[ecrea] Call for papers - Thematic issue on the challenges of public affairs in modern organisations

Thematic issue on the challenges of public affairs in modern organisations



REMINDER – CALL FOR PAPERS



Hermes – Journal of Language and Communication in Business



SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 16 MARCH 2015



A growing number of organisations across the private, public and third 
sectors are becoming involved in different public affairs efforts and 
seek to collaborate with political decision-makers and influence 
political processes both at national and international levels. They have 
a clear realization of the need to contribute to law-making and to seek 
to affect the implementation and administration of political initiatives 
which may impact their prosperity and freedom to practice a profession, 
business or trade. The current thematic section invites new and 
innovative contributions in the field of public affairs investigating 
the communicative challenges facing any type of modern organisation 
which aims to represent special interests and causes in the marketplace 
for political ideas and public policy. We are interested in both 
empirical and conceptual/theoretical papers seeking to develop new 
understandings of how different organizations use communication to 
interface and develop relationships with social and political actors 
involved in the development of public policy, legislation and 
regulation. Topics might include (but are not limited to):



• Theoretical and empirical studies on the interplay between politics, 
business and interest groups

• The landscape of interest representation and the organized groups 
trying to affect policy formulation

• Case studies on specific public affairs campaigns

• How discourses on social, political and cultural issues affect 
organizations

• The role of news media and journalists in constructing public affairs 
identity

• Public discourses about and public perceptions of public affairs

• The status of lobbying regulations

• Transparency and public affairs

• Crisis management and public affairs

• Social media and public affairs

• The “big data” phenomenon and public affairs

• Public affairs measurement



This thematic issue will be published by Hermes. Hermes is an 
open-source, peer-reviewed international journal published by the 
Department of Business Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. 
Hermes is published twice annually. Since the first issue in 1988, the 
journal has established itself internationally as an important vehicle 
for publication of research articles across a broad spectrum of language 
and communication oriented studies.



Each issue of Hermes contains a thematic section to allow different 
research communities the opportunity to examine a specific topic from 
several perspectives. Each thematic section is edited by guest editors 
with a special interest in the selected theme. The central theme of 
Volume 55 is focused on the complex communicative challenges which 
confront organisations seeking to engage in influence-making in the 
increasingly important domain of public affairs. This volume is 
scheduled for the spring of 2016.



Hermes stresses high-quality publications and assesses all submitted 
manuscripts for relevance, originality, theory and methods, quality of 
the analyses, coherence, and readability. The journal gives high 
priority to fast publication to ensure that ideas and findings can be 
published while they are still new. All submissions will undergo 
double-blind peer review by qualified international scholars.



Key requirements:

(for full submission requirements, style sheet and example of article, 
please see 
http://bcom.au.dk/research/publications/journals/hermes/submissioninstructions/. 
You may also access the Hermes Flyer at 
http://www.e-pages.dk/aarhusuniversitet/984/))



• Manuscripts must be an original work and not be under consideration 
for publication elsewhere in any part or form.

• Manuscripts must not exceed 25 pages, i.e. approximately 60,000 
characters without spaces, including references, tables and figures.

• Manuscripts must be prepared in Microsoft Word, using the author's 
surname as filename.

• Illustrations, tables and figures must be inserted into the manuscript 
in the appropriate place.

• The name(s) of the author(s) must be concealed in the manuscript to 
allow for a blind review

• A separate cover page with manuscript title, name(s) and contact 
details of the author(s) must be provided.

• Submission deadline is 16 March 2015. Please submit your manuscript to 
(hermes.bss /at/ au.dk)

• Revised manuscripts will be due by 15 October 2015 for final 
assessment and selection for the special issue.

• Selected manuscripts will be prepared for publication in the 2016 
spring issue by Hermes’ editorial team.



If you have any questions regarding publication in this thematic issue 
on public affairs, please contact guest editors Chiara Valentini 
((c.valentini /at/ bcom.au.dk)) or Poul Erik Flyvholm Jorgensen ((pj /at/ bcom.au.dk)).





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Poul Erik Flyvholm Jørgensen
Associate Professor, PhD


Aarhus University
School of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Business Communication

Center for Corporate Communication

Jens Chr. Schous Vej 4, 1483-513

DK-8000 Aarhus C

T: +45 8716 4853
M: (pj /at/ bcom.au.dk)

CeW: http://au.dk/en/pj


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