Amos and I were asked by Edward Elgar to edit a second volume of the
that was first published in 2006. We happily agreed.
The success of the previous volume allowed a wider platform for the current one -- around 300,000 words altogether, so there is plenty of potential room for new contributions.and from a variety of perspectives.
A detailed call for paper with scope declaration and statement of intentions is attached and also copied below.
Please feel free to distribute among your colleagues and past students who may have new studies to share.
Call for papers
Invitation to submit abstracts
Handbook of Organizational Politics (2Ed.):
Looking Back and to the Future
Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Amos Drory (Eds.)
Edward-Elgar Publishing House
Overview
The new volume of the Handbook of Organizational Politics (2Ed): Looking Back and to the Future offers an updated perspective on the fascinating phenomena of power, influence and politics in today's workplace.
It is well recognized today that this phenomenon is a significant key to the understanding of organizational functioning, outcomes and performances. Yet, the study of politics in organizations is extremely challenging as both employees, middle-managers, or top level executives are inclined to openly discuss and uncover the political dynamics that facilitate the promotion of ideas, decisions which enable organizational change and development.
Many new thoughts, conceptual models and empirical findings were published in recent years related with organizational politics (e.g., political skills, politics and emotions, team politics etc.). This book represents an ambitious attempt to present and discuss the recent developments as reflected in the list below. Similarly to the first volume, the book is intended as a comprehensive collection of original or re-worked studies and aims to depict the state of the art in understanding of workplace politics based on theoretical ideas and empirical findings from around the world.
Relevant topics that may be included are suggested below. Suggestions related to additional topics not mentioned specifically here are also welcomed and should be discussed with the editors;
Rethinking the definitions of organizational politics, it nature and forms;
Multilevel OP: Inter-personal work politics; Inter-departmental work politics; Inter-organizational work politics;
Cross-sector studies: OP in private and public sector worksites;
Politics in international organizations;
Personality and organizational politics;
Gender and organizational politics;
Development and measurements of political skills;
The process of influence and the emergence of OP;
The use of OP and political skills in critical decision-making processes;
Coalitions and politics in organizations;
Ingratiation and impression management;
Work and non-work politics; are they related?
Interdisciplinary insights: What can be learned from political science and other discipline in the field of organizational politics;
Technology, information revolution and OP;
OP and intelligence/ emotional intelligence;
Emotions. Intelligence , and OP;
Social aspects of the political organization;
Dark and Bright: Negative and positive implications of OP;
Exploring new antecedents of OP;
OP and performance: New perspective on a core question;
Cross-cultural meanings of OP
The ethical sphere: OP, fairness, and justice;
OP and state level political behavior;
OP, stress, strain, and burnout;
OP and Organizational Citizenship Behavior;
Politics and leadership in organizations;
OP in state offices and in public administration.
OP, innovation and creativity;
New methodological perspectives;
The practice of OPs; what can be learned from specific case studies and from the practitioners' point of view?
Instructions for Contributors and Contacts
Abstracts should be received by October 1st, 2014.
Full chapters are expected by April 1st, 2015.
Publication is expected during the second half of 2015.
All submissions should be made electronically (use e-mail attachment files in MS Word format).
Acceptance is subject to a thorough review process by an ad-hoc editorial board. Selection of chapters is competitive based on merit of quality and innovativeness.
Some of the papers will also be considered for publication in a special issue of a leading management or OB scholarly journal.
Prof. Eran Vigoda-Gadot,
School of Political Science
The University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905 ISRAEL
Phone: 972-(0)4-8240709, Fax: 972-(0)4-8257785
Email: eranv@poli.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Amos Drory
School of Management
Ben Gurion University,
Beer Sheva, ISRAEL
Phone: 972-(0)8-6472781, Fax: 972-(0)8-6472866
Email: adrory@bgu.ac.il
Handbook of Organizational Politics (2Ed.):
Looking Back and to the Future
Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Amos Drory (Eds.)
Edward Elgar Publishing House
Synopsis
Organizational politics has been a field of intensive and fruitful academic writing and research for more than four decades. According to the Web of Science (May 2014) until today, nearly 2000 articles have been published in scientific journals of the social sciences (and related fields), covering a wide variety of issues related to the dynamics of power and influence in the workplace. Politics in organizations today is not a hidden arena as it once used to be, and considerable advances have been made theoretically, empirically and methodologically.
In 2006 we edited a volume of theoretical and empirical studies on Organizational Politics. The book became an essential reading for many who seek greater familiarity and knowledge about the ongoing developments in this field, either scientifically and practically.
After almost a decade of further exploration, research and theoretical advances in this arena we believe that the time has come to revisit and update our previous book and at the same time attempt to look at the potential future development of academic thinking and empirical research in this field.
The new volume, "Handbook of Organizational Politics: Looking Back and to the Future" intends to revisit the theory on politics in the workplace and examine the progress that has been made over the years. We will both ask for reevaluation of the chapters that were included in the first volume and also present fresh and new contributions suggesting innovative and emerging frontiers in the study of Organizational Politics. By looking back and to the future we hope to add new dimensions to the understanding of power, influence and politics in the workplace.
Similarly to the first volume we will attempt to offer a comprehensive view of a field that for many years seemed interesting but almost impossible to study. We will approach the leading scholars who have made significant contributions to this stimulating and intriguing field in recent decades and ask them to join this journey. The essays will be systematically reviewed and judged based on their quality, merit, added value and clarity in an attempt to provide the reader with an integrative updated look at workplace politics from various perspectives.