Invitation to Publish in Social Marketing Quarterly

Social Marketing Quarterly (SMQ) is a scholarly, internationally circulated journal focused exclusively on the theoretical, research and practical issues confronting both academics and practitioners. SMQ targets social marketers, communicators and social science professionals who use marketing principles, strategies and techniques to benefit society. SMQ contains research, case studies, conference notices, essays, editorials, interviews, book reviews and other relevant news regarding the efforts of social marketers to protect the environment and increase health, safety and financial well-being.

SMQ publishes original work and fosters a cooperative exploration of ideas and practices that promote innovative strategies. Sections include: Applications, Theory and Review, Case Studies, Training Initiatives, Book Reviews, Notes from the Field, Resources, Commentary and Looking Ahead. SMQ frequently publishes special issues pertaining to current topics of interest and relevance to the social marketing community.

Benefits of Publishing in SMQ
• Rigorous, double-blind peer review
• High visibility and guaranteed exposure to a targeted, global, multidisciplinary audience
• Rolling submissions with prompt, online-first publishing

Submit Papers in These Areas
SMQ accepts various types of manuscripts. We invite you to submit papers that address aspects of social marketing in any of the following areas:
• Research
• Theory
• Case studies of best practices
• Environmental Issues
• Leadership and management
• Impact of Technology
• Evaluation
• Program sustainability

Articles should be submitted via the Manuscript Central online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/usmq. For more information, and for full submission guidelines, please visit smq.sagepub.com.

Wanted: Papers on #Retirement, #ExecPay, More

Do you have a paper to submit? Get published in the leading journal for senior compensation and benefits executives and professionals. Compensation & Benefits Review is now seeking submissions on executive pay, work/life balance, health care benefits, retirement, and much more.

Benefits of Publishing in This Journal

When you publish in Compensation & Benefits Review, you will receive:

• Prompt publishing
• Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience
• High visibility for maximum global exposure

About the Journal

Compensation & Benefits Review (CBR) is the leading journal for senior executives and professionals who design, implement, evaluate and communicate compensation and benefits policies and programs. The journal supports human resources and compensation and benefits specialists and academic experts with up-to-date analyses of salary and wage trends, compensation system design and management, incentive compensation, legal compliance, retirement programs, health care benefits and other employee benefit plans. Articles reflect the latest thinking of global experts. Each issue provides in-depth articles from leading experts on compensation and benefits issues.

Submit Papers in These Areas

CBR is accepting bylined articles from experts and practitioners on the following topics:

• Executive compensation
• Salary system design
• Pay for performance
• Incentive plan design
• Sales compensation
• Insights from research on compensation
• Performance appraisal/management
• High performance work practices
• Compensation communication
• Case studies of pay programs
• Salary surveys
• Metrics, benchmarking, and program evaluation
• Legal compliance with any legislation or regulation concerning pay, including FLSA, EPA, EEOC, OFCCP, Fair Pay Act, and Davis Bacon
• Health care benefits
• Retirement plan benefits
• Work/life benefits
• Benefits communication
• Legal compliance with any legislation or regulation concerning benefit plans, including ERISA, FMLA, and ADA
• Case studies of benefit programs

Articles must be 2,000 to 10,000 words in length and previously unpublished. SAGE will provide each author one copy of the issue of the journal in which the author’s contribution appears, as well as a PDF copy of the published article.

Email a brief proposal to CBR Editor Howard Risher: cbr.editor@verizon.net.

Call for Papers: Sustainability and Simulation/Gaming

Call for Papers
Sustainability and simulation/gaming
Special issue of
Simulation & Gaming:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research
http://sg.sagepub.com/  http://www.unice.fr/sg/

Guest Editors:

Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa, Canada

As the challenges involving the achievement of a sustainable society become truly global involving interdependencies among social, political, and technical dimensions that collectively influence risk, simulation gaming with complex system models is becoming a highly effective strategy to study them. In today’s challenging policy environment, government officials and other decision-makers are confronting difficult sustainability problems whose common feature is their complexity.

Even under optimistic conditions, unexpected disasters and crises will increase severity of conditions for immediate disaster relief and the need to assist large number of refugees. Also, human actions contribute to environmental disasters such as oil spills. These emerging challenges suggest development of adaptive and resilient plans that can be revised under conditions of deep uncertainty. Development of simulation-based predictive displays for a control system or predictive displays based on multisimulation to evaluate several futures and decisions based on the outcomes of several futures will be critical enablers to deal with uncertainty that is pervasive in complex interconnected systems that need to be properly managed. Better data can also drive simulation games, which can help predicting important trends, assessing how well proposed policies and strategies would meet desired system-level objectives, and determining the optimal levels of resource use. Examples include growth, development, and evolution of urban areas, management of critical infrastructures during crisis and disaster, and management of natural environments such as forests or rivers as well as policies for governance such as fiscal and economic policies to assure sustainability and definitely to avoid disasters. However, effectiveness and relevance of simulation games to decision-making require careful consideration of the integration of the simulation gaming solutions with deliberation and political process. Hence, the issues pertaining to transparency, legitimacy, and participation are critical pillars of an integrated strategy.

With this special issue, we aim to provide the opportunity for authors to contribute original and unpublished articles that present the use of Simulation & Gaming for exploring social, economic, and environmental sustainability of human and natural systems. Simulation gaming can serve as a proactive anticipatory system to examine possibly unintended consequences of course of actions, as
their impacts are amplified and are often unforeseeable due to complex interactions and emergence that permeate through the components of a complex interconnected system of systems. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to address the problem of complex system sustainability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Integrated economic, social, and environmental simulation games for sustainability
• Models of human factors and social dynamics in relation to human and organizational enterprises
• Simulation games for decision support under uncertainty and long-term policy analysis
• Metrics for proactive anticipation of unsustainable conditions and their solution
• Tools and techniques for assessing adaptability, resilience, and emergent behavior in complex adaptive human and social systems
• Simulation gaming for disaster management and recovery
• Advanced methods and tools for testing of the resilience of proposed financial regulations
• New ways of thinking for policy makers for predictability, control, and explanation of complex adaptive phenomena
• New resource management paradigms investigated by M&S
• Data needs and validation of sustainability models and simulation games
• Synergy of software agents and simulation games, including agent-monitored simulation games

Instructions for Submission: Before submitting a manuscript, please consult the Guide for S&G Authors, available at http://www.unice.fr/sg/. The first step involves sending an abstract and keywords to the guest editors. After the approval of your abstract by the guest editors, you can submit your full manuscript.

Levent Yilmaz yilmaz |@| auburn.edu
Tuncer Ören oren |@| eecs.uOttawa.ca
S&G at Sage http://sg.sagepub.com/
S&G Author Guide http://www.unice.fr/sg/
Editor: David Crookall simulation.gaming |@| gmail.com
yilmaz |@| auburn.edu
oren |@| eecs.uOttawa.ca

Schedule

• Receipt of proposals: by end of January 2013.
• Response to proposals: in a month.
• Submission of manuscripts: by May 15, 2013
• First review: to be submitted by July 15, 2013.
• Revision (maybe 2nd review), editing, proofing,
• in a month
• On line publication: as articles are accepted.
• Publication of special issue: 2013

Call for Papers: Social Issues in the Family Enterprise

Call for Papers
Family Business Review – Special Issue
September 2014

Social Issues in the Family Enterprise

Guest Editors:

Justin Craig, Northeastern University (j.craig@neu.edu)
Clay Dibrell, The University of Mississippi (cdibrell@bus.olemiss.edu), USA

Don Neubaum, Oregon State University (don.neubaum@bus.oregonstate.edu), USA
Anita Van Gils, Maastricht University (a.vangils@maastrichtuniversity.nl), The Netherlands

Launched in 1988, Family Business Review is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum publishing conceptual, theoretical and empirical research that aims to advance the understanding of family enterprise around the world.

Much attention is now focused on societal concerns like global warming and the persistence of corporate misconduct. Researchers and practitioners alike have grown increasingly interested in social issues, such as corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, triple bottom line accounting, and social entrepreneurship.  Friedman’s credo of “The business of business is business” is growing less acceptable as owners, managers, employees, policy makers and the public at large are becoming increasingly uneasy with businesses pure profit motive.  Today, society challenges businesses to not only provide low-cost, high-quality sustainable products and services in an ethical and socially responsible manner, but also to help solve some of the globe’s most pressing social problems (e.g., hunger, lack of adequate healthcare, and poverty). Family enterprises need to be genuinely aware of social concerns in order to survive.

Research in social issues and corporate social responsibility has frequently examined the relationships between governance and ownership structure and the social outcomes of organizations.  While research related to stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and social issues has been widely conducted, relatively little of this research has been done within family firms.  Given that family enterprises reflect unique ownership and governance structures, and often possess unique goals and objectives (e.g., legacy building, transmission of intergenerational wealth, providing employment to family members), we believe they represent an interesting and timely context in which to study social issues.

We invite papers that give serious consideration to the topic of social issues in the family enterprise. We are particularly interested in articles that address fundamental questions such as, “What affect do family firms’ goals and ownership/governance structures have on those organizations’ behavior concerning social issues?” “Do family enterprises manage their internal and external stakeholders differently than publicly and/or privately held organizations?” “What theories are most applicable (e.g., stewardship theory, stakeholder theory, institutional theory, etc.)?” and “Do family enterprises have a higher appreciation for social issues than their public/and or private counterparts?”

Family Business Review invites authors to submit manuscripts for a special issue on Social Issues in the Family Enterprise. We welcome a wide range of articles dealing with important issues related to social responsibility, social issues, environmental sustainability and social entrepreneurship.  Empirical research using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods is encouraged. While case studies that are theoretically and empirically grounded are welcomed, preference will be given to articles which test theory using a broad base of family enterprises. We will also consider conceptual papers and develop innovative contributions which improve our understanding of the topic. Thus, we are looking for papers that contribute to the creation of a solid evidence base concerning the interplay between social issue management and family enterprises. Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• The attitude of external/financial stakeholders to internal/family constituents.
• Influence of taxation on giving patterns of family enterprises.
• Family foundations as stewards of wealth.
• Family enterprises and social entrepreneurship
• The influence of cultural and religious beliefs/differences in social issues.
• The influence of gender in the leadership, selection, and engagement of social issues.
• The influence of national culture on the management of social issues
• The influence of generational involvement in social issues.
• The influence of entrepreneurial traits, attitudes and cognitive models on social issues.
• Giving habits/behaviors of publicly-traded family businesses
• Socially progressive employment patterns and social innovation in human resource practices in family versus non-family enterprises.
• Family enterprise philosophy toward social issues as a human resource management practice.
• Triple Bottom Line of people, planet, and profit.
• Family versus enterprise conflicts related to social wealth creation.
• Family enterprises motives to engage in philanthropy or social entrepreneurial behaviors.
• Strategic decision making for developing and implementing social goals in family enterprises

Submission Process: Manuscripts must be submitted through the Family Business Review web site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fbr) indicating “Special Issue – Social Issues” as the manuscript type.

FBR Submission Guidelines: FBR is open to many different formats and styles of presentation. Manuscripts should not be more than 35 typed double spaced pages, all inclusive, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one inch margins. All documents submitted should be Microsoft Word files. Please remember to use APA guidelines.

Deadline: Manuscripts must be submitted by May 31, 2013. The Special Issue will be published in Sept. 2014.

Papers will undergo double-blind, developmental reviews by a special review board tailored to this Special Issue. Final acceptance of approved papers will be contingent on incorporating reviewers’ feedback to the satisfaction of the editors.

Call for Proposals: SGR Inaugural Review Issue

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Small Group Research
2014 INAUGURAL REVIEW ISSUE
Aaron Brower, Co-Editor
Joann Keyton, Co-Editor
Richard Moreland, Associate Editor
Lindy Greer, Associate Editor

The editorial team of Small Group Research invites authors to submit proposals for the inaugural 2014 Review Issue. Articles for the Review Issue are high-impact scholarly surveys of important group and team research literatures. They summarize recent research, provide integration across disciplines, and highlight important directions for future inquiries. The Review Issue is open to all areas of group and team research, including research methods and group-based learning activities. We are particularly interested in reviews that address critical turning points in the literature in terms of evolving theory and levels of analysis issues or improvements in methodological approaches.

Proposals should be submitted between April 1, 2013 and May 1, 2013 via the Small Group Research online submission portal at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sgr (please be sure to indicate that your submission is a Review Issue Proposal as the submission type).

Please note that we are not accepting manuscripts before April 1, 2013.

Proposals should be double-spaced and include no more than seven pages of text. References, tables, and appendices do not count in this page limit. All proposals will be subject to editorial review. Please do not send complete papers–if you have a draft of your paper, please note that in the proposal.

Submissions will be evaluated with respect to the following criteria:

(a) Relevance. The proposed manuscript should thoroughly review a significant and important research area within the group and team literature.
(b) Integration across disciplines. The proposed manuscript should aim to integrate theory and research across the different disciplines that study groups. If the proposed review is limited to specific disciplines, identify this and explain why these disciplines are selected. Reviews of literature across disciplines are highly valued.
(c) Viability. The proposal should represent an achievable project within the tight time constraints required. More detail on the timeline is provided below.
(d) Organization and Coherence. The proposal should follow a logical structure, read clearly, and thoroughly represent the available research.
(e) Insight for Future Work. The proposal should convey important implications for future theoretical or methodological developments, or applications.

Review Issue Timeline:

1. April 1, 2013 through May 1, 2013 Proposals due to the Small Group Research online submission portal at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sgr. Be sure to indicate that your submission is a Review Issue Proposal in your cover letter.
2. September 15, 2013: Final decision on proposal and initial feedback provided to authors.
3. February 15, 2014: Full draft of paper due to Small Group Research.
4. April 15, 2014: Feedback to authors on full paper.
5. June 15, 2014: Final paper submitted to Small Group Research.
6. December, 2014: Publication of inaugural review issue of Small Group Research

WAM 2013 Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS

WAM 2013 Conference
March 13 – March 16 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Theme: Narrow Streets, Open Minds (Constructive Conversations)

Program Chair: Bambi Douma, University of Montana

Santa Fe, New Mexico is a city rich in history, unique in its preservation of the past while embracing change and modernization. The city has faced many challenges and has responded by creating its own inclusive planning and management system. It is called “The City Different” for, as the official travel website states, “…rarely does a place speak to so many people on so many levels.” Western Academy of Management (WAM) has long been a leader in the management field of doing things differently. From the associated Journal of Management Inquiry, to the conference programs, to the relationships between its members, WAM has become the academic home for many who desire something a little out of the ordinary.

Building on the distinctive cultures of both Santa Fe and WAM, we invite you to take part in a conference based on constructive conversations. We are facing many challenges right now, as individuals, as a field, as universities, as states, as nations, and as a collective world. How do we manage these challenges, whether based on poor decisions or poor situations? What can we learn from others to assist us in our own turnarounds? Why should we engage in healthy discourse?

We invite people with differing perspectives to create space to talk to each other. We want to bring people who are examining the same topics, but from various lenses, together and facilitate a productive discussion via open dialogue about divergent views and questions

What better place?

WAM embraces breakthrough, cutting edge research that seeks to move the field forward. As such, we encourage you to submit research and conceptual papers, symposia, workshops, and panels that address the conference theme or other topics that will stretch your colleagues’ minds. In addition, our Doctoral/Junior Faculty Consortium will again attract notable mentors offering valuable insights and advice, our Fireside chat with Terry Mitchell and Gerry McNamara will invigorate and inspire you, and we’ll introduce new opportunities for sharing research proposals and conceptualizations, teaching insights, and career opportunities.

Submission Deadline: October 8, 2012 (11:59pm PDT)
Submit papers and volunteer to review at www.wamconf.org

Call for Reviews: Journal of Management Education

The Journal of Management Education, a leading voice in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in management, is now seeking review articles. In “Times Change and We With Them,” his first editorial introduction, the journal’s new Editor-in-Chief Jon Billsberry of Deakin University writes:

In many mature fields of scholarly endeavor, authors are able to track down review articles that quickly inform them of the state of the art in the discipline. Systematic reviews, selective reviews, and meta-analyses all serve the purpose of establishing the current “state of play” in a domain. To date, there have been very few scholarly reviews in the management education literature. But given that this is a rapidly maturing field in which many subjects have written about extensively, now is the time to codify these bodies of knowledge. Accordingly, one of our new initiatives is to publish articles that review management education domains. I hope that these will be a feature of the journal and I have appointed an Associate Editor, Michael Cohen, to work exclusively on these types of papers. Some of these we will be commissioning, and they will still be subject to our rigorous double-blind review process, but we would welcome ideas for reviews as well. We are open to various forms of review, but I would recommend discussing any ideas for reviews with Michael first so that you do not duplicate work that we already have in the pipeline and to check that the subject of your review falls under our ambit.

Click here to submit a research paper, an essay, a teaching innovation, or a resource review to the Journal of Management Education, and follow this link to learn more about the journal.

Call for Cases: Family Enterprise Case Competition

1st Annual Family Enterprise
Case Competition (FECC)
Call for Cases
Due Date:  September 30, 2012

Submissions of original family enterprise case studies are now being accepted for The University of Vermont (UVM) Family Enterprise Case Writing Competition.  The purpose of the invitation is to generate unpublished and new family enterprise case studies to be used during the 2013 UVM Family Enterprise Case Competition (FECC) scheduled January 9 – 13, 2013. Follow this link to download details and application.

APPLICANTS

Anyone is welcome to submit a case except individuals involved in the training, coaching and other preparation of students participating in the competition.

REQUIREMENTS

Aimed at both undergraduate and master’s students, the cases and associated material must:

• concentrate on the area of family enterprise with suggested issues such as transgenerational entrepreneurship, succession planning, governance, non-family members as key employees, family crises, next-generation issues, sibling relations, professionalization of a family enterprise,
• be based on either field research or research from secondary sources describing a recent situation in an actual business.  Some details may be altered slightly if necessary to obtain authorization from the organization to release the case for usage in this competition,
• be submitted in electronic format (.docx file) with a limit of 20 pages of narrative text, double spaced (maximum 5,000 words total) and no more than 30 pages when including financials, family trees, organization charts and other appendices (case text not permitted in the appendices), and
• include a brief (maximum 5 pages) teaching note and suggested evaluative rubric explaining the key issues, teaching objectives and evaluative elements.

PRIZES

Each selected case shall be awarded a prize of US $2,000

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES

Submit the following:

• Case & Teaching Note
• Entry Form
• Statement of Originality
• Letter of Authorization

A case will not be eligible unless accompanied by the supporting documentation, which should also be submitted in electronic format.

CONSIDERATIONS

The cases submitted will only be used for the UVM Family Enterprise Case Competition and cannot be submitted elsewhere until after the competition.
To maintain fairness of the competition, case writers will be notified of the status of their submission ONLY AFTER the completion of the competition on January 13, 2013.

JUDGES & SELECTION CRITERIA

The selection committee will be composed of family enterprise owners/ managers, scholars, advisors.  Cases selected for the competition will evidence:

• Family enterprise issue clarity
• Information sufficient to inform recommendations
• Evaluative guidance through the teaching note

Selection committee decisions are final.

For additional information and forms click here or follow this link to download details and application.

Educating Our Future Business Leaders

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Do you have a paper to submit? The Journal of Marketing Education is now accepting research on ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainability and numerous other topics, welcoming cross-functional submissions about educating our future business leaders.

About the Journal

The Journal of Marketing Education (JME) is the leading international scholarly journal devoted to contemporary issues in marketing education. Its mission is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and experiences related to the process of educating students in marketing and its subfields. Its audience is largely composed of marketing faculty members at institutions of higher education where teaching is an integral component of their overall responsibilities.

The main function of the Journal of Marketing Education is to publish articles focusing on the latest teaching/learning strategies and tactics in marketing education. JME also publishes articles that address various professional issues of importance to marketing faculty members. The journal’s readership is international in scope with significant representation in university libraries.

Submit Papers in these Areas

JME is accepting bylined articles from experts and practitioners on a wide range of topics related to marketing education, including:

• Evaluating teaching effectiveness
• Experiential exercises
• Marketing in developing economies
• Ethics
• Student team projects

JME also plans to publish a special issue on ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability in marketing education, with guest editors Victoria Crittenden and Linda Ferrell. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2012. Please visit jmd.sagepub.com to view the special issue call for papers.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Editor, Donald R. Bacon, at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmed. Authors are expected to review and conform with manuscript submission guidelines prior to making a submission. Questions about the submission process should be forwarded to the Editor at dbacon@du.edu. For more information, please visit jmd.sagepub.com and click “Manuscript Submission.”

Organization & Environment Turns a New Leaf

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Organization & Environment invites you to submit articles, essays, reviews and more for a “re-booted” issue on Sustainability and Organizations: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going.

Sustainability opportunities and challenges appear to be increasing in frequency and intensity in this second decade of the 21st Century. Advancing the capability of individual, organizational, and societal efforts to achieve and maintain long-term quality of life values (our short-hand definition of sustainability), such as addressing global climate disruption, ever-increasing population and economic activity, massive extinctions of biodiversity-critical species and toxification of nearly two-thirds of the planet’s ecosystems, and the crushing scourges of poverty, enslavement, and exploitation, all present sustainability scholars (and practitioners) with positive chances for a better world and negative threats of “sustain-ocide”.

As Organization & Environment reorganizes itself to help sustainability researchers better address these environmental and socio-economic opportunities and challenges, the incoming O&E co-editors thought that a thorough assessment of our past and present collective sustainability milieu and suggestions on how we can best address these in our scholarship (and, perhaps, even in our practice) would be an appropriate theme for our first “re-oriented” issue.

To this end, we are encouraging all sustainability management, policy, and related social science researchers to develop and submit articles, essays, reviews, and other intellectual efforts to focus on where we have been (our individual/organizational/societal past and present research efforts to improve on that condition) and we are going and suggested ways forward in the future, both conceptually and practically. Our main intent is to explore the connections between the management of organizations and any of the dimensions of sustainability.

Some of the questions we are asking contributors to consider, whether through our double-blind peer review process or our co-editor invitations include (but are not limited to):

• How have researchers in sustainability helped advance sustainability at one or more levels of human organization?
• What have been the observed or hypothesized impacts of environmental and/or socio-economic sustainability research on those studied phenomena (that is, does it look like our research has made a difference so far)?
• Which sustainability issues have not been adequately addressed by sustainability researchers in the past, why do these gaps exist, and how can these issues be addressed in future sustainability research?
• Which sustainability issue or issues (environmental and/or socio-economic) will become significantly more salient in the decade(s) immediately ahead, and how should sustainability researchers approach these for maximum impact?
• Since most of us have either family members or friends who are in one or more “future generations”, how can and should these personal connections to the future influence our research to help contribute to their welfare long after we move to the next stages of our careers and lives?
• How can we collaborate with colleagues in related sustainability fields to join us in researching salient sustainability issues, providing broader (and perhaps deeper and more effective) perspectives on how sustainability opportunities and challenges can be be approached jointly? Particularly, how can multiple social sciences collaborate /have collaborated with the analysis of sustainability management in organizations?
• How might technology, whether classified as hardware, software, or “warmware”, be used by either us or by others in society (such as practitioners and our other stakeholders) to leverage sustainability opportunities and tackle sustainability challenges with positive sustainability results?
• Whatever your current level and status in sustainability academia, what kind of sustainability legacy would you like to eventually develop that you think would be seen as having a positive sustainability impact?
• How can social and environmental sustainability management phenomena be integrated for “total” or “holistic” sustainability approaches, whether through integrated sustainability indicators, approaches, policies, values, strategies, programs, or results?
• Speaking of integration of sustainability phenomena, how can academic and practitioner sustainability management efforts and achievements be better connected to one another in the future, perhaps learning from the “non-successes” of these efforts in the past?
• What are the antecedents and outcomes of organizational and inter-organizational sustainability capability generation at regional, national, and global levels?
• What academic theories have contributed to practical sustainability results, are new sustainability theories needed if these results have not been sufficient, and how might academics best communicate these theories and their actual or potential impacts to their multiple sustainability-oriented stakeholders for maximum impact toward sustainability solutions?

These and many other related past, present, and future sustainability phenomena are appropriate and welcomed for this “re-booted” O&E journal issue. We encourage sustainability scholars from multiple disciplines to contact either of the co-editors about their “sustainability-in-transition” ideas and to think, feel, and write “outside the box”. In addition, please also feel free to consult with the co-editors to discuss how their potential submissions can help redirect and take the journal to the next level of quality and impact.

For paper submission, authors will be required to set up an online account on the SAGETrack system hosted by ScholarOne. All manuscripts should be submitted via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oe.

Your suggestions for future issues are also welcomed, so please contact either Mark Starik (mark.starik@gmail.com) or Alberto Aragon-Correa (jaragon@ugr.es) to develop new, interesting, and impactful ideas for this and future O&E issues. A new O&E Editorial Board will be forming with the goal of increasing the quality and readership of the journal by becoming both more rigorous and relevant in addressing the sustainability issues of our time.

Let’s make future generations of sustainability scholars proud of our achievements and our efforts to provide the foundations for truly sustainable human organizations, including the individuals within them and the societies of which they are key elements!

To learn more about Organization & Environment, please click here.