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Call for Papers - Inclusive management and ways of knowing - IPMJ Special Issue

  • 1.  Call for Papers - Inclusive management and ways of knowing - IPMJ Special Issue

    Posted 05-14-2007 15:37

    CALL FOR PAPERS
    International Public Management Journal

    Special Issue:  Inclusive management and ways of knowing

    Guest Editors:

    Martha S. Feldman
    University of California, Irvine

    Anne M. Khademian
    Virginia Tech


    How we understand policy issues influences our ability to manage deliberative processes for addressing problems democratically.   There are many different ways of knowing problems. Often, differences are understood as core beliefs, organizational missions or self-interest. These ideas are associated with understanding ways of knowing as integral and fixed.  Such understandings encourage advocacy, compromise and negotiation as ways of managing problem solving. The results of these compromises, however, tend to be short lived because fundamental differences remain. We are interested in developing ways of moving beyond interests as a focus for problem solving and developing sustainable approaches to managing complex problems.  We believe that this requires ways of understanding knowing as a process rather than as outcome and ways of theorizing the processes of knowing that allow us to understand how to engage people in entertaining new and different ways of knowing.  We welcome papers that develop theories of knowing as they relate to the management of democratic practices to engage and address problems.  

    Some possible, but by no means exhaustive, topics or themes on which submissions might focus include:
    • An examination of what "knowing" means.
    • How "ways of knowing" a problem differ from core beliefs, organizational missions, individual self interest, etc.
    • How ways of knowing emerge or evolve.
    • The role objects play in creating ways of knowing.
    • How local, or experiential knowledge can be combined with expert knowledge in developing new ways of knowing.

    Editors for this symposium are Martha Feldman, University of California, Irvine (    feldmanm@uci.edu ) and Anne Khademian, Virginia Tech (akhademi@vt.edu).  The editors welcome inquiries about the call for papers.  All submissions will be reviewed using International Public Management Journal's normal double blind process. Authors interested in having a paper appear in the special issue should submit their manuscripts by September 1, 2007.  Manuscripts are submitted electronically at   http://www.inpuma.net/IPMJ_submission.htm  

    More about IPMJ at:  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10967494.asp

    Apologies for Cross Posting:

    -- Steve Kelman
      Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W.
      Weatherhead Professor of Public Management
      Editor, International Public Management Journal
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      IPMJ Homepage:
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      "The Lectern," my blog on FCW. com
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