Philosophy of Management
CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies for cross-postings)
Special Issue:
PHILOSOPHICAL LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
Guest Editors: Martin Kelly, Waikato Management School, New Zealand and
Arnis Vilks, HHL Leipzig, Germany.
Rationale
The global financial crisis has created a broader
crisis of confidence in the capitalist system
and, in particular, in economists’ ability to
predict, and politicians’ ability to prevent
major economic crises. Learning from the crisis
in connection with a philosophical perspective is
crucial from a philosophy on management point of
view. Much of the understanding of the Enron
tragedy, and others, has come not during the
tragedies but from retrospective, informed
considerations of the events. In this issue we
wish to develop an understanding of the financial
crisis, and exploration of prevailing approaches
to business, at the level of underlying
philosophy in order to determine what changes
might be apposite. For instance, it might be
argued that the financial crisis has taught us
some new lessons in business ethics, but it might
also be held that it has only highlighted what
had been observed and argued long before the
crisis – for example by Ghoshal[1] in 2005. It
might also be argued that the crisis suggests the
need to reconsider epistemological
presuppositions of management such as
predictability, or that the relative roles of
transnational corporations and nation-states
require a paradigm change in political philosophy.
Contributions are invited which may be critical
of, or sympathetic to, those involved in the
crisis. Articles may address the subject from a
holistic perspective or deal with specific areas.
Scope
Papers are called for which offer philosophical
analyses of how the crisis evolved, how it has
affected business practices, and how practices
might change in response to the crisis. Areas to be addressed could include:
* The professional responsibilities of managers and professional advisors
* The ethical practice of organisational
management versus auditors, in accounting
* Trust
* Risk management
* Executive compensation
* Profit maximisation and shareholder value
* CSR and stakeholder management
* Banking
* Mortgage administration
* Hedge funds, derivatives and special purpose vehicles
* Governmental regulation and rating agencies
* Crisis management
* Management educators and education
The above list is purely illustrative. Any
submission that addresses aspects of the crisis
from a philosophical view of business practices
will be considered. (By philosophical, we mean
thoroughgoing, concentrated philosophical
treatment of the chosen topic, beyond eg critical perspectives.)
Contributions
Contributors are asked to send paper proposals
with abstracts to the address below. Where the
proposal is provisionally accepted, the
contributor will be asked to submit a full paper
draft for peer-review. Proposed contributions will be welcome in the form of
* Papers
* Short opinion pieces (500-2,000 words)
* Case studies
* Interviews
* Literature reviews
Contributions - other than opinion pieces - should be 4-7,000 words in length.
Timetable
Proposals with abstracts Due by Friday 25 June 2010
Provisional acceptances Notified by Thursday 22 July
Drafts for refereeing Due by Friday 28 October
Referee reports Friday 15 January 2011
Final drafts Due by Wednesday 17 March
Publication Summer 2011
Please send proposals, abstracts and any enquiries to:
Martin Kelly
Waikato Management School
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
or
Arnis Vilks
HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Jahnallee 59
04109 Leipzig
Germany
We prefer submissions by email attachment (Word or RTF format).
If submitting on paper, please send three copies,
anonymised for double-blind reviewing, typed
double-spaced on one side of the paper with a
floppy disk (in Word format if possible).
Please provide a separate brief resume of the
author(s) and full address for correspondence including phone, fax and email.
Full author guidelines for paper layout and referencing are at:
<http://www.managementphilosophers.com/Getting%20Published.htm>http://www.managementphilosophers.com/Getting%20Published.htm
Guest Editors:
Dr. Martin Kelly is a fellow of the Association
of Chartered Certified Accountants. He is also
a Chartered Accountant, New Zealand. He has
published in excess of 100 academic works. He
teaches courses in ‘Organisation & Society’ at
both the final year undergraduate level and
postgraduate level. These courses critically
assess the use and abuse of Accounting in the
contemporary business world. Martin has taught
on MBA courses at: Waikato University, Massey
University, Leuven University (Belgium),
Liverpool University (UK), Lanzhou University
(China). His current research interests are:
Philosophy of Management, Sustainability,
Stakeholder Management, CSR and Business Ethics.
Dr. Arnis Vilks is Professor of Economics at the
Leipzig Graduate School of Management, where he
served as Dean from 2000 to 2005. He has done
research mainly on philosophical and
methodological issues in Economic Theory, such as
aggregation theory, the notion of equilibrium, or
logical and epistemic foundations of Game
Theory. His recent research addresses more
qualitative areas in the interface between
Management, Economics, Political Science, and
Philosophy. He has taught or held visiting
positions at the Universities of Hamburg,
Cologne, Cambridge, Riga, and Stanford, and he
spent two recent periods of sabbatical leave at
Waikato Management School in New Zealand.
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PLEASE FORWARD THIS NOTE TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED.
Arnis Vilks
[1] Ghoshal, S. (2005), Bad Management Practices
Are Destroying Good Management Practices,
in: Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 75-91
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