CALL
FOR PAPERS
BUSINESS IATROGENESIS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 2015
Iatrogenesis is “preventable harm resulting from medical
treatment or advice to patients” (Wikipedia). Clearly, this concept applies to
non-medical domains. In this vein, we define ‘business iatrogenesis’ as net reduction in organizational efficacy
induced by efforts to solve a managerially identified problem. Under this
proposed definition, net reduction in
organizational efficacy relates to entities such as revenue, profit, market
share, customer satisfaction, product value, competitive advantage, and ethical
status; efforts to solve relate to
words and/or deeds; and a managerial
identified problem could be intersubjectively certifiable or imaginary.
An upcoming special issue of Asian Journal of Business Research will
be dedicated to ‘business iatrogenesis’. The many diverse topics suitable for
the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following possibilities
as they relate to business practice:
- Helpful and harmful incentives for action
- Faulty feedback loops between action and outcome
- Potentially problematic psychological mechanisms, such as
self-deception, excessive optimism or pessimism, magical thinking, and blindness to contrary evidence
- Adopting business fads based on limited anecdotal evidence
- Premature self-cannibalization of products
- ‘Feature creep’ for hi-tech products (i.e., new product features
wanted by few customers that needlessly complicate product use)
- Control systems that encourage useless/destructive rather than
constructive action
- Productive and counterproductive responses to forecasts of
discontinuous change
- Harmful interactions caused by different managerial actions
- Negative byproducts of regulatory interventions
- Recovery from faulty prescriptions for action
The review process will be
double blind, with multiple referees evaluating each manuscript. Prospective
authors can find manuscript guidelines at http: http://www.magscholar.com/
joomla/index.php/manuscript-requirements. Please submit an electronic version
of your manuscript (in Word, WordPerfect, or pdf format) as an e-mail
attachment to mhyman@nmsu.edu. Manuscripts describing empirical (qualitative or
quantitative), theoretical, or case studies are welcome.
Pose any questions about manuscript suitability to the lead guest
editor.
GUEST EDITORS
Michael R. Hyman, Distinguished Achievement Professor
of Marketing, New Mexico State University (mhyman@nmsu.edu;
http://business.nmsu.edu/~mhyman);
Jeremy J. Sierra, Associate Professor of Marketing,
Texas State University (js204@txstate.edu);
Susan D. Steiner, Chair and Associate Professor of
Management, University of Tampa (ssteiner@ut.edu).
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