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The Management of Natural Resources is a topic of substantive interest to policy makers, executives, and economists. Though management scholars have gained deep insights into how organizations acquire, deploy, and develop resources with organizational and social outcomes in mind, there is paucity of empirical evidence and conceptual work on natural resources. With the recent editorial in AMJ (George, Schillebeeckx, and Liak, 2015), we aspire to build a scholarly community around this topic.
We invite contributions from a wide range of scholars that are interested in investigating how natural resources are managed and governed, how they are acquired and deployed, organized and changed. Our ambition is to curate an edited volume that captures the state of the art of research into the natural environment as more than simply a context but instead leverages natural resources as integral and rich part of the explanation of strategy, innovation, and organizational behavior more generally.
We specifically welcome contributions that look at:
- Competition in natural resource markets
- Business model innovation following changes in the natural environment
- Organizational responses to natural resource scarcity
- Managing teams in harsh natural conditions
- Changes in individual and work behaviors under natural resource constraints
- How organizations attempt to mold and are molded by the natural environment
- Stakeholder processes and ecological sensemaking
- The link between sustainability and resource scarcity
- Institutional pressures and processes that are contingent on natural resource dynamics
- Resource-based mergers and acquisitions and its geopolitical dimensions
If you are unsure whether your preferred topic would be a suitable fit please contact Simon (slebex@smu.edu.sg) to discuss. We welcome qualitative and quantitative empirical work, theoretical and conceptual contributions, and we also welcome forward-looking contributions in which we encourage scholars to explore organizational and managerial futures under increasing resource constraints and dynamic natural resource conditions.
We invite you to submit an elaborate abstract (maximum 5 pages) to Simon Schillebeeckx by March 15th. Based on a first cut, we intend to invite 15 contributions that will be published. The book will be edited by Gerry George and Simon Schillebeeckx and published by Cambridge University Press with a publication date of 2017.
We look forward to your contributions on this important project.
Best wishes,
Gerry George and Simon Schillebeeckx
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Gerry George
Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Editor, Academy of Management Journal
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