Call for Papers - International Journal of Quality and Innovation

Special Issue on: "Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies to Overcome the Disruptions of the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Crisis"

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented global humanitarian crisis like no other as governments around the world have imposed lockdowns and movement control measures to contain the spread of the virus and to safeguard the health and wellbeing of citizens.

The special issue aims to curate a timely collection of articles that shed light on the challenges and opportunities that the COVID-19 global humanitarian crisis has produced for a wide range of communities such as businesses, consumers, educators, families, governments, and societies.

The special issue is also interested in new strategies that these communities can use to prepare for, navigate in, and recover from global humanitarian crisis such as COVID-19.

The special issue welcomes a broad range of methodologies such as case studies, conceptual and contextual development, expert commentaries, qualitative interviews, rapid reviews, and surveys.

Given the importance of the topic, manuscripts submitted to the special issue will undergo a fast-track review process by two peer reviewers, with the goals of returning the first decision within two to four weeks and the final decision within two rounds of peer review.

For further information, please contact Editor in Chief Professor Weng Marc Lim (marclim@swin.edu.au).

Subject Coverage
Topics and areas related to COVID-19 may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Big data and data analytics
Crisis communication and management
Design thinking and innovation
Digital transformation
Digital tools for community empowerment
Preparedness for outbreaks
Public health and integrated care
Risk management
Learning and teaching in early, primary, secondary, and tertiary education
Tourism, hospitality and destination management
Quality of life management
Quality issues and strategies
Innovation issues and strategies
Remote working issues and strategies

Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please do so at: https://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_submit.php?

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 1 August, 2020

Notification to authors: 1 September, 2020

Final versions due by: 1 October, 2020