PRME World Tour Research Paper Development Program 2023-2024
PRME Australia New Zealand Chapter
November 29th 2023
In conjunction with ABEN Conference, Sydney
Face to Face or Online
Call for papers and participants
Cost: Free event and (free) ABEN member registration
The PRME World Tour Research Paper Development Program - a partnership between PRME and three of the world's leading international journals in the responsible management and business-in-society field, Business & Society and Journal of Business Ethics - offers PRME Regional Chapters one research paper development workshop during 2022-2024 invited by the PRME Secretariat and co-organised with the PRME Regional Chapters and the PRME World Tour Organizing Committee, which consists of senior scholars and is chaired by former co-editor for Business & Society and Professor at University of Bath, Andrew Crane.
The idea is to support early-career as well as mid-career scholars in bringing research to publication, as part of the field's commitment to relevant and timely research insights that advance responsible management and sustainable development around the world. The PRME World Tour also has a more general ambition of supporting the professionalization of the scholarly field of responsible management research, by increasing the range of voices heard as authors and representing concerns too often marginalised or excluded from the most prestigious journals.
This call is part of this initiative. The targeted audience is composed of PhD students, newly graduated doctors, post-doctorate researchers, early career, mid-career, and senior scholars.
According to the guidelines below, we invite everyone interested in participating, either submitting a proposal or attending the invited editors´ panel.
Event 1 – Paper Development Workshop
Location: Macquarie University main campus, North Ryde (9.30am-11.30am AEDT). In person and online.
The second part of the event is only open to authors who have submitted a paper that has been accepted by the organising committee. The workshop can be online or in person. Details of online meeting will be forwarded upon acceptance of the papers.
It will consist of small group discussions where authors will receive direct feedback on their work in progress from invited mentors who are all experienced scholars who are editors, associate editors, board members, authors, and reviewers for leading management journals. Each paper will be assigned a mentor. To apply to the workshop, you need to submit a work-in-progress paper that you are targeting for journal submission. Please indicate in your submission your target journal or journals. We welcome the submission of both empirical papers (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) and purely theoretical work. The working papers should have 4,000-10,000 words, including references, double line spaced. These will not be reviewed blind, so please include a cover page with the authors' identification (names, institutions, ORCID).
Accepted papers MUST be in the broad field of responsible management/leadership. Priority will be given to papers that:
• are high quality works in progress;
• have potential for publication in top tier journals;
• are focused on topics related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Another condition for acceptance is that at least one author is affiliated with an Australian and New Zealand university.
Event 2 - Presentation – Editors Panel at ABEN Postgraduate and HDR Workshop
Location: Macquarie University main campus, North Ryde; (11.30am-1.00pm AEDT). In person and online.
Anyone can attend an editor's panel conversation and listen about publishing in responsible management/leadership and sustainable business research in international, peer-reviewed management journals. The panel will feature current and former editors and associate editors from business and management journals such as Human Relations, Business & Society, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Q&A/Networking: The audience will have an opportunity to directly ask questions to the keynote and panel members, and to participate in small group discussions in break-out rooms.
Deadline for submission: November 6th, 2023. Please submit your work in progress to r.hales@griffith.edu.au The notification of acceptance in the 'Tour' shall be released on 9th November, 2023.