Call for Chapters | BOOK: Confronting Challenges, Conflicts & Crises (4C) in Managing Businesses: Roadmap of Sustenance to Excellence by Conquering Adversities

This book is part of the Management Innovations Series and seeks to include quality works putting light on managing businesses, especially in the uncertain business environment.

Book Editors

Dr. Vaishali Rahate, Associate Professor, Datta Meghe Institute of Management Studies, Nagpur, India.
Dr. Sudipto Bhattacharya, Professor, VIT Business School, VIT University, Vellore Campus, Tamil Nadu, India.

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

Coverage & Objectives of the Book

In recent past, the economic recession, several natural calamities, the Covid pandemic, conflict among nations and so on has brought many impediments to the global business ecosystem. These roadblocks have challenged the aspirations of the entrepreneurial minds of people across race, region, religion and other demographics. Lots of changes have taken place within a short span of time. Market reluctance and Financial stress, Global warming, Climate change and Unpredictable monsoon, Remote working, virtual meetings and online education along with healthcare issues and restrictions on mobility, ushered in the new normal. Despite these constraints, there were various industries that smelled the cheese and swapped the crisis to opportunity. They opened doors and embraced new opportunities across various sectors of economies world-wide. They were enabled with the all-pervasive World Wide Web and new technologies for the living world. These crises forced everyone to unlearn and relearn, work and adapt to the dynamics of changes in the emergent environment of interplays among the PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental) factors to survive and surge ahead. It is now realised by the business world that in the post covid era, they should make themselves more strong and capable by redesigning their business model canvas. Though the task is confronted with multiple challenges in the new normal, the companies who adapt to the innovative approaches are destined to survive and succeed. The readers of the book will get several insights into the strategies adopted by the companies during these testing times of crisis along with the new business models adopted by the organisations. Moreover, the contents will be directed towards the impact of these times of adversities on the behaviour of the employees, entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers and above all the market.

Following topics do cover the intent of the book and the works (chapters) should strictly address one or more of these topics:

Crisis happens or made to happen;
Moving ahead: Learnings from the crisis;
Strategies for manufacturing under constraints;
Technology as the saviour when challenged for survival;
Business Foresight and Forecast: Panacea or Prevention;
Aligning businesses from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals;
Bulls and Bears: The Rags to Rich dreamers and destinies;
The Rain man: Silver linings on the clouds of dark economy;
Redesigning the Triple Bottom Lines: Planet, People & Profit;
From Nowhere to Somewhere: Start-up to Scale up to Scale out;
Towards a new industrial revolution-Strategies for today and tomorrow;
The Hundred years cycle: Pandemic Stimuli that evens out market differences;
Nature of Crisis: Natural to Manmade, Critical to Fatal for Man, Material and Money;
From Competition to Collaboration: Dependence, Independence to Interdependence.

Target Audience (Readership)

Business Management Students and Research Scholars, Academicians, Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Start-up Founders, Corporate Captains and Executives and Business fraternity.

Target Audience (Authorship)

Academicians and Researchers from Commerce, Economics, Finance, Social Sciences & Business Management, and industry experts.

Important dates

Chapter abstract submission: July 31 September 30, 2022
Full chapter submission: October 15, 2021 October 31, 2022
Acceptance/Rejection/Changes: November 15, 2021 November 30, 2022
Revised chapter submission: December 15, 2021 December 20, 2022
Book Publication: September-October 2022 January 2023

IMPORTANT GUIDELINES & NOTES

  1. The chapters need to be submitted via email to the Editorial Desk at [email protected]. The book’s name should be mentioned in the subject line while submitting chapter abstracts/full-texts.
  2. The abstracts/full texts will be shared with the volume editors and the authors will directly be contacted by one of the volume editors with an acceptance/rejection/amendment decision.
  3. There is no chapter submission/processing or publishing charge.
  4. A chapter should be APA styled and submitted in MS Docx format and must include authors’ affiliation details, failing which the chapters will not be considered for review. A chapter should ideally be of 8-32 pages [7,000 to 10,000 words including references] with Times New Roman Font Size 12 with single line spacing & page margins of 1″ (Top, Bottom, Left, Right).
  5. Unoriginal or previously published works will not be processed for review.
  6. All chapters need to have complete affiliation details.
  7. All chapters will be reviewed by chapter reviewers (peer-reviewers) before acceptance by the book editors. The chapters will be reviewed using a double peer review system.
  8. The editorial (editors’) decision of accepting or rejecting a chapter shall be final. The book editors have all the editorial freedoms pertaining to the content quality of the book, and the publisher doesn’t interfere in any editorial decision taken by the editors pertaining to the acceptance/rejection of any work for the book.
  9. The authors submitting chapters need to adhere to our policies on plagiarism, scholarly misconduct, and publication ethics. The copyright in respect of the accepted chapters will remain with the authors, with the publications’ rights being with the CSMFL Publications.
  10. The authors of the accepted & published chapters retain their right to use their work for scholarly and teaching purposes, subject to the conditions and limitations as described in Authors’ Rights for Content Reuse .

BOOK’s AVAILABILITY

The book will be published in both print and ebook formats. The book will be available via-

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The book chapters will also be available in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar and other academic source databases.

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