Every year, the EGOS Colloquium offers a comprehensive and diverse set of interesting sub-themes, each of which focuses on specific topics and streams in organization research. This also applies to next year’s EGOS Colloquium, which will take place from July 5–7 in Tallinn, Estonia.

The rich offer of sub-themes provides multiple opportunities for scholars interested in temporary organizing to submit their short papers until January 8, 2018. The following list includes some of the sub-themes that are interested in phenomena of temporary organizing. Please contact the authors of this blog if you have suggestions for extending this list.

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DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 2018
The strategic roles of innovation and exploration in today’s competitive environment have triggered an important evolution in the field of project studies. Indeed, it has been demonstrated that the dominant, rational view of project management as the accomplishment of a clearly defined goal in a specified period of time, and in conformity with certain budget and quality requirements, does not fit with the logic of innovation that is first and foremost characterized by discovery (Van de Ven, Polley, Garud, & Venkataraman, 1999), unforeseeable uncertainty (Loch, DeMeyer, & Pich, 2006), and expansion (Hatchuel, 2002). It also does not fit with the logic of entrepreneurial orientation, which is characterized by proactively seeking, (co-)creating, and seizing new and innovative business opportunities and by a risk-taking attitude, leading to a sustained proclivity of shareholders and senior managers to pursue projects with uncertain outcomes (Anderson, Kreiser, Kuratko, Hornsby, & Eshima, 2105; Covin & Slevin, 1991; Miller, 1983; Rauch, Wiklund, Lumpkin, & Frese, 2009; Rosenbusch, Rausch, & Bausch, 2013).

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