Human Relations invites proposals for Special Issues that focus on a specific area of research that has broad appeal and falls within the aims and scopes of the journal. Special Issues provide an excellent opportunity to review a particular topic, examine previously unaddressed aspects, propose and develop new approaches, exchange perspectives and encourage new lines of research.
Special Issues are edited by Guest Editors external to the usual Editorial Team. Calls for papers for Special Issues are published in the journal; all submissions are welcome and are subject to peer review in the usual way.
Guidance for submitting special issue proposals
To enable the Human Relations Editorial Team to evaluate your proposal, please prepare it in line with our Guidance for preparing Special Issue proposals. Selection of Special Issues will be made by the Editor-in-Chief, in consultation with the Associate Editors, based on the elements presented in each submitted proposal. During the evaluation process, the Human Relations Editorial Team may ask experts in the area of the special issue topic to give their opinions on the proposal.
Please email proposals for Special Issues to the Managing Editor, Claire Castle.
Current calls for papers
Changing work, labour and employment relations in China
New – submit by 31 January 2013
Guest Editors: Sarosh Kuruvilla and Eli Friedman (Cornell University, USA)
Forthcoming special issues
The life of a happy worker: Examining short-term fluctuations in employee happiness and well-being
A special issue edited by Despoina Xanthopoulou, Arnold B Bakker and Remus Ilies
Reinventing retirement: New pathways, new arrangements, new meanings
A special issue edited by Mary Dean Lee, Leisa Sargent, Jelena Zikic and Bill Martin
Understanding job quality
A special issue edited by Chris Warhurst, Patricia Findlay and Arne Kalleberg
Organizational justice and behavioural ethics: New perspectives on workplace fairness
A special issue edited by Jonathan Crawshaw, Russell Cropanzano, Chris Bell and Thierry Nadisic
Published special issues
Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling
Volume 65, No 1, January 2012
A special issue edited by Ian Colville, Andrew D Brown and Annie Pye
Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Volume 64, No 4, April 2011
A special issue edited by Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary career studies
Volume 64, No 1, January 2011
A special issue edited by Svetlana N Khapova and Michael B Arthur
Private equity buyouts, work and employment relations
Volume 63, No 9, September 2010
Special themed content edited by Mike Wright and Geoffrey Wood
New approaches to employee voice and participation in organisations
Volume 63, No 3, March 2010
A special issue edited by John W Budd, Paul J Gollan and Adrian Wilkinson
Work-life initiatives and organizational change
Volume 63, No 1, January 2010
A special issue edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Suzan Lewis and Leslie B Hammer
The context of leadership
Volume 62, No 11, November 2009
A special issue edited by Robert C. Liden, John Antonakis and Gail Fairhurst
The social construction of safety
Volume 62, No 9, September 2009
A special issue edited by Nick Turner and Garry C Gray
Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew
Volume 62, No 7, July 2009
A special issue edited by Barbara Townley, Nic Beech, Alan McKinlay and Gail Fairhurst
Constructing identity in organizations
Volume 62, No 3, March 2009
A special issue edited by Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Sierk Ybema, Ida Sabelis, Nick Ellis and Armin Beverungen
Workers, risk and the new economy
Volume 61, No 9, September 2008
A special issue edited by Paul Edwards, Monder Ram and Vicki Smith
Food, work and organisations
Volume 61, No 7, July 2008
A special issue edited by by Rob B Briner and Andrew Sturdy
Governance in transition? Emerging paradigms and practices in the twenty-first century
Volume 61, No 5, May 2008
A special issue edited by Mahmoud Ezzamel and Mike Reed
Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation
Volume 60, No 10, October 2007
A special issue edited 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 practice perspective
Volume 60, No 1, January 2007
A special issue edited by Paula Jarzabkowski, Julia Balogun, and David Seidl
Transnational institution building and the multinational corporation
Volume 59, No 11, November 2006
A special issue edited 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 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
