Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting),
I hope that you are all keeping well.
Please see below and attached details of a call for papers for a special issue of the
Irish Journal of Management on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on management and organisational related issues. This is being guest edited by Professor Matthias Beck and myself. Submissions across all disciplinary areas of management and organisation
are welcome and encouraged. We are also happy to take informal questions about possible submissions. Please circulate to your contacts and networks.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Best wishes,
Anthony & Matthias
ANTHONY MCDONNELL (PhD,
BBS, MCIPD)
Professor of Human Resource Management & Head, Department of Management & Marketing
Co-Director,
Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC)
Co-Editor-in-Chief,
Human Resource Management Journal
Vice-Chair,
Irish Academy of Management
CORK UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
Department of Management and Marketing,
O’Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Ireland
T +353 (0)21 490 3735
Twitter:
@amcdonnell_hrm
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of the
Irish Journal of Management
The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on management and organisational related issues
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2020
Guest Editors: Professor Anthony McDonnell and Matthias Beck (Cork University Business School, University College Cork)
The
Irish Journal of Management is seeking to publish a special issue of well-written, insightful articles that consider the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on management and organisational related issues in both Irish and international contexts.
In December 2019, a new pneumonic disease began to appear in Wuhan, China. Since then, the Coronavirus (Covid 19) has demonstrated itself to be a highly
infectious disease that has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the world. This ongoing pandemic has seen society, economies and individuals’ lives turned upside down with severe lockdowns implemented across many countries across the
world. We have seen organisations close down (temporarily and permanently) leading to some of the highest unemployment rates every experienced in such a short period of time. We have witnessed a mass move to remote working across all industrial sectors. Manufacturers
have changed their operations in a rapid way to shift production to essential items that include hand sanitisers, face masks and ventilators. Governments across the world have adopted detailed but different plans on how to best manage the pandemic from a health
perspective but also on how to try best support individuals and organisations that have been hit most significantly. People, organisations and society have sacrificed often taken for granted personal liberties for the greater collective good and we have all
had to adopt new ways of communicating, connecting and working together. In sum, Covid-19 arguably represents the most fundamental and unprecedented implications that we have faced in our lifetime.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a dynamic situation and one where the impacts will continue for some time. Given its rapidly unfolding nature, individuals, organisations,
governments are faced with challenges and decisions that are highly complex with exceptional levels of uncertainty and where survival appears to be the most pressing priority. This ongoing situation is likely to lead to substantial reflection and rethinking
on how organisations across public, private and third sectors strategize, organise and manage to navigate through these unprecedented times. Individuals are also faced with pressures perhaps never before experienced and decisions that will shape not only how
they manage and cope through this crisis but how they emerge from it and what the future will mean.
Given this context, the Irish Journal of Management invites submissions that consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on organisational and management
related matters in both the Irish and international context. We would especially be interested in producing a special issue that demonstrates multi-disciplinary perspectives on this unprecedented crisis and what it means for organisation and management.
Papers that consider the crisis and its impact (both negative impacts and positive opportunities) on all aspects of organisation and management are welcome once they fit within the
overall mission of the Irish Journal of Management.
We welcome submissions adopting quantitative and qualitative research approaches, along with more conceptual focused papers and scholarly insights or critiques.
Articles for consideration in this special should normally be between 6,000 and 8,000 words but shorter scholarly insight or provocation typed articles are welcome. Detailed submission guidance
can be found at: https://www.iamireland.ie/journal.html
The Guest Editors would welcome informal enquiries from prospective authors: Prof. Anthony McDonnell ([log in to unmask])
and Prof. Matthias Beck ([log in to unmask])
The submission deadline is 1st November. We encourage submissions at any time up this date for consideration in the special issue. Early submissions
will be considered and processed accordingly on receipt rather than after the deadline. The Irish Journal of Management operates an Ahead of Print policy so any papers that are accepted will be available online before going into the relevant issue.
About the Irish Journal of Management
The Irish Journal of Management (IJM) is an open access double blind review journal, published twice a year by De Gruyter.
IJM articles are indexed by ABI Inform and Business Source Premier.
It is also listed on both the Chartered Association of Business Schools and Australian Business Deans Council journal rankings.
The Journal welcomes contributions from a wide range of management viewpoints including
inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives as well as traditional disciplines and
functions. Papers are welcomed from both traditional management disciplines and from the
new and emerging interdisciplinary areas. The Journal is open to methodological pluralism and welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research submissions.
The Irish Journal of Management, incorporating Irish Business and Administrative Research
(IBAR) has been in existence for over 40 years, having been established in 1978. Editorial board members represent a wide range of management
viewpoints and hail from leading Higher Education Institutes on all five continents. Current editors are Dr Michelle O’ Sullivan and Dr Jonathan Lavelle. Past editors include Prof Teresa Brannick (RIP), Prof David Collings, Prof Bill Roche, Prof Aidan Kelly,
Prof Michael Morley, Prof Edel Conway, Prof James Cunningham, Prof Kathy Monks, Prof Paddy Gunnigle.