Organization, Work, and Employment:

- Contemporary issues for the future of work include flexible working, the gig economy, decent work/quality of work, and pay.

- Economic Policy - Macro and micro, including employment regulation, comparative political economy, industrial strategy, regional policy, and labor markets

- Employment relations – work and the workplace, employee voice and trade unionism

- Entrepreneurship and small business

- Equality, diversity, inclusion, and workplace well-being

- Knowledge, skills, and human capital

- Organizational learning

- Trust and social capital

- Across global value chains and production networks.

Management and Organizations

- Organizational strategy

- Global supply chains

- Leadership and performance

- Technology and innovation

- Strategic management

- Innovation management

- Sustainability

- Entrepreneurship in challenging contexts

- Resilience and well-being

- Organizational behavior

- Corporate governance

International Business

- The theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE)

- The governance of global value chains (GVCs)

- Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs)

- International business policy, SDGs, and “grand challenges”

- Global health and international business

- Cross-cultural management, diversity and inclusion

Analytics, Technology, and Operations

- Operations and supply chain management

- Supply chain resilience and sustainability

- Supply chain technologies and analytics

- Information systems and information management

- Information behavior

- Digital transformation and innovation

- Decision support systems

- Decision Sciences and Optimization

- Behavioral Decision Research

- Psychology of Decision-Making & Risk

- Multi-criteria Decision Analysis

- Business and Data Analytics

- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Unstructured Data Mining

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

- Green supply chain management. 

- Carbon footprinting of logistics systems. 

- Environmental policies and operations and supply chain design.

- Integrating sustainable practices with operations and supply chain performance. 

- Sustainable procurement. 

- Supply chain ethics.

Supply Chain Technologies, Analytics and Risk

- Digital strategies and ICT adoption in operations and supply chain management. 

- Uncertainty and risk mitigation.

- Mathematical programming, stochastic dynamic programming, and meta-heuristic optimization of supply chains. 

- Development of models and algorithms to support supply chain network design.

- Artificial intelligence, blockchain applications. 

- Machine learning and big data analytics in operations and supply chain management.

Agile Operations

- Organizational agility. 

- Agile and resilient operations. 

- Management practices and the performance and productivity of small firms. 

- Sustainable growth of SMEs.

Leadership, Organizations, and Society

- Equality and inclusion

- Innovation and the future of work

- The creative industries

- Strategic resilience

Entrepreneurship

- entrepreneurial ecosystems

- crowdfunding and entrepreneurial finance

- scaling up businesses