Please forgive cross posting
Further information on the call for participation in a multi-faceted debate
on controversial issues in leadership, and leadership education and development
(update)
As you may know, we are organizing a unique multi-faceted debate to be
published as a special issue in Emerald's prestigious peer-reviewed international
journal Management Decision
Its purpose is to air some of the controversial issues pertaining to
leadership. The hope is that some will be resolved for the benefit of managers who
would like to enhance their knowledge about what could make them more effective
leaders, and for educators who face the daunting task to make theories more
practically useful to learners.
Initial responses have led to organizing the debate into 6 topics:
A. Leadership decisions
B. Leadership behavior types, styles, definitions, theories
C. Distinctions between leadership and management
D. Leadership research
E. Management and Leadership education and development
F. Abstracts of papers
The initial statements and the first two set of responses to them have been
most interesting.
If you would like to participate in the debate or 'listen in', please
indicate your interest in an email message to Erwin Rausch, moderator, at
didacticra@aol.com. Your name and email address will then be added to the list.
If you wish you can send a relevant statement, a response to statement(s)
from other participants, or the abstract of a paper to be submitted later, to
didacticra@aol.com. Please do NOT send these as attachments but paste them into
the message itself.
Previously submitted statements and responses can be viewed in the respective
topics at
www.managementfirst.com/forums/index.php (select Management
Decision - Leadership Debate from the index).
Deadline for debate statements and responses: November 15, 2004
Update messages and updates of the website segments, are sent approximately
every two weeks, to keep all participants informed of developments.
If you wish to submit a relevant short paper (between 1000 and 4000 words) to
support a provocative statement or to expand on a response, please send it as
an MSWord email attachment to
didacticra@aol.com. Deadline: November 30,
2004
Throughout the debate, the email addresses of participants will not be shared
with others so that knowledge of participants will not bias comments and
responses. An identification code will be assigned to each participant and will be
used during the debate for each message from her or him (as well as for any
paper).
All papers, provocative statements, comments, and rebuttals will be
double-blind peer-reviewed for acceptance or rejection in the special issue of the
journal. Originators will be informed of rejections or requests for
clarification/revision with explanations; they will have the opportunity to revise and/or
object. Comments and rebuttals will, of course, be published with the papers.
Interest in serving as a reviewer will be most welcome. Please contact Erwin
Rausch at
didacticra@aol.com.
For further information please contact Erwin.
P.O. Box 457,
Cranford,
NJ 07016
USA
001 908-276-5413
For further information about Management Decision see
www.emeraldinsight.com/md.htm