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The Open University Business School's&#160;Department of People and Organisations&#160;is&#160;excited to host the 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference 2019,&#160;in collaboration with VIDA.&#160;The theme of the conference will be around&#160;“Precarious Presents, Open Futures”.In this spirit, we are enthusiastic in our desire to foster discussions, papers,&#160;installations and interventions regarding what it means for societies and organisations to be “open” in the 21st century. This includes, but it is not limited to:how being open&#160;is under attack by renewed discourses of individualised privilege and “closure”.what currently constitutes a radical or even revolutionary form of political, economic, historical, and ethical openness in organisations and management, and the possibilities of what this could look like in the future.&#160;We are thus interested in critical interventions that explore timely and new concepts such as:digital inclusiondecolonising data management'trans-human' managementopen sourced organisationsvirtual progressglobal solidaritymobile organisingThese themes all critically interrogate the ways that technologies and emerging forms of organisation can subvert established identities, processes and practices, values / ideals and open up space for new and marginalised voices to shape the present and future. Just as importantly, we are committed to “opening up” how a conference is organised and managed – inviting collaborative and creative spaces for constructing knowledge sharing between academics, activists, practitioners, artists, and policy makers.Details: http://business-school.open.ac.uk/events/11th-international-critical-management-studies-conference