"International business, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development"

Deadline for submission: 1 June 2008

This special issue aims to publish papers on CSR and sustainable development that are embedded in international business literature, and aim to contribute to our field as indicated above. We welcome innovative papers, both conceptual and empirical, both qualitative and quantitative, on CSR topics in relation to, for example:

• Degree and spread of internationalisation/regionalisation
• Headquarter-subsidiary relationships and subsidiary roles
• Competitive advantage, growth and development
• Firm performance
• Foreign direct investment
• Convergence/divergence
• Supply chain management, offshoring/outsourcing
• Networks and alliances
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Marketing in consumer and business-to-business markets
• Issue management, reputation and brands
• Codes of conduct and labelling programmes
• Business-government relationships
• The provision of global public goods
• International stakeholder management

Submission guidelines

All paper submissions should conform to International Business Review’s standard guidelines for authors, details of which can be found at the IBR website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ibusrev

Guest editors

• Ans Kolk, University of Amsterdam Business School
• Rob van Tulder, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Papers for this special issue can only be submitted electronically via online submission site at http://ees.elsevier.com/ibr/ and select this “Special Issue: Sustainable Development” as the article type.

Questions about the special issue can be directed at the guest editors via e-mail: akolk@uva.nl (Ans Kolk) or rtulder@rsm.nl (Rob van Tulder)

This special issue of International Business Review will be published in Spring 2010.