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Sorry about duplicate emails, but the editors of the JMGS special issue on Leadership for Resilience decided today to extend the deadline to January. Please see below if you are interested (don't contact me as I'm not directly involved with the issue):

Call for Papers for the Journal of Management for Global Sustainability Special Issue on Leadership for Resiliency Resiliency is a key concept, capacity, and skill in managing for global sustainability. Leadership for resiliency entails a continuous process of diagnosing and intervening to create system adaptations that anticipate, prepare for, adapt to, and learn from the challenges brought about by climate change, political dynamics, globalization, and other emerging social problems. Topics of special interest include:  Accelerating the growth of leaders' capacities to intervene in advancing system resiliency  Engaging stakeholders to organize and mobilize in pre-, during and post- disaster responses  Cultivating inter-local and local-global support networks toward efficiency of disaster anticipation, preparation, and response  Translating knowledge to scalable action in the context of resiliency  Learning from successful examples of developing and benefiting from the existence of effective levels of resiliency and from unsuccessful situations where resiliency was inadequate Manuscript Submission and Publication Schedule Full manuscript submission: 15 January 2016 Reviewer reports: 31 March 2016 Revised paper submission: 31 May 2016 Completion of all revisions: 31 July 2016 Publication: 31 October 2016 To submit your paper, or if you have any inquiries, please contact any of the following: James A. F. Stoner stoner@fordham.edu Wilfred S. Manuela Jr. wmanuela@ateneo.edu Elmer S. Soriano elmer.soriano@resiliency-lab.com We also welcome early conversations or abstracts of up to 250 words about possible paper topics. Accepted articles are available online (PDF) as soon as the copy editing process is complete. The Journal of Management for Global Sustainability is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to the publication of original research in the field of management and global sustainability. Global sustainability is the broad set of interconnected issues that encompass, but are not limited to, achieving environmental preservation, social entrepreneurship, poverty eradication, social justice, desirable production and consumption patterns, species preservation, and spiritually rich lives at this time in our species' history on this planet. The journal publishes articles on how productive enterprises contribute to realizing and achieving global sustainability to create socially just and spiritually-whole ways for all species to thrive forever. The journal welcomes submissions from all disciplines for manuscripts that contribute to our academic understanding of the role of management in achieving global sustainability. These articles shall be subject to a double-blind review process overseen by an international editorial board. Submissions of theoretical work, empirical studies, book reviews, pedagogical tools and practitioner manuscripts are all encouraged. http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/jmgs/