Competition & Change

Competition and Change is unique in bringing together research and ideas in global business and political economy in ways that will interest social scientists, both inside and outside 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 and Change includes contributions on the changing social settlement between the state and the private sector and within the 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, international relations and development studies.

Competition & Change welcomes submissions on issues such as:

• Globalization (and deglobalization) in terms of its drivers and uneven impacts
• The crisis and recession as a major disruptive influence on competitive in markets and effects on national economies
• Commodity chains, clusters and other new forms of productive organization with implications for the transnational corporation and the basis of competition
• Financialisation 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.
• Broad conceptualizations and debates regarding capitalist restructuring

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).

The journal is currently being managed by and edited from the University of Hertfordshire Business School.

Please submit any articles to competitionandchange@herts.ac.uk.

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