International Business Review (IBR) invites proposals for Special Issues that capture important phenomena and high-impact theoretical developments in international business. These Special Issues should
have the potential to offer new perspectives and point the literature in new and interesting directions.
International Business Review is a premier academic journal in the discipline of international business, and the official journal of the
European International Business Academy (EIBA). The journal publishes original and insightful papers on the theory and practice of international business, broadly defined to embrace firms’ internationalization strategies, the cross-border management
of firms’ operations, and comparative studies of the business environments in different countries. Put simply, the journal is interested in publishing papers that inform the international operations of firms or guide the actions of policy-makers in home or
host countries. The journal welcomes conceptual, empirical and review papers, and is open to contributions from strategy, finance, management, marketing, economics, HRM and organizational scholars. IBR embraces methodological plurality, and papers using quantitative
and/or qualitative approaches are equally welcome.
The Special Issue proposal should include the following elements:
Proposals should be submitted to the Editors-in-Chief of IBR, Professor Roger Strange [[log in to unmask]] and Professor Fang Lee Cooke [[log in to unmask]] by 15 February 2021. When submitting proposals, please include in
the email submission line: ‘IBR Special Issue Proposal’.
All proposals will be reviewed by the Senior Editorial Team in terms of their quality and alignment with IBR’s vision and scope. One or two proposals will be selected to go forward annually. The proposers will be informed of the Editorial
Team’s decision approximately 6 weeks after the submission deadline. It is expected that the Guest Editors will contribute an introductory article that will both position the Special Issue in the relevant literature and may succinctly introduce the papers.
However, it is IBR policy that the Guest Editors should not include in the Special Issue other papers of which they are authors or co-authors. Moreover, no authors should be listed on more than one paper.
All papers for the Special Issue will be subject to the normal double-blind peer reviewing process that is undertaken for regular issues of
IBR, and accepted papers will be expected to meet the editorial standards of
IBR. Papers should be prepared and submitted according to IBR’s Guidelines for Authors: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-business-review/.
The publication date will be allocated once all the papers for the Special Issue have been accepted.
Roger Strange & Fang Lee Cooke (IBR Editors-in-Chief)
January 2021
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Roger Strange
Professor of International Business
University of Sussex Business School, Room 107A, Jubilee Building
Brighton BN1 9SL, United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 1273-873531
Web profile: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/243640
Centre for International Business & Development:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/strategy-marketing/research/international-business