bielefeld University, Germany) and Michael GROTHE-HAMMER (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Reconsidering Formal Organization (Part I): Internal Formal Organization
Session Organizers: Signe VIKKELSØ and Paul DU GAY

11:00-12:45

Knowledge about Organizations That Every Sociologist Needs
Session Organizer: Michael GROTHE-HAMMER

13:00-14:45

Organizing Refugee Participation
Session Organizers: Nadine ARNOLD, Robert JUNGMANN and Gerhild PERL

15:00-16:45

Organizational Accidents: The Impact of Fragmentation and Uncertainty on Professional Life in High Risk Contexts
Session Organizers: Jan HAYES and Sarah MASLEN

19:00-20:30

Meta-Organizations, Sustainability and Justice (Part I): Collective Dynamics
Session Organizers: Heloise BERKOWITZ, Jean BIWOLE FOUDA and Wafa KHLIF

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Meta-Organizations, Sustainability and Justice (Part II): Governance Issues
Session Organizers: Heloise BERKOWITZ and Wafa KHLIF

11:00-12:45

Governance of Global Sustainability Challenges (Part I)
Session Organizers: Hilde BJORKHAUG, Jennifer Leigh BAILEY and Kurt RACHLITZ

Inclusion and Exclusion: How Educational Organizations Deal with Diversity (Part IV)
Session Organizer: Svenja HAMMER

13:00-14:45

Governance of Global Sustainability Challenges (Part II)
Session Organizers: Hilde BJORKHAUG, Jennifer Leigh BAILEY and Kurt RACHLITZ

Reconsidering Formal Organization (Part II): Formal Organization and Regulation
Session Organizers: Signe VIKKELSØ and Paul DU GAY

15:00-16:45

Competition and Conflict: Organizational Perspectives
Session Organizers: Christopher DORN, Friedl RONJA and Raimund HASSE

19:00-20:30

Reconsidering Formal Organization (Part III): Formal Organization and Society
Session Organizers: Signe VIKKELSØ and Paul DU GAY

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Empowering Voices through Knowledge of Organisations and Their Communication, Building Just Futures in the Anthropocene (Part I)
Session Organizers: Michael GROTHE-HAMMER, Victoria SANAGUSTIN-FONS and Jose A. RUIZ SAN ROMAN

11:00-12:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part I)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

13:00-14:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part II)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

Organisations of Knowledge: Research Institutes As Epistemic Battlegrounds
Session Organizer: Robert AUST

15:00-16:45

Professions and Organisations: Embracing Complexity and Change in the Digital Era (I)
Session Organizers: Andrea BELLINI and Christopher DORN
Chair: Andrea BELLINI

19:00-20:30

RC17 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Governance of Global Sustainability Challenges (Part III)
Session Organizer: Hilde BJORKHAUG

Inclusion and Exclusion: How Educational Organizations Deal with Diversity (Part III)
Session Organizer: Svenja HAMMER

11:00-12:45

Empowering Voices through Knowledge of Organisations and Their Communication, Building Just Futures in the Anthropocene (Part II)
Session Organizers: Victoria SANAGUSTIN-FONS and Jose A. RUIZ SAN ROMAN

Professions and Organisations: Embracing Complexity and Change in the Digital Era (II)
Session Organizer: Andrea BELLINI
Chair: Christopher DORN

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Inclusion and Exclusion: How Educational Organizations Deal with Diversity (Part II)
Session Organizer: Svenja HAMMER

11:00-12:45

Organizations, Space, and in-Betweenness
Session Organizers: Albrecht FRITZSCHE and Susanne OLLILA

Recent Perspectives in the Sociology of Organization and Food – Paper Development Session
Session Organizers: Katerina PSARIKIDOU, Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL and Robert JUNGMANN

13:00-14:45

Organization and Valuation: Global Perspectives
Session Organizers: Christopher DORN, Thorsten PEETZ and Waibel DÉSIRÉE

15:00-16:45

Empowering Voices through Knowledge of Organisations and Their Communication, Building Just Futures in the Anthropocene (Part III)
Session Organizers: Michael GROTHE-HAMMER, Victoria SANAGUSTIN-FONS and Jose A. RUIZ SAN ROMAN