【工商管理类】SCI期刊专刊截稿信息8条

全文截稿: 2018-04-14

影响因子: 2.481

期刊难度: ★★★

CCF分类: 无

网址: www.journals.elsevier.com/european-management-journal

Corporations were originally designed as a means of creating wealth and have become a dominant model for collective economic activity. Initially centred on an economic function, corporations are now asked to serve social requirements and to engage in the struggle against inequality, discrimination, corruption, poverty, global warming and other global issues. These requests for wider corporate accountability clearly contest the power dynamics between market, national states and civil societies.

The global economic and social turmoil underlines the fact that a clear dynamic of societal and corporate change is taking place. The old global system seems no longer maintainable. Many initial assumptions about the appeal of global development and governance have run aground on the shoals of countervailing realities. The overall trend of political despair and disillusionment, the loss of confidence in the markets as a unique arbiter of value creation and distribution, and the marketable appeal of governance best practices seem to have come to an end.

Management literature has begun to question these issues and to call for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of political, social and corporate change. Not only scholars in management, but also those in political science and law urge a rethinking of definitions and frameworks for ‘corporation’, ‘capitalism’ and ‘democracy’. Distinctive calls to rethink the purpose, form and value of organisations are converging upon the broad concept of ‘corporate’ governance to better grasp the changing interplay of governments, civil society actors and corporations.

Corporate governance has become a vital issue in managing corporations of all types in an increasingly uncertain and complex global environment. Such complexity necessitates rethinking concepts such as organisational structure, mechanisms, processes, and strategy within an emerging new transnational order.

Constructed through the analytical lens of Western powers, the well-beaten paths of mainstream corporate governance models, guidelines and reforms, without comprehensive, encompassing and innovative theories, have not engaged with contemporary and evolutionary debates for equitable and sustainable global development. Accordingly, studies are needed that examine these dynamics from multiple perspectives, and critical thinking should be employed to build knowledge for generating new creative, alternative approaches to corporate governance.

Three main tenets can be debated in this special issue:

1.The idea of ‘corporation’ and its new mission

Different meanings and interpretations of organisations offered by non-managerial theories could lead to new understandings of the complex ‘new’ socio-economic corporate reality.

2.Capitalism and the hegemony of the market

Understanding the hegemony of formal markets reveals the hidden domination of ‘new’ old elites who are deeply involved in the growth of all types of markets. Formal and informal markets are becoming intertwined in such a way that only focused analysis can shed light on what is truly contributing to societal well-being.

3.Democracy and the changing society as a framework

Rethinking the question of markets and corporations in rigorous and creative ways cannot be done without rethinking and reframing central - even taken-for-granted - analytical and theoretical rubrics of democracy, such as ‘inclusion’, ‘participation’, ‘diversity’, ‘citizenship’, and ‘identity’.


Topics for this special issue

In this call for papers we invite academics to submit cutting edge research dealing with emerging directions that rethink the definitions and frameworks for ‘corporation’, ‘capitalism’ and ‘democracy’ in relation to corporate governance and sustainability. We seek empirical and conceptual papers which address a diverse set of issues that include, but are not limited to, the following questions:

- Are transnational corporations, organisations or similar institutions, in their present form, able to redefine a new capitalism?

- What new institutional arrangements are needed to help define the new role of the business firm as a political actor in a globalising society?

- If large corporations play a political role in societies, is a new ‘deliberative’ democracy needed in entrepreneurial activities and corporations?

- Are concepts such as gender, ethnicity or identity still central to corporate governance efficiency? Are they part of the problem or part of the solution to governance evolution?

- How could local governance practices for the ‘big south’ growing economies help to enlarge the picture and address corporate governance?

- What new forms of control might help corporations to navigate through complexity in a world where openness and sharing are becoming the ‘rules’ and how might these be facilitated?

- How will the new collaborative ‘means of production’, such as social media, and ‘collective intelligence’ in a sharing economy, be governed and by whom?

- How do boards and, more generally, governing bodies need to evolve in their roles and composition to meet the new concept of politics that calls for a collective regulation?

- What happens to governance mechanisms when the new factors of production, such as knowledge, intelligence, and digital, become central to overall ‘social well-being’?

全文截稿: 2017-11-15

影响因子: 1.802

期刊难度: ★★★

CCF分类: 无

网址: www.journals.elsevier.com/futures