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Deadline Approaching JIBS Digital Business Issue

  • 1.  Deadline Approaching JIBS Digital Business Issue

    Posted 09-12-2020 14:50

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Special Issue of the Journal of International Business Studies

     

    INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

      


    Special Issue Editors:

     

     

    Deadline for submission: September 30, 2020

     

    The business world is changing rapidly as digital technologies, like the internet and mobile technologies, become faster, cheaper and more responsive to our needs. These changes are beginning to impact businesses everywhere in the world. Digital technologies have allowed firms to disrupt sales and distribution systems, changed consumer buying behavior and increase/decrease demand for different products and services. Firms have benefited from digitalization in many ways including through greater access to cheaper resources, increased market reach and faster/more effective communications.

     

    Despite these changes our understanding of how the digital world impacts international business has not kept pace. Digitalization is changing the way firms do business and there is little research exploring the ways in which international business is being impacted by these changes. There is an urgent need to develop new theories, modify existing theories and determine how firms can benefit from digitalization as they do business around the world.

     

    Suggested Topics for Submissions

    We encourage research on any international aspect of the digital economy and at multiple levels of analysis, such as the individual employee or entrepreneur, firms, value chains as well as ecosystems. Different patterns of firms and different institutional and regional setting are encouraged. We encourage submissions that draw on a variety of theoretic and disciplinary approaches to the study of international business and the digital economy. Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to:

     

    • Sources of competitive advantage in the digital economy: How MNEs can leverage digital platforms, ecosystem and other advanced technologies such as AI and big data individually or in combination to create competitive advantage? What strategies, capabilities, business models and organizational processes are needed for MNEs to internationalize successfully in the digital economy?
    • How can MNEs generate and appropriate value from platform-based ecosystems? How can MNEs govern and manage relationships with different participants and members in the digital platform ecosystem across different countries?
    • How can MNEs create their own platform ecosystem or participate in existing platform ecosystems to create competitive advantage? How do institutional environments in home and host countries shape MNEs' digital platform and ecosystem strategies?
    • How, and to what extent, does digitalization and new technology affect MNEs' governance structures and choice of entry mode? How is the headquarter-foreign subsidiary relationship being affected and evolved in the digital economy?
    • How, and to what extent, can digital MNEs from developed and emerging markets overcome liabilities of foreignness, liability of outsidership and liability of country of origin to achieve competitive advantage when venturing into different foreign markets?
    • Internationalization of digital MNEs: what patterns and theoretical explanations capture these new types of businesses (ibusiness)? How do their strategies such as ownership, entry modes and location choice differ from more traditional MNEs and more traditional theories?
    • How can entrepreneurs leverage digital technologies like AI and big data to accelerate international growth and enhance international performance?
    • How does the digital economy influence the development of Born Global and International New Ventures?
    • How does the digital economy impact institutional environments both at home and abroad? How do MNEs help shape these changes and how do firms respond?
    • How, and to what extent, do new technologies affect global value chains? How, and to what extent do new technologies affect labor markets and employment practices? 
    • What are the primary sources of risk for digital international business models, and what strategies can firms use to mitigate such risks?
    • How do digital businesses handle the extra-territorial effects of national regulatory environments for data management, intellectual property, and free speech?
    • How can firms respond to the growing pressure in information security and hacking?

     

     

    Workshop and Symposium

    To help authors develop their papers, we intend to organize a paper development workshop in the summer of 2021. Furthermore, we plan to have a symposium at a major conference in 2022 for the final selected papers for publication, aiming to increase their visibility and impact.

     

     

    Submission Process

    All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this special issue. Manuscripts must be submitted in the window between September 15, 2020, and September 30, 2020, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibs. All submissions will go through the JIBS regular double-blind review process and follow standard norms and processes.

     

    For more information about this call for papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor (managing-editor@jibs.net). To see a full version of this call, including information about the guest editors and an indicative bibliography, please visit https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41267/authors/call-for-papers-and-proposals.

     

     



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    Keith Brouthers
    King's College London
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