First issue: International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing

International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing deals with science-based sustainability principles and their applications in innovative products, processes and systems for manufacturing with emphasis on economic, environmental and societal aspects of sustainability. This covers the biocomplexity of the environment and its associated technological challenges facing the needs of the society for economic growth and prosperity as applied to design and manufacturing of discrete products. Product lifecycle issues involving the development of use of materials and resources for sustained quality requirements and perpetual material flow are included.

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First issue: International Journal of Inventory Research

International Journal of Inventory Research stimulates innovative inventory research and its application for improving the productivity, customer satisfaction and competitiveness of manufacturing firms, retailers, logistics providers and all organisations that manage inventories. Although it maintains a focus on inventory theory, it deals with operational as well as strategic issues, with specific inventory models as well as with general supply chain issues, with firm-level as well as macroeconomic perspectives.

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First issue: International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems covers foundational, engineering and technological aspects of communications systems exhibiting emergent and adaptive behaviour. It supports the understanding, development, and control of such communication systems based on sound theoretical models, including but not limited to bio-inspired, natural computing, game theory and economic models and spans complexity, self-adaptation, autonomic communication, ambient intelligence, and multi-agent systems.

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Special issue: Measurement and application of risk in economics and finance

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 1(2) 2008

• Semiparametric estimation of dynamic conditional expected shortfall models
• Predictive performance of conditional Extreme Value Theory in Value-at-Risk estimation
• Risk budgeting and Value-at-Risk
• Country financial and political risk: the case of Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines
• Estimating integrated volatility using absolute high-frequency returns
• An empirical comparison of alternative models in estimating Value-at-Risk: evidence and application from the LSE
• On the role of volatility for modelling risk exposure

Special issue: Teaching Knowledge Management: integration into curriculum, teaching strategies and teaching case studies

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies 1(3) 2008

• An experiential approach to teaching Knowledge Management
• Self-efficacy and KM course weighting selection: can students optimise their grades?
• How to overcome pitfalls of (E)ER and UML in Knowledge Management education
• Designing and managing intervention methods to promote Self-Regulated Learning
• Teaching KM to secondary education teachers through an action research model
• Dimensions of KM: they know not its called knowledge… but they can manage it!

Newly announced journal: International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining - to begin publication in 2009 - publishes theoretical and practical research development on knowledge engineering and data mining. It is devoted to techniques and skills used for knowledgebase systems or intelligent applications development, including all areas of data architecture, data integration and data exchange, data mining, knowledge acquisition, representation, dissemination, codification and discovery techniques, and their technologies. It also focuses on their applications and case studies in industrial and business sectors.

Newly announced journal: International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management - to begin publication in 2009 - deals with the essential field of business continuity and risk management with particular emphasis on decision making using a multidisciplinary approach. Organisational resiliency through risk assessment, contingency planning, systems security, crisis and disaster management, and recovery planning, as well as public policy regarding infrastructure and security, are integrated in the journal’s coverage.

Special issue: International marketing and MIS cases leading towards entrepreneurship development

Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development 3(3/4) 2008

• Internationalisation of the New Zealand nutraceutical industry
• Environmental analysis as a means to customer satisfaction: the case of Starbucks in Cyprus
• Attribute-based recruitment of knowledge workers using MADM approach
• The correlation between problems experienced by ethnic entrepreneurs and their marketing and managerial skills
• The influence of identity on international consumer behaviour in transitional settings: a case study of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian banking market
• Greek banks in international markets: a study of entry modes and approaches
• Enterprise resource planning implementation in the retail sector: a case study on the effects of the implementation of an ERP system in Cyprus
• Case study: Paul Smith in Japan
• The external environment and its effect on strategic marketing planning: a case study for McDonald's
• Holiday Inn hotel: a case study from Greece

Special issue: Sustainable investments

Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 5(3) 2008

• Editorial: The contribution of sustainable investments to sustainable development
• Socially responsible investment and avoidance of controversial sectors: on isomorphic processes and the quest for legitimacy
• The Janus face of sustainable foreign direct investments
• Exploring the environmental information in sell-side analysts' research reports
• The relation between the GRI indicators and the financial performance of firms
• Sustainable investment analysis with the sustainable value approach – a plea and a methodology to overcome the instrumental bias in socially responsible investment research

Special issue: Design, analysis and development for product technology

International Journal of Product Development 6(1) 2008

• Response Surface Methodology-based approach to Electrochemical Deburring (ECD) of SS304 stainless steel workpiece
• Design and optimisation of a pump impeller using mathematical techniques
• Parametric matching selection approach for Satellite Gear Mechanism
• Simulation research on influence of scanning pattern on temperature evolution in SLS/SLM of Ti6Al4V powder
• An experimental analysis of a Y section exhaust manifold system with improved engine performance
• Synchronised collaborative design between heterogeneous CAD systems based on web service
• Modelling approach of a cymene-Si-Oil damping shock absorber based on neural network algorithm

Special issue:The rural entrepreneur: problems of definition

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 6(3) 2008

Papers from 5th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference in Lincoln, UK, 22-23 February 2007 and the European Rural Sociology Conference held in Wageningen, Netherlands in August 2007

• Farmers as entrepreneurs: the case of farm-based tourism
• Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis
• Entrepreneurial in-migrants and economic development in rural England
• Zzzz.....Some reflections on the dynamics of village entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship capital emerging in a coastal community
• Are farmers businesspeople? Highlighting transformations in the profession of farmers in France
• Entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions and activities – a comparison of urban and rural areas in Wales
• Blots, bovines, buildings, businesses and brands: monitoring the landscape of rural assets
• Starting social enterprises in remote and rural Scotland: best or worst of circumstances?
• A taxonomy of entrepreneurial farmers
• Beyond the concept of 'getting big or getting out': entrepreneurship strategies to survive as a farm family
• The potential for kitchen incubators to assist food-processing enterprises

Newly announced journal: International Journal of Global Warming

International Journal of Global Warming - to begin in 2009 - will bring all disciplines together for both local and global solutions to combat global warming and its consequences. It focuses around improvements in remediation, avoidance, efficiency, cost effectiveness, design, resource utilisation, environmental quality, energy security, and sustainable development. It also address issues related to global changes as a direct and/or indirect result of climate modification and strategies for adaptation to such changes.

Call for papers: Gender and Sustainable Development

Call for papers: Gender and Sustainable Development

A special issue of International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

This special issue welcomes papers based on new quantitative research concerning the economic, social and environmental role of women and the implications for government policies and business practices.

Original research is welcome on topics which include but are not limited to:

• Women in the workforce and economic growth
• Economic impacts of family-friendly policies
• Gender balance and innovative performance
• Female focus in poverty reduction
• Performance of male and female-led firms
• Innovation and women entrepreneurs
• Valuation of female-dominated professions
• Valuation of household work
• Effectiveness of gender quotas in public and private sectors
• Costs and benefits of engendered health policies
• Contributions of women migrants
• Gender aspects of education trends
• Women in global supply chains
• Engendered approaches to disaster risk reduction
• Sustainable consumption patterns by gender
• Gender governance approaches and climate change

Important Dates
Abstract of not more than 150 words by: 1 September 2008
Full paper submission by: 1 November 2008

Special issue: European integration, regional growth and cohesion

International Journal of Public Policy 3(3/4) 2008

• European integration, regional growth and cohesion: an overview
• Economic geography and European integration: the effects on the EU's external border regions
• The impact of EU enlargement on European border regions
• Did previous EU-enlargements change the regional distribution of production? An empirical analysis of three enlargement episodes
• Economic integration in a cross border perspective: an emerging new system of production?
• Multi-level policy making in transport: the problems for border regions
• EU cohesion policy: the debate on Structural Funds
• Ex-ante evaluation of European ICT policies: efficiency vs. cohesion scenarios

Special issue: Wind power trading in electricity markets

International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy 6(3) 2008

• Wind power in electricity markets: key issues and challenges
• Impacts of wind power on PJM market development
• Dispachability improvement of wind generation by the Virtual Power Producers
• Bidding and regulating strategies in a dual imbalance pricing system: case study for a Dutch wind producer
• Wind power generation in China: present status and future prospects
• Development of linear models of Static Var Compensators suitable for enhancing performance of power systems including wind farms
• Evaluation of wind power integration practices in Germany
• Integration of pump storage hydro with wind energy

Special issue: Australian views on energy security: papers from the Energy Security Symposium

International Journal of Global Energy Issues 29(4) 2008

Papers from a Symposium on Australia’s energy security hosted by the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Australian Homeland Security Centre in Canberra in October 2006.

• The impact of energy security on Australia's international relations
• Energy security: the new cold war
• Energy competition and international relations
• Accessing energy resources in the arc of instability
• Factoring energy security into Australian foreign and trade policy: Has luck run out?
• Asia's rising complex energy interdependence
• 'Strong enterprise, weak government': energy policy making in China
• Australia's engagement in the nuclear fuel cycle: the non-proliferation dimension
• Rapporteur's report

Special issue: Transforming energy systems towards sustainability: critical issues from a socio-technical perspective

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management 9(2/3) 2008

• Energy systems in transition: contributions from social sciences
• Deploying wind power in Australia: a socio-technical analysis
• Carbon capture and storage: settling the German coal vs. climate change dispute?
• Socio-technical implications of domestic microgeneration technologies in the UK electricity system
• En'lightening' energy use: the co-evolution of household lighting practices
• Who uses innovative energy technologies, when and why? The case of fuel cell MicroCHP in households
• Systematically sustainable provision? The premises and promises of 'joined-up' energy demand management
• Socio-technical analysis of the introduction of wind power in the Netherlands and Denmark
• Governance in the energy transition: Practice of transition management in the Netherlands

Special issue: CIBAM and the Symposium on Security, Terrorism and Business

Global Business and Economics Review 10(2) 2008

[CIBAM = Centre for International Business & Management, Judge Business School, Cambridge University]

• CIBAM and the Symposium on 'Security, Terrorism and Business'
• Terrorism and business
• Ten propositions concerning security, terrorism and business
• Not quite inexplicable: exploring the Bush administration's response to terrorism
• The war on terror: in search of a definition
• War on terrorism: from the bloody clash of civilisations to a nonviolent coexistence of nations and civilisations
• Terrorism and Islamism: differences, dynamics and dilemmas
• Unintended consequences: how Somalia's business community, in search of stability, and the USA, in search of terrorists, nearly created a radical Islamic state in the horn of Africa
• Terrorism and business: a view from an insurance practitioner

Special issue: Integrated disaster risk management in the Asia-Pacific Region

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 8(4) 2008

• Evaluation method of flood disaster loss based on genetic algorithm of changeable structure
• Matter-element model of integrated risk assessment for flood control systems
• Assessment of public risk perception in North-western China
• Research on geologic hazard risk management in China based on geologic hazard survey and zoning
• A decision support system for debris-flow hazard mitigation in towns based on numerical simulation: a case study at Dongchuan, Yunnan Province
• Main meteorological disasters and their impacts on the economic and societal developments in China
• Indigenous knowledge and culture on natural resources management in the Salween canyon, Yunnan Province, China
• An application of SCGE model to assess the labour and capital related economic loss in Nankai earthquake
• Probabilistic exposure assessment to total trihalomethanes in drinking water: an EVT method
• Impact of natural disaster on the national economies in China
• The attitudes of university students towards crisis events: a survey in Beijing
• Households' choice on reconstruction of a damaged house after an earthquake: characteristics of decisions and effects of subsidies

Special issue: Knowledge management

International Journal of Business Information Systems 3(6) 2008

• Revisiting knowledge warehousing: theoretical foundations
• Knowledge maps and organisations: an overview and interpretation
• How to use KM effectively in a European context: the case of BCT in Romania
• Motives for and modes of interfirm technological cooperation: an empirical study of China's high-technology SMEs
• The IT professional and knowledge management: researching the Irish perspective
• Knowledge management within information security: the case of Barings Bank
• Capturing tacit knowledge across different domains: Knowledge Community (K-Comm)
• Tacit knowledge, organisational memory: expectations and experiences in developing a knowledge warehouse