Call for Papers for Special Issue (2023)
Sustainable Management and Leadership Practices for Enhancing Business Performance
Sustainable Management and Leadership Practices for Enhancing Business Performance
Over the years, the growing number of social, economic, and environmental issues have challenged the corporate’s functioning, thus becoming imperative for businesses to pay attention to their performance. Significantly, in addressing the rising global challenges today, sustainable management and leadership practices have gained exceptional importance in the eyes of the multilateral parties and stakeholders. Sustainable management and leadership are prime determinants of enhanced business performance. Together, they foster the organization''s operational excellence, productivity, and efficiency. In particular, they develop an interrelated set of competencies, systems, and models that influence the organization''s processes, activities, and functions, thereby increasing business performance.
However, despite the increasing significance of sustainable management and leadership, today, businesses are still using traditional practices to increase their business performance. Unfortunately, as a result, institutions are still falling apart in improving the firms’ business performance. Hence, to address the increasing concern, this call for paper encourages organizations to adopt these approaches to ensure business performance. This special issue inspires institutions to adopt sustainable management procedures and leadership ideas, thereby improving business performance. In particular, this study calls the worldwide scholars to contribute towards sustainability studies, thus making the leadership agenda to gain the strategic lead in improving business performance. This call for paper urges organizations to purposefully integrate sustainable management and leadership competencies in their business practices to achieve improved business performance. Especially in the case of limited demonstration of both determinants, this research paper is a multidimensional and multidisciplinary study that makes organizations understand the influence of sustainable management and leadership practices in enhanced business performance.
Indeed, with the limited progress achieved towards enhanced business performance, recently, many researchers are calling the business for sustainable management and leadership. This call for improved business performance provides a greater understanding of the roles of sustainable management and leadership practices in the corporate world. Hence, this proposal presents an open forum for advanced research. It draws the attention of scholars, researchers, and professionals toward sustainable management and leadership practices. It provides an opportunity for organizations to understand these concepts, thereby exploring innovative work that is different from conventional studies. Fundamentally, it invites new researchers to uncover novel paradigms and patterns by significantly responding to this call. It welcomes researchers, scholars, writers, academic experts, and professionals to present their stream of studies, journal articles, review articles, case studies, and discussions in the domain of sustainability.
Through this special issue, the editors wish to invite worldwide scholars to contribute towards sustainability studies, thus making the leadership agenda to gain the strategic lead in improving business performance. This call for paper urges organizations to purposefully integrate sustainable management and leadership competencies in their business practices to achieve improved business performance.
Editors:
Muddassar Sarfraz
Zhejiang Shuren University, China
Larisa Ivascu
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Main Themes:
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Leadership and Management practices in the service sector
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Leadership practices and Business Performance
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The role of political and administrative leadership and Sustainable Management
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Leadership styles and Business Performance Growth
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Sustainable Management practices and Business Performance in the time of global crisis
Relevant Dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023
Publication Date: August 30, 2023 (Upon acceptance)
Submission Guideline:
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Follow the guidelines given by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) manual (7th ed.): A useful resource for APA 7th Edition and APA''s Checklist for Manuscript Submission.
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Manuscripts need to be approximately 8000 words in length with, title, abstract, notes, tables, appendix, and references included. Longer or shorter manuscripts might also be considered depending on the quality of content and the contribution to the field.
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Please submit a separate title page with the author name(s) and affiliations and the mailing address of the corresponding author. Please submit the main manuscript as a blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or the title page.
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Double Publication is NOT accepted. All manuscripts submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
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The language of the journal is English. Manuscripts should meet high academic writing standards.
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All manuscripts should be sent to hvafadar@cikd.ca
Inquiries and submissions may be sent to:
***Please indicate "Submission to IJOL special issue 2023" in the subject of your email.
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