MG-ED-DVers,
I noticed our esteemed colleague Jean Bartunek's posting of this
announcement in another virtual community and am enthusiastically
sharing it with you.
Cybercollaborating,
Charles Wankel
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ANNUAL SERIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Qualitative Organizational Research, published by Information Age
Publishing, continues the series formerly published under the title
Advances in Qualitative Organization Research. QOR is devoted to the
publication of qualitative research relevant to the interests of
organizational scholars, where "qualitative research" encompasses all
forms of field research performed with qualitative data, that is, data
that present themselves in non-numeric form. Such research may be
conducted using methods that are qualitative or a combination of
qualitative and quantitative, with the aim of developing a thick
description and grounded understanding of the focus of inquiry.
Manuscripts considered for publication in QOR may concern topics derived
from any of the organization sciences, including but not limited to the
areas of Organizational Behavior, Organization Theory, Strategic
Management, Human Resource Management, and Organization Development. A
participant-observation study of the acquisition of power during CEO
succession exemplifies research fitting within the domain of QOR thus
defined, as does a protocol analysis of how job seekers interpret labor
market information, or an ethnographic account of a self-managing team
engaged in workday reality construction.
The need for an annual series like QOR grows out of the absence of a
periodic outlet offering the number of pages per manuscript required to
write a meaningfully deep description of qualitative data and, at the
same time, a sufficiently detailed theoretical interpretation and
conceptual conclusion. Manuscripts extending beyond the length
restrictions of traditional journals are welcome, with the understanding
that authors will strive to communicate their ideas as clearly and
succinctly as possible.
Publication decisions will be made by the editors of the series. Such
decisions will involvement assessments of the "value added" of each
manuscript in the realms of grounded insight and conceptual advancement.
Authors should anticipate a process of developmental revision, in
consultation with one of more of the editors, following provisional
manuscript acceptance
QOR should appeal to organizational researchers interested in publishing
detailed qualitative studies of their own and in learning more about the
methods and methodologies of qualitative research. At the same time,
purely quantitative organizational researchers should find AQOR valuable
as a source of grounded insights and testable hypotheses. Prospective
contributors should submit four copies of their manuscript, prepared
using APA format, to one of the editors: John A Wagner III, Michigan
State University, Department of Management, East Lansing, MI 48824;
Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, Department of Organization Studies,
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808; or Kimberly D. Elsbach, University of
California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, CA 95616.