Call for papers on Green Management

Management Decision is calling for papers for their Special Issue on "Why green management matters" Edited by: Professor David Lamond & Dr Rocky Dwyer

Background
Following the 2007 special issue "Alleviating poverty through trade", and the 2008 "Questions we ask about ethics in a global marketplace", this is the third in an ongoing series of special issues of Management Decision devoted to matters of ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility and woven in with the organising theme of the Academy of Management. In 2009, the theme is Green Management Matters.

The special issue will be edited by Rocky Dwyer and David Lamond and will appear under the title of "Why green management matters". It is scheduled for Volume 47, Issue 7 and will appear in August 2009 in CD format, as well as its usual hard copy version, to coincide with the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago.

Whether dealing with waste management or investment management, today's decision makers are confronted with the "green" in those decisions - sustainability, carbon footprints, industrial ecosystems, greenhouse gasses, and energy efficiency are some of the elements which are increasingly the "stuff" of those decisions, the criteria by which decisions are judged to be more or less sound.

This issue seeks to make a contribution to the debate about the "green" consistent with its title "Why green management matters". Papers are welcomed that explore green management and the principles which underpin this approach.

Questions such as "Can I just get by through paying someone else to have a smaller carbon footprint?", "Should business be my brother's (green) keeper?", and "Isn't my responsibility to the shareholders?" needs answers. Conceptual papers, as well as qualitative and quantitative research papers, are welcomed, as they add to the knowledge base about corporate social responsibility and ethics in relation to green management matters.

Papers
Submission of the full paper is required by 1 February 2009 for consideration for the special issue. Papers submitted will be subject to a minimum double-blind peer review process to ensure that this special issue maintains the excellent reputation and record of Management Decision.

For style guidelines please visit the Management Decision web site.

Submissions to Management Decision are made using ScholarOne's Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md.

Full instructions are on the author guidelines site. As a guide, articles should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length.

A title of not more than 12 words should be provided.

Please e-mail any queries to:
Professor David Lamond PhD E-mail: david.lamond@ntu.ac.uk
Dr Rocky Dwyer PhDE-mail: Dwyer.RJ@forces.gc.ca

International Journal of Emerging Markets- Call for papers

The International Journal of Emerging Markets has a Special Issue on Changing Patterns of Global Growth .

The credit crunch, increases in food prices and the oil crisis have all led to great uncertainty in the global economy. However, some countries have achieved higher growth whereas standards of living have been predicted to plummet in other economies.

A special issue of International Journal of Emerging Markets sets out to analyse the following themes:

• The role of India, China and other emerging markets in insulating world economic growth from US financial crisis
• How the US financial crisis is affecting emerging markets
• Strategies for companies from emerging markets on how to cope with the current crisis
• Is there a role for China and India and other emerging economies in insulating the global economy?
• Should policies be domestic or global?
• How should emerging markets cope with the global financial crisis?

Types of paper

Both empirical as well as theory building papers will be considered. As the topic lies at the intersection of several scholarly domains, papers can draw from several different fields such as organisation theory, strategy, international business, technology and invasion management and business law. Aspects can also encompass other areas including entrepreneurship, operations research and organisational behaviour.

Submission guidelines and timeline

All manuscripts should be prepared according to the author guidelines located at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijoem.htm. All papers will be double blind reviewed following the journal’s normal review procedure. (This journal is not accredited)

Submissions to International Journal of Emerging Markets must be made using the ScholarOne Manuscript Central system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijoem

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2009

The guest editors for the special issue are John McManus and David Floyd. Please direct any enquiries to Dr McManus at jmcmanus@lincoln.ac.uk

Emerald suspending alerting and Table of Content services

Emerald recently found a bug in their system that affected the following services:

- Saved search alerts (for new articles on your topic)
- ToC (Table of Contents) alerts (for new issues of journals)
- Weekly digest.

They have identified the following issues:
- The alerting service duplicated the number of alerts that recipients received in their inbox
- Some content was out-of-date/incorrect.

To ensure that these problems do not continue they will be suspending these services until further notice.

Call for papers on Employee Relations: Are we having fun yet?

This forthcoming special issue of Employee Relations ‘Are We Having Fun Yet?’ explores the idea of organised fun at work as the latest employee engagement mechanism.

From fancy dress days and team based sporting activities, to chill out rooms, party nights or skiing and sailing weekends, an entire industry of laughter consultants’ prescriptions and methods has emerged to advocate and facilitate the creation of fun in the workplace. Yet, are we having fun yet?

It is timely for a fresh look at the notion of fun at work: what it is, what it does, and what it really means to people. This special issue calls for an assessment of the current fascination with this hitherto informal, subterranean social side of work, and the veracity of the very under-theorised association between fun, happiness and productivity. We call for papers that offer new insights into the impulse to ‘manage’ play, laughter, and fun at work; and also people’s reactions to efforts to contain, shape and exploit the creativity and energy to be found in shared humour and humanity in the workplace. Particularly we seek papers that combine original conceptual approaches with empirical studies that capture the actions and reactions of people involved in ‘fun’ cultures.

Papers may wish to, but are not restricted to:

• Present accounts or data on organisational initiatives around fun, and formal engagement with the social side of organising
• Explore the philosophical underpinnings and the case for and against the implied link between fun, workplace morale and productivity
• Critically appraise the science of happiness movement and related developments in positive organisation studies as a precursor to ideas about fun at work.
• Dialogue with consultants, practitioners, managers and employees about their intentions and experiences in this domain
• Reflect on the implications of the fun agenda for workplace practice
• Determine, whether indeed, we are having fun yet by offering a historical, structural, or geographical comparative analysis
• Consider who fun is for, who it omits
• Highlight methodological avenues for appraising workplace fun

Manuscript requirements

Manuscripts of between 3000-6000 words should be submitted to the editors no later than January 31 2009. Please email by Word document attachment, with Employee Relations in the subject line, to: Professor Sharon C. Bolton: sharon.bolton@gsb,strath.ac.uk and Dr Maeve Houlihan: maeve.a.houlihan@ucd.ie

For full manuscript submission guidelines please refer to the Employee Relations homepage at:

Closing date: JANUARY 31, 2009.

Emerald Author Guidelines

Emerald offers a series of Author Guidelines (similar to the ones I've distributed at the Author Workshop on Monday 7th April) available online offering practical tips and guidance on how to get your work published and maximize dissemination from Emerald, the world's leading publisher of management research..

It is available to Emerald subscribers. To subscribe please register on the Emerald website once you've entered it via the Library's databases.

Here is what to expect as well as the links to the guidelines:

How to... write a case study
A case study involves focusing on a set of issues in some contemporary setting, usually but not exclusively an organization, or perhaps a department or sector of an organization. It may use just one case or a number of cases linked together by a theme. Because of its real-world setting, it is a powerful tool of analysis, and one that obviously chimes in with Emerald's concern to disseminate implications for practice. It is particularly good at addressing "how" and "why" questions.

How to... write for a practitioner audience
If you are an academic, then you have good job-related reasons to want to publish: your job and your promotion depends upon your keeping up your publishing profile in quality scholarly journals. If you are a practising manager, however, writing for publication is not part of your job and can seem much less important than keeping up with your targets and the inevitable fire-fighting. This guide aims to explain the benefits of publishing to practising managers and to give advice on how to publish successfully.

How to... write a literature review
A literature review is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic. It gives an overview of what has been said, who the key writers are, what are the prevailing theories and hypotheses, what questions are being asked, and what methods and methodologies are appropriate and useful. As such, it is not in itself primary research, but rather it reports on other findings.

How to... find the right journal
Finding the right journal is as important to the publishing process as is having something original to say and saying it well. Many journal editors claim that a good proportion of their rejections happen not because manuscripts are of insufficient quality, but because they are inappropriate for the journal's objectives. As ever, it is easier (and usually leads to a more successful outcome) if you address these issues as early as possible.

How to... write an abstract
An abstract is a succinct summary of a longer piece of work, usually academic in nature, which is published in isolation from the main text and should therefore stand on its own and be understandable without reference to the longer piece. It should report the latter's essential facts, and should not exaggerate or contain material that is not there. Its purpose is to act as a reference tool (for example in a library abstracting service) and, more importantly, to enable the reader to decide whether or not to read the full text. It is your opportunity to gain readership and citation.

How to... use the Harvard reference system
The Harvard reference system, also known as the author-date system, is Emerald's approved system of citing other works. Articles submitted to Emerald are required to use this system. This guide explains how and where to use references within the text of your article and how to compile the reference list at the end. We also look at some of the software tools that are available to simplify these tasks.

How to... structure your article
According to one survey on why articles fail to get published in economics journals, there are two main reasons. Either the paper does not make, or does not demonstrate that it makes, a contribution to knowledge or the paper is badly organized, with the parts not fitting together to form a coherent whole. These two factors, which rated more highly in this survey than targeting the wrong journal, both relate to the paper's structure. Papers that are well structured will have a logical organization with a beginning, a middle and an end, and above all a sense of purpose which communicates itself to the reader, will motivate him or her to continue reading in the belief that the author is making a contribution to knowledge.

How to... write more simply
Reviewers of academic papers often point out that the language is unnecessarily obscure and obtuse. The reviewer or editor feels there is a good point in there somewhere, but it is not easy for the reader to find. In contrast, good English is economical and spares redundant words. In Lost for Words: The Use and Abuse of the English Language, John Humphrys describes the qualities of good English: "... clear, simple, plain and unambiguous ... free of jargon, although there will be exceptions. It should be easy to read and listen to rather than a chore. At the very least it should not make our tongues fur up". This guide provides suggestions on how you can make sure your style is as clear as possible.

How to... prepare papers if English is not your first language
Preparing and writing an academic article for publication in an English language journal is a daunting experience for anyone, but particularly so if your first language is not English. This guide gives you some support with preparing articles in a non-native tongue. It is not possible to give specific advice about English, because teaching English as a foreign language is a highly specialized area requiring a great deal of skill. However, we will provide general advice on writing articles and list some useful resources including editing services.

How to... proofread your work
As far as writing an article for publication is concerned, we are talking about authors proofreading before it goes to production. In many ways, it is more like copy-editing, which is about close attention to the detail of the script, reading at sentence level to make sure there is nothing that can detract from accuracy and clarity, be it errors of grammar, inconsistency, spelling, or punctuation. "If a paper is not carefully checked, then it looks not just sloppy, but as though the author does not care. So why should anyone else?" (John Peters, Emerald CEO and editor of Management Decision).

How to... survive peer review and revise your paper
What gives being published in a journal especial credibility is that other experts have read the work and deemed it acceptable. The peer review process is therefore what gives the journal in which you have chosen to place your article, and your paper if you have done the necessary revisions, a quality control stamp. This guide offers advice on minimizing the chances of having to revise your work by getting it right in the first place, to a practical example of carrying out your own peer review.

How to... collaborate on writing an article
Many Emerald articles result from collaboration. Reasons for this include the: increasing importance of publication for tenure, promotion and satisfying the UK Research Assessment Exercise; tendency towards large, multidisciplinary projects; nature of research funding; pressure for PhD students to get out publications even before their PhD is approved; and greater ease afforded by electronic means of communication. This guide focuses on authorship and dissemination issues arising from collaborative research (issues concerning setting up a large research project team are covered in our Research Zone). This guide is based on the experiences of several authors from three continents.

How to... promote your work
A good promotions strategy will increase the impact of your work by getting more people to read your article, improving your citation ratings, and ensuring that your work becomes more widely known both within your academic and practitioner community and outside it. It will also help disseminate the practical and policy-related implications of your work to those who can implement it. This guide concentrates on strategies that will help you and your colleagues make your articles, as well as the wider research on which they are based, better known. If you are working as part of a research centre or larger research programme with major funding, then you will need to talk to your partners and your funding body about developing a proper communications strategy.

How to... write a book review
Book reviews are a special form of academic writing. They have well-known structures with familiar components. Here, James Hartley of the School of Psychology, Keele University, UK, consults with academics on writing the perfect book review and presents a potential checklist for book reviewers.

More Information on the Emerald Author Workshop

I've received quite a few positive responses for the upcoming Emerald Author Workshop to be held on 7 April from my departments - thank you for your enthusiasm!

I've also had numerous requests for more info on:

• the venue for the workshop
• the costs involved
• the amount of participants that can attend
• more information on what the workshop actually entails

Venue

The venue will only be finalised and communicated to me at the end of March, however, Eric Broug (Emerald Business Manager - Africa) indicated that due to the positive response of UJ we have quite a strong case to host it.

Costs

It's free!

Amount of participants that can attend

"I don’t have a maximum amount of attendees for the workshop, the more the merrier!" - Eric Broug's answer to this question.

More info

Although I do not know what Eric will be addressing specifically, I was able to find an Introduction to Emerald Author Workshops available on Emerald's database in the section dedicated to authors (and well worth a click.)

Here is what the introduction says:

The main part of the session is the presentation that includes:

• background information on Emerald
• what being published means to the author
• the people (editors, their advisors and reviewers, publishers and authors themselves) involved throughout the process
• advice for authors on preparing and submitting articles
• the review process in detail
• how to get involved with your publisher

It is common for the presentation and workshop to be tailored to the audience (particularly if it is to take place at a conference) or reflect the subject coverage of a journal or range of journals if an editor is to give the presentation. The presentation will always include a question and answer session; they have occasionally (where the presenter has experience of journal editing) featured a clinic for a handful of one-on-one consultations with students or delegates. We also supply a booklet - the "Author Workshop Resource" - for delegates to take away. This can also be customised to suit either audience or presenter and aims to back-up some points made in the presentation and broaden others.

I hope that this answers any immediate questions that has come up.

As always I will keep you informed of any change in detail or if more information becomes available.

Emerald Author Workshop invitation

Diarise 7 April because Emerald’s Business Manager for Africa, Eric Broug will be visiting Johannesburg and will hold author workshops for lecturers, researchers and students. The idea is to focus on and encourage South African (aspiring) authors to submit articles for publication to their journals.

The workshops will be held either at WITS or here at UJ. A time/venue has not been discussed yet - I think Eric wants to test the response to this invitation

Emerald publishes in the following subject areas:
Accounting, finance & legal
Human resource management
Industry sector management
Innovation and enterprise
Information & knowledge management
International business
Library management and library studies
Management science, economics and social policy
Managing quality
Marketing
Operations management
Property and real estate
Strategy and general management

A full title list of all Emerald journals is available here. These workshops are not only for lecturers, but also for postgraduate students and staff who would like to venture into scholarly publishing.

I will give you more details as and when it becomes available closer to the date.

New Emerald for Managers edition

• Emerald for Managers is an online library of management information.
• It helps managers, business students and researchers perform better by providing access to the latest thinking on management theory and practice. It is up to date, accessible and available in a format to suit all users. (You can log in via your normal Emerald log in details. Emerald is available via the UJ library databases)

December 2007 features:

• Management & Leadership Dave Ulrich & Norm Smallwood In their new book Leadership Brand, Ulrich & Smallwood explore the advantages of a branded approach to leadership.
• Marketing Getting the price right: Kent Monroe Monroe talks here about guidelines for developing and maintaining an effective approach to solving pricing problems.
• Change Management James B. Rieley column: In this month's column, James B. Rieley discusses the effort traps that companies can fall into during a merger.
• Strategy Rules for Renegades: Christine Comaford-Lynch how companies can increase their value, and what makes a successful entrepreneur.
• HR Re-thinking human resources. Why do HR people view themselves as administrative overhead rather than contributors to the company's profitability?
• Knowledge Management What are we managing – knowledge or information?
• Health Care Management Human resource management at the negotiating table. Since the largest proportion of the health budget is spent on staff, “people management” should be a priority.
• E-business IT & Finance IT Risk: Richard Hunter and George Westerman In this interview, Hunter & Westerman discuss IT decision making and risk management.
• Quality Improving quality in the construction industry. Among all industrial sectors, the construction industry has the third highest number of ISO 9000 certificates...
• Public Sector Continuous improvement in the public sector. Traditionally, the public sector has followed the private sector and adapted tools from the manufacturing sector.
  
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