Further information for authors

Information page regarding your potential contribution to the

“Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice” (Elgar, 2025)

Purpose

The "Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice" will be published with Edward Elgar Publishing (2024). This encyclopedia is meant to complement the Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Compared to the handbook, the encyclopedia will have much more specific and shorter entries (1000-3000 words), primarily reflecting previous scholarship. Entries will appear in alphabetic order in one of six sections (”Theories”, “Concepts”, “Methods”, “Phenomena”, “Infrastructure”, “Relations”). The encyclopedia will be published as part of the Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series, for which several encyclopedias are currently being developed or have already been published (e.g., the Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management).

Timeline

The encyclopedia is meant to be a community project. As a first step towards this goal, we collected various suggestions for entries and authors to be included in this encyclopedia from the broader SAP community. Based on these suggestions, we created a tentative list of more than 150 entries and authors to be included in this compendium. For confirmed authors, we envision the following tentative schedule:

• End of 2023: first submission of draft text of entries

• Spring 2024: feedback on submissions

• January 2025: submission of manuscript to the publisher

Procedure

We are looking for acknowledged experts to provide a balanced overview of relevant work, while encouraging them to make clear where they believe future research should go. We explicitly welcome collaborations with other scholars (e.g., with colleagues or with PhD students). The names and order of potential co-authors can still be specified until we submit the manuscript to the publisher in late 2024. 

Please note that each entry will undergo a peer review. We do not require, but would greatly appreciate if you could in turn also contribute a friendly review of one entry from another contributor for every entry you submit. After the final submission, all entries will be copy-edited, typeset, proof-read, and provided with an index by Edward Elgar Publishing. The encyclopedia will be distributed in hardcover print and eBook format, with institutional access for academic libraries, and is expected to be included in the Web of Science and SCOPUS indices. More information will follow in due course for authors committing themselves to contribute to this publication.

Feel free to send feedback, questions, and other wishes to the editorial team (mail):

Richard Whittington · Renate Kratochvil · Paula Jarzabkowski
Paul Spee · David Seidl · Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel