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I wanted to remind everyone about the Special Issue of Management and Organization Review on Social Exchange Theory that Jackie Coyle-Shapiro, Xiaoping Chen and Lynn Shore are editing (see details of the Call for Papers below). The four of us will be at the Academy meetings in Philadelphia and invite you to talk to any of all of us about projects that you are working on that you think might fit this Special Issue.
Lois
Call for Papers
Management and Organization Review Special Issue on '
Social Exchange in Organizations'
Guest Editors: Lois E. Tetrick, George Mason University
Jacqueline A. Coyle-Shapiro, London School of Economics
Xiao-Ping Chen, University of Washington
Lynn M. Shore, San Diego State University
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2007 Social Exchange Theory is an influential conceptual paradigm for understanding Organizational
Behavior. The pervasiveness of Social Exchange as a theoretical foundation can be seen in areas
such as, for example, organizational justice, leader-member exchange, perceived organizational
support, psychological contracts and the employment relationship, as well as the inter-organizational
domain through the networks of top managers and boundary spanners. However, despite its dominance
as an explanatory framework, Social Exchange Theory contains conceptual ambiguities and
empirical tests that have selectively excluded critical theoretical variables or provided very limited
tests of the main propositions of Social Exchange Theory. Likewise, most research applying Social
Exchange Theory to organizations has been conducted in Western contexts, raising questions about
the cross-cultural relevance or limitations of this theory.
This special issue of Management and Organization Review seeks to revisit Social Exchange Theory.
By redirecting attention to Social Exchange Theory, we aim to advance its applicability in an organizational
context. To this end, while we are open to different types of submissions, we especially
encourage innovative theoretical and empirical papers that help advance the applicability of social
exchange to organizational phenomena. Of particular interest are papers conducted within a
Chinese or cross-cultural context. We invite submissions that address but are not limited to issues
such as:
a) The distinction between the "relationship" and "resources exchanged" – how do resources influence
the type/quality of a relationship and how does the relationship influence what is
exchanged?
b) Reciprocity – what rules and norms govern the relationship? How do these norms develop and
what are their consequences?
c) What are the boundary conditions/limitations of Social Exchange Theory in organizational
settings? For example, to what extent does culture facilitate or inhibit the development of social
exchange relationships? Other factors might include organizational context, groups and individual
dispositional factors.
d) What other theories could be used to complement the foundational ideas of Social Exchange
Theory?
e) What aspects of Social Exchange Theory have been neglected or overlooked?
f) What are the commonalities and differences between constructs that draw upon social exchange?
g) Are social exchange processes different at the inter-personal and inter-organizational domains?
h) Are there variations in the applicability of Social Exchange Theory to Chinese and non-Western
contexts?
Papers for the special issue should be submitted electronically to both the MOR office at
iacmr.mor@asu.edu and Lois Tetrick at
ltetrick@gmu.edu. The deadline for submission is December
1, 2007. Papers accepted for publication consideration will also be presented in a 'miniconference'
held in conjunction with the International Association of Chinese Management
Research bi-annual conference in June 2008.
Questions about this special issue may be directed to any of the guest editors: Lois Tetrick
(
ltetrick@gmu.edu), Jackie Coyle-Shapiro (
J.A.Coyle-Shapiro@lse.ac.uk), Xiao-Ping Chen
(
xpchen@u.washington.edu), and Lynn Shore (
lshore@mail.sdsu.edu).