2024 CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES
Journal of Organizational Behavior
The Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB) is soliciting proposals from scholars interested in serving as Guest Editors for Special Issues to launch in 2025. Guest Editors' responsibilities include proposing a special issue theme that addresses a topic of current or emerging importance in the field of Organizational Behavior. For accepted proposals, the Guest Editors will then recruit papers addressing the theme, recruit appropriately qualified reviewers (two per paper, including at least one JOB Editorial Board member), and manage the review and revision process. JOB Special Issues typically include between six and ten papers. JOB will assist with administration of the Special Issue, including arranging for submissions via the Journal's Research Exchange submission platform and reviewer recruitment. Guest Editors are expected to maintain due diligence throughout the entire process, to have extensive experience publishing in the field, and to have one or more Guest Editors with editorial experience.
Proposals should include:
· Guest Editors' contact information, including phone, email, and postal addresses.
· Qualifications of Guest Editors, including previous editorial experience.
· A 500 to 1000-word overview of the proposed theme.
· Plans for publicizing the special issue, recruiting submissions, and recruiting qualified reviewers.
· A timeline, beginning with an initial Call for Papers (assume the call will launch sometime between February 1 and November 1 of 2025), and allowing for initial submission, revise and resubmit processing, and concluding with final papers being completed approximately three months prior to the publication date (typically 24-30 months after the submission deadline).
· A draft Call for Papers (up to 1000 words). Please see the JOB website for examples of current calls.
Previous Special Issue topics include "Collective Reactions to Organizational Change," (44:7), and "Stemming the Tide: An Expanded Focus on Employee Turnover" (45:3) among others
Some of the current topics in progress include: "Gig Workers and Side Hustlers: Advancing Organizational Behavior Research for a Modernized Employee Population" and "Challenging the Narrative of Unseemly Female Bodies: Centering Women's Reproductive Health and Work" among others.
The submission window runs from November 15 to November 30, 2024. All proposals should be submitted directly to Editor-in-Chief Dr. Christian Resick cresick@drexel.edu with the JOB editorial office copied JOBedoffice@wiley.com.All proposals will be reviewed after the November 30 deadline. Proposals will be evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Associate Editors. Please direct all questions to Christian at cresick@drexel.edu.
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Christian Resick
Drexel University
Philadelphia PA
(215) 895-1052
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