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Approaching deadline – 31 Jan. 2019
Management and Organization Review
Special Issue 'Social Networks ‒ The Dark and Bright Sides of Informal Networks'
Guest Editors: Sven Horak,1 Fida Afiouni,2 Yanjie Bian,3,4 Alena Ledeneva,5 and Maral Muratbekova-Touron6
1St. John's University, USA, 2American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 3University of Minnesota, USA, 4Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 5University College London, UK, and 6ESCP Europe, France
MOR Deputy Editor: Carl Fey, Aalto University, Finland, and Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Submission Deadline (full paper): 31 January 2019
The special issue aims to add, extend, and complement the current theory. We expect manuscripts to bring strong empirical contributions that develop and extend theory as well as more conceptual papers that integrate critique and expand existing theory. We encourage the use of methods that are appropriate to both the research context and research questions and therefore welcome both qualitative and quantitative methods of investigation and analysis. Contributions should report original research that is not under consideration at any other journal.
Papers should fit but are not limited to the following themes:
How can the dark side of informal networks be described in its respective local or an international context? How are informal networks misused?
- How can the bright side of informal networks be described in its respective local or an international context? How do positive features turn into negative ones?
- Construct knowledge: How can respective informal networks be characterized in terms of their structure and nature? What are the differences from the extant theory?
- How can foreign staff (e.g., expatriates) become members of respective informal networks? Can these networks be used without becoming members?
- Which questions important to international business ethics arise in connection to the involvement in and usage of informal networks? Should informal networks be judged through the ethical lens at all? How is culture intertwined with respective informal networks?
- How do local or multinational firms deal with informal networks in respective markets? Can they be 'formalized' and managed?
- Does engaging in informal networking oppose the corporate code of conduct of MNCs?
- How do and/or should firms deal with potential information flowing or being exchanged through informal networks in cases in which employees are more loyal to their informal networks than to a firm's code of conduct? Can intellectual property be protected in such a dynamic environment?
Submission information:
This call for papers is open and competitive, and all submitted papers will be subjected to anonymous review by referees with expertise in the field.
Full paper shall be submitted by 31 January 2019 via the MOR (Cambridge) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor
It is important that all papers for the special issue conform to MOR's submission requirements published under the following link:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/management-and-organization-review/information/instructions-contributors Special Issue PDW Workshop: Consistent with the new MOR Special Issues process, the guest editors will organize a PDW workshop as part of a major conference in the Summer of 2019. The Editor in Chief of MOR will attend this PDW. The workshop is central to the process of finalizing the papers to be included in the special issue and provides the guest editors and authors further help in framing the special issue and final guidance for revisions for papers that will be published in the special issue or in a regular issue of the journal. The guest editors will update the authors on where the event will be held once the time and place is decided.
Timeline (plan):
January 31, 2019 – Deadline for uploading full paper.
April 15, 2019 – 1st round decision (revise & resubmit /reject) Summer 2019 – Special PDW Workshop (time and place to be announced) Tentative publication date – end of 2020
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Kind regards,
Dr. Sven Horak The Peter J. Tobin College of Business St. John's University, New York
horaks@stjohns.edu