CALL FOR PAPERS
Tenth Annual JIBS Paper Development Workshop
Academy of International Business Annual Meetings, Istanbul, Turkey
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The Tenth Annual
Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS)
Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, as part of the pre-conference program for the Academy of International Business (AIB) annual meetings. The PDW is the most extensive of the
various JIBS outreach activities
conducted by the JIBS editorial
team. Organized by Petra Christmann (Rutgers University), the PDWinvolves most of the
JIBS editors and many board members,
and is sponsored by the AIB and Rutgers Business School.
The purpose of the PDW is to provide junior scholars with developmental feedback on their current research projects in international business studies. While we
hope that many of these papers will be eventually submitted to JIBS,
the purpose of the PDW is broader: to improve the quality of IB research and bring new scholars into the IB field. We invite original papers from
junior authors or
junior faculty members who have not previously published in
JIBS. In particular, we hope
to attract papers from scholars (1) who are located in universities inemerging economies or in universities that offer limited support for international business research, or (2) who are trained in disciplines lesscommonly associated with the field (e.g. human
geography, political science, ethnography, or economic history) but interested in conducting international business research.
The PDW will be structured to provide feedback to authors with research papers, and to researchers who are designing empirical studies, on international business
topics. Last year, participants received feedback ontheir work from about 30
JIBS editors and members of the Consulting
Editors Board (CEB) and Editorial Review Board (ERB). The program will start with an introductory session led by the
JIBS editorial team and
JIBS authors. The participants
will then divide into two groups. Authors of full research papers
will be paired with CEB and ERB guest editors for two-on-two discussions where two guest editors will provide feedback to two authors on improving their paper. At the same time, authors with
paper ideas will meet with
CEB and ERB guest editors in a small-group setting where two editors will provide feedback to five or more authors on their research paper ideas. After a lunch break, all participants will split into small-group sessions with
JIBS editors to discuss successful
publication strategies.
Participation at the PDW is limited. Participants will be invited based on the quality of their submitted work. We are expecting two types of submissions,
full research papers and
paper ideas. Papers and
ideas should be submitted through the JIBS
Workshop Submission System located at http://meetings.aib.msu.edu/jibs/2013/.
Please note that each applicant should make one submission only – either a full research paper or a paper idea to the JIBS PDW Submission System. The deadline for submissions is
February 1, 2013
in your time zone. Research papers must be less than 10,000 words in length, and follow the
JIBS Style Guide (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/style_guide.html).
Paper ideas must be no more than 3,000 words in length and include a theoretical framework, propositions, and proposed research design.
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions no later than
March 11, 2013 and will need to
confirm their participation in the PDW by April 1, 2013.
Please note that
you need to register for the AIB conference in order to participate in the JIBS PDW.
Also note that AJBS Conference, Junior Faculty Consortium and Doctoral Consortium run in parallel with the JIBS PDW,
therefore it will not be possible to participate in the JIBS PDW if you are participating in any of the other aforementioned events.
Please address any questions to: Pallavi Shukla,
JIBS Editorial Assistant ([log in to unmask]
; +1 973-353-5181) or Petra Christmann ([log in to unmask]
).
Petra Christmann
John Cantwell
JIBS
PDW Organizer Editor-in-Chief
Rutgers University Journal of International Business Studies
Rutgers University