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REMINDER – CALL FOR PAPERS – EXTENDED TO 16 MARCH 2015
Thematic issue on the challenges of public affairs in modern organisations
Hermes – Journal of Language and Communication in Business
Submission deadline 16 March 2015
Submission Instructions
A growing number of organisations across the private, public and third sectors are becoming involved in different public affairs efforts and seek to collaborate with political decision-makers and influence political processes both at national and international levels. They have a clear realization of the need to contribute to law-making and to seek to affect the implementation and administration of political initiatives which may impact their prosperity and freedom to practice a profession, business or trade. The current thematic section invites new and innovative contributions in the field of public affairs investigating the communicative challenges facing any type of modern organisation which aims to represent special interests and causes in the marketplace for political ideas and public policy. We are interested in both empirical and conceptual/theoretical papers seeking to develop new understandings of how different organizations use communication to interface and develop relationships with social and political actors involved in the development of public policy, legislation and regulation.
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
• Theoretical and empirical studies on the interplay between politics, business and interest groups
• The landscape of interest representation and the organized groups trying to affect policy formulation
• Case studies on specific public affairs campaigns
• How discourses on social, political and cultural issues affect organizations
• The role of news media and journalists in constructing public affairs identity
• Public discourses about and public perceptions of public affairs
• The status of lobbying regulations
• Transparency and public affairs
• Crisis management and public affairs
• Social media and public affairs
• The "big data" phenomenon and public affairs
• Public affairs measurement
This thematic issue will be published by Hermes. Hermes is an open-source, peer-reviewed international journal published by the Department of Business Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. Hermes is published twice annually. Since the first issue in 1988, the journal has established itself internationally as an important vehicle for publication of research articles across a broad spectrum of language and communication oriented studies.
Each issue of Hermes contains a thematic section to allow different research communities the opportunity to examine a specific topic from several perspectives. Each thematic section is edited by guest editors with a special interest in the selected theme. The central theme of Volume 55 is focused on the complex communicative challenges which confront organisations seeking to engage in influence-making in the increasingly important domain of public affairs. This volume is scheduled for the spring of 2016.
Hermes stresses high-quality publications and assesses all submitted manuscripts for relevance, originality, theory and methods, quality of the analyses, coherence, and readability. The journal gives high priority to fast publication to ensure that ideas and findings can be published while they are still new. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by qualified international scholars.
Key requirements:
• Manuscripts must be an original work and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere in any part or form.
• Manuscripts must not exceed 25 pages, i.e. approximately 60,000 characters without spaces, including references, tables and figures.
• Manuscripts must be prepared in Microsoft Word, using the author's surname as filename.
• Illustrations, tables and figures must be inserted into the manuscript in the appropriate place.
• The name(s) of the author(s) must be concealed in the manuscript to allow for a blind review
• A separate cover page with manuscript title, name(s) and contact details of the author(s) must be provided.
• The extended submission deadline is 16 March 2015. Please submit your manuscript to hermes.bss@au.dk • Revised manuscripts will be due by 15 October 2015 for final assessment and selection for the special issue.
• Selected manuscripts will be prepared for publication in the 2016 spring issue by Hermes' editorial team.
If you have any questions regarding publication in this thematic issue on public affairs, please contact guest editors Chiara Valentini (c.valentini@bcom.au.dk) or Poul Erik Flyvholm Jorgensen (pj@bcom.au.dk).