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Focus and Scope

TAMARA JOURNAL

Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry is our new name (formerly Tamara Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science); our ISSN (1532-5555) remained unchanged.

Tamara Journal draws on critical management studies, postmodern organization theory, and social systems theory. Tamara has its roots in critical storytelling and is a prime address for the digital narratives and natives.

The journal encourages interdisciplinary dialogue on post-millenium research methods as well as theories of present and next organizations and societies.

All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review.

 

Section Policies

General Issue Articles

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Special Issue: Language and Professions (eds. K. Ehrensal, A. Trester)

Editors
  • Kenneth Ehrensal
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
  • Anna Trester
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Voice out

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Special issue: Community Engaged Scholarship

Editors
  • Ester Barinaga
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
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Special Issue: Doing Organizational Ethnography

Editors
  • Agata Dembek
  • Lars Henriksen
  • Kenneth Jørgensen
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
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Special Issue: Untold Stories in Organisations

Editors
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
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Special Issue: Why I Study What I Study (after SC'MOI 2014)

Editors
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
  • Rohny Saylors
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Special Issue: Materiality and Storytelling (Ed. A. Strand)

Editors
  • Karolina Mikołajewska
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STORYTELLING FOR GAIA (Eds. Jørgensen, Strand, Ingmann)

Editors
  • Kenneth Jørgensen
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Peer Review Process

All TAMARA articles are blind reviewed by editor and two reviewers (one Board Member and One AD Hoc). Your article must make a strong contribution to theory and/or research and/or practice. If you want to suggest knowledgeable reviewers, please do so. Suggest those who understand the contribution your article is making. All reviewers are to make constructive feedback.

  1. English is not the only language. Articles will be printed in the Author’s Choice of language.
  2. All members of the editorial board do reviews, but not more than three per year.
  3. Guest editors are responsible for their own reviewer selection, composing their own editorial, and must meet a 110 page total page limit per print issue. Electronic versions of articles can be longer and contain links to other on line documents.
  4. Print versions of articles will be printed in black ink (no color). Electronic versions can have color photo, color charts, and special backgrounds and wall paper (but be sure these load at reasonable speed).
  5. TAMARA expects original submissions, not currently in review or print in other journals.
  6. TAMARA encourages scholars to link to TAMARA journal articles for their classes and seminars. There is no charge for this.
  7. For referencing TAMARA, see Copyright at the bottom of the screen.
  8. Please use American Psychological Association format for references, tables, and figures. Electronic Citations style guide, APA style for other references.

 

Author Self-Archiving

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

 

What is the Tamara play?

In TAMARA, Los Angeles’ longest-running play, a dozen characters unfold their stories before a walking, sometimes running audience. Tamara enacts a true story taken from the diary of Aelis Mazoyer. It is Italy, January 10, 1927, in the era of Mussolini. Gabriele d’Annunzio, a poet, patriot, womanizer, and revolutionary who is exceedingly popular with the people, is under virtual house arrest. Tamara, an expatriate Polish beauty, aristocrat, and aspiring artist, is summoned from Paris to paint d’Annunzio’s portrait. Instead of remaining stationary, viewing a single stage, the audience fragments into small groups that chase characters from one room to the next, from one floor to the next, even going into bedrooms, kitchens, and other chambers to chase and co-create the stories that interest them the most. If there are a dozen stages and a dozen storytellers, the number of story lines an audience could trace as it chases the wandering discourses of Tamara is 12 factorial (12! = 479,001,600). I applied this critical postmodern perspective by looking at Disney corporate narratives, contrasting official (hegemonic) and more (corporately) marginalized stories [Boje 1995 Academy of Management Journal].

 

Our website design

Tamara de Lempicka (1889-1980) is best known for her Art Deco-styled portraits. Sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress are rendered in haunting poses. Perhaps it was her own dramatic life mirrored in her art. Married twice to wealthy, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925 she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris. She moved to America in 1939 with her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner. Her works appeared exclusively at many galleries and museums, but her artistic output decreased. In 1960 she changed her style to abstract art and began creating works with a spatula. After her husband died in 1962 she ceased painting and moved to Mexico.

The journal website header depicts a detail of her painting Andromeda, c.1927-28, courtesy of http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/.

See here for more information and works of Tamara de Lampicka:

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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) was a Polish portrait painter who lived in Russia until the Bolsheviks arrested her husband during the Russian revolution. In 1918 she emigrated to Paris, and in the 1920s and 1930s became the darling of the European aristocracy (de Lempicka Portrait Galleries on WWW: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th; Bios 1st, 2nd; 3rd, 4th, 5th; De Lempicka portraits 1st, 2nd, 3rd,)). She is recognized as the most important Art Deco painter.

TAMARA, is also a play by John Krizanc (1981/1989), first performed May 8, 1981 in Toronto. It is Los Angeles’ longest-running play, a dozen characters unfold their stories before a walking, sometimes running, audience. Tamara enacts a true story taken from the diary of Aelis Mazoyer. It is Italy, January 10, 1927, in the era of Mussolini. Gabriele d’Annunzio, a poet, patriot, womanizer, and revolutionary who is exceedingly popular with the people, is under virtual house arrest. Tamara, an expatriate Polish beauty, aristocrat, and aspiring artist, is summoned from Paris to paint d’Annunzio’s portrait. Instead of remaining stationary, viewing a single stage, the audience fragments into small groups that chase characters from one room to the next, from one floor to the next, even going into bedrooms, kitchens, and other chambers to chase and co-create the stories that interest them the most. If there are a dozen stages and a dozen storytellers, the number of story lines an audience could trace as it chases the wandering discourses of Tamara is 12 factorial (479,001,600). I applied this critical postmodern perspective by looking at Disney corporate narratives, contrasting official (hegemonic) and more (corporately) marginalized stories [Boje, 1995 Academy of Management Journal]. What is Postmodern Organization Science? An Overview

TAMARA JOURNAL encourages interdisciplinary dialogue on theory, method, and social action.

 

Tamara Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry (in short “Tamara”) expects all parties participating in the publication of the journal commit to these publication ethics standards. Our Editorial Team does not tolerate plagiarism in any form or other unethical behavior and will reject any manuscript that does not meet these standards, as well as notify the institution the violator is affiliated with.

Author Responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their own original work.
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently under review or being considered in any other form for publication elsewhere.
  4. Authors must notify Tamara of any conflicts of interest.
  5. Authors must identify all direct and indirect sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  6. Authors must report any errors they discover in their manuscript to Tamara.
  7. Authors must assure that their research is not presenting any harm to their subjects and that their research conduct is in line with the international academic standards.

Reviewer Responsibilities

  1. Reviewers must notify Tamara of any conflicts of interest.
  2. Reviewers must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
  3. Reviewers must bring to the attention of the managing editor any information that may be a reason to reject publication of a submitted manuscript.
  4. Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts only for their scholarly content, and avoid any gender, language, orientation, religion or other bias in their judgment.

Editorial Board Responsibilities

  1. The Editorial Board must keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential.
  2. The Editorial Board must disclose any conflicts of interest.
  3. The Editorial Board must evaluate manuscripts only for their content.
  4. The Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.

 

Permisions

Please be sure your email includes author’s name (s), title, volumen, issue, page numbers of article for which you are seeking permission. Include a description of the use.

If you seek permission for a table or figure, please check first that it is not from some other source. Tamaraland publications can only offer permission for the content of Tamara Journal articles (see U.S. Copyrigth Office for more info).

Authors may re-use their own work in Tamara Journal. You do not need permission to re-print Tamara Journal articles for classroom use. Authors may post copy of the article or abstract to Internet without permission, as long at the Tamara Journal, Vol, issue, and page number are included.

For other special uses, please write an email to the editors-in-chief. 

Your request will be handled as quickly as possible.

 

Abstracting/indexing

Tamara Journal is listed in the Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guides 2010 and 2015. A soft-copy of the ABS list 2015 is available for download here. 

We want Tamara Journal indexed and abstracted in the following services:

Abi/inform
British Education Index
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Focus On: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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International Political Science Abstracts
Periodical Abstracts
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Sociological Abstracts
Sociology of Education Abstracts
Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
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Urban Affairs Abstracts
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

 

Copyright

Copyright TAMARA holds the copyright to each article; however, any article may be reproduced without permission, for educational purposes only, provided that the full and accurate bibliographic citation and the following credit line is cited:

Copyright (year) by the TAMARA Website, http://TamaraJournal.com reproduced with permission from the publisher. Any article cited as a reference in any other form should also report the same such citation, following Electronic Citations style guide, APA style for other references

Web site Copyright © TAMARA and TAMARALAND (TM), 2009.

 

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