CfP Social Network Environments Conference 2013

Social Network Environments Conference (SoNetE 2013), May 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, aims at assessing the current state of advanced social applied research, on topics as social network analysis, exchange networks, intra and inter-organizational social networks. Furthermore, we lay a special stress on how academic communities manage to deliver scientific knowledge as to meet the needs of non-academic environments (i.e. public sector, business and non-profit organizations). Put it differently, we want to discuss if there is a gap between academic communities and non-academic environments, in terms of scientific agendas. Ways of building bridges between the two parts are sought, if necessary.

Social Network Environments Conference (SoNetE 2013), May 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, aims at assessing the current state of advanced social applied research, on topics as social network analysis, exchange networks, intra and inter-organizational social networks. Furthermore, we lay a special stress on how academic communities manage to deliver scientific knowledge as to meet the needs of non-academic environments (i.e. public sector, business and non-profit organizations). Put it differently, we want to discuss if there is a gap between academic communities and non-academic environments, in terms of scientific agendas. Ways of building bridges between the two parts are sought, if necessary.

SoNetE 2013 provides researchers with the possibility of presenting their research work (e.g. early stage research presentations, papers close to completion etc.) during three workshop sessions. The participants to the workshop sessions are offered the opportunity to publish their research work in a special issue of International Review of Social Research journal.

Web: http://sonete.sas.unibuc.ro

Contact: gabriel.hancean@sas.unibuc.ro

Keynote-speakers: David Willer; Rebecca B. Morton; Patricia Powell; Ulrich Teichler

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: March, 30, 2013
Paper submission deadline: May, 20, 2013
Early conference registration from February, 14, 2013
Regular conference registration: March, 18 – May, 10, 2013
Late/on-site conference registration after May, 10, 2013
Workshop session registration deadline: May, 20, 2013
Announcing the Conference program: May, 20, 2013

We invite researchers to submit original papers on their early stage, ongoing or completed studies that are focused on either inter or intra-organizational topics, until March 30, 2013 (for the abstracts) and until May 20, 2013 (for the papers).

Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• positive and negative ties;
• voice and silence in organizations;
• organizational informal networks;
• dark networks and terrorist organizations;
• organizational decision-making strategies;
• organizational alliances, board interlocks, join-ventures and inter-firm alliances;
• knowledge management and organizational learning;
• social cognition and group processes;
• time and space in organizations;
• power, politics and policies in and among organizations;
• organizational and individual social capital;
• on-line and off-line social networks;
• emergence of norms in organizational environments.

Submission
Please, submit your paper (4,000 – 8,000 words in length) together with an abstract of no more than 200 words, to the following address: editor@irsr.eu until May 20, 2013.

Prior to submission, please check author guidelines at http://irsr.eu/instructions.html.

Publication
All accepted papers, after having been assessed via a double blind peer-review process, are to be published in a special issue of International Review of Social Research (http://irsr.eu/).