Organization and Management Theory OMT

TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION:

ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOAN WOODWARD

Call for Papers for a Volume in the Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series

Deadline:

Abstracts of less than 1000 words due January 29, 2007.

Editors:

Dorothy Griffiths, Imperial College London (d.griffiths@imperial.ac.uk)

Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London (n.phillips@imperial.ac.uk)

Graham Sewell, Imperial College London (g.sewell@imperial.ac.uk)

Rationale

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book Industrial Organization. At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second women professor at the College in 1970. She had joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial in 1958 and the majority of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to this she had spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where she conducted much of the empirical work that informed her significant contributions to the field.

Given the character and scope of these contributions, it is particularly appropriate that Research in the Sociology of Organizations will devote a volume to the commemoration of her life and work. Professor Woodward was instrumental in bringing technology to the fore in organizational sociology and her 10 year research program was one of the most influential projects ever carried out in the field of organization and management studies. In fact, Charles Perrow argues that Joan Woodward's work is "the most ambitious and stimulating comparative study using technology as an independent variable." Indeed, the significant number of citations her work continues to receive across many disciplines is testament to its originality and importance.

The purpose of this proposed volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations is to critically re-engage with Joan Woodward's contributions to organizational scholarship, while carrying forward the spirit of her thinking on the complex interaction between the social and technical realms. We also wish to take stock of recent developments in the themes, issues, and theories that she introduced including the relationship between technology and organizational design, the role of technology in improving organizational performance, and the ways we should conceptualize technology when studying organizations. We particularly encourage submissions that apply and extend such concepts through an empirical engagement with new and emerging technologies, although outstanding theoretical submissions that critically engage with topics in technology and organization are also encouraged.

More specifically, some possible themes that might be considered in submissions include (but are not restricted to):

×            How our thinking on technology and organization should be adapted to reflect the new technologies that have recently entered, or that are in the process of entering, organizations (i.e., 3G mobile telephony, second generation web services, lean production, modular production, supply management systems, electronic surveillance, etc.).

×            How our thinking on technology and organization should be adapted to reflect the development of new organizational forms (i.e., network organizations, virtual organizations, off-shoring, alliances, etc.).

×            What new theoretical perspectives have potential in helping us to understand the role of technology in organizations (i.e., institutional theory, resource based views of the firm, social construction of technology, actor network theory, critical management studies, etc.).

×            The rise of the "security society" and its implications for technology and organizations.

×            Empirical papers that use novel methods for studying the role of technology in organizations.

In sum, we invite the submission of papers that engage and extend the themes that first came to prominence in the work of Joan Woodward, that critically appraise her contributions, that articulate recent developments in key areas related to her scholarship, and that put forward possible enrichments or challenges to her ideas.

Authors are asked to submit an abstract of their proposed paper by January 29, 2007. The editors will invite a limited number of authors to submit full drafts by June 15, 2007. Authors invited to submit full drafts will also be invited to an optional paper development workshop to be held at Imperial College London in July 2007. Manuscripts revised following the workshop will be peer reviewed by three reviewers, revised, and then resubmitted for final consideration for publication.

Call for Papers

Exploration and Exploitation in Early-Stage Ventures and SMEs

For publication in: Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy, Volume 14 (2014), Emerald

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2013

Volume Editors:

Uriel Stettner, Tel Aviv University

Barak S. Aharonson, Tel Aviv University

Despite a growing body of research on exploration and exploitation in the management literature, scholars have tended to study this phenomenon from a narrow perspective mostly within larger, well-established organizations. (Gupta, Smith, & Shalley, 2006; Jansen, Simsek, & Cao, 2012; Lavie, Stettner, & Tushman, 2010). Exploration and exploitation are conflicting organizational activities that compete for firms' scarce resources and entail distinctive sets of skills and capabilities. When engaging in exploration and exploitation, organizations trade off short-term productivity for long-term innovation as well as stability for adaptability (Lewin, Long, & Carroll, 1999; March, 1991). Although both exploration and exploitation are essential for survival and prosperity, limited resource availability compels firms to prefer one type of activity over the other. Nevertheless, achieving a balance between exploration and exploitation is essential for firm survival and economic performance (March, 1991).

This volume of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy is devoted to research aimed at understanding the implications of Exploration and Exploitation activities in early-stage ventures and small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). We seek papers that explore how such organizations engage the general paradox of having to balance their exploration and exploitation activities. This paradox may intensify in such firms as they generally lack an abundance of resources and capabilities (Ahuja, Lampert, & Tandon, 2008; Voss, Sirdeshmukh, & Voss, 2008) driving them away from balancing these activities and towards either exploration or exploitation. Potential research topics might include but are not limited to research that offer insights into the performance implications of balancing exploration and exploitation; balancing mechanism; strategies of early-stage ventures for building firm-level resources and competencies (Human resources, financial capital, etc.); creating dynamic capabilities; and implications to organizational creativity and innovativeness (e.g., Adner & Levinthal, 2008; Greve, 2007; Hess & Rothaermel, 2011; Jansen, Van Den Bosch, & Volberda, 2006; OReilly & Tushman, 2008; Russo & Vurro, 2010; Tzabbar, Aharonson, Amburgey, & Al-Laham, 2008).

·         We welcome contributions that tackle these and related issues from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Contributions to this TIE-CS volume may take a range of forms, may focus on different levels of analysis, and may employ both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

·         Submission Guidelines

·         Submissions are due no later than October 1st, 2013. All papers submitted must represent original research not previously published elsewhere.

·         Depending on the scope that you wish to present, the chapter should be approximately 30 to 40 double spaced pages including any illustrations, figures, tables and graphs (for the format of the citations please refer to the Harvard Reference system).

·         All submissions will be subject to in-depth review, and editorial decisions and revision requests will be communicated to authors about four weeks after full chapter manuscript is received.

·         Publication of volume: about four months after final, revised chapters have been received by the volume editors; expected in July 2014.

For questions regarding the content of this TIE-CS volume, the editorial process, or to submit a paper, please contact: Uriel Stettner (urielste@tau.ac.il) or Barak Aharonson (aharonson@tau.ac.il)

References

Adner, R., & Levinthal, D. 2008. Doing versus seeing: acts of exploitation and perceptions of exploration. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2(1).

Ahuja, G., Lampert, C. M., & Tandon, V. 2008. Moving beyond Schumpeter: Management research on the determinants of technological innovation. The Academy of Management Annals, 2(1): 1–98.

Greve, H. R. 2007. Exploration and exploitation in product innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16(5): 945–975.

Gupta, A. K., Smith, K., & Shalley, C. E. 2006. The interplay between Exploration and Exploitation. Academy of Management Journal, 49(4): 693–706.

Hess, A. M., & Rothaermel, F. T. 2011. When are assets complementary? Star scientists, strategic alliances, and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Strategic Management Journal, 32: 895–909.

Jansen, J., Van Den Bosch, F. A. J., & Volberda, H. W. 2006. Exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation, and performance: Effects of organizational antecedents and environmental moderators. Management Science, 52(11): 1661–1674.

Jansen, J. J. P., Simsek, Z., & Cao, Q. 2012. Ambidexterity and performance in multiunit contexts: Cross-level moderating effects of structural and resource attributes. Strategic Management Journal.

Lavie, D., Stettner, U., & Tushman, M. 2010. Exploration and exploitation within and across organizations. The Academy of Management Annals, 4(1): 109–155.

Lewin, A. Y., Long, C. P., & Carroll, T. N. 1999. The Coevolution of New Organizational Forms. Organization Science, 10(5): 535–550.

March, J. G. 1991. Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2(1): 71–87.

O'Reilly, C. A. I., & Tushman, M. L. 2008. Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability: Resolving the innovator's dilemma. Research in Organizational Behavior, 28: 185–206.

Russo, A., & Vurro, C. 2010. Cross-boundary ambidexterity: Balancing exploration and exploitation in the fuel cell industry. European Management Review, 7(1): 30–45.

Tzabbar, D., Aharonson, B. S., Amburgey, T. L., & Al-Laham, A. 2008. When is the whole bigger than the sum of its parts? Bundling knowledge stocks for innovative success. Strategic Organization, 6(4): 375.

Voss, G. B., Sirdeshmukh, D., & Voss, Z. G. 2008. The effects of slack resources and environmental threat on products exploration exploitation. Academy of Management Journal, 51(1): 147–164.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

Call for Papers

International Conference on

Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice:

Looking Backward and Moving Forward

November 16-18, 2014

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Program Committee

James Perry, Editor-in-Chief, Public Administration Review &

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University (perry@indiana.edu)

Ma Jun, Professor & Director, National Chinese Public Administration

Research Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, China (junma2002@hotmail.com)

Hon Chan, Professor, City University of Hong Kong (sahschan@cityu.edu.hk)

M. Jae Moon, Professor, Yonsei University (mjaemoon@gmail.com)

The Program Committee invites submission of quality paper proposals for the International Conference on "Next Steps for Public Administration in Theory and Practice," which will be held in Guangzhou, China on November 16-18, 2014 in celebration of Public Administration Review's 75^th as well as Sun Yat-Sen University's 90^th Anniversaries. The committee is interested in significant, original, and rigorous papers that discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and opportunities particularly in the age of austerity, complexity, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.

Public administration as a field has become theoretically more interdisciplinary and methodologically more rigorous, while the practice of public administration has been evolving in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Responding to growing demand for new theoretical frameworks as well as innovative, interactive, and interdependent policy tools, the conference aims at offering an intellectually challenging and practically relevant opportunity for both scholars and practitioners.

All accepted papers will be compiled and published on the conference website.  Plenary papers and others presented in the conference will be published in a themed issue of PAR in 2016 after regular peer-review. Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome. Research topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New challenges to public administration in the age of austerity and uncertainty
• Citizen participation and governance
• Quality of government and government performance
• Collaborative government in a networked society: opportunities and challenges
• Improving theories and methods in public administration research
• Transparency, openness and accountability in the public sector
• Applications of new technologies for emerging public administration problems
• Measuring public value
• Revisiting professionalism, public values, and ethics in the public sector
• Searching for new institutional design for emerging policy challenges in energy, environment, water, disaster management

Both individual paper proposals and panel proposals are welcome. Proposals must be submitted electronically to Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com by March 1, 2014. Individual paper proposals should be no more one page and include paper title, author name(s) and institutional affiliations, contact details, and brief description of paper, while panel proposals should be no more than three pages and include panel title, names of panel chair and authors, institutional affiliations, and short description of the panel papers. Individuals are neither allowed to submit more than two proposals nor present two papers (regardless of singled or coauthored papers).

The primary author will be emailed the notification of acceptance or rejection by April 30, 2014. Completed papers are expected to be submitted to the Program Committee by October 15, 2014.

Sun Yat-sen University will provide presenters with accommodation and meals up to three nights. No conference registration fee will be charged.

Any questions regarding the conference may be sent to Dr. Meili Niu at meili.niu@gmail.com or any of program committee members via email.

Conference Venue

Sun Yat-sen University was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a great democratic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The University is located in Guangdong Province, an area neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, which is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Being one of the leading universities in the People's Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen University is one of the leading universities with about 83,633 students studying on four campuses in Guangzhou and Zhuhai. Benefiting from its location near Hong Kong and Macao and the regional advantage of opening and economic development, the university has become an important base for training high-level talents, scientific research, providing services to society and inheriting cultural traditions. According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking for 2010-2011, Sun Yat-sen University was ranked in the top 200 in the world.

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Call for papers

Submissions deadline: August 1, 2014

Born-Global: Internationalization Strategies and Processes of New Ventures

For publication in: Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy, Volume 15 (2015)

Volume editors

Barak S. Aharonson, Uriel Stettner, Terry L. Amburgey

Traditionally, international business was mainly the domain of large, well-resource endowed multinational enterprises (MNEs). This was largely due to the fact their entrepreneurial counterparts have far fewer financial, human, and tangible resources, and suffer from liability of newness. Recently, entrepreneurial firms with distinctive characteristics have emerged that address resources and legitimation issues, which are at the core of their survival. Born global firms are organizations that at or near the founding of the firm are active in the international arena by design rather than by emergence (Fan and Phan, 2007; Hashai, 2011; Lopez, Kundu, and Ciravegna, 2008; Zhou, Wu, and Luo, 2007). Such firms are much smaller than their MNEs counterparts, yet they are able to establish an international presence and revenue streams rapidly (Autio, Sapienza, and Almeida, 2000; Knight and Cavusgil, 2004; McDougall and Oviatt, 2000).

This volume of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy is devoted to research aimed at understanding the environment in, both the home and host countries that facilitates the emergence of Born-Global organizations, the entrepreneurial actions and inclinations of these firms' founders that lead them to enter the international arena at an early stage. We seek papers that explore how such organizations are able to overcome the liability of newness and lack of resources and engage in international activities.  Research topics might include but are not limited to studies that offer insights into the relative performance implications of Born-Global firms, Born-Global strategies, factors that lead to greater success of Born-Global firms, and the learning process of building dynamic international capabilities of such firms.

We welcome contributions that tackle these and related issues from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Contributions to this TIE-CS volume may take a range of forms, may focus on different levels of analysis, and may employ both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Submission Guidelines

All papers submitted must represent original research not previously published elsewhere. Depending on the scope that you wish to present, the chapter should be approximately 30-40 double-spaced pages including any illustrations, figures, tables and graphs. References to other publications must be in APA 6th Edition reference style.

All copyedited submissions will be subject to in-depth review, and editorial decisions and revision requests will be communicated to authors.

For questions regarding the content of this TIE-CS volume, the editorial process, or to submit a paper, please contact: Barak Aharonson (aharonson@tau.ac.il) or Uriel Stettner (urielste@tau.ac.il)

References

Abrahamson E. and Rosenkopf. L. 1997. Organization Science 8: 289-309

Ahuja, G. 2000. Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3): 425–455.

Amburgey, T. L., Al-Laham, A., Tzabbar, D., & Aharonson, B. 2008. The structural evolution of multiplex organizational networks: Research and commerce in biotechnology. Advances in Strategic Management, 25: 171–209.

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CALL FOR PAPERS  -  SYMPOSIUM

Towards an Experimental Public Administration

DEADLINE: 15 October 2014

Symposium Guest Editors

Sebastian Jilke (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Steven Van de Walle (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Soonhee Kim (KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Republic of Korea)

            Experiments in the social sciences typically involve two main attributes: randomization and manipulation. By this, researchers hope to estimate the causal effect of a given manipulable treatment (versus no treatment) - to which experimental subjects are randomly allocated - on a given outcome (for example the effect of performance-related-pay on work motivation). While such a research strategy certainly comes with new challenges, it provides a clear-cut solution to empirical problems of endogeneity (such as reverse-causality, omitted variable bias, or selection bias) that seem endemic in a survey-oriented discipline like public administration. In doing so, an experimental research agenda can provide robust answers to old questions that are of theoretical importance, such as the test of an extended version of Niskanen's budget maximization model (Moynihan, 2013), the effect of governmental performance information and transparency on citizen's voting behavior and trust (Grimmelikhuijsen et al., 2013; James, 2011), or on the relationship between public service motivation and job performance (Bellé, 2013). In other words, if well designed, experiments enrich the methodological toolbox of public administration research and help to increase usable knowledge. Thus it is not surprising that recent calls in the discipline have been made to more frequently experiment (e.g. Perry, 2012; Wright and Grant, 2010).

            The use of experiments in public administration is slowly increasing. While commentators have indeed noted that experiments are nowadays more often utilized within the discipline (Bouwman and Grimmelikhuijsen, 2014), public administration still lags behind neighbouring fields such as psychology, political science, economics, or management studies (see Van de Walle and Van Ryzin, 2011). The lag may be particularly related to the fact that public administration has no experimental tradition and a limited overall acquaintance among students of public administration with the utilization of experiments. Thus, the envisaged symposium aims to provide an overview of a broad range of experiments within public administration, hoping to contribute to the development of an experimental tradition in public administration. It furthermore seeks to provide encouragement and inspiration for public administration scholars to more frequently experiment within the studies they conduct.

            Papers are encouraged to apply a wide range of experimental methods (e.g. survey experiments, field experiments, laboratory experiments, but also quasi-experimental approaches), designs (e.g. multi-factorial designs, blocked randomization designs, within-subjects designs, or split ballots) and analytical techniques (e.g. Difference-in-Difference estimators, regression discontinuities, causal mediation analysis) to substantive fields of interest in public administration. Submissions of meta-analyses of experimental evidence and critical review essays about experiments are also encouraged.

            Manuscripts should be submitted by 15 October 2014 to the coordinating guest editor at jilke@fsw.eur.nl. After a first round of screening, selected authors will be invited to submit their manuscript directly to PAR's Editorial Manager System. All manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed via PAR's Editorial Manager System. A final decision on papers will be made by the journal after full peer review. Author's should follow PAR's style guidelines.

References

Bellé, Nicola (2013). Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Performance. Public Administration Review, 73(1): 143-153.

Bouwman, Robin and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (2014). Reviewing experimental public administration research: the emergence of a hybrid tradition. Paper presented at the 2014 IRSPM conference in Ottawa.

Grimmelikhuijsen, Stephan; Porumbescu, Gregory; Hong, Boram and Tobin Im (2013). The Effect of Transparency on Trust in Government: A Cross-National Comparative Experiment. Public Administration Review 73(4): 575-586.

James, Oliver (2011). Performance Measures and Democracy: Information Effects of Citizens in Field and Laboratory Experiments. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21(3): 399-418.

Moynihan, Donald P. (2013). Does Public Service Motivation Lead to Budget Maximization? Evidence from an Experiment. International Public Management Journal 16(2): 179-196.

Perry, James L. (2012). How Can We Improve Our Science to Generate More Usable Knowledge for Public Professionals? Public Administration Review 72(4): 479-482.

Van de Walle, Steven and Gregg G. Van Ryzin (2011). The Order of Questions in a Survey on Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services: Lessons from a Split-ballot Experiment. Public Administration 89(4): 1436-1450.

Wright, Bradley E. and Adam M. Grant (2010). Unanswered Questions about Public Service Motivation: Designing Research to Address Key Issues of Emergence and Effects. Public Administration Review, 70(5): 691-700.

The deadline for submissions to the 7th Annual Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) conference is less than a month away!  Please see attached for submission guidelines and for more information about ARCS.

Glen Dowell

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW

Call for Papers

Symposium: Interlocal Collaboration and Horizontal Regional Governance: An International Perspective

António Tavares (University of Minho, Portugal) and Bin Chen (Baruch College/CUNY & Tongji University), Guest Editors

Local governments around the world have increasingly encountered the public policy challenges spanning across multiple jurisdictions. They have dealt with problems of regional significance in a variety of ways. There is a long tradition of studying intergovernmental collaboration and regional governance in the North America. The number of scholarly contributions to this lively debate in the US and Canada contrasts with the paucity of theoretical attention and empirical investigation of self-organizing solutions for regional governance outside the North American context.

Consolidation or amalgamation of local governments as a top-down approach remains popular in many places. Yet many bottom-up and voluntary solutions to regional collective action dilemmas have emerged as viable alternatives, including networks, interlocal service agreements and public-private partnership arrangements. They are not well understood outside the U.S. context.

We seek a broad range of manuscripts that explore the use of horizontal, collaborative and voluntary solutions to collective action dilemmas across regions and metropolitan areas around the world. Informal networks, inter-local collaborative arrangements or associations of municipalities are examples of policy instruments designed to address problems of regional governance in many policy areas, including economic development, environmental sustainability, transportation and urban planning, land use management, etc.

Qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method studies with proven or potential capability to advance the state of research in the field of Public Administration will be considered for selection. Comparative articles are especially welcome.

Manuscripts are due no later than January 31, 2016 to the coordinating guest editors at atavares@eeg.uminho.pt  and bin.chen@baruch.cuny.edu. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to PAR's Editorial Manager for double blind review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

Business Ethics: A European Review

Call for Papers

Stakeholder Theory and Value Creation: Contextualized Perspectives

Dima Jamali (1) and Edward Freeman (2)

(1) Professor, American University of Beirut, Kamal Shair Endowed Chair in Leadership

(2) Professor, University of Virginia, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration

Special Issue Description

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has taken the world of business by storm in recent years, with globally ascending templates and expectations that firms need to exhibit more proactive engagement and work for the betterment of the societies in which they operate (Carroll, 1979; Jamali and Neville, 2011; Jamali et al., 2015a). In parallel, stakeholder theory had been gaining momentum in the business and society literature due to its practicality from the perspective of managers and scholars (Jamali, 2008). The publication of Freeman's (1984) landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, marked an important turning point in the management literature, enhancing our understanding of how organizations operate in competitive markets and the process of decision-making in the modern firm in terms of goals, expectations and choice making guidelines (Donaldson and Preston, 1995). We have seen thereafter a stream of publications and contributions that explore the interfaces of stakeholder theory and CSR, and how organizations go about the management of multiple, diverse, and often competing and incongruent stakeholder interests in the context of CSR (Fooks et al., 2013; Jamali, 2008; Yang and Rivers, 2009; Jamali et al., 2015b).

Three common uses of stakeholder theory have been dissected in the literature, including, descriptive, instrumental and normative (Donaldson and Preston, 1995). Descriptive stakeholder theory is used to describe and explain stakeholder management behaviors including how in the context of CSR, managers think about their responsibilities, and balance the interests of different stakeholders. This strand of stakeholder theory is commonly used in explorative research describing empirically how CSR is approached (e.g. Jamali, 2008; Yang and Rivers, 2009). Instrumental stakeholder theory has also been commonly used in CSR related research particularly in exploring the connections between CSR, stakeholder management and the achievement of traditional organizational objectives as in growth and profitability. The bulk of the research falling under this stream has been quantitative in nature examining how CSR and ensuing patterns of stakeholder management promotes or hinders the achievement of corporate performance objectives (e.g. Barnett, 2007; Berman et al., 1999). The normative strand of stakeholder theory has also been commonly used in the context of CSR research, focusing on the identification of moral or philosophical guidelines underpinning CSR and stakeholder management in specific situations (e.g. Carroll, 1991; Reed, 2002).

Donaldson and Preston (1995) argue that stakeholder theory would be more precise if we distinguished among these three forms. They claim that "the muddling of theoretical bases and objectives, although often understandable, has led to less rigorous thinking and analysis than the stakeholder concept requires" (Donaldson and Preston, 1995). Freeman (1994), on the other hand, considered Donaldson and Preston's distinction as a form of artificial bifurcation or separation that leaves business and ethics disconnected. Freeman (1999) claims that all three uses of stakeholder theory are forms of story-telling and that all three uses have elements of the others embedded within them. In this respect, Freeman (2000) suggests to give up such categorical separation by adopting the managerial approach, a fourth approach to stakeholder theory that combines descriptive, normative, and instrumental strands. The latter "focuses on concrete business problems, addressing simultaneously why stakeholder management might result in better outcomes and how it might incorporate stakeholder interests into business strategies" (McVea and Freeman, 2005). Thus, managerial stakeholder theory combines value creation and trade (Freeman, 2000) by enabling managers to consider and seek to make decisions that create more value for all the stakeholders affected by the decisions.

While significant progress has been made to date using different strands of stakeholder theory in CSR research and improving our understanding of business-society relationships, comparative research remains thin. Particularly very little research has examined, using a stakeholder lens, how conceptions of CSR and stakeholders potentially differ between developed and developing countries. Given documented significant differences in the institutional constellations of developed and developing countries (Jamali and Neville, 2011; Visser, 2008), and an increasing body of literature suggesting the context dependence of CSR and stakeholder management, we see room for innovative and ground breaking contributions that tease out and document those differences with greater rigor and detail. Specifically, using a combination of the three strands of stakeholder theory fleshed out above, we invite contributions to this Special Issue that examine, using a stakeholder lens, differences in how CSR and value creation are understood, approached and managed across countries and in developing countries more specifically. In fact, Reed (2002), notes along these lines, that stakeholder theory has advanced exponentially yet been slower to progress in terms of appreciation that its application is in fact significantly conditioned by the context in which it is employed and that circumstances can change the nature of the 3 normative obligations that companies face and ensuring patterns of stakeholder management.

Hence, in this Special Issue, we start from the assumption that context is important for management scholarship because it shapes the boundary conditions within which business operates (Bruton et al., 2009; Gerard, 2014; Jamali and Sidani, 2012; Jamali et al., 2015a). Our efforts are thus guided by advice to bring context center stage in management research and to be mindful of its potential significance in informing phenomena being explained (Gerard, 2014; Rousseau and Fried, 2001). We are also guided by conceptions and definitions of CSR that are contextually grounded and also conceptions of CSR that go well beyond traditional philanthropy to capture different forms of shared value creation that seek to reconcile economic and social goals. Rather than supplementing traditional economic value by bolting on CSR initiatives, shared value creation reconciles social and economic ends which are conceived as intertwined and essential to firm competitiveness (Porter and Karmer, 2011).Within these broad guidelines, we invite contributions to this Special Issue that use stakeholder theory to advance our understanding of CSR and shared value creation in different contexts.

Using stakeholder management as a grand theory, this Special Issue invites reflection on its application in different contexts, using a combination of descriptive, instrumental and normative strands. We are particularly interested in comparative studies that gauge how finer-grained contextual considerations may lead to different applications of stakeholder theory and stakeholder management across contexts (please see Jamali et al., 2015a; Jamali et al., 2015b). Using managerial stakeholder theory and broader conceptions of CSR as in shared value creation, we encourage research that explores the intersections of the two or whether shared value creation requires specific forms of stakeholder management, or whether specific forms and types of stakeholder management may lead to different approaches to shared value creation.

Some of the topics that can be considered further, include, but are not limited to:

-How does context influence decision-making processes in relation to CSR, shared value creation and patterns of stakeholder management.

-How can we account more systematically for broader political economy considerations and the influence of socio-political considerations on CSR, shared value creation, and stakeholder management in developed versus developing countries?

-Is stakeholder salience socially constructed, and do the attributes of stakeholder salience identified by Mitchell et al. (1997) acquire different nuances and connotations across contexts?

-Using a shared value creation lens, how do firms actually balance and attend to divergent stakeholder interests in relation to CSR in developed versus developing countries?

-Are there different conceptions of CSR and shared value creation in different contexts and what are the implications for stakeholder management in different contexts? 4

-What are some documented and/or differentiated patterns of stakeholder management and shared value creation across different contexts? How do we make sense of those? Does CSR add or detract value in different contexts, and what is the role of stakeholders in this regard?

-At the micro level, how do managers' characteristics/behaviors affect the firm's relationship with its stakeholders and ensuing patterns of shared value creation in different contexts?

Submission Instructions

Questions related to the special issue should be addressed to Prof. Dima Jamali (dj00@aub.edu.lb). Authors are invited to submit their proposals to Dima Jamali at dj00@aub.edu.lb by January 30 2016, indicating that this is a proposal for this Special Issue. The full papers should be submitted through the Business Ethics: A European Review (BEER) Scholar One Submission System, also indicating that this is a submission to the Special Issue. Submitted papers should follow the Business Ethics: A European Review Guidelines for authors. Submissions should include an abstract of 100-150 words, followed by 3-5 keywords. The manuscript should not contain any indication of authorship and should be submitted separately from the title page with full author information for contact. Business Ethics: A European Review uses the citation and reference system of the American Psychological Association (APA) and any paper published in Business Ethics: A European Review can be taken as an example.

Special Issue Timeline and Deadlines

Target Dates

Submission of 5-6 Page Proposal 30 January 2016

Notification of Suitability / Fit 15 March 2016

Submission of Complete First Draft 15 July 2016

Resubmission of Final Draft 15 October 2016

Selected References

Barnett, M.L. 2007. Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 32:3, 794-816.

Berman, S.L., A.C. Wicks, S. Kotha, and Jones, T.M. 1999. Does stakeholder orientation matter? The relationship between stakeholder management models and firm financial performance. The Academy of Management Journal, 42:5, 488-506. 5

Bruton, G.D., Ahlstrom, D., and Puky, T. 2009. Institutional differences and the development of entrepreneurial ventures: a comparison of the venture capital industries in Latin American and Asia. Journal of International Business Studies, 40, 762-778.

Carroll, A.B. 1979. A three-dimensional model of corporate performance. Academy of Management Review, 4, 497-505.

Carroll, A.B. 1991. The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders. Business Horizons, 34, 39-48.

Donaldson, T. and Preston, L.E. 1995. The stakeholder theory of the corporation: concepts, evidence, and implications. Academy of Management Review, 20, 65-91.

Fooks, G., Gilmore, A., Collin, J., Holden, C., and Lee, K. 2013. The limits of corporate social responsibility: techniques of neutralization, stakeholder management and political CSR. Journal of Business Ethics, 112:2, 283-299.

Freeman, R.E. 1984. Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. Boston: Pitman.

Freeman, R. E. 1994. The politics of stakeholder theory: Some future directions. Business ethics quarterly, 4(04), 409-421.

Freeman, R. E. 1999. Divergent stakeholder theory. Academy of management review, 24(2), 233-236.

Freeman, R. E. 2000. Business ethics at the millenium. Business Ethics Quarterly, 10, 169-181.

Gerard, G. 2014. Rethinking management scholarship. Academy of Management Journal, 57, pp. 1-6.

Jamali, D. 2008. A stakeholder approach to corporate social responsibility: a fresh perspective into theory and practice. Journal of Business Ethics, 82:1, 213-231.

Jamali, D. and Neville, B. 2011. Convergence versus divergence of CSR in developing countries: an embedded multi-layered institutional lens. Journal of Business Ethics, 102, 599-621.

Jamali, D., Karam, C., and Blowfield, M. 2015a. Development Oriented CSR. London, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.

Jamali, D., Lund-Thomsen, P., and Khara N. 2015b. CSR Institutionalized Myths in Developing Countries: An Imminent Threat of Selective Decoupling. Business and Society: 1-33.

Jamali, D. and Sidani, Y. 2012. CSR in the Middle East: Fresh Perspectives. Palgrave Mcmillan Publishing.

McVea, J. F., and Freeman, R. E. 2005. A Names-and-faces approach to stakeholder management how focusing on stakeholders as individuals can bring ethics and entrepreneurial strategy together. Journal of management inquiry, 14(1), 57-69.

Mitchell, R.K., Agle, B.R., and Wood D.J. 1997. 'Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: defining the principle of who and what really counts'. Academy of Management Review, 22:4, 853-886.

Porter, M.E., and Kramer, M.R. 2011. Creating shared value. Harvard business review, 89: 62-77.

Reed, D. 2002. Employing normative stakeholder theory in developing countries a critical theory perspective. Business & Society, 41:2, 166-207.

Rousseau, D.M. and Fried, Y. 2001. 'Location, location, location: contextualizing organizational research'. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22:1, 1-13.

Visser, W. 2008. 'Corporate social responsibility in developing countries'. In A. Crane, A. McWilliams, D. Matten, J. Moon, and D. Siegel, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: 473-479. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Yang, X, and Rivers, C. 2009. 'Antecedents of CSR practices in MNCs' subsidiaries: a stakeholder and institutional perspective.' Journal of Business Ethics, 86, 155-169

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Dima Jamali, PhD
Professor of Management

Kamal Shair Endowed Chair in Leadership

Editor in Chief – Business Ethics: A European Review

American University of Beirut
Olayan School of Business
Bliss Street, PO Box 11-0236
Beirut, Lebanon
Phone: 961-1-350000 x3727

Latest Publication:  Near and Dear: The Role of Location in CSR Engagement – Strategic Management Journal (On-Line)

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Dima Jamali, PhD
Professor of Management

Kamal Shair Endowed Chair in Leadership

Editor in Chief – Business Ethics: A European Review

American University of Beirut
Olayan School of Business
Bliss Street, PO Box 11-0236
Beirut, Lebanon
Phone: 961-1-350000 x3727

Latest Publication:  Near and Dear: The Role of Location in CSR Engagement – Strategic Management Journal (On-Line)

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Public Administration Review, the premier professional journal in the field of public administration, will publish a symposium entitled, Coping with Policy Complexity in the Globalized World, featuring the best papers presented at the HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy.  

Guest editors for the symposium are Professor Wai Fung (Danny) Lam, Professor B. Guy Peters and Professor Shui-yan Tang.  Papers submitted for publication will be reviewed using PAR's rigorous peer review process.  Theory-driven, empirical or practically relevant research papers are welcome.

The HKU-USC-IPPA Conference on Public Policy will take place on June 10 and 11, 2016 in Hong Kong. The Conference is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong, Sol Price School of Public Policy of University of Southern California and International Public Policy Association. The deadline to submit paper proposals is January 30, 2016.  To submit your paper proposal and to find out more about the conference please visit: http://www.socsc.hku.hk/cpphk/

Public Administration Review

Call for Papers

Symposium: Using Administrative Data for Social Policy Research

Guest Editors

Nicole Constance and Anna Solmeyer (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation)

Accountability for federal and state health and human service programs to affect outcomes for participants and society has increased. To track service utilization and demonstrate progress toward outcomes, many federal and state programs collect data. There is a growing understanding of the promise of these administrative data for research and evaluation. Improvements in technology and statistical methods make it possible to access and analyze these data for research purposes. Recently, attention has turned to the potential for using these data to inform policy and program evaluation. As outlined in The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo M-14-06, Guidance for Providing and Using Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes, there are high-quality and reliable data that can provide the foundation for research and evaluation to help understand how public needs are changing, how well policy and programs are addressing those needs, and where greater progress could be made. 

An advantage of using administrative data for research is that agencies collect the data as part of their regular procedures. This means that data can be obtained from large populations over time without fielding a survey, which can be expensive and burdensome for respondents. In addition, agencies stand to benefit from research that can inform their decisions about policies and programs. There are many innovative ways to capitalize on administrative data, including longitudinal follow-ups and analyses (both of administrative data only or combining with survey data), conducting experiments by using existing systems such as lotteries to randomly assign individuals to services, and linking datasets from different agencies to understand service utilization and outcomes across a variety of domains. However, there are many challenges in using administrative data for research and evaluation purposes, including difficulty gaining access to the data, concerns about privacy and confidentiality, linking across data sources, data quality, and unique analytic issues.

                For this symposium, we seek a broad range of submissions that can further our understanding of the promises and challenges of using administrative data for research. Manuscripts may address questions such as:

·         What are the challenges around gaining access to administrative data, including governance and concerns about privacy, and what are some strategies for addressing them?

·         What are some strategies for creating successful partnerships between data custodians and researchers?

·         How can we build partnerships between research and state or local program administrators to ensure that administrative data they collect are useful for both service providers and researchers? Is it reasonable to expect that the same data can serve both purposes?

·         What are the challenges in linking and matching administrative datasets, and what are some strategies for addressing these challenges?

·         What can we gain and what do we lose by using administrative data, in addition to or in lieu of data from surveys?

·         What research questions are appropriate to address using aggregated data, and what kinds of conclusions can be drawn from these analyses?

·         How can we use administrative data for longitudinal follow-ups, cost analyses, and opportunistic experiments (e.g., when services are provided via a lottery)?

·         What are innovative analytic techniques that have been, or need to be, developed to better leverage administrative data for evaluation?

Manuscripts may approach the topic from various perspectives and in various forms, including, but not limited to: empirical research and substantive examples on the use of administrative data in addressing questions of social policy; recommendations and best practices on using administrative data for research, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, getting from data custodians, or other related topics; and commentary on research design and future directions in research with administrative data.

Manuscripts are due no later than June 1, 2016 to the coordinating guest editor at Nicole.Constance@acf.hhs.gov. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to PAR's Editorial Manager for double blind-review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

Call for Papers: Does a New Public Governance Demand New Public Ethics?

Guest Editors

Gjalt de Graaf, Full Professor at the Department Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Macaulay, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Public management is living in a new and still relatively untested age. Traditional public administration gave way to New Public Management and continues to evolve into new forms of public governance. This development has gone hand in hand, of course, with other massive social, political, economic and technological changes: individualization, globalization, information technology and many more.  As a result, institutions disaggregate and realign in increasingly complex forms; hybridization and collaboration are becoming increasingly the norm while more formal institutional arrangements wither.

Remaining at the heart of each of these manifestations, however, is the concept of public ethics. As new forms of governance have emerged we have witnessed a parallel rise in the ways we try and understand integrity and ethics. Integrity systems, for example, have been developed at all levels: organizational, local, national, and international.  New policy initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership have brought values such as transparency and integrity to the fore on the global stage and have led to cross-cultural conversations.  Yet despite these trends, or perhaps because of them, scientific evidence about the nature, legitimacy, and ethics of new governance paradigms remains relatively scarce. The normative dimensions of new governance dimensions are not well understood.

This call for papers on the ethics of new public governance is intended to remedy limitations in current scientific and normative knowledge. We welcome empirical and theoretical papers in the following areas:

·         What new institutional forms have arisen for dealing with ethical conduct, anti-corruption activity and standards of behaviour and what has their impact been?

·         Are there new connections between public values (integrity, democracy, accountability, transparency) in new governance contexts, or have there been any new clashes?

·         What has been the impact of the continuing reconceptualization of the citizen (as client, consumer, co-producer, collaborator, etc.) on the ethical lenses in which we frame relationships with the state?

·         To what extent have increasingly diverse forms of public participation had an influence upon new forms of legitimacy in public governance?

·         How do we learn about integrity and ethics? Can we meaningfully measure and evaluate integrity in the ever changing socio-political landscape?

·         What is the role of organizational learning for ethical culture, climate and behaviour?  Has it yielded genuine results or simply been used as window dressing?

·         In what ways , if any, have collaboration, cross-agency working, and policy transfer helped to develop robust and resilient ethical practice?

We hope to provide a forum for papers that address both what we know about the changing landscape, but also how we know it. In so doing we hope to bring forth lessons that will be of practical benefit to policy makers and public servants, as well as promoting academic rigour in this exciting arena.

Manuscripts are due no later than November 30, 2016, to the coordinating guest editors g.de.graaf@vu.nl and michael.macaulay@vuw.ac.nz. After initial screening, authors of selected manuscripts will be invited to submit directly to Public Administration Review (PAR)'s Editorial Manager for double-blind review, with final decisions regarding publication being made by PAR's editors. All authors should comply with PAR's style guidelines.

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Colleagues,

I'd like to call your attention to the following call for papers:

Publishing workshop for Emerging Scholars

This practical, hands-on workshop offers new and early-career scholars with multiple opportunities to interact directly with experienced business and management journal editors and obtain developmental feedback that will enhance the likelihood of publishing in top-tier outlets. For details, please check out the following link:

https://www.inbam-editors.org/publishing-workshop-2018/programme/

Best,

Bruce Tracey

Cornell University