CALL FOR PAPERS


Special Issue of Philosophy of Management:  Management and Stakeholders - 25
Years On
To include a 'reply to his critics' from R. Edward Freeman.
 
Guest Editor: Wim Vandekerckhove - Ghent University, Belgium


RATIONALE

In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published Strategic Management: A Stakeholder
Approach. While the term 'stakeholder' was then hardly used, it became one
of the central concepts in the business ethics revival since the 1990s and
quickly gained currency in mainstream management discourse. Today it is
practically a household term used by many different types of actors in a
very diverse set of fields. Although many reasons might be attributed to its
popularity, Freeman's definition from 1984 is by far the most often referred
to.

This means that Freeman's stakeholder concept has allowed innovative
frameworks and perspectives to emerge in relation to the various dimensions
of management.

In 2007, Freeman, Harrison and Wicks published Managing for Stakeholders as
a practitioner's version of the revised 1984 book. In 2009 they will publish
the academic revision of Strategic Management.

To celebrate this 25th anniversary of Freeman's classic work, we invite
scholars and practitioners to reflect upon avenues and perspectives on
management that this work has opened and/or closed.


SCOPE

This special issue aims to assemble papers that offer philosophical scrutiny
of stakeholder thinking and that relate this to Freeman's conception.

We encourage the integration of empirical findings into the papers but
emphasize the need to grasp the philosophical and sense-making boundaries of
the stakeholder concept.

Ideally we would like the special issue to contain reflections on the praxis
of stakeholder thinking from various kinds of organizations.

R. Edward Freeman will contribute a 'reply to his critics'.

Papers are called for offering fresh philosophical treatment with reference
to Freeman's stakeholder concept of areas such as the following:

0	Problematic ontological or epistemological assumptions in
stakeholder thinking

0       Freeman's stakeholder revolution and its current contra-revolution

0       Feminist perspectives in/on stakeholder thinking

0       How stakeholder analysis can still leave you stakeholder-blind

0       How the reception of stakeholder thinking in development studies or
development ethics enriches stakeholder thinking in management

0       The production of stakeholders

0       Innovative stakeholder concepts and their added value

0       Problematic aspects for representational stakeholders

0       Comparing different categorization-models of stakeholders

0       Continental philosophy and stakeholder thinking

The above list is purely illustrative.


CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributors are asked to send paper proposals with abstracts. In case 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 between
3,000-7,000 words.


TIMETABLE

Proposals with abstracts          Due Friday 14 November 2008

Provisional acceptances           Notified by Friday 21 November 2008

Drafts for refereeing             Due by Friday 20 February 2009

Referee reports                   Friday 24 April 2009

Final drafts                      Due by Friday 26 June 2009

Publication                       September 2009


PROPOSALS

Please send proposals, papers and abstracts and any enquiries to:

Dr. Wim Vandekerckhove

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Phone: +32 4949 16773
 

Submissions should be sent by email attachment (Word or RTF format). 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
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GUEST EDITOR: Dr. Wim Vandekerckhove

Wim Vandekerckhove is assistant professor of practical ethics at Ghent
University, Center for Ethics & Value Inquiry. His research concerns moral
argumentation of whistleblowing protection, the organization of
counter-trafficking policies, sense-making in socially responsible
investment practices, and cosmopolitanism in business. Among his recent
publications are Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility
(published with Ashgate), "A Puzzle in SRI: the Investor and the Judge" and
"A Speech-Act Model for Talking to Management" (both forthcoming in Journal
of Business Ethics).

 

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