Call for papers: Special Issue on Public‐Private Collaboration, Hybrid Organizational Design and Social Value

Journal of Management Studies

Call for Papers

A Special Issue on Public‐Private Collaboration, Hybrid Organizational Design and Social Value

Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2015

Guest Editors:

• Bertrand V. Quélin, HEC Paris (quelin@hec.fr)
• Ilze Kivleniece, Imperial College London (ilze.kivleniece@imperial.ac.uk)
• Sergio Lazzarini, Insper (sergiogl1@insper.edu.br)

BACKGROUND TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE

In today’s economic environment, novel, innovative forms of collaboration between public and private organizational actors take an increasingly prominent place. Across the world, the provision of public goods and services increasingly relies on public-private sector interaction and cross-sector partnerships, involving firms, governmental or political actors, and social constituents. Industries and sectors as diverse as healthcare, education, defence, utilities and public infrastructure witness growing private sector participation. Likewise, addressing many of the world’s most pressing social concerns, such as poverty and disease eradication, humanitarian aid provision, increasingly falls under the realm of multi-actor constellations involving corporations, as well as non-governmental (NGOs) and citizen organizations. In all these domains, various hybrid organizational arrangements become common-place and raise important questions related to their governance, design, performance implications and effectiveness.

Some of the most critical questions raised revolve around the organizational design and governance mechanisms underlying these novel forms of public-private interaction. Likewise and, critically, they also put into spotlight important trade-offs that may exist between the pursuit of social or public welfare and private interests. As cross-sector collaboration becomes increasingly wide-spread, the capacities for such partnerships to generate and deliver value to underlying stakeholders - public bodies, private and social actors, become of a paramount concern. 

How are public-private or cross-sector contexts different from traditional purely private or for-profit settings? How are various public-private or hybrid organizational forms designed? How do they create economic and social value? Are public and private economic and social interests reconcilable in these settings and how? How are social value or certain public vs. private economic returns generated within such contexts, and distributed among underlying stakeholders?

These are some of the fundamental questions that this Special Issue aims to address. It seeks to tackle the theoretical challenges involved in the analysis of collaboration efforts across public and private domains, and to stimulate innovative research, based on novel conceptual frameworks and analytical tools. It calls for a renewed interest in research that stretches beyond the private interest or for-profit domains, and sheds lights on novel inter-organizational forms as important mechanisms bringing together diverse organizational actors, able to generate, potentially, important economic and social value, and offer solutions to pressing public welfare concerns.



TYPES OF SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS SOUGHT IN THE SPECIAL ISSUE

The scholarly contributions for this Special Issue are sought from management and organization science scholars working on any of the research areas that address organizational interactions taking place between firms, public sector actors and non-governmental organizations. In terms of specific theoretical domains, the aim is to draw together and cross-fertilize on the burgeoning strands of literature that exist, albeit, quite separately, on public-private interaction in management studies, sociology and organizational economics.

It welcomes scholarly contributions that draw upon and integrate latest research on areas such as the role of institutional environment, studies on managerial and political strategies, contractual and firm boundary theories, public entrepreneurship, and emergent streams of literature on public-private organizational design, governance and social value.



The spectrum of potential themes covered in the Special Issue includes the emergence and performance of novel boundary spanning organizational arrangements and structures between public and private sectors, such as public private partnerships (PPPs), cross-sector collaborative arrangements and social ventures, and their implications in terms of private as well as, critically, social or public value. The Special Issue, thus, represents a genuine invitation to address more rigorously the nature of ties and organizational forms emerging from the interplay between NGOs, public agencies, governments, private firms and funding institutions. It also invites scholars to shed light on important mechanisms and dynamics able to influence policy conclusions, effective delivery of public or social services, and governance mechanisms.


A list of potential topics that are suitable for this Special Issue includes (but is not limited to) the following:

• - Public-private partnerships and contractual ties,
• - Social value, its creation and appropriation,
• - Governance of multi-layer and multi-actor relationships in public-private context,
• - Public-private interactions: organizational resources, public and private capabilities and learning,
• - Innovative organizational design,
• - Social and/or public entrepreneurship,
• - Social value and new organizational forms.

A (non-exhaustive) list of specific research questions to be addressed includes:

• - What are the determinants that explain the emergence and rise of novel organizational forms that fuse and cross the well-established public and private sector boundaries?
• - How does a changing social context and demands for increasing corporate social engagement affect organizational design and appearance of new, multi-layer, multi-actor relationships?
• - How are these new forms of organizations designed or structured?
• - How are underlying public and private resources mobilized?
• - What are the capabilities required to succeed in managing such new organizational forms? How can public and private actors mutually learn and develop such capabilities? 
• - How able are such novel inter-organizational forms to change the social landscape in many countries?
• - Are these novel organizational forms always value-creating?
• - Under which conditions do they deliver public benefits as opposed to additional costs or welfare losses to both private actors and society as a whole?
• - What kind of value sharing mechanisms are present or put in place in these new boundary-spanning organizations to respond to broader social needs, as opposed to merely private value creation imperatives?

Both theoretically (or conceptually) as well as empirically-grounded manuscripts will be considered for the Special Issue, provided that underlying research has a potential to deliver significant implications for strategy, organization research and practice.

In line with the objectives for all manuscripts published in JMS, authors are expected to demonstrate solid, topical theory development as well as important empirical contributions. The manuscripts sought-after should demonstrate rigour in the analysis and conceptual development, along with a novelty and innovativeness in the research. Moreover, in the view of the socially significant nature of the phenomena covered by this Special Issue, as well as the emergent nature of the theory surrounding them, the solicited manuscripts are expected to move beyond the conventional knowledge and identify new, original avenues for future research, broaden the range of methodological perspectives and theoretical underpinnings.

In terms of geographical scope, this Special Issue is particularly aimed at attracting papers from a wide range of geographical locations. While the debates on public-private partnerships are especially pertinent in the European context, this Special Issue aims to address public and private sector collaboration as a topical or emergent area also in the Americas, Africa, and Asia and Pacific region. Any contributions from these regions are, hence, particularly welcome.

SUBMISSION PROCESS AND DEADLINES

All papers will be reviewed following the JMS double-blind review process.

The deadline for submitting the papers is May 31st, 2015 by midnight or 24.00 (GMT zone). The papers should be submitted by email to the guest editors using the following address: publicprivatecollaborationJMS@gmail.com.

All papers should be prepared and formatted following the standard JMS Editorial guidelines (see:www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/JMS_Prep_of_Manuscripts.pdf).



The guest editors also welcome informal inquiries related to the Special Issue, the underlying topics and potential fit with Special Issue objectives.

Contact Emails:

For inquiries related to submission opportunities and other questions related to the Special Issue, please contact Bertrand V. Quélin (quelin@hec.fr), Ilze Kivleniece (ilze.kivleniece@imperial.ac.uk), or Sergio Lazzarini (sergiogl1@insper.edu.br).



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Call for conference papers: 8th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

8th Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

http://www.aieconference.org

Co-organized by

• National Entrepreneurship Research Centre, Tsinghua University, China
• Technology and Management Centre for Development, Oxford University, UK
• Canada-China Institute for Business and Development, Ryerson University, Canada

Co-Chairs

• Dr. Steven Murphy, Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
• Dr. Jian Gao, Senior Associate Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
• Dr. Xiaolan Fu, Director, Technology and Management Centre for Development, Oxford University

Call for Proposals:

Ryerson, Tsinghua and Oxford universities are pleased to announce that the 8th Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (#AIE2015) will be held for the first time in beautiful Toronto, Canada from August 20-21, 2015. The AIE conference was first held in 2008 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, consistently ranked as one of China’s top institutions for higher learning and mentioned in Forbes as building China’s next generation of entrepreneurs. The conference has since taken place at the prestigious Oxford University in London, England. Oxford has promoted entrepreneurship and innovation through its Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Technology and Management Centre for Development. A truly international conference, it has attracted more than 1,500 participants from more than 27 countries over the years. This time, conference participants will have the unique opportunity to experience Canada as an innovation nation. Toronto has a vibrant entrepreneurial sector, as exemplified by Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ), one of the top ranked incubators in the world. Zones under the umbrella of the DMZ include the Center for Urban Energy, Fashion Zone, Design Fabrication Zone, Transmedia Zone, and Social Ventures Zone. Coming in the future are Aerospace , Biomed and Sports Zones and others. The DMZ has internationalized its model to India and will be duplicated in other emerging economies. The multitude of industries represented by the zones and programs at Ryerson University is reflective of the bustling and buzzing city of Toronto, a highly economically diversified city on Lake Ontario. While surrounded by natural beauty, including the Toronto Islands, wine country just south of the city, and the Canadian Shield to the north, Toronto is also diverse and glamorous for its variety of people and events. Known as “Hollywood of the North”, especially because it hosts one of the most prestigious film events in the world, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), many movies are made here. Ryerson even has a Creative Industries program as reflective of our vibrant arts scene. There is no end to things to do in Toronto, even for those of us who live here! The AIE Conference provides a broad platform to convene scholars from around the world to present research and to stimulate discussions on critical research issues and new developments in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Conference Team:  Building An Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

The conference has an overarching theme that emphasizes the important role of entrepreneurship in a sustainable innovation ecosystem and the impact of diversity on entrepreneurial development and social innovation. It covers the following topics of interest but is not limited to:

• The role of entrepreneurship in the economic diversification and development process
• New business creation process, incubators, and accelerators
• The role of entrepreneurship in innovation and revitalization of corporations
• Cross-sector partnerships for increasing innovation
• The role of government and public policy in innovation
• The role and effects of education and training on innovation
• University based new ventures and student engagement
• Sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on solving environmental issues
• Technology-based venturing and management of technological innovations
• Venture capital, angel investing, and entrepreneurial finance 
• Creation and management of family business
• Diversity within innovation and entrepreneurship (e.g., women, immigrants, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with disability and seniors)
• Social innovation and entrepreneurship
• Technological innovation to bridge rural-urban divides
• International entrepreneurship and “born global” strategies
• Entrepreneurship in and design of innovations for low income or emerging markets 

Important Dates

• May 15, 2015 Proposal Deadline - Extended from April 15, 2015
• June 30, 2015 Final Submissions (including papers, photos and profiles)
• August 20-21, 2015 AIE Conference

Submission

Applicants are invited to submit proposals in two of the following ways:

1) Individual proposals that consist of:

• Title
• Theme(s) addressed
• Full contact information
• An abstract of your paper consisting of no more than 500 words (2 pages) 
• An updated CV

2) Panel sessions of 3-5 participants that consist of:

• Proposed title of the panel session
• Theme(s) addressed
• A 500 word (2 pages) overview of the main theme(s) discussed in the panel and how each paper interconnects 
• Full contact information of each participant
• Updated CVs for all participants 

Please submit your proposal in electronic format (in one Word or PDF document) to

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aie2015 by April 15 (11:59pm EST). Proposals received after this time will not be considered. The conference encourages proposals from current and emerging scholars, those in public policy and industry partners. You will be notified electronically of your acceptance no later than May 15 2015

Presenters whose proposals are accepted for the conference will be invited to submit full papers of no more than 20-25 pages on the topic outlined in your abstract. The best paper selected by the conference committee will win the Best Paper Award co-sponsored by Emerald Publishing and will be considered for publication by the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. For more information on the conference please visit http://www.aieconference.org, and for general help and administrative matters please contact AIE Support at aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Business & Society. Insights from Institutional Theory

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Business & Society

Social Innovation: Insights from Institutional Theory

Guest editors:

• Silvia Dorado, University of Rhode Island
• Ignasi Marti, EMLYON Business School, OCE Research Center
• Jakomijn van Wijk, Maastricht School of Management 
• Charlene Zietsma, Schulich School of Business, York University

Submission deadline: September 1, 2015

Social innovation refers to the process of developing and implementing novel solutions to social problems, often involving re-negotiations of settled institutions among diverse actors with conflicting logics. As such, social innovation entails institutional change. Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront “wicked problems” (Rittel and Weber, 1973), such as climate change, poverty alleviation, income inequality and persistent societal conflicts. Such problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, and have redistributive implications for entrenched interests (Rayner, 2006). 

Institutional research has played a significant role in the study of efforts to alleviate social problems (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Dorado, 2013; Hallett, 2010; Lawrence, Hardy & Phillips, 2002; Maguire, Hardy & Lawrence, 2004; Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010), and is well positioned to contribute to an improved understanding of social innovation. Institutional theory starts at a macro-level, assessing the positions and interdependent actions of the multiple constituents of issue-focused fields (Wooten & Hoffman, 2008; Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010), and considering seriously the idea that rules, norms and beliefs are socially constituted, negotiated orders (Marti, Courpasson & Barbosa, 2013; Strauss, 1978), which can be renegotiated in socially innovative ways (e.g. Van Wijk, Stam, Elfring, Zietsma & den Hond, 2013). The study of institutional work emphasizes the creation, disruption and maintenance of the institutionalized social structures that govern behavior (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006), and thus speaks to how entrenched practices and ideas get held in place, and how they may be replaced with more socially beneficial arrangements. Furthermore, the burgeoning institutional complexity perspective, with its focus on how actors respond to multiple, sometimes competing logics (Greenwood, Raynard, Kodeih, Micelotta & Lounsbury, 2011), applies well to the context of wicked societal problems. 

Taking an institutional perspective on social innovation suggests several topics and a range of interesting questions in line with our theme, listed in the full call for papers, available at:
http://www.iabs.net/Research/BusinessSociety/SpecialIssueCallSocialInnovation.aspx.
A paper development workshop is planned at EMLyon in France from March 27-29, 2016. 

Further information:

Dr. Charlene Zietsma
Associate Professor and Ann Brown Chair in Organization Studies
Director, Entrepreneurial Studies
Schulich School of Business, SSB N317
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, CANADA
M3J 1P3
(416) 736-2100, Ext. 77919.

Call for papers. Special Issue: Gender Issues in Entrepreneurship

International Journal of Business and Globalisation

Special Issue on: "Gender Issues in Entrepreneurship"

Guest Editor:

• Veland Ramadani, South-East European University, Macedonia

For many years the opinion has been that male activity predominates in entrepreneurship. However, over time, women are gradually becoming a very important part of the world of entrepreneurs. Today, women represent more than one third of all people involved in entrepreneurial activity. In recent years they have attracted increasing attention and separate study among researchers.

There are two main reasons why this “kind” of entrepreneur needs to be studied separately: a) female entrepreneurs have been recognised as an important untapped source of economic growth, considering that they create new jobs for themselves and others, and provide different solutions to management, organisation and business problems and obstacles as well as to the exploitation of business opportunities; b) female entrepreneurs have been largely neglected both in society in general and in the social sciences, in light of the fact that mainstream research, policies and programmes tend to be “men streamed”.

Even with all the obstacles faced when starting and managing their businesses, more and more women today are establishing their own businesses. Although there is a trend towards increase in female entrepreneurship, this increase could be even greater if we can eliminate various barriers of different natures, thus enabling the potential of women to come to full expression.

This special issue will focus on gender issues in entrepreneurship and/or small business perspectives. Both micro- and macro-level studies are invited, and both quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome. We also encourage authors to come forward with emerging and groundbreaking topics to diversify and widen gender-based research.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Government policy on gender and entrepreneurship
• Gender and motivational factors
• Gender and innovation activities
• Gender and risk management
• Gender and financing sources of entrepreneurial ventures
• Gender and business performance
• Gender and entrepreneurial intentions
• Gender and entrepreneurship education
• Gender and economic growth
• Gendered understanding of corporate entrepreneurship
• Gendered understanding of social entrepreneurship
• Gender, ethics and social responsibility
• Institutional support on gender and entrepreneurship
• Gender and entrepreneurship in developing and transition countries
• Inspiring stories

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

• Submission of manuscripts: 31 March, 2015
• Notification to authors: 30 June, 2015
• Final versions due: 31 August, 2015

Call for papers. Special Issue: Islamic Entrepreneurship and Business

International Journal of Business and Globalisation

Special Issue on: "Islamic Entrepreneurship and Business"

Guest Editors:

• Veland Ramadani, South-East European University, Macedonia
• Shqipe Gerguri-Rashiti, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait

Dana (2009; 2010) sparked interest in religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship and business. Islam as a religion has given great attention to entrepreneurship and business. This can be seen in the verses of the Holy Qur’an and teachings of Mouhammed as a prophet

Muslims as entrepreneurs have been progressively seeking to set up businesses that are consistent with Islamic principles of living, known as Shariah law, respectively establishing companies whose activities are halal (lawful), not haram (unlawful). Even though, according to Islamic principles, some business elements and activities – such as interest payments, alcohol, gambling, producing and processing pork, pornography and some types of entertainment – are not allowed, today there are a lot of Muslims that are successful entrepreneurs.

Islam as a religion invites all Muslims to be active and hardworking, which are characteristics of entrepreneurs and business owners. Islam encourages prosperity through the correct usage of the resources given by God. Entrepreneurship and business in Islam is usually based on these principles: entrepreneurship and business is an integral part of this religion; success is not only measured by the end result but also by the means of achieving them; Islam encourages people to venture into business; business activity is part of ibadah or “good deed”; guiding principles of entrepreneurship and business are based strictly on the Holy Qur’an and the Prophet’s Hadith (teachings) and ethics and social responsibility are based on the exemplary conduct of Muhammad (S.A.W.).

The aim of this special issue is to explore entrepreneurship and business from the perspective of Islamic principles, which are usually based on collaboration, teamwork, generosity and altruism. Both micro- and macro-level studies are invited. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are also welcome. We also encourage writers to come forward with emerging and groundbreaking topics to diversify and widen research from the perspective of Islam.

References

Dana, L-P. (2009), Religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship, The international journal of entrepreneurship and innovation, 10 (2),87-99
Dana, L-P., Ed. (2010), Entrepreneurship and religion, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Islam and innovation activities
• Islam and risk management
• Islam and financing sources of entrepreneurial ventures
• Islam and business performance
• Entrepreneurial intentions of muslims
• Islam and gender issues in entrepreneurship and business
• Islamic entrepreneurship and business education
• Islamic entrepreneurship and business and economic growth
• Islam and social entrepreneurship
• Islam, ethics and social responsibility
• Inspiring stories

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

• All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
• All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

• Submission of manuscripts: 31 March, 2015
• Notification to authors: 30 June, 2015
• Final versions due: 31 August, 2015

Call for papers: Ethics, technology and innovation

Overview

This event, and the related symposium to be published in the Journal of Business Ethics in the first half of 2015, intends to analyze the impact of ethics-related variables on the development of new products and services and on organizational innovation. For example, in recent years, customers’ privacy expectations have shaped how companies design and commercialize new products and services in communication, entertainment and many other sectors (see, e.g. Floridi, 2005; Pollach, 2005; Nissenbaum, 2009; Vaccaro and Madsen, 2009). By the same token, security and reliability expectations have dramatically affected how designers develop new products and services in the automotive sector (see, e.g. Thomke, 2003).

Organizations differ in how they deal with ethical issues. For example, the literature on technology ethics (see, e.g. Nissenbaum 2004 Gorman, 1998; Mitcham, C. 1995) presents interesting cases where designers have intentionally pursued an immoral objective, see e.g. a bridge designed with the aim of preventing bus transit from areas with a high concentration of Afro-Americans (which embed and convey social discrimination values) or hardware and software designed to control users’ activities, violating elementary privacy rights, etc. Thus, Internet technologies have not only driven a flatter world as many argue, but they have also led to the creation of ‘digital sweatshops’, i.e. overcrowded rooms where workers play online games, such as Lineage, for up to twelve hours a day in order to create virtual goods, such as characters, equipments or in-game currency, which can then be sold to other, obviously richer, players (Floridi, 2009, p. 14).

On the other side of the moral scale, it is possible to find exemplary cases of high ethical standards. The example that comes quickest to mind are the 100% biodegradable products: They address the function for which they were designed but they also convey the moral duty of environmental protection (see, e.g. Guiltinan, 2009; Fraj-Andrés et al., 2009).

These considerations highlight the need to further current understanding of the role played by ethics-related variables in new product / service development and more generally, in firms’ innovation efforts (see, e.g. Adolphson, 2004; Madsen, 2005). This symposium will address this need by focusing on three main broad themes.

First, the issue of social responsibility (SR) has attracted considerable attention from scholars and practitioners during the last two decades. However, there is a shortage of studies, in the literature on technology policy and ethics, concerning under what conditions, how and why companies address ethical and social responsibility issues in the development of new products / services. For example, we do not know how organizational processes of information collection and sharing, decision-making, project evaluation etc. are adapted (if they are at all) to include ethical considerations in response to, e.g. changing EU Eco-norms, or customers’ expectations and/or moral values shared at industry level.

A second main theme that this symposium will investigate concerns the impact of environmental ethics on new product development. In particular, contributions are expected to explore how environmental concerns affect new product and service development, how companies deal with different environmental legislations when they design new products and services, and the use of environmental sustainability as a source of competitive advantage.

The third and last theme will explore processes associated with social innovation in hybrid organizations (Montgomery et al., 2012; Santos, 2012; Vaccaro, 2012). In particular, the symposium’s editors will encourage papers that analyse how stakeholders’ expectations and perceptions affect process innovation and/or changes in the structure and strategy of organizations attempting to combine business and social objectives.

Theme 1: Ethics, Social Responsibility and Innovation

• 1. How customers’ ethical perceptions and expectations affect new product/service development.
• 2. How stakeholders’ ethical perceptions and expectations affect new product/service development.
• 3. How companies manage and resolve conflicting ethical perceptions and expectations of their stakeholders in multi-cultural or multi-national contexts.

Theme 2: Environmental Ethics and Innovation

• 1. How environmental issues affect new product and service development.
• 2. How companies deal with different environmental legislations in new product and service development.
• 3. Environmental sustainability as a source of competitive advantage.
• 4. Ethical issues in environmental sustainability: green-washing vs. real environmental improvement. 

Theme 3: Social Innovation and the Organization

• 1. How employees’ ethical expectations and perceptions affect innovation in organizational processes.
• 2. How stakeholders’ ethical expectations and perceptions affect innovation in organizational processes.
• 3. Innovation in organization structure: How to combine business and social objectives by leveraging stakeholder expectations.
• 4. The new emerging ethical issues affecting hybrid organizations.

Timetable and submission procedures: 

The conference is organized by ETH, Zurich, IESE Business School on January 7 and 8, 2014. The conference’s venue will be the ETH Campus in Zurich. The deadline for submission of the complete paper is December 1, 2013.

Papers have to be submitted to the attention of Ms. Rosario Magre Miro RMagre@iese.edu specifying in the subject of the e-mail “Submission to Innovation Conference”. (If you do not receive a confirmation of your submission within 24 hours, please re-submit your document). Acceptance for presentation at the conference will be sent to authors by December 8.

The best papers presented at the conference will be invited for submission to the symposium of the Journal of Business Ethics. This process will include a double-blind review process by 2-3 anonymous referees. The invitation for submission to the symposium does not guarantee publication of the article.

Papers that were not presented at the conference cannot be submitted for publication in the symposium. Please use the guidelines for authors of the Journal of Business Ethics (http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/10551 ) to format your paper.

Guests Editors' bio

Stefano Brusoni is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich). He coordinates the TIMGROUP - the new Chair of Technology and Innovation Management at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC). He is Associate Editor of Information, Economics and Policy and member of the Review Board of Organization Science. His publications have appeared in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change.

Antonino Vaccaro is Academic Director of the Center for Business in Society at IESE Business School where he also serves as a faculty member in the department of business ethics. He has served as guest editor for Ethics and Information Technology and for the Journal of Business Ethics in a special issue about Network Ethics and in the special issue of the EBEN AC 2011. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Ethics and Information Technology and IEEE-HICSS-Transactions, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, The Information Society, etc.

References

• Adolphson, D. 2004. A New Perspective on Ethics, Ecology, and Economics, Journal of Business Ethics 54(3), 201-213.
• Flanagan, N., Howe, D and Nissenbaum, H. 2008. Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice. In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.). Cambridge University Press.
• Floridi, L. 2005. The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observability, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 14(6) 656-667.
• Floridi, L. 2009. Information Ethics: A very short introduction (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
• Fraj-Andrés, E., Martinez-Salinas, E. and Matute-Vallejo, J. 2009. ‘A Multidimensional Approach to the Influence of Environmental Marketing and Orientation on the Firm’s Organizational Performance’, Journal of Business Ethics, 88(2), 263–286.
• Gorman, M. E. 1998. Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Design. Springer.
• Guiltinan, J. 2009. Creative Destruction and Destructive Creations: Environmental Ethics and Planned Obsolescence, Journal of Business Ethics, 89, 19–28.
• Madsen, P. 2005. Responsible Design and the Management of Ethics, DMI Review 16(3): 37-41.
• Mitcham, C. 1995. Ethics Into Design. In Discovering Design, Eds. R. Buchanan and V. Margolis, 173-179. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Montgomery, A.W., Dacin, P. and Dacin, T. 2012. Collective Social Entrepreneurship: Collaboratively Shaping Social Good, Journal of Business Ethics, 111(3), 375-388.
• Nissenbaum, H. 2004. Privacy as Contextual Integrity. Washington Law Review, 79(1): 119-158.
• Nissenbaum, N. 2009. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy and the Integrity of Social Life (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press).
• Pollach, I. 2005. A Typology of Communicative Strategies in Online Privacy Policies: Ethics, Power and Informed Consent, Journal of Business Ethics, 62, 221–235.
• Santos, F. 2012. A positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Ethics, 111(3), 335-351.
• Thomke, S. 2003. Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press.
• Vaccaro, A. and P. Madsen, 2009. ‘Transparency: The new ICT-driven Ethics?’ Ethics and Information Technology, 11(2), 113-122.
• Vaccaro, A. 2012. To Pay or not to Pay? Dynamic Transparency and the Fight against the Mafia’s Extortionists, Journal of Business Ethics, 106(1), 23-35.

Call for papers on Contextual Perspectives. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship's special issue

Call for papers

Special issue of Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

Contextual Perspectives

Submission deadline: 31 January, 2014

Guest editors: Anne de Bruin and Kate Lewis

New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre,

Massey University

Scholarly understanding of social innovation and social entrepreneurship is in its infancy. The theme of this special issue is intended to highlight the significance of context for novel thinking and understanding in this emerging scholarly field. As Moore, Westley and Nicholls (2012: 122) aptly point out, ‘…the process of innovation will emerge out of the coalescence of contextual factors that may not have discernible, linear cause-effect relationships. Yet, it seems possible that the contextual factors that create opportunities and constraints for social innovation are not infinite; that is, patterns will exist.’ As such, the editors seek manuscripts that draw on regional, national and community specific social innovation and entrepreneurship insights, in order to springboard conceptually robust frameworks for advancing the field.

Generalisable empirical findings from Australasia are particularly welcome. New social innovation and entrepreneurship perspectives from under-researched regional and national as well as cultural contexts, e.g. emerging market economies such as China, are also welcome. Explorations of novel, spontaneous or critical contexts e.g. relating to one-off events, or times of national crisis and/or natural disaster, are similarly welcome.

A suggested, though not an exhaustive, list of topics includes:

• Contextual settings and collaborative dynamics of effective partnerships
• Transformational leadership typologies and contexts
• Social entrepreneurship and innovation of Māori; other indigenous and ethnic groups
• Institutions and systemic reconfigurations
• Innovative governance models
• Transcending the local for ‘scaling out’ or new forms in different contexts.
• The community embeddedness-social innovation nexus
• The impact of demographic characteristics (e.g. age, gender) on socially entrepreneurial endeavours.

Interested authors should submit manuscripts to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rjse by 31 January, 2014 indicating that they would like the submission to be considered for this special issue by designating the Manuscript Type as “Special issue: Contextual Perspectives”

The Guest Editors would also draw attention to the Massey University Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference conference, which explores themes related to this Special Issue and will be held at Massey’s Albany Campus, New Zealand, 27-29 November 2013 (see http://sierc.massey.ac.nz/conference). Informal enquiries on the special issue are welcome; please email a.m.debruin@massey.ac.nz and k.v.lewis@massey.ac.nz

References

Moore, M-L., Westley, F. & Nicholls, A. (2012) The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 3(2): 115-132.