Women Entrepreneurship

June 17, 2011

Women Entrepreneurship

Introduction

Women Entrepreneurship: New Management and Leadership Models, Book to be edited by Louise Kelly; Proposal deadline 13 Jul 2011

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS – Due July 13, 2011

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: NEW MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP MODELS
Praeger Publishers, 2012

Editor: Louise Kelly, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University

A two volume set:

Vol. 1: Women Entrepreneurship: New Management and Leadership Models

Vol. 2: Women Entrepreneurship: New Management and Leadership Models in a Global Context

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:

Book chapter proposals received: July 13, 2011

Notification of accepted chapter proposals: August 17, 2011

Receipt of full book chapters: October 17, 2011

Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback: November 16, 2011

Final revisions due: December 15, 2011

Book release: 2012

Submit a one-page or so chapter proposal. Please indicate which volume and chapter, from the list below, you would like to write. There is a little room for adapting topics to align with your research. Also, include for each of the co-authors a brief biography including terminal degree, current institutional affiliation and position, and a listing of any related publications. For each co-author include contact information, so we can readily contact you such as: email address, mobile phone, work phone, home phone, and Skype (if you do not mind us contacting you through these).

Send proposals and inquiries to both:

Louise Kelly LKellysd@gmail.com

As women continue to move into entrepreneurship in record numbers on a global scale, these volumes will document and explore some of the cutting-edge management and leadership practices being created by women to empower themselves socially and economically through entrepreneurship and business ownership. These two volumes provide insights into the new management and leadership models that women are creating as they empower themselves socially and economically through entrepreneurship. Globally, business women have often been disadvantaged through the glass ceiling effect in the developed countries and other societal and economic barriers in developing countries. As a result, many women, at ever increasing rates, are now choosing to create their own opportunities by establishing new business ventures that often reflect a different approach to business. Business has been run, to a large extent, on a male model of management and leadership–a warrior or militaristic management style that strongly emphasizes competitiveness and control. In turn, women (and men) are now experimenting with new models that focus on creating communities, networked leadership, ethical and altruistic business models, sustainability, and work-life balance. These are management and leadership models that are based as much on cooperation as competition. These models are also being created and practiced by men; however these two volumes will address the previously neglected and timely topic of how women entrepreneurs are changing the face of business and society in the 21st century global economy. These volumes cover this topic both by reporting on empirical research and theory and by presenting and examining the practices and experiences of contemporary women entrepreneurs in a global context. Readers will gain insights and knowledge that will help to empower individual women entrepreneurs and those who work with them.