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James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award: Due October 15, 2009
The Labor and Employment Relations Association announces a call for international and comparative employment issues papers for consideration of a new “best paper” award. The Award has been established in conjunction with the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota to honor retiring professor and long-time member of the LERA, James G. Scoville. The Scoville Best Papers Award, awarded for the best contributed paper on international and comparative employment issues will offer an annual cash prize of $500 and a plaque. The first award will be made in January 2010 at the 62nd LERA Annual Meeting; Professor James G. Scoville will present the first award.
Each year, the award will be made to the international and comparative employment issues paper designated by LERA paper referees as the “most outstanding.” Papers that address research and evaluation of international institutions and processes within employment relations and/or provide comparative analysis of employment relations systems and types will be considered. Individual country studies that address employment relations issues of international significance will also be considered.
Entries may be directly submitted by authors or nominated by outside parties. They may include papers written by faculty, students, researchers, and research/practitioners who are LERA members. Eligible papers include those published in the public domain during the calendar year prior to the LERA Annual Meeting and those papers submitted and to be presented at the Annual Meeting, including international or comparative IR/HR papers already accepted into the annual meeting program. Papers may only be submitted once.
Guidelines for papers are as follows: paper length should be approximately 25 double-spaced pages in a 12-point font (the page limit is inclusive of references, endnotes and tables, etc.) though longer papers will be considered. Authors must submit a cover letter or sheet with full contact information and all nominations or submissions must include an electronic copy of the paper or link to a free website version. They may be sent via email to LERA office on or before the October 15, 2009 extended deadline. Acceptance decisions and notifications for the 2010 LERA meeting will be made by the fall of 2009.
If the winning paper is not published, per an agreement with scholarly journals in the field, LERA will offer the author of the winning paper an option of submitting the papers for fast-track pre-review for scholarly journals, though publication in those journals is at the discretion of their editorial boards. Winning papers are invited to publish in the LERA Online Proceedings.
The Award and $500 cash prize will be presented annually at the LERA Annual Meeting, during the General Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
Call for Proposals for 2011 LERA Research Volumes—Due November 1, 2009
The LERA Editorial Committee would like to encourage members to submit research volume proposals for the 2011 research volume by November 1, 2009. Proposals related to employment relations are welcome. A submission normally consists of an explanation of the overall rationale of the volume, and an outline of 10–11 chapters. A paragraph or two should describe the contents of each chapter and the proposed author(s) of the chapter. The Editorial Committee will review proposals and may present a recommendation to the Executive Board as early as January 2010. Visit www.lera.uiuc.edu under “Publications/Research Volume” for full information.
UCIRHRP Competitive Student Papers – Deadline Extended to Nov 1, 2009
The University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Programs, UCIRHRP, is sponsoring a student paper competition at the 62nd LERA Annual Meeting. This special call is to solicit PhD and graduate student papers reflecting the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching emergent phenomena in the field. Examples include, but are by no means restricted to: new forms of labor market institutions; new developments in employment relations, diversity in organizations as well as social movements; and new developments in international/transnational actors and organizations.
Deans, Directors and Chairs of University IR/HR programs will serve as referees for the entries and the top papers will be selected to be presented in a symposium following the LERA PhD Student Consortium on January 2, 2010 at the LERA 62nd Annual Meeting. A $300 cash prize will be awarded to the top paper; the award is meant to help defray the student’s conference expenses.
Submissions for this special call must be made via e-mail to the LERAoffice@illinois.edu. Only completed papers, not abstracts or letters of intent, may be considered. All paper submissions must comply with the following submission criteria:
• To be considered for this competition, the author or authors must all be students.
• Full contact information must be submitted for all the authors of each paper, including current mailing addresses and email addresses.
• Papers must reflect original work or major developments on previously reported work. Papers are not eligible if they have been presented at LERA or other professional meetings or have or will be published prior to the meeting.
• Papers are limited to 25 double-spaced pages doubled spaced and in a 12-pt font (converted to a PDF file), including footnotes, tables and bibliographies.
• Papers must include a title, abstract (up to 200 words) and preferred keyword.
LERA Refereed Paper Competition Entries — Deadline April 1, 2010
The LERA Editorial Committee has issued a call for individual papers for the 2010 Annual Refereed Papers Competition. Papers up to 25 pages in length are invited to be submitted to the competitive review process. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present at the LERA 63rd Annual Meeting in Denver, CO on January 6-9, 2011 and to be published in the LERA 2011 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. Authors may request that their papers be considered for an expedited review at cooperating scholarly journals. (See below.) To qualify, papers must not have been previously presented at conferences, published, or be committed to forthcoming publication.
Several sessions will be organized around the following broad topic areas of the LERA sections: international and comparative industrial relations; industry studies/work and occupations; labor economics and labor markets; law, regulations, and dispute resolution; unions and labor studies, and labor- management relations. Entrants are requested to specify which of these broad topic areas their paper would be categorized. Individual refereed papers are selected on the basis of blind review. Guidelines for the LERA Refereed Papers Competition are as follows: paper length should not exceed 25 typed, double-spaced pages in a 12-point font (the page limit includes endnotes, references, tables, and figures-a full-page table is considered one full page of text).
Per an agreement with scholarly journals in the field, LERA also offers the authors of selected papers an option of submitting their papers for fast-track pre-review for scholarly journals, though publication in those journals is at the discretion of their editorial boards. In brief, the LERA Editor will consider recommending selected papers to journal editors, and the LERA Editor’s recommendation will be considered as a positive referee report. Of course, no single positive referee report mandates acceptance for publication by the participating journals. These journals include: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, the Journal of Labor Research, and the Labor Studies Journal. Entrants are requested to specify which of the journals they would be interested in if they are interested in fast-track in this option. Authors of papers selected for refereed session presentation that do not wish to have their papers considered for publication in participating journals may have their papers published in the LERA Proceedings.
Authors wishing to participate in the refereed papers competition need to submit a cover letter or sheet with 1) full contact information 2) the broad topic area their paper best fits, 3) their preference of publications their paper might best fit, i.e. the LERA Proceedings or a scholarly journal, and 4) an electronic copy of their paper via email. Send to LERAofice@illinois.edu in Champaign, Illinois on or before the April 1, 2010 deadline. Acceptance decisions and notifications for the 2010 LERA meeting will be made by the early summer of 2010.
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