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Call for Papers: European Management Review
Re-Thinking the Firm in a Post-Crisis World
Special Issue Editors: Edward Freeman and Maurizio Zollo
Submission Deadline: 7th December 2009
The world has been hit by a multiplicity of global crises in recent years.
In addition to the macro-economic recession, primed by the meltdown of
large parts of the financial services industry, we have witnessed at least
two more, highly inter-related, global shocks directly caused by firms’
behaviour.
One has to do with the environmental crisis, with macro-level effects such
as climate change, and micro-level ones such as the worsening health
conditions in highly polluted areas. The other one relates to the ‘moral
crisis,’ i.e, the loss of the sense of responsibility that comes with the
exercise of the managerial function, let alone the leadership role, in
business firms.
The simultaneous failure of the business firm to achieve economic,
environmental and social sustainability hurts us not only as management
scholars, but as teachers of the subject matter, as taxpayers, investors,
employees and citizens.
Therefore, we would like to call for contributions to a special issue of
EMR that aims to influence the global debate on foundational questions in
our field, tackled in the light of evidence brought about by the crises.
Contributions should tackle one or more of the following questions:
What does the evidence of the economic, environmental and/or moral crises
tell us about the fundamental tenets of the theory of the firm?
What, if anything, needs to be re-assessed about how we think of the role
of the firm in the broader socio-economic context?
What do the multiple crises tell us about the fundamental tenets of
strategic management theory?
How does a novel understanding of the role of the firm in society
influence the way we think about the decisions and factors shaping the
economic, environmental and social sustainability of its activities?
What organizational or business models might be proposed as potential
solutions to the problem of designing the firm for economic, environmental
and social sustainability?
What do these multiple crises tell us about the role of the individual
manager in a firm designed for economic, environmental and social
sustainability?
Please make your submissions to the special issue through the EMR website,
at
http://emr.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. The final date for
submissions is December 7th 2009. The authors of a selected list of
papers, screened after the first round of reviews, will be invited to
present their work at the 10th anniversary of the European Academy of
Management conference in Rome in May 2010.
For queries about this Call for Papers, please contact
Maurizio.Zollo@unibocconi.it.
For questions relating to submission procedures, please contact Serena
Giovannoni at
emr@palgrave.com.
For more information about the journal and to view sample articles, please
visit the journal’s website at
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/.
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