The XIVth conference maintains the focus on language game as the 2023 conference and will be interested in the role of different types of specialised language games (professionals, accounting, management, marketing, strategy, etc.) in the construction of (dys-)functional organisational practices. Language game means that human beings construct and organise in their everyday practices around the use of language as a set of narrations. Such narration is blended with other forms of action. The language constructions developed in local practices must integrate the four dimensions of reality to function pragmatically, in order to create intentional results of organisational activities. As an organisation runs by multiple interconnected specialised language games that have to function successfully together, the conference will also provide insights into methods by which cooperation among the specialised language games can be successfully created.
Additionally, we are curious about the role AI-languages and IT-systems are playing in the construction and management of specialised practices. In particular, we are interested in the distinctions between language game, language gaming and language play. Language play has a significant role in the construction of (dys- )functional organisational practices in emerging contexts. The relevance of this issue stems from the current economic, social and environmental crises and the related responses from organisations to construct new functional practices of resilience. Finally, the conference will focus on the role of research methodologies and meta-language games in the construction of organisational practices and the form (and deform) of reality constructions they create. A major concern is the soundness, ethics and the role of the emerging language games in creating or negating intelligent learning- and value-oriented and life-friendly organisational and institutional practices.
The possible subject areas of the desired submissions include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Language games of performance management and accounting in professionally driven public sector activities, various types of business activities, industries consultancy and firm-advisor relations, milieus of user participation facilitated by the social Web, NPD projects, entrepreneurial companies, learning platforms, inter-organisational relations, etc.
- Language games of possibilities, as the good, ethics, democracy, digitalisation, gender balance, organisational cooperation, organisational learning, corporate social responsibility, meta theories, etc.
- Language games of performance measurement and the creation of sustainability for the good life for people, social togetherness and the natural environment.
- Language games and language plays of (good) accountants in constructing life-friendly activities, relationships and projects.
- Language games and language plays in constructing (dys-)functional practices to deal with social, environmental and economic crises.
The conference invites three categories of contributions:
i) Full papers
ii) Abstracts
iii) PhD-projects.
There will be enough time for in-depth discussions and reflections among the participants, who will hopefully further develop their thoughts and paper writing.