Call for Papers – Journal of International Business Studies (ABS 4*; FT50; UTD24) Special Issue on "Microfoundations of International Business: Integrating Insights from HRM and Organizational Behavior."
Researchers in IB, HRM, OB, psychology, strategy, and related fields - this special issue is worth taking your attention. The guest editors are pushing for work that actually connects micro-level behaviors, cognition, emotion, and decision-making with macro-level international business outcomes. It's overdue, and it's a chance to help reset the conversation in the field.
The Special Issue welcomes conceptual, empirical, multilevel, mixed-method, and review papers, as well as interdisciplinary contributions.
Full details are in the official call (attached).
Guest Editors: Jeoung Yul Lee, Riikka M. Sarala, Nadia Zahoor, Samuel Adomako, & Fang Lee Cooke
Supervising Editors: Herman Aguinis & Pawan Budhwar
🔗 Manuscript submissions should be via JIBS submission system between 16–30 November 2026.
Jeoung Yul Lee, PhD
Professor of International Business, EMLYON Business School, France
Consulting Editor, Journal of International Business Studies
Associate Editor, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
Associate Editor, Journal of Business Research
Associate Editor, Asian Business & Management
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