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Call for Papers for Special Issue
Scandinavian Journal of Management (2010) 26, 477—478
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Call for Papers for Special Issue on
Managing in Time Submission Deadline 1st April 2011 Guest Editors Tor Hernes,
Barbara Simpson,
Jonas Söderlund,
Copenhagen Business School
Strathclyde Business School
BI Norwegian School of Management
Management is often conceived as a bundle of functions and competencies that, when appropriately applied, produce predictable organizational outcomes. However, this offers little insight into the dynamic processes by means of which managers fulfill their roles, and neither does it account for the emergence of novelty, change and unexpected outcomes from their actions. This special issue seeks to explore the potential for process thinking to open up new ways of understanding managing as a dynamic and changeful process. By framing managers and their relational contexts as mutually constituting and perpetually becoming, this approach recognizes the temporality that is inherent in human efforts to make sense of, and impose meaningful order upon our world(s). Although conventional management theory does recognize time as an important variable in the material world, process thinking locates temporality at its centre, affording ontological priority to time.
organization studies” addressed more philosophical and theoretical concerns. The focus of the present special issue is the practical, moment-by-moment actions of managers as they engage in managing. We invite different philosophical and analytical perspectives on time and process that provide fresh insights into how managing unfolds. Empirical studies are particularly welcomed. Our overall aim is to explore different contexts (such as innovation and change, the passage of temporary organizations, and the ongoing development of inter- and intra-organizational collaborations) in which this view of managing might be fruitfully engaged. Some topics that may be addressed by submissions to this call include:
Key to process thinking is the primacy of the immediate present; that is, the past and future are rolled together in the ongoing experiences of the present moment. This creates a specific temporal dynamic in which actors, who are always located between the past and the future, are continuously engaged in reconstructing their histories in order to understand the present, while at the same time projecting their understandings onto anticipated, possible futures. Thus actions that take place in the present are the continuity that links the past to the future. This rolling together of past, present and future is the movement within which managers construct the temporalities particular to their own organizations.
▪ How does the interplay between past and future gener-
Submission Guidelines and Important Dates:
This call builds on two earlier SJM special issues that considered process from different perspectives. The 1997 special issue, “Reflections on conducting processual research on management and organizations” was concerned primarily with methodological issues, while the 2007 special issue on “Processual approaches in management and
The deadline for submissions is 1st April 2011 and should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system available through the journal homepage http://www. elsevier.com/locate/scaman or directly via http://ees. elsevier.com/sjm/ - choosing “Special Issue: Managing in Time” as the paper type.
0956-5221/$ — see front matter doi:10.1016/S0956-5221(10)00107-7
▪ How is the past, in the form of history or memory, brought to bear on the actions of the present?
▪ How is the future, in the form of strategizing and foresighting, manifested in the actions of the present? ate change in the present moment?
▪ How does creativity emerge through managers’ actions ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
in the present, and how is this process informed by different pasts and futures? What is the function of identity work in the becomingness of managing? What is involved in re-imagining alternative futures? How does the materiality of situations influence the ongoing processes of managing? What are the implications of process thinking for managers’ managing?
478 Before submission, please consult the journal guidelines for authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription. cws_home/872/authorinstructions Additional information can be obtained from Tor Hernes [email protected] About the Guest Editors: Tor Hernes is a professor of organization theory at Copenhagen Business School. He has written on process thinking and organization theory, drawing particularly upon ideas of Alfred North Whitehead. His latest books include Understanding organization as process: Theory for a tangled world Routledge, 2007) and Process, sensemaking and organizing (Oxford, 2010) edited with Sally Maitlis. Barbara Simpson is a senior lecturer in organization studies in the University of Strathclyde Business School, Department
Call for Papers of Management. Her research, supervision and teaching interests revolve around the topics of organizational change, innovation and creativity, which she approaches from a constructivist orientation that seeks to uncover the dynamic nature of organizational practices. In this context, she has drawn particular inspiration from the classical Pragmatist philosophers, especially George Herbert Mead. Her work is published in Organization Studies, Organization, and R&D Management. Jonas Söderlund is a professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management, BI Norwegian School of Management. He is a founding member of KITE at Linköping University. His research revolves around the role of deadlines in organizational processes, entrainment, knowledge integration and Project-form organizations. He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook on Project Management (with Peter Morris and Jeff Pinto) and has published in journals such as Organization Studies and Human Resource Management.
a v a i l a b l e a t w w w. s c i e n c e d i r e c t . c o m
j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : h tt p : / / w w w. e l s e v i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / s c a m a n
Call for Papers for Special Issue on
Managing in Time Submission Deadline 1st April 2011 Guest Editors Tor Hernes,
Barbara Simpson,
Jonas Söderlund,
Copenhagen Business School
Strathclyde Business School
BI Norwegian School of Management
Management is often conceived as a bundle of functions and competencies that, when appropriately applied, produce predictable organizational outcomes. However, this offers little insight into the dynamic processes by means of which managers fulfill their roles, and neither does it account for the emergence of novelty, change and unexpected outcomes from their actions. This special issue seeks to explore the potential for process thinking to open up new ways of understanding managing as a dynamic and changeful process. By framing managers and their relational contexts as mutually constituting and perpetually becoming, this approach recognizes the temporality that is inherent in human efforts to make sense of, and impose meaningful order upon our world(s). Although conventional management theory does recognize time as an important variable in the material world, process thinking locates temporality at its centre, affording ontological priority to time.
organization studies” addressed more philosophical and theoretical concerns. The focus of the present special issue is the practical, moment-by-moment actions of managers as they engage in managing. We invite different philosophical and analytical perspectives on time and process that provide fresh insights into how managing unfolds. Empirical studies are particularly welcomed. Our overall aim is to explore different contexts (such as innovation and change, the passage of temporary organizations, and the ongoing development of inter- and intra-organizational collaborations) in which this view of managing might be fruitfully engaged. Some topics that may be addressed by submissions to this call include:
Key to process thinking is the primacy of the immediate present; that is, the past and future are rolled together in the ongoing experiences of the present moment. This creates a specific temporal dynamic in which actors, who are always located between the past and the future, are continuously engaged in reconstructing their histories in order to understand the present, while at the same time projecting their understandings onto anticipated, possible futures. Thus actions that take place in the present are the continuity that links the past to the future. This rolling together of past, present and future is the movement within which managers construct the temporalities particular to their own organizations.
▪ How does the interplay between past and future gener-
Submission Guidelines and Important Dates:
This call builds on two earlier SJM special issues that considered process from different perspectives. The 1997 special issue, “Reflections on conducting processual research on management and organizations” was concerned primarily with methodological issues, while the 2007 special issue on “Processual approaches in management and
The deadline for submissions is 1st April 2011 and should be submitted via the journal’s online submission system available through the journal homepage http://www. elsevier.com/locate/scaman or directly via http://ees. elsevier.com/sjm/ - choosing “Special Issue: Managing in Time” as the paper type.
0956-5221/$ — see front matter doi:10.1016/S0956-5221(10)00107-7
▪ How is the past, in the form of history or memory, brought to bear on the actions of the present?
▪ How is the future, in the form of strategizing and foresighting, manifested in the actions of the present? ate change in the present moment?
▪ How does creativity emerge through managers’ actions ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
in the present, and how is this process informed by different pasts and futures? What is the function of identity work in the becomingness of managing? What is involved in re-imagining alternative futures? How does the materiality of situations influence the ongoing processes of managing? What are the implications of process thinking for managers’ managing?
478 Before submission, please consult the journal guidelines for authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription. cws_home/872/authorinstructions Additional information can be obtained from Tor Hernes [email protected] About the Guest Editors: Tor Hernes is a professor of organization theory at Copenhagen Business School. He has written on process thinking and organization theory, drawing particularly upon ideas of Alfred North Whitehead. His latest books include Understanding organization as process: Theory for a tangled world Routledge, 2007) and Process, sensemaking and organizing (Oxford, 2010) edited with Sally Maitlis. Barbara Simpson is a senior lecturer in organization studies in the University of Strathclyde Business School, Department
Call for Papers of Management. Her research, supervision and teaching interests revolve around the topics of organizational change, innovation and creativity, which she approaches from a constructivist orientation that seeks to uncover the dynamic nature of organizational practices. In this context, she has drawn particular inspiration from the classical Pragmatist philosophers, especially George Herbert Mead. Her work is published in Organization Studies, Organization, and R&D Management. Jonas Söderlund is a professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management, BI Norwegian School of Management. He is a founding member of KITE at Linköping University. His research revolves around the role of deadlines in organizational processes, entrainment, knowledge integration and Project-form organizations. He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook on Project Management (with Peter Morris and Jeff Pinto) and has published in journals such as Organization Studies and Human Resource Management.