Call for Chapters: Management History - Major Research Work

When:  Aug 31, 2018 from 00:05 to 23:55 (UTC)

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Management History -- Major Research Work
(Palgrave Macmillan Springer)

Editors

Bradley Bowden and Adela McMurray

You are invited to submit a chapter for the edited major research work entitled “Management History – Major Research Work” to be published with Emerald Publishing in 2019.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for receiving chapter proposals (500 words maximum): 31 August  2018

Notification of acceptance for proposals: 30 September 2018

Deadline for receiving full chapter submissions (i.e., 1st draft): 25 February2019

Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback: 25 April 2019

Deadline for receiving revised submissions (i.e., final version): 31 June 2019

 

ABOUT THE HANDBOOK

This major research work (MRW) will be the definitive source addressing the origins and evolution of management history across global origins. The goal of this project is to make this MRW the definitive source for those interested in the national and global origins of management, and the ways in which national and global experiences have intertwined to create the world in which we live. The project comprises nine separate Reference Works - the Foundations of Management Thought, the Classic Age of Management Thought, Management in the Age of Prosperity: 1945-1980, Management in an Age of Crisis: since 1980, Management in Eastern Europe, Management in the Asia Pacific, Management in the Indian Ocean Littoral, Management in the South Atlantic Littoral, and the Influences of Postmodernism on Management Practice and Thought – that will collectively cover all aspects of management history’s global past and present, be it in terms of managerial practice or thought. The principal market for this MRW will be the postgraduate and academic professional, for whom this MRW will be the first port of call in their research endeavours.

The MRW is designed to include historical studies. These will form a comprehensive body of knowledge with in one volume. There is no publication that offers such a comprehensive approach to Management History.

 

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The MRW covers multiple geographical eras and embraces collaboration between business scholars and management historians as well as with archeologists, anthropologists and historians. The eleven MRW themes are as follows:

MANAGEMENT HISTORY – SECTION AND CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS SOUGHT

SECTION:      Work, Organisation and Commerce in the Pre-Modern World
CHAPTERS:

  • Pre-Hellenistic world in the Middle East, Europe and Egypt
  • Hellenic World
  • Roman World
  • Medieval Europe
  • Financial Revolution of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  • Age of European Expansion
  • Moslem World: 7th to 17th centuries
  • East Asia: China and Japan to 1800
  • South Asia to 1800
  • Pre-Columbian America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa before the 1500s
  • Oceania before European colonisation 


SECTION:      Management during the Long Boom (1945-74)
CHAPTERS:

  • The post-1945 Boom - overview
  • Keynesian economics and its influence
  • Organizational Behaviour –  Golden Age (Mintzberg, McGregor etc)
  • Structure and strategy – Drucker, Chandler, Porter, etc
  • Industrial Relations Golden Age (Dunlop, Fox, Flanders)
  • Management History in the UK (Pollard, Thompson etc)
  • Management History in the US 

SECTION:      Asia Pacific
CHAPTERS:
  • China to 1970
  • China since 1970
  • South-east Asia to 1970
  • Japan to 1945
  • Japan since 1945
  • East Asia in the Global Economy

 

SECTION:      South America and the Caribbean
CHAPTERS:

  • Slavery and Plantation Economies
  • Independence and the region to 1950
  • Peronism, Castroism and their Legacy
  • Narco-economies
  • The region since 1950s
  • The South Atlantic in the Global Economy
 

TARGET AUDIENCE

The market for this Major Research Work will be diverse including the undergraduate, postgraduate and academic professionals, for whom this handbook will be the first port of call in their teaching and research endeavors when addressing Tribal and Clan curriculum including contemporary or past issues.

 

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

The call invites contributions from the international community of scholars and practitioners to provide empirical or theoretical contributions.

In order to appeal to a large target audience, we encourage contributions that are trans-

disciplinary. As such, chapters that incorporate new concepts, tools, and/or theories are welcomed. In addition, chapters that present case studies (e.g., examples, empirical

evidence, and case studies of management history) on any of the topics or sub-topics indicated above are welcomed.

Submitted chapters should be original and exclusively prepared for the present major research work. No part of the chapter should be under consideration or published elsewhere.

Chapters should be approximately 10,000 words but must not exceed 20 pages (i.e., including all references, appendices, biographies, etc.), must use 1.5 line spacing and 12 pts,

Times New Roman font, and must use the APA reference style.

 

TIMELINES FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline for receiving chapter proposals (500 words maximum): 31 August  2018

Notification of acceptance for proposals: 30 September 2018

Deadline for receiving full chapter submissions (i.e., 1st draft): 25 February 2019

Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback: 25 April 2019

Deadline for receiving revised submissions (i.e., final version): 31 June 2019

 

To be considered for the major research work, researchers and/or practitioners are invited to submit manuscripts accompanied by a 200 word biography to include in the publication.

Please submit your proposal to Ms Chamindika Weerakoon at chamindika.weerakoon@rmit.edu.au

Any questions should be directed to Professor Bowden at  b.bowden@griffith.edu.au

or Professor McMurray at  adela.mcmurray@rmit.edu.au

 

Editors:

Bradley Bowden PhD Professor
Griffith Business School
Griffith University
Nathan. QLD 4111
 

Adela J McMurray PhD
Professor
College of Business
RMIT University
Victoria, Australia 3000