Please see below for a current call for papers in Management Research Review.
Special Issue theme: STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS FOR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Guest Co-Editors:
Tanya Sammut-Bonnici, Warwick Business School, UK, t.sammut-bonnici@warwick.ac.uk
Sotirios Paroutis, Warwick Business School, UK, sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk
Special Issue Purpose
The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new theoretical and empirical research on the developments within the field and practice of innovation management. A more complex view of the emerging branches of innovation offers new directions for research on strategic management and organizational performance.
Research Themes
This Special Issue seeks to merge traditional and modern perspectives in Innovation Management by exploring the strategic foundations of industry dynamics, technology, leadership, strategy practice, product development, marketing, sustainability, and the multi-disciplinary perspectives of network economics, evolutionary change, and complexity theory.
The journal welcomes contributions across a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:
• Industry Clusters, Networks and Strategic Innovation
• Organizational and Technological Dimensions of Innovation
• Strategic Leadership and Innovation
• Innovation in Strategy Practice and Strategic Tools
• Innovation Management and New Product Development
• Brand Driven Innovation
• Innovation and Sustainability
• Innovation Diffusion, Critical Mass and Network Externalities
• Multidisciplinary Models of Innovation: from Darwin to Complexity
We invite conceptual or empirical (case study, field study, or survey-based) papers dealing with established and emerging insights on innovation management. Management Research Review, published by Emerald, is a peer reviewed academic journal, which has been in publication for over 34 years. Its emphasis is to publish internationally focused management research studies that have timely results and implications of research, with rapid feedback and turnaround time.
Schedule
Deadline for Submission of Papers November 30, 2011
Notification of Decision February 29, 2012
Final Papers Due April 30, 2012
Expected Publication Date Fall 2012
Guidelines for Authors
Articles should be about 6,000 words in length. Longer papers will be considered. Further information and guidelines for authors are listed at: www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=mrr
Submissions to be made via the journal website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mrr
Guest Co-Editors Contact Details
Tanya Sammut-Bonnici, Associate Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
e-mail: t.sammut-bonnici@warwick.ac.uk;
Sotirios Paroutis, Associate Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
email: sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk
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