Special Issue: "Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Change
Special issue call for papers from Journal of Organizational Change Management
Call for Papers
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION I N ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Guest editors: Luis Onieva, Betina Szkudlarek, Joaquin Alegre
During the forthcoming 1st Conference on “Creativity and Innovation in International Context” (Valencia, Spain, June 1-4, 2010), the editor-in-chief of Journal of Organizational Change Management (JOCM), Slawomir Magala, will speak on the emergent creative patterns of innovative tampering with complexity in organizational settings. His introduction, “Pattern Recognition and Self-Reflection in Organizing Complex Networks” will also open special issue of JOCM devoted to this topic.
The topic has been introduced into the mainstream discussions in social sciences by the Santa Fe School, primarily by Stuart Kauffman, whose “Origins of Order”, “At Home in the Universe” and “Investigations” have been devoted to the phenomenon of self-organization. The self-organizing subsystems at every level of existing material processes are – according to him – the hidden partners of natural selection in masterminding, blueprinting, testing, managing and executing evolutionary transformations as if a hidden, tacit, intelligent designer was working behind the stage of Darwinian ebbs and flows. The field of organizational theory (of design, development and change of organizational forms) is slowly turning into an information space, an aquarium-like, three-dimensional space, in which schools of organizations drift (not very randomly) into the methodological nets of empirical researchers. Following Max Boisot’s instructions from “Knowledge Assets”, we should wonder if varieties of capitalism, diversities of markets and distinct trajectories of organizational histories allow us to predict the influence of – say – the death of Napster upon the level of innovation in cultural industries within multimedia contexts. Or the future of Chindian domination in global factory and office work. Or…
Papers for the special issue will be selected from among the proposals submitted by prospective authors to inbam@adeit.uv.es (please write in the concept “Track 4 Creativity and innovation in organizational change”) before January 31, 2010. Questions about the special issue should be directed to one of the guest editor Professor Joaquin Alegre, at Joaquin.alegre@uv.es
If the proposal is accepted (the authors will be notified on or before February 15 2010), we expect the full version of the paper – same Conference address – no later than on March 15, 2010. Paper will then be subjected to a double blind peer review and if accepted with a “revise and resubmit” note, they have to be revised and resubmitted before April 30, 2010. Papers should be presented in the Conference in Valencia. If reviewers are satisfied with changes, the papers will be published in a special issue of JOCM in the first half of 2011).