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Labour and Management in Development

Labour and Management Development (ISSN 1443-6698) is a journal publishing research on management and labour issues in nations undergoing accelerated economic development.

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What's New

LMD No. 11 is now almost complete.  This is the Special Edition on Coastal Management in China and Australia with Guest Editors Associate Professor Stuart Pearson, Dr Xiao Hua Wang (School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy) and Professor Guifang Xue (Institute for the Law of the Sea, Ocean University of China). 

 

 

 The Edition has been a joint project with the Sino-Australian Research Centre for Coastal Management (SARCCM) hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Ocean University of China (OUC).  The papers and authors were initially selected from three workshops conducted in Australia and China during 2009-2010.   Selected authors were invited to contribute and through their careful preparation and then further development through: pre-review by Guest Editors; initial revision by authors; second submission; English editing by a language editor; penultimate revision by the authors; further English editing if required; final submission online; a full peer review process; final revisions; copy editing and final submission before the Guest Editors and Chief Editor’s decision about the publication.

 

 This is LMD’s second Special Edition – the previous one being LMD No. 9 on Indonesian Labour since Suharto: Perspectives from the Region with Guest Editors Dr Michele Ford of the University of Sydney, and Professor Kosuke Mizuno of Kyoto University.  Both Special Editions involved a lengthy processes of reading and re-writing as authors who has not previously published widely, or at all, internationally worked to bring their articles within them range of international scholarly standards.  For LMD these editions have been significant achievements.  They have both expanded the range of scholarship and commentary available to international readers and given authors who might not otherwise have been able to publish in this way the opportunity to do so.

 

 LMD No. 12 is a more traditional edition with articles on a variety of issues confronting management and labour in situations of accelerated economic growth and social development.  Contributions by scholars from China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh are currently being edited and re-written for publication in this edition.   These articles will be put up as they are completed during the remainder of 2012.  The edition remains open for further contributions.

  

Editor’s Note
When LMD began in 2000 it had two aims. Both arose from frustrations with the way in which international academic journals excluded potentially interesting material from publication because it failed to meet ‘international standards’. 

This generally meant that it was written by people who were not from western universities or whose first language was not English. So the first aim was to facilitate publication in an internationally available academic journal of work by researchers from non-western and non-English speaking backgrounds. The second and related aim was to create an avenue through which the work of western scholars on issues of labour and management in countries undergoing accelerated economic growth and social development could be read by colleagues and students in the countries about which they were writing.

In order to fulfill the first aim, LMD has taken a formative rather than a summative view of the submission process. So we do not reject articles which are not of the style of presentation or standard of English language expected by international journals when they are initially submitted. Rather we make an assessment of the value of the research being presented and then seek to work with the authors to improve the form of presentation. In order to fulfill the second aim we adopted an Open Access style of publication to make LMD a free download and therefore make it available anywhere in the world to readers with web access. Our thinking here was that increasing numbers of students and scholars who did not have access to high quality academic library facilities were getting access to the web.

In 2000 this seemed like a worthy endeavour. My view is that it still is. Now, however, the crucial task we set ourselves is not merely helping individual authors and readers but also of assisting international academic engagement in a more systematic way. One result is seen in LMD No 11. It is the outcome of  an institutional approach to international academic co-operation between a research intensive university in the European tradition and a Chinese university which is leading applied research in a particular field of the management of accelerated growth and economic development. The guest editors and contributors come from both organizations. The editors have explained in their introduction how this co-operation came about and how they have pursued the process of publication.

At LMD we would be very interested to receive feedback on this Special Edition.


Vol 12 (2011)

Table of Contents

Articles

Global Determinants and Contexts of Contemporary Industrial Relations Policy in Nigeria Abstract PDF
Marcellus Ikeanyibe Okey, Anthony O Onyishi
A quantitative study of women in Sri Lanka’s Export Processing Zones: Capital accumulation and social investment. Abstract PDF
Peter Hancock, Jamie Moore, Sharon Middleton
Policies for improving food security Abstract PDF
Satish Chand, Charles Yala
Identifying Points of Tension for Financial Reporting: China Abstract PDF
Leon Jiang