International Public Management Journal
Call For Papers - Deadline Extended to October 15, 2007
Special Issue: Inclusive management and ways of knowing
Guest Editors:
Martha S. Feldman
University of California, Irvine
Anne M. Khademian
Virginia Tech
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 special issue 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 the journal’s normal double blind
process. Authors interested in having a paper appear in the special issue
should submit their manuscripts by October 15, 2007. Manuscripts should be
submitted electronically at:
https://editorialexpress.com/ipmj
-- Steve Kelman
Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W.
Weatherhead Professor of Public Management
Editor, International Public Management Journal
Tel: 617-496-6302
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/fs/skelman
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