Special Issue "Enhancing Decisions"
Special issue call for papers from Management Decision
Call for Papers and Reviewers
Background Information:
The focus of the issue would be on ways to help people with managerial responsibilities at work and in private lives, enhance their decision-making skills and, of course, their success. Selection of papers for the issue would be based on their likely interest to individuals who want to improve their own skills, to faculty member in various disciplines, and even more so to readers who have management development responsibilities.
Emerald GroupPublishing is the world's leading publisher of management papers. Its focus on theory-into-practice means that Emerald journals publish papers with direct application to the world of work.
Specific areas for papers can be drawn from the list below, but would not be limited by it.
- impact of decision quality on career and life successes
- techniques and tools for learning and for training in management decision-making skills, including audio-visual aids and interactive approaches including simulations
- the role of the internet to assist in identifying and using such techniques and tools - and related research
- criteria for selecting alternative solutions in decisions
- criteria for evaluating alternatives and the respective benefits and shortcomings
- differences in approaching problems-solving and opportunity-exploiting decisions
- importance of, and techniques for, seeking and finding useful opportunities in managerial roles and in private life
- reports on research in advances of technological decision-making tools
- reports on research into effectiveness of decision-making procedures
- descriptions of technological advances for decision-making and for training in decision-making, and reports on effectiveness
- recognizing the influence of personal subjective considerations in decision-making
Details:
Papers can address research or viewpoints. They can be technical or conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews, or general reviews.
All papers will be double-blind reviewed, after a preliminary screening by the guest editor.
As a guide, papers should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. A title of not more than twelve words should be provided. Specific instructions for registering and for submitting papers are at the end of this call. Deadline is August 1, 2010.
Submission Guidelines:
Please send a copy to the guest editor, Erwin Rausch at didacticra@aol.com. Extensions of the deadline can be requested from him, if needed. Papers must also be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscript Central System at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md
Please see www.emeraldinsight.com/md.htm and follow the link to 'Author Guidelines' for more information.