Philosophy of Management

CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies for cross-postings)         

SPECIAL ISSUE: 
PHILOSOPHICAL LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Proposals with abstracts   Due by Friday 25 June 2010


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
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:  [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

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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