CONGRESS OBJECTIVES
The 29^th World Business Congress of the International Management Development Association (IMDA) will be held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, from June 12^th through 16^th, 2022, and is hosted jointly by JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyvaskyla, Finland. Scholarly papers, panel/special session proposals, and case study exercises for presentation and subsequent publication in the award-winning refereed congress proceedings are invited. In addition to sharing scholarship regarding global business issues, the congress offers an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and enables participants to exchange information and ideas on a variety of global business topics.

 Proceedings which is afforded only to a small number of congress proceedings around the world. The Best Papers of the Congress will be published in the Journal of Transnational Management and/or Journal of Euromarketing, and outstanding papers will also be considered for other journal publications. The congress offers an excellent opportunity to meet international thought leaders and professionals from around the world to exchange information and ideas on a variety of global business topics.

SPONSORING ACADEMIC JOURNALS OF INTEREST 

In addition to creating a book of readings from the congress proceedings, we have made arrangements with the editors of the following scholarly business journals to develop special issues as well as publishing a number of good quality manuscripts in regular issues.

• International Journal of Transition and Innovation Systems
• International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets
• International Journal of Export Marketing
• European Journal of International Management
• International Journal of Emerging Markets
• Journal of Transnational Management
• Journal of Euromarketing
• Journal of Marketing Channels
• Journal of Asia-Pacific Business
• Competitiveness Review
• Asia-Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
• International Journal of Commerce and Management
• Journal of Management Modeling

IMDA SCHOLARLY BOOK OF READINGS: ADVANCES IN GLOBAL BUSINESS

The Congress proceedings are published in the refereed scholarly publication, Advances in Global Business which is listed in Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) available through Thomson Reuters’ integrated index within the Web of Science. Papers selected to receive the Congress Best Paper Awards will be published in the Journal of Transnational Management (JTM) and/or Journal of Euromarketing (JEM). There will also be opportunities for selected congress papers for publication in regular as well as in special issues of the following scholarly business journals: Journal of Management Modeling (JM2), International Journal of Commerce and Management, Competitiveness Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, and Journal of Marketing Channels.