Call for Chapters: Blockchain in Management: Emerging Applications and Strategic Perspectives
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Call for Chapters: Blockchain in Management: Emerging Applications and Strategic Perspectives
Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2026
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: May 30, 2026
Publication of the Book Deadline: December 30, 2026 (Tentative)
As businesses navigate a world characterized by data-driven decisions, digital trust, and decentralized systems, blockchain is increasingly seen as a foundational technology that enhances transparency, traceability, efficiency, and security. It has emerged as a disruptive way with the potential to redefine traditional business processes and reshape managerial practices. No longer confined to cryptocurrencies, blockchain is now being actively explored and adopted across a broad spectrum of sectors, including supply chain management, financial services, marketing, human resources, healthcare, public governance, and education. For management professionals, understanding the implications of blockchain is no longer optional—it is essential.
This edited volume, Blockchain in Management: Emerging Applications and Strategic Perspectives, is proposed to offer comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspectives on how blockchain technologies are transforming the business landscape. Designed to serve as a reference work for both scholars and practitioners, this book provides deep theoretical insights, current research findings, practical applications, and forward-looking discussions that collectively demonstrate blockchain’s relevance to contemporary and future business challenges.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
1. Blockchain in Supply Chain Management
2. Blockchain in Operations and Production Management
3. Blockchain in Marketing: Enhancing Customer Trust and Data Ownership
4. Blockchain in Human Resource Management
5. Blockchain in Human Resource Development: Training & Development, Career Development, Organizational Development
6. Blockchain in Financial Services
7. Blockchain for Accounting and Auditing
8. Blockchain in E-Commerce: Traceability and Trust
9. Blockchain-Driven Business Models
10. Change management and risk mitigation
11. Organizational structures/Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
12. Blockchain and Risk Management: Cybersecurity, Fraud Detection, and Compliance
13. Blockchain and Ethics: Data Sovereignty, Environmental Concerns, and Fair Use
14. Integration with AI, IoT, and emerging technologies
15. Case Studies: Includes empirical insights and best practices from blockchain deployments:
a. Sectoral case studies (e.g., healthcare, public administration, education)
b. Blockchain adoption in emerging markets
c. Lessons from failure and scalability challenges
About the Publisher
This edited volume is proposed to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan is a leading global academic publisher, part of Springer Nature, known for its extensive range of peer-reviewed books, journals, and reference works in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business.
Chapter Proposal Submissions
Academicians, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit, on or before Feb 28th, 2026, a one (1)- page chapter proposal that explains how the proposal fits within the book’s scope and objectives. Please use the subject line while submitting your proposal: Chapter Proposal: Blockchain in Management.
The editors will review all proposals to ensure thematic relevance, originality, and contribution to the volume’s objectives. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by the specified deadline and invited to prepare full chapters (6,000–8,000 words) in accordance with the publisher’s guidelines. All submitted chapters will undergo a double-blind peer review process before final acceptance.
If authors have full chapters/research articles/systematic review articles ready to submit, they may also directly submit for possible consideration and publication in this forthcoming international business reference.
Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication.
Please address your submission to:
Dr. Yogesh Mehta (yogesh.mehta@sgtuniversity.org),
Dr. Chandan Maheshkar (ch.maheshkar@gmail.com), and
Dr. Vinod Sharma (vinod_sharma@scmhrd.edu)
Important Dates
? Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2026
? Notification of Proposal Acceptance: March 15, 2026
? Full Chapter Submission Deadline: May 30, 2026
? Peer Review Feedback to Authors: June 30, 2026
? Revised Chapter Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026
? Final Editorial Review: August 25, 2026
? Final Acceptance/Rejection to Authors: August 30, 2026
? Final Manuscript Submission to Publisher: August 30, 2026
? Publication of the book by Publisher: December 2026 (Tentative)
Contact Editors
Please send your inquiries to the editors:
Dr. Yogesh Mehta ?yogesh.mehta@sgtuniversity.org
SGT University, Gurugram, India
Dr. Chandan Maheshkar ?ch.maheshkar@gmail.com
East Nimar Education Society, Indore, India
Dr. Vinod Sharma ?vinod_sharma@scmhrd.edu SCMHRD, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India
Dr. Durgesh Nandan ?durgeshnandano51@gmail.com
SR University, Warangal, Telangana, India
Dr. Jalaj Katare ?jalajkatare@gmail.com
East Nimar Education Society, Indore, India
yogesh.mehta@sgtuniversity.org
Dr. Yogesh Mehta