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December 2019

Past, Present, and Future in Emerging Markets

Journal Name:: International Journal of Emerging Markets
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 15, 2019
Editors:: Justin Paul (Rollins College- Florida), Andrea Paltrinieri (University of Udine)

Studying Intellectual Property Rights in International Business Through Multiple Levels of Analysis picture_as_pdf

Journal Name:: Journal of International Business Studies
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 23, 2019
Editors:: Victor Cui (University of Manitoba), Dana Minbaeva (Copenhagen Business School), Rajneesh Narula (University of Reading), Ilan Vertinsky (University of British Columbia)

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems picture_as_pdf

Journal Name:: International Business Review
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 30, 2019
Editors:: Vanessa Ratten (La Trobe University)

Small business and Entrepreneurship in Africa open_in_new

Journal Name:: Small Enterprise Research
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 30, 2019
Editors:: Vanessa Ratten

Sustainable Waste Management Innovations: Developing New Ventures for Improved Health and Environmental Wellbeing open_in_new

Journal Name:: Sustainability
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 30, 2019
Editors:: Joseph Amankwah-Amoah (University of Kent), Frederick Ahen, Turku (University of Turku)

Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth

Journal Name:: Palgrave Macmillan
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: December 30, 2019
Editors:: João J. Ferreira (University of Beira Interior), Sérgio J. Teixeira (University of Madeira), Hussain G. Rammal (University of Technology Sydney)

Competitive Productivity (CP): Advancing the Competitiveness Paradigm open_in_new

Journal Name:: Cross Cultural & Strategic Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 31, 2019
Editors:: Chris Baumann( Macquarie University), Michael Cherry (Macquarie University), Wujin Chu( Seoul National University), Hume Winzar (Macquarie University), Doris Viengkham (Macquarie University)

Humanistic Leadership in Different Cultures: Defining the Field by Pushing Boundaries

Journal Name:: Cross Cultural & Strategic Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 31, 2019
Editors:: Pingping Fu (University of Nottingham), Ernst von Kimakowitz (Humanistic Management Center and Humanistic Management Network), Michal K. Lemanski (University of Nottingham), Leigh Anne Liu (Georgia State University)

Industry 4.0 and Industrial Sustainability open_in_new

Journal Name:: Sustainability
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 31, 2019
Editors:: Celeste Amorim Varum (University of Aveiro), Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann (University of Porto)

Managing the Indian Way: Past, Present, and Future open_in_new

Journal Name:: Journal of Business Research
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 31, 2019
Editors:: Debmalya Mukherjee (University of Akron), Chinmay Pattnaik (University of Sydney), Satish Kumar (Malaviya National Institute of Technology)

Performance Management Systems in Multinational Enterprises: Developments and Future Directions

Journal Name:: Human Resource Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: December 31, 2019
Editors:: Arup Varma (Loyola University Chicago), Pawan S. Budhwar (Aston University), Angelo DeNisi (Tulane University)

January 2020

Strategic Sourcing in Africa: Integrating African Firms in Global Supply Chains open_in_new

Journal Name:: Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: January 4, 2020
Editors:: Godfrey Mugurusi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Intaher Marcus Ambe (University of South Africa), Richard Glavee-Geo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Entrepreneurship for Social Change open_in_new

Journal Name:: Entrepreneurship for Social Change
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: January 15, 2020
Editors:: Bruno S. Sergi, Cole C. Scanlon

Technology Strategies in Emerging Economies: Emerging Issues, Challenges and New Research open_in_new

Journal Name:: Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: January 20, 2020
Editors:: Joseph Amankwah-Amoah (University of Kent), Yaw A. Debrah (Swansea University), Wantao Yu (University of Roehampton), Zhibin Lin (Durham University), Samuel Adomako (University of Bradford), Albert Danso (De Montfort University)

Protectionism in International Business open_in_new

Journal Name:: Management International Review
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: January 31, 2020
Editors:: Mohammad Ahammad (University of Leeds), Ilan Alon (University of Agder), Jeremy Clegg (University of Leeds), Shlomo Tarba (University of Birmingham), Ilan Vertinsky (University of British Columbia)

February 2020

Disruption Management in Business-to-Business Markets open_in_new

Journal Name:: Industrial Marketing Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: February 1, 2020
Editors:: Chun ZhangGrossman (University of Vermont), Hongzhi Gao (Victoria University of Wellington)

Non-routine Environments: European-Asian Business in Times of Shock picture_as_pdf

Journal Name:: Asia Business & Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: February 20, 2020
Editors:: Sierk Horn (FH Vorarlberg), Tomoki Sekiguchi (Kyoto University), Matthias Weiss (Ruhr University of Bochum)

Disruptive Technologies and Asian Business Management open_in_new

Journal Name:: Asian Business & Management (ABM)
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: February 28, 2020
Editors:: Jae Hoon Hyun, Hankuk (University of Foreign Studies), Chie Iguchi (Keio University), Pavida Pananond (Thammasat University), Markus Taube (University of Duisburg-Essen)

March 2020

Open for Business in a Closed World: Managing MNE Nonmarket Strategy in Times of Populism and Geopolitical Uncertainty

Journal Name:: Multinational Business Review
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: March 1, 2020
Editors:: George O. White III, Tazeeb S. Rajwani, Thomas C. Lawton

Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management

Journal Name:: IGI Global
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: March 4, 2020
Editors:: Mehmet Ali Turkmenoglu (Mus Alparslan University), Berat Cicek (Mus Alparslan University)

International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters picture_as_pdf

Journal Name:: Emerald Publishing
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: March 15, 2020
Editors:: Babu George (Fort Hays State University), Qamaruddin Mahar (Isra University)

Critical Perspectives on the Management of Multilingualism in International Business

Journal Name:: Critical Perspectives on International Business
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: March 31, 2020
Editors:: Claudine Gaibrois (University of St. Gallen), Philippe Lecomte (Toulouse Business School), Mehdi Boussebaa (University of Glasgow), Martyna Śliwa (University of Essex)

April 2020

Political, legal, cultural, and Financial Frameworks of China-Germany Investor Relations open_in_new

Journal Name:
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: April 30, 2020
Editors:: Daniel Graewe

May 2020

Green and Climate Finance: Responses and Challenges in Finance

Journal Name:: International Review of Financial Analysis and Finance Research Letters
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: May 30, 2020
Editors:: Shunsuke Managi (Kyushu University), David Broadstock (Hong Kong Polytechnic), Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU Stern School)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology Diffusion – Multinational Marketing Management Strategies

Journal Name:: International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: May 31, 2020
Editors:: Yu-Lun Liu (National Taipei University of Technology), Joseph Amankwah-Amoah (University of Kent)

June 2020

Co-evolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics: The China Story and Beyond picture_as_pdf

Journal Name:: Journal of Business Ethics
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: June 1, 2020
Editors:: Justin Tan (York University), Liang Wang (University of San Francisco)

International Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

Journal Name:
Type:: Book Chapter
Deadline:: June 15, 2020
Editors:: Mark Munoz

Foreign Direct Investment and the Shadow Economy in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis open_in_new

Journal Name:: International Journal of Economics and Business Research
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: June 30, 2020
Editors:: Vasileios Vlachos, Aristidis Bitzenis, John Marangos

July 2020

Corruptive Practices, Digitalization, and International Business open_in_new

Journal Name:: Journal of Business Research
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: July 31, 2020
Editors:: Pervez N. Ghauri (University of Birmingham), Vikas Kumar (University of Sydney), Jeoung Yul Lee (Hongik University), Byung Il Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

August 2020

E-Commerce Policy and International Business

Journal Name:: Focused Issue of Management International Review (MIR)
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: August 31, 2020
Editors:: Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University), Sofia Johan (Florida Atlantic University), Zaheer Khan (University of Kent), Martin Meyer (University of Kent)

September 2020

Thirty Years Later: A Fresh Look at the Central and Eastern Europe Transformation and its Implications for Institutions, Organizations and Organizational Actors

Journal Name:: Journal of International Management
Type:: Journal Special Issue
Deadline:: September 30, 2020
Editors:: Dan-Cristian Dabija (Babeş-Bolyai University), Andrew Inkpen (Thunderbird School of Global Management), Alexei Koveshnikov (Aalto University), Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)