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Special Issue CfP "Challenges of Failure Learning and Error Management"

  • 1.  Special Issue CfP "Challenges of Failure Learning and Error Management"

    Posted 12-18-2021 16:50

    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology (IF: 2.99; CiteScore: 3.5)

    Submission deadline: August 30, 2022

    Guest Editors: Juergen Seifried, Thorsten Semrau, Katrin Muehlfeld, Jost Sieweke

    CfP: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29298/challenges-of-failure-learning-and-error-management

     

    Failures and errors constitute a ubiquitous threat to organizational operations. Yet, they also offer opportunities for learning, thus carrying within them the seeds of future success. However, taking advantage of the rich information embedded in failures and errors can be challenging for individuals, teams, and organizations. Although research on these topics has proliferated over the past two decades, important issues remain unresolved. This special issue aims to bring together research on antecedents, contingencies, and outcomes of failure learning and error management. We encourage research from various disciplines and domains (such as Organizational Psychology, Leadership, Organization Studies, Management, Entrepreneurship, and Education) and the use of a variety of methodological approaches including qualitative designs (e.g., case studies), quantitative designs (e.g., field and lab experiments, observational studies), and multi-method approaches (e.g., combinations of field data and simulations). Overall, this special issue aims to provide a forum for discussion of new ideas, recent developments, and underexplored challenges in the domains of failure learning and error management. We encourage submissions on but not exclusively limited to the following themes:

    • Interplay of factors facilitating/hindering learning within and across levels of analysis (individual, group, organization)
    • Interplay of factors facilitating/hindering learning across mechanisms (opportunity, motivation, ability)
    • Possible contextual contingencies (e.g., lab and field settings, across sectors, national cultures), for example:
      • Cross-industry transferability of tools for facilitating failure learning/error management
      • Cross-cultural differences in the effectiveness of different types of error management trainings, after-event reviews, etc.
    • Effects of spurious successes/failures in obstructing learning, and possible remedial measures
    • Influence of digitalization and automation in facilitating failure learning and error management
    • Influence of machine learning and artificial intelligence in facilitating/hindering failure learning and error management
    • Methodological improvements to measuring failures, errors, near-misses, and the responses to them
    • Best practices of failure learning and error management in times of crisis/external shocks (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic, product recalls, accidents, etc.)


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    Jost Sieweke
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
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