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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
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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.
2011 EURAM Track on Top Management Teams
& Business Elites. Tallin 1-4 June, 2011.
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