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Call for papers
 

Special Issue of the
Journal for East European Management Studies (JEEMS)

and corresponding conference in Berlin, November 6, 2008

Consulting and Management in Central and Eastern Euope

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (500 words): August 1, 2008

We know little about management consulting in, and targeted at, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries and their emerging consulting markets. More specifically, the perspectives of clients in CEE remain unexplored. Thus, for the purposes of this special issue and the corresponding conference, we encourage particularly the participation of academics from different disciplines with an interest in the topics of consulting, management, or internationalization and a special focus on CEE. Empirical as well as theoretical contributions are welcomed.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.egosnet.org/about/CFP_JEEMS.pdf

Guest editors and convenors:

Michael Faust, SOFI Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany, michael.faust@sofi.uni-goettingen.de

Michael Mohe, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Manfred Moldaschl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Special Issue of the
International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management

Multiple views for enhanced understandings in Cross-Cultural Management

Deadline for paper submissions: August 31, 2008

We welcome all papers that strive to achieve further theory or knowledge development with:

• Multi-paradigm or multi-perspective approaches, multiple level of analysis in their investigation of the influence of culture on management

• New or rarely used methodologies in the field of cross-cultural management, like e.g. cultural metaphor
• New perspectives for the field of cross-cultural management, like e.g. critical, post-modern, post-colonial and indigenous analyses
• New approaches or methodologies than the prevailing ones in one of the streams within cross-cultural management

For more information, please see at:

http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_IJCM.pdf

Guest editors:

Henriett Primecz, Corvinus University, Henriett.primecz@uni-corvinus.hu

Laurence Romani, Stockholm School of Economics, Laurence.romani@hhs.se

Sonja Sackmann, University BW Munich, ssackmann@unibw-muenchen.de

Katalin Topcu, Corvinus University, Katalin.Topcu@uni-corvinus.hu

Special Issue of the
Journal of Organizational Change Management

Movements of Transition 20 Years on: Identities, Ideologies, Imaginary Institutions

Deadline for paper submission: September 1, 2008

In this special issue we would like to explore the ideologies embedded in prevailing discourses of transition – or what Buck-Morss (2002) calls (qua Walter Benjamin) 'dreamworlds'. That is, we wish to question the individual and social processes of ideology and imagination extant within the institutional arrangements of both East and West. For us, the transition to a free market society is bound up with a host of dream-like imaginations of social and economic progress (which were also found on the imaginary horizon of the Soviet system). In this sense, what we see is not a transition toward real freedom or democracy, but simply a transition from one socio-economic dreamworld to another.

For more information, please see at:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?PHPSESSID=
19orqdbgrdmpketcq2te5qeo47&PHPSESSID=19orqdbgrdmpketcq2te5qeo47&id=256

Editors:

Marianne Fotaki, Manchester Business School, UK, MFotaki@mbs.ac.uk

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex, UK

John Hassard, Manchester Business School, UK

Special Issue of the journal
Learning Inquiry

Are Organizations Able to Learn?

Deadline for paper submission: September 1, 2008 at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/

The goal of this special issue is to explore the often taken for granted assumption that the only learning entity is the individual. We want papers to challenge this mainstream perspective and to explore the wide possibility of the literatures and research that addresses organizational learning qua organizations. We invite argumentative papers arguing in favour of that organizations as such are capable of learning. Papers on related topics, such as those that interrogate the questions sur-rounding levels of analysis (individual or organizational) are also welcomed.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_OrgAbleLean.doc

Special Issue Editor:

Anders Örtenblad, Halmstad University, Sweden, anders.ortenblad@hh.se

Special Issue of the journal
Critical Perspectives on International Business

Towards a Configuration of Cross-Cultural Management

Deadline for paper submission: September 30, 2008

This special issue asks how Cross-Cultural Management (CCM) might be interrogated and reconfigured taking into consideration what the recent critical turn has revealed about its fundaments and practices. In line with a constructive tradition in critical management (Carr, 2006), we would like to encourage contributions that seek to move CCM forward. For example:

• How can CCM step outside of or find a location from which to interrogate Western scientific hegemony?
• How can CCM be taught avoiding the reification of culture and imperialist representation of the Other?
• How can we talk about cultural differences when they are built on political and power-related dichotomies between groups?
• We might even ask whether a reconstruction of CCM is feasible or desirable at all, perhaps the issues of culture and cultural differences are too strongly linked to colonial ways of thinking.

For more information, please see at:

http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=cpoib
http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_Reconfiguration-of-CCM.pdf

Guest editors:

Henriett Primecz, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Laurence Romani, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, Laurence.Romani@hhs.se

Robert Westwood, UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia

Special Issue of the journal
Organization Studies

Career as a Social and Political Phenomenon in the Globalized Economy

Deadline for paper submission: November 30, 2008

This special issue will focus exclusively on work careers. Work careers are lived in a multitude of settings: organizations, communities of organizations, occupational communities, professions, geographical communities and so on. By "context" we mean the broad social context that provides the canvas on which work careers are painted, rather than the immediate organizational context as discussed, for example, by Johns (2001). The immediate context may, of course, form a link between career and the broader context. However, it is the latter and not the former type of context that is the object of interest here. Thus, we are interested in exploring how examinations of the broad context within which work careers are lived help us understand better the nature of career in an Internet-based, globalised economy and how these careers, in turn, influence developments in the context.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_OS_Special-Issue_Career.doc

Guest editors:
Hugh Gunz, University of Toronto, Canada, hugh.gunz@utoronto.ca
Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU) Wien, Austria, wolfgang.mayrhofer@wu-wien.ac.at
Pamela Tolbert, Cornell University, USA, pst3@cornell.edu

Special Issue of the journal
Management Learning

The (Co-)Consumption of Management Ideas and Practices

Deadline for paper submission: November 30, 2008

This special issue seeks to address the question: how do different knowledge "carriers" come together in the consumption-production of management ideas in organisational and wider social practice?

The topic will initially be developed through papers in sub-theme 32 of the 24th EGOS Colloquium 2008 in Amsterdam, but other contributions are also welcomed via the journal's submission system.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/repository/binaries/pdf/CFP_MLQ2.pdf

http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo24/sub_32.shtml

http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200957

Guest editors:
Stefan Heusinkveld, Nijmegen School of Management, The Netherlands, s.heusinkveld@fm.ru.nl
Andrew Sturdy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
Andreas Werr, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Special Issue "Accountability" of the journal
Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ)

Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards to Advance Corporate Social Responsibility

Deadline for paper submission: December 1, 2008 (via http://editorialexpress.com/beq)

This special issue intends to deepen our knowledge about standardization in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We invite contributions that (critically) discuss accountability standards (e.g., SA 8000, AA1000, ISO 26000, the UN Global Compact, and the Global Reporting Initiative). Furthermore, we are interested in the social dynamics underlying the process of standardization as well as the application of standards by organizations. We welcome conceptual and empirical papers on this topic.
This special issue aims to draw on theory and practice of learning organisations and the process of adaptation of learning in a varied organisational context. The issue addresses how the idea of the learning organisation should be adapted to various internal and external circumstances, contexts, situations, etc. All papers, both theoretical and empirical using qualitative and quantitative methods, on flexible learning organisations are welcome.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_BEQ_Accountability-2008.pdf

www.businessethicsquarterly.org

Guest editors:

Dirk Ulrich Gilbert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, dirk.gilbert@phil.uni-erlangen.de
Andreas Rasche, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany,
Sandra Waddock, Boston College, USA

Special Issue of the journal
Group & Organization Management

Gossip in / around Organizations

Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2008

This special issue will extend the study of organizational gossip by generating new insights about verbal and/or written gossip both within and between organizations. How gossip is related to a number of important topics including change management, emotion, identity, power and sensemaking for example, are also welcome.

For more information, please see at:
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/19654_GOM_CFP_Dec_2008.doc

Guest editors:
Grant Michelson, Audencia Nantes School of Management (France), gmichelson@audencia.com
Ad van Iterson, Maastricht University (The Netherlands), a.vaniterson@os.unimaas.nl
Kathryn Waddington, City University (United Kingdom), k.waddington@city.ac.uk

Special Issue of the journal
Corporate Governance – An International Review

Shareholder Activism

Deadline for paper submissions: March 31, 2009

Whereas the phenomenon of activist shareholders has a rather long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries, shareholder activism has become more prevalent in other governance environments, too. The popular business press extensively discusses the pros and cons of shareholder activism, but scholarly thought has yet to weigh in substantively. In particular, we are interested in learning more about the antecedents and effects of shareholder activism, as well as more in-depth understanding of the various forms and features of this phenomenon.
Research questions of this special issues which are of particular interest include the following:

• Do corporate governance proposals advanced by institutional investors lead to better corporate governance and/or enhanced firm performance?

• Do other shareholders and/or stakeholders get ignored when activist investors become more influential? What are the fiduciary duties of activist investors?

• How do shareholder activists pick and influence their targets?

• How do boards, and how should boards, respond to activist shareholders?

• Is shareholder activism more effective than traditional governance mechanisms such as involved and independent boards or formal rules and regulations?

• How do the laws vary from nation to nation regarding shareholder activism?

For more information, please see at:

http://www.egosnet.org/about/CfP_Shareholder_Activism_03-31-09.pdf

Guest editors:
Huimin Chung, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), chunghui@mail.nctu.edu.tw
Till Talaulicar, Technical University of Berlin (Germany), t.talaulicar@ww.tu-berlin.de