Hello, all:
The deadline (April 10) is rapidly approaching for the special
_Journal of Organizational Behavior_ issue on organizations and
disasters/terrorism that I am editing. I've pasted the call for
proposals below and encourage anyone with a relevant manuscript to
consider submitting it. My advance apology for duplicate messages you
may receive from cross postings. Keith
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Keith James, Ph.D.
Professor of Organizational Psychology
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207
(503) 725-3998
keithj@pdx.edu
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Journal of Organizational Behavior special issue call for papers:
The editors of the Journal of Organizational Behavior intend to
publish a special issue of the journal on the subject of Terrorism,
Disaster, and Organizational Management.
Guest Editor: Keith James, Department of Psychology, Portland State University
Research is needed on organizational efforts to address threats from
catastrophic events such as terrorism and natural disaster. The unique
dynamics (e.g., near-universal generation of powerful emotions;
potential substantial disruption of organizations? surrounding
environments) of disaster and terror events are likely to render such
catastrophes somewhat distinct in processes, worker outcomes, and
organizational effects from even other types of crises. On the other
hand, the extreme nature of the dangers and demands that
disaster/terror can pose for organizations and their members may allow
them to be used to illuminate fundamental organizational strategies,
mechanisms, processes and outcomes such that broadly-relevant
scientific and practical knowledge results. In order to contribute to
understanding of the management of disaster/terror by organizations or
inter-organizational systems, organizational scholars need to address
questions such as: What, exactly, are the distinctive organizational,
worker, leadership and management demands generated by catastrophe and
chaos? How can the need to be ready and able to respond to the
punctuated equilibrium of disasters be reconciled with the
requirements for functionality during ?normal? times? What tools,
techniques, or systems might help organizations and their members plan
for and successfully navigate disasters? Those are only example
topics. Many others are possible. Submissions of manuscripts are
encouraged that report empirical studies of any aspect of
disaster/terror-related efforts by either single organizations, or by
multi-organization networks. While the special issue will consist of
data-based papers, study results should also be used for
theory-building, and authors should link the specific theme of this
special issue to the broader organizational-behavior literature.
? This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be
blind reviewed in the normal way.
? Submitted papers must be based on original material not under
consideration by any other journal or outlet.
? For empirical papers based on data sets from which multiple papers
have been generated, the editor must be provided with copies of all
other papers based on the same data.
? The editor will select a number of papers to be included in the
special issue, but other papers submitted in this process may be
published in other issues of the journal.
The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2009. The special issue is
intended for publication mid-2010.
Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted
online via
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/job (selecting ?Special
Issue Paper? as the Manuscript Type). Please direct questions about
the submission process, or any administrative matter, to Managing
Editor, Kaylene Ascough,
k.ascough@uq.edu.au
To discuss initial ideas for papers, the special issue editor should
be contacted directly:
Keith James, Special Issue Editor,
keithj@pdx.edu