Category: Publication opportunities

CFP Leadership Communication

SPECIAL ISSUE ON LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION
Special Issue Guest Editors:
Jacqueline Mayfield, Texas A&M International University, A.R. Sanchez Jr. School of Business
Milton Mayfield, Texas A&M International University, A.R. Sanchez Jr. School of Business

The International Journal of Business Communication seeks and encourages the submission of high quality scholarly manuscripts for a special issue on Leadership Communication, scheduled for publication in January, 2017. IJBC is a respected, well established, high impact international journal that disseminates theoretical and practical knowledge from the business communication field. The journal draws contributions from multiple disciplines so as to fully explore all aspects of business communication, and accepts manuscripts from the administrative disciplines, liberal arts, and social sciences.

The general consensus is that leadership communication is vital to organizations. Yet there is much divergence in its conceptualizations – which are further complicated by emergent research streams, due in part to globalization, digitalization, shared leadership, workforce diversity, and demands for greater leadership integrity. Case in point, some scholars employ hierarchical leadership communication models, while others utilize discursive processes wherein leadership is co-created. Equally important, a wide array of methodological strategies have been utilized – embracing a spectrum of quantitative to qualitative approaches – to investigate leadership communication. As for emergent research streams, some of the existing leadership communication research is under scrutiny, not having always incorporated the factors of globalization, demographic diversity, employee empowerment, and information technology into its models.

All of the preceding leadership communication topics need research initiatives and progress. Moreover, the current leadership communication literature reveals a dearth of inquiry which clarifies both leadership communication processes and their rapports with key organizational outcomes, including firm, employee, customer, societal, and other stakeholder welfare.

For all of these reasons, this special issue seeks manuscripts that either reflect these diverse perspectives and/or investigate developing trends in leadership communication. All quality manuscripts that address leadership communication in these contexts are welcomed for submission. Topic categories include but are not limited to:
Team Leadership Communication
Shared Leadership Communication
Strategic Leadership Communication
Leadership Communication Channels
The Context of Leadership Communication
Cross-Cultural Leadership Communication
Non-Traditional Leadership Communication
Leadership Communication and Social Issues
Co-Creation of Leadership Through Discourse
Methodological Issues in Leadership Communication Research

This special issue on leadership communication is being co-edited by Professor Jacqueline Mayfield, PhD, A.R. Sanchez Jr., School of Business, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX and Professor Milton Mayfield, PhD, A.R. Sanchez Jr., School of Business, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. The co-editors will gladly discuss preliminary paper ideas.

All manuscripts will be reviewed following IJBC´s normal double-blind review process. Submissions are open to everyone.

For your submission, please send an initial proposal consisting of approximately a fifteen hundred (1,500) word abstract. This proposal should include your research question, method (quantitative and qualitative), findings, and conclusions. Theory development and simulation proposals will also be considered provided there is a strong fit with the issue´s theme and the work is of especially high quality. Your proposal should be submitted through email no later than January 31, 2016. Contributors will be informed of decisions by March 2016. All accepted proposals must be completed and submitted as full papers by May 15, 2016.

CFP Gendered Violence and Global Documentary

Call for Book Chapters and Book Chapter Proposals
Working Title: Gendered Violence and Global Documentary

Editors Lisa M. Cuklanz, Ph.D., Communication Department, Boston College
Heather McIntosh, Ph.D., Mass Media Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Submission Deadline for Proposals or completed chapters: February 15, 2016

Overview
On December 16, 2012, 23-year-old Jyoti Singh and her male friend Avanindra Pandey boarded a bus home after seeing a movie in South Delhi, India. Several men trapped them on the bus, and after subduing Pandey, they beat and gang-raped Singh. The perpetrators then threw them from the bus. Singh died 12 days later. Protests occurred throughout India after her death, and ultimately, all the perpetrators in the incident were convicted.

Directed by Leslee Udwin, the documentary India’s Daughter attempted to tell the story of Jyoti Singh’s experience. The documentary featured footage of one of the jailed perpetrators, Mukesh Singh, sharing his views: “A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy … A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night … Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes.” Footage of his shocking comments appeared on YouTube before the documentary’s BBC broadcast and went viral. Although the documentary broadcast and YouTube footage were blocked in India, people still showed the documentary in communities throughout India. Ultimately, India’s Daughter drew both praise and criticism within and outside India.

Documentaries about gender-based violence throughout the world perform multiple functions, such as telling stories of people’s experiences, providing witness to traumas, calling attention to cultural and structural issues, and making impacts on policy and practices. India’s Daughter remains one of the most well-known titles and serves as an illustration of some of these important functions. Building on our previous edited collection Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements, Gendered Violence and Global Documentary is an edited collection that will bring together scholarship addressing these issues in diverse contexts.

We seek completed chapters and chapter proposals that address gender-based violence and documentary film and video within global contexts. Gender-based violence includes subjects such as rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, forced sterilization, forced prostitution, human trafficking, genital mutilation, child marriage, child abuse, elder abuse, honor killings, femicide, and gendercide. Documentary refers to non-fiction film, video, and multi-media projects that engage audiences in ways that can include but move beyond entertainment, including awareness and advocacy.

Possible topics include — but are not limited to — the following:
— Representational analyses of gender-based violence within documentaries
— Analyses of productions that engage gender-based violence via transmedia storytelling, cross-platform distribution, crowdsourcing, or other innovations
— Analyses of collectives or programs that support documentary production about gender-based violence
— Analyses of documentaries as part of social or media campaigns raising awareness about gendered violence issues
— Analyses of documentaries’ roles within policies and policy making

Chapters may use any appropriate methodology. Submissions from scholars at all career levels are welcome. Working language for the volume is English.

Submission Guidelines
Chapter submissions must be original works not under review or previously published elsewhere. They should be 6,000-8,000 words, including title, abstract, and references. Along with your submission, please attach a current CV. Use .pdf, .doc, .rtf, or other accessible file format for your attachment. Citation style should be consistent throughout, such as APA, MLA, or Chicago.

While complete chapters are preferred, we also will consider proposals, which should run 1,000 words and include a working bibliography and title. Along with your submission, please attach a current CV.

CFP Chapters on Immigration Rhetoric

Clarke Rountree (University of Alabama in Huntsville) and Jouni Tilli (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) are seeking American and International scholars to contribute to a book project on immigration rhetoric. The book will focus on the rhetoric of immigration (and anti-immigration) surrounding the refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the would-be ISIS Caliphate. We want to authors for chapters that analyze the rhetoric of immigration in Europe and the United States. In particular, we’d like scholars who could write chapters on the United States, Germany, Hungary, France, Great Britain, Turkey, the European Union, and other select countries. A final chapter will offer a comparative analysis that draws upon these individual chapters.

We want each chapter to provide basic background on the political system of the country and its immigration history and policy to frame an analysis of discourse from the government and significant political players on the current immigration crisis. We want to consider how immigrants are constructed (e.g., as victims, as security risks) and what issues are tied to immigration rhetoric, such as economic, cultural, social, political, religious, humanitarian, and security issues.

We hope to recruit authors who can complete 8,000-12,000-word draft essays by the end of summer 2016.

Interested scholars should contact Clarke Rountree.

CFP Feminist Media Histories: Middle Eastern Media

Call for papers
Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
Special Issue on Middle Eastern Media
Guest Editor: Eylem Atakav

We invite proposals for a special issue of Feminist Media Histories devoted to Middle Eastern Media. Considerations of difference in religion, nationality, race and ethnicity remain crucial to interrogating feminist media histories across diverse social and political contexts. This special issue will explore feminist media histories in the Middle East, through an examination of different media forms, practices, audiences, and institutions. We are interested in articles that are historical in scope and that consider a range of media including film, television, radio, video, playable media, and digital technology.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
* women’s media production and pioneers
* feminist activism and/in the media
* women’s use of media
* gender politics, cultural identity and the media
* women as consumers of media

We are also interested in photo essays, oral history interviews, and reprints of notable original documents.

Interested contributors should contact guest editor Eylem Atakav directly, sending a 300-word proposal no later than February 1, 2016
articles will be due June 1, 2016

Feminist Media Histories is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies across a range of periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagement with these media as audiences and users, creators and executives, critics and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators and activists. Feminist Media Histories is published by the University of California Press.

CFP Chinese Media Histories: From the Telegraph to the Internet

Call for Papers
Special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture
Volume 7, Issue 3, Fall 2016:
Chinese Media Histories, from the telegraph to the Internet

Guest Editors:
– Gabriele BALBI, USI-Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
– Changfeng CHEN, Tsinghua University (China)
– Jing WU, Peking University (China)

Media history has largely focused on North American and single European countries’ media and, among them, especially on the history of broadcasting. This special issue aims to enlarge media history under two perspectives. Geographically, it aims to enlarge “classic” borders focusing on China and it would like to reconstruct the development, the role, and the controversies of Chinese media over time. Temporally, starting from the 19th century, this issue adopts a longue durée approach and, besides broadcasting, aims to integrate communication technologies such as printing press, telegraphy, telephony, photography, movie industry, digital media, and other media. This would help to enlarge classic media history into plural media histories and to bring attention to complex interrelationships between media and modernization process in China since the 19th century.

Articles for this special issue ‘Chinese Media Histories’ could, for example, address the following ideas:
– Which are the “constitutive choices” (Star 2004) that built Chinese media systems?
– Which was the impact of Western technologies and polices over the development of Chinese media system?
– How did new media technologies, institutions and practices influence the process of modernization in China’s social, cultural and political life?
– Which is the role of Chinese media history in the international media history? To what extent the history of Chinese media system differs from Western ones?
– How can history help in better understanding the media in China today?

Contributors can come from a wide range of disciplines: media and communication studies, telecommunications, political economy, political sciences, cultural studies, social history, geography of communication, and others. The three editors would like to collect papers broad in theoretical analysis and even informative in empirical case studies, in order to provide to European readership a comprehensive and maybe didactical issue on the development of the media in China in the last two centuries. Papers will be also selected with this scope in mind.

Submissions of no more than 7.000 words in length are to be original, scholarly manuscripts formatted according to Intellect House Style guidelines.

Notes should appear as endnotes and cited works listed in alphabetical, then chronological, order in a separate ‘References’ section at the end of the article. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word .doc/.docx format ONLY and sent as e-mail attachments to the guest editors.
All inquiries should also be addressed to Professor Gabriele BALBI.

Deadlines:
– abstracts of 250 words can be submitted until 15 December 2015
– accepted authors will have to submit the full papers by 15 April 2016
– the issue is scheduled for publication in Autumn 2016.

About the journal
Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture recognises the interdisciplinary nature of the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. We therefore encourage diverse themes, subjects, contexts and approaches: empirical, theoretical and historical. Our objective is to engage readers and contributors from different parts of the world in a critical debate on the myriad interconnections and interactions between communication, culture and society at the outset of the twenty first century.

Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage the development of the widest possible scholarly community, both in terms of geographical location and intellectual scope in the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. We publish leading articles from both established scholars and those at the beginning of their academic careers.

CFP Risk, Crisis, Emergency & Disaster: On Discourse, Materiality & Consequentiality of Communication

Call for submissions:
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, SPECIAL ISSUE:
Risk, Crisis, Emergency, and Disaster: On discourse, materiality, and consequentiality of communication
Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi
University of South Florida

Risk, crisis, emergency, and disaster are phenomena increasingly at the forefront of contemporary life. As communication scholars, we appreciate how these terms underscore and complicate the nexus of the material — as threats to life, habitat, and social system– and the interpretive, as terms that constitute, assess, and in turn convey messages about actionable information in moments of uncertainty. Yet these terms are used somewhat synonymously and index processes of decision and sense making that are often referred to transparently as well as from post facto standpoints.

Research addressing risk and crisis is often dependent on analyses of post facto accounts, when the outcome of the episode is already known. Systematic studies of communication during emergency, crisis, and disasters are relatively few, thus obscuring the “in the moment” negotiations of those making sense of emergent situations, under conditions when timeliness may have life or death implications. Terms like “risk” or “disaster” in risk and crisis communication appear as if transparent, with seemingly agreed upon ontologies of what constitutes these constructs. This appearance is misleading, for risk and disaster are already evaluations, that is, they are post facto accounts, justifications of outcomes, or prescriptions for future planning. They are semantically tied endpoints rather than processes or dynamics and thus implicate the question “What went wrong?”

In this special issue, we focus instead on risk, emergency, crisis, and disaster as emergent, contingent, and shifting in the very communication intended to define, address, and manage them. In so doing, we invite authors to consider the way, in the words of Karl Weick, “small events can have disproportionately large effects” as those who are responsible for responding, managing, negotiating, and communicating under conditions of ambiguity orient to and arrive at definitions of the situation as they attempt to act within it.

Possible topics for manuscripts include:
• studies of spoken and written discourse related to risk assessment, management, and decision making
• analyses of the dynamics of policy making
• negotiation of meaning among experts, stakeholders, and/or decision makers in knowledge production about crises, disasters, risks, and/or emergencies
• discourse analysis of documents, frameworks, and policies related to risk, crisis, emergency, and/or disaster
• organizational sensemaking studies
• case studies of crisis/risk/emergency/disaster discourse or interaction in the moment

Send completed manuscripts (8,000 words max, plus references) to the issue editor Mariaelena Bartesaghi by January 10, 2016. Send queries to the same email address.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines set forth in the APA, 6th Edition.

Call for Papers: Revisiting Classic Communication Theories (Serbia)

Call for papers
CM: Communication and Media Journal
Special Issue: Revisiting classic communication theories/
Submission deadline: November 1, 2015(completed papers)

The wave of Internet research has somewhat marginalized classic theories especially in media and journalism studies. Without denying importance of academic orientation towards novelty, this special issue aims at re-examining the core communication theories that have shaped the academic discourse until Web 2.0. In the light of Moris and Ogan’s (1996) argument, that “new communication technology should lead scholars to rethink, rather than abandon existing definitions and categories”, this special issue calls scholars to revisit and if necessary rethink old theories for the new media era.

The special issue welcomes articles that reassess existing communication theories on empirical or theoretical and conceptual grounds. The papers might reflect on a range of theories, including but not limited to:

· Gate-keeping as particularly rich and longstanding theory in the field of journalism studies. It explains how information gets selected and shaped into media massages, accommodating the vast array of factors which influence that process: cultural, political and economic; organizational routines and practices; the outside factors, like audience, sources and technology; and journalists’ individual characteristics and professional values. Therefore, gate-keeping is a valuable perspective that allows thinking about the aspects of modern newsmaking without being stuck in the contemplation of their alleged novelty.

· Agenda setting *theory started with compelling idea that media have a power to direct audience attention and assign “importance” to certain issues. Since then, five stages of agenda-setting theory have been developed together with a wide research tradition around them. The basic assumption about the transfer of salience from the media agenda to the public agenda, grow into revealing the attribute agenda-setting effects; psychological factors determining ascribed salience; intermedia agenda setting (the influence of the news media on each other); and consequences of agenda setting for attitudes and opinions. The main strength of agenda setting theory lies in its evolution and potential to incorporate or converge with variety of other communication concepts and theories, including cultivation analysis, the spiral of silence, gate-keeping and framing. Therefore, the scholars are invited to estimate weather the theory is strong enough to survive in the harsh communication landscape of today.

· Framing *is rather divergent theoretical stance opened for different interpretations, but many competing perspectives on framing can be synthesised under Robert Entman’s (1993: 52) frequently cited definition: “To frame is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation and/or treatment recommendation for the item described.” The concept became rather popular among communication scholars either due to ambiguity or the universal applicability of the notion. Nevertheless, it sparked much research, proving to be a theoretically fruitful approach for studying cognitive processes and effects. The special issue questions whether the Internet has changed the communication behaviour in framing respect?

Prospective authors should address any preliminary questions by email either to Jelena Kleut or Ana Milojevic,
otherwise full manuscripts should be submitted according to the journal’s Notes for Contributors.

All papers will be subjected to double blind peer review.

Timeline
Deadline for submitting papers: November 1, 2015
Review process: December 30, 2015
Revised papers submission: February 15, 2016
Publication: April 2016

Chinese Management in a Global Context

CMR Call for Submissions
Chinese Management in a Global Context
A Special Issue of China Media Research

This special issue (CMR-2016-04) invites scholars from across disciplines to examine the Chinese management in a global context. The rapid development of the Chinese economy as well as the internationalization of Chinese firms in recent decades has warranted an opportunity for scholars to examine, refine, and develop a set of systematic knowledge regarding Chinese management from indigenous, non-Chinese (e.g., Western), and/or ambi-cultural perspectives. Papers dealing with the test or explication of principles, theories, or methods of Chinese management from different cultural or contextual aspects using qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies are invited. Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. We’ll accept the extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) of the paper at the first stage of the reviewing process. Please email Word attachment of the extended abstract to the guest editors, Dr. Guo-Ming Chen and Dr. Tony Fang, respectively. All submissions must be received by October 1, 2015. The complete manuscript must be received by March 25, 2016 after the extended abstract is accepted. Accepted manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with APA style and should not exceed 8,000 words (including references). Please visit http://www.chinamediaresearch.net for more information about the quarterly journal of China Media Research. For inquiry, please contact Dr. Guo-Ming Chen at gmchen@uri.edu.

Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
The Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

Often referred to as the “pink tide” in mainstream news reports and progressive magazines alike, the recognizable democratic political shift in Latin America is both opened by and opened to the actions of broad-based social movements: landless peasants and radical autoworkers in Brazil, indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, Bolivarian social missions in working class communities across Venezuela, and popular mobilizations for social reform in Uruguay and Paraguay. In each country, the rowdy entrance of labor, peasants, the unemployed, indigenous, women, students, and environmental movements has upset neoliberal plans and national elite control. In Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, radical leaderships instigated constituent assemblies, allowing citizens to revise national constitutions, which in every case, secured extensive democratic, civil, social, political, and economic rights for the popular classes.

These “moments of rupture” in societal political norms and capitalist cultural hegemony unearth the interconnections between media and society that are often obscured during periods of social stability or political repression. The organic links between media and social power are more apparent when the pluralist shell of “it’s just entertainment” is removed. Different internal political and media circumstances constrain and allow different responses to social crises and the possibilities for democratic media Community and public media in Venezuela have arguably progressed the furthest towards participatory access to communication. Other radical and left democratic-leaning governments from Nicaragua and Bolivia to Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay also have reflected and responded to working class interests and indigenous social movements.

To varying degrees, governments across Latin America have created or allowed openings for citizen access to media communication, reflecting disparate social relations of power. In each case, the social relations of power reflected in government policy have resulted in changes in media political economies and public access to communication. Political power has had complex impact on media structures, regulations, and practices, on how diverse media produce messages conveying ideological and cultural proposals for the retrenchment of elite power, the uneasy status quo, or a more democratic world. Across Latin American, democratic media reform depends on the political power of working classes and their allies. Contestations over political power across the continent carry manifestations of public media access opened by working class and indigenous movements for democratic rights and economic and social justice.

This Wiley-Blackwell edited book will feature scholarship, research, and accounts of the diverse and complex processes of media change in Latin America in 10-12 chapters assessing conditions of media structure, media relations, media programming, and public access to the media by diverse social groups.

Proposals for chapters should consist of an abstract outlining theme, topic, method, and expected, preliminary, or collected findings. Abstract proposals should be sent by November 15, 2015 to Lee Artz.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Ibero-America

CALL FOR CHAPTERS – Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance in Ibero-America: Concepts, perspectives, and future trendsChapter proposals due: November 15, 2015
Full chapters due: May 31, 2016

Edited by:
Lina M. Gómez, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico
Lucely Vargas-Preciado, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Austria
David Crowther, De Montfort University, UK

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Group
Book series in Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility

RATIONALE
The practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been growing in attention, importance, significance, and acceptance in the last decades, not only in the corporate world but academia as well.  CSR has been included in multiple debates, comments, theories, studies and research around the world. In spite of this CSR awareness among different sectors, still there is not a shared definition of what CSR should be and include (Ihlen et al., 2011; Crowther & Aras, 2008; Dahlsrud, 2008; Garriga & Melé, 2004). In fact, CSR could mean different things to different people in different scenarios, eras, and regions (Pedersen, 2006). However, CSR is strongly view as a responsible management of economic, social, and environmental resources, that could affect (positively and negatively) the quality of life of different groups of stakeholders, and could also increase or decrease the creation of value for shareholders.  Moreover, thanks to social media and new communication technologies, society, consumers, employees, ONGs, and higher educational institutions are claiming more transparency and responsibility towards corporations.  Today there is more awareness regarding the importance of CSR practices that can benefit society and environment (Du et al., 2010; Schneider, Stieglitz & Lattemann, 2007).

In the last decade, Ibero-America (including Brazil, Portugal, and Spain), has growth in economic terms, and corporate responsible practices have play a key role. A CSR approach in community-based experience has emerged in the last years in this region. This is due to the support of multilateral agencies (Gutiérrez & Jones, 2004) that have served as a link between government, private sector and society (Calderón, 2011).  However, there are still many inequalities in this region. Therefore, this edited book will focus on how CSR and Corporate Governance in Ibero-America have been employed, analyzed, and examined in different sectors and scenarios (companies, NGOs, higher educational institutions, government) from theoretical (theory development), conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches. Submissions that are from an empirical approach must be cross-country studies or studies that analyze multiple projects from different sectors within a country. This is because most research in CSR in Latin America has been focused on studying specific initiatives or experiences in a particular country.

Some questions that can guide contributions and could serve as reflection for contributors on possible topics could include:
-How CSR in Ibero-America can be moved forward?
-What present and future trends in CSR and Corporate Governance are presented in Ibero-America?
-How the complex relationship between business and society in Ibero-America can help to advance the practice of CSR?
-How CSR in Ibero-America can be structured to promote compliance and therefore CSR efforts could be translate in actual results?
-Which are the views and input of different groups of stakeholders regarding CSR efforts in Ibero-America?
-What and how CSR is communicated in Ibero-America?
-What are the practical challenges of CSR practices and efforts in Ibero-America? How these can serve as opportunities for promoting creative and engaging responsible practices?

We accept contributions from academics, researchers, and practitioners from a variety of academic disciplines, such as (but not limited to): business management, finance, communication, economics, political science, psychology, cultural studies, health, law, and sociology.

The editors welcome chapters from theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches. Empirical studies should be based on quantitative and/or qualitative methods, including case of studies and best practices, particularly of cross-country studies.  Literature review papers are also welcome. Contributions must be in English.  We seek papers that address different aspects of CSR, Sustainability, Governance and Performance, among others; which could cover the following topics focused on Ibero-America (but not limited to):
1.      Corporate Social Responsibility (internal and external practices)
2.      Corporate Governance, policy private, and public sector
3.      Environmental issues
4.      Societal issues
5.      Corporate reporting
6.      Corporate  engagement and education
7.      Corporate  Social Responsibility and Governance:  Non-Financial and Financial Performance
8.      Sustainability
9.      Employee development and labor practices
10.      CSR strategy,  society, customers and suppliers
11.      Business ethics, social accounting  and governance
12.     CSR-Sustainability management
13.     CSR communication

Submission process
Authors are invited to submit, on or before November 15, 2015, a proposal (an abstract of 300-600 words) that clearly explains the purpose of the work proposed, methodology, expected results, and implications.  Proposals should be submitted via e-mail in a PDF attachment to Prof. Lina M. Gómez. The first page of the proposal should include the title of the proposed chapter, authors’ names, affiliation, and full contact details.

By December 15, 2015, potential authors will be notified about the status of their proposed chapter and receive further information regarding the submission process, including the formatting guidelines. Full chapters must be submitted via e-mail in an attached Word file to Prof. Lina M. Gómez  on or before May 31, 2016. Final submissions should be approximately 6,000–8,000 words in length, excluding references, figures, tables, and appendices. Chapters submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or under consideration for publication anywhere else.

Questions
Please address questions to Prof. Lina M. Gómez or Prof. Lucely Vargas-Preciado.