Call for Papers Journal Special Issue- The Silk Road and the Service Industries The Service Industries Journal Call for Papers Deadline: 30 April 2018 Special Issue: The Silk Road and the Service Industries The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction and economic cooperation through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea With the recent initiatives taken by the countries along the Silk Road (including China, Kazakhstan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, India and Russia), the Silk Road promises to offer trade and cultural exchange opportunities with the potential to shape the modern world Specifically, the strategic conception of “The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road” (in short, the Belt and Road Initiative) proposed by the Chinese President Xi Jinping when he visited the Middle and Southeast Asian countries in 2013, subsequently formulated as a formal national policy in 2015, aims at building an open-minded, comprehensive, balanced and inclusive regional economic cooperation framework Under the pressing trends of multi–polarization, economic globalization, cultural diversity and rapid development of information technology, the Silk Road offers tremendous opportunities for the Service Industries (financial services, tourism and hospitality, IT services, logistics, healthcare, retailing, education) This special issue invites papers that will address socio-cultural, economic, political, environmental and technological complexities and challenges of service trade within the Silk Road We welcome both conceptual and empirical research papers that link knowledge to different regional and country contexts (For example countries such China, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey but not limited to these countries) and advance service business research as well as management practitioners’ understanding of the interactions and the dyadic relationship between the Belt and Road Initiative and the service industries This special issue will also be supported by an international conference to be held in Kazakhstan in year 2018 Submissions are welcomed from different epistemological and methodological positions related but not limited to the following topics: Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for international and domestic service industry issues The economic, political, environmental, and social cultural impacts of the service industry development on the Silk Road area Global and regional service industry integration Service industry development and community participation Contributions to the service industry by social media and new technology New marketing perspectives for the emerging consumer needs Potential opportunities and threats to the regional service industry cooperation Security issues and challenges in providing services New policies and service industry laws to enforce the Belt and Road Initiative policy Innovative productions of customized service design Service and enterprise management Service failure, recovery, and customer participation Factors affecting consumers’ behaviors and attitudes toward services Pricing of services Forecasting and managing the demand for services Service industry innovation, development and planning Service industry forecasting Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management of Financial Services Role of Higher Education in the development of cooperation among the countries within Silk Road Submission instructions Researchers are invited to indicate their interest in contributing to this special issue by sending a 300-word abstract of their proposed paper by August, 2017 to Professor Dogan Gursoy email at dgursoy@wsu.edu The deadline for full paper submission is April, 30 2018 for standard peer review Full instructions for authors are available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission? journalCode=fsij20&page=instructions Publication for this special issue is Winter 2019 Editorial information Guest Editor: Dogan Gursoy, Washington State University (dgursoy@wsu.edu) Guest Editor: Li Pan, Zhejiang Normal University (li.pan@zjnu.edu.cn) Editor-in-Chief: Levent Altinay, Oxford Brookes University (laltinay@brookes.ac.uk) Explore The Service Industries Journal Published by Routledge 16 issues per year Stay up-to-date with the latest research Subscribe to the journal's RSS feed Find out more on Taylor & Francis Online: Journal home page Editorial board Aims & scope Instructions for authors Published on 19 December 2016 Last updated on 19 December 2016 ... attitudes toward services Pricing of services Forecasting and managing the demand for services Service industry innovation, development and planning Service industry forecasting Entrepreneurship... 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