Call for Abstracts – Organization Studies Workshop
– Call for Abstracts –
Organization Studies Workshop – The Architecture of Hope in Distressing Times and Places: Construction, Action, and Possibilities.
May 27th – 30th, 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece
Submission Deadline: 8th December 2025
The OSSW 2026 aims to advance our theoretical understanding of hope while generating insights for organisations and persons navigating increasingly turbulent, distressing times. By examining hope in its most challenging contexts, we can better understand its role in organisational resilience, transformation, and positive social change. Our objective is to encourage authors to develop empirical examinations of hope in distressing times and places, including but by no means limited to finding hope, building hope, keeping hope alive, the social construction of hope, the organising of hope and its organisational implications, and the sources and consequences of hope under adverse circumstances. We are interested in treatments of collective hope, emotional clusters that include hope in adverse consequences, finding hope in counterintuitive places and counterintuitive ways, and constructions of hope via practice, imaginaries and prefiguration. We also welcome contributions that examine the temporality of hope and distress, hopeful or hope-filled resilience, places and spaces of hope or hopelessness, hope and power, and other related examinations.
Abstract should be no more than 1000 words. Full details of the call and the related future special issue of Organization Studies can be found at
https://osofficer.wixsite.com/osworkshop