Not enough reviewers have registered for the special issue of Management Decision. More papers can also be considered.
If you are willing to review papers, or submit one, for an issue entitled Enhancing Decisions, please let me know.
To provide more information, the original call is pasted in below.
Call for papers and reviewers for a special issue of Management Decision entitled Enhancing Decisions
The focus of the issue would be on ways to help people with managerial responsibilities at work and in private lives, enhance their decision-making skills and, of course, their success. Selection of papers for the issue would be based on their likely interest to individuals who want to improve their own skills, to faculty member in various disciplines, and even more so to readers who have management development responsibilities.
The publisher of this special edition, Emerald Publishing, is the world's leading publisher of management papers. Its focus on theory-into-practice means that Emerald journals publish papers with direct application to the world of work.
Papers can address research or viewpoints. They can be technical or conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews, or general reviews.
All papers will be double-blind reviewed, after a preliminary screening by the guest editor.
As a guide, papers should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length.
For inquiries, or to submit a paper, please contact the guest editor, Erwin Rausch, at didacticra@aol.com
Information of likely interest to authors is on http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/md/notes.jsp
Specific areas for papers can be drawn from the list below, but would not be limited by it.
- impact of decision quality on career and life successes
- techniques and tools for learning and for training in management decision-making skills, including audio-visual aids and interactive approaches including simulations
- the role of the internet to assist in identifying and using such techniques and tools - and related research
- criteria for selecting alternative solutions in decisions
- criteria for evaluating alternatives and the respective benefits and shortcomings
- differences in approaching problems-solving and opportunity-exploiting decisions
- importance of, and techniques for, seeking and finding useful opportunities in managerial roles and in private life
- reports on research in advances of technological decision-making tools
- reports on research into effectiveness of decision-making procedures
- descriptions of technological advances for decision-making and for training in decision-making, and reports on effectiveness
- recognizing the influence of personal subjective considerations in decision-making