Competition & Change

Volume 16 (2012), 4 issues per year

Competition & Change is unique in bringing together research and ideas in global business and political economy in ways that will interest social scientists inside and outside of schools of business and management. It features articles that use a variety of social science perspectives to develop understanding of broad business issues around globalization and financialization and their impact on economic organization and performance, social conditions, labour and policy frameworks. Competition & Change includes contributions on the changing social settlement between the state and the private sector and within labour markets, as well as those that address broader conceptualizations of restructuring capitalist relations. The journal is inter-disciplinary and welcomes submissions from international scholars with backgrounds in political and cultural economy, business economics, organizational sociology, economic geography, labour studies, international relations and development studies.

Scope

Competition & Change welcomes submissions on issues such as:
- Globalization, as one amongst several major disruptive influences intensifying product market competition
- Commodity chains, clusters and other new forms of productive organization with implications for the transnational corporation and the basis of competition
- Financialization and the impact of the capital market on corporate and household behaviour
- Corporate governance and the scope for national and international regulation on major economic policy issues
- Labour conditions and standards, in the context of a changing international division of labour
- Business strategy and its relation to political and social initiatives at regional, national and local levels.

The journal publishes:
- Full length peer reviewed articles (7,000 to 10,000 words)
- Special and themed issues
- Review articles and position pieces for our peer reviewed Reviews and Positions section (3,000 to 8,000)
- Short items of relevant news and information for the academic community for our News section (500 to 2,000 words).

Queries about potential submissions should be sent to Dawn James, Editorial Assistant, competitionandchange@herts.ac.uk (articles, ideas for special and theme issues) or to tony.cutler@rhul.ac.uk (Reviews and Positions). For further details, please click on the Instructions for Authors link to the right.

Competition & Change Editorial Board Member, Manuel Castells, wins 2012 Holberg Prize

Manuel Castells has won this year’s Holberg International Memorial Prize – the ‘Nobel prize’ for the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley and other top institutions around the world, Castells earned the award for four decades of compelling analyses of power. Read more here.