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Dear colleagues,

We are proud to announce the call for papers for the Special Issue of European Journal of International Management: Contextualizing Top Management Teams. 
 
Guest Editors:
 
Sibel Yamak, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Sabina Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark & University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alessandro Minichilli, Bocconi University, Italy
Alejandro Escribá-Esteve, University of Valencia, Spain
 
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Top managers are considered the most influential decision-makers for firms’ strategy and a large body of research presents evidence for executive effects in different settings. Yet only recently have researchers started to pay attention to the role of the social and environmental contexts in which top management teams (TMTs) are embedded. Top executives are often informed, influenced, and sometimes constrained by others both inside and outside the organization. As a result, upper echelons face diverse challenges and opportunities when operating in a variety of different contexts. Contextual factors at the team, organizational, industry and country level are considered not only important determinants of executive composition but also moderating forces shaping the consequences of executive characteristics for firm strategy and performance. In addition, the extent to which top managers matter and exert an influence on their firms differ with national level institutional settings and there is an increased interest in the cross-national variation in executive effects.  
This special issue aims to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the interplay between top management teams and different layers of context as well as the dynamic interactions between the contexts and firm strategies (such as international and business strategies). We encourage in particular new theoretical and empirical approaches that introduce a more European perspective. At the same time, we welcome papers from authors from all over the world. We invite submissions that discuss implications for international management in Europe and beyond. The following list is indicative of the types of contributions which may be appropriate. However it is not intended to be exhaustive and rather is illustrative:
 
Subject Coverage
1. Literature reviews and state-of-the-art papers, which will encourage the debate about the role of context in top management team research and discuss theoretical and empirical challenges for future TMT research.
2. Conceptual papers focusing on the special theme “Top Management Teams & Business Strategy: Contextualizing TMTs”. We particularly welcome papers that use an interdisciplinary approach and combine different theoretical perspectives to explain the impact of contextual factors on the antecedents and consequences of TMT strategic behavior.
3. Empirical papers contextualizing different TMT research topics, such as: the role of social, organizational, national, global and environmental contexts on TMT motivational and cognitive bases; TMT dynamics and behavior; interactions and power relations between TMT and other stakeholders; executive compensation, turnover and succession; among others.
 
Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.  A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31).
 
Important Dates
Final paper submission deadline: July 31, 2011
Publication release: January 2013
 
Editors and Notes
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to:
 
Sabina Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
Department of International Economics and Management
Porcelanshaven 24a
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel. +4538152524
Email: sta.int@cbs.dk
 
With an email copy only to:
EJIM Editorial Team
Email: editors@ejim-global.org
and
IEL Editorial Office
Email: ejim@inderscience.com
 
Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editors.
 
The following supporting events will be associated with this special Special Issue:
 
2011 Workshop on “Top Management Teams & Business Strategy: Contextualizing TMTs”, Istanbul, 31 March – 1 April, 2011.
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=776 
 
2011 EURAM Track on Top Management Teams & Business Elites. Tallin 1-4 June, 2011.
http://www.euram2011.org/userfiles/file/10%20(2S1).pdf

 
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------=_NextPart_000_005F_01CC4608.4ABD89C0-- ========================================================================Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:42:03 -0700 Reply-To: Dong Liu Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Dong Liu Subject: IACMR business meeting and reception at AOM, Sunday, August 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary --00504502c993ecfae504a86c47cc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** apology for cross-postings *** The Academy of Management meeting is just around the corner! Hope you will be joining us in San Antonio. IACMR Business Meeting will be held at AOM between from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Sunday, August 14, in Salon K at Marriott Rivercenter. The highlight of the evening is the featured Dean’s Summit entitled “New World, New Opportunity, and New Approaches to Building World-Class Business Schools”. Mr. Shi Wang, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Vanke Co., Ltd. will share with us his experience of developing and leading the largest residential real estate developer in China, and his perspectives on how to synergize the management theories and practices. Five deans from leading business schools in China and North America will share their views about how the changes occurring in the contemporary business world have brought new challenges and opportunities for business schools, and highlight the vision and strategies their schools have taken in seizing the opportunities. This Summit will be a very insightful, informative, and interesting event! After the panel, there will be a reception from 7:30 to 8:30 pm in Salon L of the same hotel. Jialin Xie and Jing Zhou ~~~~~~~~~ Dong Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior College of Management Georgia Institute of Technology 800 West Peachtree Street, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1149 U.S.A. Phone: 404-894-4925 Fax: 404-894-6030 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --00504502c993ecfae504a86c47cc Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
*** apology for cross-postings ***
The Academy of Management meeting is just around the corner! Hope you will be joining us in San Antonio.  IACMR Business Meeting will be held at AOM between from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Sunday, August 14, in Salon K at Marriott Rivercenter.

The highlight of the evening is the featured Dean’s Summit entitled “New World, New Opportunity, and New Approaches to Building World-Class Business Schools”.  Mr. Shi Wang, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Vanke Co., Ltd. will share with us his experience of developing and leading the largest residential real estate developer in China, and his perspectives on how to synergize the management theories and practices.  Five deans from leading business schools in China and North America will share their views about how the changes occurring in the contemporary business world have brought new challenges and opportunities for business schools, and highlight the vision and strategies their schools have taken in seizing the opportunities.  This Summit will be a very insightful, informative, and interesting event!
 
After the panel, there will be a reception from 7:30 to 8:30 pm in Salon L of the same hotel.
Jialin Xie and Jing Zhou
 

 ~~~~~~~~~

Dong Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree Street, N.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1149 U.S.A.
Phone: 404-894-4925

Fax: 404-894-6030

 


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--00504502c993ecfae504a86c47cc-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:55:16 +0000 Reply-To: "Storz, Cornelia" Sender: Academy of International Business List From: "Storz, Cornelia" Subject: new book on institutional diversity and innovation Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_6FDFF2DD18BDE44DA504C0BF48D5CB5D14E3AFCAitsex2itsunifra_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_6FDFF2DD18BDE44DA504C0BF48D5CB5D14E3AFCAitsex2itsunifra_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) I am happy to announce our new book on institutional diversity and innovation in Japan and China: Cornelia Storz and Sebastian Schäfer: Institutional Diversity and Innovation - Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (with a guest contribution of Markus Conlé and a preface of Richard Whitley) Routledge 2011 Product page: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415554558/ With best wishes, Cornelia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Cornelia Storz Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Goethe-University Grüneburgplatz 1 (RuW-Gebäude R. 4241) D-60323 Frankfurt am Main Tel.:+49-69-798-34811 / -34809 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --_000_6FDFF2DD18BDE44DA504C0BF48D5CB5D14E3AFCAitsex2itsunifra_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting)

 

I am happy to announce our new book on institutional diversity and innovation in Japan and China:

 

Cornelia Storz and Sebastian Schäfer: Institutional Diversity and Innovation - Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China

(with a guest contribution of Markus Conlé and a preface of Richard Whitley) 

Routledge 2011

 

Product page: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415554558/

 

 

With best wishes,

 

Cornelia

 

 

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Dr. Cornelia Storz
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Goethe-University

Grüneburgplatz 1 (RuW-Gebäude R. 4241)
D-60323 Frankfurt am Main

Tel.:+49-69-798-34811 / -34809

 

 

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--_000_6FDFF2DD18BDE44DA504C0BF48D5CB5D14E3AFCAitsex2itsunifra_-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:38:29 +0800 Reply-To: "Prof. Dr. Zafar U. Ahmed" Sender: Academy of International Business List From: "Prof. Dr. Zafar U. Ahmed" Subject: Invitation to Attend American Conference in China on Sept. 15--17, 2011 Comments: To: "LIST.MSU.EDU LISTSERV Server (14.5)" , list@aib.msu.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary --0016364267a34f221204a87dd548 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS ADVANCEMENT (AGBA)* *www.agbaonline.net* * * *8th Annual World Congress* *September 15—17, 2011* *Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (DUFE)* *Dalian, China* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Conference Theme:* *"Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era".* * * *Distinguished Patron * *Prof. Dr. Li Wei-An* *President: Dongbei University of Finance & Economics* *Dalian, China* * * *Conference Chair* *Prof. Dr. Zhao Yanzhi* *Dean: SII and Director IEC* *Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (DUFE)* *Dalian, China* * * *Conference Co-Chair* *Prof. Dr. Mary B. Teagarden* *Thunderbird School of Global Management* *Glendale, Arizona, USA* * * *Conference Co-Chair* *Prof. Dr. Tariq Malik* *Founder & Deputy Director: ICOIS* *Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, * *Dalian, China* * * *AGBA Chair* *Prof. Dr. Norman Wright* *Dean: Woodbury School of Business* *Utah Valley University* *Orem, Utah, USA.* * * *Program Chair and Conference Director * *Dr. David N. McArthur* *Chair: Department of Management* *Woodbury School of Business* *Utah Valley University* *Orem, UT 84057-5999, USA* *Email: **David.McArthur@uvu.edu* *Registration and Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011* * * *About the Conference: * *The main theme of the conference is "Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era." The conference will feature competitive papers, plenary sessions, case studies, poster presentations, student papers, and panel sessions. Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind review and will be published in the refereed conference proceedings (Advances in Global Business Research, ISS# 1549-9332). * * * *The primary goal of the conference is to provide a unique global platform to facilitate the exchange of leading edge ideas for effective advancement of knowledge in the field of business administration and entrepreneurship. This will be achieved through multi-disciplinary presentations and discussions of current business and development issues in developing and developed countries. * * * *We welcome the submission of manuscripts that address the conference theme as well as all functional areas of business administration and entrepreneurship. If you are uncertain whether your paper fits the conference theme or not, please contact our Program Chair and Conference Director: **Dr. David N. McArthur at **David.McArthur@uvu.edu* * * *Best papers presented at AGBA's 8th world congress would be published in the special issues of the Journal for Global Business Advancement (** www.inderscience.com/jgba* *), and the Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development (** www.inderscience.com/jibed* *). * * * *Registrations:* *USD$400 Includes**:* · *Luncheons, Coffee/Tea* · *Dinner Banquet * · *Conference Proceedings* · *Recognition Awards* * * · *Special Rate for Local Chinese Delegates: USD$200 (or equivalent in Yuan)* · *Ph.D. Students USD$100 (or equivalent in Yuan)* * * *Cheers. Zafar* -- Prof. Dr. Zafar U. Ahmed BBA (New York), MBA (Texas), Ph.D., (Utah), D.Litt., (India) Renong Distinguished Endowed Chair of Marketing and Professor of International Business Director: Malaysian Center for International Business Education and Research (Malaysian CIBER) President/CEO: Academy for Global Business Advancement Editor-in-Chief: Journal for Global Business Advancement Graduate School of Management Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor Darul Ehsan MALAYSIA Email: zafaruahmed@gmail.com Office Phone #: +60-389-46-77-89 Mobile #: + 60-166-88-41-00 Skype ID: zafaruahmed "Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear & the blind can see." (Mark Twain) http://gsm.upm.edu.my/gsm-Renong_Chair.htm ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --0016364267a34f221204a87dd548 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS ADVANCEMENT (AGBA)

www.agbaonline.net

 

8th Annual World Congress

September 15—17, 2011

Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (DUFE)

Dalian, China

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Theme:

"Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era".

 

Distinguished Patron

Prof. Dr. Li Wei-An

President: Dongbei University of Finance & Economics

Dalian, China

 

Conference Chair

Prof. Dr. Zhao Yanzhi

Dean: SII and Director IEC

Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (DUFE)

Dalian, China

 

Conference Co-Chair

Prof. Dr. Mary B. Teagarden

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Glendale, Arizona, USA

 

Conference Co-Chair

Prof. Dr. Tariq Malik

Founder & Deputy Director: ICOIS

Dongbei University of Finance & Economics,

Dalian, China

 

AGBA Chair

Prof. Dr. Norman Wright

Dean: Woodbury School of Business

Utah Valley University

Orem, Utah, USA.

 

Program Chair and Conference Director

Dr. David N. McArthur

Chair: Department of Management

Woodbury School of Business

Utah Valley University

Orem, UT  84057-5999, USA

Email: David.McArthur@uvu.edu

Registration and Submission Deadline:  August 1, 2011

 

About the Conference:

The main theme of the conference is "Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era." The conference will feature competitive papers, plenary sessions, case studies, poster presentations, student papers, and panel sessions. Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind review and will be published in the refereed conference proceedings (Advances in Global Business Research, ISS# 1549-9332).

 

The primary goal of the conference is to provide a unique global platform to facilitate the exchange of leading edge ideas for effective advancement of knowledge in the field of business administration and entrepreneurship. This will be achieved through multi-disciplinary presentations and discussions of current business and development issues in developing and developed countries.

 

We welcome the submission of manuscripts that address the conference theme as well as all functional areas of business administration and entrepreneurship. If you are uncertain whether your paper fits the conference theme or not, please contact our Program Chair and Conference Director:   Dr. David N. McArthur at David.McArthur@uvu.edu

 

Best papers presented at AGBA's 8th world congress would be published in the special issues of the Journal for Global Business Advancement (www.inderscience.com/jgba), and the Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development (www.inderscience.com/jibed).

 

Registrations:

USD$400 Includes:

·       Luncheons, Coffee/Tea

·       Dinner Banquet

·       Conference Proceedings

·       Recognition Awards

 

·       Special Rate for Local Chinese Delegates: USD$200 (or equivalent in Yuan)

·       Ph.D. Students USD$100 (or equivalent in Yuan)

 

Cheers.
Zafar

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Prof. Dr. Zafar U. Ahmed
BBA (New York), MBA (Texas), Ph.D., (Utah), D.Litt., (India)
Renong Distinguished Endowed Chair of Marketing and Professor of International Business
Director: Malaysian Center for International Business Education and Research (Malaysian CIBER)
President/CEO: Academy for Global Business Advancement
Editor-in-Chief: Journal for Global Business Advancement
Graduate School of Management
Universiti Putra Malaysia
43400 UPM Serdang
Selangor Darul Ehsan
MALAYSIA
Email:
zafaruahmed@gmail.com
Office Phone #: +60-389-46-77-89
Mobile #: + 60-166-88-41-00
Skype ID: zafaruahmed
"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear & the blind can see." (Mark Twain)

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--0016364267a34f221204a87dd548-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:39:42 -0700 Reply-To: Vlad Vaiman Sender: Academy of International Business List Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - " ". Rest of header flushed. From: Vlad Vaiman Subject: Call for Contributions -- Book on managing talent of self-initiated expatriates Comments: To: AoM BPS , AoM CareerNet , AoM Health Management , AoM HRDIV NET , AoM IMD , AoM Mgmt Education , AoM OMT , AoM SIM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-113978705-1311154782=:84595" --0-113978705-1311154782=:84595 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues,   I have been recently asked by a major publishing company to edit another book on talent management – please see the background below:    There has been a lot of “buzz” about managing expatriates.  When we say “expatriates”, we almost always mean people who are sent by their companies abroad to fulfill some kind of mission in the host environment.  The labor trends, however, show that there are more and more people going abroad by themselves to look for jobs in international companies.  Some of these people are being “pushed” by their home environment – no jobs at home, hostile atmosphere, etc.  These folks are outside of our scope of interest.  Some other people are being “pulled” by other countries – looking for better job opportunities, seeking challenges, career growth opportunities, etc.  These people are referred to as “Self-initiated Expatriates”, and normally, they are very well-educated, knowledgeable, skilled, motivated, and highly employable.  These SIEs have absolutely specific needs, wants, and drives – different from those of either domestic employees or regular expatriates.  Therefore, companies must develop some special techniques that would help them manage these SIEs and ensure that they stay with the company in the long-run.  So, we thought that it would be interesting to explore various strategies for managing talent of these expatriates and to title the book “Managing Talent of Self-initiated Expatriates: A neglected source of the global talent flow” to reflect on our intentions. At this point, my fellow co-editor Arno Haslberger and I would like to begin with some sort of market research and ask those of you working in this area to inform me about your possible interest in contributing to our book.    One-two page chapter proposals will be due on September 1, while the first draft of the chapter on January 1, 2012.    As a preliminary consideration, we are thinking of making this publication suitable to both academics involved in teaching, consulting, and executive education, and practitioners who want to use talent management techniques developed by leading scholars in this area of knowledge. Please feel free to share any of your own ideas that you might have in regards to this upcoming book.    Looking forward to your replies,   Vlad Vaiman vlad@ru.is       Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D. Professor of International Management Academic Director, Graduate Programs School of Business Direct +354 599 6302 vlad@ru.is Reykjavik  University Menntavegur 1 | 101 Reykjavík | Iceland Tel +354 599 6200 | Fax + 354 599 6201 www.ru.is __________________________________ Executive Editor, EJIM European Journal of Int´l Management http://www.ejim-global.org ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --0-113978705-1311154782=:84595 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear Colleagues,

 

I have been recently asked by a major publishing company to edit another book on talent management – please see the background below: 

 

There has been a lot of “buzz” about managing expatriates.  When we say “expatriates”, we almost always mean people who are sent by their companies abroad to fulfill some kind of mission in the host environment.  The labor trends, however, show that there are more and more people going abroad by themselves to look for jobs in international companies.  Some of these people are being “pushed” by their home environment – no jobs at home, hostile atmosphere, etc.  These folks are outside of our scope of interest.  Some other people are being “pulled” by other countries – looking for better job opportunities, seeking challenges, career growth opportunities, etc.  These people are referred to as “Self-initiated Expatriates”, and normally, they are very well-educated, knowledgeable, skilled, motivated, and highly employable.  These SIEs have absolutely specific needs, wants, and drives – different from those of either domestic employees or regular expatriates.  Therefore, companies must develop some special techniques that would help them manage these SIEs and ensure that they stay with the company in the long-run.  So, we thought that it would be interesting to explore various strategies for managing talent of these expatriates and to title the book “Managing Talent of Self-initiated Expatriates: A neglected source of the global talent flow” to reflect on our intentions.


At this point, my fellow co-editor Arno Haslberger and I would like to begin with some sort of market research and ask those of you working in this area to inform me about your possible interest in contributing to our book. 

 

One-two page chapter proposals will be due on September 1, while the first draft of the chapter on January 1, 2012. 

 

As a preliminary consideration, we are thinking of making this publication suitable to both academics involved in teaching, consulting, and executive education, and practitioners who want to use talent management techniques developed by leading scholars in this area of knowledge. Please feel free to share any of your own ideas that you might have in regards to this upcoming book. 

 

Looking forward to your replies,

 

Vlad Vaiman

vlad@ru.is

 

 

 

Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D.

Professor of International Management

Academic Director, Graduate Programs

School of Business
Direct +354 599 6302

vlad@ru.is

Reykjavik  University
Menntavegur 1 | 101 ReykjavĂ­k | Iceland
Tel +354 599 6200 | Fax + 354 599 6201
www.ru.is

__________________________________

Executive Editor, EJIM

European Journal of Int´l Management

http://www.ejim-global.org

 

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--0-113978705-1311154782=:84595-- ========================================================================Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:14:44 -0700 Reply-To: Craig Julian Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Craig Julian Subject: Call for Papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-320701984-1311128084=:30051" --0-320701984-1311128084=:30051 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would be grateful if you could post this Call for Papers to a Special Issue in the International Journal of Trade and Global Markets. Thank you.   Regards, Craig Julian     The Resource Based View as Applied in International Marketing   There have been at least two major theoretical approaches used in international marketing research. These are the industrial organization approach and the resource based-view. The industrial organization approach ascribes a firm’s international performance to its external market position. The resource based-view focuses on internal organizational resources such as marketing competency or marketing capabilities to identify the determinants of a firm’s international marketing performance.   In the previous international marketing literature, most studies adopted the industrial organization approach to evaluate a firm’s strategy, characteristics, and external factors as determinants of performance. Industrial organization theory states that the external environment imposes pressure on the firm to which it must respond. In line with this theory, Zou and Stan (1998) suggested that exporters who respond successfully to their external environments by developing and implementing an appropriate strategy would enjoy superior performance. The strategy factors that have been frequently studied as determinants of performance include adapting the different marketing mix elements to accommodate the needs of the local market, different channel relationships, together with the different types of channels (Zou et al., 2003). However, Zou et. al (2003) also suggest that the industrial organization framework only focuses on the impact of a firm’s strategy and its external environment on performance, and places very little emphasis on the impact of idiosyncratic internal capabilities, such as marketing capabilities, on the firm’s performance (Barney, 1991).   In order to overcome this void in the literature Barney (1991) introduced a new theoretical perspective that is the resource based-view of the firm. The resource-based view of the firm views the firm not in the light of its activities or strategy in the product market but as a unique bundle of tangible and intangible resources. In addition, the firm’s resources, not its strategy, are at the heart of the firm’s competitive advantage (Peteraf, 1993). In other words, the resource based-view states that the principal determinants of a business’ performance and its strategy are its internal resources.   Not all of the firm’s resources have the potential to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Barney (1991) argued that to create a sustainable competitive advantage, a resource must have four attributes: It must (1) be valuable, (2) be rare, (3) be difficult to imitate, and (4) have no strategically equivalent substitute. Specifically, resources that are necessary for creating a sustainable competitive advantage can be divided into two types, namely, assets and capabilities. Assets are the resource endowments a firm has accumulated, for example, an investment in facilities. Whilst capabilities are a firm’s complex bundle of skills and accumulated knowledge, exercised through an organizational process that enables the firm to coordinate activities and make the best use of its assets (Day, 1994).   In recent years, there has been an increasing number of international marketing studies conducted using the resource based-view of the firm (Calantone et al., 2006; Dhanaraj and Beamish, 2003). Additionally, Knudsen and Madsen (2002) have suggested that the resource-based view of the firm has emerged as the dominant paradigm. As such, this Special Issue focuses on the resource based view of the firm and its significance in international marketing. I am especially interested in original articles in the following areas:   1. The relationships between industry structure, strategy, marketing capabilities, learning, innovation and performance in international marketing.   2. The determinants of a sustainable competitive advantage in international marketing.   3. The relationship between an export venture’s resources and a sustainable competitive advantage in international marketing.   4. The influence of resource dependency on international marketing strategy.   5. An analysis of both internal and external firm factors on strategy and performance in international marketing.   6. The relationship between product, price, promotion and distribution capability and export marketing performance.   7. The significance of market orientation as a marketing capability in international marketing whether it be as a mediating variable or having a direct influence on performance.   8. The influence of firm capabilities on collaborative stability and change.   9. The relationship between market knowledge and new product advantage.   10. Cross-national comparative studies of new product development processes.   11. The antecedents of marketing capabilities and organizational effectiveness.   12. An investigation of the different strategic types, marketing competencies and performance.   13. The effect of export marketing capabilities on export performance.   The International Journal of Trade and Global Markets is a scholarly journal, committed to the advancement of theory and practice within the domain of international business. All papers that reflect high standards of research methodology will be considered. Submitted papers should follow the usual Inderscience format and guidelines and will be subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts is December 31 2011. Papers should be submitted via e-mail to the Guest Editor, Dr. Craig Julian at the following address:   Dr. Craig Julian, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Southern Cross Business School, Southern Cross University, Locked Bag 4, Coolangatta, Queensland, 4225, Australia. E-Mail: craig.julian@scu.edu.au ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. 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I would be grateful if you could post this Call for Papers to a Special Issue in the International Journal of Trade and Global Markets. Thank you.
 
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The Resource Based View as Applied in International Marketing

 

There have been at least two major theoretical approaches used in international marketing research. These are the industrial organization approach and the resource based-view. The industrial organization approach ascribes a firm’s international performance to its external market position. The resource based-view focuses on internal organizational resources such as marketing competency or marketing capabilities to identify the determinants of a firm’s international marketing performance.

 

In the previous international marketing literature, most studies adopted the industrial organization approach to evaluate a firm’s strategy, characteristics, and external factors as determinants of performance. Industrial organization theory states that the external environment imposes pressure on the firm to which it must respond. In line with this theory, Zou and Stan (1998) suggested that exporters who respond successfully to their external environments by developing and implementing an appropriate strategy would enjoy superior performance. The strategy factors that have been frequently studied as determinants of performance include adapting the different marketing mix elements to accommodate the needs of the local market, different channel relationships, together with the different types of channels (Zou et al., 2003). However, Zou et. al (2003) also suggest that the industrial organization framework only focuses on the impact of a firm’s strategy and its external environment on performance, and places very little emphasis on the impact of idiosyncratic internal capabilities, such as marketing capabilities, on the firm’s performance (Barney, 1991).

 

In order to overcome this void in the literature Barney (1991) introduced a new theoretical perspective that is the resource based-view of the firm. The resource-based view of the firm views the firm not in the light of its activities or strategy in the product market but as a unique bundle of tangible and intangible resources. In addition, the firm’s resources, not its strategy, are at the heart of the firm’s competitive advantage (Peteraf, 1993). In other words, the resource based-view states that the principal determinants of a business’ performance and its strategy are its internal resources.

 

Not all of the firm’s resources have the potential to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Barney (1991) argued that to create a sustainable competitive advantage, a resource must have four attributes: It must (1) be valuable, (2) be rare, (3) be difficult to imitate, and (4) have no strategically equivalent substitute. Specifically, resources that are necessary for creating a sustainable competitive advantage can be divided into two types, namely, assets and capabilities. Assets are the resource endowments a firm has accumulated, for example, an investment in facilities. Whilst capabilities are a firm’s complex bundle of skills and accumulated knowledge, exercised through an organizational process that enables the firm to coordinate activities and make the best use of its assets (Day, 1994).

 

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of international marketing studies conducted using the resource based-view of the firm (Calantone et al., 2006; Dhanaraj and Beamish, 2003). Additionally, Knudsen and Madsen (2002) have suggested that the resource-based view of the firm has emerged as the dominant paradigm. As such, this Special Issue focuses on the resource based view of the firm and its significance in international marketing. I am especially interested in original articles in the following areas:

 

1. The relationships between industry structure, strategy, marketing capabilities, learning, innovation and performance in international marketing.

 

2. The determinants of a sustainable competitive advantage in international marketing.

 

3. The relationship between an export venture’s resources and a sustainable competitive advantage in international marketing.

 

4. The influence of resource dependency on international marketing strategy.

 

5. An analysis of both internal and external firm factors on strategy and performance in international marketing.

 

6. The relationship between product, price, promotion and distribution capability and export marketing performance.

 

7. The significance of market orientation as a marketing capability in international marketing whether it be as a mediating variable or having a direct influence on performance.

 

8. The influence of firm capabilities on collaborative stability and change.

 

9. The relationship between market knowledge and new product advantage.

 

10. Cross-national comparative studies of new product development processes.

 

11. The antecedents of marketing capabilities and organizational effectiveness.

 

12. An investigation of the different strategic types, marketing competencies and performance.

 

13. The effect of export marketing capabilities on export performance.

 

The International Journal of Trade and Global Markets is a scholarly journal, committed to the advancement of theory and practice within the domain of international business. All papers that reflect high standards of research methodology will be considered. Submitted papers should follow the usual Inderscience format and guidelines and will be subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts is December 31 2011. Papers should be submitted via e-mail to the Guest Editor, Dr. Craig Julian at the following address:

 

Dr. Craig Julian, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Southern Cross Business School, Southern Cross University, Locked Bag 4, Coolangatta, Queensland, 4225, Australia. E-Mail: craig.julian@scu.edu.au

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Dear AIB member

The Finance Accounting Research Unit (FARU) at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) in conjunction with the Institute for Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) have issued a research report “UK bio-pharma: Innovation, re-invention and capital at risk”. This report on UK bio-pharma presents a strong case for emergency state funding where it can sensibly prevent a disorderly downsizing of bio-pharma and loss of intangible asset investment.  In the medium and long-tem term, this report argues for active and imaginative Government policies that redraw the bio-pharma business model modifying the way in which risk and return are distributed between the different stakeholders involved in a complex and increasingly fragile business model.

This report can be downloaded from the ICAS website:

http://www.icas.org.uk/site/cms/download/res/Gleadle_Haslam_Report_July_11.pdf
 
 
 
Professor Colin Haslam
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--_000_AEA1A738D43C694AAFAC72D9F2F9985D560585ACDAUHMAILSTORher_-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:03:55 -0400 Reply-To: Vasyl Taras Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Vasyl Taras Subject: If you're teaching IB later this year: International Collaboration Project for Your Students MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary --0015176f0d28eb4aa504a884e42b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you are teaching International Business/Management later this year, please consider enhancing learning in your course by participating in the International Business Student Collaboration simulation. The project is designed to give students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in cross-cultural collaboration. About a thousand students from sixteen countries participated in the project in 2010-11 school year and we have confirmed participants from twelve countries for the next semester (all continents but Australia represented). As usual, we have a disproportionally large number of US-based students, so we are trying to recruit more non-US participants. Detailed information about the project can be found at http://www.vtaras.com/International_Cooperation_Project.html Briefly, the idea is very simple. Instructors who teach IB/IM team up students from different countries to complete a term project. Collaborating on-line, students develop a business proposal (location of the business, staffing, marketing of the product/service, and so on) for a hypothetical IJV (working on teaming up with F500 corporations to make the project more realistic, chances are 50-50 for having corporate partners for this semester). Participation on the project is typically weighted as 20% of the course grade and performance is evaluated based on the quality of the team report and the ability of the team to meet the deadlines. We provide all materials and administrative support, you distribute the instructions to your students and do the things you would do when running a regular team-based term project (answering students’ questions, grading reports, etc.). Participation is completely free. Although the project was designed as an experiential learning tool, it is also an excellent platform for research on international team dynamics and performance, as well as for personal, professional and inter-institutional collaboration. The schedule is still being finalized, but the active phase of the project (when students are working together, exchanging ideas, writing the team report) is likely to commence around the first week of October and the report due date will be around the first week of December, giving our students about eight weeks to complete the project. If you teach International Business or International Management course at a non-US university, your semester includes the October-November window, and you would like to participate in the project, please contact Vas Taras ( v_taras@uncg.edu). Sincerely, Vas Taras -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vas Taras, PhD Department of Business Administration Bryan School of Business and Economics University of North Carolina at Greensboro 349 Bryan POB 26165, Greensboro, NC 27402-6165 336-256-8611 v_taras@uncg.edu www.vtaras.com ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --0015176f0d28eb4aa504a884e42b Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

If you are teaching International Business/Management later this year, please consider enhancing learning in your course by participating in the International Business Student Collaboration simulation.

 

The project is designed to give students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in cross-cultural collaboration. About a thousand students from sixteen countries participated in the project in 2010-11 school year and we have confirmed participants from twelve countries for the next semester (all continents but Australia represented).

 

As usual, we have a disproportionally large number of US-based students, so we are trying to recruit more non-US participants.

 

Detailed information about the project can be found at http://www.vtaras.com/International_Cooperation_Project.html

 

Briefly, the idea is very simple. Instructors who teach IB/IM team up students from different countries to complete a term project. Collaborating on-line, students develop a business proposal (location of the business, staffing, marketing of the product/service, and so on) for a hypothetical IJV (working on teaming up with F500 corporations to make the project more realistic, chances are 50-50 for having corporate partners for this semester). Participation on the project is typically weighted as 20% of the course grade and performance is evaluated based on the quality of the team report and the ability of the team to meet the deadlines.

 

We provide all materials and administrative support, you distribute the instructions to your students and do the things you would do when running a regular team-based term project (answering students’ questions, grading reports, etc.).

 

Participation is completely free.

 

Although the project was designed as an experiential learning tool, it is also an excellent platform for research on international team dynamics and performance, as well as for personal, professional and inter-institutional collaboration.

 

The schedule is still being finalized, but the active phase of the project (when students are working together, exchanging ideas, writing the team report) is likely to commence around the first week of October and the report due date will be around the first week of December, giving our students about eight weeks to complete the project.

 

If you teach International Business or International Management course at a non-US university, your semester includes the October-November window, and you would like to participate in the project, please contact Vas Taras (v_taras@uncg.edu).

 

Sincerely,
Vas Taras

 

 

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Vas Taras, PhD

Department of Business Administration
Bryan School of Business and Economics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
349 Bryan
POB 26165, Greensboro, NC 27402-6165
336-256-8611
v_taras@uncg.edu
www.vtaras.com

 

 

 

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--0015176f0d28eb4aa504a884e42b-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:06:02 +0000 Reply-To: Andre Sammartino Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Andre Sammartino Subject: Professor position in Business Strategy/Leadership - University of Melbourne Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_A970B4350137BB4888BC60AB83D20A0402968F000SEXMBXQS4unime_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_A970B4350137BB4888BC60AB83D20A0402968F000SEXMBXQS4unime_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Department of Management and Marketing invites applications for up to four continuing appointments from scholars of international distinction committed to excellence and innovation in education and research. Candidates will be expected to support the Department's strategic objectives by teaching and administering high quality undergraduate and graduate subjects, engaging in research in his/her discipline, and, publishing in elite international journals and other esteemed scholarly outlets: Professor of Management - Business Strategy / Leadership - Job No: 0026574 Professor of Human Resource Management - Job No: 0010712 Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Management - HRM / Organisational Behaviour / Organisation Studies - Job No: 0020215 Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Management - Operations Management - Job No: 0026575 The Department of Management and Marketing has 35 academic staff and currently 40 PhD students and also incorporates the International Centre for Research on Organisational Discourse, Strategy & Change (ICRODSC), the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development (FSED), the Melbourne International Business Research Unit (MIBRU) and the Centre for Human Resource Management (CHRM). The Department places a high value on teaching quality and seeks to offer excellent teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition, there is a strong emphasis within the Department on encouraging a good research culture, promoting collaboration and on providing a friendly and supportive atmosphere. The Faculty of Business and Economics has been a leading provider of business and economics education since 1924. It is committed to research excellence and engagement, the highest quality academic programs, and strongly linked via formal alliances and partnerships to business, government, and the wider community. It has an active advisory board where business leaders, government representatives, and community leaders have a substantial and meaningful role in the implementation of the Faculty's vision. The Faculty has strong connections with leading international universities. These external connections together with its own world class academics, outstanding professional staff and strong leadership provides the foundation to become the leading business and economics faculty in the Asia Pacific region. The closing date for all positions is 15 August 2011. For further particulars of these positions please visit http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobSearch.asp?stp=AW. For Professor of Management - Business Strategy / Leadership - Job No: 0026574 see http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=745339 In the first instance all enquiries should be directed to Denise Simon (+61 3 8344 4447; dsimon@unimelb.edu.au ). Regards, Dr. André Sammartino Senior Lecturer in International Business & Strategic Management Department of Management and Marketing University of Melbourne Ph: +61 3 8344 6880 Staff Page: http://www.managementmarketing.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff.cfm?StaffId=12 MIBRU: http://www.mibru.unimelb.edu.au/ ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --_000_A970B4350137BB4888BC60AB83D20A0402968F000SEXMBXQS4unime_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The Department of Management and Marketing invites applications for up to four continuing appointments from scholars of international distinction committed to excellence and innovation in education and research. Candidates will be expected to support the Department's strategic objectives by teaching and administering high quality undergraduate and graduate subjects, engaging in research in his/her discipline, and, publishing in elite international journals and other esteemed scholarly outlets:

Professor of Management - Business Strategy / Leadership - Job No: 0026574

Professor of Human Resource Management - Job No: 0010712

Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Management - HRM / Organisational Behaviour / Organisation Studies - Job No: 0020215

Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Management - Operations Management - Job No: 0026575

The Department of Management and Marketing has 35 academic staff and currently 40 PhD students and also incorporates the International Centre for Research on Organisational Discourse, Strategy & Change (ICRODSC), the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development (FSED), the Melbourne International Business Research Unit (MIBRU) and the Centre for Human Resource Management (CHRM). The Department places a high value on teaching quality and seeks to offer excellent teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition, there is a strong emphasis within the Department on encouraging a good research culture, promoting collaboration and on providing a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

The Faculty of Business and Economics has been a leading provider of business and economics education since 1924. It is committed to research excellence and engagement, the highest quality academic programs, and strongly linked via formal alliances and partnerships to business, government, and the wider community. It has an active advisory board where business leaders, government representatives, and community leaders have a substantial and meaningful role in the implementation of the Faculty's vision. The Faculty has strong connections with leading international universities. These external connections together with its own world class academics, outstanding professional staff and strong leadership provides the foundation to become the leading business and economics faculty in the Asia Pacific region.

The closing date for all positions is 15 August 2011.

 

For further particulars of these positions please visit http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobSearch.asp?stp=AW.

 

For Professor of Management - Business Strategy / Leadership - Job No: 0026574 see http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=745339

 

In the first instance all enquiries should be directed to Denise Simon (+61 3 8344 4447; dsimon@unimelb.edu.au ).

 

Regards,

 

 

Dr. André Sammartino

Senior Lecturer in International Business & Strategic Management

Department of Management and Marketing

University of Melbourne

Ph: +61 3 8344 6880

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MIBRU: http://www.mibru.unimelb.edu.au/

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========================================================================Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:34:02 -0500 Reply-To: Marne Arthaud-Day Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Marne Arthaud-Day Organization: College of Business Subject: Opening for Assistant Professor of Strategy/Entrepreneurship at Kansas State University Comments: cc: James Bloodgood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00D2_01CC47CC.62BE7050" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D2_01CC47CC.62BE7050 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_00D3_01CC47CC.62BE7050" ------=_NextPart_001_00D3_01CC47CC.62BE7050 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please share this strategy-entrepreneurship position announcement at Kansas State University with the AIB listserv. Our apologies for any cross-listings. Questions may be directed to the chair of the search committee, Professor Jim Bloodgood, at jblood@ksu.edu. Marne Arthaud-Day Associate Professor, Strategic Management College of Business Kansas State University KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY College of Business Administration Manhattan, KS 66506 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STRATEGY STARTING DATE: AUGUST 2012 QUALIFICATIONS: The Management Department in the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University is seeking to hire an assistant professor for a tenure-track appointment. We are specifically seeking candidates with strong interpersonal skills who are qualified to teach and do research within the field of Business Strategy. Preference will be given to those who can also teach in the areas of entrepreneurship or human resource management, as well as those who have industry experience in strategy, entrepreneurship, or human resource management. Responsibilities will primarily include conducting and publishing academic research and teaching two courses per semester, along with assisting in the service mission of the Department. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to conduct high-quality research projects for journal publication and conference presentation. Prior teaching experience at the university level is strongly preferred. It is required that candidates have completed a Ph.D. in Business Strategy or a closely related field. Candidates who are ABD in these fields will also be considered, but must complete their PhD within 6 months of the starting date. THE UNIVERSITY Kansas State University is a state-supported institution of more than 23,000 students. The University AND COLLEGE OF is recognized for the quality of its academic programs and for consistently producing winners of top BUSINESS national scholarships. The 668-acre main campus is located in beautiful Manhattan, Kansas ADMINISTRATION (population approximately 50,000) a community nestled in the Flint Hills of Northeast Kansas. The College of Business Administration is one of 10 Colleges on the main campus. The College, with 2800 undergraduate and graduate students and 55 full-time faculty, consists of four academic departments: Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing. The College is accredited by AACSB at the bachelors and masters level in both business administration and accounting. DEPARTMENT OF The Management Department is the largest department in the college and grants about 300 MANAGEMENT degrees each year. The Department houses two centers and is active in several research initiatives. SALARY: Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications EMPLOYMENT Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and POLICY: actively seeks/pursues employee diversity. Background check required. APPLICATION: Application screening will begin August 23, 2011. Please send cover letter, vita, examples of publications, summarized teaching evaluations, list of references and other evidence of qualifications to (email preferred): Ms. Tammie Hartwick Search Committee Department of Management, Calvin 101 Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 tsh@ksu.edu ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. ------=_NextPart_001_00D3_01CC47CC.62BE7050 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Marne Arthaud-Day
Associate Professor, Strategic Management
College of Business
Kansas State University

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Business Administration

Manhattan, KS 66506

 

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STRATEGY

 

STARTING DATE:            AUGUST 2012

 

QUALIFICATIONS:          The Management Department in the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University is seeking to hire an assistant professor for a tenure-track appointment. We are specifically seeking candidates with strong interpersonal skills who are qualified to teach and do research within the field of Business Strategy. Preference will be given to those who can also teach in the areas of entrepreneurship or human resource management, as well as those who have industry experience in strategy, entrepreneurship, or human resource management. Responsibilities will primarily include conducting and publishing academic research and teaching two courses per semester, along with assisting in the service mission of the Department. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to conduct high-quality research projects for journal publication and conference presentation. Prior teaching experience at the university level is strongly preferred. It is required that candidates have completed a Ph.D. in Business Strategy or a closely related field.  Candidates who are ABD in these fields will also be considered, but must complete their PhD within 6 months of the starting date.


THE UNIVERSITY              Kansas State University is a state-supported institution of more than 23,000 students. The University

AND COLLEGE OF             is recognized for the quality of its academic programs and for consistently producing winners of top

BUSINESS                            national scholarships. The 668-acre main campus is located in beautiful Manhattan, Kansas

ADMINISTRATION           (population approximately 50,000) a community nestled in the Flint Hills of Northeast Kansas. The College of Business Administration is one of 10 Colleges on the main campus. The College, with 2800 undergraduate and graduate students and 55 full-time faculty, consists of four academic departments: Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing. The College is accredited by AACSB at the bachelors and masters level in both business administration and accounting.

 

DEPARTMENT OF             The Management Department is the largest department in the college and grants about 300

MANAGEMENT                degrees each year. The Department houses two centers and is active in several research initiatives. 

 

SALARY:                               Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications

 

EMPLOYMENT                  Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and

POLICY:                                actively seeks/pursues employee diversity. Background check required.

 

APPLICATION:                   Application screening will begin August 23, 2011. Please send cover letter, vita, examples of publications, summarized teaching evaluations, list of references and other evidence of qualifications to (email preferred):

 

                                                                                Ms. Tammie Hartwick

                                                                                Search Committee

                                                                                Department of Management, Calvin 101

                                                                                Kansas State University

                                                                                Manhattan, KS 66506

                                                                                tsh@ksu.edu

 

 

 

 

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA ------=_NextPart_000_00D2_01CC47CC.62BE7050-- ========================================================================Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:58:21 +0000 Reply-To: Ilan Alon Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Ilan Alon Subject: Call for Books in International Business: Financial Times Press/Pearson Education Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_7D1F415C460D734691AB53AD8DBE0CDF2E04B7Vault01Rollinsedu_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_7D1F415C460D734691AB53AD8DBE0CDF2E04B7Vault01Rollinsedu_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call for Books: Pearson Education/Financial Times Press The Financial Times (FT) Press is spearheading a publishing initiative in the area of International Business. We are seeking manuscripts -- including both print and digital products - which will advance the state of knowledge in international business, targeting managers and graduate students. Interested authors should send me an initial proposal answering the following questions: 1. What is the core value proposition, that is: * The message you are trying to get across to your customer base? * What are the takeaways you want your reader to walk away with? * What would be the advertising slogan you'd reduce your message to? 2. Who is the target audience, and how is the book relevant to them? 3. What do you see the book as accomplishing? What value will the reader get out of the book? 4. What do you think is unique about your message/book? 5. How do you view your book in comparison to others on the shelf? Answering this question requires a thorough review of specific current titles (identify 3 to 5 titles) that might be considered competitive, a short summary of their message and a statement about how your book differs. 6. Are there any special features? (e.g., case examples, quotes/perspectives from current business leaders, lessons drawn from specific companies/people, sidebars, assessments...) The annotated table of contents should lay out the structure of the book and provide a brief description of the contents of each chapter. We welcome your ideas on how we can collaborate on promoting your book: 1. Will you be able to promote the book in your organization? 2. Would you market your book virally? (Would you be able to promote the book online through a blog, email databases, a website, etc.?) 3. Are you aware of any organizations, associations, corporate universities, companies who would support the book through promotions, internal programs, etc.? We look forward to working with AIB members to develop additional books in our field. Please feel free to email me ialon@rollins.edu with any additional questions you may have. Ilan Alon, Ph.D. Financial Times/Pearson Education Consulting Editor Cornell Professor of International Business Director of The China Center, Rollins College Visiting Scholar and Asia Fellow, Harvard University Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave Winter Park, Florida 32789, USA Editor: AIB Insights: http://aib.msu.edu/publications/aibinsights.asp Personal Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanalon Rollins China Center: www.rollins.edu/chinacenter ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. 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Call for Books: Pearson Education/Financial Times Press

 

The Financial Times (FT) Press is spearheading a publishing initiative in the area of International Business.  We are seeking manuscripts -- including both print and digital products – which will advance the state of knowledge in international business, targeting managers and graduate students.

 

Interested authors should send me an initial proposal answering the following questions:

 

  1. What is the core value proposition, that is:
    1. The message you are trying to get across to your customer base?
    2. What are the takeaways you want your reader to walk away with?
    3. What would be the advertising slogan you’d reduce your message to?
  2. Who is the target audience, and how is the book relevant to them? 
  3. What do you see the book as accomplishing? What value will the reader get out of the book? 
  4. What do you think is unique about your message/book?
  5. How do you view your book in comparison to others on the shelf?  Answering this question requires a thorough review of specific current titles (identify 3 to 5 titles) that might be considered competitive, a short summary of their message and a statement about how your book differs.  
  6. Are there any special features? (e.g., case examples, quotes/perspectives from current business leaders, lessons drawn from specific companies/people, sidebars, assessments...)

 

The annotated table of contents should lay out the structure of the book and provide a brief description of the contents of each chapter. We welcome your ideas on how we can collaborate on promoting your book:

  1. Will you be able to promote the book in your organization?
  2. Would you market your book virally? (Would you be able to promote the book online through a blog, email databases, a website, etc.?)
  3. Are you aware of any organizations, associations, corporate universities, companies who would support the book through promotions, internal programs, etc.?

 

We look forward to working with AIB members to develop additional books in our field. Please feel free to email me ialon@rollins.edu with any additional questions you may have.

 

Ilan Alon, Ph.D.

Financial Times/Pearson Education Consulting Editor

 

Cornell Professor of International Business

Director of The China Center, Rollins College

Visiting Scholar and Asia Fellow, Harvard University

 

Rollins College

1000 Holt Ave

Winter Park, Florida 32789, USA

 

Editor: AIB Insights: http://aib.msu.edu/publications/aibinsights.asp

Personal Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ilanalon

Rollins China Center: www.rollins.edu/chinacenter

 

 

 

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Please post to members

 

CALL for SYMPOSIUM 

And 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS (PDS)

 EMRBI encourage alternative sessions, that provide experiences that would serve the personal and professional needs of EuroMed Academy of Business members and students to develop and update their practical, professional and intellectual skills in continuous professional improvement. Colleagues are invited to suggest such Symposium of PDS.

Symposium and PDS should be innovative, interactive, and provocative in nature. It should facilitate many alternative points of view that can be compared, discussed, tested and evaluated.

Participants should have chances to share, debate, reflect, converse, exchange, negotiate and fraternize about their ideas, experiences, skills and competences. Also, good Symposium and PDS will energize participants before, during and after the special time set aside at the annual meeting

Proposals for Symposium and PDS can be round table discussions, workshops, panels, debates, tutorials, tours, case studies, invited key speakers, or other forms.

Deadline for proposal is August 15, 2011.

Please send proposals to Yaakov Weber yweber@bezeqint.net
 
Prof. Yaakov Weber, President
EMRBI (EuroMed Research Business Institute)
www. emrbi.com
 
 

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International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (IJBEM)

www.inderscience.com/ijbem

Table of Contents

Vol. 3, No. 3, 2011

 

 

--Editorial

Satyendra Singh

 

--A macroeconometric analysis of the effects of financial liberalisation on capital flight in Nigeria
Anthony Enisan Akinlo, Olubanjo Taiwo Ajilore

 

--Economic growth, investment and export performance in Nigeria 1970–2006
O. Olayinka Akinlo

 

--An exploratory research on entertainment facilities in Indian malls and its impact on shopping behaviour of consumers
Sapna Rakesh, Arpita Khare

 

--Hurdles in the conduct of marketing research in India: an exploratory study
Meenakshi Handa Aa, A, Ajay Pandit, Anupma Vohra

 

 

 

Dr. Satyendra Singh
Director, Centre for Emerging Markets
Professor, Marketing and International Business
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets
University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg R3B 2E9 CANADA
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--=__PartBF90D012.0__=-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:47:06 +0100 Reply-To: Martyn Lawrence Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Martyn Lawrence Subject: read the latest issue of "critical perspectives on international business" Comments: To: "IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" , "CRITICAL-MANAGEMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" Comments: cc: Mark Moreau , Joanne Roberts , George Cairns Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_E6A230FC675AAD44BFA396AFBC8F19C11181BA2F12emappl05Emera_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_E6A230FC675AAD44BFA396AFBC8F19C11181BA2F12emappl05Emera_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear all Here is the latest issue of critical perspectives on international business. You also have the full Editorial included below, which gives further details on each of the papers. All best wishes Martyn Dr Martyn Lawrence Senior Publisher Journal: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/cpoib.htm Collection: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/ib TABLE OF CONTENTS Article Title: Guanxi dynamics and identity construction: An interpretive look at the Chinese professional service firms Authors: Katarzyna Kosmala, Chunyan Xian Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17422041111149507 Article Title: FDI and spillovers in the Swiss services/construction industry: Interaction effects between spillover mechanisms and domestic technological characteristics Authors: Lamia Ben Hamida Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17422041111149516 Article Title: Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: Whose absorptive capacity is in question? Authors: Snejina Michailova, Irina Jormanainen Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17422041111149525 Article Title: The World Investment Report at 20 Authors: Grazia Ietto-Gillies Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17422041111149534 Book Review: 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown Link to Page: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1941467&show=abstract Editorial (Joanne Roberts, George Cairns) Welcome to the third issue of critical perspectives on international business (CPOIB) for 2011. We are pleased to present another exciting set of articles and reviews considering a range of topics, from the Western influence on identity construction in Chinese professional service firms and knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms to foreign direct investment (FDI) and spillovers in Switzerland, the World Investment Report and finance sector links to political power. With contributions from authors in Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the UK, this issue underlines our commitment to producing a truly international journal. The issue begins with a research paper entitled "Guanxi dynamics and identity construction: an interpretive look at the Chinese professional service firms', by Katarzyna Kosmala and Chunyan Xian, in which the findings of a study of the construction of professional identity, based on an interpretative inquiry in two Chinese professional service firms in Beijing, are presented. The authors find that enacted professionalism appears consistent with the pursuit of an elevated Western image, while relationships with clients are embedded in guanxi dynamics and related accountabilities, reflecting the local ways of doing things. Service activity is also the focus of the second research paper by Lamia Ben Hamida: "FDI and spillovers in the Swiss services/construction industry: interaction effects between spillover mechanisms and domestic technological characteristics". Through the provision of knowledge, jobs, foreign currency and competition, FDI has important spillover effects in host countries, with the potential for significant impacts on economic development. Research on spillovers tends to focus on the manufacturing sector despite the fact that the service sector accounts for the largest share of FDI flows. Through a focus on service sector FDI spillovers, Ben Hamida contributes to an important emerging body of research. The theme of knowledge transfer is continued in an insightful position paper, "Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?", by Snejina Michailova and Irina Jormanainen. Long-standing assumptions about the superiority of the knowledge possessed by Western firms and the poor absorptive capacity of Russian firms are challenged. Moreover, the authors argue that while Russian firms have substantially developed their knowledge stock, Western firms operating in the Russian market have not intentionally invested in improving their own absorptive capacity. In a timely review essay entitled "The World Investment Report at 20", Grazia Ietto-Gillies considers the United Nations' annual publication on FDI. The current volume, World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy, is analysed in the context of all the previous World Investment Reports (WIRs) and their historical background. Although the WIR has always had a developmental and policy focus, as Ietto-Gillies argues, tackling pressing problems related to the environment requires the cooperation of both developed and developing regions as well as the development and implementation of global strategies for economic development. This issue concludes with a book review by Arvind K. Jain of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. The book contributes to understandings of the links between the financial sector and political power. In doing so, it contributes to the continuing debates about the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008 - a topic that has been much discussed in the pages of this journal. We hope that you will enjoy reading this issue of CPOIB, that it will encourage further critical discussion about issues of relevance to international business and, importantly, that it will stimulate further responses in the academic community, in the classroom and in the wider context of global society. As always, we encourage readers to participate in ongoing debates and to raise new topics and questions through contributions to the journal. We welcome academic paper submission, viewpoint pieces, reviews and review essays as well as suggestions and proposals for special issues. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. 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Dear all
 
Here is the latest issue of critical perspectives on international business.  You also have the full Editorial included below, which gives further details on each of the papers.
 
All best wishes
Martyn
 
Dr Martyn Lawrence
Senior Publisher
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Article Title: Guanxi dynamics and identity construction: An interpretive look at the Chinese professional service firms
Authors: Katarzyna Kosmala, Chunyan Xian
 
 
Article Title: FDI and spillovers in the Swiss services/construction industry: Interaction effects between spillover mechanisms and domestic technological characteristics
Authors: Lamia Ben Hamida
 
 
Article Title: Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: Whose absorptive capacity is in question?
Authors: Snejina Michailova, Irina Jormanainen
 
 
Article Title: The World Investment Report at 20
Authors: Grazia Ietto-Gillies
 
 
Book Review: 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
 
 
Editorial
(Joanne Roberts, George Cairns)
 
Welcome to the third issue of critical perspectives on international business (CPOIB) for 2011. We are pleased to present another exciting set of articles and reviews considering a range of topics, from the Western influence on identity construction in Chinese professional service firms and knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms to foreign direct investment (FDI) and spillovers in Switzerland, the World Investment Report and finance sector links to political power. With contributions from authors in Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the UK, this issue underlines our commitment to producing a truly international journal.
 
The issue begins with a research paper entitled “Guanxi dynamics and identity construction: an interpretive look at the Chinese professional service firms’, by Katarzyna Kosmala and Chunyan Xian, in which the findings of a study of the construction of professional identity, based on an interpretative inquiry in two Chinese professional service firms in Beijing, are presented. The authors find that enacted professionalism appears consistent with the pursuit of an elevated Western image, while relationships with clients are embedded in guanxi dynamics and related accountabilities, reflecting the local ways of doing things.
 
Service activity is also the focus of the second research paper by Lamia Ben Hamida: “FDI and spillovers in the Swiss services/construction industry: interaction effects between spillover mechanisms and domestic technological characteristics”. Through the provision of knowledge, jobs, foreign currency and competition, FDI has important spillover effects in host countries, with the potential for significant impacts on economic development. Research on spillovers tends to focus on the manufacturing sector despite the fact that the service sector accounts for the largest share of FDI flows. Through a focus on service sector FDI spillovers, Ben Hamida contributes to an important emerging body of research.
 
The theme of knowledge transfer is continued in an insightful position paper, “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?”, by Snejina Michailova and Irina Jormanainen. Long-standing assumptions about the superiority of the knowledge possessed by Western firms and the poor absorptive capacity of Russian firms are challenged. Moreover, the authors argue that while Russian firms have substantially developed their knowledge stock, Western firms operating in the Russian market have not intentionally invested in improving their own absorptive capacity.
 
In a timely review essay entitled “The World Investment Report at 20”, Grazia Ietto-Gillies considers the United Nations’ annual publication on FDI. The current volume, World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy, is analysed in the context of all the previous World Investment Reports (WIRs) and their historical background. Although the WIR has always had a developmental and policy focus, as Ietto-Gillies argues, tackling pressing problems related to the environment requires the cooperation of both developed and developing regions as well as the development and implementation of global strategies for economic development.
 
This issue concludes with a book review by Arvind K. Jain of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. The book contributes to understandings of the links between the financial sector and political power. In doing so, it contributes to the continuing debates about the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008 – a topic that has been much discussed in the pages of this journal.
 
We hope that you will enjoy reading this issue of CPOIB, that it will encourage further critical discussion about issues of relevance to international business and, importantly, that it will stimulate further responses in the academic community, in the classroom and in the wider context of global society. As always, we encourage readers to participate in ongoing debates and to raise new topics and questions through contributions to the journal. We welcome academic paper submission, viewpoint pieces, reviews and review essays as well as suggestions and proposals for special issues.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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--_000_E6A230FC675AAD44BFA396AFBC8F19C11181BA2F12emappl05Emera_-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:53:03 +0530 Reply-To: Amar KJR Nayak Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Amar KJR Nayak Subject: Growth Logic of Indian Multinationals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary cf3054a559d88cbb04a8e30951 --20cf3054a559d88cbb04a8e30951 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Colleagues, For your information, a book on *"Indian Multinationals: The Dynamics of Explosive Growth in a Developing Country Context"* has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. For details, you may check here: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pidP5713 With regards, amar -- Dr. Amar KJR Nayak Professor of Strategic Management & NABARD Chair Professor Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. India. Tel: +91 674 3983706 (phone) http://www.ximb.ac.in http://www.ximb.ac.in/ximb/index.php?id63 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --20cf3054a559d88cbb04a8e30951 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues,

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With regards,
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Professor of Strategic Management &
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--20cf3054a559d88cbb04a8e30951-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:01:37 +0000 Reply-To: Rudolf Sinkovics Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Rudolf Sinkovics Subject: CFP-International Business Review - Rising Powers Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_E3CFA10100A01B4BB63E3AD6249833B6131AC1MBXP06dsmanacuk_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_E3CFA10100A01B4BB63E3AD6249833B6131AC1MBXP06dsmanacuk_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable International Business Review http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09695931 Call for Papers Rising powers from emerging markets - The changing face of International Business Guest editors: Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Khalid Nadvi, Mo Yamin & Yingying Zhang Zhang About the Special Issue International Business Review (IBR) invites the submission of articles that fit the theme "Rising powers from emerging markets - The changing face of international business". The rise of China, India and Brazil as economic and political 'drivers' of the global economy has generated substantial interest, both in policy circles and in academic research. China is now the world's second biggest economy and continues to grow at double digits (Henderson and Nadvi 2011). India is catching up, albeit with a time-lag, with mergers and acquisitions taking place in sectors as varied as automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Brazilian multinationals are now major global players in mining, oil and a number of agro-processing sectors (Fleury and Fleury 2011). Together, these economies and associated firms have managed to sustain growth despite the economic downturn, captured headlines in business magazines such as BusinessWeek and the Economist, seized interest from consulting firms such as McKinsey & Co and the Boston Consulting Group and ignited recent scholarly interest on the internationalization of emerging country firms (Luo and Tung 2007; Makino, Lau, and Yeh 2002; Ramamurti and Singh 2009). What is interesting in this new rise of powerful players, particularly when compared to earlier work on FDI from developing countries (Lall 1983; Wells 1983), is that it is seemingly not a simple revision of the earlier experience. The growth of Korean multinationals serves as an example of late industrialization (Amsden 1989), whereby industries learnt from earlier innovators, rather than innovate themselves. However, India and China are becoming major producers of products and services for global markets by pursuing rather distinctive development paths. In fact, there is evidence of highly creative response to institutional discontinuity in their domestic environment and tremendously swift build-up of innovation capabilities (Altenburg, Schmitz, and Stamm 2008; Chittoor et al. 2009; Luo, Xue, and Han 2010; Williamson and Zeng 2009; Zeng and Williamson 2007). Rising power firms are likely to turn traditional notions of competition and strategy upside down. While China has clearly used MNCs as a way of learning, gaining intellectual property through a rather weak implementation of intellectual property rights, it would be wrong to think that China has simply "borrowed" competitive strategies of western MNCs (Lauder, Brown, and Brown 2008). There is evidence that goes beyond the views of China as a world factory or as an emerging market wanting for Western goods and technologies (Gao 2011). Rather, firms are now pursuing their own low cost innovation strategies and strategies for leveraging cost innovation advantages which threaten to disrupt global competition as we know it (Williamson and Zeng 2009; Zeng and Williamson 2007). Indian firms, in pursuit of a different take on competitive strategies, have built on outsourcing agreements which were augmented by cost cutting exercises and projects in native India. Both examples have to be seen as more than simply cheap manufacturing or service strategies, as cutting edge R&D facilities provide opportunities for technology leverage strategies and accelerated internationalization (Mathews 2006) above and beyond a simple south-south trajectory as previously envisaged (Ramamurti and Singh 2009). Furthermore there is evidence to suggest that there may be significant differences in internationalization strategies of rising power firms, as a consequence of different patterns of integration in their domestic economies (Niosi and Tschang 2009) and differences regarding environmental and social embeddedness (Badry 2009). We particularly look for papers on the following topics: In this special issue we are looking at the rising powers thematic with the notion of "changing face" or "difference". What, if anything, is different in the emergence of rising power firms from the conceptual and theoretical perspectives, and in terms of challenges - for theory, as well as for the practice of international business in the rising powers, developing and developed worlds? Within this framework, we are interested in papers that address one or more of the following questions: * In what ways does the emergence of rising power multinationals challenge existing theories of international business? * How are firms from the rising powers disrupting the current paradigm of global competition and thus changing the 'rules of the game' (Zeng and Williamson 2007). * What are the consequences of these changes for firms and consumers in other marketplaces? * Rising power firms are increasingly becoming global players, taking on more substantive roles in global production networks or becoming lead firms in their own right (Schmitz 2004). Which factors facilitate this development, how can firms upgrade their position? * Rising power firms often pursue 'aggressive' strategies aimed at transforming them rapidly into key players at the frontiers of technology and organizational performance. These aims are mostly pursued through asset-seeking in the form of M&A and the purchase of brands. Are the outcomes of these strategies in line with their intentions? * Rising power firms often address 'bottom of the pyramid' markets or engage in entrepreneurial innovation that is unprecedented and alleviates social problems (London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010). What are the drivers and outcomes of this economic development process? * Rising powers display a substantially different economic and institutional environment from countries of the global north (London and Hart 2010) and often exhibit different ownership structures with thin layers of bureaucracy and improved information flows (Amsden 2009). To what extent may rising power firms develop business strategies (London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010) and business models which not only contribute to their country's economic development, but also constitute a competitive advantage that is internationally scalable? Guidelines and submission information * All papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review in accordance with IBR guidelines. * Authors should follow IBR guidelines, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09695931 * Authors should submit an electronic copy of their manuscript as a word-file with title page detached. * The title page should include the names, titles, professional affiliations, and contact information of the authors. Authors' names should appear on the title page only. Authors should refrain from revealing their identity in the body of the manuscript * Submit your papers via email to Rudolf.Sinkovics@manchester.ac.uk * Submission deadline: 29 February 2012. * The review process (desk review and first round) will take approx. 4-5 months * Questions about the special issue can be directed to the guest co-editors: Rudolf R. Sinkovics (Rudolf.Sinkovics@manchester.ac.uk), Khalid Nadvi (Khalid.Nadvi@manchester.ac.uk), Mo Yamin (Mo.Yamin@manchester.ac.uk), Yingying Zhang Zhang (yzhang@cunef.edu) About the special issue editors Rudolf R. Sinkovics is Professor of International Business at Manchester Business School, U.K. He received his PhD from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. His research contributions span issues of governance related to overcoming environmental and business risk, information and communication technology and methodology. Recent interests involve emerging markets, and drivers of economic change. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review. Khalid Nadvi is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economics at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), School of Environment and Development (SED), University of Manchester. His research concentrates on industrial development and international trade, focusing in particular on industrial clusters, global value chains and production networks and the challenge posed by global labour and environmental process standards. He has published widely including in World Development, Development and Change, Global Networks, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Economic Geography. He also leads an ESRC funded research network on Rising Powers and Global Standards. Mo Yamin is Professor of International Business at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. His research focus is on multinational enterprises. His contributions include: a reassessment of Hymer's influence on multinational enterprise theory, subsidiary knowledge creation and transfer in multinationals, reliance on online media in the internationalisation process and the impact of multinationals on economic development. He has co-edited Anxieties and Management Responses in International Business, and a special issue in Journal of World Business on revisiting the impact of multinational enterprises on economic development. Yingying Zhang Zhang is Associate Professor of Management and Organization at CUNEF, Complutense University of Madrid. She received her PhD from ESADE-Ramon Llull University, Spain. Her research interests include international strategic human resource management, cultural values, knowledge and innovation. She has published in Management and Organization Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Cross Cultural Management, among others. She is also co-editor for the Nonaka book series on knowledge and innovation, Palgrave Macmillan. Relevant references Altenburg, Tilman, Hubert Schmitz, and Andreas Stamm (2008), "Breakthrough China's and India's Transition from Production to Innovation," World Development, 36 (2), 325-344. Amsden, Alice H. (1989), Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Amsden, Alice H. (2009), "Does Firm Ownership Matter? Poes Vs. Foes in the Developing World," in Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets, Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V. Singh (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 64-77. Badry, Dina (2009), Multinational Companies in Low-Income Markets: An Analysis of Social Embeddedness in Southeast Asia Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag. Chittoor, Raveendra, MB Sarkar, Sougata Ray, and Preet S. Aulakh (2009), "Third-World Copycats to Emerging Multinationals: Institutional Changes and Organizational Transformation in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry," Organization Science, 20 (1), 187-205. Fleury, Afonso and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury (2011), Brazilian Multinationals - Competences for Internationalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Gao, Hongzhi (2011), "Changing the Rules of the Game in the New Era of Global Competition the Chinese Way," Thunderbird International Business Review, 53 (4), 539-542. Henderson, Jeffrey and Khalid Nadvi (2011), "Greater China, the Challenges of Global Production Networks and the Dynamics of Transformation," Global Networks, 11 (3), 285-297. Lall, Sanjaya (1983), The New Multinationals: The Spread of Third World Enterprises. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. Lauder, Hugh, Phillip Brown, and Ceri Brown (2008), The Consequences of Global Expansion for Knowledge, Creativity and Communication: An Analysis and Scenario, [Online]: Beyond Current Horizons. Available: www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk [2010, Nov 20]. London, Ted, Ravi Anupindi, and Sateen Sheth (2010), "Creating Mutual Value: Lessons Learned from Ventures Serving Base of the Pyramid Producers," Journal of Business Research, 63 (6), 582-594. London, Ted and Stuart L. Hart Eds. (2010), Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: FT Press. Luo, Yadong and Rosalie L. Tung (2007), "International Expansion of Emerging Market Enterprises: A Springboard Perspective," Journal of International Business Studies, 38 (4), 481-498. Luo, Yadong, Qiuzhi Xue, and Binjie Han (2010), "How Emerging Market Governments Promote Outward FDI: Experience from China," Journal of World Business, 45 (1), 68-79. Makino, Shige, Chung-Ming Lau, and Rhy-Song Yeh (2002), "Asset-Exploitation Versus Asset-Seeking: Implications for Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment from Newly Industrialized Economies," Journal of International Business Studies, 33 (3), 403-421. Mathews, John (2006), "Dragon Multinationals: New Players in 21st Century Globalization," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23 (1), 5-27. Niosi, Jorge and F. Ted Tschang (2009), "The Strategies of Chinese and Indian Software Multinationals: Implications for Internationalization Theory," Industrial and Corporate Change, 18 (2), 269-294. Ramamurti, Ravi and Jitendra V. Singh Eds. (2009), Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schmitz, Hubert Ed. (2004), Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Wells, Louis T. (1983), Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investment from Developing Countries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Williamson, Peter J. and Ming Zeng (2009), "Chinese Multinationals: Emerging through New Global Gateways," in Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets, Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V. Singh (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 81-109. Zeng, Ming and Peter J. Williamson (2007), Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press. Download CFP in pdf: http://www.aib-uki.org/docs/CFP-IBR-RisingPowers-2012.pdf Dr. Rudolf R. Sinkovics Professor of International Business The University of Manchester Manchester Business School, United Kingdom E-Mail: Rudolf.Sinkovics@manchester.ac.uk WWW: http://www.personal.mbs.ac.uk/rsinkovics/ ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --_000_E3CFA10100A01B4BB63E3AD6249833B6131AC1MBXP06dsmanacuk_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

International Business Review

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09695931

 

Call for Papers

 

Rising powers from emerging markets – The changing face of International Business

 

Guest editors:
Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Khalid Nadvi, Mo Yamin & Yingying Zhang Zhang

 

 

About the Special Issue

International Business Review (IBR) invites the submission of articles that fit the theme “Rising powers from emerging markets – The changing face of international business”.

The rise of China, India and Brazil as economic and political ‘drivers’ of the global economy has generated substantial interest, both in policy circles and in academic research. China is now the world’s second biggest economy and continues to grow at double digits (Henderson and Nadvi 2011). India is catching up, albeit with a time-lag, with mergers and acquisitions taking place in sectors as varied as automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Brazilian multinationals are now major global players in mining, oil and a number of agro-processing sectors (Fleury and Fleury 2011). Together, these economies and associated firms have managed to sustain growth despite the economic downturn, captured headlines in business magazines such as BusinessWeek and the Economist, seized interest from consulting firms such as McKinsey & Co and the Boston Consulting Group and ignited recent scholarly interest on the internationalization of emerging country firms (Luo and Tung 2007; Makino, Lau, and Yeh 2002; Ramamurti and Singh 2009).

What is interesting in this new rise of powerful players, particularly when compared to earlier work on FDI from developing countries (Lall 1983; Wells 1983), is that it is seemingly not a simple revision of the earlier experience. The growth of Korean multinationals serves as an example of late industrialization (Amsden 1989), whereby industries learnt from earlier innovators, rather than innovate themselves. However, India and China are becoming major producers of products and services for global markets by pursuing rather distinctive development paths. In fact, there is evidence of highly creative response to institutional discontinuity in their domestic environment and tremendously swift build-up of innovation capabilities (Altenburg, Schmitz, and Stamm 2008; Chittoor et al. 2009; Luo, Xue, and Han 2010; Williamson and Zeng 2009; Zeng and Williamson 2007).

Rising power firms are likely to turn traditional notions of competition and strategy upside down. While China has clearly used MNCs as a way of learning, gaining intellectual property through a rather weak implementation of intellectual property rights, it would be wrong to think that China has simply “borrowed” competitive strategies of western MNCs (Lauder, Brown, and Brown 2008). There is evidence that goes beyond the views of China as a world factory or as an emerging market wanting for Western goods and technologies (Gao 2011). Rather, firms are now pursuing their own low cost innovation strategies and strategies for leveraging cost innovation advantages which threaten to disrupt global competition as we know it (Williamson and Zeng 2009; Zeng and Williamson 2007). Indian firms, in pursuit of a different take on competitive strategies, have built on outsourcing agreements which were augmented by cost cutting exercises and projects in native India. Both examples have to be seen as more than simply cheap manufacturing or service strategies, as cutting edge R&D facilities provide opportunities for technology leverage strategies and accelerated internationalization (Mathews 2006) above and beyond a simple south-south trajectory as previously envisaged (Ramamurti and Singh 2009). Furthermore there is evidence to suggest that there may be significant differences in internationalization strategies of rising power firms, as a consequence of different patterns of integration in their domestic economies (Niosi and Tschang 2009) and differences regarding environmental and social embeddedness (Badry 2009).

We particularly look for papers on the following topics:

In this special issue we are looking at the rising powers thematic with the notion of “changing face” or “difference”. What, if anything, is different in the emergence of rising power firms from the conceptual and theoretical perspectives, and in terms of challenges - for theory, as well as for the practice of international business in the rising powers, developing and developed worlds? Within this framework, we are interested in papers that address one or more of the following questions:

·         In what ways does the emergence of rising power multinationals challenge existing theories of international business?

  • How are firms from the rising powers disrupting the current paradigm of global competition and thus changing the ‘rules of the game’ (Zeng and Williamson 2007).
  • What are the consequences of these changes for firms and consumers in other marketplaces?
  • Rising power firms are increasingly becoming global players, taking on more substantive roles in global production networks or becoming lead firms in their own right (Schmitz 2004). Which factors facilitate this development, how can firms upgrade their position?
  • Rising power firms often pursue ‘aggressive’ strategies aimed at transforming them rapidly into key players at the frontiers of technology and organizational performance. These aims are mostly pursued through asset-seeking in the form of M&A and the purchase of brands. Are the outcomes of these strategies in line with their intentions?
  • Rising power firms often address ‘bottom of the pyramid’ markets or engage in entrepreneurial innovation that is unprecedented and alleviates social problems (London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010). What are the drivers and outcomes of this economic development process?
  • Rising powers display a substantially different economic and institutional environment from countries of the global north (London and Hart 2010) and often exhibit different ownership structures with thin layers of bureaucracy and improved information flows (Amsden 2009). To what extent may rising power firms develop business strategies (London, Anupindi, and Sheth 2010) and business models which not only contribute to their country’s economic development, but also constitute a competitive advantage that is internationally scalable?

Guidelines and submission information

  • All papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review in accordance with IBR guidelines.
  • Authors should follow IBR guidelines, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09695931
  • Authors should submit an electronic copy of their manuscript as a word-file with title page detached.
  • The title page should include the names, titles, professional affiliations, and contact information of the authors. Authors’ names should appear on the title page only. Authors should refrain from revealing their identity in the body of the manuscript

 


 

 

About the special issue editors

Rudolf R. Sinkovics is Professor of International Business at Manchester Business School, U.K. He received his PhD from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. His research contributions span issues of governance related to overcoming environmental and business risk, information and communication technology and methodology. Recent interests involve emerging markets, and drivers of economic change. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review.

Khalid Nadvi is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economics at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), School of Environment and Development (SED), University of Manchester. His research concentrates on industrial development and international trade, focusing in particular on industrial clusters, global value chains and production networks and the challenge posed by global labour and environmental process standards. He has published widely including in World Development, Development and Change, Global Networks, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Economic Geography. He also leads an ESRC funded research network on Rising Powers and Global Standards. 

Mo Yamin is Professor of International Business at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. His research focus is on multinational enterprises. His contributions include: a reassessment of Hymer's influence on multinational enterprise theory, subsidiary knowledge creation and transfer in multinationals, reliance on online media in the internationalisation process and the impact of multinationals on economic development. He has co-edited Anxieties and Management Responses in International Business, and a special issue in Journal of World Business on revisiting the impact of multinational enterprises on economic development.

Yingying Zhang Zhang is Associate Professor of Management and Organization at CUNEF, Complutense University of Madrid. She received her PhD from ESADE-Ramon Llull University, Spain. Her research interests include international strategic human resource management, cultural values, knowledge and innovation. She has published in Management and Organization Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Cross Cultural Management, among others. She is also co-editor for the Nonaka book series on knowledge and innovation, Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Relevant references

Altenburg, Tilman, Hubert Schmitz, and Andreas Stamm (2008), "Breakthrough China's and India's Transition from Production to Innovation," World Development, 36 (2), 325-344.

Amsden, Alice H. (1989), Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Amsden, Alice H. (2009), "Does Firm Ownership Matter? Poes Vs. Foes in the Developing World," in Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets, Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V. Singh (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 64-77.

Badry, Dina (2009), Multinational Companies in Low-Income Markets: An Analysis of Social Embeddedness in Southeast Asia Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.

Chittoor, Raveendra, MB Sarkar, Sougata Ray, and Preet S. Aulakh (2009), "Third-World Copycats to Emerging Multinationals: Institutional Changes and Organizational Transformation in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry," Organization Science, 20 (1), 187-205.

Fleury, Afonso and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury (2011), Brazilian Multinationals - Competences for Internationalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gao, Hongzhi (2011), "Changing the Rules of the Game in the New Era of Global Competition the Chinese Way," Thunderbird International Business Review, 53 (4), 539-542.

Henderson, Jeffrey and Khalid Nadvi (2011), "Greater China, the Challenges of Global Production Networks and the Dynamics of Transformation," Global Networks, 11 (3), 285-297.

Lall, Sanjaya (1983), The New Multinationals: The Spread of Third World Enterprises. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Lauder, Hugh, Phillip Brown, and Ceri Brown (2008), The Consequences of Global Expansion for Knowledge, Creativity and Communication: An Analysis and Scenario, [Online]: Beyond Current Horizons. Available: www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk [2010, Nov 20].

London, Ted, Ravi Anupindi, and Sateen Sheth (2010), "Creating Mutual Value: Lessons Learned from Ventures Serving Base of the Pyramid Producers," Journal of Business Research, 63 (6), 582-594.

London, Ted and Stuart L. Hart Eds. (2010), Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: FT Press.

Luo, Yadong and Rosalie L. Tung (2007), "International Expansion of Emerging Market Enterprises: A Springboard Perspective," Journal of International Business Studies, 38 (4), 481-498.

Luo, Yadong, Qiuzhi Xue, and Binjie Han (2010), "How Emerging Market Governments Promote Outward FDI: Experience from China," Journal of World Business, 45 (1), 68-79.

Makino, Shige, Chung-Ming Lau, and Rhy-Song Yeh (2002), "Asset-Exploitation Versus Asset-Seeking: Implications for Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment from Newly Industrialized Economies," Journal of International Business Studies, 33 (3), 403-421.

Mathews, John (2006), "Dragon Multinationals: New Players in 21st Century Globalization," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23 (1), 5-27.

Niosi, Jorge and F. Ted Tschang (2009), "The Strategies of Chinese and Indian Software Multinationals: Implications for Internationalization Theory," Industrial and Corporate Change, 18 (2), 269-294.

Ramamurti, Ravi and Jitendra V. Singh Eds. (2009), Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schmitz, Hubert Ed. (2004), Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Wells, Louis T. (1983), Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investment from Developing Countries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Williamson, Peter J. and Ming Zeng (2009), "Chinese Multinationals: Emerging through New Global Gateways," in Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets, Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V. Singh (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 81-109.

Zeng, Ming and Peter J. Williamson (2007), Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.

 

 

Download CFP in pdf: http://www.aib-uki.org/docs/CFP-IBR-RisingPowers-2012.pdf

 

 

Dr. Rudolf R. Sinkovics

Professor of International Business

The University of Manchester

Manchester Business School, United Kingdom

E-Mail: Rudolf.Sinkovics@manchester.ac.uk

WWW:    http://www.personal.mbs.ac.uk/rsinkovics/ 

 

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Hello:

 

I would greatly appreciate if you can kindly distribute the following:

 

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Academy of International Business, North-East USA Chapter 

2011 Annual Conference, October 20-22

Carnegie Library Center, Stockton College, Atlantic City, NJ

http://conference.aibne.net 

 

 

Call for Papers: Submission Deadline:  August 15, 2011

 

 

The 2011 annual conference of the AIB-NE will be held in Atlantic City, NJ, on October 20-22, 2011. You are invited to submit papers and presentation proposals addressing topics across a breadth of international business topics.

 

The Conference

The conference theme is “Emerging Research Trends in International Business Studies” and centers on the presentation of the newest ideas and work in progress to an international audience. The conference will be held at the Carnegie Library Center of Stockton College. The conference hotel is the Courtyard by Marriott which is a short walking distance from the Carnegie Center. Both are located in the heart of Atlantic City very close to the boardwalk and the many attractions of this vibrant city.

 

Areas of Interest

You are invited to submit research papers on international business topics such as marketing, human resource management, strategy, finance, accounting and economics, including cross-cultural and country-specific studies.  All work submitted must be original and unpublished/not under review.  Especially welcome are papers which emphasize applications to practice. Panel proposals must include a one-page overview together with a one-page synopsis of each presentation. All submissions must be received no later than August 15, 2011, will be blind reviewed with decisions by August 25. Presented papers will be published in the Refereed Proceedings of the AIB-NE 2011 Annual Conference. 

 

Papers should conform to the Instructions for Authors in the Journal of International Business Studies found through the journal link at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/style_guide.html. Actual text (not counting the title page) should not exceed 25 pages including all tables, references and illustrations.

 

Abstracts (up to one page) and work-in-progress papers (3-4 pages) describing an ongoing research project or study can be submitted. However, such papers will not be considered for publication in the conference proceedings.

 

Only electronic submissions will be accepted and should be sent as email attachments in MS-Word.  To be included in the official Conference Program, at least one author of each paper and all members of a panel proposal must pre-register and present at the conference. All submissions should be sent to: aibne2011@aibne.net. All questions concerning the conference should be sent to the Conference Chair, Dr. Amit Mukherjee at: mukherja@stockton.edu. He can also be reached at: 609-652-4395.

More details can be found at the conference website: http://conference.aibne.net 

 

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With stagflation, gyrating financial imbalances, recurring asset price bubbles, primarily in the advanced economies but also in emerging markets, there is a rapidly growing need to learn from past crises in order to avert or minimize new crises using modern knowledge approaches, innovate in business models and critical areas of institutional/systemic solutions. This is of importance globally and specifically for Asia as it moves away from rather traditional external equilibrium systemic solutions (e.g. quasi Bretton Woods arrangement of China with the USA) and, internally, from its traditional comparative/competitive advantages in quickly building hard developmental infrastructure to softer aspects of more advanced development involving new institutions that probably will be a creative blend of Asian, German, and Anglo-Saxon models. TNCR is a bilingual (Mandarin-English) peer-reviewed international scholarly journal dedicated to providing top analyses (incl. 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Call for Papers on Emerging 21st Century Asia (E21A):
Global Business and Policy Perspectives
 
Edited by Val Samonis, Transnational Corporations Review (TNCR) is calling for a special issue on Emerging 21st Century Asia (E21A), Global Business and Policy Perspectives, which will be published by December 2011.
 
With stagflation, gyrating financial imbalances, recurring asset price bubbles, primarily in the advanced economies but also in emerging markets, there is a rapidly growing need to learn from past crises in order to avert or minimize new crises using modern knowledge approaches, innovate in business models and critical areas of institutional/systemic solutions. This is of importance globally and specifically for Asia as it moves away from rather traditional external equilibrium systemic solutions (e.g. quasi Bretton Woods arrangement of China with the USA) and, internally, from its traditional comparative/competitive advantages in quickly building hard developmental infrastructure to softer aspects of more advanced development involving new institutions that probably will be a creative blend of Asian, German, and Anglo-Saxon models.
 
TNCR is a bilingual (Mandarin-English) peer-reviewed international scholarly journal dedicated to providing top analyses (incl. Nobel level) of economic governance, policy, business and technology issues related to transnational corporations, foreign direct investment, institutional/systemic innovation, and global development solutions. The Journal is regularly indexed in ALJC, AMICUS, CrossRef, EBSCO, EconLit, Scopus, and SSCI/SCI (under review). For a sample, please see: www.tnc-online.net/pic/20101226083028464.pdf
 
This Special Issue will reflect the TNCR's long-standing dedication to inspiring new economic and business thinking globally, which will include papers from academic, business, and government thought leaders from China/Asia and the rest of the world. It addresses the above challenges for the benefit of those leaders and any concerned citizens of the global village.
 
The submissions should be prepared in the US English according to the TNCR specific requirements: www.tnc-online.net/pic/20100326023837945.pdf and emailed by November 30, 2011 to: val@samonis.com and/or sino@tnc-online.org.
_________________________________________________________________
 
Call for Submission
 
 
The Journal of Transnational Corporations Review welcomes submission of papers or articles dealing with any aspect of the economics and policies related to TNCs, FDI or innovation and development issues. Submissions in both English and Chinese are preferable. Authors are requested to submit their papers or articles by email to sino@tnc-online.org. Submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word documents (or an application compatible with Word), accompanied by a statement that the text (or parts thereof) has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. To facilitate expedient publication, all aspects of the process from submission to correspondence and editing are done electronically.

For more news and information, please visit: http://www.tnc-online.org/, http://www.tnc-online.net/


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------=_NextPart_000_005E_01CC4AA9.43D961B0-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:52:44 -0400 Reply-To: Heather Elms Sender: Academy of International Business List From: Heather Elms Subject: Faculty Positions in International Business at American University, Washington, DC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060901030306020709010009" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060901030306020709010009 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed *AMERICAN UNIVERSITY -- KOGOD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS* *Position Announcement:* *Assistant/Associate Professor of International Business* The Kogod School of Business at American University invites applications and nominations for two tenure-track appointments in International Business at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in Fall 2012.Depending on qualifications, Associate Professor appointees may be recommended for tenure at the time of hiring. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in International Business or relevant specialization, or should anticipate completing the degree within a short period following initial employment. Candidates should be strongly committed to excellence in scholarly research, teaching and service. We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality scholarship in all areas of international business.Preference will be given to candidates sharing research interests with the existing faculty in the department, including in emerging markets, global innovation, global supply chain management, international business & government relationships, and transnational corporate responsibility. In addition to engagement in scholarly research, responsibilities will include undergraduate and master's degree teaching, and participation in department, school and university activities. We are particularly interested in candidates with teaching interests/experience in core international business courses, as well as elective courses (e.g., international business & government, international marketing, international human resources). Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.Applications are preferred in electronic format, via email at the address below. Please include INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TENURE-TRACK POSITION in the subject line of your email. Applications should include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers. Please write to: Jennifer Oetzel, International Business Recruitment Committee Chair c/o Takei Roach, Kogod Academic Affairs Coordinator Kogod School of Business American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20016-8044 Tel: (202) 885-1963 Email: takei@american.edu Established in 1955, the Kogod School of Business offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs and is one of Washington, D.C.'s leading business schools.Kogod encourages interdisciplinary study through collaboration with other academic programs within American University. Learn more about the Kogod School of Business at http://www.kogod.american.edu/ and about our International Business Department faculty at http://www.american.edu/kogod/research/international_business.cfm. American University is a private institution with a total enrollment of over 11,000 students, situated on a beautiful 84-acre campus in one of Washington, D.C.'s most attractive residential areas.American University is within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation's capital. For more information about American University, see http://www.american.edu/. American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. -- HEATHER ELMS Associate Professor of International Business Kogod Research Professor Chair, International Business Department Kogod School of Business American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu For assistance: aib-l-request@list.msu.edu AIB-L is a moderated list. --------------060901030306020709010009 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY – KOGOD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Position Announcement:

Assistant/Associate Professor of International Business

The Kogod School of Business at American University invites applications and nominations for two tenure-track appointments in International Business at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in Fall 2012.  Depending on qualifications, Associate Professor appointees may be recommended for tenure at the time of hiring. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in International Business or relevant specialization, or should anticipate completing the degree within a short period following initial employment. Candidates should be strongly committed to excellence in scholarly research, teaching and service.

We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality scholarship in all areas of international business.  Preference will be given to candidates sharing research interests with the existing faculty in the department, including in emerging markets, global innovation, global supply chain management, international business & government relationships, and transnational corporate responsibility. In addition to engagement in scholarly research, responsibilities will include undergraduate and master’s degree teaching, and participation in department, school and university activities. We are particularly interested in candidates with teaching interests/experience in core international business courses, as well as elective courses (e.g., international business & government, international marketing, international human resources). 

Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.  Applications are preferred in electronic format, via email at the address below. Please include INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TENURE-TRACK POSITION in the subject line of your email. Applications should include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers.

Please write to:

Jennifer Oetzel, International Business Recruitment Committee Chair
c/o Takei Roach, Kogod Academic Affairs Coordinator
Kogod School of Business
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-8044

Tel: (202) 885-1963
Email:
takei@american.edu

Established in 1955, the Kogod School of Business offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs and is one of Washington, D.C.’s leading business schools.  Kogod encourages interdisciplinary study through collaboration with other academic programs within American University. Learn more about the Kogod School of Business at http://www.kogod.american.edu/ and about our International Business Department faculty at http://www.american.edu/kogod/research/international_business.cfm.

American University is a private institution with a total enrollment of over 11,000 students, situated on a beautiful 84-acre campus in one of Washington, D.C.’s most attractive residential areas.  American University is within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, see http://www.american.edu/.

American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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HEATHER ELMS
Associate Professor of International Business
Kogod Research Professor
Chair, International Business Department
Kogod School of Business
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
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