BBS-JIFMIM Special Issue Conference

Developments in Financial Technology

June 25h and 26th, 2020- The Department of Finance-Birmingham Business School;
University of Birmingham, UK
Keynote Speaker: Professor Carol Alexander
Conference Chairs and Guest Editors:
Douglas Cumming
College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and Birmingham Business School,
University of Birmingham
Hisham Farag
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham Business School
Sofia Johan
College of Business, Florida Atlantic University
Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2020

Suggested Topics:

Possible topics/research questions include, but are not limited to:

 What are the characteristics and the new developments in

FinTech?
 What is the influence of FinTech on different types of financial
institutions (banks, VCs, insurance, stock markets, etc)?
 What are the main determinants for the developments in
crowdfunding and other alternative innovative sources of finance?
 What is the role of regulations and prudential supervisors to
enhance corporate governance and promote FinTech?
 How FinTech and the emerging new technologies would lead to
substantial enhancements in entrepreneurship?
 What is the expected impact of FinTech on corporate innovation,
culture and sustainability?

 What is the economic impact of FinTech on the development of

Alternative Finance?
 How FinTech would lead to substantial enhancements to access of
funds for SMEs and Private equity funds?
 How FinTech would substantially improves financial inclusivity
worldwide?
 What is the socio–economic impact of FinTech and what is the
influence on the banking sector and stock markets liquidity and
volatility?
Call for Proposals

The 2020 Cross Country Perspectives in Finance (CCPF) Conference

25 Jun 2020 - 27 Jun 2020, Tianjin, China

Hosting a Special Theme of the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and
Money (JIFMIM)

SPECIAL THEME GUEST EDITORS: Gady Jacoby and Zhenyu Wu, University of Manitoba,
Canada

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Yan Dong (Southwestern University of Finance and

Economics), Jonathan Batten (The University of Sydney, Australia; The East China
University of Science and Technology, Shanghai China), Gady Jacoby (I.H. Asper School of
Business, University of Manitoba, Canada), Ye Wang (Tianjin Normal University, China), and
Zhenyu Wu (I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada)

Submission Deadline for Research Proposals: February 15, 2020

Tentative publication date: Fall 2021

OVERVIEW: The main goal of this special theme conference is to encourage comparative
studies that deepen our knowledge of finance by focusing on the impact of cross-country
factors. As this JIFMIM special theme prompts cross-country studies, we seek theoretical
and empirical papers that shed light on new knowledge to enrich the literature on credit,
banking, asset pricing, market liquidity, corporate finance, corporate governance, and
entrepreneurial finance in an international context. We invite submissions of papers related
to the main topics of this special theme.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: As in previous years, the 2020 CCPF Conference will
follow a two-stage procedure in order to ensure the quality of this special theme publication.
At the first stage, we invite submissions of two-page research proposals (by February 15,
2020) that will be screened by the guest editors. A selected number of proposals will be
chosen for presentation at the CCPF conference to take place June 25-27, 2020 in Tianjin,
China. A full version of the working paper is due by May 31, 2020, to allow the discussant
enough time to review the paper. At the second stage, the CCPF Scientific Committee will
choose selected papers from those presented at the June conference (notification by July
31, 2020). Authors of short-listed papers will be invited to revise and present at a Special
Theme Symposium to be held in December 2020 in South Africa. These papers will be
considered for publication by JIFMIM. The revise-and-resubmit process will begin on
February 1, 2021, and final notification of acceptance to the special theme will be sent during
summer 2021.

Note: Papers that are not chosen to be considered by JIFMIM may be invited for submission
with Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, or Risk Management. All these
three journals are on the SSCI list. Please send proposals and enquiries
to: ccpf@umanitoba.ca
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline for Research Proposals: February 15, 2020
Authors will be notified by March 15, 2020
A full version of the working paper is due by May 31, 2020
Conference dates: June 25-27, 2020 (Tianjin, China)
Invitations to the Special Theme Symposium sent to authors: July 31, 2020
Special Theme Symposium dates: December 2020 (Cape Town, South Africa)
Revise and resubmit process begins: February 1, 2021 (Deadline: March 1, 2021)
Notification of acceptance to the special theme: Summer 2021
Special Issue on Data Science in a Digital Society
Overview
Data Science provides insight and understanding of large amount of unstructured and
heterogeneous digital sources. Today’s business activities in the modern digital society
produces masses of information that needs to be filtered, analysed and structured for
prediction and modelling. Text mining, herding analysis and sentiment extraction are
quantitative tools to augment forecasts in finance, banking and behavioral economics. Smart
data analytics is the way to apply data science in a digital society. FinTech aims to improve
the efficiency of financial systems using technology. FinTech bring several opportunities
(competitive prices, better user experience, wider inclusion) but also risks (credit risks,
market risks, cyber risks), amplified by the interconnectedness of FinTech platforms, which
generates systemic risks. This special issue aims at bringing together contributions that have
proposed new theoretical or applied insights on Data Science with a focus on Fintech.
We encourage submission of papers dealing with the following subject fields (but not limited
to): Digital Banking, Internet Finance, Financial Inclusion, Asset Allocation, Impact 
Investment, Crypto Currency, Alternative Asset Management, Blockchain Technology, Robo
Advising, Text Mining, P2P Financing, Financial Privacy Issues.

Editors of the Special Issue

Lucian Visinescu, Texas State University, Guest editor
Miruna Mazurencu‐Marinescu‐Pele, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Guest
editor
Daniel Traian Pele, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Associate editor

Instructions for Submission

For submission, the full paper, a blind copy and a separate title page should be sent to the
special issue editorial board via email at the following (clickable) address:
danpele@ase.ro. All submissions should be in PDF.
Potential authors are reminded that all papers that are finally accepted for this special issue
will be subject to format restrictions complying with the publisher standards. To speed up
publication, and to ensure a unified layout throughout the special issue, authors are kindly
advised to use LaTeX. The Springer's LaTeX template (click here) can be used to prepare
source files (please choose the formatting option "smallextended").

The authors are highly recommended not to modify the class file by introducing personal
settings and/or definitions.

Important Dates
  Call for papers: October 2019
 Deadline for paper submission: 30 March 2020
 First‐round decisions by: 30 April 2020
 Deadline for second‐round submission: 30 May 2020
 Final decisions on acceptance by: 30 June 2020

About Digital Finance

The journal is a top tier peer‐reviewed academic and practitioner journal that publishes high‐
quality articles with a focus on digital finance and innovation as well as on the analysis of
digital and internet innovations on financial services and the economy. The journal publishes
theoretical or empirical, qualitative or quantitative papers of interest to academics,
practitioners, and regulators with the emphasis on empirical, financial market, and investment
innovation, financial policy research and recommendations related to improving the welfare
in the digital economy.
Further details on this journal are available on the Springer
website: https://www.springer.com/gp

Accounting, Accountability, Investment and Corporate Governance in the Global

Context: Integrating Contemporary Accounting and International Business Research
The deadline for submission is 31 January 2021.

ABR  invites the submission of theoretical and empirical studies that develop and link current
accounting research topics with international business studies. Bowe, Filatotchev and
Marshall (2010) outline several dimensions in which accounting and economics-based
research can contribute to international business studies, such as corporate governance,
financial contracting theory, the recent growth of private equity and its effects on
international investment, among many others. To date, the accounting and international
business research fields have been developing rather independently (Puck and Filatotchev,
2019). Therefore, the main objective of this Special Issue is to build conceptual and empirical
bridges between the two disciplines.

Novel and innovative applications may have their origins in the research ideas, theoretical
developments, research methodology, research design and/or the international business
setting being examined. The wide scope of the Special Issue is an attempt to encourage
research contributions that not only address hitherto unexplored accounting issues within
international business-related topics, but also provide an original framework which can
challenge conventional approaches to international business research using rigorous
methodologies developed in contemporary accounting research. Examples of research linking
accounting with the wider international business literature include Beuselinck, Blanco and
García Lara (2017), or the literature on the effects of IFRS adoption, summarized by Ball
(2016).

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

  The relationship between Multi-National Enterprises’ (MNEs) accounting practices,

corporate governance and business strategy, including internationalisation strategy
and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
 The impact of ESG reporting on MNEs 
 How do financial reporting attributes mitigate or exacerbate “foreign firm discount”
and “home bias” in equity and debt markets?
 How is the worldwide diffusion of Integrated Reporting affecting financial markets
and business strategies? 
 Management control and creativity in international start-ups
 What are the effects of culture, language, religion and trust on attributes of financial
reporting?
 Corporate governance and its impact on earnings management and corporate financial
reporting around the world
 Internal audit and control functions as determinants, or consequences, of cross-border
organisational structure
 Accounting implications of international capital flows and internationalisation of the
cost of capital
 The impact of the transition to international accounting standards on MNE business
strategy; to what extent did home institutions contribute, or hinder, this transition?
 Accounting aspects of recent developments in real and financial option valuation in
international business research
 Global competition among MNEs and its effects on managerial compensation and
turnover: How do MNEs motivate and compensate managers? Do pay schemes vary
with competition?
 What challenges do auditors face in auditing MNEs, and how do they tackle these
challenges? Does audit quality vary with culture, religion and trust?
 Identifying patterns in the disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies
across MNEs: How do these policies vary with culture, language, religion and trust?
 How does tax avoidance vary with culture? Is tax avoidance stronger in certain
cultures than others? Is foreignness related to tax avoidance and why?

More generally, any paper that fits within ABR's Aims and Scope that focuses on issues of
interest for the international business research community will be welcome. 
Special Issue on ‘Financial Technology
and Financial Inclusion in Emerging
Markets’
Recent advances in computing technologies and the rapid growth of
internet access have supported significant advances in Financial
Technology (Fintech), both in the developed world and in the developing
countries. Fintech has significantly impacted many aspects of finance,
including securities transactions, lending, and payments. Existing and
future innovations in financial technology are expected to have a
particularly large impact on financial inclusion, facilitating much
improved access to financial services for the unbanked and underbanked
populations of the world. This potential is already being realised
in East Africa and China (building on the MPesa, Alipay and
WeChat Pay mobile payment platforms) but there is need for
further research to understand the barriers to and enablers of
broader worldwide adoption. This Special Issue calls for
papers broadly related to financial technology with particular
emphasis on its impact on financial inclusion. Related topics
such as digital finance and banking will also be considered. Institutional,
theoretical and empirical papers, especially those employing novel data
from emerging markets, are all welcome.

Interested authors should submit through the journal’s website

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-finance-journal/ and designate
the submission for the Special Issue on “Financial Technology and
Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets” in the cover letter.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2020 (Early submissions are
encouraged.)
Completion Date: January 31, 2021
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-finance-journal/call-for-papers/financial-
technology-and-financial-inclusion

Special Issue on ‘Behavioural Finance: A

Global Perspective’
The discipline of behavioural finance is still growing at an accelerated
pace. The far-reaching implications of behavioural finance, and the
wider behavioral economics, are evident in academic contributions as
well as in public policy. During its infancy, the bulk of behavioral finance
research was conducted by US-based researchers or mainly employed US
data. This picture has gradually changed in recent years however, and it
is fair to say that behavioral finance has gone truly global. For example,
studies of anomalies and inefficiencies have been particularly fruitful in
markets with cultural and structural differences, such as studies focusing
on market volatilities in China. In this spirit, the GFJ Special Issue on
“Behavioral Finance: A Global Perspective” aims to bring together a
sample of high-quality research studies that evidence this global aspect
of behavioral finance. We invite papers on all topics related to behavioral
finance and particularly encourage submissions using international data,
cross-country approaches and those focusing on global themes.

Interested authors should submit through the journal’s website 

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-finance-journal/ and designate
the submission for the Special Issue on “Behavioural Finance: A Global
Perspective” in the cover letter. 

Submission Deadline: December 31st, 2020 (Early submissions

are encouraged.) 
Completion Date: March 1, 2021

This special issue is guest edited by Prof. Arman Eshraghi.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in
Business and Management

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Modelling

in Management
Special Issue Call for Papers Journal of Modelling in Management

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Business and Management

Guest Editors:

Davide La Torre – davide.latorre@skema.edu

SKEMA Business School, France

Fouad Ben Abdelaziz – fouad.ben.abdelaziz@neoma-bs.fr

NEOMA Business School, France

Herb Kunze – hkunze@uoguelph.ca

University of Guelph, Canada

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné - bsd@skema.edu

SKEMA Business School, France

Topicality:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by computers. Machine Learning
(ML) is a branch of AI where algorithms are used to learn from data to make future decisions or
predictions. Current trends in AI and ML are: Reinforcement learning, Ethics in AI, Quantum
computing, Convergence of AI and other emerging technologies, Facial recognition, Biased data,
Neural networks, Socio-economic models, Deep learning, Privacy and policy.

Originality:

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are drawing considerable attention these days. An
already large and fast-growing literature covers a wide range of real or soon-to-materialize
applications, from dealing with autism and detecting breast cancer to selecting job candidates,
setting legal sanctions, and deciding upon conditional liberations. So much so that managers,
among many others, are now in need of a compass that would allow them to navigate lucidly
through the hype. This issue will seek to provide such a compass and include novel
developments or innovative ways of applying AI and ML techniques to business. It will cover
most generic managerial tasks, assessing for each one the extent of the support AI and ML can
bring and the consequences on managerial practice. This issue will also provide case study and
guidance on how managers and management teachers should apprehend AI and ML, and draw
the attention of management scholars and researchers on what will be rigorously argued to be
core issues. Attention will also be devoted to future developments and implementations as well
as implications for new job opportunities.
Themes:

-    Innovative algorithms and methods of AI and ML in business and applications, including
automation, data analytics, and natural language processing.
-    Integration of AI and ML tech and solution into business processes
-    Customer profiling
-    Marketing segmentation
-    Fraud analysis
-    Marketing messaging
-    Financial forecasting
-    Fashion design
-    Personalized advertising
-    Sentiment analysis
-    Organizational and team design
-    Human resource management
-    Motivation, job design, training
-    Knowledge management
-    Leadership
-    Ethics

Submission and deadline information:

All submissions to be made via the Journal of Modelling in Management Scholar One
site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jm2. The author guidelines for the journal can be
found here.
Final date for submissions: 31 January 2021

Managing Uncertainty: Firm Strategy and

Structure

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Asia

Business Studies
The submission portal for this special issue will open July 1, 2020.

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Asda Chintakananda

NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand
Email: asda.chi@nida.ac.th

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh

College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: sanjay.singh@adu.ac.ae

Dr. David McIntyre

School of Business, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA
Email: dmcinty2@providence.edu

Introduction
In recent years, the Asian region has attracted attention from scholars and practitioners due to its
emerging status in the global economy. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the
Asian economy has experienced a high growth rate of five to ten percent over the past decade.
Moreover, with Asia accounting for about sixty percent of the world’s population, the region will
continue to be major force in the world economy. Yet firms operating in Asia face uncertainty on
several fronts. For example, on the economic front, firms face fluctuations in their local currency,
exchange rate volatility, evolving consumer trends, as well as spillover effects from other regions
such as the US-Chinese trade war and Brexit (Cuervo-Cazurra, Gaur, Singh, 2019; Jebran,
2018). On the political front, firms face domestic political unrest, anti-government
demonstrations, unstable governments, geopolitical tensions, fluctuating electoral prefectures,
and uncertain electoral outcomes (Duanmu, 2014; Zhou & Poppo, 2010). On the social front,
firms face ethnic and religious conflicts, continued poverty and rising income inequality, and lack
of justice and human rights issues (Cuervo-Cazurra, DOz & Gaur, 2020; Doh, 2013). In addition
to external uncertainty, firms operating in Asia also experience internal uncertainty on several
fronts such as behavioral uncertainty with partners and task uncertainty within the firm (Kumar,
Gaur, Zhan & Luo, 2019; Srinivasan, Mukherjee & Gaur, 2011) to name a few.

Such uncertainties can result in higher operating expenses, increased time commitment, and
increased managerial burden, which in turn, may lead to a destabilizing effect on firms’ strategy,
structure, and operations (Zhou & Poppo, 2010). Furthermore, such effects are likely to be more
severe for Asian firms than multinationals in Asia, as Asian firms are particularly vulnerable given
their dependence on foreign trade under a less developed market infrastructure (Gaur, Ma, &
Ding, 2018).

Existing literature suggests that firms may respond to such uncertainty through deferral of actions
and new capability development.  For instance, real options theory posits that economic
uncertainty may force firms to defer or cut back their investments until the uncertainty subsides
(Ragozzino, Reuer & Trigeorgis, 2016). Research on platforms suggest that how firms respond
to uncertainty depends on the strength of network effects in the market (Chintakananda &
McIntyre, 2014; McIntyre & Srinivasan, 2017). Relatedly, based on signaling theory literature
Mukherjee, Makarius, and Stevens (2018) argue that under conditions of uncertainty, Asian firms
utilize reputation as a social-approval resource to generate economic rents.

Transaction cost economics suggests that firms may rely on non-market strategies in order to
help buffer their operations against the impact of political uncertainty (Doh, Lawton, Rajwani,
2012; Pattnaik, Lu & Gaur, 2019). Entrepreneurship research suggests that the ability of firms to
capture and appropriate rent under uncertain conditions is contingent on how the firm’s
entrepreneurial skills and organize their firms (Alvarez & Barney, 2005; Teece & Leih, 2016).
Finally, literature on offshoring suggests that firms reorganize their internal resources and
dynamic capabilities when faced with uncertainty (Mukherjee, Gaur, & Datta, 2013; Mukherjee,
Lahiri, Ash, & Gaur, 2019).

Despite the existing literature, the majority of research on uncertainty focuses on the
consequences of uncertainty, rather than how firms may actively plan for such uncertainty. In
addition, several studies also suggest that the dynamics of uncertainty may not pertain to firms
operating in Asia due its unique economic and political infrastructure, as well as its cultural
practices and customs (Cuervo-Cazurra & Genc, 2008; Tan & Chintakananda, 2016). Indeed,
Scalera, Mukherjee, and Piscitello (2018) show that when faced with idiosyncratic uncertainties,
Chinese and Indian MNEs demonstrate differential behavior in their cross-border acquisition
strategies. All this has heightened the need to understand how firms in Asia make decisions
under uncertain conditions and cope with such decisions. Therefore, the aims of this special
issue are to focus on: (1) The conceptualization of how local and multinational firms in Asia can
proactively manage uncertainty through their strategy and structure; and (2) theorization
concerning the types of activities that can be conducted to manage uncertainty.
Potential topics for the special issue
Papers should preferably investigate how firms are impacted by uncertain conditions, and/or how
firms proactively manage uncertain conditions through their strategy, structure, and operations.
We offer a few examples below to provide a sense of what this special issue seeks to address.
These examples are illustrative and are not intended to be a set boundaries of topics for the
special issue:

 The mechanisms of uncertainty on country risk, firm strategy, structure, and operations,
 How firms’ use non market strategies such as lobbying and bribery to manage the impact
of uncertainty on their operations
 The effect of different types of uncertainty on Asian firms’ membership and relationship in
economic clusters (e.g., keiretsu, chaebol)
 The differences between Asian managers and Western managers in observing and
planning for uncertainty
 The effect of national culture (i.e. uncertainty avoidance) on firms’ usage of real options
with in coping with uncertain conditions
 The kinds of market strategies that firms adopt in order to reduce the impact of evolving
and uncertain consumer trends
 The differences between SMEs, family firms, and multinationals in their reaction to, and
ability to plan for and adapt to various uncertain conditions
 The impact of the rise of technological platforms as well as technological uncertainty on
firms’ strategic planning process
 How uncertain conditions influence firms’ development and acquisition of capabilities and
intellectual properties
 The spillover of the effects of uncertain market conditions from one country to another
country, as well as firms’ reaction and preventive measures
 How different types of uncertainty impact firms’ geographic and product diversification
strategies and outcomes
 The impact of uncertainty on social networks between firms (i.e., dependence, social ties,
and reciprocal relations)
 How firms engage external stakeholders, such as politicians and regulators, to mitigate
the impact of various sources of uncertainty
 How managers perceive and respond to risk vs uncertainty through opportunity discovery
and entrepreneurial judgement

Paper Development Workshop

The Editors of Journal of Asia Business Studies and the Guest Editors of the Special Issue plan
to organize a Paper Development Workshop for this special issue in order to help submitting
authors further develop their papers.  We will invite the authors of papers to submit their
proposals to this Paper Development Workshop. Authors will be given the opportunity to present
their paper/ideas, and receive comments from the Editors, Guest Editors, and workshop
participants. This will help the authors in developing and refining their ideas to its full potential.
The Paper Development Workshop will be held at NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand on
10 January 2020. For those interested in attending, please send your inquiries to the Guest
Editors at nbs-phd@nida.ac.th.

Submission Process and Deadlines

All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this Special Issue (SI). Manuscripts must be
submitted by July 30, 2020 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnlabs. All submissions will go
through the JABS regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and
processes. For more information about this Call for Papers, please contact the SI Editors.

Important Deadlines:
Paper submission: July 1 – July 30, 2020
Tentative publication date: Third quarter of 2021
 Special Issue on Graph-based Methods for
Large Scale Financial and Business Data
Analysis

Aims and Scope

Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques have had a significant impact on
the analysis of large-scale datasets in the financial domain. However, to date most of the
analysis techniques used have focused on the use of standard vectorial methods and time
series data. Recently though, interest has turned to the use of relational and similarity-
based representations of financial data. This is largely due to improvements in the
maturity of the available methods, including graph embedding, graph kernels and deep
graph convolutional networks. This has resulted in a number of impressive applications
of graph-based methods for data analysis in the finance and business sectors. Because of
the timeliness of this topic, this special issue will focus on the recent advances in graph-
based pattern recognition approaches in the finance domain. Over the past decade or so,
the effectiveness of graph-based methods has been repeatedly demonstrated for
modeling the complex structural relationships that exist in high volume and high
dimensional data. In the meantime, the size and dimension of data encountered in the
finance and business sectors that need to be analyzed have grown dramatically. Despite
their attractive features, graph-based pattern recognition methods are still far from
being a panacea for extracting or mining relevant information from financial and
business data. In addition, because financial data is often time-varying, high-
dimensional, unstable, and often noisy or imbalanced, it brings with additional
challenges for developing efficient and effective graph-based pattern recognition
techniques. Provided these problems can be controlled, graph-based pattern recognition
holds out the potential as a powerful tool for modelling complex structural data
relationships, and also mining both useful information and temporal patterns which
could be used for building powerful analytics for use by financial and commercial
organizations. These approaches will thus significantly benefit financial market analysis,
banking, and e-commerce, not only for predicting factors such as accurate financial
behavior prediction and risk management, but also fraud and anomalous behavior
detection.

Methods:

 Graph Kernel Methods

 Graph Embedding Methods
 Graph-based Deep Learning
 Graph-based Feature Selection
 Complex Networks
 Structural Time Series Analysis
 Graph Matching
 Graph-based Optimization
 Graph Neural Networks
 Representation Learning on Graph Structured Data
 Graph Classification and Vertex Classification
 Adversarial and Generative Graph Learning
 Transductive and Inductive Learning on Graphs
 Survey Papers Regarding the Topic of Learning with Graphs
 Other Graph-based Methods

Applications:

 Financial Market Simulation

 Trading Strategies
 Stock Price Forecasting
 Derivatives Modelling and Pricing
 Credit Scoring & Credit Rating
 Bankruptcy Prediction
 Fraud Detection
 Contagion Modelling and Analysis
 Analyzing Financial Crisis
 Systematic Risk Prediction
 Portfolio Optimization
 E-commerce Applications
 Block Chain Applications
 Other Important Aspects, Issues and Progress associated with Graph-based
methods in Financial and Business Applications

Submission Guidelines
Papers should be formatted in a single column with double spacing and be no more than
40 pages in length. Before submitting the manuscript, please read the Instructions for
Authors for Pattern Recognition journal (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/pattern-
recognition/0031-3203/guide-for-authors). The manuscript should be submitted via the
official website https://ees.elsevier.com/pr/default.asp?pg=login.asp. If you are not sure
whether your work is suitable to the special issue, please feel free to contact the guest
editors before the submission. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for
inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select “SI: Graph-based
Finance” when they reach the “Article Type Name” step in the submission process. We
are happy to receive extensions of works presented in top conferences but with a
substantial revision (30 percent is generally considered "substantial"). Please
visit https://www.elsevier.com/journals/pattern-recognition/0031-3203/guide-for-
authors for more detailed information.
Important Dates

 Submission system starts receiving submissions: Dec. 15 th, 2019

 Manuscript submissions due: June. 30th, 2020
 First review completed: Sep. 30th, 2020
 Revised manuscripts due: Nov. 31rd, 2020
 Second review completed: Feb. 28th, 2021
 Final manuscript due: April. 30th, 2021
 Targeted issue of Pattern Recognition (tentative): May. 30 th 2021

Guest Editors
Lu Bai, School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing,
China. E-mail: bailucs@cufe.edu.cn
Lixin Cui, School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing,
China. E-mail: cuilixin@cufe.edu.cn
Guandong Xu, School of Computer Science and Advanced Analytics, University of
Technology Sydney, Australia. Email: Guandong.Xu@uts.edu.au
Junchi Yan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China. Email: yanjunchi@sjtu.edu.cn
Zhihong Zhang, School of Information, Xiamen University, Fujian, China.
Email: zhihong@xmu.edu.cn
Luca Rossi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of
Science and Technology, Guangdong, China. E-mail: rossil@sustech.edu.cn
Jian Tang, HEC Montreal & Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, Canada. E-
mail: tangjianpku@gmail.com
Philip S. Yu, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
E-mail: psyu@cs.uic.edu
Primary Contacts

Lu Bai, and Lixin Cui

School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics

39 South College Road, Haidian District

Beijing, China

100081

{bailucs,cuilixin}@cufe.edu.cn

Special Issue Call for Papers - AI and

Machine Learning: What General
Managers Need To Know

CALL FOR PAPERS: Business Horizons Special Issue

AI and Machine Learning: What General Managers Need To Know
Submission deadline: January 31, 2019
Guest Editors:

Dr. Jan Kietzmann, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria

Dr. Leyland Pitt, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

Overview
Business Horizons invites submissions for a special issue, Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning: What General Managers Need to Know. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
refers to computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human
intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, and
 translation between languages. Machine Learning, in turn, represents application of AI
that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience
without being explicitly programmed to do so. It focuses on the development of
computer programs that can access data and use it to learn for themselves, so that they
improve over time. Over the last decade, key technological advances in AI and machine
learning have caught the attention of practitioners and researchers interested in learning
how organizations can use these technologies effectively. As a result, calls for research on
AI and machine learning have increased, both for solid foundations that provide useful
and highly citable frameworks and typologies and for more nuanced research of the
application of such technologies. This research is critical and ongoing. Less attention,
however, has been given to what AI means to practicing managers. Practicing managers
may ask simpler but equally profound questions such as: “What is this stuff?” “How will
it affect and change my business?” “What threats and opportunities will face me?” “How
will AI and machine learning change the way we produce things?” “How will AI and
machine learning impact the ways in which we interact with customer, suppliers,
intermediaries, employees, and other stakeholders?” “What changes might we need to
make to supply chains and other systems to accommodate the implementation of AI and
machine leaning systems?” And, of course, “Are there useful decision-making models
and frameworks that will make my search for opportunities easier and more effective,
and my decision making more in touch with reality?”
With this special issue, we propose to add to the emerging body of knowledge by
focusing directly on AI and machine learning from a practitioner perspective. Given this
goal, we encourage submissions that contribute to an enhanced understanding of the
impact of these technologies on organizations. As a host of activities in organizations will
be affected by these technologies, authors might address issues related to operations,
delivery and logistics systems, human resources management, marketing, overall
strategy, and/or the corporate governance issues that will confront organizations in this
regard.

Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to AI and machine learning and
their impact on:

 competition, strategies, and tactics

 influence on the production/consumption encounter
 new offerings development and innovation
 relationship management and the changing seller-buyer relationship/culture
 supply chain management
 value creation
 service operations
 human resource management
 ethical issues

Authors considering submission should take note of the following points. Business

Horizons is not an academic journal in the traditional sense; it does not seek papers that
simply present the results of scholarly research, apply the latest statistical techniques, or
discuss esoteric theory. Rather, it seeks to publish work that sheds new light on
managerial problems and opportunities, and gives managers new ways of addressing
dilemmas or exploiting prospects. Still, submissions must be grounded in the literature
and conceptually strong. Data should not be the focus of the paper, but rather present to
reinforce the managerial points being made.
Papers should be presented in a way that makes them easily accessible to a manager;
accessibility does not include structural equation modeling, nominal logistic regressions,
a host of mathematical symbols, complicated graphs, et cetera. Strong contributions
answer the question: After reading the article, would a manager do something differently
in the future? In sum, this special issue—as with all issues of Business Horizons—seeks
interesting and well-written materials on the latest managerial thinking.

Reviewers will consider the following questions concerning submissions:

1. Is the paper interesting and does it address a topic that will matter to the thinking
manager?
2. Is the paper well constructed and do the arguments flow in a way that makes
sense?
3. Is the paper well written, or are the language and style poor with lots of
grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, sloppy typos, and so forth?
4. Having read the paper, might a manager do things differently? If the answer is
no, the paper probably does not fit.

Submission
Articles submitted should not have been published before in their current (or
substantially similar) form and should not be under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Please see the journal’s originality guidelines for further details. Authors
should ensure that their work is formatted according to the journal’s requirements,
available at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/business-horizons/0007-6813/guide-
for-authors

Papers for this special issue must be submitted as Word documents to BOTH of the
special issue editors (at least one of whom will respond) and NOT via the regular
submission process. For questions regarding the content of this special issue, please
contact the guest editors:

Dr. Jan Kietzmann

Gustavson School of Business
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
Canada
Email: jkietzma@uvic.ca
Dr. Leyland Pitt
Beedie School of Business
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver BC
Canada
Email: lpitt@sfu.ca

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and

Data Science

Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and a paradigm shift to data-driven approaches

owing to the growing trend in data drive new research opportunities in a variety of areas,
such as social networks, bioinformatics, healthcare, manufacturing business, beyond 5G
 (6G) communications, Internet of Things (IoT), and so forth. In the aforementioned
areas, system-generated information such as smart devices, sensors, agents, and meters
as well as human-generated information such as texts, photos, and videos lead to a
tremendous amount of data while new levels of security, performance, and reliability are
required. In this context, equipping the relevant functionality with AI or data mining-
based algorithms, including regression models, Bayesian learning, clustering, neural
networks, decision trees, information retrieval, decision processes, multi-armed bandits,
reinforcement learning, generative models, and graphical models, has received a
substantial attention both in academia as well as in industrial communities. Recently
developed AI or data mining approaches will provide promising solutions to many
challenging problems through learning and decision making in terms of significantly
improving user experience and service quality.

The “Artificial Intelligence and Data Science” special issue aims at bringing this
perspective to AI and data science, and focuses on the latest research, algorithm design,
analysis, and implementation for various applications. This special issue will address a
comprehensive overview of how to enable autonomous and intelligent
services/applications though collecting, processing, learning, and controlling a vast
amount of information across various domains. The topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

 Network mining and graph mining

 Deep learning and neural network-based approach
 Social network analysis
 Reinforcement learning and multi-armed bandits
 Knowledge representation and reasoning
 Anomaly and fake content detection
 Information retrieval
 Recommendation and ranking engines
 Machine learning in medicine and healthcare informatics
 Big data analytics for beyond 5G or 6G
 Edge/fog computing using machine learning
 IoT data analytics
 Data-driven services and applications

Interested authors need to submit their papers according to the following schedule:
February 29, 2020: Paper submission deadline. PDF format with MS word or Latex
source to ICT Express website
May 31, 2020: Reviews returned to authors
June 15, 2020: Final revised manuscript due
June 30, 2020: Final Decision Due
September 30, 2020: Publication date
Prof. Won-Yong Shin, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea, wy.shin@yonsei.ac.kr
Prof. Jangyoung Kim, University of Suwon, Republic of Korea, jykim77@suwon.ac.kr
Prof. Cheol Jeong, Sejong University, Republic of Korea, cjeong@sejong.ac.kr
Prof. Esma Yildirim, Queensborough Community College, USA, eyildirim@qcc.cuny.edu
Prof. Kiho Lim, William Paterson University, USA, limk2@wpunj.edu
 
Electronic submissions should be made through the Elsevier’s ICT Express website
at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ict-express. ICT Express is a high-quality quarterly
archival journal published by KICS and hosted by Elsevier. ICT Express invites short
 length (up to 4 pages in double columns) high-quality, original articles. Papers published
in the ICT Express are indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of
Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Science Direct. Learn more about this journal
and click here for submission tips. Please, direct inquiries and correspondence regarding
intent to submit to the Lead Guest Editor, Prof. Won-Yong Shin (wy.shin@yonsei.ac.kr).

Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and

Machine Learning

With a massive amount of data being generated by an increasing number of industrial

applications and an ever-growing amount of academic research, it is widely accepted that
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will the major powerhouses of the Digital
Transformation in wide range of application areas of our society. This special issue
explores novel concepts and practices with a long-term goal of fully-automated life-style
fostered by the technological advances of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in
wide spectrum of applications. We invite authors from both industry and academia to
submit original research and review articles that cover the design, implementation, and
optimization with the specific focus on models, protocols, and optimization algorithms in
the following topics (but not limited to):

 Artificial Intelligence tools & Applications

 Machine learning
 Neural Networks
 Probabilistic Reasoning
 Evolutionary Computing
 Pattern recognition
 Heuristic Planning Strategies and Tools
 Computer Vision and Speech Understanding
 Data Mining and Machine Learning Tools
 Reactive Distributed AI
 Natural Language Processing
 Hybrid Intelligent Systems
 Intelligent System Architectures
 Network Intelligence
 Multimedia & Cognitive Informatics
 Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence
 Semantic Web Techniques and Technologies
 Web Intelligence Applications & Search

Interested authors need to submit their papers according to the following schedule:

February 15, 2018: Paper submission deadline. PDF format with MS word or Latex
source to ICT Express website
April 1, 2018: Reviews returned to authors.
June 30, 2017: Publication date
Chilukuri K. Mohan, Co-lead Guest Editor, Syracuse University, USA, ckmohan@syr.edu
Hyukjoon Lee, Co-lead Guest Editor, Kwangwoon University, Korea, hlee@kw.ac.kr
Kyomin Jung, Guest Editor, Seoul National University, Korea, kjung@snu.ac.kr
Jinwoo Shin, Guest Editor, KAIST, Korea, jinwoos@kaist.ac.kr
Taesup Moon, Guest Editor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, tsmoon@skku.edu
Luca Oneto, University of Genoa, Italy, luca.oneto@unige.it
Monica Mordonini, Università degli Studi di Parma, Itay, monica.mordonini@unipr.it
Yoshiyuki Kido, Osaka University, Japan, kido@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp
Electronic submissions should be made through the Elsevier’s ICT Express website
at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ict-express. ICT Express is a high-quality quarterly
archival journal published by KICS and hosted by Elsevier. ICT Express invites short
length (up to 4 pages in double columns) high-quality, original articles. Papers published
in the ICT Express are indexed in Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI),
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Science Direct. Learn more about this
journal and click here for submission tips. Please, direct inquiries and correspondence
regarding intent to submit to the Co-Lead Guest Editors, Prof. Chilukuri K. Mohan
(ckmohan@syr.edu) and Prof. Hyukjoon Lee (hlee@kw.ac.kr).

Corporate Social Responsibility in Banking

Special issue call for papers from International Journal

of Bank Marketing
Submission window 1 March 2020 – 30 April 2020

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices should ‘strive to make a profit, obey the law, be
ethical, and be a good corporate citizen’ (Carrol, 1999, p. 289) and therefore have the primary
aim to achieve economic, ethical and philanthropic outcomes. Previous research has
demonstrated benefits of CSR practices for those organisations that have implemented them
such as higher purchase intentions (Becker-Olsen et al. 2006), an increase in profits
(Bhattacharya and Sen, 2004), a surge in customer loyalty (Arli and Lasmono, 2010), as well as
positive brand attitudes (Brown and Dacin, 1997; van Doorn et al., 2017). Consequently, CSR
strategies have been popular with banking organisations’ (Fatma & Rahman, 2016; McDonald &
Rundle-Thiele, 2008). However, various organisations - including banks - continue to contradict
their own CSR commitments and often operate in stark contrast to their CSR initiatives. For
example, the US bank Wells Fargo misled shareholders creating 3.5 million fake-accounts which
led to the termination of more than 5,000 bank employees (CNBC, 2018). In Australia, the royal
commission’s report identified that five of the nation’s largest banks have improperly collected
fees for services that were never provided (Lannin, 2018) and are now facing criminal charges
(Knaus, 2019). The commission’s report revealed a system of greed where financial profit
become the most important variable, which is evidenced by billing the dead for financial advice,
lending to those with no capacity to repay as well as aggressively selling unsuitable products to
customers (Royal Commission Report, 2019). This immoral behaviour is highly concerning and
remains in stark contrast to the CSR reports that banks issue. Banking institutions appear
comfortable with their double standards. 

It is timely to pose the question why do banks find themselves in this two-faced bind? Further
investigation is required to better understand the commitment of banks’ towards CSR. In light of
the above, the goal of this special issue is to focus attention on CSR in the banking industry and
to further examine the role the banking sector has in delivering social and environmental
change. 

Submissions may address the subthemes listed below but do not have to be limited to these.
More general papers around this broader theme are also welcome, and we invite you to check
with the guest editors to gain additional clarity whether your publication is suitable:

-    The CSR banking hypocrisy

-    Can CSR be more than a window dressing tool for banks?
-    The evolution of CSR in the era of digitisation
-    CSR approaches in developing and developed countries
-    The role of CSR on consumer trust and satisfaction in banking
-    Antecedents, consequences and the future of CSR in banking
-    The role the banking sector in delivering social and environmental change. 

Manuscripts will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. 

Submissions should be made through mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijbm to the Special Issue

on Corporate Social Responsibility in Banking, between 1 March and 30 April 2020.

For additional information, please contact Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele at s.rundle-

thiele@griffith.edu.au; Dr Denni Arli at E: darli@d.umn.edu or Dr Timo Dietrich
at t.dietrich@griffith.edu.au (International Journal of Bank Marketing special issue guest editors).

Big Data Analytics and Forecasting in

Hospitality and Tourism

Special issue call for papers from International Journal

of Contemporary Hospitality Management
The submission portal for this special issue will open April 1, 2020.

Guest Editors
Doris Chenguang Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
wucheng@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Ji Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China

wuji3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

haiyan.song@polyu.edu.hk
   
Editor-in-Chief
Fevzi Okumus, University of Central Florida, USA, fevzi.okumus@ucf.edu

Purpose
The hotel and tourism industry is now a part of the bandwagon of the various other industries that
use big data analytics in their regular operations. With the use of modern information and
communication technologies, tourists generate an enormous amount of data, which fall into three
primary categories: user-generated content data (e.g., online review data), device data (e.g.,
mobile roaming data), and transaction data (e.g., web search data) (Li et al. 2018). Merchants
and agencies in hotel and tourism enterprises have started finding methods to use these data
resources to interact with potential consumers at each stage of their travels and to better
understand the unlimited visitor statistics generated. However, how to extract valuable
knowledge from these big data is now a huge challenge for both practitioners and academics.
Academic society has been paying increasing attention to big data analytics and forecasting in
hospitality and tourism. Sun Yat-sen University Business School and IJCHM are jointly holding
workshops with the theme of ‘new methods in hospitality and tourism’ to enhance the research
quality and widen the scope in this field. From academic research perspective, a few studies
have shown that big data are useful in predicting tourist behavior and the demand for hotel
rooms. The literature shows that online consumer behavior data such as the search queries, can
significantly improve the forecasting accuracy of the tourism and hotel demand models (Wu,
Song and Shen 2017). In addition, advanced methods, such as natural language processing
(NLP) and deep learning techniques enable hotel and tourism businesses to better understand
tourists’ behavior, emotions, and latent factors (e.g., intention and trait), and allow them to create
new services and applications.

Although there are significant interests in forecasting tourist behavior using big data, the methods
for big data processing and analytics are still in their early stage of development, hence deserve
further exploration (Mariani et al. 2018). This special issue therefore aims to provide a platform
for academics to identify and discuss the advances of big data analytics and forecasting in
hospitality and tourism.

Submissions related to the following topics are particularly welcome

Topics of interest of the special issue include, but are not limited to:

 Big data and hotel forecasting

 Big data and tourism forecasting
 Artificial intelligence in hotel forecasting
 Artificial intelligence in tourism forecasting
 New methodologies in big data analytics related to hospitality and tourism
 Tourist personality traits identification using big data
 Unethical tourist behaviour (e.g., fake online reviews) detection
 Application of NLP and deep learning techniques in hospitality and tourism
 Big data and sustainable tourism
 Big data-driven hotel/tourism business processes
 Audio and video data analytics in hospitality and tourism
 Big data from mobile devices in hospitality and tourism
 Application of geospatial big data in hospitality and tourism
 Privacy and security issues in big data analytics related to hospitality and tourism
 Other relevant topics related to big data and forecasting

References
Li, J., Xu, L., Tang, L., Wang, S. and Li, L. (2018), “Big data in tourism research: A literature
review”, Tourism Management, Vol. 68, pp. 301-323.
Mariani, M., Baggio, R., Fuchs, M. and Höepken, W. (2018), “Business intelligence and big data
in hospitality and tourism: A systematic literature review”, International Journal of Contemporary
Hospitality Management, Vol. 30 No. 12, pp. 3514-3554.
Wu, D. C., Song, H. and Shen, S. (2017), “New developments in tourism and hotel demand
modeling and forecasting”, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol.
29 No. 1, pp. 507-529.

Submission procedure
Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the special issue guest editors regarding
potential topics of interest or any questions/suggestions regarding the special issue. Abstracts
(up to 750 words) can be submitted directly to the guest editors via email by 20 January 2020 at
the following addresses:

Doris Chenguang Wu, Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Email: wucheng@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Ji Wu, Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Email: wuji3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Email: haiyan.song@polyu.edu.hk

Abstracts must be concise and to the point, with appropriate references. The abstracts will be
reviewed by all guest editors, and those that make significant contributions and fit the theme of
the special issue will be invited for full paper submission. Full papers must be submitted online by
20 June 2020 through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system.
When submitting your manuscript, please select the special issue on “Big Data Analytics and
Forecasting in Hospitality and Tourism”.  Registration and access is available
at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijchm. Author guidelines for IJCHM can be found
at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijchm
 
Review process
Each paper submitted to this special issue will be subject to the following review procedures:

1. It will be reviewed by the guest editors for general suitability for this special issue.
2. If it is judged suitable, three reviewers will be selected for a rigorous double-blind review
process.
3. Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the guest editors and the Editor-in-
Chief will decide whether the particular paper should be accepted as it is, revised and re-
submitted, or rejected.

Timeline
Abstracts submissions: 20 January 2020
Abstract decisions: 20 February 2020
FULL paper submissions: 20 June 2020
Revisions and decisions: 20 November 2020     
Publication: 2021

Big Data Analytics and Forecasting in

Hospitality and Tourism

Special issue call for papers from International Journal

of Contemporary Hospitality Management
The submission portal for this special issue will open April 1, 2020.

Guest Editors
Doris Chenguang Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
wucheng@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Ji Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China

wuji3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

haiyan.song@polyu.edu.hk
   
Editor-in-Chief
Fevzi Okumus, University of Central Florida, USA, fevzi.okumus@ucf.edu
Purpose
The hotel and tourism industry is now a part of the bandwagon of the various other industries that
use big data analytics in their regular operations. With the use of modern information and
communication technologies, tourists generate an enormous amount of data, which fall into three
primary categories: user-generated content data (e.g., online review data), device data (e.g.,
mobile roaming data), and transaction data (e.g., web search data) (Li et al. 2018). Merchants
and agencies in hotel and tourism enterprises have started finding methods to use these data
resources to interact with potential consumers at each stage of their travels and to better
understand the unlimited visitor statistics generated. However, how to extract valuable
knowledge from these big data is now a huge challenge for both practitioners and academics.

Academic society has been paying increasing attention to big data analytics and forecasting in
hospitality and tourism. Sun Yat-sen University Business School and IJCHM are jointly holding
workshops with the theme of ‘new methods in hospitality and tourism’ to enhance the research
quality and widen the scope in this field. From academic research perspective, a few studies
have shown that big data are useful in predicting tourist behavior and the demand for hotel
rooms. The literature shows that online consumer behavior data such as the search queries, can
significantly improve the forecasting accuracy of the tourism and hotel demand models (Wu,
Song and Shen 2017). In addition, advanced methods, such as natural language processing
(NLP) and deep learning techniques enable hotel and tourism businesses to better understand
tourists’ behavior, emotions, and latent factors (e.g., intention and trait), and allow them to create
new services and applications.

Although there are significant interests in forecasting tourist behavior using big data, the methods
for big data processing and analytics are still in their early stage of development, hence deserve
further exploration (Mariani et al. 2018). This special issue therefore aims to provide a platform
for academics to identify and discuss the advances of big data analytics and forecasting in
hospitality and tourism.

Submissions related to the following topics are particularly welcome

Topics of interest of the special issue include, but are not limited to:

 Big data and hotel forecasting

 Big data and tourism forecasting
 Artificial intelligence in hotel forecasting
 Artificial intelligence in tourism forecasting
 New methodologies in big data analytics related to hospitality and tourism
 Tourist personality traits identification using big data
 Unethical tourist behaviour (e.g., fake online reviews) detection
 Application of NLP and deep learning techniques in hospitality and tourism
 Big data and sustainable tourism
 Big data-driven hotel/tourism business processes
 Audio and video data analytics in hospitality and tourism
 Big data from mobile devices in hospitality and tourism
 Application of geospatial big data in hospitality and tourism
 Privacy and security issues in big data analytics related to hospitality and tourism
 Other relevant topics related to big data and forecasting

References
Li, J., Xu, L., Tang, L., Wang, S. and Li, L. (2018), “Big data in tourism research: A literature
review”, Tourism Management, Vol. 68, pp. 301-323.
Mariani, M., Baggio, R., Fuchs, M. and Höepken, W. (2018), “Business intelligence and big data
in hospitality and tourism: A systematic literature review”, International Journal of Contemporary
Hospitality Management, Vol. 30 No. 12, pp. 3514-3554.
Wu, D. C., Song, H. and Shen, S. (2017), “New developments in tourism and hotel demand
modeling and forecasting”, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol.
29 No. 1, pp. 507-529.

Submission procedure
Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the special issue guest editors regarding
potential topics of interest or any questions/suggestions regarding the special issue. Abstracts
(up to 750 words) can be submitted directly to the guest editors via email by 20 January 2020 at
the following addresses:

Doris Chenguang Wu, Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Email: wucheng@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Ji Wu, Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Email: wuji3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Email: haiyan.song@polyu.edu.hk

Abstracts must be concise and to the point, with appropriate references. The abstracts will be
reviewed by all guest editors, and those that make significant contributions and fit the theme of
the special issue will be invited for full paper submission. Full papers must be submitted online by
20 June 2020 through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system.
When submitting your manuscript, please select the special issue on “Big Data Analytics and
Forecasting in Hospitality and Tourism”.  Registration and access is available
at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijchm. Author guidelines for IJCHM can be found
at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijchm
 
Review process
Each paper submitted to this special issue will be subject to the following review procedures:

1. It will be reviewed by the guest editors for general suitability for this special issue.
2. If it is judged suitable, three reviewers will be selected for a rigorous double-blind review
process.
3. Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the guest editors and the Editor-in-
Chief will decide whether the particular paper should be accepted as it is, revised and re-
submitted, or rejected.

Timeline
Abstracts submissions: 20 January 2020
Abstract decisions: 20 February 2020
FULL paper submissions: 20 June 2020
Revisions and decisions: 20 November 2020     
Publication: 2021

Innovative Knowledge-Based Methods for

Information Management in Business and
Marketing
Special issue call for papers from Journal of Indian
Business Research
The submission portal for this special issue will open May 1, 2020.

Guest Editors:
Dr. Jose Ramon Saura, Department of Business Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Email: joseramon.saura@urjc.es

Dr. Ana Reyes-Menendez, Department of Business Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University,
Spain
Email: ana.reyes@urjc.es

Focus:
The global development of the Internet has led companies to modify their business strategies in
search of new ways to increase business and marketing productivity and profitability.
Additionally, to this new environment, the increased use of social networks and the Internet have
become habits for consumers to the point that there are millions of devices connected to the
Internet that are constantly generating new data. As the use of these technologies has become
habitual for users, it has also become commonplace for users to share information about
experiences and opinions, as well as content related to the interests of users and companies via
social networks, known as user-generated content (UGC). 

In looking at these types of data sources, several studies have analyzed the influence of the
application of information management to business and marketing strategies as the UGC is
defined as the content generated by users in social networks and digital platforms. The study of
this type of content is important in the context of new business models and marketing strategies
globally as it can enable managers to generate meaningful insights that may in turn help to refine
strategic responses or become the basis for further research.

Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to analyze how the new ways of analyzing this
new data can influence the development of business and marketing strategies as well as
decision-making processes in Indian companies or other companies based in emerging
countries. The objective of this Special Issue, consequently, is to analyze how UGC data
analysis techniques applied to business and marketing affects the business environment and
decision-making in emerging countries.

In this context, DBDS 2020 International Conference in Business and Marketing recognizes the
immediacy of understanding the digital business and marketing ecosystems in India and
emerging countries and aims to bring together these research studies for discussion and debate
in DBDS 2020: “Digital Behavior and Data Sciences International Conference for Business and
Marketing” that will take place in 21-23, May 2020 (Porto, Portugal). The conference is aimed at
both academia and the practitioners to deliberate upon the empirical and conceptual papers
about topical developments:

 Digital Business
 Information Management
 UGC Analysis
 Information Technologies
 Digital Marketing Innovation
 Marketing Intelligence
 Social Media Marketing

For this Special Issue, we invite paper contributions related to any of the topics outlined above
and which clearly relate to information management for business and marketing in Indian
companies or other companies based in emerging countries.  Few selected papers would be
invited for publication in this special issue in JIBR. However, authors not able to attend the
conference can also submit the manuscript for this special issue, pertaining to few suggested
topics, areas or indicated themes.

Submission deadline: September 1, 2020

Submissions to Journal of Indian Business Research are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts,

the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available
at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibr.

All submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's author guidelines, available
here: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jibr.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in

Business and Management

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Modelling

in Management
Special Issue Call for Papers Journal of Modelling in Management

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Business and Management

Guest Editors:

Davide La Torre – davide.latorre@skema.edu

SKEMA Business School, France

Fouad Ben Abdelaziz – fouad.ben.abdelaziz@neoma-bs.fr

NEOMA Business School, France

Herb Kunze – hkunze@uoguelph.ca

University of Guelph, Canada

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné - bsd@skema.edu

SKEMA Business School, France

Topicality:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by computers. Machine Learning
(ML) is a branch of AI where algorithms are used to learn from data to make future decisions or
predictions. Current trends in AI and ML are: Reinforcement learning, Ethics in AI, Quantum
computing, Convergence of AI and other emerging technologies, Facial recognition, Biased data,
Neural networks, Socio-economic models, Deep learning, Privacy and policy.

Originality:

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are drawing considerable attention these days. An
already large and fast-growing literature covers a wide range of real or soon-to-materialize
applications, from dealing with autism and detecting breast cancer to selecting job candidates,
setting legal sanctions, and deciding upon conditional liberations. So much so that managers,
among many others, are now in need of a compass that would allow them to navigate lucidly
through the hype. This issue will seek to provide such a compass and include novel
developments or innovative ways of applying AI and ML techniques to business. It will cover
most generic managerial tasks, assessing for each one the extent of the support AI and ML can
bring and the consequences on managerial practice. This issue will also provide case study and
guidance on how managers and management teachers should apprehend AI and ML, and draw
the attention of management scholars and researchers on what will be rigorously argued to be
core issues. Attention will also be devoted to future developments and implementations as well
as implications for new job opportunities.

Themes:

-    Innovative algorithms and methods of AI and ML in business and applications, including
automation, data analytics, and natural language processing.
-    Integration of AI and ML tech and solution into business processes
-    Customer profiling
-    Marketing segmentation
-    Fraud analysis
-    Marketing messaging
-    Financial forecasting
-    Fashion design
-    Personalized advertising
-    Sentiment analysis
-    Organizational and team design
-    Human resource management
-    Motivation, job design, training
-    Knowledge management
-    Leadership
-    Ethics

Submission and deadline information:

All submissions to be made via the Journal of Modelling in Management Scholar One
site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jm2. The author guidelines for the journal can be
found here.
Final date for submissions: 31 January 2021

Data Analytics and Application for Business

Excellence

Special issue call for papers from Measuring Business

Excellence
The submission portal for this special issue will open December 1, 2019.

Deadline to submit papers for the SI: 28th February 2020

First review round by: 30th April 2020
Second review round by: 30th June 2020
Planned Publication: September 2020

Guest Editors: 
Dr. Min-Ren Yan, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Dr. Heng-Sheng Chen, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan 
Dr. Chia-Lin Hsu, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

Dear Colleagues,

Enormous growth in data presents opportunities and challenges for industries, official, academia,
and research. Gathered data can be extracted, processed, analyzed and reported in time to
provide better data insights, complex patterns and valuable predictions to decision-makers to
achieve business competitive advantages and excellent development. Data-driven analytics has
extensively penetrated both academic and practical spheres. By harnessing its power in
processing large volumes of information, data analytics techniques help people to discover
undiscovered links and make better decisions. The focus of this special issue is the application of
data analytics to achieve business excellence, and to fulfill social responsibility. 

This special issue focuses on high quality, up-to-date technologies and solutions related to data
analytics and application for business excellence. Specifically, it is the first special issue of its
kind focusing on improving business excellence through analytics and application of the gathered
data. This special issue aims to gain insight into analytics applications for Business Excellence.
We welcome researchers to discuss various aspects of data science, information system, and
business excellence. We encourage researchers to innovate new solutions to the key problems
in this emerging field.    

This special issue is open to research which explores the data analytics and application for
business excellence. Papers with disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and critical perspective are
welcomed. Conceptual, theoretical, case studies or examples of good practices, empirical,
qualitative or quantitative contributions are welcomed as well in this Special Issue.

Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 Big Data Analytics and Applications

 Knowledge Engineering 
 Web Databases and Information Systems
 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
 Human-Computer Interaction
 Measuring and Managing Business Performance
 Data Analytics for Organization Development
 Intelligent and Decision Support Systems
 Information and Knowledge Management
 Information Technologies in Education
 Effectiveness of Institutional Performance

The Special issue is aimed to bridge the gap of criticality in improving the organizational
excellence. The results can help managers and scholars to develop and create new value. The
key driver of the Special Issue is to answer the question: “How data analytics and application
improve organizational performance and excellent development?”

Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be prepared in accordance with MBE’s style guide
and submitted to the Scholar One online system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mbex. 

General submission guidelines for authors can also be found

here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=mbe
 The deadline for the submission is 28 February 2020. The special issue will be published in
2020. Questions regarding the special issue can be addressed to the guest editors.

Energy- and commodity-market research:

A need for new directions?

In recent years, in a rapidly changing world, issues in the energy and commodity markets
have assumed high social rele-vance, as firms and governments move to address vital
concerns. Regarding energy and commodity markets, firms and nations must concern
themselves with supply security, political impacts on prices, changes in regulation and
regulatory capture, the dynamics of energy markets; as well as alternative sources of
energy and concern for social responsibility in light of the impact of carbon emissions on
the global climate. Many of these issues contribute to concomitant volatility of energy
and commodity markets.

This special issue aims to provide academics, policymakers and practitioners with
valuable research results and analysis pertaining to the major issues and challenges of
energy and commodity markets and the impact of these challenges on firms,
governments and investors.

Clearly, more research is required to fully understand the nature of commodity and
energy prices as well as to understand how firms, policy-makers, and investors engage
with and react to these markets. The purpose of this call for papers is to encourage this
research. We invite both theoretical and empirical papers, using quantitative or
qualitative methods. Cross-disciplinary studies are welcome. Potential topics include,
but are not limited to: 

 Emerging markets energy finance

 Liberalization of energy sectors
 Capitalization of energy and commodity markets
 Energy- and commodity-market integration and segmentation
 Impact of energy-market reforms
 Impact of environmental reforms
 Energy finance
 Energy and commodity pricing
 Energy and commodity hedging
 Impact of energy and commodity markets on firm cash flow and cash-flow and
investment sensitivity
 C02 emissions, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility
 Energy policy
 Security of energy and commodity supplies 
 Impact of energy and commodity uncertainty on firms, governments and
investors
 Other topics in energy- and commodity-price modelling

This special issue of RIBAF will be guest edited by Olivier Damette of the University of
Lorraine, and Stéphane Goutte of University of Paris 8. 
To submit, go to 

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-international-business-and-finance .
Select SI ENERGY&COMMODITY. Online submissions will open on June 1, 2019. The
deadline for submissions is June 1st, 2020. We anticipate a suc-cessful conclusion of the
review process by mid 2021 and publication of this special issue in late 2021. Please
direct in-quiries to Stéphane Goutte (stephane.goutte@univ-paris8.fr).
On behalf of the guest editors, look forward to your submissions! —John W. Goodell,
Editor-in-Chief, Research in Inter-national Business and Finance. 

Managing Uncertainty: Firm Strategy and

Structure

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Asia

Business Studies
The submission portal for this special issue will open July 1, 2020.

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Asda Chintakananda

NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand
Email: asda.chi@nida.ac.th

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh

College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: sanjay.singh@adu.ac.ae

Dr. David McIntyre

School of Business, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA
Email: dmcinty2@providence.edu

Introduction
In recent years, the Asian region has attracted attention from scholars and practitioners due to its
emerging status in the global economy. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the
Asian economy has experienced a high growth rate of five to ten percent over the past decade.
Moreover, with Asia accounting for about sixty percent of the world’s population, the region will
continue to be major force in the world economy. Yet firms operating in Asia face uncertainty on
several fronts. For example, on the economic front, firms face fluctuations in their local currency,
exchange rate volatility, evolving consumer trends, as well as spillover effects from other regions
such as the US-Chinese trade war and Brexit (Cuervo-Cazurra, Gaur, Singh, 2019; Jebran,
2018). On the political front, firms face domestic political unrest, anti-government
demonstrations, unstable governments, geopolitical tensions, fluctuating electoral prefectures,
and uncertain electoral outcomes (Duanmu, 2014; Zhou & Poppo, 2010). On the social front,
firms face ethnic and religious conflicts, continued poverty and rising income inequality, and lack
of justice and human rights issues (Cuervo-Cazurra, DOz & Gaur, 2020; Doh, 2013). In addition
to external uncertainty, firms operating in Asia also experience internal uncertainty on several
fronts such as behavioral uncertainty with partners and task uncertainty within the firm (Kumar,
Gaur, Zhan & Luo, 2019; Srinivasan, Mukherjee & Gaur, 2011) to name a few.
Such uncertainties can result in higher operating expenses, increased time commitment, and
increased managerial burden, which in turn, may lead to a destabilizing effect on firms’ strategy,
structure, and operations (Zhou & Poppo, 2010). Furthermore, such effects are likely to be more
severe for Asian firms than multinationals in Asia, as Asian firms are particularly vulnerable given
their dependence on foreign trade under a less developed market infrastructure (Gaur, Ma, &
Ding, 2018).

Existing literature suggests that firms may respond to such uncertainty through deferral of actions
and new capability development.  For instance, real options theory posits that economic
uncertainty may force firms to defer or cut back their investments until the uncertainty subsides
(Ragozzino, Reuer & Trigeorgis, 2016). Research on platforms suggest that how firms respond
to uncertainty depends on the strength of network effects in the market (Chintakananda &
McIntyre, 2014; McIntyre & Srinivasan, 2017). Relatedly, based on signaling theory literature
Mukherjee, Makarius, and Stevens (2018) argue that under conditions of uncertainty, Asian firms
utilize reputation as a social-approval resource to generate economic rents.

Transaction cost economics suggests that firms may rely on non-market strategies in order to
help buffer their operations against the impact of political uncertainty (Doh, Lawton, Rajwani,
2012; Pattnaik, Lu & Gaur, 2019). Entrepreneurship research suggests that the ability of firms to
capture and appropriate rent under uncertain conditions is contingent on how the firm’s
entrepreneurial skills and organize their firms (Alvarez & Barney, 2005; Teece & Leih, 2016).
Finally, literature on offshoring suggests that firms reorganize their internal resources and
dynamic capabilities when faced with uncertainty (Mukherjee, Gaur, & Datta, 2013; Mukherjee,
Lahiri, Ash, & Gaur, 2019).

Despite the existing literature, the majority of research on uncertainty focuses on the
consequences of uncertainty, rather than how firms may actively plan for such uncertainty. In
addition, several studies also suggest that the dynamics of uncertainty may not pertain to firms
operating in Asia due its unique economic and political infrastructure, as well as its cultural
practices and customs (Cuervo-Cazurra & Genc, 2008; Tan & Chintakananda, 2016). Indeed,
Scalera, Mukherjee, and Piscitello (2018) show that when faced with idiosyncratic uncertainties,
Chinese and Indian MNEs demonstrate differential behavior in their cross-border acquisition
strategies. All this has heightened the need to understand how firms in Asia make decisions
under uncertain conditions and cope with such decisions. Therefore, the aims of this special
issue are to focus on: (1) The conceptualization of how local and multinational firms in Asia can
proactively manage uncertainty through their strategy and structure; and (2) theorization
concerning the types of activities that can be conducted to manage uncertainty.

Potential topics for the special issue

Papers should preferably investigate how firms are impacted by uncertain conditions, and/or how
firms proactively manage uncertain conditions through their strategy, structure, and operations.
We offer a few examples below to provide a sense of what this special issue seeks to address.
These examples are illustrative and are not intended to be a set boundaries of topics for the
special issue:

 The mechanisms of uncertainty on country risk, firm strategy, structure, and operations,
 How firms’ use non market strategies such as lobbying and bribery to manage the impact
of uncertainty on their operations
 The effect of different types of uncertainty on Asian firms’ membership and relationship in
economic clusters (e.g., keiretsu, chaebol)
 The differences between Asian managers and Western managers in observing and
planning for uncertainty
 The effect of national culture (i.e. uncertainty avoidance) on firms’ usage of real options
with in coping with uncertain conditions
 The kinds of market strategies that firms adopt in order to reduce the impact of evolving
and uncertain consumer trends
  The differences between SMEs, family firms, and multinationals in their reaction to, and
ability to plan for and adapt to various uncertain conditions
 The impact of the rise of technological platforms as well as technological uncertainty on
firms’ strategic planning process
 How uncertain conditions influence firms’ development and acquisition of capabilities and
intellectual properties
 The spillover of the effects of uncertain market conditions from one country to another
country, as well as firms’ reaction and preventive measures
 How different types of uncertainty impact firms’ geographic and product diversification
strategies and outcomes
 The impact of uncertainty on social networks between firms (i.e., dependence, social ties,
and reciprocal relations)
 How firms engage external stakeholders, such as politicians and regulators, to mitigate
the impact of various sources of uncertainty
 How managers perceive and respond to risk vs uncertainty through opportunity discovery
and entrepreneurial judgement

Paper Development Workshop

The Editors of Journal of Asia Business Studies and the Guest Editors of the Special Issue plan
to organize a Paper Development Workshop for this special issue in order to help submitting
authors further develop their papers.  We will invite the authors of papers to submit their
proposals to this Paper Development Workshop. Authors will be given the opportunity to present
their paper/ideas, and receive comments from the Editors, Guest Editors, and workshop
participants. This will help the authors in developing and refining their ideas to its full potential.
The Paper Development Workshop will be held at NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand on
10 January 2020. For those interested in attending, please send your inquiries to the Guest
Editors at nbs-phd@nida.ac.th.

Submission Process and Deadlines

All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this Special Issue (SI). Manuscripts must be
submitted by July 30, 2020 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnlabs. All submissions will go
through the JABS regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and
processes. For more information about this Call for Papers, please contact the SI Editors.

Important Deadlines:
Paper submission: July 1 – July 30, 2020
Tentative publication date: Third quarter of 2021

Analytics for Business Decisions

Special issue call for papers from Management

Decision
Guest editors:
Manish Gupta, Department of HR, IBS Hyderabad, a Constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be
University, India.
Weiguo Fan, Henry B. Tippie Chair in Business Analytics Department of Management Sciences
Tippie College of Business University of Iowa, USA.
Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Research in Management, France.

Introduction
Analytics is increasingly gaining popularity among practitioners and academics.  It is primarily
because of the role of analytics in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the businesses
considerably. Usage of analytics makes it easy to carry-out the four basic functions of
management including planning, controlling, organizing, and directing. Organizations typically
collect data on several parameters and store them for political, economic, social, technological,
legal, and environmental purposes in the form of huge databases. Analytics helps organizations
analyze these data and derive meaning out of it. Such data-driven and evidence-based results
have positive consequences for organizations. However, experts suggest that there are several
challenges in using business analytics including human resource issues such as adaptability of
employees, marketing management issues such as reliability and validity of market
segmentation, financial management issues such as high initial investment for long-term return
on investment, operational issues such as quantifying all the activities, and information systems
such as understanding the technical know-how.  Moreover, the ever changing macro level factors
external to the organization also have a role in the extent to which analytics is used in the
businesses. Thus, it is important to know the ways in which analytics affects and gets affected by
several micro and macro level factors.

Special issue aim:

Analytics in businesses does not work in isolation but does impact the business outcomes
significantly. As the research relating to the antecedents and consequences of using analytics in
business is very limited especially in management functions, this special issue has the following
objectives:

1. To understand the factors affecting the usage of analytics in businesses

2. To explore the decisional implications of using analytics in businesses
3. To critically examine the process of using analytics in a particular company or an
industry.
4. To capture the dynamics of variables in the field of marketing, finance, human resource,
organizational behavior, operations, and information systems on introducing analytics in
an organization.

Themes
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Human resource management through analytics

2. Managing marketing through analytics
3. Factors supporting business analytics
4. Real cases on implementation process of business analytics
5. Marketing through business analytics
6. Business analytics in information systems
7. Database management through analytics
8. Improving operations using business analytics
9. Creating an organizational culture for promoting business analytics
10. Financial issues and management through business analytics
11. Implications of using analytics in businesses

Submission procedure
Submissions to the special issue should be sent electronically through the "Management
Decision" ScholarOne System. The manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the
guidelines for authors given in the website of the journal "Management
Decision": https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md

Authors need to clearly indicate in their submission information and letter that their manuscript is
for the Special Issue on "Analytics for Business Decisions" All submissions will be subject to a
double-blind review process followed by "Management Decision" Journal. All manuscripts must
 be original, unpublished works that are not concurrently under review for publication elsewhere.
Questions about this special issue may be directed to the guest editors.

For any queries, contact all the guest editors (refer contact details below):
•    Manish Gupta (manish.gupta.research@gmail.com)
•    Weiguo Fan, (weiguo-fan@uiowa.edu)
•    Aviral Kumar Tiwari (a.tiwari@montpellier-bs.com)

Submission Deadline:
•    Submission deadline: January 31, 2020.

The 2020 International Conference in

Banking and Financial Studies

The Department of Management and Quantitative Studies (DISAQ) of the University of

Naples “Parthenope” is delighted to host the 2020 International Conference in Banking
and Financial Studies. The conference encourages submissions from any part of the
World. The conference will be held on June 22, 2020 in Naples, Italy.

Conference Theme: Frontiers in Financial Intermediation: Yesterday,

“FinTech” and Tomorrow

Topics include (but are not limited to):

 Banking and Financial Services

 Financial Stability
 Emerging Markets
 Corporate Finance
 Corporate Governance
 Initial Public Offering
 Behavioral Finance
- Venture Capital, Crowdfunding and Alternative Finance Solutions
 Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Social Entrepreneurship
 Financial Regulation and Supervision
 Asset Pricing and Portfolio Valuation
 Dividend Policy
 Ethics and Trust in Finance and Banking
 Financial Markets
 Corporate Social Responsibility
 Corporate Innovations
 Sustainable Finance
- Crypto Currencies and Block-Chain
- Financial Innovation

Guest Editors
 Gabriele Sampagnaro (University of Naples
Parthenope), gabriele.sampagnaro@uniparthenope.it
Vincenzo Verdoliva (University of Naples
Parthenope), vincenzo.verdoliva@uniparthenope.it
Important Deadlines and Journal Publication

 April, 30, 2020: Deadline for abstracts submission

 May, 10, 2020: Acceptance notification
 June, 22, 2020: Conference day
 July, 1, 2020: Opening full papers submission to Finance Research
Letters special issue
 December, 31, 2020: Closing full papers submission to Finance Research
Letters special issue
 July, 31, 2021: Expected publication date
 

All abstracts (max 200 words) must be emailed by April, 30, 2020 at the following email
address: ICBFS2020.Conference@uniparthenope.it. Among authors which have opted
for dual submission, i.e. conference & journal, a set of their papers will be considered for
publication in the special issue of the Finance Research Letters (FRL) by the Guest
Editors. To this end, authors do need to clearly indicate during abstracts submission the
intention to submit according to the above schedule and deadlines their paper to the
journal. Papers with the dual submission will go through a reviewing process according
to the journal’s guidelines.

Papers for submission should be concise - less than 2500 words; they should be clearly
and lucidly written to convey the essence of the findings and novelty; they should contain
new, preliminary or experimental results of interest to the broad finance community.

Please visit https://www.elsevier.com/journals/finance-research-letters/1544-
6123/guide-for-authors for full author guidelines
and https://www.journals.elsevier.com/finance-research-letters to know more about the
journal.

During the conference, the Guest Editors and referees will provide constructive
feedbacks in order to enlarge and improve the effect of the special issue.

Conference registration fee

 No registration fee is applied.

Local organizers

Claudio Porzio (Chair)

Belinda L. Del Gaudio

Daniele Previtali

Conference Venue
Villa Doria d’Angri - University of Naples Parthenope

Via Francesco Petrarca, 80

80123 Napoli ITALY

Contact Email
For further information email to ICBFS2020.Conference@uniparthenope.it
 Special Issue on ‘Islamic Finance’

Guest Editor: Kabir Hassan, University of New

Orleans

This special issue solicits original research papers focused on

Islamic Finance. We will consider manuscripts that address the
broad set of issues dealing with Islamic Finance; theoretical or
empirical. 

In particular, we are interested in papers that deal with Islamic

corporations, including Shari’ah compliance principles and
processes, the comparative analysis of Islamic and conventional
companies, the Islamic financial system, capital structure
issues, Islamic equity financing, sukuk financing, Islamic
working capital issues, project evaluation in Islamic Finance,
dividend policy issues, corporate and Shari’ah governance, and
hybrid securities in Islamic Finance.

Successful submissions will constitute of original works that

make a significant contribution to the literature and to a better
understanding of the workings of Islamic Finance.

The Special Issue will be guest edited by Professor Kabir

Hassan (University of New Orleans)

Interested authors should submit through the journal’s

website http://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-finance-
journal/ and designate the submission for the Special Issue on
“Islamic Finance” in the cover letter.
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2020 (Early
submissions are encouraged.)
Estimated Completion Date: September 30, 2020