Competition & Change

Volume 13 (2009), 4 issues per year

Aims

Competition & Change is unique in bringing together research and ideas in global business and political economy in ways that will interest social scientists inside and outside schools of business and management. It features articles that use a variety of social science perspectives to develop understanding of the broad business issues around globalisation and financialisation and their impact on economic organisation and performance, social conditions and policy frameworks. The journal is interdisciplinary and welcomes submissions from international scholars with backgrounds in political and cultural economy, business economics, organizational sociology, economic geography, international relations and development studies.

Scope

Competition & Change welcomes submissions on issues such as:
- Globalization, as one amongst several major disruptive influences intensifying product market competition
- Commodity chains, clusters and other new forms of productive organization with implications for the transnational corporation and the basis of competition
- Financialisation and the impact of the capital market on corporate and household behaviour
- Corporate governance and the scope for national and international regulation on major economic policy issues
- Labour conditions and standards, in the context of a changing international division of labour
- Business strategy and its relation to political and social initiatives at regional, national and local levels.

The journal publishes:
- Full length peer reviewed articles (7,000 to 10,000 words)
- Special and themed issues
- Review articles and position pieces for our peer reviewed Reviews and Positions section (3,000 to 8,000)
- Short items of relevant news and information for the academic community for our News section (500 to 2,000 words).

Queries about potential submissions should be sent to julie.froud@mbs.ac.uk (articles, ideas for special and theme issues) or to tony.cutler@rhul.ac.uk (Reviews and Positions). For further details, please click on the Instructions for Authors link to the right.

FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES

Volume 13.2 (June 2009)

Credit and Debt in Present Day Capitalism

Volume 13.3 (August 2009)

Socio-political Perspectives on Intra-firm Competition, Production Relocation and Outsourcing