Advancing Excellence in Professional Selling and Sales Management Education

Call for Papers

Advancing Excellence in Professional Selling and Sales Management Education

Journal: Marketing Education Review

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Submission deadline: 1 August 2026

This special issue focuses on how professional selling and sales management education can better prepare students, educators, and practitioners for a rapidly changing business environment. It emphasizes the need to bridge theory and practice through stronger curriculum design, experiential learning, assessment, ethics, technology use, and industry engagement.

The call highlights the importance of sales education across university programs, corporate training, and entrepreneurial development. It seeks empirical, conceptual, and methodological work that shows how sales education can improve student learning, career readiness, leadership development, and long-term professional success.

Special Issue Editors

• Leff Bonney, Florida State University, USA.

• Jessica Ogilvie, Marquette University, USA.

Scope

The special issue welcomes papers on pedagogy and curricular innovation, experiential learning, learning assessment, student motivation, sales management education, technology in sales training, coaching skills, strategic alignment, university-industry partnerships, sales centers, ethical selling, global sales education, cultural intelligence, and student well-being.

Submission details

Manuscripts should follow the Marketing Education Review formatting and submission requirements and must clearly indicate the special issue “Advancing Excellence in Professional Selling and Sales Management Education.” Papers should be 4,000–7,000 words plus references, tables, and supporting materials. The manuscript submission deadline is 1 August 2026.

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