Call for papers
Crises and resilience in family firms
Call for papers for: Piccola Impresa / Small Business
Guest Editors
Elena Casprini, University of Siena, Italy
Elisa Conz, University of Pavia, Italy
Linda Murphy, University of Cork, Ireland
Lorenzo Zanni, University of Siena
Antonella Zucchella, University of Pavia
Schedule
- Submission of full papers: 1 st September 2021
- Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision: 15th December 2021
- Deadline to submit revised version: 15th March 2022
- Notification of final acceptance/rejection: 15th May 2022
Special Issue Information
Family firms are a particular organizational archetype due to their unique characteristics, such as the link between the family and the business, their social capital, their brand, the idiosyncratic relationships emerging across, but also within, generations and the family-non family members. Additionally, due to their longevity and their family-centered noneconomic goals, family firms are an interesting actor to study with respect to crises. Indeed, in comparison with other organizational archetypes, family firms are simultaneously subject to both business-related and family-related challenges. This has been clear with the recent pandemic of Covid-19 that has shed light on how organizations can survive unexpected events.
Indeed, scholars attention has been increasingly drawn to understand characteristics that make organizations resilient and able to overcome difficulties caused by external non-family related events, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, volatile markets, new disruptive technologies and, more recently, Covid-19.
With the intention to open and extend the debate on the resilience of family firms, by considering the Covid-19 pandemic as one of the critical events that boosted and tested the capacity for resilience of family businesses, we propose how family businesses manage crises events as key focus of this Special Issue.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of resilience, we invite research from several disciplines such as innovation studies, strategy, international business, among others, to develop interdisciplinary studies that can extend our limited understanding of family firms resilience.
Intellectual Capital in R&D Management
Call for papers for: R&D Management
Guest Editors
Marco Greco, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy)
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, University of Oulu (Finland)
Anne-Laure Mention, RMIT (Australia)
Asta Pundzienė, University of California (USA) Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
Alberto Di Minin, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy)
Schedule
- Submission open from 01/09/2021 until 31/10/2021
- The issue will be published in the course of 2022. However, papers will be published in advance on-line viewing on the R&D Management website as soon as the review process is completed and therefore they might appear earlier.
Special Issue Information
This special issue aims to unveil how IC is related to R&D Management, R&D projects, and R&D operations.
Over the past fifteen years, the perspectives on a firm’s intangible assets and their mobilisation have drawn global attention. The OECD, the European Commission, the World Bank, METI (Japan) and DIIS (Australia) are some amongst many that have emphasised the importance of Intellectual Capital (IC) in fostering innovation and in promoting firm competitiveness in the current knowledge-intensive economy. Indeed, organisational performance is increasingly dependent on intangible resources and how they are managed. IC can be described as the stock of such intangible resources that include a firm’s intellectual property, processes, organisational culture (structural capital), its links with external stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, competitors, authorities (relational capital), and the knowledge, competencies, experience and motivation owned by its human resources (human capital). These key components determine the competitiveness of organisations, their capability to innovate, and their relevance in their innovation ecosystems. The relevance of these issues has not escaped academics either, as an epistemic community flourishes around the IC theory, and as scholars are increasingly producing rich evidence on the importance of IC – both inside and outside the IC epistemic community. However, despite the increasing attention of scholars, further research is needed. A recent review indicates that four major research areas still call for significant contributions:
- intellectual capital research in universities, education and the public sector;
- reporting and disclosure of intellectual capital;
- intellectual capital, financial performance, and market value;
- and knowledge management and intellectual capital.
2021 IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference – Europe
Innovation Networks, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology And Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Conference and In-Person Event in Dubrovnik (Conditions Permitting)
17th -21st May 2021
https://2021.europe.temscon.org/
Organizing Committee
General chairs: Marina Dabić, Sudeendra Koushik
Technical program chairs: Tugrul Daim and Richard Evans
Finance chair: William Marschall
Local arrangements chairs: Nebojša Stojčić, Jurica Pavičić, Nina Begičević Ređep
Industry program chairs: Vincenzo Piuri, Robert Bierwolf
Publicity chairs: George Criscione, Vishwas Jois Ravikiran, A.
Publications chair: Ed Perkins
Schedule
- Paper submission due: 31st January 2021
- Notification of acceptance: 10th March 2021
- Revisions Due (For Papers Requiring Revisions): 10th April 2021
- Final Papers Due: 16th April 2021
- Per-Paper author registration due: 30th April 2021 (there will be a $250 per-paper penalty for payments received after this date)
Conference Information
2021 International Conference IEEE–TEMSCON EUROPEIEEE – Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS)Virtual Conference and In-Person Event in Dubrovnik (Conditions Permitting)17th -21st May 2021INNOVATION NETWORKS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEThe innovation emerges through collaborative efforts of innovation network actors and in turn paves the way for successful entrepreneurial ventures. With advancements in information technologies the need arises to redefine our understanding of what constitutes innovation networks. In turn, the advancements in the field of artificial intelligence enable entrepreneurs to differentiate themselves from rivals in previously unprecedented ways and to harness the benefits of innovation networks through novel channels.
Open Innovation in the Food Industry: What we know, What we don’t know, What we need to know
Call for papers for: British Food Journal
Guest Editors
Marina Dabić, University of Zagreb, Croatia & Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Carsten Nico Hjortsø, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Giacomo Marzi, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Božidar Vlačić, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Schedule
- Author submission window opens: 1st December 2020
- Author submission deadline: 1st March 2021
Special Issue Information
Open Innovation has been a paradigm that reshaped the approach to innovativeness and competitiveness during the last two decades (West and Bogers, 2014). Globalization, fast technological pace, rapid changes in customers’ needs asked the companies to rethink their innovation processes as they became more risky and unpredictable (Chesbrough, 2013). The difficult to retain knowledge together with the high cost connected with the purely internal development of innovation pushed the companies to an open innovation approach that includes the network of agents such as universities, start-ups, public and private institutions, external suppliers, and customers (Chesbrough, 2013). This has led the companies towards an open approach both in search of skills as well as innovation and R&D (Johnston, 2020).
Co-design and Collaborative Innovation for Grand Challenges
Call for papers for: IEEE Transactions on ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Guest Editors
Prof. Anne-Laure Mention
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Pierre-Jean Barlatier
EDHEC Business School, Nice, France
Prof. Georges Romme
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Schedule
- Submission of the Full Paper: 31st January 2021
- Tentative date for double blind review outcome: 30th April 2021
- Final submission: 30th September 2021
Special Issue Information
This special issue invites authors to submit (conceptual and/or empirical) studies that go beyond the conventional managerial and organizational approaches, by unveiling and developing the underlying concepts, structures, mechanisms, processes, tools, logics and boundaries of pursuing bold ideas and solutions for a sustainable future. We thus invite authors to depart from a uni-directional policy perspective to a multi-directional ecosystem perspective (e.g. Cantino et al., 2017; Walrave et al., 2018; Williams & Shepherd, 2016). The latter ecosystem perspective can be developed in the form of descriptive-explanatory theory, but also in instrumental tools addressing any of the grand challenges (e.g. Talmar et al., 2019). We also invite authors to submit a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, although papers are expected to focus on bold ideas and go beyond small-scale cases. Submitted manuscripts do not necessarily have to provide a solution to a grand challenge, but all manuscripts are required to pave the way for understanding, exploring and examining ways to address a grand challenge in novel ways.
Knowledge Sharing and its Management in an International Work Environment: Drivers, Challenges and Consequences
Call for papers for: Journal of Global Mobility
Guest Editors
Marina Dabić, University of Zagreb & Nottingham Trent University
Miriam Moeller, University of Queensland
Andrea Caputo, University of Trento & University of Lincoln
Sebastian Stoermer, Technical University of Dresden
Schedule
- Submission of the Full Paper: 1st February 2021
- Acceptance notification: September 2021
- Publication: December 2021
Special Issue Information
This Special Issue seeks contributions unveiling knowledge about working in a global environment across a range of levels of analyses, temporal dynamics and processes, as well as contexts. We welcome multidisciplinary contributions that investigates the actors of global mobility, such as, and not limited to: Corporate and self-initiated expatriates; migrants; international entrepreneurs; international business travellers; low-status and high-status expatriates; short-term assignees, inpatriates, repatriates, and international commuters. In addition, we also embrace research that focuses on the host country national (HCN) perspective and respective dyadic approaches.
This Special Issue will also focus on the loci of global mobility, welcoming submissions investigating multiple contexts where global mobility takes place including corporate and non-corporate communities, such as, diplomats, academics, international school teachers, international volunteers, military expatriates, missionaries, sports professionals, international artists and healthcare employees, among others.
The limits of open innovation: Failures, risks, and costs in open innovation practice and theory
Call for papers for: Technovation
Guest Editors
Marina Dabić*
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Tugrul Daim
Portland State University, USA
Marcel Bogers
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Anne-Laure Mention
RMIT University, Australia
Tampere University, Finland
Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
* Corresponding Guest Editor.
Schedule
Author submission window opens: March 1st, 2021
Author submission deadline: August 31st, 2021
Special Issue Information
While much has been said regarding the possible benefits of an open approach to innovation, we still lack a clear understanding of the downsides of openness, the limits of openness and its interplay with failure in innovation ventures. This can lead to detrimental effects, such as differences in failure acceptance culture, a lower commitment to innovation management, and a lack of personal, organisational, project-related, marketing, consumer-based, or social prerequisites. At the same time, the growing complexity of engineering and technological advancements, along with the increased responsiveness of society when it comes to open innovation, represents new challenges for open innovation practices and research related to failures within the innovation process. Disciplines such as economics, business, law, engineering, sociology, psychology, and even mathematics and other sciences must interact to design efficient and safe open innovation strategies, structures and process.