Please consider submitting your work to the upcoming AMP Special Issue
Academy of Management Perspectives - Call for Papers for the Special Issue
Grand Challenges and the Rhetoric of Collective Action
Submission Dates: February 15, 2023–March 15, 2023
Guest Editors:
Kees Boersma, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, f.k.boersma@vu.nl
Issy Drori, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, i.drori@vu.nl
Yiannis Kyratsis, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, y.kyratsis@vu.nl
Kerstin Neumann, University of Innsbruck, kerstin.neumann@uibk.ac.at
Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, ESSEC Business School, santacreuvasut@essec.edu
Eero Vara, University of Oxford, eero.vaara@sbs.ox.ac.uk
AMP Associate Editor:
Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria & Washington State University, rsuddaby@uvic.ca, roy.suddaby@wsu.edu
Background
This SI seeks to explore the role of rhetoric in shaping collective action for complex social, political and environmental problems, also known as "grand challenges." We see an opportunity to connect and integrate the currently disparate streams of research on collective action and rhetoric, as combining these theoretical traditions offers new perspectives on research on adaptive responses to grand challenges. We call for research that investigates how the current rhetoric addresses grand challenges in terms of tackling contesting public agenda and action. We encourage submissions that are theoretically rich and policy relevant, deploying different levels of analysis (e.g., individual, organizational, system), conceptualizing the issue as a multi-level process and providing ideas for innovative management and policy practices for grand challenges. We welcome conceptual and qualitative (e.g., narratives, content analysis, multiple cases, experiments) papers, but note that AMP is not a theory-testing journal. Prospective authors are reminded that the brief of AMP is to carry consolidations and extensions of scholarly debates with a theoretical and policy relevance.
The full call including all relevant information is published at: https://aom.org/events/event-detail/2022/07/26/higher-logic-calendar/amp-call-for-papers-for-special-issue-grand-challenges
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Roy Suddaby
University of Victoria & Washington State University
Victoria BC
(250) 721-6401
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