From: Joel Baum [mailto:
Baum@Rotman.Utoronto.Ca]
SO! -- STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION -- CALL FOR PAPERS
It's time researchers interested in strategy and organizations had a
strong, multidisciplinary, multimethod journal for our work. The
intersection of these fields is already being explored vigorously by
many researchers but existing outlets for such work tend to emphasize
either strategic or organizational issues - not both - tend to be guided
by a particular disciplinary approach - or none at all - and tend to
favor some empirical approaches over others.
STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION -- SO! -- is a new journal named to reflect the
two fields whose convergence it aims to foster and encourage. SO! will
be published by Sage UK, with the first issue due in March 2003.
SO! aims to advance development of new research and understanding at the
intersection of strategy and organization to build a new field. The
field is multidisciplinary and discipline neutral. It is also
multimethod and method neutral. SO! explicitly removes topical,
disciplinary, and methodological constraints faced at other journals.
Relaxing these constraints, while demanding strong disciplinary
grounding and empirical rigor, frees researchers to combine ideas and
methods in new ways, in a forum that actively combines ideas and methods
in new ways. Preferred submissions are those that identify both a
compelling practical strategic organization issue and a strong
theoretical framework for addressing it.
You can obtain more details about SO! at:
http://www.mgmt.utoronto.ca/~baum/so.html
There we explain in more detail the aims and scope of the journal, list
the 75 members of editorial board, as well as details on manuscript
submission. We look forward to your submissions! In the meantime, if you
have any questions about SO! don't hesitate to contact any -- or all! --
of us.
Joel Baum --
baum@rotman.utoronto.ca
Royston Greenwood --
royston.greenwood@ualberta.ca
Dev Jennings --
dev.jennings@commerce.ubc.ca
Strategic Organization --
strategic.organization@rotman.utoronto.ca