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Call for Chapters!

The Handbook of 21st Century Management will provide clear and useful discussion of 100 of the key issues and topics that managers are confronting in the 21st century by scholars from around the world. The structure of discourse for each issue and important associated perspectives and research will be concisely and meaningfully presented. New technologies, globalization and associated ethical implications frame many of these issues. Cutting-edge and unsettled topics in human resource management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, operations management, business and society, management information systems, leadership, international management, organizational culture, diversity management, managing in the post-911 world, not-for-profit management, healthcare management, educational administration, public administration and green management are introduced and discussed. Key bibliographic leads for those interested in further researching an issue are provided.

Sage has a series of such "Handbook of 21st Century" books coming out (sociology, psychology, communication etc.) The concept is that a management student will go to the reference desk in the library and say that he/she is looking for a term paper topic and structure in say human resource management. Then, the reference librarian would guide the student over to the Handbook of 21st Century Management. It will have 100 chapters of 7000-8000 words each (12 pages) with about 15-20 percent of this content to be useful bibliographic references. Our target due date for each chapter is January 31, 2007. There are 93 chapters signed on so far with chapter authors from a diverse group of universities including Swarthmore, Texas Tech, National University of Singapore, Helsinki University of Technology, Oldenburg Louisiana, Texas, Harvard Business School, Sloan, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Duke, Monash, San Diego State, Sabanci, Missouri, Technion, Bradford, University of the West Indies, Otago, UCLA, and Victoria. I already have almost 100 issue ideas but hope to get more and then go with the best ones. You can view list of assigned chapters at http://management-education.net/h .

Awaiting your response to this invitation,

Best regards,

Charles

Charles Wankel

wankelc@stjohns.edu