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Call for Chapter proposals

Corporate Social Performance: Paradoxes, Pitfalls and Pathways To The Better World

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Editor

The last decade had abundant corporate, national and international ethical and financial scandals and crises. After this epoch of moral catastrophes stakeholders expect that corporations which are considered as the most powerful institutions today and which have enormous impact on our planet's ecosystems and social networks will take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, environmental degradation, defending human rights, corruption, and pandemic diseases.

Although Corporate Social Performance (CSP) has been a prominent concept in management literature and in the business world  in recent years  "it remains a fact that many business leaders still only pay lip service to CSR, or are merely reacting to peer pressure by introducing it into their organizations." (Bevan et al. 2004:4).

This book will invite and set the stage for the debate about the contemporary perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy and the future of the Corporate Social Performance.

I invite proposals for chapters on CSP in the age of irresponsibility (which will presents a positive as well as a negative views, empirical reflections as well as normative thoughts) and proposals for chapters which will try to indicate the effective tools for humanizing of modern corporations.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

·         the fundamental reasons for corporate irresponsibility in and beyond a corporate context;

·         corporate social responsibility in the time of crisis;

·         sustainability in action at individual, corporate, national level;

·         the facts and the myths of social investing;

·         the benefits and costs of corporate social performance/ corporate irresponsibility for organizations;

·         cross-cultural perspective on corporate social performance;

·         corporate social performance and geographical diversification;

·         corporate social performance in developing, post-communism or emerging  markets;

·         corporate social performance at organizational and societal level;

·         the impact of nation-level institutions on corporate social performance;

·         the impact of social media on the development of corporate social performance  and corporate social responsibility;

·         extrinsic and intrinsic drivers of corporate social performance;

·         the light and the dark side of corporate social performance;

·         the whats, whys, and hows of corporate social responsibility;

·         the influence of positive psychology, social pressure on corporate social performance;

·         the role of positive psychology in consumer/employee sensitivity to corporate social performance;

·         the relationship between corporate diversification and corporate social performance;

·         social responsibility practices and evaluation of corporate social performance;

·         the relationship between corporate social performance and  organizational size,  or financial performance, and environmental performance;

·         the interactions of corporate social performance with innovation and industry differentiation;

·         the impact of corporate social performance on a firm's multinationality;

·         the role of governance in corporate social responsibility;

·         the role of organizational visibility on corporate social performance;

·         the impact of CEO pay structure/ CEO characteristics on corporate social performance;

·         the link between board gender diversity/ board reputation and corporate social performance;

·         measuring the impact of strategic philanthropy on a firm's financial performance;

·         the relationship between change in corporate social performance and financial performance;

·         corporate social responsibility and financial performance: correlation or misspecification?

·         corporate social performance, stakeholder orientation, and organizational moral development;

·         current efforts to measure corporate social performance;

·         the evolution and dimensions of corporate social performance.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:

Book chapter proposals received: December 4, 2013

Notification of accepted chapter proposals:  December 20, 2013

Receipt of full book chapters:  April 4, 2014

Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback:  May 4, 2014

Final revisions due:  June 20, 2014

Publisher Information

This book is scheduled to be published by Information Age Publishing (IAP) in its new  Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy Book Series.

Submit a one-page or so chapter proposal.  Also, include for each of the co-authors a brief biography including terminal degree, current institutional affiliation and position, and a listing of any related publications. For each co-author include contact information, so I can readily contact you such as: email address, mobile phone, work phone, home phone, and Skype (if you do not mind me contacting you through these).

Send proposals and inquiries to:

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch  agata.stachowicz@polsl.pl   

Pozdrawiam / Best Regards 

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch Ph.D.,D.Sc.

See my new books:

Academic Ethos Management: Building the Foundation for Integrity in Management Education

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Management Education for Integrity: Ethically Educating Tomorrow's Business Leaders

http://www.amazon.com/Management-Education-Integrity-Ethically-Educating/dp/1780520689/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315749630&sr=8-1

Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimensions into Business Education (HC) (Research in Managerial Education and Development)

http://www.amazon.com/Effectively-Integrating-Dimensions-Managerial-Development/dp/1617355798/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1317559524&sr=8-4

Organizational Immunity to Corruption: Building Theoretical and Research Foundations

http://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Immunity-Corruption-Theoretical-Foundations/dp/1617350508

Profesor w Politechnice Śląskiej / Associate Professor of Management

Politechnika Śląska / The Silesian University of Technology

Kierownik Katedry Podstaw Zarządzania i Marketignu / Chief of Department of Management & Marketing

Wydział Organizacji i Zarządzania / Faculty of Organization and Management

ul. Roosevelta 26, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland

Tel. +48 (32) 2 777 320

Tel.Kom. / Mobile +48 (608) 590 305

Dark Sides of Business and Higher Education Management

Call for chapter

Editors Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and Gianluigi Mangia

Why dark side and higher education

There are several reasons for that. The very first reason has been provided by the know-how (practice) in management, since the last decade has been abundant in numerous examples of corruption scandals in modern organizations and instances of management misconduct that have eroded public faith (such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, Arthur Andersen, Parmalat). It made us realize that there is highly active dark side to organizations that is quite unknown in management studies. However majority of the research and scientific publications on business and education management have been focusing on the positive, even romantic aspects of the organizations, leaders' behavior, the analysis of the positive influence of these behaviours on the members of a given organization and organizations as a whole. In current book and journal publications the "dark side" is pursuit as abnormal, dysfunctional or pathological aspects of business and education while the "dark side" is not exceptional; it is part of the normal community of everyday organizational activities.

The Second, research on the "dark side " is a new, emerging source of research in the area of Business and Higher Education Management.

The Third one can observe a significant gap in the market of scientific publications, both non-serial publications and periodicals in the above-discussed topics. Based on our personal experience, it may be the first book collection on this subject in the world.

The Fourth it is virtually impossible to carry all the works and research on the development of positive, bright sides of business and higher education without a thorough knowledge and understanding of the destructive, dark sides organization that have led and still lead to the collapse of many organizations and a decline in public confidence in the corporations and their leaders.

The examples of possible topics

·    Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud,

·    Plagiarism, cheating ,lying, spin and impression management

·    Harassment, bullying, discrimination, victimization, management by fear, stress.

·    The dark sides of creativity, emotional intelligence and the dark side of learning.

·    Dark sides of modern technologies., project management

·    Ambition, greed, careerism, obsession, revenge ( dark sides of leadership)

·    Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance, sabotage.

·    Abuse of power, aggression, intimidation, extortion, violence, ...

Publisher Information

This book is scheduled to be published by Business Expert Press in PRME book collection

Send proposals and inquiries to both

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch - agata.stachowicz@polsl.pl

Gianluigi Mangia - mangia@unina.it

Publication schedule

Book chapter proposals received: July 15, 2014

Notification of accepted chapter proposals: July 20, 2014

Receipt of full book chapters: November 1, 2014

Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback: February 1, 2015

Final revisions due: March 1, 2015

Submit a one-page or so chapter proposal. Also, include for each of the coauthors a brief biography including terminal degree, current institutional affiliation and position, and a listing of any related publications. For each coauthor include contact information, so we can readily contact you such as: email address, mobile phone, work phone, home phone, and Skype (if you do not mind us contacting you through these).

Send proposals and inquiries to:

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch  agata.stachowicz@polsl.pl <mailto:agata.stachowicz@polsl.pl>   

Best Regards 

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, Professor of Management

See my new books:

Management Education for Integrity: Ethically Educating Tomorrow's Business Leaders

http://www.amazon.com/Management-Education-Integrity-Ethically-Educating/dp/1780520689/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315749630&sr=8-1

Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimensions into Business Education (HC) (Research in Managerial Education and Development)

http://www.amazon.com/Effectively-Integrating-Dimensions-Managerial-Development/dp/1617355798/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1317559524&sr=8-4

Organizational Immunity to Corruption: Building Theoretical and Research Foundations

http://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Immunity-Corruption-Theoretical-Foundations/dp/1617350508

Prof. dr hab./ Professor of Management

Politechnika Śląska / Silesian University of Technology

Kierownik Katedry Podstaw Zarządzania i Marketignu / Chief of Department of Management & Marketing

Wydział Organizacji i Zarządzania / Faculty of Organization and Management

ul. Roosevelta 26, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland

Tel. +48 (32) 2 777 320

Tel.Kom. / Mobile +48 (608) 590 305