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New Editors needed for JMS
Friday 30 April 2010
The Journal of Management Studies is seeking a General Editor and an Associate Editor to join the editorial team of Andrew Delios, Joep Cornelissen, Allen Amason, Andrew Corbett, Bill Harley, Davide Ravasi and André Spicer. The successful candidates will replace Steven W Floyd and Laszlo Tihanyi. The term of office is three years, from 1st January 2011 in the first instance, with an option for a further three. The posts carry a generous honorarium and all necessary travel expenses will be covered.
The Journal of Management Studies was established in 1963 as one of the first general management journals. It publishes innovative, novel and high-quality papers that advance theoretical and empirical knowledge in the area of management. It is one of the leading management journals in the world.
Specific qualities sought from candidates include the following:
- Significant scholarly contributions in any area of management studies. Currently it would be helpful if this included one or more of the following areas of expertise - strategic management, international business and corporate governance. It is expected that applicants will identify a specific category as a primary area of expertise. Editors must be prepared, however, to handle manuscripts across a wide range topics and domains.
- Extensive experience as a reviewer for management journals
- Demonstrated administrative skills, capacity to handle a demanding workload and to meet deadlines.
- Must also be able to work constructively with authors, reviewers and the editorial team.
Interviews will be held on the 30th September and 1st October 2010.
To discuss, informally, the nature of the editorial task and the support that the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) gives to editors in recognition of the time they devote to the Journal, please contact Jo Brudenell, Editorial Manager, Journal of Management Studies, Durham Business School, Durham, DH1 3LB.
Email: j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk.
Telephone: +44 (0)191 334 5395
Closing date 30th June 2010
JMS Website www.blackwellpublishing.com/jms
SAMS Website http://www.socadms.org.uk
If you wish to apply for either of these posts please email a covering letter stating why you would like to apply, and the skills and qualities you can bring to the post along with a CV that focuses on your publishing, reviewing and editorial experience and of course which post you are applying for.
SAMS Doctoral Workshop
Monday 29 March 2010
Journal of Management Studies
Professional Development Workshop
Sponsored by the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
27th September 2010
In conjunction with the 2010 Journal of Management Studies Conference on The Foundations of Sustainability, JMS will also be conducting a professional development workshop for doctoral candidates. The workshop will take place between 1pm and 5pm on Monday 27th September at Burleigh Court, Loughborough and is aimed at doctoral students in any management-related discipline. Its focus will be on professional development with a particular emphasis on strategies for successful publishing. The workshop will include presentations by experienced editors and reviewers, as well as focused discussions on key topics related to publishing.
We invite all those interested to submit an expression of interest (maximum two pages). This should include information on:
• your field of research
• your specific topic
• the stage your PhD is at
• the reasons you are interested in attending
You must also include the name and contact details of at least one of your supervisors.
Expressions of interest should be forwarded to Jo Brudenell (j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk) and should be received no later than 30th April, 2010. Places are limited to 20 participants and attendees will be selected on the basis of expressions of interest. It is very important that you meet the submission deadlines.
Accommodation, if required, will be provided free of charge for the night of the 27th September at Burleigh Court and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) is prepared to contribute towards travel expenses. Please contact Jo Brudenell for more details of financial support available.
Joep Cornelissen, Bill Harley and André Spicer
Editors
SAMS / JMS Conference 2010
Friday 05 March 2010
The Foundations of Sustainability
An International Conference Sponsored by the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
27th – 29th September 2010
There has been a simmering sense that the way contemporary organisations operate needs radical revision. This has been fired by an increasing concern about the longer term ecological, social and economic assumptions of doing business. A chorus of voices has called for the development of more sustainable ways of managing. Notably, the United Nations has proposed the institutionalisation of sustainable development as a central principle in economy and society. For them, sustainable development involves ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (Bruntland report). Embracing sustainable development means significantly shifting how business is done. It implies engaging in sustainable economic development that requires us to change unsustainable patterns of production, distribution, consumption and disposal. It also implies social development that involves the amelioration of social and economic inequality. Finally, it implies environmental protection that requires stewardship of the various natural resources that are put into our charge.
Only a few years ago, calls for sustainable management were rather faint, one could even say marginal. Now they have become central to organisational discourse and practice; many organisations recognise that they have responsibility for the broader costs of doing business. In some cases this has resulted in attempts to ‘greenwash’ what are effectively destructive economic activities. In other cases, it has meant fairly marginal changes to the status quo. In more progressive companies, there has been a fundamental rethinking of the purpose of businesses and organisations more generally. This has lead to an explosion of concern for fair trade, green businesses, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, poverty eradication, and more broadly, sustainable management of enterprise.
This remarkable explosion of sustainable business initiatives has piqued the interest of management researchers. Some for instance have called for the development of sustainable organisations, some have sketched out how companies can create sustainability, others have studied the drivers of sustainable business initiatives, and still others have launched trenchant criticisms of sustainability. Underlying much of this growing interest in sustainability is a wider rethinking of the purpose of organisations. This involves asking some fundamental questions about what a sustainable organisation would look like and what the foundations of this sustainability might be.
During this conference, we would like to encourage investigation into the intellectual foundations of sustainability. This involves asking fundamental questions about how we theorise sustainability and what impact this might have on organisations. In particular, we are interested in broadening how sustainability is conceptualised and studied in management research. To do this, we propose drawing on insights from disciplines such as sociology, economics, ecology, anthropology, cultural studies, geography and political science. We hope by doing so, the field can begin to sketch new foundations from which sustainability can be understood by scholars and realised by practitioners. Moreover, we hope to forge a stronger theoretical and empirical basis on which future research on the topic of sustainability can build.
To encourage investigation of the foundations of sustainability, we will run a small, focused conference. We hope to solicit papers that focus directly on the theme of foundations of sustainability. In particular, we are interested in papers that draw on the disciplines underlying organisation and management theory. We envisage a range of papers that address the following themes:
· The economic foundations of sustainability
o How can 'performance' and 'effectiveness' be reconceptualised?
o What constitutes a sustainable competitive advantage?
o What are the resources underlying sustainable strategies?
· The social foundations of sustainability
o How does sustainability change the social contract between organisations and their stakeholders?
o How can organisations develop strategies for eliminating poverty and ameliorating social and economic inequality?
o How do relationships between organisations and managers in developed and developing parts of the world contribute to sustainability?
· The ecological foundations of sustainability
o How can the interface between organisations and the physical environment be reconceptualised?
o How should management respond to the crisis of climate change?
· The cultural foundations of sustainability
o Should organisations be concerned with the sustainability of the values, traditions and practices which constitute the cultures of societies or groups?
o How does corporate activity influence the reproduction of cultures?
o How do innovations in products and services influence culture, for example through their impacts on patterns of consumption?
· The political foundations of sustainability
o What is the role of government and regulation in moving organisations toward sustainability?
o What forms of organisational governance promote sustainable management?
o What is the political role of private organisations in developing sustainable management?
Keynote Speakers
Professor Garry D Bruton is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University where he holds Fehmi Zeko Faculty Fellowship. Garry was one of the founders of the entrepreneurship program at TCU which is ranked as one of the top 20 in the United States by US News & World Report - 2009.
Professor Bruton’s research focuses on entrepreneurship in emerging economies and he has published or has forthcoming over 65 academic articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In addition,Garry has co-authored three text books –small business management (McGraw-Hill), technology and innovation management (Cengage), and international management (Cengage).
In 2005 Professor Bruton was the first holder of the Hall Chair in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets offered by the Fulbright Foundation. He is currently the President of the Asia Academy of Management and editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Garry in addition serves on the editorial board of five other academic journals.
Andreas Georg Scherer is Professor of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm. He is Director of the Institute of Organization and Administrative Science (IOU) and holds a chair at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He has earned his doctorate in Strategic Management (1994) and his doctoral habilitation degree (2000) in International Management both at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). From 2000-2002 he was Professor of Management and Public Administration at the University of Constance (Germany). His research interests are in Business Ethics, Critical Theory, International Management, Organization Theory, and Philosophy of Science. He has published nine books, most recently the Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship (co-edited with G. Palazzo). His work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Management International Review, Organization, Organization Studies, and in numerous volumes and other journals. He is Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly and is a member of the editorial boards of Business and Society, Business Research, Management International Review, Organization, and Organization Studies. More details on: www.iou.uzh.ch/bwl
Call for Participation
There is no conference fee and we encourage a variety of modes of participation from the presentation of academic papers to the contribution to debate through taking on the role of discussant.
In addition to leading academics in the fields of sustainability and organisation studies, the conference will also bring together promising new researchers, with up to ten travel and accommodation bursaries offered to doctoral students on the basis of their proposals.
Call for Papers
The organisers of the conference believe that much is to be gained from a serious reflection on current theoretical developments in sustainability and organisational research. To this end, both theoretical and empirical abstracts are invited and the organisers encourage contributions from different disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, political science, economics, anthropology and cultural studies, and the physical sciences.
In general, the goal is to encourage creative and imaginative contributions that engage with the conceptual foundations of sustainability. We invite empirical and conceptual studies that evaluate and build on extant research on strategy and organisation, as well as contributions that seek to advance this field of research. We encourage participants to reflect on the theoretical frameworks for strategy and organisation that will dominate research in the next decade.
An abstract of up to 1,000 words should be submitted by 6th April by email to Jo Brudenell at: j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk
Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 30th April
Full papers to be submitted for circulation by 31st July.
Authors of papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit their papers for possible publication in the Journal of Management Studies.
Discussants
If you wish to attend the conference as a discussant, please register your interest with Jo Brudenell: j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk
Conference Organising Committee
Professor Steven Floyd, Professor Bill Harley, Associate Professor André Spicer, Jo Brudenell and Margaret Turner.
professions and institutional change
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Journal of Management Studies
Call for Papers
PROFESSIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Guest Editors: Daniel Muzio (University of Leeds), David Brock (Ben-Gurion University) and Roy Suddaby (University of Alberta)
There is a growing awareness of the critical role that professions play in advanced economies. Professionals and professional service firms are key advisors, analysts, defenders and developers of the major institutions that underpin capitalist economies. As gatekeepers to key financial institutions, the professions influence both the success and failure of capital markets Professional service firms are also powerful economic actors in their own right, contributing over 3 trillion (USD) to the global economy. Professions influence more than the market system, however. They are also key agents of social change. As Scott (2008: 219) observes, “the professions in modern society have assumed leading roles in the creation and tending of institutions. They are the preeminent institutional agents of our time.”
Professions are, themselves, institutions which, over the last thirty years, have experienced profound changes. Professional service firms are increasingly adopting both the logic and structures of business corporations (Brock, et al., 1999). Professional identities are increasingly framed around logics of efficiency and commerce which have displaced traditional logics of ethics (Brint, 1994). Professional firms now tend to be multidisciplinary and transnational; a development which is eroding the value of traditional self-regulatory regimes and making the professional service firm the primary site of professional control and regulation (Cooper & Robson, 2006).
While we understand that professions are both key mechanisms for, and primary targets of institutional change, the precise role of professions and professional service firms in processes of institutional change remain under-theorized (Hwang & Powell, 2009; Scott, 2008). In this Call for Papers we propose a substantial re-theorization and empirical re-examination of professions and professional service firms and their relationship to the dynamics of institutional change.
Theoretically we seek papers that focus on the institutional work (Lawrence, et al., 2009) of professions in the context of business and the capital market system. Specifically, we are interested in research that theorizes the role of professionals and professional service firms in creating, maintaining and changing key societal institutions. We thus encourage submissions that focus on, but are not limited to:
· The role of professionals and professional service firms in creating, maintaining or changing key institutions within capital markets
· The role of professionals and professional service firms in creating, maintaining or changing key institutions within government and society
· The changing social, normative and ethical role of professionals and professional service firms
· The role of professionals and professional service firms in the diffusion of institutional logics
· Changes in status, identity, function and role of professionals embedded in corporations as in-house professionals (i.e. in-house lawyers, consultants, internal accountants etc.)
· The emergence of new forms of business professions and professional service firms
Empirically, we seek papers that document and analyse how broader institutional changes have impacted on professional services firms and their activities. We thus encourage submissions that focus on, but are not limited to:
· Changes in the structure and organizational design of professional service firms (including multidisciplinary firms, publicly traded professional firms and transnational professional firms)
· The emergence and role of new managerial practices within professional occupations and professional service firms
· Emerging networks of professionals and professional firms (including alumni networks and global professional firm networks)
· Changes in the nature of professional work (such as the off-shoring professional services and the impact of new technologies)
· Changes in professional identities as a result of the increasingly organizational context of professional work
· Changes in the status and perception of professionals as a consequence of the increasing deregulation and fragmentation of the professions
· Changes in the power relationship between professions and clients
While much recent research has focused on traditional business professions (consultants, lawyers and accountants) we also encourage studies of professionals and professions that have received somewhat less analytic attention – such as engineering, health care, information technology and lobbying. We also encourage studies that examine multiple professions or the field as a whole.
We also encourage papers that challenge the assumptions of this Call for Papers – i.e. papers that question the extent of change in professional service firms, their role as agents of institutional change or the relevance of professionals and professional service firms as a managerial construct.
Papers may take varying methods and approaches: conceptual, theory building, meta-analytical and empirical. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of this area, submissions may draw on history, geography, political theory, sociology, economics and organization theory.
Procedure:
Submissions should be prepared in accordance with the JMS Style Guide for Authors: see http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=0022-2380. Manuscripts should be electronically submitted by e-mail to professions.special.issue@googlemail.com . The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2010dm@lubs.leeds.ac.uk, David Brock at dmb@bgu.ac.il, or Roy Suddaby at roy.suddaby@ualberta.ca.. Papers will be reviewed by the guest editors as soon as they are received and, if suitable for the special issue, immediately entered into double-blind review processes in accordance with JMS standard procedures. Please direct any questions regarding this Special Issue to the guest editors Daniel Muzio at
References
Brint, S. (1994). In the age of experts: The changing role of professionals in politics and public life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Brock, D.M., M. Powell, and C.R. Hinings, (eds) (1999). Restructuring the professional organization: Accounting, health care and law. London: Routledge.
Cooper, D.J. and K. Robson (2006). Accounting, professions and regulation: locating the sites of professionalization, Accounting Organizations and Society 31: 415–444.
Hwang, H. and W.W. Powell. (2009). The Rationalization of Charity: The influences of professionalism in the non-profit sector. Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(2): 268-298.
Lawrence, T.B., R. Suddaby and B. Leca. (2009). Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Scott, W.R. (2008). Lords on the Dance: Professionals as institutional agents. Organization Studies, 29: 219-238.
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