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Call for Papers
Five Opportunities to Present and Publish in San Francisco 2009
1. Call for 2008 LERA Poster Session Abstracts – Due May, 1, 2008
The 2009 Annual Meeting will feature the Annual LERA Poster Session. This session attracts a wide audience and encourages feedback on work in progress or recently completed. Abstracts on topics of interest to the membership are posted and may be distributed but are not orally presented. Authors are present to discuss. Members interested in participating in the 2009 LERA Poster Session should submit three (3) copies of a completed paper or a two-page abstract no later than May 1, 2008, to the Poster Session Chair Robert Hoell at Georgia Southern University.
2. UCIRHRP Sponsored Student Posters – Due May 1, 2008
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) has announced a new Ph.D. student poster competition for the 61st Annual Meeting January 2009. Two $250 prizes will be awarded to the top two Ph.D. student poster presentations. The cash awards are intended to help students defray expenses.
This new competition is being sponsored by the University Council of IR/HR Programs (UCIRHRP), an association of deans and directors of IR/HR graduate programs. An awards panel from the UCIRHRP will review and judge student poster presentations during the two regular LERA Poster Sessions held at the annual meeting. The LERA Poster sessions are a mix of both student and faculty research presentations meant to preview research ideas or paper drafts, or feature newly completed papers. The informal session allows meeting attendees to circulate through the poster presentation aisles and discuss the presentations with presenters. They are meant to stimulate discussion and questions and provide researchers with feedback. Posters will be judged on the substance of the research, on how clearly the poster communicates information about the research, and on general appearance. All poster presenters are required to attend the session to present their poster to those attending the two LERA Annual Poster sessions. To be considered for this competition, the author or authors must all be students.
3. AILR/LERA Best Papers Competition Abstracts/Paper Proposals - Due May 15, 2008
David Lewin and Bruce Kaufman, editors of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR), published by Elsevier, have announced a May 15, 2008 deadline for the submission of abstract/paper proposals for the 11th Annual AILR/LERA Best Papers Competition. Abstract type proposals should be no longer than 3 pages. Winning papers will be presented in a joint symposium at the 2009 LERA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA .
Accepted papers must be submitted in complete form by October 14, 2008. Winning entries will be expeditiously refereed for publication in Volume #17 of AILR . Papers may deal with any IR topic and can be up to 50 pages in length (inclusive). Further information on submission is available from AILR Editors David Lewin or Bruce Kaufman.
4. UCIRHRP Sponsored Competitive Student Papers – Due July 1, 2008
The University Council of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Programs, UCIRHRP, is sponsoring a student paper competition at the 61st LERA Annual Meeting. New developments in employment relations, organizational behavior, and social movements call for a closer look at emergent processes, outcomes and organizational forms. The motivation for this special call for papers is to reflect 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; diversity in organizations; social movements; and international/transnational actors and organizations. UCIRHRP will offer a monetary award to the top papers chosen for this session.
Submissions for this special call must be made via e-mail to the < LERAoffice@uiuc.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 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 20 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 keywords
5. LERA Refereed Paper Competition Entries — Due April 7, 2008 — Deadline Expired
The LERA Editorial Committee has issued a call for individual papers for the 2009 Annual Refereed Papers Competition. Papers up to 25 pages in length are invited to be submitted to the competitive review process. Authors of winning papers will be invited to present at the LERA 61 st Annual Meeting in San Francisco in January 2009 and to be published in the LERA 2009 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting . Authors wishing to participate in the refereed papers competition need to submit a cover letter or sheet with full contact information and an electronic copy of their paper via email to LERA office, LERA national office in Champaign, Illinois, on or before the April 7 , 2008, deadline. Acceptance decisions and notifications will be made by the early summer of 2008.
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