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Call for Papers - Special Issues

We are planning several special issues and you are welcome to contribute to any of them.


Call for Papers - Special Issue on

"Empirical Research in the EU Banking Sector"

Guest Editors

 Fotios Pasiouras, University of Bath, UK f.pasiouras@bath.ac.uk

 Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece kostas@dpem.tuc.gr

Over the last years, a number of significant changes occurred in the EU banking industry. For example, deregulation concerning the establishment, operation and supervision of credit institutions as well as the ability of non-financial firms to offer traditional banking services contributed to the growing competition. Therefore, banks were forced to generate new products and seek new customers as reflected in the continued diversification across geographical areas and business lines. The improvements in computer and telecommunication technologies also offered more opportunities for economies of scale and scope. Many banks have attempted to obtain a size that will allow them to compete in the enlarged European market leading to an unprecedented level of consolidation through merger and acquisitions. The establishment of the single European market, the introduction of euro, and the enlargement of the market with the twelve new member states posed further challenges to EU banks. The new regulatory environment (e.g. Basel II, IFRS) is also expected to have a significant impact on the banking sector. On one hand the changes in the regulatory environment aim to achieve a better harmonization of the market and increase stability. On the other hand, they introduce further challenges for EU banks as they require changes in risk management, accounting policies, and the way they do business.    

Despite all the above mentioned changes, the economic importance and the size of the EU banking sector, the strand of the literature that examines the EU as a single market is relatively small compared to research in the US banking sector. Nevertheless, the EU offers a unique opportunity for research because of its heterogeneity and the differences among its member states that allow the incorporation of macroeconomic, regulatory and other country specific variables in the analysis.

      The proposed special issue aims to present recent empirical work that uses management science/operations research methodologies to examine the EU banking sector. Of particular interest are studies that focus on the Single Market, provide cross-country comparisons, or compare the banking sectors of the old (i.e. 15) and new (i.e. 12) member states. Topics of special interest, although not limited to the ones below, are: 

 

  • Bank merger and acquisitions
  • Efficiency and performance in the banking sector
  • Risk management (credit, operational, market risk)
  • Asset-Liability management
  • The impact of new computer and communication technologies
  • Foreign banks and multinational banking
  • Market structure, regulations and stability

 

Both academics and practitioners can contribute to the special issue. The papers will be initially screened by the special issue editors, and then send out for single blind peer review in accordance with the procedures of OMEGA. 

Authors should submit their paper via EES http://www.ees.elsevier.com/omega/  and indicate in the titleSpecial Issue: Empirical Research in the EU Banking Sector

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the standards of OMEGA. For details related to the page format for submission to OMEGA, please check the webpage: http://www.omegajournal.org/authors.html.

The submission deadline is May 31, 2008.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2010.

 


A Special Issue on

"Ethics and Operations Research"

Guest Editors

 Marc Le Menestrel, marc.lemenestrel@upf.edu

 Luk N. Van Wassenhove,  luk.van-wassenhove@insead.edu

The Special Issue appeared Volume 37, Issue 6.

 


A Special Issue on

"Role of Flexibility in Supply Chain Design and Modeling"

Guest Editor

Charu Chandra, charu@umich.edu

Associate Guest Editor

Janis Grabis, grabis@itl.rtu.lv

The Special Issue appeared Volume 37, Issue 4.


Special Issue on

“Management Science Research in China:

A Special Issue Dedicated to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Guest Editor

Joe Zhu, jzhu@wpi.edu

The Special Issue appeared Volume 36, Issue 6.


Special issue on " Logistics: New Perspectives and Challenges "

Guest Editors

Angappa Gunasekaran, agunasekaran@umassd.edu

T. C. Edwin Cheng, lgtcheng@polyu.edu.hk

The Special Issue appeared Volume 36, Issue 4.


Special issue on "Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Engineering"

Guest Editors

Margaret M. Wiecek, wmalgor@clemson.edu

Matthias Ehrgott, m.ehrgott@auckland.ac.nz

Georges Fadel, fgeorge@clemson.edu

José Rui Figueira, figueira@ist.utl.pt

The Special Issue appeared Volume 36, Issue 3.


Special issue on "Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning"

Guest Editor

William R. King, billking@katz.pitt.edu

Associate Guest Editors

T. Rachel Chung, rachel.chung@gmail.com

Mark H. Haney, mhaney@katz.pitt.edu

The Special Issue appeared Volume 36, Issue 2.


Cluster Papers from INFORMS Conference in

Atlanta October 2003

Guest Editors

Donna C. Llewellyn, donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu

Paul Griffin, pgriffin@isye.gatech.edu

The Special Issue Section appeared Volume 36, Issue 1.


Special issue on "Telecommunications Applications"

Guest Editors

Rina Schneur, rina.schneur@verizon.com

Hui Liu, hui.liu@verizon.com

The Special Issue appeared Volume 35, Issue 6.


Special issue on "Reverse Production Systems: Disassembly and other Reverse Manufacturing related practices"

Guest Editor

B. Adenso-Diaz,  ADENSO@epsig.uniovi.es

The Special Issue appeared Volume 34, Issue 6.


Special Issue on selected papers from APORS Conference in New Delhi, India, December 2003

Guest Editor

M.C. Puri,  mcpuri@maths.iitd.ernet.in

The Special Issue appeared Volume 33, Issue 5.