Call for papers: IJBM special issue on Consumer Financial Resilience

Literally, resilience refers to the capability to recover quickly from difficulties. Financial resilience then means the capability to recover quickly from financial difficulties. In the current literature, consumer financial resilience is used in various ways. Some authors refer consumer financial resilience as a construct similar to consumer financial wellbeing. Contrasted to financial wellbeing, financial resilience is looking at consumer wellbeing from the perspective of vulnerability. Others use it to measure financial outcomes, financial behaviours, or capabilities. The topic is especially important during the pandemic when many consumers financially struggling due to job loss and income reduction. A special issue like this will help not only clarify theoretical issues on the definitions and measurements of this concept but also provide practical implications that are informative for policy makers and managers for helping improve consumer wellbeing. The aim of this special issue is to assemble a set of high-quality papers to demonstrate cutting edge research results on this topic and provide a sound foundation for future research on this important topic.

List of topic areas

• Definitions and measurements of consumer financial resilience
• Theoretical issues of consumer financial resilience
• Consumer financial capability and financial resilience
• Consumer financial literacy and financial resilience
• Consumer financial behavior (especially debt behavior) and financial resilience
• Consumer financial resilience and wellbeing
• Financial service innovation and consumer financial resilience
• Financial inclusion and consumer financial resilience
• Corporate social responsibility and consumer financial resilience
• Pandemic and consumer financial resilience
• Crisis and consumer financial resilience
• Health and consumer financial resilience
• Country comparisons of consumer financial resilience
• Cultural comparisons of consumer financial resilience
• Consumer financial resilience of disadvantaged populations
• Digital finance and consumer financial resilience
• Consumer savings and financial resilience
• Financial planning and consumer financial resilience

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijbm

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see:  https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijbm?_ga=2.241395970.1641235434.1623771752-2100594917.1619186369#author-guidelines

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 11/03/2022

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 01/08/2022