Special Issue Of Journal Research Articles

Communication clarity in calls for papers issued by journal special issues: First impressions matter

The purpose of this study was to examine communication clarity in calls for papers issued by peer reviewed journals for special issues. I wanted to explore what could hinder and help guest editors to communicate their intent to potential contributors. I searched peer reviewed journals in the field of human resource management published by five leading publishers, including Emerald, Sage, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Elsevier. Forty‐seven journals were identified, and the sample included 33 calls for papers that I examined using content analysis. The results showed that many guest editors include a problem statement; purpose statement including explicative statements and specifications; and research questions, topics, or themes. Based on this result, I created a composite profile that describes how guest editors typically craft their calls, including the average number of sources, topics, and paragraphs. I also identified eight additional tools guest editors use to increase clarity of their calls. Additionally, my analysis indicated that guest editors vary greatly in their approaches to crafting calls for papers. I identified a number of inconsistencies, inaccuracies, omissions, and redundancies that could confuse or discourage potential contributors. Journal editors could use the results of this study to examine their editorial strategies and practices and revise and improve their guidelines and templates related to special issues and their calls. Special issue guest editors might use the study results to increase the chances of receiving quality submissions.

Disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging economics

Abstract Disruptive innovation has increasingly become a core subject for researchers across disciplines, from economics to engineering and technology. This is understandable as companies all over the world over are facing contemporary challenges such as intense global competition, rising market volatility, constantly changing consumer demand, and shortened product life cycles. Under these conditions, disruptive innovation and disruptive innovation-based entrepreneurship are increasingly becoming a strategic means for achieving sustainable company growth and competitiveness. Yet, limited research exists today on disruptive innovations in or by emerging economies. Therefore, this Special Issue in Journal of Engineering and Technology Management on Disruptive Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economics is devoted to publishing original research that enriches our knowledge about the nature of disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship related with emerging economies, as well as their models, antecedents and economic, social and organizational consequences. The issue also highlights key research areas of disruptive innovation and innovation-based entrepreneurship for future scholarship, inviting more systematic research on the important areas.

Introduction to special issue: separation of powers, the judiciary and the politics of constitutional adjudication

This special issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights arises from a general call for papers that was issued in October 2019. The special issue has come to fruition in circumstances that n...

Introduction to the Symposium on a Way Forward

This article introduces the special issue of the African Journal of International Criminal Justice (October 2020) on the Draft Articles on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity, as adopted on second reading during the 71st (2019) session of the International Law Commission (ILC), and submitted to the United Nations General Assembly with a recommendation for States to either elaborate a convention in the General Assembly or to convoke a diplomatic conference on the basis of the draft articles. The authors provide a useful overview of the ILC topic selection process, explain the historic and contemporary significance of the ILC’s inclusion of the topic crimes against humanity to its current program of work given the current gap in the law of core international crimes and the generally positive response from States in the Sixth Committee. The conclusion summarizes the important contributions by some leading scholars and practitioners drawn from different countries and regions of the world on the ILC draft articles on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

Painting as transcultural dialogue

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Painting does not aim to be broadly international in its explorations of transcultural dialogue within modern and contemporary painting. Instead, we focus mostly on China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, with a notable detour down towards the Philippines. The essays comprise a series of ‘snap-shots’ which together give a sense of the richness of the global dialogue in painting. We also take a couple of trips into the deeper past to visit Qing Dynasty landscape painting in China, and to the more recent past to explore of the impact of Zen on western monochrome painters in the 1950s and 1960s.

Sensing Archaeology in the North: The Use of Non-Destructive Geophysical and Remote Sensing Methods in Archaeology in Scandinavian and North Atlantic Territories

In August 2018, a group of experts working with terrestrial/marine geophysics and remote sensing methods to explore archaeological sites in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden gathered together for the first time at the Workshop ‘Sensing Archaeology in The North’. The goal was to exchange experiences, discuss challenges, and consider future directions for further developing these methods and strategies for their use in archaeology. After the event, this special journal issue was arranged to publish papers that are based on the workshop presentations, but also to incorporate work that is produced by other researchers in the field. This paper closes the special issue and further aims to provide current state-of-the-art for the methods represented by the workshop. Here, we introduce the aspects that inspired the organisation of the meeting, a summary of the 12 presentations and eight paper contributions, as well as a discussion about the main outcomes of the workshop roundtables, including the production of two searchable databases (online resources and equipment). We conclude with the position that the ‘North’, together with its unique cultural heritage and thriving research community, is at the forefront of good practice in the application and development of sensing methods in archaeological research and management. However, further method development is required, so we claim the support of funding bodies to back research efforts based on testing/experimental studies to: explore unknown survey environments and identify optimal survey conditions, as well as to monitor the preservation of archaeological remains, especially those that are at risk. It is demonstrated that remote sensing and geophysics not only have an important role in the safeguarding of archaeological sites from development and within prehistorical-historical research, but the methods can be especially useful in recording and monitoring the increased impact of climate change on sites in the North.

13Postcolonial Theory—New Directions?

Abstract This chapter covers selected research in postcolonial theory published in 2019. It begins with books and edited collections before it focuses on a special journal issue and a book chapter. The work discussed here demonstrates how postcolonialism engages in human geography and in the ongoing refugee and climate crises, and also how it draws attention to the continued need for ethical responses to precarity and subalternity. Concomitantly with this need postcolonial theory points to a reconfiguration of planetarity and a critical stance towards the Western-centric ideas that remain part of the field’s legacy.

Adam Smith, David Hume, liberalism, and esotericism: Introduction

Abstract This is the editors’ introduction to a special issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization on Adam Smith, David Hume, liberalism, and esotericism, consisting altogether of 14 articles. Following the important work of Arthur Melzer, we offer a brief introduction to esotericism, understood broadly to mean discourse that involves both a more obvious meaning (exoteric) and a less obvious meaning (esoteric). We remark on how esotericism on the part of Smith and Hume relates to their liberalism. Topics treated by the eleven articles on Smith include his replacing of Antimachus with Parmenides, the dynamism of liberalism, interest-rate caps, reputation as something covered by commutative justice, his use of Solon, his apparent advancing of a labor theory of value, his favor for the interests of the poor, his presentation of possibilities on schooling, the dialectics of the parable of the poor man's son, three levels of objects to consider a correspondence between beneficialness and propriety, and the responsibility of social elites in their influencing of fashion. Topics treated by the two articles on Hume include moderation and the liberal state in History of England and the intimate alliance between reason and passions.

Enhancing policies and measurements of family business: macro, meso or micro analysis

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to highlight new directions that are needed in family business research particularly in light of the covid-19 pandemic and changing societal conditions.Design/methodology/approachThis editorial is a review of the main issues discussed in the special journal issue regarding family businesses at the macro, meso and micro level. This approach enables a better understanding about the future research and practical implications for family business in the new economy characterised by substantial changes resulting from the covid-19 pandemic.FindingsThe findings suggest that family business studies need to incorporate new industry and societal contexts that have not previously been examined in sufficient detail in family business studies. This includes focusing more on the sport industry that is characterised by many family businesses.Originality/valueThis editorial for the special journal issue is amongst the first to discuss the role of the covid-19 crisis in impacting family business.

Letter from the president.

Letter from the president.

Italian film noir: a special issue of Studies in European Cinema

In 2017, Italian crime films were the focus of two substantial and valuable journal contributions; a special issue of Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies dedicated to Italian horror cinema an...

Special Issue of Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Dedicated to ICEWES 2018 Conference

Special Issue of Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Dedicated to ICEWES 2018 Conference

Do new research issues attract more citations? A comparison between 25 Scopus subject categories

AbstractFinding new ways to help researchers and administrators understand academic fields is an important task for information scientists. Given the importance of interdisciplinary research, it is essential to be aware of disciplinary differences in aspects of scholarship, such as the significance of recent changes in a field. This paper identifies potential changes in 25 subject categories through a term comparison of words in article titles, keywords and abstracts in 1 year compared to the previous 4 years. The scholarly influence of new research issues is indirectly assessed with a citation analysis of articles matching each trending term. While topic‐related words dominate the top terms, style, national focus, and language changes are also evident. Thus, as reflected in Scopus, fields evolve along multiple dimensions. Moreover, while articles exploiting new issues are usually more cited in some fields, such as Organic Chemistry, they are usually less cited in others, including History. The possible causes of new issues being less cited include externally driven temporary factors, such as disease outbreaks, and internally driven temporary decisions, such as a deliberate emphasis on a single topic (e.g., through a journal special issue).

Entrepreneurial ecosystems

AbstractInternational business fundamentally is about creating an ecosystem environment conducive to entrepreneurship. This means fostering actions and behavior that provide a systemic interaction with multiple entities. In this editorial for the special journal issue, the historical background and origins of the entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is discussed with the view to connected different strands of literature. This provides an optimal way to understand the way entrepreneurship develops through an ecosystem logic. The theoretical perspectives for understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems are discussed that lead to a discussion on each of the articles included in the special journal issue. Themes emerging from these articles are then stated that include a focus on value co‐creation, stakeholder collaboration and entrepreneurial networks. This enables a holistic way to understand the linkages international business has with entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Introduction to The Psychologist-Manager Journal Special Issue on Women Psychologists in Management and Leadership.

Introduction to The Psychologist-Manager Journal Special Issue on Women Psychologists in Management and Leadership.

The Examination of the Decline of Philosophy of Education with Institutional Theory: A Focus on the Last Three Decades

Many symposia and special journal issues over the last several decades have been devoted to concerns over the decline of philosophy in teacher education programs. I pursued an answer for my doctoral project and found institutional explanations are rarely invoked in the “decline literature.” I have sketched here the theory, and have shown it to be equally applicable to the last several decades of this literature. I argue that institutional organizational theory (IOT) shows how teacher education institutions have changed over time in a way that ultimately rendered the environment less and less hospitable to philosophy of education curriculum and faculty. Particular attention is paid to the educational context of Ontario, Canada, but I also include the wider American and British decline literature. In the final pages I offer de-institutionalizing solutions that, if realized, could provide a new soil in which philosophy and other humanities fields could take root again in teacher preparation programs.

Preface: Reflections on the waves of emerging learning technologies

There have been many waves of emerging learning technologies over the past few decades. Some of these waves are extended, some waves are connected, and other waves are repeated. The authors discuss the special journal issue from the standpoint of their personal involvement in many such waves during their careers. They also detail the evolution of this special issue and the potential audiences and stakeholders for it. In the end, they pose several questions and points to ponder in looking toward the future.

Cultural, lifestyle, and social entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a contextual activity that is dependent on cultural, social, and lifestyle factors. This means it is important to take a holistic approach that incorporates societal changes when discussing and researching entrepreneurship. The aim of this special journal issue is to build on the existing literature by focusing more on the interlinkages between cultural, lifestyle, and social entrepreneurship. Thereby providing a more explicit focus about the social changes that are occurring based on socio-demographic and lifestyle changes that are affecting entrepreneurs. This provides a novel way to focus on emerging issues within the entrepreneurship literature that have a cultural, social, and lifestyle component, which is especially important with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Introduction to the special issue: “Earth observation supporting sustainability research”

This special issue of the European Journal of Remote Sensing consists of selected papers originally presented at the 38th EARSeL Symposium and the 3rd Joint EARSeL LULC & NASA LCLUC Workshop, that ...