Esteemed colleagues, Greetings from sunny California!
I trust you are doing fine.
Via this thread, I would like to cordially invite you to contribute a chapter to the forthcoming Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Change, planned for June 2026 print publication.
Designed to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the fields of leadership and change, this multi-volume, multi-author work will span into several volumes and will involve multiple thematic sections and dual length entries as follows: short articles may range from 1,000 to 3,000 words; and longer ('keystone") articles may range from 5,000 to 10,000 words.
Key Features
- Four to Five volumes (initially) 1 to 1.5 million words
- 500+ essential entries, ranging in length from 1,000-10,000 words
- 50 Anchor Authors
- 25 Section Editors
- Contributors from six-continents
Entries/articles length:
1,000 to 2,000 words for shorter definitions
2,500 – 5,000 for general, mid-length entries (the most popular)
Up to 10,000 for central topics (Benchmark, keystone Articles/entries)
Entries are organized in one continuous A-Z format.
No index, no table of contents.
Additionally, encyclopedias typically comprise:
• Tertiary literature - digested and accepted knowledge in an easily accessible self-contained format. Encyclopedias provide a comprehensive overview of the field. Chapters are written especially for the encyclopedia and are NEW (i.e., an encyclopedia shouldn't contain previously published material).
• Not introductory – chapters should assume a certain level of knowledge of a particular subject area. Aimed at post-graduate level and upwards although undergraduates may find a useful reference tool.
Typically, entries/articles are scholarly, written precisely and the writer has an expertise in the subject-area by virtue of doctoral level education or extensive proven track experience and/or a combination of both. Some colleagues have asked 'how would I know that someone else has also written about the subject?' There is no way to tell in advance about the duplication of entries. It is a very large-scale project; some of the anomalies will be ironed out, and adjusted accordingly, as the entries get reviewed.
At this stage:
We need the following information to send out official invitations via the Meteor platform.
I am also attaching the excel sheet for inserting the following information for your convenience:
Section title (pl. see the attached schema for various sections)
Chapter title (ideally, for search optimization, title should be 2 to 3 words only)
Chapter type (pl. specify "Long entry" or "Short entry")
Author name
Email address
Organization/affiliation
First draft deadline
Once I receive this information from you and provide this information to the project manager, Palgrave Macmillan will then send out the official invitations to you to submit your entries at the 'state-of-the-art' "Meteor" web portal especially created for this project.
In the attachments, you will find:
a. Detailed Schema for the encyclopedia, developed by yours truly
b. General Guidelines about entries submitted to encyclopedia
c. Some examples of "long" and "short" entries
d. Excel sheet about the details of your proposed chapter/entry submission
Kindly please send this excel sheet (item 'd' above) to me by August 20, 2024, or earlier so that official invites can be sent to you at the earliest. Please mention in the subject line "Encyclopedia."
At this stage, we only need the 'meta-data' type information about your contribution via excel sheet (pl see bullet 'd' above). The first drafts of the completed chapters are not due until June 2025. Please note that if your chapter/entry is submitted earlier to June 2025 and is reviewed and completed, it will be published right away online.
The print version is targeted for June 2026 to be ready for the 2026 AOM conference in August 2026!
This email is being sent to a large cadre of colleagues; apologies for cross-posting.
In India, such works are considered a yajña (an offering to the Divine), involving the labor of love of many for the good of many.
Thank you for your noble gift of caring so very sincerely about what really matters the most-developing future thought-leaders, good-finders, and positive change-catalysts.
With folded hands and a deep bow,
satinder
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Satinder Dhiman, PhD, EdD, MBA, MCOM
Associate Dean, Director and Chair of MBA
Professor of Management
Woodbury University
Burbank, California (USA)
+1 (818) 625 7288
[
satinder.dhiman@woodbury.edu]
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