The research proposal should cover a gap in the literature.
The following presents a non-exhaustive list of potential research proposal topics. These research topics are most likely too general to directly use for your research proposal but serve as inspiration to direct your search strategy for a more specific topic.
Buyer-supplier relationship (e.g. side-effect and dissolution)
Change management
Circular economy
Collaboration
Commitment
Communication
Conflict management
Contract (e.g. types and breaches)
Coopetition
Coordination
Corporate social responsibility
Creativity
Cross-cultural management
Culture
Disruption
Empowerment
Entrepreneurship
Entry modes
Group/Team dynamics
Impact measurement
Innovation
Integration (e.g. horizontal and vertical)
Interdependence
Knowledge
Knowledge transfer
Leadership (e.g. transactional and transformational)
Mergers and Acquisitions
Negotiation
Organizational ambidexterity
Organizational change
Organizational culture
Organizational Identification
Organizational justice
Organizational Learning
Organizational structure
Outsourcing vs insourcing/offshoring vs reshoring
Personality
Project management
Resilience
Revitalization
Risk management
Satisfaction
Specific technologies or contexts (e.g. blockchain, IoT, drones, and last mile logistics)
Supplier selection
Supply chain disruption/recovery
Sustainability
Trust (e.g. violation and repair)
Uncertainty
