Emerging Markets’ Competitive Advantages in Sustainable Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 37100
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emerging markets; sustainability; strategizing; innovation; culture; strategic people management
Interests: digital innovations; entrepreneurship; AI; financial engineering; sustainability; optimization; global supply chains; big data; environment management information systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While emerging markets are of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners, given their increasing economic power and rapidly expanding markets, the sustainable development in these markets are also of major concerns in the global economy. From a managerial perspective, how to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030 is not only a social responsibility, but also a strategic issue for sustaining competitive advantages by the firms in emerging markets. First, emerging markets or developing countries are the ones that have the most challenges with achieving SGDs, as there are less resources. Second, for multinationals from advanced economies that are interested in the growing market potential in emerging economies, sustainable development and management is the center of attention of today’s global business. Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy as a central value is an indispensable necessity. Third, for the aspiring multinationals from emerging economies, how to take advantage of their national competitiveness to the global context and sustain them is one of the strategic challenges in this changing and dynamic global business paradigm. Sharing historical experience of economic development from established advanced economies is also welcome.
This Special Issue aims to address these sustainable management issues in relation to emerging markets’ competitive advantages: “in, to and from”. A broadly defined perspective is called for in this Special Issue in order to outline different angles of view for the sustainable competitive advantages in international business with a special focus on emerging markets. Interdisciplinary work with non-traditional schools of thoughts is especially encouraged to bring inquiry and dialogue into the field of business, management and organization. A wide array of topics are of interest in this Special Issue, with exemplary illustrations including, but not limited to:
- Technological innovation and sustainable development in and from emerging markets, like digitalization, Fintech, robotics, and e-commerce
- Transformation of business model and strategy innovation for sustainable competitive advantages in various sectors, both knowledge-intensive and non-knowledge-intensive industries
- Green energy and corporate environmentalism strategy in the context of emerging markets
- Healthcare industry, system and policies in emerging economies, especially within the context of COVID-19
- Diversity and inequality reduction in relation to human resource management, like gender differences, child labor, work-life balance, stress management, reverse mentorship and talent management
- Entrepreneurship in emerging markets and particular sectors like agriculture business
- Effective public administration for sustainable economic development with foreign direct investment attraction and poverty improvement
- Impact of education sector in sustainability
- Impact of SDGs to sustainability in emerging markets
This Special Issue attempts to extend the current knowledge on competing in emerging markets and confronting business challenges from emerging economies in the dynamic global business context, with the sustainable management of competitive advantages. Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcomed from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. A multi-faceted and multi-perspective approach of the selected papers will enable the evolving dialogue of SDGs in management in, to and from emerging markets.
Prof. Dr. Yingying Zhang-Zhang
Prof. Dr. Jay Rajasekera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- competitive advantages
- SDGs
- emerging market
- international competitiveness
- international cooperation
- multinationals
- SMEs
- gender
- environment
- green energy
- technological innovation
- healthcare
- public sector effectiveness
- gender
- diversity
- inequality
- entrepreneurship
- talents
- digital transformation
- economic development
- infrastructure
- debt-management
- risk management
- primary and tertiary education
- trade blocks
- border trade
- WTO
- e-commerce
- big tech
- big data and cyber security
- international skill management
- immigration of skilled and non-skilled workers