Special issues

Human Relations publishes special issues devoted to specific topics and edited by Guest Editors external to the usual team. Calls for papers for special issues are published in the journal; all submissions are welcome and all are peer reviewed in the usual way. Suggestions for special issues can be sent to the Managing Editor, Claire Castle.

Forthcoming special issues

NEW: New approaches to employee voice and participation in organisations - Submit by 31 May 2008

NEW: Private equity buyouts, work and employment relations - Submit by 31 July 2008

NEW: Interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary career studies - Submit by 30 November 2008

Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew

Work-life initiatives and organizational change

The context of leadership

The social construction of safety

Workers, risk and the new economy

Constructing identity in organizations

Food, work and organisations

Governance in transition? Emerging paradigms and practices in the twenty-first century

Recent special issues

Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation - Volume 60, No 10, October 2007.
A special issue by Anna Soulsby and Ed Clark

Virtuality and emotion - Volume 60, No 4, April 2007.
Themed papers edited by Stephen Fineman, Sally Maitlis and NIki Panteli

Strategizing: the challenges of a practive perspective - Volume 60, No 1, January 2007.
A special issue by Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun, and David Seidl.

Transnational institution building and the multinational corporation - Volume 59, No 11, November 2006.
A special issue by Mike Geppert , Dirk Matten and Peter Walgenbach.

The Cold War and management - Volume 59, No 5, May 2006.
A special issue edited by Bill Cooke, Albert J Mills and Elizabeth Kelley.

Power and politics in organizations - Volume 59, No 2, February 2006.
A special issue edited by Burkard Sievers, Susan D Long and W Gordon Lawrence.

Political process perspectives on organization and technological change - Volume 58, No 7, July 2005.
A special issue edited by Ian McLoughlin, Richard Badham, David Preece and Christian Koch.

Organizing aesthetics - Volume 55, No 7, July 2002.
A special issue of edited by Antonio Strati and Pierre Guillet de Montoux.

Knowledge management in professional service firms - Volume 54, No 7, July 2001.
A special issue edited by Laura Empson.