Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Business and Systems Research

 

Special Issue on: "Evidence-based Processes in Business and Systems"

Guest Editors:
Udayan Chanda and Praveen Goyal, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India
Rajeshwar. S. Kadadevaramath, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India

Evidence-based practice means making decisions based on the best available facts, i.e. scientific findings and unbiased organisational facts. This is an emerging area in management based on critical thinking and explicitly using the best available contemporary and optimal evidence in management and decision making processes.

It has often been observed that evidence-based practices improve the overall quality of managerial decision making through deliberative use of relevant and available scientific information. This field of study has emerged from empiricism with the aim of applying scientific methods to improving managerial decision making processes.

The aim of this special issue is to provide a platform for researchers, scholars, academicians and practitioners from different parts of the globe to discuss various methods of evidence-based practices in business and systems and how to integrate evidence into their own work.

Scholarly papers are invited from all over the world for publication in this special issue.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advances in management of information systems
• Decision support and expert systems
• E-commerce
• Auctions and pricing
• Information security issues
• Service operations
• Inventory management
• Marketing and OM interface
• Revenue management and pricing
• Quality control
• Supply chain risk management
• Sustainable operations management
• Supply chain analytics
• Technology and operations management
• Human resource outsourcing
• Strategic HRM
• Talent acquisition and retention
• Performance management
• Reward and recognition
• Industrial relations
• Culture and diversity
• Executive coaching and leadership
• Human capital standards and analytics
• Sales management
• Consumer behaviour
• Cross-disciplinary issues in marketing
• New product/service development and innovation
• Product mix and brand management
• Relationship marketing
• Rural consumers
• Social marketing

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 May, 2015

Notification to authors: 31 July, 2015

Final versions due by: 31 August, 2015