TO ALL MED MEMBERS
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Those of you making plans for the Academy of Management Meetings in
Chicago please note the Editorial Board Meeting of the Journal of
MANAGEMENT LEARNING which is scheduled on Sunday, August 8 from
3:30-5:00pm.
My co-editor Chris Grey (Cambridge University -UK) and I,
would like to warmely invite you to attend this meeting. We are
delighted that several MED Members are already serving on our
Editorial Board and are valueable referees and book reviewers of the
Journal. We are keen to foster even stronger links with members of
the MED Division, because we acknowledGe that the themes of the
Journal correspond closely with the interests and high quality
research that colleagues in the MED Division conduct.
The Journal of MANAGEMENT LEARNING is one of the top five Europen
Journals and it is increasingly been ranked among the top journals
Internationally as reflected in the citation index.
Learning emerged as a hot management topic in the 1990s, but
MANAGEMENT LEARNING, now in its Thirtieth volume,
is no newcomer to the relevant debates and issues. Published by Sage,
MANAGEMENT LEARNING has four issues a year which provide scholars and
practitioners with a forum for the latest thinking and research on
managerial and organizational learning. The journal's extensive
reviews section offers a ready digest of recent books, software and
literature in management learning and cognate fields.
Edited from the UK, Management Learning is truly international in its
outlook, its contributors and its readership. In the past year we have
carried papers by authors from the US, Australia, the UK, South
Africa, Sweden, Greece and other countries.
The main themes of the journal include:
The Nature of Individual, Management and Organizational Learning
including learning organizations and organizational learning; the
changing nature of management, organizations and learning; historical
and political aspects of learning and management education
The Process of Learning including learning methods and techniques;
processes of thinking; experience and learning; perception, reasoning
and cognition; organizational and psychological obstacles to learning;
pedagogical methods and issues
The Outcomes of Learning including the nature of managerial knowledge;
thinking, learning and action; ethics and values; skills and
competencies; personal and organizational change
Wider Issues including those of culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
and power; ethics and politics of learning and management education;
language, discourse, narrative and rhetoric; critical and postmodern
approaches to management learning.
Plainly this is a wide agenda: MANAGEMENT LEARNING sees learning as
central to a range of organizational processes and not as a separate
'topic' from broader concerns. And it is not a fixed agenda: we aim to
publish work which breaks the boundaries of existing knowledge as well
as filling out and developing established areas.
We are always looking for top quality research papers from scholars
with interests relevant to the journal, wherever they may work in the
world. We operate a rigorous refereeing and editorial procedure, but
one which aims to be fair, timely, constructive and unambiguous. We
warmly invite members of the MED Division to read MANAGEMENT LEARNING
if they do not already do so and to consider submitting their work to
us for publication, become more actively involved.
Further details about Management Learning may be found at
http://www/sagepub.co.uk/journals/usdetails/j0165.html
We look forward to welcoming you in our Editorial Board meeting.
Elena Antonacopoulou (University of Manchester, UK)
Christopher Grey (University of Cambridge, UK)
Co-editors
*******************************************
* Dr Elena Antonacopoulou
* OB Group
* Manchester Business School
* University of Manchester
* Booth Street West
* Manchester
* M15 6PB
* UK
* Tel: (+44) 161 275 6333
* Direct line: (+44) 161 275 6365
* Fax: (+44) 161 275 6598/6489
* E-mail:
E.Antonacopoulou@fs2.mbs.ac.uk
******************************************