CFP: Special Issue of Public Management Review, ‘The Public Management of Sport’

Call for papers:
Special Issue of Public Management Review,
‘The Public Management of Sport’

Guest Editor: Dr. Margaret Groeneveld (margaret.groeneveld@unibocconi.it)

Instructions for Authors
This special issue of the Public Management Review offers an opportunity to explore the multifaceted relationships between sport and government. It seeks to explore the broad spectrum of public management and governance of sport in the 21st century By its nature, sport scholarship frequently crosses disciplinary boundaries; this special issue is an opportunity to widen the frame for both public management and sport scholars and to initiate and increase awareness of synergies and complementary approaches from an international perspective.

Public Management Review is uniquely placed to offer a leading light on the rapidly developing interest in sport within the public management framework across the world. In general, the journal is focused on material which is:

International – drawing together and learning lessons from the development of public management across the world rather than being narrowly focused upon one area, and encouraging cross-national and comparative research papers
Multi-disciplinary – concerning work on public management in a range of disciplines
Inter-disciplinary – reflecting that much of the most important work about public management is coming at the cusp of traditional disciplines; the journal promotes such cross-boundary learning and conceptualization

The core issues commonly covered in the journal include:
social/public policy making and implementation in the plural state
inter-sectoral (government - non-profit - for profit) roles and relationships
the evaluation and critique of the New Public Management paradigm
governance, institutions and processes
globalization and convergence in public management
state reform and structural adjustment
the operational and strategic management of public services organizations, including such issues as contracting, marketing and strategic management
public management and civil society
management of non-profit and non-governmental organizations
public - private partnerships

For this special issue, papers are invited which highlight the position of sport and sport policy within these categories of public management scholarship. In general, papers should address a research and academic audience and should seek to promote and develop our understanding of sport within public management in an international perspective.

Two types of papers are welcome for consideration in the special issue:
1) Articles. These are substantive papers contributing to the deepening of theory about sport and public management and/or our empirical knowledge of this specific area. Papers should be between 5,000 - 8,000 words in length. These should be written as clearly and as concisely as possible, avoiding unnecessary jargon. They must be preceded by an abstract of not more than 100 words and between two and five key words suitable for indexing and on-line search purposes. Tables and figures should be presented on separate pages with their desired position in the text indicated in the margin of the manuscript. Permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the authors before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the typescript or captions as appropriate.

2) Developments. These are shorter papers contributing to the development of knowledge about sport and public management. These will usually be of around 2,000 - 3,500 words in length. They will take one of three approaches

review papers that develop a conceptual framework or review existing approaches, for use in research about public management, working primarily from significant publications about sport and public management and/or public policy from around the world, or review a cluster of publications on one aspect of sport and public management, methodological papers that report methodological approaches to research about sport and public management research-in-progress papers that report interesting and emerging finding from on-going research about public managers engaged with sport.


Notes for Contributors
Manuscripts should reach the Guest Editor before October 31st, 2008.

Authors should submit two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author(s) should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. The title only should appear on the first page of both versions of the manuscript. Authors are requested to supply separately a short biographical note for inclusion in the journal.

Submission of a paper implies that it presents original unpublished work, not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be in English, with double spacing and wide margins (including notes and references).

Details of the specific formatting requirements are available from the Guest Editor, or via http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rpxmauth.asp