Call for book chapter proposals
You are cordially invited to contribute a chapter proposal for the forthcoming handbook entitled:
Sustainability in Management Education: In Search of a Multidisciplinary, Innovative and Integrated Approach through University Leadership, Scholarship and Partnerships.
Editors: Jorge A. Arevalo, William Paterson University
Shelley F. Mitchell, University of New Hampshire
Handbook Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.
www.e-elgar.com
Publication is anticipated for Spring 2016
HANDBOOK OVERVIEW
The handbook is cross-disciplinary and represents organizational/institutional, national, and international perspectives. This volume focuses on specific themes, with chapters related to relevant research, theory, and practice. The goal is to enhance knowledge and application about Sustainability in Management Education (SME) in different academic programs, geographic regions, and personal/professional contexts. The intended audiences for the handbook include: (1) management scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners; and (2) future, emerging, and current leaders in various academic and private sectors. The handbook editors and chapter authors are committed to speaking clearly and confidently about the theory, research, and best practices in a voice that is understood by readers across a variety of settings. Research reported must be grounded in and consistent with the best and latest research.
SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST
Debates on the development of university leadership for sustainability programs in management education have continued over the last three decades. We accept the challenge to answer a number of inquiries that relate to the future of management education given the critiques outlined in the literature. More specifically, we aim to offer a discussion on two overarching themes: whether ethics and sustainability education has developed in both undergraduate as well as MBA programs (Rasche, Gilbert and Schedel, 2013); and whether the underlying concepts that sustain these programs (with a holistic and leadership approach) are peculiar and atypical options that are only possible in certain business schools (as proposed for future research by Waddock and Lozano, 2013: 282). In this handbook, we intend to answer both inquires while raising questions of sustainability in management education (SME) in Areas 1-4 (see below). We welcome book chapter proposals within the broadly defined subject theme area from all the major disciplines in business and management studies, as well academy divisions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Area 1: Motivations and outcomes for university leadership in SME
• Survey and samples of business cases for sustainability management education and analysis using the Phase Model (Benn, Dunphy and Griffiths, 2014).
• Outline of different value propositions for each of the waves and a typology of business models (considering the Phase Model, or alternate models).
• Examples that foster and encourage the development of innovative holistic approaches and facilitate sharing for the spread of best practice.
• Cases that determine pathways between holistic management education and graduate attributes - as to monitor the effectiveness for graduate career development.
• Philosophies and systems thinking may often intertwine posing the question whether sustainability involves systems thinking or holistic thinking. If that is the case, what changes need to be made to the current philosophies that frame sustainability management education?
Area 2: Content and tools including pedagogical approaches and learning outcomes
• What games, simulations, internships or capstone projects offer experiential learning and opportunities as an extension of the classroom?
• What transformational interventions exist that inspire students to shift from profit or external motivations toward expressing values or internal motivations?
• How do we get students engaged in sustainability? How can we present sustainability, values and ethics in a way other than moral orientation?
• What can the existing disciplines do to promote a triple bottom line approach without introducing all new concepts?
• How do we evaluate the learning opportunities of the various tools and techniques?
Area 3: The role of organizations as change agents
• What does institutional theory and social movement theory have to say about change processes relevant to business school pedagogy reform? (barriers & enablers)
• How can we identify distinctive aspects of higher education institutions that foster and impede change?
• How can we utilize/draw from organizational studies for institutional reform?
• What other institutional reforms can we draw lessons from in this change process?
• What can academic societies do to serve as more effective change accelerators?
Area 4: Innovative programs - the integration and mechanics needed to sustain long term programs
• Examples/narratives of how to overcome faculty resistance
• Performance outcomes of students and newly integrated programs. How do we demonstrate the value proposition of new programs in sustainability?
• If quality management took decades to be mainstreamed in business schools, how long will it take for sustainability?
• How should we define success of a program?
• More research on available design frameworks and examples of student run portions of new sustainability programs.
Contributions that deal with these and related issues from a variety of perspectives are welcomed. Chapter proposals may take a range of forms, may be empirically based or conceptual, may focus on different levels of analysis, and may be based on quantitative and qualitative approaches. Chapter proposals should not exceed 500 words. Completed book chapters should be approximately 25-45 pages in full length (not to exceed 8,000 words), including figures and tables. Further publisher requirements and publishing details will be made available after acceptance.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
• Book chapter proposals to be submitted electronically to the volume editors no later than December 1, 2014 (Earlier submissions are highly encouraged).
• Notification of accepted book chapter proposals: January 3, 2015
• Receipt of full book chapters: June 1, 2015
• Review of book chapters and revision feedback: July 15, 2015
• Receipt by Editors of final draft of book chapters: August 15, 2015
• Anticipated publication: Spring 2016
For inquiries (and submissions), please contact the VOLUME EDITORS
Jorge A. Arevalo, Ph.D., William Paterson University, Email:
arevaloj1@wpunj.edu
Shelley F. Mitchell, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, Email:
shelley.mitchell@unh.edu
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