Call for Book Chapters: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Volume for inclusion in
World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics & Entrepreneurship
Deadline for submissions: March 15th, 2020
Email submissions for the SDGs Volume to Editors:
Andrew Ward (anw309@lehigh.edu), Lehigh University
Erica Steckler (erica_steckler@uml.edu), UMass Lowell
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
What is the "World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics & Entrepreneurship"?
This 4-volume set by Managing Editor Gideon Markman and World Scientific Publishing features the following topics: Sustainable Development Goals (*this call!); Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Social Change. The set strives to be a scholarly outlet for novel, useful, and revelatory research that honors interdisciplinary, progressive, radical, or controversial work related to themes of business sustainability, ethics, and entrepreneurship. Each volume provides an overview of past work, highlights cutting-edge research, and presents generative future research trajectories on the selected topic.
Call for Chapter Abstracts for the SDGs Volume
This call for book chapters focuses on addressing cutting edge research related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that provides novel insights, presents applied understanding, and advances theory, empirical inquiry, and practice within this domain. Authors are invited to submit a short abstract summarizing the content and approach of the proposed book chapter. Submissions should reflect "new" original research with a focus on the SDGs, and with connections to business sustainability, ethics or entrepreneurship (broadly defined). The 17 SDGs, derived from the notion of sustainable development as meeting the "needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Brundtland Commission Report, 1987), have become a key framework for guiding business decisions and strategic action, and for defining sustainability leadership globally.
We welcome chapters offering:
- Theoretical or empirical contributions
- Case studies
- Critical analysis
- Literature reviews
- Recommendations for future research in the area.
Chapters – at all levels of analysis, and with a variety of theoretical lenses and approaches – might include considerations of SDGs and sustainability, ethics, or entrepreneurship in terms of:
- Single or multiple SDGs
- Local and global contexts
- Relationships between business, policy, stakeholders, society, and the environment
- Accomplishments, blind spots, and opportunities for improvement
- Cross-disciplinary approaches to the SDGs
- Exemplary or proposed teaching or training initiatives
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Erica L. Steckler, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Donahue Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility
Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Manning School of Business
University of Massachusetts Lowell
erica_steckler@uml.edu------------------------------