The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition 2024

The Emerald Publishing invite 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.

• Table of Content
• About Emerald Publishing
• The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition
• Aim and Benefits of The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition
• Requirements for The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Emerald Publishing

Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference. We work with thousands of universities and business schools across the world to share knowledge and provoke the kind of debate that leads to positive change. We are passionate about people and doing things differently.

The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition

Aim and Benefits of The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition

The total prize pool is worth $2,000, including $1,000 to the winner and $500 each to two runners up!

Requirements for The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition Qualification

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).

Interview date, Process and Venue for The Africa & Middle East Emerald Case Writing Competition

To enter the competition, you will submit your case study through the Emerging Markets Case Studies collection on ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Emerald Publishing website.