Call for Proposals: Review Issue 2021

Corporate Governance: An International Review seeks proposals for review articles that consolidate and advance current knowledge of subjects in line with the mission of the journal. The mission of CGIR is to publish cutting-edge international business research on the phenomena of corporate governance throughout the global economy. We define corporate governance broadly as the exercise of power over corporate entities so as to increase the value provided to the organization’s various stakeholders, as well as making those stakeholders accountable for acting responsibly with regard to the protection, generation, and distribution of wealth invested in the firm.

Review articles should be high-impact scholarly surveys of important streams of governance research. They should compile the state of corresponding knowledge, integrate related literatures and provide promising avenues for future research. Their scope should be broad enough to attract general interest and sufficiently focused to be dealt with in a single article.

Deadline for Submissions of Proposals: September 1, 2019

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Soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain, it became clear that the end of state socialism in Eastern Europe did not necessarily imply the end of state domination over the economy and firm practices. Early studies found, that the post-socialist state – through its control over the banking system for instance – continued to influence firm-level strategies regarding product innovation, restructurings, supply chains, and human resource management (Whitley & Czaban, 1998a, 1998b). More generally, management scholars, political scientists, and sociologists found that the role of the state in post-socialist economies remained much more prominent and much more complex than initial optimistic accounts of “transition” and the “retreat of the state” had suggested (Martin, 2002, 2013; Schoenman, 2005; Stark, 1996; Stark & Bruszt, 2001). Thus, the initial retreat of the socialist state was slower than expected during the early 1990s. More recently, various transition economies may even experience a return of the state as an active player in the economy in its own right (Bremmer, 2008; Kurlantzick, 2016; Musacchio, Lazzarini, & Aguilera, 2015l; Sallai & Schnyder, 2018). In such cases, the state does not only intervene as a regulator – as the ideal-typical idea of liberal capitalism would have it – , but also as an owner of large companies, and designer of industrial policy directed towards promoting certain industries over others (see Hofman, Moon, & Wu, 2017).

This special issue invites papers addressing questions related to these three topics: 

• The impact of the role of the state in post-socialist and post-soviet countries on firm-level outcomes and strategies
• firms’ non-market strategies in response to post-socialist states
• state-business relationships in post-socialist countries

Submission deadline:

June 15, 2019 5pm CET

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The competitive gaming scene surged in the recent years with tournaments filling the bird’s nest in Beijing in 2017, and the League of Legends finals in 2018 peaked at 200 million viewers. In 2017 this market had a value of nearly 500 million U.S. dollar, and some analyst proposed that it will go up towards 1,7 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Companies like Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, Gilette and Old Spice joined the eSports scene rivaling the commitment by Red Bull, Coca-Cola, and Intel. There are now over 150 sports teams involved in eSports, e.g., Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, FC Schalke 04, Kraft group (owners of New England Patriots) and many more are investing in eSports heavily. The key goal for them is to attract the young generation. We observe a massive surge in interest in 2016 and 2017. It may even seem like that we are in a buying frenzy capped by Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch for 970 million dollars. In some games, teams have to pay a franchise fee for roughly 60 million U.S. dollar to create the next NFL or NBA.

The world of eSports is massively growing, however, neglected by research. This is quite striking as eSports is born digital, born global, and born agile, subsequently making an exciting research target for management scholars. The eSports industry showed much resilience, and many of the actors in the eSports industry do understand that they have to be sustainable. The topic will stay relevant, and there is much to research in this context.

Submission Deadline: 15^thJune 2019

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This call for papers, which follows on from the last special issue on post-communist societies (Brown, McCabe and Primeaux, 2003) will focus on the developments in ethical standards in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe as over thirty years has elapsed since the demise of the Soviet Bloc. Despite some common institutional features the societies of Central and Eastern Europe have had very different experiences (Hardy, 2014; Myant and Drahokoupil, 2010; 2011) with uneven developments across the region since the collapse of communism. In this special issue they invite papers that explore business ethics situated within the context of the challenges that face these still transforming societies.

The post-communist societies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have experienced radical changes since the collapse of communism. A particular issue for these societies has been the development of new political and economic institutions to meet the requirements of modern European market democracies.

Small selection of the topics:

• The influence of privatisation and post-privatisation strategies on management behaviour and ethics
• Leadership, misconduct and unethical behaviour by managers and owners of companies
• Corporate governance and transparency and corruption
• The development of local and national government institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and their influence on managers and organisations

Submission Deadline:

Full Papers: 1^stof November, 2019

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The rise of digital platforms challenges traditional approaches to the organization of markets, work, and consumption and suggests a new economic era some have called the “platform economy.” The aim of this Special Issue is to better understand the socio-economic dynamics structuring the platform economy, with a focus on new “sharing” and gig labor platforms. 

Platforms for “crowdsourcing”, “gigwork” and “sharing economy” such as Upwork, Uber and Airbnb organize buyer-seller relations in digitally-enabled marketplaces. These new marketplaces challenge existing economic practices and regulatory standards, disrupting established markets and forcefully creating new ones. A central feature of these marketplaces is the use of algorithms to set and enforce rules that shape the provision of services and labor. Our aim in this special issue is to bring together organizational, consumer, worker and regulatory perspectives on the platform economy to shed a new light on emerging market structures as well as central lines of contestation.

The four themes are “Platforms as Market Organizers”, “User Experiences and Consumption Patterns”, “Working in the Platform Economy” and “Contested Markets as a Challenge for Regulatory Actors and Established Institutions”.

Timeline and Submissions:

• Papers can be submitted immediately, but no later than 15 March, 2019.    
• The targeted publication of the special issue is the July 2020 issue of Socio-Economic Review.                                                                                                    
• The maximum length of articles including references, notes and abstract is 10,000 words.                                                                                                              
• The main document has to be anonymous and should contain title, abstract, and strictly avoid self-references.

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The XII European Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) will take place in Düsseldorf on 5-7 September 2019 and intends to explore and analyse the changes in labour and employment relations across Europe and in a comparative perspective. In particular, proposals can refer to the following four tracks: “Social Europe: Equality and Poverty”, “Regulations of Labour: Actors, Institutions and Law”, “Workers’ Voice and Industrial Democracy” and “Human Resources, Quality of Work and Digitalisation”. They are also looking forward to papers which discuss these topics with reference to gender, migrant and disabled workers.

Deadlines:

• Deadline for abstracts extended to 25 January 2019
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 28^th of February 2019                                    
• Registration for the Congress will start on 31^st of January 2019

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Die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen konfrontiert Beschäftigte, Personalmanager*innen und Betriebsratsmitglieder mit großen Veränderungen in zwei Bereichen: zum einen entstehen durch die zunehmende Datafizierung und Algorithmisierung neue Expertisen, Berufe und Arten der Zusammenarbeit (Faraj et al., 2018). Zum anderen führen Unternehmen begleitend unter dem Terminus „New Ways of Working“ neue Arbeits- und Organisationsformen (z.B. agiles oder mobiles Arbeiten) ein (Breu et al., 2002), die das traditionelle Fortbestehen von Betrieben in Frage stellen (Davis, 2013) und damit Grenzen der Mitbestimmung aufzeigen (Prassl & Risak, 2015). In diesem Herausgeberband werden mögliche Herausforderungen und Chancen von „Datafizierung und Neuen Arbeitsweisen“ aus Sicht des Personalmanagements und der betrieblichen Mitbestimmung beleuchtet.

Ziel ist es, die Aufmerksamkeit auf moderne Formen der Beteiligung zu lenken und Ansätze für gemeinsame Zukunftsvisionen zu generieren. Zu diesem Zweck laden die Herausgeber sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle Beiträge als auch qualitative und quantitative empirische Studien ein, die aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen entstammen dürfen und sich mit den Fragen der Digitalisierung im Bereich Personalmanagement und Mitbestimmung beschäftigen, ein. 

Einreichungsprozess & Deadlines:

Der Herausgeberband soll sowohl wissenschaftliche als auch Praxisbeiträge enthalten.

Für den wissenschaftlichen Teil werden Beträge im Umfang von max. 40.000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen begrenzt.

Für Praxisbeiträge und Stellungsnahmen gilt der Umfang von 30.000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen).

Zeitplan der Einreichung und Veröffentlichung:

1. Einreichung von Abstracts (zwei Seiten): verlängert bis 20.02.2019
2. Zusagen: bis 29.03.2019
3. Einreichung der vollen Beiträge: bis 30.06.2019
4. Geplante Veröffentlichung: Herbst 2019

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