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Nigel Laurie wrote:
> NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> REASON IN PRACTICE
> The Journal of Philosophy of Management
> First Issue early 2001
>
> Reason in Practice offers an independent, refereed forum for philosophers,
> theorists and management practitioners to apply philosophical scrutiny to
> management theory and practice. It seeks to define and develop the field of
> philosophy of management and is directed to philosophers working in all
> traditions. It will be published in English three times each year.
>
> SCOPE
> The journal will focus on central philosophical issues of management in
> theory and practice including:
>
> o Presuppositions of management including theories of nature, human nature,
> rationality, knowledge, legitimacy and rights
>
> o Core concepts in management such as leader, vision, organisation,
> stakeholder, motivation, value, effectiveness, work
>
> o Representations of management in different media and managerial myths
>
> o Management methodologies, for instance decision-making, control,
> organisation design
>
> o The use of philosophical techniques and skills in management practice such
> as dialogue, enquiry, conceptual analysis
>
> o The application of philosophical disciplines to issues facing managers
> including organisational purpose, performance measurement, the status of
> ethics, employee privacy, limitations on the right to manage
>
> EDITORIAL
> Editor and Publisher: Nigel Laurie, MA, MA, FIMC, MCIM,
> International Management Consultant
> Chair, Society of Consultant Philosophers
>
> Chair of the Editorial Board: Christopher Cherry, Reader in Moral
> Philosophy, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
>
> Editorial Board
> Brenda Almond - University of Hull
> Robin Attfield - University of Cardiff
> Bob Brecher - University of Brighton
> Ruth Chadwick - University of Lancaster
> Bruce Charlton - University of Newcastle
> John Charvet - LSE
> Nelarine Cornelius - Brunel University
> Thomas Donaldson - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
> Robin Downie - University of Glasgow
> John Dunn - King s College, Cambridge
> Michael Freeden - Mansfield College, Oxford
> Edward Freeman - Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia
> Anthony Grayling - Birkbeck College, London
> Christopher Grey - Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge
> Keith Grint - Said Business School, Oxford
> Leigh Hafrey - Sloan School of Management, MIT
> David Lamb - University of Birmingham
> Karen Legge - Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
> Michael Loughlin - Manchester Metropolitan University
> Catherine McCall - Former Director, European Philosophical Inquiry Centre,
> University of Glasgow
> David McLellan - Goldsmiths College, London
> Jane Macnaughton - Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health Medicine,
> University of Durham
> Susan Mendus - University of York
> Richard Norman - University of Kent at Canterbury
> David Nyberg - SUNY Buffalo
> Yvon Pesqueux - Conservatoire National des Arts & Metiers, Paris
> Philip Pettit Ä Australian National University
> Lloyd Reinhardt - University of Sydney
> Nicholas Rescher - University of Pittsburgh
> Peter Singer - Princeton University
> Tony Skillen - University of Kent at Canterbury
> Richard Smith - University of Durham
> Roger Sutcliffe Chair, Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry
> and Reflection in Education (SAPERE)
> David Vogel - Walter A Haas School of Business,
> University of California at Berkeley
>
> ISSUE 1 CONTENTS WILL INCLUDE
> o Wanted: Philosophy of Management - Nigel Laurie and Christopher Cherry
> o Meaningful Work and Full Employment - Robin Attfield
> o Why Does Management Appear to Have No History? - Alan Bray
> o Are Business Decisions Necessarily Self-interested? - Robin Downie and
> Jane Macnaughton
> o A Philosophy for Managing Land – Gregg Elliott
> o Reason as Performance: a Manager’s Philosophical Diary - Sheelagh O’
> Reilly
> o Reviews
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Contributions and proposals under any of the following heads will be
> welcomed:
> o Papers: of 3-7,000 words
> o Translations of work new to English speaking audiences
> o Review Essays: extended critiques of significant books and conferences
> o Review Notes of books, events or significant articles
> o Dissertation Abstracts reporting significant research
> o Concise Opinion Pieces and responses to articles published in Reason in
> Practice and elsewhere
> o Symposia
> o Interviews with leading philosophers, theorists and practitioners
> o Crossover Studies: explications of the relevance of the work of
> philosopher to management
> o Literature reviews and annotated bibliographies
> o Noticeboard announcements of relevant activities, events, research
> projects and networks
>
> We prefer submissions by email attachment (Word or RTF format) to
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> (Please paste a copy of any attachment in the body of the email in case the
> attachment is unreadable.)
>
> If submitting on paper, please send three copies, anonymised for blind
> reviewing, typed double-spaced on one side of the paper with a floppy disk
> (in Word format if possible).
> Papers should not normally exceed 5-7,000 words; longer items may be
> considered for publication in parts. Please provide an abstract of 100-150
> words and up to 10 key
> words or phrases in alphabetical order. Also include a brief resume of the
> author(s) and
> full address for correspondence including phone, fax and email. (Full author
> guidelines
> follow below.)
>
> Please send comments, proposals, and enquiries to:
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> Nigel Laurie
> Reason in Practice
> 74a Station Road East
> Oxted Surrey RH8 0PG
> United Kingdom
>
> Tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419
>
> PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED.
> THANK YOU.
>
> AUTHOR GUIDELINES
>
> Decisions
> o Decisions in principle (pending refereeing) will be made and communicated
> within 3 weeks
> o Rejected manuscripts will be returned to contributors if a self-addressed
> envelope and sufficient stamps/international postal coupons have been sent.
>
> Submissions
> o Please send manuscripts as an email attachment (Word or RTF format) or on
> paper (three copies)
> o Manuscripts should be anonymised for blind refereeing, typed double-spaced
> on one side of A4 or equivalent paper with wide margins
> o Please number all pages and provide a word count
> o If you send paper copies please enclose a floppy disk copy (Word or RTF
> format). Please label the disk with the name and version of the word
> processing package used. Disk and manuscript texts must be identical.
> Changes marked on the hard copy but not on the disk version will be ignored
> o The length should not normally exceed 7,000 words; longer items will
> usually be considered for publication in parts
>
> Title page
> Please include:
> o The proposed title
> o Author names, qualifications and affiliations
> o The full postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers of the
> author to whom correspondence should be addressed
>
> Abstract
> Please provide an abstract of 100-150 words and up to 10 key words or
> phrases in alphabetical order
>
> Text
> Please begin this on a separate page and sub-head text where appropriate.
> Please avoid abbreviations and footnotes where possible. Spelling should
> conform with British English
>
> Author details
> Please supply on a separate sheet a brief cv for the author(s) including
> qualifications, major academic and other appointments, and publications
>
> Footnotes
> o Footnotes will be printed as footnotes on the appropriate page and should
> be indicated in the text by consecutive numbering with superscripts thus1
> o Please supply them typed double-spaced on a separate sheet
>
> References
> o References should be indicated by giving the author’s surname, with the
> year of publication in brackets eg Solomon (2000). Where there are three or
> more authors, cite only the first author’s surname followed by et al eg
> Solomon et al (2000).
>
> o If there is more than one reference per year from an author distinguish
> each with letters after the year eg 2000a, 2000b
> o Please provide a detailed reference list on a separate page. List in
> alphabetical order of first author’s surname and initials. Give book and
> journal titles in full as in these examples:
>
> Books Robert Solomon The Joy of Philosophy New York, Oxford
> University Press 1999
> Chapters within books Alan Ryan ‘Political Philosophy’ in: A C Grayling
> (ed) Philosophy 2: Further Through the
> Subject pp 351-419 Oxford, Oxford University Press 1998
> Articles Alasdair MacIntyre ‘Social Structures and their Threats to
> Moral Agency’, Philosophy 74 no 289 (July 1999)
> pp 311-329
>
> Artwork
> Any artwork should be of camera-ready quality. Figures and diagrams in the
> text should be created using Word or imported in WMF or BMP format
>
> Proofs
> Proofs will be sent to the authors if there is sufficient time to do so.
> They should be corrected and returned to the Editor within three days. Only
> typographical errors and other essential corrections may be made
>
> Copyright
> o Material accepted becomes the copyright of the Journal
> o Submission of any material will be held to imply that it contains
> original, unpublished work and that the lead author has obtained any
> copyright clearances required
>
> Free Copies
> o The author will receive two free copies of the issue in which it appears.
> In cases of two or more authors, five free copies of the issue will be sent.
> Additional copies can be ordered at proof stage
> o Free copies of the relevant issue are sent by surface post shortly after
> publication
>
> © Copyright Nigel Laurie 2000
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