The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition (Up to $1,000 Cash Prize)

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Applications are open for The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition. Emerald Publishing invites authors based at African or Middle Eastern higher education institutions, including Türkiye and Pakistan, to submit business teaching cases focused on emerging markets in their region. Participants can win up to $1,000 and have their case study published globally.

The aim of the competition is to encourage and promote the development of high-quality teaching case material relevant to the realities of dynamic and emerging economies in Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, and Pakistan. At the same time, we also seek to promote the development of case-writing capabilities with those same regions.

Emerald is pleased to partner with the El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center at the American University in Cairo to deliver this competition.

Emerald Case Writing Competition Award

The total prize pool is worth $2,000, including $1,000 to the winner and $500 each to two runners up!
Please note that the prize will only be payable to the winning submissions if those submissions are successfully published. The decision to publish submissions will be made at our discretion and there may be occasions where we cannot publish a winning submission because of issues that arise during peer review or the revisions process.

Entry Criteria for Emerald Case Writing Competition

Your case should:

Have a developing and emerging markets focus from Africa, the Middle East, Türkiye, or Pakistan.
Be written by authors based at higher education institutions in these same countries.
Be based on a real situation in a real company.
Be a teaching case, we cannot accept academic (research) cases.
Not have been published before in its current or substantially similar form or be under consideration for publication in any ISSN/ ISBN-registered publication or with any other case centre.
Meet the standard EMCS author guidelines (more below).
Include a completed and signed consent to publish release form.
Your case will be automatically entered into the peer-review process. Selected cases will be published in the Scopus-ranked EMCS collection (ISSN 2045 0621). By participating in the competition, you are agreeing to publish your case study in EMCS, subject to acceptance for publication after peer review and revisions (if required).

How to Enter The Competition

To enter the competition, you will submit your case study through the Emerging Markets Case Studies collection on ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Your entry should include: case study, teaching note, title page and consent to publish form.
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Application Deadline: 30 September 2024