Call for proposals: Special Issue and Review Articles
Multinational Business Review
Call for proposals: Special Issue and Review Articles
MBR has issued a call for Special Issue proposals and Review proposals, with a deadline of October 31, 2025. Special Issues are expected to tackle relevant, but under-researched aspects of international business and international management. Proposals are particularly welcome in areas such as IB and sustainability, IB and digitalisation, to name a few. We also welcome Special Issue proposals which connect core international business research with other disciplines where international business decisions may be also studied through different lenses.
MBR also invites proposals for the 2026 Review Issue. MBR is looking for review articles which summarize and integrate the most topical and recent research in the area of International Business and Management. Importantly, review proposals should be clear about important directions for future inquiry that would result from conducting the review. MBR considers review proposals from all areas of international business, international strategy and more broadly, international management. Ideally, the review should cover a stream of literature which will be of interest to scholars from different disciplines. Importantly also – where the research surveyed pertains to a recent stream of work, with few studies published proposals to review are typically poor candidates.
Authors should submit their proposals between 1 September 2025 and 31 October 2025 via email to the Editors, Professor Irina Surdu-Nardella and Professor Tazeeb Rajwani ([email protected] and [email protected])
Submissions for the Review Issue will be evaluated with respect to their:
• Relevance. The proposed manuscript should aim to review a significant and important research area within international business and management.
• Viability. The proposal should reach a balance in terms of the breath and scope of the analysis to meet the tight time constraints required (as per below).
• Scope. Since the main goal is for a review to be widely read, it should be of interest to a broader range of disciplines concerned with international decisions and outcomes.
• Soundness. The proposal should follow a logical structure and read clearly.
• Future research insights. The proposal should explain how the review would lead to insightful future research avenues.
• Originality. The contribution of the review to the surveys area of work should be clear, and details around how the review adds to existing review papers (rather than replicate them) would be required.
• Author expertise. Preference is given to proposals where (at least some of the) authors have conducted extensive research in the given area and can thus, speak expertly about the contribution of current studies and potential for future research.
Proposal submission format
• Single-spaced, 12-point font, and include no more than three pages.
• References, tables, and appendices do not count against this page limit.
• All proposals will be subject to editorial review.
• All proposals should be accompanied by a cover letter and author bios (add as an appendix to the proposals; bios should be up to 400 words in length)
• Please do not send complete papers.
Please submit everything in one .pdf document.
If you have questions, please contact the Editors:
Professor Tazeeb Rajwani, University of Surrey – UK, [email protected]
Professor Irina Surdu-Nardella, University of Warwick – UK, [email protected]
Relevant dates are as follows:
1 September - 31 October 2025: Proposals due via email to Editors
1 December 2025: Final decisions on proposals and authors invited to submit reviews/host the Special Issue.
For reviews:
1 May 2026: Full draft of the paper to submit to MBR.
1 August 2026: Feedback to authors on full paper.
1 November 2026: Final paper submitted to MBR.
Please see further instructions on submission guidelines here