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Journal of Marketing Channels
Call for Papers

Special Issue: “Food Safety and Food Security: Challenges and Opportunities”

Guest Editors: Xenophon Koufteros, Texas A&M University, and Guanyi Lu, Oregon State University)

The Journal of Marketing Channels is pleased to announce and invite submissions for a Special Issue on “Food Safety and Food Security: Challenges and Opportunities”. The deadline for manuscript submission is December 31, 2014 with publication of accepted papers planned during late 2015 or early 2016.

Special Issue Background Information

As supply chains now span the globe and outsourcing has become ubiquitous, firms find that they have little direct control over the production of all of the materials that enter their supply chain. This involves necessarily some level of risk if the quality and integrity of the materials have been compromised along the value chain, but not detected prior to product production and delivery to end customers. Also, firms have to ensure that their internal processes and distribution channels are capable of producing and delivering safe products to their customers.

Protecting the supply chain is, however, quite germane to some industries, such as that of food and beverage (F&B), because their products are consumed by the public: products that have been compromised have the potential to cause illness and, in some cases, death. This of course will likely have adverse financial effects on the company and tarnish its reputation. These effects on the company can be rather tangible and may be felt in a short period of time despite recovery attempts and honest efforts to reassure the public.

We welcome manuscripts that are (1) theoretically innovative and well-grounded in theory and (2) based on solid empirical research which provides insights into the dynamics of practices in the F&B industries. Manuscripts which do not rest on strong theoretical grounds or do not engage in theory building will be desk rejected. Empirical research which tends to be longitudinal in nature is strongly encouraged.

A Special Editorial Review Board will be convened by the Guest Editors for this Special Issue of JMC. However, the reviewing process will follow the same norms as those of the regular editorial team.

Some examples of research that would be welcomed include manuscripts:

• Encouraging scholarly interest in the growing complexity and dangers that underlie global F&B supply chains.
• Examining the implications of these dangers for the firm and the public at large.
• Learning more about the role of increasing global interdependence among supply chain members.
• Uncovering best practices to assure the integrity of products in the F&B industries.
• Uncovering the type of processes/practices other industries employ to ensure safety and security which may be transferable to the F&B industries.
• Considering relevant performance metrics.
• Examining the differential effects of key practices on relevant performance metrics.
• Studying how firms might recover from crisis attributed to F&B safety/security breaches.
• Examining whether the cultural and ethical environment at the firm level and/or at the country level play a role in F&B safety and security.
• Studying whether organizational structure plays a role in F&B safety and security.
• Researching the role of international standards, such as ISO, in promoting F&B safety and security.
• Considering if and how government regulations impact F&B safety/security over time.

Submission Information

• 1. Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• 2. All manuscripts will be double-blind refereed. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Word format, and must be consistent with the author submission guidelines of the Journal of Marketing Channels which can be found at . Click on the “Authors and Submissions” Tab. Manuscripts should be in APA style, and normally should be no longer than 30 pages in length.
• 3. Manuscripts should be received no later than December 31, 2014 with accepted papers published in late 2015 or early 2016. Please submit to either of the guest editors, preferably through email as a Microsoft Word attached document.

Xenophon Koufteros
Jenna & Calvin R. Guest Professor in Business Administration
Dept. of Information & Operations Mgmt.
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
320J Wehner, 4217 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4217 USA
Phone: (979) 845-2254
Email: xkoufteros@tamu.edu

Guanyi Lu
Assistant Professor
Department of Global Business Analysis
College of Business
Oregon State University
309 Bexell Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-2603 USA
Phone: (541) 737-3995
Email: guanyi.lu@oregonstate.edu

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