Disaster Management calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Thematic Issue of the European Journal of International Management:  Employer Duty of Care – The Role of HRM in Managing Talent in Dangerous Locations

Guest Editors:

Lisbeth Claus, Willamette University, USA

Yvonne McNulty, Singapore

This thematic issue will focus on duty of care or the obligation of employers to protect the health, safety, security and well-being of employees.

As a result of globalisation, organisations (whether for-profit, non-profit or governmental) have talent deployed all over the world as locals, international assignees or business travellers. This exposes the workforce to greater environmental risks that need to be mitigated and managed.

So far, contributions to the field of ‘employer duty of care’ have come mainly from outside of HR. With this issue, our intention is to integrate the various interdisciplinary contributions on this topic with the broader fields of talent management and global mobility.

Papers in this issue will cover the whole spectrum of duty of care issues as outlined below. We welcome conceptual, empirical (quantitative and qualitative) and case study research.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Employer duty of care from cultural and legal perspectives

Managing employee risk and uncertainty globally (employee safety, security, political and medical risks)

Deploying staff to emerging economies, war zones, disaster areas, and bottom 60 countries

Duty of care in international NGOs and government organisations

Duty of care in contract work and international joint ventures

Evacuation of international assignees and dependents

Challenges of managing duty of care for international business travellers

Employee duty of loyalty and engagement with organisational duty of care initiatives

Moral and ethical duty of care obligations

Sustainability and duty of care

Cost-benefit analysis and ROI of organisational duty of care initiatives

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our information on preparing and submitting articles.

For any queries about this thematic issue, please contact the Guest Editors directly:

Lisbeth Claus: lclaus@willamette.edu

Yvonne McNulty: ymcnulty@expatresearch.com

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 1 October, 2014

Notification to authors: 15 January, 2015

Final versions due: 1 July, 2015

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine: Medical Humanitarianism: Culture, Health, and States of Emergency

Guest Editors:

Sharon Abramowitz, University of South Florida
Mary-Jo Good, Harvard University
Byron Good, Harvard University
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
Catherine Panter-Brick, Yale University

Social Science & Medicine is soliciting papers for an Interdisciplinary Special Issue on Medical humanitarianism, broadly defined as the health care delivery by relief organizations.  Social scientists find themselves increasingly working alongside humanitarians in states of emergency, armed conflict, food crises, and natural disasters.  The goal of this Special Issue is to provide state-of-the-art analyses of medical humanitarianism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  For this issue, we seek to develop a base for comparative analysis and insight, and promote dialogue between social scientists and humanitarian practitioners.

We seek: (i) systematic, comprehensive, or critical reviews of the literature, (ii) original research articles that make a substantive empirical contribution, and (iii) well-articulated critiques that go further than a simple overview or commentary. Papers must make strong empirical and/or theoretical research contributions, speak to an interdisciplinary audience, and have strong policy relevance.

Of interest are the following issues:

The content of medical humanitarian services, and their uniqueness in terms of healthcare delivery.

Insights generated from a comparative perspective on medical humanitarianism.

The characteristics of relations and transactions in medical humanitarian encounters.

How medical humanitarian actors bring culture, social relations, and issues of demography, equity, and justice into quotidian practice.

How personal relations structure the dynamics and shape of medical humanitarianism.

How medical humanitarians negotiate need vs. scarcity, limits vs. access, independence vs. negotiation, and other critical conflicts in humanitarian practice.

Medical humanitarianism’s integration into International Criminal Court proceedings, human rights testimonies, or political witnessing.

Social, political, and historical analyses of the growth of medical humanitarianism, and assessment of risk and resilience in populations facing health crises.

Other issues of funding, policy, translational research, legal protection, clinical care, and public health interventions.

Authors may submit their papers at any time after 30th August 2013 up until 15th October 2013. Please consult our ‘Guide for Authors’ (http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm). All submissions must meet author guidelines, and publication is contingent on a rigorous peer-review process.  Please contact sabramowitz@ufl.edu and Catherine.Panter-Brick@yale.edu for further questions.

Call for Article Submissions: Journal of Healthcare Risk Management

If you've always wanted to publish research, trends and new developments in the field of healthcare risk management, consider submitting a manuscript to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management (JHRM). ASHRM’s quarterly journal focuses on insightful, peer-reviewed content that relates to patient safety, emergency preparedness, insurance, legal, leadership, and other timely healthcare risk management issues. JHRM encourages submissions of complete articles or abstracts.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Futures: Wild Cards

Eric Hobsbawm famously described the 20th century as the “age of extremes”. So far this still young 21th century has shown itself to be unstable and turbid and surely seems to deserve the label of “age of volatility”. Shocks and discontinuities have been felt intensively in a number of fields (military, economic, climate, etc.) in a number of places (US, Europe, North Africa, etc.) in the last few years. A few recent well known examples stand out: September 11th, hurricane Katrina, a big tsunami in Thailand, the collapse, volcanic ash clouds over Europe, BP oil spill, the “Arab Spring”, a large earthquake followed by major nuclear accident in Japan, a massive blackout in India, etc.

The present century is still in its beginnings but has proved markedly unstable. As As Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (2012) point out in That Used to Be Us, “average is over”. It now seems that variance itself varies. Thus, instead of speaking of “the new normal”, as Mohamed El-Erian (2010) did, one should perhaps talk of “the new skewness”. A reflection on issues of dramatic disruptions, biased booms and busts, and violent volatility is timely.

What do we really know about the sources, methods of analysis and outcomes of this sort of radical renewal of human and planetary affairs? Do turning points cluster in time and space or is globalisation leading to a decoupling of their incidence? Are there new sources of instability and turbulence in the contemporary world? Are there new techniques and approaches to predict, interpret and deal with such unpredictable and trend-breaking phenomena? What have we learned regarding mitigation of impacts and strategies for capitalising of new potential for resilience?

Aims

In this Special Issue we focus on “wild card”-type of events, that is, a futures studies approach to disruptive surprises and trend-breaking events. More generally, the goal is to build and deliver new foresight knowledge regarding conceptual and empirical perspectives on anticipating, muddling through and accounting for the consequences of major discontinuities. In summary, what do we know in terms of detecting, preparing for, preventing, protecting against, responding to and profiting/recovering from wild cards? We therefore welcome innovative papers as well as reviews from a variety of perspectives (managerial, sociological, economic, philosophical, and historical as well as technical in inclination and foresight in methodology) on this particular foresight topic, understood in a wide sense.

Subject coverage

Original research providing new and more complete accounts of wild card phenomena should be submitted. Extreme hazards pose challenges in which multiple risks simultaneously occur, so that a diversity of views is welcomed. The notion of “wild cards” should be critically revisited, conceptually questioned, empirically tested, and analytically refined. New contributions to knowledge are sought in the following areas:

•The theoretical underpinnings: a) Critical considerations on the soundness of  epistemological basis of wild cards; b) Reconceptualisations, re-appraisals, and theoretical advancements of the concept of wild cards; c)  questioning “wild cards”, i.e. how to distinguish “wild cards” from non-“wild cards”; d) Defining and distinguishing risk and uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance in face of wild cards;

•Analysis and empirics: a) Assembling evidence that we live through “wild card”-intensive times (is the abnormal really rising?); b) Varieties and categories, intensities and severity, i.e., analytical efforts toward taxonomical efforts on wild cards; c) Wild cards as shift triggers and as correlates of change in abrupt transitions;

•Foresight and anticipation: a) Ex-ante (planning and prevention, imagining and forecasting, sensing and warning) and ex-post (mitigation and absorption, resisting and responding, recovery and reconstruction) wild card strategies; b) On predicting and piercing bubbles; c) What particular early warnings and specific weak signals matter when trying to anticipate wild cards; d) New uses and limitations of structured approaches (Scenario building, Delphi studies, Horizon scanning, Prediction markets, etc.) to wild card recognition;

•The evolution of change: a) From crises to crashes (determining tipping points in the evolution of major changes); b) The incidence of interruptions in the continuities of history;

•Management of wild cards: a) Converging and diverging strategic views on wild cards; b) Disaster education and wild card literacy; c) Rupture in facts and rupture in thought; d) Mainstreaming wild card reduction and strengthening wild card responses; e) The role of wild cards in transitions and the construction of resilient societies;

•Other topics and perspectives: a) Sharp stressors, anxiety and trauma; b) the asymmetric impact of wild cards (vulnerable individuals and groups); c) new methods to detect and defuse wild cards; d) Strategy-making in “wild card”-rich businesses; e) Radical randomness resilient regulation; f) The regulation of radical risk; g) Case studies from the managerial realm and from the public policy area; h) others.

Important dates

CfP issued:  March 2013
Submission: November 30th, 2013
Final Revisions due: February 2014
Final notification:  May 2014
Issue published:  Late 2014

Note: interested authors are advised to submit abstracts well in advance to final submission.  Please submit these to the Guest Editors: mpc@fe.unl.pt and sfm@iscte.pt

Submissions guidelines

Papers should follow the standard guidelines of Futures and they will be selected competitively according to their intrinsic quality and relevance to the special issue. All papers will be subject to a standard refereeing process. See: http://bit.ly/14T9S0W

Future’s website allows for on-line submission. See guidelines to authors on the journal’s website and the list of common formatting errors. Only original submissions will be considered, not submitted in parallel elsewhere. No pre-submission comments will be given by the guest editors but editorial comments will complement the referees’ reviews.

Submission of articles to Futures journal will open on November 1st 2013 and close on November 30th 2013. Upload the paper for review and also enter additional information at: http://ees.elsevier.com/futures/.

Submit Article / Submit New Manuscript / choose Article Type/ SI:wildcards

Enquiries and provisional abstracts should be sent by email to the Guest Editors

Guest Editors

Miguel Pina e Cunha
Nova School of Business and Economics
mpc@fe.unl.pt

Sandro Mendonça
ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute
sfm@iscte.pt

Call for Papers: American Journal of Clinical Medicine

For Fall 2013 – Vol. 10, No. 4 submit by Aug. 1, 2013

The American Journal of Clinical Medicine (AJCM) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Physicians Specialists, Inc. (AAPS) an organization dedicated to promoting the highest intellectual, moral and ethical standards of its members.  Its diversity incorporates physicians that represent a broad spectrum of specialties including anesthesiology, dermatology, diagnostic radiology, disaster medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine/OB, family practice, geriatric medicine, hospital medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology, general surgery and urgent care medicine.

To further the goals of AAPS, which includes providing education for its members and promoting the study research and improvement of its various specialties, the AJCM invites submissions of high-quality review articles, clinical reports, case reports or original research on any topic that has potential to impact the daily practice of medicine.

Publication in the AJCM is one of the criteria to qualify for the prestigious Degree of Fellow within the AAPS Academies of Medicine.

Call for Papers for a Special Symosium of Reason Papers: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

Fall 2014 Symposium: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined? How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency? How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations?

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing annually each fall. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles, symposia, and discussion notes of previously published articles. All manuscripts submitted for consideration as Articles are subject to a blind peer-review process (see Submissions page for instructions), and all contributions are subject to internal editorial review. Not limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, social/political, and legal philosophy, we also run essays on epistemology, aesthetics, art history, and classics.