Interscience Journals

Interscience Management Review (IMR)
(Registration under Newspaper India, No. 1509/ 11.01.2008 )

Call for paper for Special Issue on
Globalisation and Manufacturing Competitiveness in India

Objectives
The IMR aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy-makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other's work through cutting edge thinking. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. IMR is an outstanding outlet whereby management and enterprise and development research can shape itself and results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, as well as industry.

• Up-to-date, leading edge research to keep you ahead and maintain a competitive edge best practice in management. 
• Practical guidance on ways to achieve effectiveness and efficiency in enterprise development.
• In-depth analysis and interpretation to advance our understanding and provide a framework for further study of management.
• International coverage which allows us to share information and knowledge and insight on a worldwide scale.

Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers, and managers in medium and large sized enterprises, policy makers, and non-profit organisations.

Contents
The IMR publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries, and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.

• High quality papers to keep you at the forefront of the latest thinking and research
• Case studies and practical applications to illustrate management and enterprise development

Subject Coverage
The special issue shall cover the areas as follows:

• Future enterprise
• Lean enterprise
• Factory of the future
• New types of manufacturing organisations
• Globalisation and Change management
• Changes in manufacturing organisational structure
• Business of process systems engineering
• The fractal company
• Agile manufacturing
• Biological manufacturing systems (BMS)
• Autonomous and distributed manufacturing systems (ADMS)
• Engineering process and the virtual enterprise
• Manufacturing innovation
• Manufacturing strategy, policy and economics
• Product development and production management
• Design for manufacture and assembly
• Integration in manufacturing systems
• Decentralisation and ''de-verticalisation'' in production management
• Micro-electronic manufacturing systems and embedded software
• High-precision manufacturing for mmm-wave components
• Outsourcing
• The supply chain; supplier partnership in manufacture
• Production planning, scheduling and control
• Ecology-driven manufacturing and services
• Productivity, performance evaluation and benchmarking
• Logistics and virtual benchmarking in logistics
• Manufacturing science
• Advanced manufacturing systems
• Computer-based manufacturing technologies; CAD, CAM, CIM, CNC, DNC, FMS, etc.
• Time-based manufacturing technologies: JIT, GT, DFM, TQM, etc.
• Holonic manufacturing
• Human resources and professional development in the manufacturing industry
• Sensors and control technologies
• Measurement data processing
• Robotics and automation
• Web-based technologies
• Artificial intelligence in manufacturing
• Condition based maintenance

Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail: ipm.bbsr@gmail.com
Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

Editors and Members of the Editorial Board