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Call for Contributions. Retos No. 30 (October 2025)

2025-01-20

In relation to the research line on Public Administration, Retos journal extends the following call for contributions:

Public Administration: Challenges in the face of the political context and the 4th Industrial Revolution

Horacio Cao
Universidad de Buenos Aires
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7605-4812

Rodolfo Canto Saénz
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-4155

Thiago Ferreira Dias
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0749-5654

As if it were a conceptual body that emulates the god Janus, it is often said that the study of Public Administration works on two dimensions: the political and the organizational. In both cases, the current context presents significant challenges.

In the first case, the complex mechanism by which decisions in the political sphere are transformed into concrete state actions is challenged by contradictory requirements: growing budgetary constraints parallel to pressures to expand social, environmental and productive policies. In the second case, although the State presents elements markedly differentiated from other organizations, like them it faces urgent changes from the overwhelming deployment of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

In this scenario, governments must decide what to do with the state organization, setting strategies for the design and implementation of public policies, personnel management, planning, evaluation and control, as well as intra- and intergovernmental coordination.

This special issue invites academics, state professionals, political leaders and trade unionists to reflect on the challenges faced by Public Administrations, in a politically unstable context and where the 4th Industrial Revolution calls for the transformation of fundamental notions of their organizational order. The objective is to foster critical debate to develop strategies that help build a Public Administration capable of overcoming current challenges and contributing to inclusive, environmentally sustainable and democratic development.

Topics to be discussed in this issue include (but are not limited to) the following SDG-aligned research:

  1. 4th Industrial Revolution, social change and new models of state management.
  2. Citizen participation, democracy and public administration.
  3. Accountability and Open Government: policies and actions aimed at preventing state capture.
  4. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Public Administration: from electronic government to digital government.
  5. Public-private partnerships and co-management with companies and civil society organizations.
  6. The new profile of public employment: entry, career and training for "digital collar" employment.
  7. State capacities, coordination between jurisdictions and intergovernmental relations.
  8. Transformations of the state structure: what new forms exist to replace the bureaucratic/Napoleonic model?

We welcome presentations that boost our collective thinking and help us face the double challenge facing state management.

In this sense, the Journal of Economic Sciences and Administration "Retos" values and appreciates empirical contributions based on representative samples, predictive and robust statistical models, and a diversity of perspectives. These contributions should offer relevant insights into the central theme of the special issue, enriching scholarly debate and the state of the art.

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Published Date: October 1, 2025

Call for contributions. Retos Nº 29 (April 2025)

2024-07-17

Challenges and opportunities in management strategies: the impact of emerging technologies on business in a post globalised economy

Ana Jiménez-Zarco
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8980-6814

Asher Rospigliossi
University of Westminster, United Kingdom
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-9850

Kaiyang Zhong
Alpha University, Malaysia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5575-0306

After a decade of economic stagnation following the Global Financial Crisis, the Covid19 Pandemic not only accelerated the ongoing digital transformation, it also highlighted the importance of resilience and the fragility of the complex globalized economy. Businesses must decide on what to do, while facing many challenges including social and political instability (fueled by the social media algorithms of the attention economy), mass migration and inequality and most pressingly the environmental crisis.

Digital Transformation offers an ever-growing array of emerging technologies, from the personalized digital communications and relationships available on the globally ubiquitous smartphone to the vast linking of systems enabled by the Internet of Everything or more virtually the metaverse. Some technologies seem to promise enormous change like artificial intelligence, while others are promoted without a clear use case, such as crypto currencies.

Businesses and organizations are no strangers to a reality where technology is omnipresent, enabling the integration of physical and digital environments.  Brands must accommodate personalization and fragmentation and learn to thrive with audiences that may love or hate them, or when people want to participate directly in business decisions, priorities and processes.

This special issue invites academics and practitioners to reflect on the challenges and opportunities that companies face in a context defined by post-globalization, where emerging technologies play an ever more important role. The aim is to foster critical debate to help in the design, evaluation, implementation and critique of innovative business strategies.

Topics to be discussed in this issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Emerging technologies, social change and new business models.
  • Omnichannel customer value creation
  • Role of technologies in mitigating the climate crisis
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence in Business Management
  • Brand management: personalization and customer relationships
  • Sustainability and co-creation with the customer
  • A metaverse without monopolies
  • Technology assissted customer empowerment

We welcome submissions that take our collective thinking forward as we all prepare for a post globalized future.

In this regard, "Retos" Journal of Administration and Economics Sciences values and appreciates empirical contributions based on representative samples, robust statistical and predictive models, and a diversity of perspectives. These contributions should offer relevant insights on the central theme of the special issue, enriching academic debate and the state of the art.

Deadline: 13 january 2025
Date of publication: 1 april 2025 

Call for Papers. Retos Nº 28 (October 2024)

2024-01-22

Challenges in Business Management in the Era of the Great Resignation: Responsible, Competitive, and Happy Governance.

Rafael Ravina-Ripoll, Ph.D. 
University of Cadiz, Spain; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7007-3123

Esthela Galván-Vela. Ph.D.
Cetys University, Mexico; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-3989

Fernando Pinto-Hernández, Ph.D.
King Juan Carlos University, Spain; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1525-3206

Journal Retos in Business Administration and Economics presents its new call for scientific contributions for its Issue No. 28 (October 2024): The era of the Great Resignation has highlighted that corporate happiness and organizational justice play a fundamental role in the development of comprehensive strategic management. One reason for this assertion is that the Great Resignation has shown that companies must embrace an organizational culture that attracts and retains creative capital. This is achieved through flexible and innovative ecosystems that nurture the subjective well-being of employees. In this way, companies can not only stay at the forefront of new technologies but also address the demanding demands of the globalized market in the era of the Great Resignation. This implies, among other things, management models focused on analyzing and solving the lack of human capital participation in decision-making, as well as creating a work environment that not only listens to the voice of employees but also adapts to their lifestyle. In this context, theories of social responsibility and happiness management are essential for exploring new corporate governance. These theories emphasize creating environments where employees not only refrain from leaving their jobs voluntarily but also feel happy in their professional performance. Undoubtedly, a path that is crucial to the success sought by every business organization.

From this perspective, this special issue aims to be the key that opens the door to scientific and academic research demonstrating the importance for companies to implement management and leadership models designed under the pillars of cultures and strategies grounded in social responsibility, social marketing, and employee well-being. Under this approach, these types of scientific studies can have important theoretical and practical implications for the development of human resources and social marketing actions that highlight the necessity of social responsibility and happiness management to incentivize employee performance through loyalty, emotional compensation, business ethics, social marketing, and corporate happiness. Therefore, this special issue can be an attractive forum to address this issue, as well as others related to this scientific paradigm.

The topics to be discussed in this issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

Organizational change models
New models of leadership marketing, and management
Human talent strategies and policies
Applications of Happiness Management
Applications of Corporate Social Responsibility
The role of Corporate Social Responsibility and Happiness Management

In this regard, the journal Challenges in Business Administration and Economics values and appreciates empirical contributions based on representative samples, robust statistical and predictive models, and diverse perspectives. These contributions should offer relevant insights into the central theme of the special issue, enriching academic discourse and the state of the art.

Call for contributions. Retos No. 27 (April 2024)

2023-08-04

Transformational Marketing: Connections and Influencing the Consumer Experience.


Thematic Editors:
 Leonardo Ortegón Cortázar, Ph.D. Politécnico Grancolombiano, Colombia.
Ángel Acevedo-Duque, Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile

This special issue invites you to explore how marketing can enhance consumer experiences through the strategic use of sensory marketing, environmental design, the development of innovative products, brands or services, favorable commercial relationships, creative communication processes and brand management, trends in the use of technologies, and value generation proposals that produce a positive change in people's attitudes, emotions and behavior. All research that stimulates and advances the state of knowledge on how to offer consumers positive experiences that inspire them, motivate them, transform them positively and generate long-term loyalty.

We welcome empirical contributions based on representative samples, strong statistics, and a variety of perspectives that offer insights into the central theme of this special issue. All proposals should emphasize transformational marketing variables or phenomena, transformational services, purposeful brands, connections with attitudinal variables, customer self-fulfillment or happiness, influence on customer experience, well-being and loyalty.

Possible research questions include, but are not limited to:

How to foster consumer experience, well-being and quality of life from the field of marketing?

What constitutes and what are the implications of transformational marketing?

How to design an ideal transformational marketing?

How to foster consumer loyalty through consumer attitudes, emotions and well-being?

How to improve the quality of the consumer experience from new scenarios or technologies?

How to promote happiness, well-being and consumer experience through innovative products, brands, services or environmental designs?

How can brands foster greater connection with the transformative consumer experience?

What are the challenges in promoting consumer loyalty through transformational marketing and services?

Submission of articles until: January 16th 2024

Date of publication: April 1st, 2024