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Dear all,

Please see below for a call for papers for a special issue of Management Research Review, on the theme of "Strategic Directions for Innovation Management", and guest edited by Tanya Sammut-Bonnici & Sotirios Paroutis.

Best,

Rebecca

Rebecca Forster
Assistant Commissioning Editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Special Issue theme: Strategic Directions for Innovation Management

Guest Editors: Tanya Sammut-Bonnici, t.sammut-bonnici@warwick.ac.uk & Sotirios Paroutis, sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk

Deadline for Submission of Papers: November 30, 2011

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 scholar one online submission system at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mrr

Guest Co-Editors Contact Details

Tanya Sammut-Bonnici, Associate Fellow, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom, e-mail: t.sammut-bonnici@warwick.ac.uk

<st1:personname w:st="on">Sotirios Paroutis</st1:personname>, Associate Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, email: sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk

For further submission information please see the journal website or contact the special issue editors

Rebecca Forster
Assistant Commissioning Editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Phone: +44 (0)1274 785012
Fax: +44 (0) 1274 785204

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