Well-Being in a Global World—Future Directions for Research in International Marketing: An Editorial

Abstract

In late 2020, the first year of the global COVID pandemic outbreak, we issued a call for papers on well-being in a global world. Our underlying motivation was to induce further advancement of research relating to well-being issues and grand societal challenges in the context of international marketing. This call was more than successful in attracting interesting, relevant, and rigorous manuscripts in a number that allowed us to publish two JIM special issues. The first special issue appeared in June 2022 (Vol. 30, No. 2) and featured articles focusing on well-being relating to COVID-19 in different countries and contexts. In this second special issue, we present a compilation of articles relating to more general topics of well-being in a global context and discuss future research opportunities in this space.