Finalist

SDG Initiative of the Year Award

Management & Sustainability

Finalist of the SDG Initiative of the Year Award

The Faculty of Management Technology, the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt - Egypt

"The Place for Research Integrity, Experiential Learning and Sustainability"


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Summary

[The Faculty of Management Technology at the German University in Cairo (https://mgt.guc.edu.eg) was able to gather the consensus and will of the international community to establish Management and Sustainability: An Arab Review (MSAR) journal. MSAR has an editorial board of more than 50 scholars from all over the world. It is the first scholarly platform to address the sustainability needs pertinent to Arab communities. Theoretically, despite emergent scholarly research on sustainability in the Arab world (especially North Africa) that is published sporadically in leading management journals, no dedicated well-regarded research platform/forum (journal) exists to compile, build on and develop this conversation to-date. On a practical level, Arab countries are in serious need to advance discussions on the sustainability and UN-SDGs discourse on their road towards development. The rationale behind MSAR is therefore to agglomerate research under the broad umbrella of "management and sustainability" especially in Arab countries because this is underrepresented in the international literature. To-date, MSAR journal in just a little more than a year was able to successfully expanded its editorial review board and publish 3 international issues on pertinent topics related to different facets of sustainability and the SDGs. The journal readership also has expanded greatly. The issues can be viewed at the journal website (https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/msar).]

Key People


Prof. Noha El-Bassiouny
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Marketing
Faculty of Management Technology,  The German University in Cairo, Egypt



Dr. Heba Ali
Assistant Professor of Finance
Faculty of Management Technology,  The German University in Cairo, Egypt



Prof. Ehab K. A. Mohamed
Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean
Faculty of Management Technology,  The German University in Cairo, Egypt



Prof. Hany Ismail
Vice Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Information Systems
Faculty of Management Technology,  The German University in Cairo, Egypt


Acknowledgements

[We would like to thank Emerald Publishing and Prof. Said Elbanna at Qatar University for believing in this project.]

Images

MSAR Front Cover

Research Meeting in Germany

Workshop with the Egyptian Ministry of Planning Representative

Emerald Award Ceremony for Prof. Noha El-Bassiouny, Founding Editor of MSAR

International Webinar by the Faculty of Management Technology

IMPACT STORY

Impacting lifes

[MSAR has created momentum for sustainability research in Arab countries and has contributed to the growing global discussions in this domain. Personal communication with scholars in different countries, such as Jordan, UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, and Egypt, was key to the wide submissions and readership levels for the journal. Our readers and reviewers come from all over the world. It is amazing how MSAR was able to gather consensus from the international community on the importance of the sustainability discourse. The launch ceremony for MSAR was held in Berlin and we were fortunate to have Prof. Lisa Froehlich, spokesperson for UN-Principles of Responsible Management Education Chapter DACH (German, Austria and Switzerland) give a keynote in that event. The international launch of MSAR at one of the key international European cities was an indication of the international nature of the readership and authorship of the journal.
The video can be viewed here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/management-sustainability-an-arab-review-msar_management-and-sustainability-an-arab-review-activity-6874261703295569920-RNSm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop]

LEARNINGS

Lessons learned

[To-date, MSAR was able to publish three issues and has around 14 additional papers on EarlyCite (online). This amazing achievement is very surprising since we were not expecting to be able to make this success in such a short time. We would advise scholars to have big dreams and aspirations counting on the international community of like-minded scholars all over the world.]

FUTURE PLANS

What's coming?

[The future plan is to engage in international conferences, panels and workshop related to MSAR and expand the journal authorship and readership even further to reach larger audiences regionally and internationally. We also intend to go for Scopus-indexing. In 2023, we are currently cooperating with Qatar University in an international upcoming conference (see https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/entrepreneurship-sustainability-impact-esi-6th-international-conference-17th-19th)]


KEY STATISTICS

4705

Number of downloads of first published MSAR issue to-date

50+

Number of editorial board members worldwide

1158

Number of followers on MSAR LinkedIn page

3

Number of issues launched since 2022

14

Number of papers on Emerald EarlyCite

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