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Call for Nominations

2008 Annual Book Award

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management

Each year, the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management honors one book for its contribution to scholarship in the discipline. The key criteria in selecting the book is that is must deserve to be read (either by virtue of its impact on the field or its potential to have impact on the field), its theoretical and conceptual development and/or empirical soundness. 

This year's SIM Book Award Nominating and Selection Committee kindly requests your nominations for the 2008 Best Book Award.  Books that qualify must have been published (as indicated by the copyright date) in the five-year period from January 2003 through December 2007.  No edited volumes or textbooks will be considered.  The nomination deadline has been extended to March 31, 2008.

It is critical that we get SIM Division members active in the process.  We look forward to your suggestions.  Please help us in this important process for our division. 

If you have any questions or comments about the procedure and eligible books, please contact David Wasieleski at 412-396-1092 or, on email at wasieleski@duq.edu.

Best regards,

David Wasieleski, Chair, 2008 SIM Book Award Committee

2008 SIM Book Award Committee members:

Michael Barnett, University of South Florida

Melissa Baucus, University of Louisville

Jill Brown, Lehigh University

Sandra Christensen, Eastern Washington University

Sefa Hayibor, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Scott Reynolds, University of Washington

David Wasieleski, Duquesne University

Business and Society 360

Call for Book Chapter Abstracts

on Stakeholder Management

Deadline for chapter abstracts is February 4, 2016.

Please email submissions to David Wasieleski at: wasieleski@duq.edu

What is "Business and Society 360"?

Business and Society 360 Book Series, published by Emerald and sponsored by the International Association for Business and Society, is an annual book series featuring a comprehensive discussion and review of the current "state" of the research and theoretical developments in a specific BAS area – a 360-degree look at a selected topic.  A "360-degree examination" of a research area involves an all around assessment using multiple field experts to supply an analysis and review for the purpose of achieving a full understanding of a topic.  Thus, each volume is a combination of invited and editorial reviewed chapters providing an overview of past work and highlighting cutting-edge research on the selected topic.

Co-Editors:

·      Dr. David Wasieleski, Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Management, and

·      Dr. James Weber, Professor of Business Ethics and Management

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University

2016 Call for Chapter Abstracts

This call for book chapters focuses on addressing cutting edge research in the stakeholder management area that carries the potential to advance the theory forward.   Authors are invited to submit a short abstract summarizing the content and approach of the proposed book chapter. Submissions should reflect "new" original research in the stakeholder management realm.  Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the editorial team. Invitations to write an entire chapter will be sent based on the reviews.  Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

·      Stakeholder theory: descriptive, instrumental

·      Normative justifications

·      Stakeholder salience

·      Stakeholder networks

·      Stakeholders and business strategy

·      Stakeholder responses

·      Value creation

·      Global perspectives

·       Corporate governance and stakeholders

Submission Process and Important Dates

·       Three-to-five-page abstracts should be emailed to David Wasieleski (Wasieleski@duq.edu) by February 4, 2016. 

·       Editors decision on abstracts: February 28, 2016

·       Chapter drafts due: June 3, 2016

·       Review of chapter drafts to authors: August 1, 2016

·       Revisions due: October 1, 2016

·       Final acceptance of all chapter drafts: October 16, 2016

Publication by Emerald: March 2017

Background on Stakeholder Management as a Scholarly Area of Research

Stakeholder theory has been used for many purposes in a wide array of disciplines. Beginning with Ed Freeman's (1984) landmark book, Stakeholder Management, business management and strategy was transformed.  Stakeholder theory was intended to serve as a strategic management tool for business and society relationships in a capitalist system.  While it has broad scholarly appeal, it is still somewhat controversial and is considered to be empirically underdeveloped (Laplume, Sonpar, & Litz, 2008). Consensus has also not been reached on the underlying values driving decisions to balance stakeholder interests (Margolis & Walsh, 2003). It continues to challenge management assumptions related to the maximization of profit in organizations (Jensen, 2002). Firms are expected to elevate themselves from conventional economic objectives by considering the needs of multiple stakeholder groups (Verbeke & Tung, 2013). Debates over how to address legitimate interests are ongoing.  This volume seeks to address various components of stakeholder management to ultimately identify clear future directions for research in this area.