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SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS
TO ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNALS:
Special Research Forum:
CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNEYS INTO A PLURALISTIC WORLD
The planners of the 1999 Academy of Management annual meeting program
recognize that employees, managers, and their organizations face a world
characterized by increasing change and pluralism. The editors of the three
major Academy of Management publications, the Academy of Management Journal
(AMJ), the Academy of Management Review (AMR), and the Academy of Management
Executive (AME), are pleased to announce that we are joining with the
program chair of the Academy's 1999 national annual meeting, Andrew Van de
Ven, to sponsor a combined special research forum. The combined forum, the
first of its kind, will be used to explore, within each journal's domain,
management and organizational issues related to change and development
journeys into a pluralistic world. Furthermore, in an effort to more closely
link the journals to the Academy's national meeting program, the authors of
some of the papers submitted for the special research forum will be invited
to present them at an All-Academy Showcase Symposium at the 59th Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago, August 8-11, 1999.
"Change and development journeys into a pluralistic world" is an
extraordinary topic that is well suited to this new and unusual
cross-journals effort. The broad themes of change and development on the one
hand and pluralism on the other represent both alternative and intersecting
opportunities for research. As the metaphor of a journey conveys, a paper
submitted for this forum should take process and time seriously in
explaining how and why change unfolds in individuals, organizations,
industries, or economies. For example, papers might examine the sequences of
events or steps that unfold over time in the development of individuals'
viewpoints, jobs, and careers; organizational innovations, transformations,
and restructurings; and larger social, technical, and economic phenomena.
The editors seek papers that advance understanding of process theories
rather than variance theories) and that focus on change as an ongoing
dynamic journey, instead of as a discrete event that shifts one unfreezing
order to a new frozen state. Learning to think temporally and act
processually are increasingly important skills for scholars and
practitioners. We also seek papers that develop and test new theories that
can enhance understanding of change processes in pluralistic settings. If
pluralism is anathema to traditional management principles of consensus and
alignment with a unitary vision and approach to change, then new theories
and ideas that allow for the management of divergent viewpoints and
processes are needed. If the expression of opposition is not welcomed
in organizations, then new theories and models that allow for existence
and even the encouragement of divergent viewpoints and expressions are
needed. The editors are especially interested in manuscripts that explore
how change and development processes both produce and are produced by more
complex and pluralistic organizations and that thus explore the intersection
of these research themes. More specifically, organizations are growing
larger in vertical and virtual connections, merging and acquiring others
with colliding cultures, hiring more technical/professional workers (now the
largest and fastest-growing segment of the workforce), interfacing in more
competitive international and global economies, and adopting widely
distributed information technologies. The net result is pluralism, or the
co-existence of groups with different, legitimate, and potentially competing
strategies and mental models within the same organizations, which are
themselves engaged in movement. We seek papers that examine how different
mutually dependent groups accommodate and learn from each other as they
coevolve in their change and development journeys. Many management
scholars, consultants, and practitioners are developing useful research data
and models for understanding these change journeys in pluralistic settings.
Transcending the traditional linear and causal views of reality, these
models include complex, nonlinear, and dynamic processes of change. In these
new models, the temporal order and sequence of events are critical to
understanding how and why things change. Here, development is viewed as an
ongoing journey instead of a destination. This all-Academy-journals special
research forum will focus on research-based descriptions, analysis, and
prescriptions of change and development journeys in a wide variety of topics
related to management, working to explore the intersection between change
and development journeys on the one hand and the pluralistic context of
organizations on the other. Papers can be empirical, theoretical, or
practical, consistent with the domain and mission of the three Academy
journals. Please prepare the manuscript following the style guide of the
publication to which you are submitting your paper. Send six copies and a
cover letter requesting consideration for this special research forum. The
manuscript should be sent to the address of the journal to which you are
submitting, as listed below, and addressed to the guest editor or editors
for that publication, also listed below. Papers must be received by February
15, 1999, to be considered for this forum. Papers submitted to this forum
cannot be concurrently submitted to the 1999 annual meeting. All papers will
be blind-reviewed under each journal's normal review process and criteria.
For further information, please contact an editor of one of the Academy's
journals or a guest editor of the forum.
AMJ
Guest Editor: Richard Woodman, Texas A&M University
(others to be announced)
Send papers to:
Academy of Management Journal
Anne S. Tsui, editor
c/o Carolyn Haitsch, managing editor
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, New York 10570-2799
Telephone, 914-923-2683
Fax, 914-923-2683
E-mail,
carolyn@academy.pace.edu
Academy of Management Review
Guest Editors:
Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School
Bruce Kogut, University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Eisenhardt, Stanford University
Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School
Send papers to:
Academy of Management Review
Ken Smith, Editor
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Telephone, 301-405-1412
Fax, 301-405-1412
E-mail,
lsiadys@mbs.umd.edu
Academy of Management Executive
Guest Editor: Hugh O'Neill
Send papers to:
Academy of Management Executive
Kenan-Flagler Business School
CB#3490 McColl Building
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
Telephone, 919-962-5861
Fax, 919-962-4425
E-mail,
hugh_oneill@unc.edu Ken G. Smith
Editor, Academy of Management Review
Professor of Management & Organization
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland at College Park
301-405-2250 (office)
301-4051412 (fax)
kgsmith@mbs.umd.edu
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Kyle Lewis-McClear
Maryland Business School email:
klewismc@mbs.umd.edu
University of Maryland fone: (301) 405-2168
College Park, MD 20742 fax: (301) 314-8787
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