| 1. | European J. of Industrial Engineering (EJIE)
Special Issue on: "Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice from an Industrial and Systems Engineering Perspective"
In recent years, it has been recognised that industry is paying more and more attention to the formalisation of complex system analysis and design by seeking better ways to improve efficiency in the design process to meet time, cost, and performance requirements. Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) has emerged as an industrial and systems engineering discipline that focuses on the devel...more |
| 2. | European J. of International Management (EJIM)
Special Issue on: "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy"
The concept and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the international level has evolved in a relatively short period of time, yet a wide array of actors and organisations have emerged that have, in turn, brought about many issues and strategies. Cumulatively, the contemporary milieu of CSR holds significant promises but also considerable challenges.
Corporate stakeho...more |
| Special Issue on: "Everybody Hurts, Sometimes - Emotions and Dysfunctional Leadership"
Organisational dysfunction characterises a facet of today’s workplace that is often hidden or ignored. In general, we expect, albeit naively, that business leaders will do the right thing. They are expected to act honourably, in accordance with organisational and institutional values, as well as acting ethically. The ideal leaders of the 21st century can integrate all the necessary subordinates...more |
| 3. | International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation (IJAAPE)
Special Issue on: "XBRL and Financial Reporting"
Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a computer language designed to transfer and store financial and operational business data, including the complex hierarchies, data-processing rules, and descriptions that offer assistance with analysis and distribution. It represents a business and reporting language with the ability to tag all the reporting data with standard definitions. In Se...more |
| Special Issue on: "Financial Reporting, Transparency and Corporate Governance: Issues in Volatile International Markets"
Papers are invited for a special issue on how corporate governance developments in the past decade have changed the face of corporate financial reporting and transparency. The special issue’s prime objective is to increase a healthy debate and dialogue on the impact of corporate governance reforms during the decade on corporate financial reporting practices. Via this special issue, a greater in...more |
| 4. | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Special Issue on: "Grid Computing and Applications"
Recent advances in grid technologies provide the ability to aggregate geographically-distributed resources into a single integrated computing platform. A variety of heterogeneous distributed resources, such as clusters, PCs, workstations, data storage devices or specific scientific instruments, are utilised and shared in grid computing systems. Computational resources, storage, memory, and band...more |
| 5. | International Journal of Aerodynamics (IJAD)
Special Issue on: "Aerodynamic Research and Potential Industrial Applications"
As we know, research into aerodynamics has always played a very important role in the whole family of fluid mechanics and significant outcomes have been widely applied in various industry fields. At the same time, however, people also neglect the potential applications of many other outcomes, which may be more important sometime in the future. Therefore, this special issue is mainly targeted at...more |
| 6. | International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE)
Special Issue on: "Software Agents in e-Business: Concepts, Development and Applications"
The main achievements of software agent technology include frameworks and platforms based on standardised languages and architectures for agent systems development. Implemented software agents are claimed to have attractive features such as adaptivity, intelligence, autonomy and mobility.
Modern e-business systems pose difficult problems concerning cost reduction, profitability and ef...more |
| 7. | International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology (IJARGE)
Special Issue on: “A Globalisation Lens: Institutional and Technological Changes for Food Security”
Globalisation is a widely-used concept that stresses the increasing role of cross-border activities for human welfare across the globe. This is not limited to economic factors, such as international trade and foreign direct investment, but extends to other human activities such as knowledge, institutions and culture.
This Special Issue of IJARGE intends to gather a set of paper...more |
| 8. | International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART)
Special Issue on: "Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art"
For the past fifteen years, virtual reality (VR) and, more recently, mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) environments that immerse their participants in imaginary space, have emerged to define an area that blurs the lines between the seemingly different worlds of research, creativity, and technological practice, while exploring the interdependencies between the virtual and the physica...more |
| 9. | International Journal of Automation and Control (IJAAC)
Special Issue on: "Intelligent-based Modelling, Control, Fault Simulation, Detection, Diagnosis and Tolerant Schemes in Electrical and Process Automation Systems"
This Special Issue deals with AI-based modelling, fault simulation, diagnosis and tolerant control technologies, real time implementations, verifications and applications to industrial systems. ...more |
| 10. | International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM)
Special Issue on: "Integrating the Automotive Supply Network: The Implementation of Promising Practice"
Practitioners and researchers have come to realise incremental improvement initiatives such as TQM, Lean and Six Sigma are key elements in boosting automotive industry performance. The management of change, therefore, has increasingly become a way of life for OEMs and suppliers grappling with widening market segmentation whilst competing with 'China price'.
However, critics of the ind...more |
| Special Issue on: "High Performance Processes and Systems in the Automotive Industry"
“Organisations that can learn faster than the competition will have a sustained competitive edge."- Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad
The automotive industry is in the midst of profound change due to a fierce and growing competition, shifts in consumer demands, high labour costs, among others. In order to combat the challenges of the 21st century, automotive manufacturers have been forced to...more |
| 11. | International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)
Special Issue on: "Ambient Sensing and Intelligence for Distributed Pervasive Applications"
Sensor networks are an enabling technology of Ambient Intelligence. The pervasive nature of unobtrusive sensors distributed in the environment, either embedded or transportable by mobile carriers, enables fine-grain capture of environmental or ambient information that provides the basis of intelligence for higher-order cognitive systems, i.e. systems with capabilities to perceive, reason, learn...more |
| Special Issue on: "Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence"
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) seeks to create a society based on unobtrusive, often invisible interactions amongst people and computer-based services in a global computing environment. Services in AmI will be ubiquitous in that there will be no specific bearer or provider but, instead, they will be associated with a variety of objects and devices in the environment, which will not bear any resembl...more |
| Special Issue on: "WiMAX Integration in NGN"
Recently, IEEE 802.16, also known as WiMAX, and its extensions (i.e., 802.16a, 802.16d, 802.16e, 802.16g) have been proposed for broadband wireless access and a solution for last mile access. A Next Generation Network (NGN) is an advanced, packet-based network that exploits multiple broadband, QoS-enabled transport technologies to provide telecommunication services. With WiMAX, NGN can provide ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Cognitive Radio Systems"
Cognitive radio is a highly promising communications paradigm to address the spectrum insufficiency problem. Currently, different wireless systems are regulated by a fixed spectrum assignment strategy. This policy partitions the whole spectrum into a large number of different ranges. Each piece is specified for a particular system. This leads to undesirable situations where some systems may onl...more |
| Special Issue on: "Bio-inspired Wireless Networks"
With the increasing complexity of wireless networks, the task of network management is becoming more and more difficult to handle. Wireless networks are becoming too complex for even the most skilled system integrators to install, configure, and maintain. Therefore it is desirable that they should be fully autonomic - able to manage themselves following high level objectives defined by network ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Toward Merging Multimedia and Mobility Services"
Services computing has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of service computing and poses fascinating problems regarding distributed resource management, ranging from information sharing to cooperative computing. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of integration of multimedia and mobility services (MMS), includi...more |
| 12. | International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance (IJBAF)
Special Issue on: "Behavioural Corporate Finance"
Behavioural corporate finance examines the effects of managers’ and investors’ psychological biases on firms’ corporate finance decisions, such as investment appraisal, capital structure, and dividend policy. The aim of this special issue is to publish high quality, innovative theoretical and empirical papers that promote understanding of behavioural corporate finance, in order to provide a pla...more |
| Special Issue on: "Behavioural Accounting"
Behavioural accounting is concerned with testing the effects of human psychological behaviour on strategic planning, budgeting, control, financial reporting, and decision-making in organisations. For example, a budget (and hence control and performance evaluation systems) has behavioural implications on everyone in an organisation: those who participate in preparing it, those who use it to assi...more |
| 13. | International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET)
Special Issue on: "Commercialization of Biomedical Technologies"
The goal of this special issue is to present critical issues related to the commercialization of biomedical technologies and the effective strategies that apply these concepts to transform inventions into successful commercial products. This collection of manuscripts will discuss key aspects in the development of a broad range of novel and innovative technologies, including medical devices, di...more |
| 14. | International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM)
Special Edition on: "Multimodal Biometric Systems and Biometric Fusion"
The goal of this Special Issue is to solicit original, state-of-the-art research in the rapidly growing area of biometric fusion, concentrating specifically on unique aspects of multimodal biometrics as well as their practical applications.
Unimodal biometric systems often face limitations that negatively influence their resulting performance. The factors can be related to noisy data,...more |
| 15. | International Journal of Business and Globalisation (IJBG)
Special Issue on: "Global Entrepreneurship"
"Global entrepreneurship" has emerged as the business buzzword of the 1990s and has captured the attention of practitioners and academicians in the world's emerging and developed economic regions in the 21st millennium. Global entrepreneurship is to a large extent influenced by the interdependence between competition and cooperation. In other words, nations and companies have recognised...more |
| 16. | International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR)
Special issue on: "The New Era of Cyberentrepreneurship and New Technology-Based Firms"
Aims and Objectives
Since the late 1990s, growing attention has been devoted by economists and policy makers to entrepreneurship, new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and internet-based firms. The reason may be traced to the evidence that small and new firms account for a substantial share of the new jobs created in developed countries. In addition, the view has been rapidly gain...more |
| Special issue on: "Electronic Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, and Decision-Making"
"To be or not to be?" That is no longer the question. Due to rapidly changing competitive landscape, most organisations must work beyond their own four walls in order to gain an extant competitive edge. These organisations will rely on the advents of the digital information superfreeway, and will be collaborating vertically and horizontally, both internally and with external partners, via new c...more |
| 17. | International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIR)
Special Issue on: "Customer Relationship Management and Information Technology Applications"
Many of the challenges in the business world today result from the innovations and advances in the global economy and the management strategies that are directly tied to the evolution of technology. Technology is changing the way we consume products and services through the Internet. All the different forms of business, including B2B (business-to-business), B2C (business-to-customer), and C2C (...more |
| 18. | International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management (IJCCM)
Special Issue on: "Chinese Recording Industry and Music Culture"
Most research regarding audio-visual cultural products in the large Chinese market have paid attention to the emergence of western multinational players (Big Five) and their strategies of entry into large Chinese market. This Special Issue pays attention to the local Chinese players from Taiwan and Hong Kong that enjoy the cultural linguistic proximity and scale advantages and thrive in the ext...more |
| Special Issue on: "China’s Film and Television Culture and Management"
China's film and television industry development path is basically a gradual integration process with national culture under the guidance of the Western industrialised theoretical model. From simple imitation to adaptation to the local culture, China’s film and television industry is on the road of variety development. With growing diversity of the people's spiritual and cultural product needs,...more |
| Special Issue on: "Cultural and Creative Industry in China"
Culture becomes a main resource of economic development during the era of knowledge-based economy, and the cultural and creative industries become an important pillar of industry. According to international experience, modernisation progress is at a critical point of the transition stage from the investment-oriented phase to the innovation-oriented phase, and economic development mainly depends...more |
| Special Issue on: "Chinese Internet Culture and Management"
From a global perspective, the Internet is entering to the main media list because of its dynamic attitude and fast pace. At the end of 2002, the total number of China’s Internet users surpassed Japan, and was second only to the United States. Almost everyone using the Internet has found intuitively what the internet brings to them is not only network technology, but also a new lifestyle and cu...more |
| Special Issue on: "Chinese Book Publishing Industry: Development and Management"
In nearly 30 years from the reform and opening of 1978, the book publishing industry in China has developed rapidly. However, this growth was largely achieved through designated ways and quantitative approaches. In the 21st century, some deep-rooted contradictions concealed by the way of growth begin to emerge.
Although Chinese publishing industry is currently in a new phase of growt...more |
| Special Issue on: "Knowledge-intensive Service Industry in China"
The knowledge-intensive service industry provides consumers with knowledge-based services, mainly relying on high technology, expertise, information and experience. The service process includes knowledge production, knowledge dissemination and knowledge use. Knowledge proliferates in the process of service, while the employees in knowledge-intensive service industry are mostly high-quality pers...more |
| 19. | International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise (IJCENT)
Special Issue on: "Organizational Learning"
Organizational learning is an important strategy in the 21st century corporate climate. A company's competitive advantage depends on the level of learning and how efficiently it is done. Organizations are now forced to use different strategies to improve performance and to adapt to the 21st century global market. It is considered that the price of investing in organizational learning is high, b...more |
| 20. | International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
Special Issue on: "Techniques and Protocols for Merging Wireless and Mobility Services"
Wireless and mobility have emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of service computing and poses fascinating problems regarding distributed resource management, ranging from information sharing to cooperative computing.
This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of integration of wireless and mobile services, inc...more |
| 21. | International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IJCIBSB)
Special Issue on: "Classify the Classifiers: Investigating the Optimum Classification Technique Per Case in Bioinformatics"
The rapid field of bioinformatics applications raises questions about the optimum selection of classification methods per case. This special issue asks, Are there default choices for classifiers given the case of bioinformatics analysis? Under what circumstances are the selection of proper classifier or family of classifiers justified?...more |
| 22. | International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (IJCAET)
Special Issue on: "Engineering and Computational Technologies in the Life Sciences"
With the rapid advance of biotechnology, in particular genomics and proteomics, research in the life sciences has been dramatically revolutionised. Modern life-science research is therefore calling for wider interdisciplinary methodologies to provide useful and rapid tools for aiding the process of targeted therapeutic interventions and biomarker discovery. One has recently become aware of nov...more |
| 23. | International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Computer Aided Design and Digital Entertainment"
With the rapid development of computer and network technologies in recent years, research and applications in computer-aided design (CAD), computer animation, digital entertainment and digital art has been receiving increasing attention from researchers across the world. Continual, pioneered research is essential to further promote the development of those areas to benefit their applications in...more |
| Special Issue on: "Integrating Web Applications"
The Web is the largest knowledge repository, and the rationale behind its great success is that the information it stores is available in friendly formats through friendly interaction mechanisms. This obviously causes problems if the information a web site provides is useful to feed an automated business process since, in general, it is not easy to integrate friendly web sites programmatically....more |
| 24. | International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL)
Special Issue on: "Focusing on Electronic Feedback: Feasible Progress or Just Unfulfilled Promises?"
Technology enhanced assessment, with its current emphasis on electronic feedback, is of current strategic importance as it forms part of the growing global e-learning industry. One of the many challenges of higher education today is to provide students with clearer and more detailed feedback after they have submitted their assignments and as an integral part of electronic formative assessment....more |
| 25. | International Journal of Design Engineering (IJDE)
Special issue on: "Design and Management Within New Product Development Projects"
New product development (NPD) projects constitute one of the key success factors of firms. It is therefore necessary to manage them as efficiently as possible in order to deliver successful products on time and to budget; and assess risks in NPD processes. Many NPD projects deviate from their initial target due to modifications or changes to customer needs as well as internal or external constr...more |
| Special issue on: "From Green Design to Eco-innovation and Sustainable Product Design"
In recent times, we have seen an increase in raw material costs, opposition to incinerators and discharges, stricter environmental legislation, increased urgency to reduce climate change, increased sensitivity to environmental issues from consumers, etc., all of which place a strong demand on environmentally-friendly product design.
Many research works have been developed worldwide in...more |
| Special issue on: "Virtual Reality in Machine Design and Manufacturing"
The field of virtual engineering has gained significance in recent years with the availability of numerical procedures and software developed to support designers and analysts. The use of more and more realistic digital mock-ups increases designer productivity and allows detailed evaluation of the design choices at an early stage. Virtual reality (VR) allows not only visualization of a set of C...more |
| 26. | International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
Special Issue on: "E-business Development in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises"
For more than a decade now, firms in countries with appropriate infrastructures in place have generally been able to exploit emerging Internet technologies for business purposes. The diffusion process has been very rapid. However, with regard to e-business adoption, several studies have shown that firm size is an important factor in driving a development in which small and medium-sized enterpri...more |
| Special Issue on: "Mobile Data Services in Electronic Business"
This special issue seeks submissions that examine the current use and future market potential for mobile data services. Since 2002, when the "Mobile Internet" became widely accessible in Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, predictions of rapid adoption have been made for other key markets as well. Services, content and supporting business models have developed along with advanced networks and devices t...more |
| 27. | International Journal of Electronic Finance (IJEF)
Special Issue on: "Homeland Security – Compliances and Effects"
Research and development in the areas of homeland security is mission critical to the national interest of all countries. While it may be true that most of the terrorism related cases are targeted at the United States, Spain, England, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, just to name a few, governments and citizens of all nations are affected by the increasingly complex and number of compliance measures in...more |
| 28. | International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG)
Special Issue on: "eParticipation Systems and Services in Converging Regions"
E-participation and e-Democracy systems are being developed and are operational in various countries, at national or local levels, with various levels of adoption. The recent generations of such systems seem to have solved initial and core philosophy problems, so current research is focused in advanced operational characteristics. However, thinking of the future unified international environmen...more |
| Special Issue on: "Delivering Electronic Government"
E-government is enabling governments to service and facilitate the citizen in ways that one could not have imagined in the past. It is also helping to usher in a process of reform in the working of local and central governments, so that governments are more aligned to the aspirations of citizens and also those of government staff. The scope of applying e-government is really vast and the future...more |
| Special Issue on: "Users and Uses of Electronic Governance"
The potential benefits of e-government and e-democracy, from improved public service delivery to new opportunities for citizenship participation, all presuppose the role, competence and engagement of citizens as users. E-governance technologies and practices are designed with different uses in mind, and the user may be imagined and cast in numerous ways: as active citizens, consumers, workers, ...more |
| 29. | International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing (IJEMR)
Special Edition on: "Evolving the E-marketing Mindset Towards the Social Web Model"
From the very beginnings of the Web, voices from many different backgrounds warned about the potential of this revolutionary public communication infrastructure for fostering individualistic behaviour in people. Somehow, this reasoning looked on the Internet, and the Web in particular, as a “place” where each individual could get into a process that isolated him/her from their physical context ...more |
| 30. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM)
Special Issue on: "Global Entrepreneurship through Innovation"
Entrepreneurship is a key facilitator of new business creation, market competitiveness and sustainability. Innovation in the global economy is a major driver of organisation leaderships, business dynamism and business value chain. Entrepreneurship and innovation are integral players in global business ecology.
However, how to foster global entrepreneurs through innovation has rarely b...more |
| Special Issue on: "Business Models and Human Capital; Current Issues and New Challenges"
Competition today is more between business models than between products. Therefore, for the firm, the choice for a specific business model is an important strategic decision. Business model invention, development and adaptation, is a core competence for entrepreneurial and sustainable business. In a global knowledge- based economy, understanding of emerging business models has become a great as...more |
| Special Issue on: "Family and Cultural Factors Impacting Entrepreneurship and Innovation"
Family businesses are the engine that drives socioeconomic development and wealth creation around the world, and entrepreneurship is a key driver of family businesses. Entrepreneurial thinking and leadership are fundamental factors in the creation of new enterprises and the sustained competitive advantages of both large and small businesses. The ability to create and foster an entrepreneurial m...more |
| Special Issue on: "Realigning the Innovation-Entrepreneurship Interface"
True entrepreneurship is the essence of economic development, but it cannot exist without innovation. Innovation plays an important role in creating an environment for sustainable entrepreneurship. Both concepts foster interactions between academia and industry for sharing of ideas and experiences and for developing new technology in order to ensure skills and value transfer to the end-users.more |
| Special Issue on: "Entrepreneurial Finance – Integrating Finance and Entrepreneurship"
Entrepreneurial firms have become an increasingly important element of global economic growth. Accompanying this development, the volume of financing to entrepreneurial firms has grown as well. Research in the field of entrepreneurial finance has long lagged behind these developments. Until the early 1990s, studies in entrepreneurial finance were almost non-existent and entrepreneurship was reg...more |
| 31. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB)
Special Issue on: "Island Brands and Island Branding"
Islands, and small islands in particular, are amongst the most heavily themed objects in the context of tourism marketing. Island economies also have serious logistic and scale difficulties in producing manufactures that are export competitive. The notion of developing island-specific brands that piggy back freely on the island allure is therefore one that allows small island entrepreneurs to d...more |
| Special Issue on: "Accounting and Finance for SMEs"
Accounting and finance are integral activities in all firms. In SMEs, they represent a unique challenge because of differing organisational contexts and differing owner objectives. In this special issue, authors are invited to share their interpretation of these challenges through contributions based on empirical data or by taking a more conceptual and theoretical perspective.
...more |
| Special Issue on: "Family Firms: Financing, Corporate Governance and Succession Issues"
Most standard textbooks develop financial and organisational theories for big corporations only. Such models often assume listed corporations, dispersed ownership, separation between ownership and control, active capital markets, and so on. It is clear that such models are not valid for family firms, which have a complete different dynamic. Financing management has different characteristics tha...more |
| 32. | International Journal of Environment and Pollution (IJEP)
Special Issue on: "Particulate Air Pollution in Urban Environments"
Particulates represent a major threat to human and environmental health of all air pollutants, especially in urban areas. There is still much to learn about sources and quantities of particulate emissions, in particular those emitted by gross emitters such as domestic heating, industry and transportation. Monitoring particulates continues to be fraught with problems, including the metrics that ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Risks in Environment"
The focus of this special issue is on bringing together researchers and practitioners from the areas of risk management and environment. The technical objective is to exchange ideas and techniques from the two areas as well as to establish a framework for the development of methodologies that integrate risk management tool into environment issues. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretic...more |
| 33. | International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM)
Special Issue on: "Environmental and Industrial Waste Management Using Membrane Separation and Bioremediation"
Compared to equilibrium governed separation processes, i.e., adsorption, absorption, etc., rate governed membrane based separation processes are gaining importance for treatment of various industrial effluent/process streams. It has been estimated that the current worldwide membrane/equipment market is 1.6 billion dollars annually. New applications in wastewater treatment from various industria...more |
| Special Issue on: "Air Pollution Control Technologies by Wet Scrubbing Techniques"
Atmospheric pollution is considered to be most dangerous pollutant of our ecosystem as it has direct influence over all living and nonliving things and its control by isolation and then cleaning becomes beyond man’s effort unless the pollutants are controlled at the source itself. A diverse variety of pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere by both natural, anthropogenic and industrial activ...more |
| 34. | International Journal of Environmental Policy and Decision Making (IJEPDM)
Special Issue on: "Innovative Environmental Decision Analysis towards Sustainable Development"
In the new century, it is crucial to put forward innovative approaches to assist viable decision-making procedures, address the critical environmental issues, and facilitate the sustainable development. Effective decision making is desired in all sectors to resolve multi-stage, multi-layer, and multi-criteria environmental problems.
Uncertainty quantification is a key component of dec...more |
| 35. | International Journal of Financial Services Management (IJFSM)
Special Issue on: "Financial Services Industry: Emerging Challenges and Prospects"
Over the last few decades there has been a series of substantial changes in the Financial Services industry. Recent advances in policy-making, regulatory framework, information and communication technology and risk management practices, all combined with the explosive growth in the volume of cross border capital flows, have led to an increasing demand for effective, efficient and prudent deploy...more |
| 36. | International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP)
Special Issue on: "Investment and Innovation Policies to Promote Technology Development And Commercialisation"
Investment and innovation policies play an increasing role in contributing to the development of high technology start-ups. The formation of government policies generally aims to facilitate the translation of research results into economic benefits. However, improving the investment policies is a necessary but not a sufficient condition in fostering high technology entrepreneurial activities an...more |
| 37. | International Journal of Global Environmental Issues (IJGENVI)
Special Issue on: "Social-Economic Engineering and Environment Issues"
The focus of this special issue is on bringing together researchers and practitioners from the areas of social-economic engineering and environment. The technical objective is to exchange ideas and techniques from the two areas as well as to develop economic, social engineering and social science methodologies to resolving environment issues. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical an...more |
| 38. | International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business (IJGSB)
Special Issue on: "European Union, Innovation and SMEs"
In the European Union there is currently a debate concerning the necessity to enhance SMEs’ competitiveness through tools fostering technological and strategic-organisational innovation. This attention is explained by the evidence that SMEs have always been playing – and still do – a key role in the economy of some European countries. The improvement of SMEs’ competitiveness, as a consequence, ...more |
| 39. | International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management (IJHTM)
Special Issue on: "Transforming Basic Research in Biomedical Sciences into Commercial Applications: The Role of Universities in Industrialised Countries"
Industrialised countries are trying to counter the threat from low-cost manufacturing countries by building on their comparative advantage in high-technology sectors. Industrial policy initiatives in Europe, Japan, and North America attempt to stimulate innovation and productivity, and the health sector is especially prominent in this process in areas including biotech, genetics, microelectroni...more |
| Special Issue on: "Public Health and Policy"
The purpose of the proposed special issue is to examine the issues related to public health. This issue is open , but not limited, to theoretical and empirical papers in international health, pharmoeconomics, health economics, health care financing, urban and rural health, health disparities, environmental health and epidemiological studies....more |
| 40. | International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS)
Special Issue on: "Application of Digital Human Modelling Tools in User Centred Design Processes"
The movement towards virtual product and production development processes leads to a situation where it is both possible and important to represent future product and workplace users as digital human models. These digital human models are at the disposal of design engineers, as one of many design tools that can be employed, and hence the functionality and method of application of the tools infl...more |
| 41. | International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management (IJICBM)
Special Issue on: "Information Systems Security in Indian Businesses"
As organisations increasingly rely on computer networks for wired and wireless communications for various business transactions, information systems (IS) security plays a pivotal role in business success. The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage the development of quality research in IS security in the context of Indian businesses that have local as well as global impact. It will expl...more |
| 42. | International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM)
Special Issue on: "Mobile Computing and Commerce"
Mobile computing and commerce has advanced substantially in scope and use largely through new advances in ICT, affordable computer power and miniaturisation of chips. Mobile devices have become important not only in local but also in global communication. They have become part of our lives especially for data exchange, commerce, business and leisure time. However, literature in information sy...more |
| 43. | International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD)
Special Issue on: "Regional Economic Development Dynamics: Focus on Regional/Sectoral Innovation Systems"
Deep and broad economic integration in Europe and especially within the European Union has been taking place mostly on an intra- and cross-regional basis transcending national frontiers and identities and being driven by affinities, complementarities and synergies at the regional level.
The presence, role and impact of this phenomenon as a driver of regional economic development and es...more |
| 44. | International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD)
Special Issue on: "Gender And Sustainable Development"
This special issue welcomes papers based on new quantitative research concerning the economic, social and environmental role of women and the implications for government policies and business practices. ...more |
| 45. | International Journal of Intellectual Property Management (IJIPM)
Special Issue on: "International Intellectual Property Law and the Creative Industries"
This special issue will address topics related to the complex and contentious interface between the international intellectual property law and creative industries and aims at broadening the debate on the global dimensions and challenges of the privatisation of public goods, incentives to innovation in industry, and access to knowledge and commons. A primary desirable approach is centered in th...more |
| 46. | International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (IJKMS)
Special Issue on: "Knowledge Management in the Project Work Context"
In many companies, knowledge management within and between projects is becoming a prerequisite to sustain a competitive advantage. This is especially the case in project-based firms. Many authors argue that without managing knowledge in projects, knowledge assets can be lost when the projects are completed. However, in many companies - and projects in general - activities such as knowledge acqu...more |
| 47. | International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital (IJLIC)
Special Issue on: "Innovation and Knowledge Management: Challenges for the Firm"
The subjects of innovation and learning are receiving increased interest both from the academic community and from companies because of the influence of innovation and learning on the achievement of a sustained competitive advantage for the firm in the knowledge-based economy. Literature on innovation and learning suggest that competitive advantage flow from the creation, ownership, protection ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Multinational Corporations’ R&D Transfer and Intellectual Capital Management"
Along with economy globalisation and the arrival of the knowledge-based economy, multinational corporations pursue an R&D globalisation stratagy to support market exploitation overseas in order to improve competitive power by using overseas science and technology resources. Multinational corporations’ R&D organisations, with strong capital advantage, establish laboratories and research institut...more |
| Special Issue on: "Education Innovation and Personnel Training"
Knowledge is the main resource for the knowledge society; in other words, the knowledge society is such a society which creates value by knowledge application. In traditional society, the application of knowledge was still at the level of thinking application until the 18th century, when knowledge began to be applied to tools, processes and products, and created the industrial revolution. In th...more |
| 48. | International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials (IJMMM)
Special Issue on: "Artificial Intelligence Applied in Machining"
At the present, almost every branch of science and engineering uses the artificial intelligence tools and techniques. The industrial impact of artificial intelligence has primarily been in control and diagnosis applications; however, much research work has been done in applying these techniques in other fields.
In machining research, artificial intelligence tools have been widely used. ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Sculptured Surface Machining"
At the present time, the milling of sculptured and complex surfaces is an important topic from both industrial and technological points of view. Several problems coincide in the same workpiece, for instance, a difficult-to-cut steel or superalloy, a complex geometry and narrow tolerances to be achieved. Usually success comes from a holistic view of the design and manufacturing process, where mi...more |
| Special Issue on: "Near Dry - Minimum Quantity of Lubricant (MQL) Machining"
The basic functions of a metal working (cutting) fluid (hereafter MWF) or simply the coolant are to provide cooling and lubrication and thus reducing the severity of the contact processes at the cutting tool–chip and cutting tool–workpiece interfaces. It is expected that MWF should also provide secondary service actions such as, for example, washing of the machined part or chip transportations ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Drilling of Composite Materials"
Nowadays, the use of composite materials has increased in various areas of science and technology due to their special properties, namely for these application in aircraft, automotive, defence and aerospace as well others advanced industries. Drilling is a frequently practiced machining process in modern industry owing to the need for component assembly in composite structures. Articles with ex...more |
| 49. | International Journal of Management and Decision Making (IJMDM)
Special issue on "Decision Models, Decision Aids and Strategic Decision Making"
The aim of this special issue is to look into how the growth in the use of decision making models and computer-based decision aids such as decision support systems and intelligent-based systems, comprising expert systems and neural networks, impacts on various aspects of the strategic decision making. Such strategic decisions are capable of shaping the future direction, position and earnings of...more |
| 50. | International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management (IJMTM)
Special Issue on: "AIT-driven Manufacturing and Management"
Automated identification technology (AIT) comprises RFID (radio frequency identification), bar coding, biometrics and smart cards, etc. AIT streamlines production and manufacturing process. It also reshapes or even revolutionizes supply chain and management. AIT is exploding with more opportunities for professionals and better service for the people.
The objective of this special issu...more |
| 51. | International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (IJMATEI)
Special Issue on: "Dynamic and Impact Behaviour of Cellular Materials"
Cellular materials have unique mechanical and physical properties, such as their specific strength and stiffness. Their constitutive behaviour also makes cellular materials indicated for energy absorption (crashworthiness, impact, ballistics, blast-wave, heat exchange, etc.) These characteristics, among others, make cellular materials highly adapted to the development of multi-functional, light...more |
| 52. | International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems (IJMMS)
Special Issue on: "Modelling and Optimisation Techniques in Materials and Manufacturing Processes"
Manufacturing engineers are involved with the process of manufacturing from planning to packaging of the finished product. In this world of global competition, manufacturing processes need continuous improvement to cater the demand of increasing productivity, flexibility and quality of the product. The need for dimensional accuracy, superior mechanical and surface properties of the product has ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Product Design, Manufacturing Processes and Continuous Improvement"
Current production systems must be oriented to solve the strict requirements associated with increasing demands in terms of dimensional precision, tensile strength, fatigue response, energy efficiency and overall costs in manufactured components, as well as the exigent conditions derived from the strong competence with other companies in the same markets. In order to guarantee the success of en...more |
| Special Issue on: "Innovative Cutting Tool Technologies for Modern Machining Challenges"
With over 100-years of development, the “cutting tool” is still one of the key elements inseparable from high-productivity, high-precision machining operations. Driven by advanced material processing and fabrications, cutting tools have been evolving to have, e.g., the hardest-ever coating and the smallest-ever configuration. In parallel, many emerging machining technologies, such as micro-scal...more |
| 53. | International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (IJMLO)
Special Issue on: "Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Language Learning"
Language learning has become one of the important application domains of mobile learning. Recent developments in mobile and ubiquitous technologies provide new learning environments for language learning, which goes far beyond the traditional learning paradigms, i.e., classroom teaching and training in companies.
Research and development projects on Mobile CALL (Computer Assisted Lan...more |
| 54. | International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC)
Special Issue on: "Autonomous Vehicle Control and Intelligent Transportation in the Marine Field"
This special issue will focus on new modelling and control methodology development and/or novel and challenging applications of autonomous vehicle control and intelligent transportation in the field of marine transportation.
The explosive demand in marine transportation, especially with the proliferation of world trading via ocean, indicates a great opportunity for autonomous surface ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Wind Power Generation"
Renewable power generation, in particular wind power generation, is to the benefit of society and has attracted a great deal of research interests. Wind power generation (WPG) is a multidisciplinary subject and there are currently a few special issues on WPG in power engineering journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (August, 2007). However, there is no such special issue a...more |
| Special Issue on: "Planning and Control in Robotics"
Robots have been increasingly used in areas such as space navigation and exploration, hazard handling, rescue work, medicine and home care. The new generation of robots are more sophisticated, accurate, mobile, intelligent and autonomous. Robot planning and control has become demanding and challenging, and has motivated significant research and technological development in the areas of control,...more |
| Special Issue on: "New Trends on Particle Swarm Optimisation"
Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a new swarm intelligent modelling algorithm proposed by J.Kennedy and R.C.Eberhart since 1995. It simulates animal collective behaviours such as bird flocking and fish schooling. Due to its simple concepts, fast convergent speed, and easy implementation, PSO has been widely applied in many research areas and real-world engineering fields, such as task assign...more |
| Special Issue on: "The Methodologies and Applications of Modelling, Identification, and Computing in Medical Imaging"
Modern medical imaging relies on extensive modelling methodologies to develop novel technologies, improve modality accuracy and explore versatile applications. This special issue will focus on the methodology development, implementation, and applications of modelling, identification, and computing in medical imaging such as MRI, X-ray CT, PET, and ultrasound, etc. The peer-reviewed scientific r...more |
| Special Issue on: "Modelling, Monitoring and Control of Durability of Concrete Structures"
Durability of concrete structures has been the subject of academic debate since the early 1970s. Over past decades, a number of durability related problems have emerged and now the topic has become a major concern of infrastructure owners and operators. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the key research progress in this important field and to present the original research relate...more |
| 55. | International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials (IJNBM)
Special Issue on: "Management and Delivery of Acrylic and Ceramic-based Materials for Use in Hard Tissue Replacement"
There is considerable interest in the use of nanotechnology to improve the application of acrylic and ceramic-based systems for hard tissue replacement. Prosthetic replacement of lost hard tissue must be able to withstand significant mechanical loads, bacterial biofilm formation, whilst remaining biocompatible and non-toxic.
In order to meet these demands, there is an urgent requireme...more |
| Special Issue on: "Application of Nanotechnology to Orthopaedic Cements"
Extensive research has been completed in developing the physical, mechanical and biological properties of orthopaedic cements since their conception. Research into the next generation of orthopaedic cements indicates nanotechnology could be incorporated to enhance their functionality. Preliminary investigations have recognised the potential for nanoclays, carbon nanotubes, and various nanoparti...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Medical Micro and Nanomanufacturing and its Applications"
The advent of manufacturing techniques that enable fabrication at the micrometer-scale and below provides unique opportunity for medical device applications. Miniaturisation enables enhanced sensitivity, accuracy, and reduced analysis time in diagnostic applications, higher precision, efficacy, and minimised invasiveness in therapeutic applications, and provides the potential for lower costs an...more |
| 56. | International Journal of Nanomanufacturing (IJNM)
Special issue on: "Advances in Micro and Nanomanufacturing Processes"
In the past ten years, significant strides have been made in the development of micro and nanomanufacturing techniques. Advances in micro and nanofabrication in recent years include developments in atomic force manipulation, soft lithography, self assembly processes, sintering, micromachining, microcasting, molding processes, hot embossing, injection molding, printing, stamping, imprint rolling...more |
| Special issue on: "Nanomanufacturing Systems, Processes and Simulation"
Research and technology developments at the atomic, molecular or macromolecular levels have the potential to provide a fundamental understanding of phenomena and materials at the nanoscale and to create and use structures, devices and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their small and/or intermediate size. Nanomanufacturing encompasses processes aimed at building nanosc...more |
| Special issue on: "Process Control for Mechanical Micromachining Processes"
In current biomedical, electronics and aerospace industries, as the dimensions of miniature component devices are continuously scaling down with stringent nanoprecision requirements and complex 3D features, various microfabrication methods have been developed for different applications. Compared to other existing miniature fabrication technologies, the mechanical micromachining process is one o...more |
| 57. | International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO)
Special Edition on: "Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining (OSINT-WM)"
Open source data is increasingly important to support the intelligence function. The increasing ability to successfully mine data from large, incoherent series of sources, allows analysts to build up detailed composite pictures of their area of interest. Open source analysis is not a substitute for traditional classified work; the analyst can use the open source view to be able to ascertain wha...more |
| 58. | International Journal of Opportunity, Growth and Value Creation (IJOGVC)
Special Issue on: "Growth"
This special issue spotlights the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises. Growth is at the core of entrepreneurial activities and subsequent development, and is reflected by the exploitation of opportunities and subsequent organizational development. The issue will thus draw attention to shedding new light on the sources, processes, and outcomes associated with organi...more |
| 59. | International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion (IJPEC)
Special Issue on: "FACTS Technology Applications in Power System Studies"
In recent years, power demand increased substantially while the expansion of power generation and transmission has been severely curtailed due to limited resources and environmental restrictions. As a consequence, some transmission lines are more heavily loaded than before. This situation has necessitated a review of the traditional power system concepts and practices in order to achieve a larg...more |
| 60. | International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC)
Special Issue on: "Grid-Connected Converters, including Voltage-Source, Current-Source, and Multilevel Converters"
This Special Issue deals with grid-connected converters, including voltage-source, current-source, and multilevel converters. Applications include, but are not limited to, HVDC, FACTS, back-to-back motor drives, wind-turbine generators, and distributed generation....more |
| Special Issue on: "Power Electronics for Motion Control"
This Special Issue deals with modeling, simulation, analysis, control techniques, real time implementations and testing on power electronics for motion control. ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advanced Power Semiconductor Devices"
This Special Issue deals with CAD modelling, simulation, analysis, materials, processes, control techniques, power ICcs, modules and packaging, real-time implementations and testing.
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| 61. | International Journal of Procurement Management (IJPM)
Special issue on: "Strategic e-Procurement Management"
As the traditional purchasing activity declines in efficacy, e-procurement grows in intensity. However, with procurement professionals now realising that new e-procurement processes need to be contextualised, many organisations operate multiple e-procurement solutions. An overall e-procurement strategy should incorporate the alignment of various processes and solutions, as organisations pursue ...more |
| 62. | International Journal of Product Development (IJPD)
Special Issue on: "Transformations in Industrial Design: Emerging Trends, Approaches and Challenges"
Design is not simply about learning skills or making beautiful objects. It is the training of minds that will nurture the need to want to develop innovative ideas that impact and contribute to the global community.
Faced with future challenges, industry is supposed to show structural reform as well as the ability to produce client- and user-oriented solutions, along with innovations ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Fostering Out-of-the-Box-Creativity in New Product Development"
The high innovative capability of companies – the capability to develop new products and successfully introduce them into the market – is generally accepted as a source of competitive advantage. Many new products are based, to a great extent, on existing skills and knowledge, knowledge about product technologies, product structures, customer requirements, development routines, and so on. Compan...more |
| 63. | International Journal of Public Policy (IJPP)
Special Issue on: "Public Affairs Informatics Research – V"
The objective of this special issue is to assemble research and scholarly works that contribute to the theoretical and empirical knowledge base for identifying policy and informatics programs that will improve the performance of service organisations and enhance the well-being of communities. The specific aims of this issue are to:
- Explicate an interdisciplinary focus in public a...more
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| 64. | International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management (IJPSPM)
Special Issue on: "Performance of Public Policy and Venture Capital"
Venture capital firms not only fund but also proactively support the development of high-potential companies in the early stages of their development and growth, often creating highly skilled employment in new innovative areas where other sources of finance are hard to access. For private equity and venture capital to contribute to sustained economic growth, competitiveness and innovation poli...more |
| Special Issue on: "Marketing Strategies for Public Performance"
Marketing in the public sector faces challenges both a regional and national level. In particular, there is emphasis on performance management and the adoption of an approach to business that parallels that in the profit making private sector. As public organisations aim to produce impacts on their external environment, their performance needs to be measured, not only at the internal level but ...more |
| 65. | International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing (IJRAPIDM)
Special Issue on: "The Impact of Rapid Manufacturing on the Engineering Design Process"
The engineering design process includes a set of activities arranged in a specific order with the clearly identified inputs and outputs. The objective of this process is to satisfy customer requirements and management objectives. This process is considered efficient when output of the process satisfies general customer and defined requirements, meets management objectives and customer deadlines...more |
| 66. | International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM)
Special Issue on: "Revenue Management in Emerging Areas"
This special issue considers all emerging areas of revenue management other than conventional airlines and hotels applications. While all types of papers related to applications in the emerging areas are welcome, papers related to applications of revenue management in the emerging economies in developing countries are preferred....more |
| 67. | International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN)
Special Issue on: "Security, Privacy, and Identification Technologies in Wireless Sensor Networks"
Sensors and sensor networks have attracted considerable research interest because of their potential in providing diverse services to pervasive computing applications, not only in science and engineering, but also, equally importantly, in issues related to critical infrastructure protection, security, health care, environment protection, energy, etc. The ad-hoc networking technology has also en...more |
| 68. | International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET)
Special Issue on: "Survivable Sensor Networks"
Sensor networks are appealing to diverse services due to the distributed (redundant) nature of sensors. Redundancy has profound effects on the survivability of tasks at hand and is especially important to applications attempting to overcome the problem of single points of failure. Redundancy, however, increases the chance for component failure, increases the complexity of communication protocol...more |
| 69. | International Journal of Services Sciences (IJSSCI)
Special Issue on: "Special Section on New Advances of Risk Management in Services - the second issue"
In recent years, risk management has attracted a great deal of attention from both researchers and practitioners. Typical financial hedging contracts have been used in the area of operation services by a growing number of operations management researchers. Risk creates lots of opportunity to make profits. Complexity and uncertainty in many practical problems require new methods and tools to han...more |
| 70. | International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM)
Special Issue on: "Intellectual Capital Management for Service Productivity Improvement"
Similarly to manufacturing organisations, service organisations are challenged to continuous productivity improvement. Both in the case of globally-operating and competing companies as well as in locally-operating public welfare organisations, there is a need to make sure that service production is effective and efficient and that resources are optimised, properly allocated and exploited. This ...more |
| 71. | International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics (IJSTL)
Special Issue on: "Managing Container Operations Effectively"
Containerisation has increasingly facilitated the transportation of goods since 1970s. The average annual growth rate of world container traffic has been around 10% in the last three decades, which is well above the world trade growth rate. The increasing demands drive the development of the supply side. Accordingly, world container fleet and container vessel fleet also maintain around 10% of a...more |
| 72. | International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage (IJSSCA)
Special Issue on: "Design for Six Sigma"
This special issue aims to publish research that discusses Design for Six Sigma in production and service operations to confront and solve challenges within such systems. Given the use of process improvement methods such as Total Quality Management and Six Sigma, there is growing evidence to support the fact that these methods eventually reach a point of diminishing return because often, if uni...more |
| 73. | International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM)
Special Issue on: "Sport Event Marketing: Creating Relationship Value"
Sport events are innumerable and diverse. Global, national or local, they constitute social facts generating an emotional experience for the stakeholders involved. They differ in particular by their format, governance, goals, and their social, economic and environmental impact. Marketing professionals conceive and implement marketing strategies, originally focusing on audience, sponsors and med...more |
| 74. | International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering (IJSURFSE)
Special issue on: "Advances in the Analysis of Surface Texture in Engineering Manufacture"
Surface topography is a foremost characteristic among the surface integrity magnitudes and properties imparted by the tools used in the various manufacturing processes and especially their finishing versions.
Over the years, the characterisation and evaluation of engineering surface texture has constituted a challenging metrological problem, attributed largely to the usually complica...more |
| 75. | International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM)
Special Issue on: "Lean Principles and Information Management"
Lean has become prevalent in the manufacturing and service sectors. Lean supply is often supported by comprehensive information systems for communicating demand information, planning and controlling production and recording and reporting the use of resources. Some companies have implemented new accounting systems based upon activity based costing. Lean synchronises demand throughout the interna...more |
| Special Issue on: "Lean Principles in Manufacturing, Service and Public Sectors"
The principles of Lean supply emerged from the Toyota Production System. Lean is focused upon the elimination of waste (all activities that add cost but not value) and continuous improvement. Lean has enabled companies to simultaneously increase productivity and quality whilst reducing inventory, lead times and costs.
Lean comprises a philosophy and a set of tools that are often pragm...more |
| Special Issue on: "The Internet Channel Affecting Service Sciences"
The Internet channel has significantly affected most business companies since it has been adopted as a communication, trading medium. Those companies which are willing to adopt the Internet channel have enjoyed revenue increases, while those which are not have suffered revenue losses. The objective of this special issue is to highlight this particular aspect of the relationship between the Inte...more |
| Special Issue on: "Risk Technology Management: Views from Sichuan Earthquake"
Earthquakes are among the most terrifying and destructive natural disasters threatening humans. As the horrors of the Sichuan earthquake in China of May 2008 continue to be a threat to people’s lives, and the number of dead is expected to rise to more than fifty thousand, we have to study the lessons from the earthquake disaster as an opportunity to prepare ourselves better for future disasters...more |
| 76. | International Journal of Technology Marketing (IJTMKT)
Special Issue on: "R&D, Innovation and Marketing - How to Convince Internal and External Stakeholders of Technological Innovations"
The term "innovation" is nowadays used in almost every context in daily life. There is no company which does not use it within their internal and external communications. In this context, many of them neglect the fact that innovations can provoke resistance to change. Therefore, today, maybe more than ever before, it is important for companies to continuously build up sustainable competitive ad...more |
| 77. | International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation (IJTTC)
Special Issue on: "Technology Transfer within the post-Kyoto Protocol Policy Framework"
As the Kyoto Protocol is edging toward its expiry in 2012, the academic and policymaking communities are already contemplating a replacement policy framework (or policy design architecture) to address unresolved problems and future challenges.
This special issue offers a platform for debates and discussions, while the process of searching for solutions to many questions relating to e...more |
| 78. | International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM)
Special Issue on: "Barriers to Innovation in Home Country: Can Internationalisation of R&D Mitigate their Effects?"
Technological advancements, especially in information and communication technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition already spurred by the globalisation of world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalisation brings about. Innovative ideas and products are becoming increasingly important to counter the price-ori...more |
| 79. | International Journal of Value Chain Management (IJVCM)
Special Issue on: "Performance Analysis in an e-Business Environment"
e-Business initiatives have received significant attention and investments in recent years. As increasing number of companies make electronic business an integral part of their strategic activities, the importance of analysing the performance of an e-Business environment has become critical for competitiveness. There are many key issues to be explored with respect to the performance analysis of...more |
| Special Issue on: "Value Chain Management – Linking Australia and its Global Partners"
The value chain approach entails the concept of value adding at the macro and micro levels. The value adding elements permeate across countries, organisations and departments. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, Australian organisations can no longer afford to operate in silos but need to coordinate their activities at both the national and international levels to compete in an in...more |
| 80. | International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (IJVICS)
Special Issue on: "Information and Communication Technologies in Vehicle Navigation"
Land vehicle navigation systems provide drivers with route guidance information via vehicle borne or portable devices. They have become indispensable in many of the new automobile models, and their design concepts have evolved to include functionalities that make them more than just a vehicle location and map displaying system.
At present, intensive R&D activities are being conducted ...more |
| 81. | International Journal of Water (IJW)
Special Issue on: “Wetland Systems to Control Runoff”. DEADLINES EXTENDED
This special issue aims to integrate natural and constructed wetlands and sustainable drainage techniques into traditional water and wastewater systems used to treat surface runoff and associated diffuse pollution.
The objectives are:
- to present a comprehensive collection of timely, novel and innovative research case studies in the area of wetland systems applied for th...more
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| 82. | International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC)
Special Issue on: "Web 2.0 Goes Academia: Innovative Scenarios for Socio-technical Communities"
Web 2.0 is – as O’Reilly (2005) said – a “second generation of Internet-based services”. The common idea is to enable people to collaborate and share information online in new ways, such as in wikis, communication tools, social networking applications, and social tagging. Figure 1 confronts the two concepts and lists examples from Web 2.0 usage in academia.
more | Special Issue on: "Web-based Communities and Healthcare"
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of individuals accessing health-related web-based communities. Such communities are concerned with a diverse range of health-related topics (e.g. cancer, depression, coronary heart disease, disability etc) and participation is increasingly being recognised as having an important contribution in the self-management of chronic illness...more | | Special Issue on: "Building Community in Virtual Worlds"
The aim of this special issue is to collect and to share studies related to the ways in which community can be fostered and sustained in virtual worlds for a variety of purposes.
The use of three-dimensional immersive virtual worlds is gaining popularity in education, gaming, the military and industry. According to Gartner Research, by 2010, 80% of Internet users will have a virtual p...more | |
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