The journal is currently accepting papers for an upcoming special issue entitled: International Business Strategy in Emerging Economies. The purpose of this special issue is to provide a venue for scholarship to probe the under-researched aspects of alliance strategy and management more deeply, catalyze new research on neglected topics of collaborative strategy, and encourage novel research methodologies on international collaborations.The purpose of the special issue is to develop theoretical and empirical approaches in the field of international journal of business research, strategic management and entrepreneurship.

The editors invite papers in which questions from the public domain are framed for further study by management scholars, as well as papers that systematically apply theories and empirical approaches from strategy and entrepreneurship to issues related to the public interest. The ultimate objective is to develop a long-range agenda for research on innovation in the public interest.

Subject Coverage Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
*International and Global Strategy
*Global Strategy and Emerging Economies
*Business models and business model innovations
*Original empirical research contributions exploring linkages among cooperative strategies, innovation, organizational effectiveness and competitiveness
*Case studies on cooperative strategies for competitiveness or innovation
*Exemplars of theory building and its induction in competitiveness to develop constructs and testable hypotheses.
*Strategic alliances for internationalization
*Learning & innovation capabilities: issues & measurement
*Collaborative business models (e.g. for standardization)
*Knowledge creation and technological innovation
*Collaboration strategies for technology standard battles *Organizational performance and competitiveness
*Antecedents and consequences of firm competitiveness
*Business model innovation for industrial competitiveness