<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
p.xmsonormal, li.xmsonormal, div.xmsonormal
{mso-style-name:x_msonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
p.xxmsonormal, li.xxmsonormal, div.xxmsonormal
{mso-style-name:x_xmsonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.xmark69emkollb
{mso-style-name:x_mark69emkollb;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="NO-BOK" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The <i>Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing (JGOSS)</i> published by Emerald has
<u>extended the deadline</u> for the call for papers under the theme: <b><span style="background:white">Strategic Sourcing in Africa</span>.</b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">This call is open to a diverse set of rigorous quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual research papers which should provide an
in-depth understanding of: (a) the sourcing practices of foreign firms with supply bases in Africa, (b) the idiosyncrasies and perhaps challenges that inhibit African firms’ participation in global supply chains, (c) what motivates foreign firms to invest
in developing supply sources on the African continent, and (d) ways that African suppliers can strategically position themselves and compete in global supply networks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The new deadline for submission is extended to <b>January 31, 2020.</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">You can find a full description of the call on the JGOSS homepage or simply follow this link: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=8811" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#954F72">https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=8811</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Together with Professor Intaher Marcus Ambe(University of South Africa, South Africa) and Dr. Richard Glavee-Geo (Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Norway), we look forward to your submissions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Thank you,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Godfrey Mugurusi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Co-editor of the special issue</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><img border="0" width="132" height="26" style="width:1.375in;height:.2666in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D5C6E8.F08A85A0"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.65pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Associate professor & Bachelor of <span class="xmark69emkollb">logistics</span> program leader</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.65pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Norwegian University of Science and Technology,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.65pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">P.O.Box 191, 2802 Gjøvik – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Norway</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.65pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Telephone: 91271022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11.65pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Email: <a href="mailto:godfrey.mugurusi@ntnu.no" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954F72">godfrey.mugurusi@ntnu.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>