BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ORGANIZATIONAL AND CORPORATE IDENTITY

The British Journal of Management (BJM) is pleased to announce a
special issue focused on recent advances and developments with regard
to scholarship in organizational and corporate identity. This special
issue will be guest edited by Professor John Balmer (Bradford
University School of Management), Professor Alex Haslam (The
University of Exeter) and Dr. Joep Cornelissen (Leeds
University Business School).

Over the last two decades the concept of 'identity' has moved centre
stage in management, marketing and organizational research. Identity
studies integrate different levels of analysis - organizational (the
identity of the whole organization), collective (the social identity
of groups within organizational contexts) and individual (employees'
individual identities within organizational contexts). The salience
of the identity concept is such that it has been seized upon by a
range of scholars from different management traditions (e.g.
marketing, corporate and organizational communication, organizational
psychology and strategic management), has opened up various new
avenues for theoretical development and research (see, for example,
the Academy of Management Review Special Topic Forum in 2000), and is
seen as significant by senior managers and other key stakeholder
groups.

The objective of this special issue is to publish within a unified
volume a collection of high quality papers spanning the identity
domain in management as a whole.. Consequently, papers submitted for
consideration should address traditional as well as emergent themes
relevant to the field which inform our theoretical understanding and
have implications for practice. Papers can focus either on
organizational or corporate identity but preference will be given to
papers that address both 'organizational identity' and 'corporate
identity' from an integrated perspective. In general, the guest
editors' goal is to encourage creative and imaginative contributions
that are theoretically and/or empirically novel and engaging, rather
than to delimit the special issue by privileging particular topics or
perspectives.

Papers will be subject to double blind reviewing following BJM's
usual reviewing process and selection criteria. Submission will be
taken to imply that a paper constitutes original work that has not
previously been published and is not under consideration elsewhere.
Authors should follow BJM guidelines as published in every issue of
the journal.

Submissions. preferably sent electronically, either in Word for
Windows format or PDF, should be addressed to

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and

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Alternatively, submissions should be sent in quadruplicate, along
with a diskette copy of the manuscript (in Word for Windows format or
PDF) to:

Dr Joep Cornelissen
Leeds University Business School
Maurice Keyworth Building,
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

Prospective contributors with questions concerning the potential
suitability of topics, Guest Editors' expectations, or additional
requirements about this special issue are invited to contact directly
by email either John Balmer at

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or Alex Haslam at

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Submissions should be received not later than 19th September 2005.


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