The 22nd European Group for Organisation Studies Colloquium Sub-theme 16, At the Cross-roads of National and Cosmopolitan: Interweaving of Organizations and Organizing in Creative Industries, will be held from July 6-8, 2006, in Bergen, Norway. Convenors of the Colloquium are:

Candace Jones, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA;

Silviya Svejenova, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; and

Jesper Strandgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Colloquium is seeking scholarly work that may include inquiries into the following areas:

How do creative voices, creative organisations and creative industries influence the renewal of communities, regions and societies, bringing together the local and the cosmopolitan?

What formal and informal organisations interact (and how) for a creative industries product and/or performance to occur? How does the state's role influence what kinds of creative products are produced, which organisations interact and their rules for doing so? In other areas, market forces prevail and drive the production and performance of creative products. How does this external force and set of logics alter products, interactions and participants?

Creative products are quite complex in that they require multiple organisations and organisational forms to participate in their creation. Does the complexity and variety of organisations that interweave to create performances or products differ substantially between creative industries? What are the factors that alter the number and complexity of organisations over time? The submission date for abstracts is 6 January, 2006. For more information, CLICK HERE.