The EEMCS-IBS Best Emerging Market Case Award

  • Case submission deadline: 30th Aug 2012

  • Submissions should be made via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eemcs

  • NB:
    Participation criteria:
    In order for your case to be considered as an entry to the competition, please ensure that you respond as follows when prompted:
    - How did you hear about this journal? ICSC 2012
    - Please select the issue you are submitting to: Regular Issue

    Please also ensure that you submit an intent to participate form and that you send your case to the conference organisers via email to: cases_icsc2012@ibsindia.org [Details on these separate processes are available here].

    Failure to follow the above guidelines will exclude your case from being considered for the award.

    • Compulsory submission criteria [Please read all the following before submitting]:

  • Cases should have a developing and emerging markets focus (Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania)

  • All cases should be based on a real situation in a real company, with a clear decision-making situation, and prepared in accordance with the EEMCS case writing guidelines.

  • Case studies submitted should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication in any ISSN/ ISBN-registered publication or with any other case-centre. Please read our originality guidelines for more details.

  • All submissions must comprise all of the following:
    - case study
    - case teaching note
    - case title page
    - signed consent to publish forms from representatives of the organizations being written about
    - permissions documentation must be supplied for any content that is not of the author’s own making, including tables and figures from other sources. Please read Emerald’s permissions guidelines here:
    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/writing/permissions.htm
    - Full Harvard-style referencing must be used for secondary data sources

    Suggested reading/reference:

  • Teaching Case Submission Checklist.

  • Case writing guide by Ali Farhoomand, University of Hong Kong

  • A simplified approach to writing case studies by Dr Melodena Balakrishnan, Chair of the Academy of International Business, MENA chapter and Regional Editor Middle East, Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies.

  • Case organization chapter from Writing Cases, 4th Edition / Learning with Cases, 4th Edition (Book Set), by Michiel R. Leenders, James A. Erskine, Louise A. Mauffette-Leenders

  • Case primer by David Wylie, Babson College

  • How to write a teaching note by Professor Leif Sjoblom, IMD, Switzerland, Emerald Regional Editor – Africa

    • Contact

    Victoria Buttigieg, Publisher
    Email: vbuttigieg@emeraldinsight.com

    Copyright

    Emerald reserve the right to publish the cases submitted for the competition. If the editorial team of the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies collection would like to publish a case submission, the editor will contact the author with an offer to do so. If, twelve months after the deadline for submissions has passed, Emerald or the editor have not contacted the author about publishing his/her case, Emerald will waive its first claim to publication and the authors will be free to submit their case to another publication. In the event of publication authors will retain the academic freedom to contribute to the wider distribution and readership of their work. This includes the right to use their work as part of their own teaching. The rights retained by the author are explained fully in the Emerald Authors' Charter. All cases submitted that are later published in the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies collection will be made freely available to individual published authors for 3 months.

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