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Dear colleagues,We are would like to invite you to participate in the Strategic Management Society Danube Extension in scenic Austria - on Oct 4th/Oct 5th 2012 before the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference in Prague.The scenic region of Upper Austria with its clusters in the chemical, metal and creative industry is the perfect spot to experience and discuss the theme “Tapping into pockets of knowledge”. The question how to acquire locally embedded knowledge and then leverage corporate exploration and exploitation has increasingly attracted scholarly attention over the last years. The Danube extension is framed around the logical chain from knowledge acquisition, to the challenge of establishing ambidextrous organizations and corporate change. It seeks to integrate perspectives on these topics from corporate strategy, international management, organizational theory, and technology management.The program includes a debate and dinner with top managers in the "Stahlwelt" exhibition center in Linz, Austria on Oct 4th and stimulating academic panels during a river cruise on the Danube that ends with a wine tasting in a scenic Austrian village on Oct 5th.
We would be delighted to see you at the extension!Tina Ambos & Wolfgang Güttel
NB Participation in the SMS Danube Extension is independent of participation in the annual conference in Prague.______________________________________Univ.Prof. Dr. Tina C. AmbosChair, Department of International ManagementJohannes Kepler University Linz www.jku.at/iimAcademic Director, Global Executive MBALIMAK Austrian Business School www.limak.atAltenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria+43 732 2468 9412 (secretary)+43 732 2468 9449 (direct)
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Hotel Accommodations We are pleased to announce that we have negotiated a substantial discount for hotel accommodations for conference participants. The hotel chosen will be Hyatt Regency Calgary. Guests can begin making reservations by either clicking on the following link: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/bissettschoolofbusinessmeeting , or by calling the hotel at 403 537-4438. Please be sure to mention that you are attending Global Commerce Forum at Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University. Each morning participants will be picked up from the hotel and brought back with school chartered buses at no expense as this will be a complimentary service provided by Bissett School of Business. Conference Fees Early bird - $ 200 (if registered by July 30th) Regular - $295 Students - $50 Mount Royal University Faculty - $100 Participants from developing countries may received additional discounts and will be provided with a letter of invitation by the university for receiving a Canadian visa. Please check in advance to make sure that your country is included in the visa exempt program with Canada. Please visit the following link to determine if you need a letter of invitation: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp
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Dr. Luka Powanga,
Professor,
School of Management,
Regis University,
3333 Regis Blvd,
Denver, CO 80221,
Phone: 303 458 4023
Gerhard Apfelthaler, California Lutheran University School of Management, USA, [log in to unmask]
Arnold Schuh, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria, a[log in to unmask]
While the track will be open to all conceptual or empirical papers on the topic of the session track, the session track coordinators in particular would like to invite submissions that explore the following topics:
· Drivers of convergence/divergence in the political-administrative, economic, legal, societal and technological environments in Europe.
· Forced supply-side harmonization versus persisting variety on the demand-side.
· Role of European and sub-European strategies within the global strategy framework.
· Pan-European product and branding strategies in the Single Market.
· Pricing strategies across borders in Europe (e.g., European price-corridors)
· Harmonization of distribution strategies in Europe.
· Industry-specific studies on standardization trends in marketing.
· Traditional and alternative approaches of market segmentation in Europe (e.g., sub-regional clusters, Euro consumer groups/’Euro-Styles’).
· Implementing pan-European marketing programs (e.g., European brand management, key account management, competence centers).
Submission Deadline: December 15th 2012. Full papers should be submitted electronically via the INBAM website http://2013.inbam.net by selecting INBAM from the list of journals participating at the INBAM Conference.
For more information about the conference please visit http://2013.inbam.net/, for more information about EJIM, please visit www.inderscience.com/ejim.
We are seeking some non-US research partners for data collection and paper authorship relating to Cultural Intelligence. Over the last couple of years, Dr. Judith Meyers and I have developed a new cultural intelligence instrument, and we would like to collect more data to validate the instrument across markets. To participate as a co-author, you should be in a position to collect at least 500 observations from managers within the next 6 months. The instrument is available via Survey Monkey online for participating authors. Kindly contact me directly via email ([log in to unmask]) should you wish to cooperate.
Ilan Alon, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Emerging Markets
Cornell Professor of International Business
Director of the China and India Centers
Rollins College
1000 Holt Ave
Winter Park, Florida 32789, USA
Textbook: www.mhhe.com/alon1e
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Dear Tunga,
I would be very grateful if you could please distribute the Call for Book
Chapters below to the AIB List. Thank you.
Regards,
Gabriel.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Title: “Marketing, Management and
International Business Theory and Practice: Contemporary Issues and Research in
Selected Countries.”
This Call for Book Chapters
invites academics and practitioners who are currently researching in the field
of marketing, management and international business to submit papers to be
refereed for possible publication as book chapters in the proposed book titled:
“Marketing, Management and International Business Theory and Practice:
Contemporary Issues and Research in Selected Countries.”
The primary objective of the
proposed book is to have a collection of original scholarly research papers
from academics and practitioners around the globe that deals with marketing,
management and international business theories, principles and concepts in their
respective countries. The finished book will be an ideal answer for lecturers
and professors faced with finding contemporary readings for their students in
marketing, management and international business disciplines. It will
also be a valuable resource for practising managers seeking background and
contemporary research information on any of the various topics and countries
that will be covered in the book.
Topics covered in your submission
could be in any area of marketing, management and international business as
well as globalization, finance, accounting, tourism, exporting, health care
marketing/management, information technology, etc in the selected country/countries
of your choice. Your paper could be a theoretical paper, a case study, an
empirical research (whether qualitative or quantitative) or a literature review.
This book is expected to be published in January/February
2013 by the Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development (in
association with the Global Publishing House)
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts is 19th
November 2012.
Papers should be submitted via e-mail to the Editor:
Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun,
Email: [log in to unmask]
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE OF
JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
Back to the Great Illusion?
Global Governance and International Nonmarket Strategies
for the 21st Century
Jonathan Doh
Villanova School of Business
Villanova University
Steve McGuire
School of Management & Business
Aberystwyth University
Toshiya Ozaki (corresponding contact)
College of Business, Rikkyo University
Tokyo, Japan 171-8501
Tel: +81-3-3985-4077
Email: [log in to unmask]
The Journal of World Business is soliciting papers to contribute to a special issue on the state of global governance and international nonmarket strategy in the 21st century. This special issue is focused on exploring the antecedents, processes and outcomes of the interaction between global governance systems and institutions and the international nonmarket strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs).
BACKGROUND
The global political economy is increasingly integrated and interdependent. In his book, The Great Illusion (1910), Norman Angell advanced the view that because of the increasing global interdependencies that linked nation states together in the first part of the 20th century, countries would hesitate before engaging in conflicts because they would be self- destructive. The two World Wars proved Angell wrong, and revealed one critical condition that was missing in his account: stable and sustainable economic interdependence requires well designed and well founded institutions on which cross-border commercial activities may flourish. The business community, especially MNEs in the United States and Europe, played an important role in helping policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic to design and develop the postwar international economic system. It is significant to note that these firms assumed the role not simply because of their altruism or social responsibility, but because of their self-interest in sustained international growth, facilitated by the Bretton Woods inspired global governance system. Similarly, the more recent rise of emerging markets MNEs owes much of their international success to the international regulatory system that catalyzed market activity both within and between home country economies.
Global business environments, and especially institutional arrangements to govern and sustain global trade and commerce, increasingly show strains and fissures. As Kobrin (2009) has argued, we may be entering a new uncharted phase of opportunities and challenges characterized by new types of participants (governments, firms, nongovernmental organizations) who have more diverse and unaligned interests, purposes and preferences than in previous eras. This complex environment is also characterized by more difficult and vexing issues – climate change, cyber-terrorism, and financial dependencies and volatility, to name a few – that may undermine traditional forms of global governance and render cooperation more difficult. The advancement of information and communication technology (ICT), which lowers barriers and allows firms and individuals to equip themselves with information and intelligence, exacerbates these challenges, but also offers new opportunities for addressing them.
The international business field has long been concerned with the structure and nature of business-government relations in the global environment and the institutional architecture that governs firm-state relations. In the area of MNE-government interactions, the seminal work of Vernon (1971), Fagre and Wells (1982), and Kobrin (1987) explored the delicate interactions among states and firms as they navigated an increasingly integrated global economy. More recent literature has addressed how governments shape the varying institutional contexts – both national and supranational (Henisz, 2002) – that firms encounter, as well as how firms themselves are able to adapt and adjust – and influence – the emerging institutional environments (Boddewyn & Brewer, 1994; Kostova & Roth, 2002). With the proliferation of additional actors in global business-government interactions, international business scholars have incorporated international institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) as formal participants in the traditional business-government bargaining model (Prakash, 2002; Ramaurti, 2001). Most recently, the emerging presence of civil society and nongovernmental institutions as important players in these increasingly complex and multifaceted business-government-institutions-nongovernmental relationships has drawn the attention of IB scholars who seek to broaden and expand the scope of the global business system in which MNEs operate (Boddewyn & Doh, 2010; Kobrin, 1998b; Teegen, Doh & Vachani, 2004; Lucea, 2009).
Dramatic changes in global governance systems and processes and the dissolution of traditional global alliances are reshaping and reformulating the system of global governance that has dominated the post-war period (McGuire, 2012). For example, the decades-long global coalition of countries and firms in support of increasingly liberalized trade has apparently fractured, climate change negotiations have reached an impasse, and there is little consensus as to how best to manage and regulate the increasingly complex and interlinked global financial system. Given this reality, it is appropriate to revisit some of the assumptions and approaches that have prevailed in the treatment of global governance systems and the actors that shape and are shaped by it. Further, it is important and timely to explore the current state of governance for global business, the sustainability of its underlying institutions, and alternative governance arrangements that may be emerging from private and nongovernmental actors. In addition to these macro-level considerations, the special issue will focus on the nonmarket strategies (Baron, 1997) of firms responding to these changing conditions, and how MNES are themselves influencing the systems that are emerging. Finally, just as the governance system for global business may be undergoing a fundamental shift, studies of international business have come a long way in their efforts to integrate various disciplines and approaches in examining these governance systems and understanding consequent firm nonmarket strategies. We believe the time is ripe to look back and reflect on these achievements, but also to call attention to unanswered questions.
Kobrin (1977, 1978, 1987, 1998a, 1998b, 2004, and 2009) is one of the key contributors to our understanding of the interactions between politics, economics and international business. He has sought to account for the impact of political distance/difference between countries on international business and examined different levels and types of political risk and how risk contributes to differing firm strategies and structures (Kobrin, 1977, and 1978). More recently, Kobrin has turned his attention to changes in global governance and nonmarket activity, and has called attention to the potential fracturing of the global governance systems and the emergence of alternative actors and approaches (1998a, 1998b, 2004, and 2009). Building on this work, this issue will focus on the complex interactions of economic liberalization, the role and responsibilities of international institutions, and global firm strategy. In particular, we encourage papers that examine how the changing role of international institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO is influencing firms’ nonmarket strategies. We also encourage submissions that explore the emergence of substitute institutional arrangements such as private regulations, codes and other forms of “soft” regulation, and how these complementary forms of global governance are influencing how firms develop and advance their social and political strategies. In addition to submissions that explore how Western MNEs are responding to this new global governance architecture, we also encourage submissions that explore the evolution of emerging market firms as corporate actors at the international level, especially as they increasingly interact with foreign governments, global institutions, and private regulation.
POTENTIAL TOPICS
We seek conceptual, theoretical, empirical and review papers that address this broad topic. While the focus of the special issue is intentionally broad and integrative, below are potential topics and questions that could be relevant to the call, although they are certainly not exhaustive.
l How has the nature, influence and effectiveness of global governance systems evolved in the post-World War Two period? What does this mean for the study of IB generally, and MNE nonmarket strategies in particular?
l Does the changing and evolving nature of global governance mechanisms call for the development of a theory of transnational corporate political and/or social activity? If so, what theory or theories could inform this phenomenon?
l What is the relationship between levels of governance (regional, multilateral) and nonmarket (political and social) strategy?
l What is the impact on MNE nonmarket strategy of global private regulation and codes of conduct such as the UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative, ISO 1400 and 2100? Are these new forms of regulations substitutes or complements to traditional international law and regulation?
l How has the emergence of individual nongovernmental organizations (e.g. Greenpeace, WWF, Amnesty; Oxfam) and collectives of NGOs and associations of NGOs and firms influenced how firms direct their nonmarket strategies? Are firms refocusing their energies on these new actors and downplaying traditional global institutions?
l How do the nonmarket (political and social) strategies of emerging market firms, especially those directed at supranational institutions, compare to those of firms from developed countries?
l How can corporate interests be aligned across national boundaries, societies and cultures such as they continue to support global institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO and so on) while also recognizing the changing nature of global governance?
PROCESS AND TIMING
Papers that respond to this call should be forwarded to [log in to unmask]
by September 1, 2013. Inquiries about the special issue may be made to any of the special issue co-editors listed above. All submissions should follow the JWB author and style requirements, which are available at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620401/authorinstructions
Submissions will be double blind reviewed according to JWB procedures. Below is a rough timeline for consideration of papers and publication of the special issue. We may organize a mini-conference in fall/winter 2013 at which authors whose papers are invited for a revision and resubmission will be invited to present them and receive further feedback from the editors and other authors.
September, 2012: Call for papers circulated
September 1, 2013: Submissions due to co-editors at email address above
Fall 2013: First round decisions
Fall/Winter 2013: Mini-conference (proposed)
March 1, 2014: Revisions due
June 1, 2014: Second round decisions
September 1, 2014: Third round decisions/Final papers due and decision letter issued
2014/2015: Special issue published
REFERENCES
Angell, N. (1910). The Great Illusion: A study of the relation of military power in nations to their economic and social advantage. New York/London: Putnam.
Boddewyn J., & Doh, J. (2011). Global strategy and the collaboration of MNEs, NGOs, and governments for the provisioning of collective goods in emerging markets. Global Strategy Journal, 1: 345-361
Boddewyn, J.J., & Brewer, T.L. (1994). International Business Political Behavior: New Theoretical Directions. Academy of Management Review, 19: 119-143
Fagre, N., & Wells, L.T. (1982). Bargaining power of multinationals and host governments. Journal of International Business Studies, 13: 9-23
Henisz, W.J. (2000). The institutional environment for multinational investment. Journal of Law Economics & Organization, 16: 334-364
Kobrin, S. J. (1978). When does political instability result in increased investment risk? The Columbia Journal of World Business, 14: 113-122
Kobrin, S.J. (1979). Political risk : A review and reconsideration. Journal of International Business Studies, 10: 67-80.
Kobrin, S.J. (1987). Testing the bargaining hypothesis in the manufacturing sector in developing countries. International Organization 41: 609-638.
Kobrin, S.J. (1998a). Back to the future: Neomedievalism and the postmodern digital world economy. Journal of International Affairs, 51: 361–86.
Kobrin, S J. (1998b). The MAI and the clash of globalizations. Foreign Policy, Fall, 97-109.
Kobrin, S.J. (2004). Safe harbours are hard to find: the Trans-Atlantic data privacy dispute, territorial jurisdiction and global governance. Review of International Studies, 30: 111-131.
Kobrin, S J. (2009). Private political authority and public responsibility: transnational politics, transnational firms and human rights, Business Ethics Quarterly,19: 349-374.
Kostova, T., & Roth, K. (2002). Adoption of an organizational practice by subsidiaries of multinational corporations: Institutional and relational effects. Academy of Management Journal 45: 215-233
McGuire, S (2012). What Happened to the Influence of Business? Corporations and organized labour in the WTO. In Narlikar, A, Staunton, M. & Stern, R. (eds) The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, (pp. 320-339), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Prakash, A. (2002). Beyond Seattle: globalization, the nonmarket environment and corporate strategy. Review of International Political Economy, 9: 513-537
Ramamurti, R. (2001). The obsolescing “bargaining model”? MNC-host developing country relations revisited, Journal of International Business Studies, 32: 23-39.
Teegen, H., Doh, J.P., & Vachani, S. (2004). The importance of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in global governance and value creation: an international business research agenda. Journal of International Business Studies, 35: 463-483
Toshiya Ozaki, PhD
Professor of International Business
College of Business, Rikkyo University
3-34-1 Nishi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku
Tokyo, Japan 171-8501
Tel: +81-3-3985-4077
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF FIRMS FROM ECONOMIES-IN-TRANSITION: THE EFFECTS OF POLITICO-ECONOMIC PARADIGM SHIFT
Editors: Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina, Department of International Business, HEC Montreal
We are working with Edward Elgar Publishing to edit a book on the effects of politico-economic transition on firm internationalization and we would like to seek your contributions (about 6000 words per chapter). Recently, a lot of research has been devoted to the analysis of emerging opportunities in transition economies and the accelerated internationalization of these economies. Although a lot of research has been done at the macro level, the topic of how and why firms from these economies internationalize has not yet been adequately addressed in the international business and international management literature.
Economic transition process is usually characterized by significant changes in the role of the state, the creation and promotion of private-owned enterprises, markets and independent financial institutions. The book will provide insights into these phenomena, as well as offer a detailed analysis of the impact of these changes on firm internationalization.
The book consists of three parts. The first part will serve as an introduction and will present the necessary background information pertaining to regime change and the peculiarities of economic transition. The second part will contain in-depth country or region studies of the effects of politico-economic paradigm shift on firm internationalization covering different aspects: strategy, management, human resources, organizational restructuring, etc. Chapters in this section must be empirical studies that can be either qualitative or quantitative. And the third part will provide and overarching conclusion. We strongly encourage contributions to the second part of the book. Specifically, we seek studies on the internationalization of firms from these countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech, Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
The book is targeted to managers, educators, policy makers and students in International Business, International Management, and Public Administration programs, NGOs, international organizations, and general public who are interested in internationalization of firms from transition economies.
If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this book, please provide us with the information requested below by September 15, 2012. Thank you.
AUTHOR(S ) FULL NAME :
AFFILIATION:
CONTACT INFORMATION: (Phone and email address)
BRIEF BIO OF AUTHOR(S): (One paragraph description will do)
POTENTIAL TITLE OF BOOK CHAPTER:
ABSTRACT: 100-word abstract of the chapter
VALUE: (Briefly describe how your chapter’s contents contribute to a heightened understanding of the internationalization of firms from transition economies)
PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:
Book chapter proposals received: September 15, 2012
Notification of accepted chapter proposals: October 15, 2012
Receipt of full book chapters: January 15, 2013
Chapter authors receive reviews with feedback: February 15, 2013
Final revisions due: April 15, 2013
Book release: Summer 2013
Please send proposals and inquiries to both:
Mai Thi Thanh Thai: [log in to unmask];
Ekaterina Turkina: [log in to unmask]
Mai Thai, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of International Business, HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), H3T 2A7, Canada
Office phone: (+1) (514) 340-6188; Mobile: (+1) (514) 627 1569; Fax: (+1) (514) 340-6987;
Email: [log in to unmask]; Webpage: www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html
May I please request that our annual CIMaR 2013 conference details and call for papers be advertised and distributed to your members. It would be most appreciated.
Best wishes,
Susan
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Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR) - Annual Conference 2013
10-13th April 2013, Adelaide, Australia
Marketing in Diversity: Decline of the old and rise of the new world markets
In this time of diversity and globalization, there is a continual re-arrangement of production and consumption patterns. Emerging-market firms are finding innovative ways to connect to customers, and understanding cultural factors is becoming more important at the same time as cultural difference seem less of a barrier. We now require development of new theoretical insights, to understand the increasing diversity of strategic opportunities; with new markets, resources and technologies leading to new ways for firms to connect with consumers.
Conference Co-Chairs: Associate Professor Susan Freeman and Dr. Christopher Medlin
See the conference website for full details:
http://business.adelaide.edu.au/events/cimar/
We welcome the following submissions related to the themes of international marketing and business in a time of increasing diversity.
All submissions will be subject to a double blind review process. The deadline for submissions is 31st December 2012. Authors will be advised of the review process by the 31st January.
Send your abstracts and papers to: [log in to unmask].
Dear AIB Colleagues,
I am delighted to inform you of the recent publication of ``Paths of convergence for agriculture, health,
and wealth`` the introduction to a special issue of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This special feature introduction was a collaborative effort between myself, Prabhu Pingali and Patrick Webb. I look forward to your comments.
An excerpt of the introduction is below, and you may find the paper online here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/20/0912951109.full.pdf+html
Regards,
Laurette Dubé
Introduction Excerpt
This special feature calls for forward thinking around paths of convergence for agriculture, health, and wealth. Such convergence aims for a richer integration of smallholder
farmers into national and global agricultural and food systems, health systems, value chains, and markets. The articles identify analytical innovation, where disciplines intersect, and cross-sectoral action where single, linear, and siloed approaches have
traditionally dominated. The issues addressed are framed by three main themes: (i) lessons related to agricultural and food market growth since the 1960s; (ii) experiences related to the integration of smallholder agriculture into national and global business
agendas; and (iii) insights into convergence-building institutional design and policy, including a review of complexity science methods that can inform such processes. In this introductory article, we first discuss the perspectives generated for more impactful
policy and action when these three themes converge. We then push thematic boundaries to elaborate a roadmap for a broader, solution-oriented, and transdisciplinary approach to science, policies, and actions. As the global urban population crosses the 50% mark,
both smallholder and nonsmallholder agriculture are keys in forging rural–urban links, where both farm and nonfarm activities contribute to sustainable nutrition security. The roadmaps would harness the power of business to reduce hunger and poverty for millions
of families, contribute to a better alignment between human biology and modern lifestyles, and stem the spread of noncommunicable chronic diseases.
From: AIB-L Moderator [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: August-22-12 7:13 AM
To: Nevada Zabol, Ms.
Cc: Chris Lannon, Dr.
Subject: RE: Posting a press release on your listserve
We do not accept “press releases” per se as postings. What we do accept are personal announcements of publications that ask for comments or future collaboration interest from other researchers that
are part of the AIB community. So if one of the authors would like to send a message to the list to make the members aware of their article, that’s perfectly fine.
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Managing Director
Academy of International Business (AIB)
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To whom it may concern at the Academy of International Business,
I am writing on behalf of Dr. Laurette Dube, a professor and author at the McGIll Desautels school of Management. Along with two colleagues, Dr. Laurette Dube is publishing
an article called the Paths of convergence for agriculture, health, and wealth as part of a PNAS special edition journal. Kindly let me know if McGill or the Desautels is a member and who I should be in contact with to post the press release.
Many Thanks,
Nevada Zabol
Research Assistant - McGill World Platform for Economic and Health Convergence
T: +1-514-398-3299
3430 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1X9
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Columbia FDI Perspectives
Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues by
the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
No. 77 August 27, 2012
Editor-in-Chief: Karl P. Sauvant ([log in to unmask])
Managing Editor: Jennifer Reimer ([log in to unmask])
A new economic nationalism? Lessons from the PotashCorp decision in Canada
by
Sandy Walker*
In its World Investment Report 2011, UNCTAD reported that liberalizing investment policy measures taken globally in 2010 outnumbered restrictive measures.[1] Without the benefit of statistics, investors might have drawn the opposite conclusion, witnessing what appears to be a rising tide of national resistance to foreign takeovers: the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board’s rejection of a takeover of the Australian Securities Exchange by the Singapore Exchange, Italian concern over a French company’s takeover of dairy giant Parmalat and the US Government’s requirement that Chinese company Huawei divest certain assets it had acquired from 3Leaf.
In Canada, the rejection by the Canadian Government of the takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton (BHP) has raised similar anxieties. However, closer scrutiny of the PotashCorp decision reveals that it does not portend a sea-change in the foreign investment review process in Canada. Rather, it underlines that politics can occasionally hijack the review of foreign investments, in contrast to other areas of law (such as merger control under competition law) that tend to have a more predictable, less open-ended framework of analysis.
The PotashCorp decision represented only the second time in Canada’s history of foreign investment review legislation (Investment Canada Act or ICA) that a foreign investment outside the cultural sector has been rejected. PotashCorp is the largest producer of potash (a key ingredient in fertilizer), reported to have about 20% of global potash capacity. The Canadian Government found that BHP’s bid did not meet the “net benefit to Canada” test for approval under the ICA. Among other factors, the Canadian Government was not satisfied that BHP was prepared to make sufficient commitments in respect of capital expenditures or PotashCorp’s membership in the potash export consortium, Canpotex.[2] At the time, the federal Minister of Agriculture also referred to potash as a “strategic resource.”[3]
Despite these explanations, the PotashCorp decision is properly viewed as an exceptional and largely political response to a number of factors:
· The Premier of Saskatchewan’s success in galvanizing opposition to the deal across Canada, based on expressed concerns over a significant reduction in tax revenues and foreign ownership of a “strategic” resource.
· The ruling Conservative Party’s minority government status, which made it vulnerable to a potential loss of seats in the 2011 election -- particularly in the province of Saskatchewan where there was strong support for the Premier’s opposition.
· The hostile nature of BHP’s bid.
The absence of official reasons for the PotashCorp decision fostered anxiety about the Government’s openness to foreign investment. This was particularly the case in light of the significant and, in some respects, unprecedented undertakings BHP had offered Canada. The latter included foregoing tax benefits, remaining a member of the Canpotex potash export consortium for five years and establishing its global headquarters in Saskatoon. BHP also offered a US$ 250 million performance bond to the Government to backstop its undertakings, likely to allay public concerns about compliance.
There are (at least) three lessons to be drawn from this decision. First, potential stakeholders in the Investment Canada process, particularly the provinces, have learned that political agitation can yield concrete results. However, whether this lesson will translate readily to other transactions is open to question: provincial leaders typically have more diverse and conflicting constituencies than Saskatchewan where the potash industry is very significant, and the federal government is no longer politically fragile, having won majority government status in May of 2011.
Second, the Canadian Government is sensitive to criticism that its decision regarding PotashCorp could discourage foreign investment in Canada and, accordingly, has portrayed this case as exceptional and not indicative of a potentially worrisome trend of deploying national interest tests in a way that impedes the flow of international investment.[4] Indeed, no deals have been rejected in the year since the decision, although it is telling that the Government has still not brought into force a 2009 amendment to the ICA that would increase the review threshold and thereby reduce the number of foreign investments subject to review.
Third, some foreign investors may increasingly turn to self-help measures to address uncertainty over the Government’s approach to foreign investment. For example, by making minority investments of less than a third of a corporation’s shares, foreign investors can avoid scrutiny under the ICA, unless the investment is potentially injurious to Canada’s national security. In addition, in the resources sector, foreign businesses may negotiate “off-take agreements” entitling them to a share of production as a means of securing access to natural resources.
Investors can take comfort that the PotashCorp decision does not signal a new protectionism in Canada. Nevertheless, in Canada as elsewhere, foreign investors must be alert to the possibility that political sensitivities may jeopardize a small number of deals involving perceived national champions.
The material in this Perspective may be reprinted if accompanied by the following acknowledgment: “Sandy Walker, ‘A new economic nationalism? Lessons from the PotashCorp decision in Canada’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 77, August 27, 2012. Reprinted with permission from the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (www.vcc.columbia.edu).” A copy should kindly be sent to the Vale Columbia Center at [log in to unmask]
* Sandy Walker ([log in to unmask]) is a partner in the Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Review Group of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. The author wishes to thank Subrata Bhattacharjee, Andrea Bjorklund and Gus Van Harten for their helpful peer reviews. The views expressed by the author in this Perspective do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Columbia University or its partners and supporters. Columbia FDI Perspectives (ISSN 2158-3579) is a peer-reviewed series.
[1]See http://www.unctad.org/templates/webflyer.asp?docid=15189&intItemID=2068&lang=1&mode=downloads.
[2]See Cassandra Kyle, “BHP Billiton withdraws potash bid, citing ‘net-benefit’ bar,” Postmedia News, Nov. 15, 2010, available at: www.canada.com/news/Billiton+withdraws+potash+citing+benefit/3827505/story.html.
[3] Eric Reguly, Andy Hoffman and Brenda Bouw, “BHP’s hopes fade as Ottawa calls potash ‘strategic,’” The Globe and Mail, November 5, 2010, p. B1.
[4] See Peter Lichtenbaum and David Fagan, “Lessons in mediating for dairy warriors,” Financial Times, April 20, 2011.
The Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC – www.vcc.columbia.edu), led by Lisa Sachs, is a joint center of Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at Columbia University. It seeks to be a leader on issues related to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the global economy. VCC focuses on the analysis and teaching of the implications of FDI for public policy and international investment law.
Most recent Columbia FDI Perspectives
· No. 76, Perrine Toledano and Julien Topal, “A good business reason to support mandatory transparency in extractive industries,” Columbia FDI Perspectives, August 13, 2012.
· No. 75, Alex Berger et al., “Attracting FDI through BITs and RTAs: Does treaty content matter?,” Columbia FDI Perspectives, July 30, 2012.
· No. 74, M Sornarajah, “Starting anew in international investment law,” July 16, 2012.
· No. 73, Lorenzo Cotula, “Law at two speeds: Legal frameworks regulating foreign investment in the global South,” June 29, 2012.
· No. 72, Torfinn Harding and Beata Javorcik, “Roll out the red carpet and they will come: Investment promotion and FDI inflows,” June 18, 2012.
· No. 71, Thomas Jost, “Much ado about nothing? State-controlled entities and the change in German investment law,” June 4, 2012.
· No. 70, Terutomo Ozawa, “FDI, catch-up growth stages and stage-focused strategies,” May 28, 2012.
· No. 69, Karl P. Sauvant, “The times they are a-changin’ -- again -- in the relationships between governments and multinational enterprises: From control, to liberalization to rebalancing,” May 21, 2012.
· No. 68, Sophie Meunier et al., “Economic patriotism: Dealing with Chinese direct investment in the United States,” May 14, 2012.
· No. 67, Paul Antony Barbour et al., “The Arab Spring: How soon will foreign investors return?,” May 7, 2012.
All previous FDI Perspectives are available at http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fdi-perspectives.
ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS ADVANCEMENT (AGBA)
10th Annual World Congress
June 15---17, 2013
At the
Asian Institute of Technology
(Thailand)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference Theme:
"Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era
and the Rise of Thailand".
Conference Chair:
Mary B. Teagarden
Editor: Thunderbird International Business Review
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Glendale, Arizona, USA
Conference Co-Chair:
Barbara Igel
Dean: School of Management
Asian Institute of Technology
Thailand
AGBA Chair:
Norman Wright
Dean: Woodbury School of Business
Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah, USA
Program Chair:
Dr. David N. McArthur
Chair: Department of Management
Woodbury School of Business
Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah, USA
Registration and Submission Deadline: March 15, 2013
The main theme of the conference is "Business and Entrepreneurship Development in a Globalized Era and the Rise of Thailand." 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 process 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.
Major highlights of the conference would be complimentary (1) faculty development workshops, (2) industrial visits, and (3) one to one mentoring of selected doctoral students. 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: Dr. David N. McArthur via his email: [log in to unmask]
Best papers presented at AGBA's 10th 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).
Registration Fee:
USD$400 Includes:
· Luncheons, Coffee/Tea
· Dinner Banquet
· Conference Proceedings
· Recognition Awards
· Special Rate for Ph.D., Students USD$200
Cheers.
Zafar
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BBA (New York), MBA (Texas), Ph.D., (Utah), D.Litt., (India)
Professor of Marketing and International Business
Founding Editor-in-Chief: Journal for Global Business Advancement
Department of Marketing
P. O. Box #: 2404
Dammam City 31451, Eastern Province
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
International Conference on
Social Intelligence and Technology 2013
(SOCIETY
2013)
May 8 – 10, 2013, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
In cooperation with ACM SIGART
Technical co-sponsorship with IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics
Co-sponsorship with International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
Theme: Computing towards Social Intelligence
Keynote Speakers
Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rong Yan, Research Scientist, Facebook, USA
INTRODUCTION
The International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology (SOCIETY) is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers, scientists, and practitioners from diverse fields, such as cognitive science, computing, engineering, information science, social science, psychology, sustainability science, economics, business, human-coupled complex systems, human factors, behavior modeling, neural science, linguistics, security, criminal intelligence, health, public policy, to come together to share and present their innovative work in the social context. Social intelligence and technology explores the roles of information/internet/mobile technology in improving our understanding about human behaviors and social interaction in human society from the perspective of individual level, interpersonal level, and community level, building a sustainable social environment, developing social intelligence, as well as their practical applications that have major impacts in solving societal problems such as health, security, energy, environment, and enhancing the sustainability of our society.
The topics of the conference are organized around the following Computing/Informatics topics and Impact/Application areas, but are not limited to:
Computing/Informatics Topics
Data mining/Text mining/Web mining
• Deception detection
• Expert identification
• Multi-agent systems
• Opinion aggregation and mining
• Optimization
• Recommendation systems
• Sentiment modeling and analysis
• Social media searching and mining
• Social network analysis and mining
Social media analytics
• Community discovery
• Group formation and detection
• Influence analysis
• Information and innovation diffusion
• Role identification
• Social network evolution
• Survival analysis
• Temporal analysis
• Viral analysis
• Social marketing
• Social games
Social sustainability
• Cloud-enabled large-scale simulation
• Complex systems modeling
• Ecological management
• Economic systems
• Environmental Engineering
• Physical, mental and social well-being
• Social and human resources
• Social capital
• Social conviviality
• Social dynamics
• Social equality
• Social vulnerability analysis
• Sustainable social development
Social behavior and human factors
• Coupled human-natural systems
• Economic impact and issues
• Empirical studies
• Ethnographic studies
• Human behavioral modeling
• Human computer interaction
• Leadership
• Metrics and evaluation
• Social cultural issues
• Social-technical studies
• Organizational issues
• Online community
Impact/Application Areas
Economic and social informatics
• Behavior economics
• Economic competitiveness
• Economic forecasting
• Economic monitoring
• Group decision making
• Heritage preservation
• Legal and public policy issues
• Social identity
Health informatics
• Disease modeling and control
• Emotional analysis
• Health intervention
• Health systems
• Mobile and sensor networks
• Pharmaceutics safety signal detection
• Public health and epidemiology
• Social support of e-patients
Security informatics
• Crowd sourcing
• Dark web
• Emergency response
• Emerging event detection
• Extreme events management
• Geographical data mining
• Policy and decision making support
• Political campaigns
• Privacy and risk
• Trust networks
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: January 4, 2013
Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2013
Camera-ready manuscript due: March 4, 2013
Conference Dates: May 8 - 10, 2013
The best papers will be invited for submission to the special issue on “Social Intelligence and Technology” in IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Conference Organizers
Honorary
co-chairs:
Jack Carroll, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
John Skvoretz, University of South Florida, USA
General
co-chairs:
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher C. Yang, Drexel University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Program
co-chairs:
Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Uffe Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Panel
chair:
Madhu Reddy, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Doctoral
Consortium Chair:
Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kayo Fujimoto, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Tutorial
co-chairs:
Pengzhu Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Bo Xiao, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Demo co-chairs:
Wenji Mao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Local
Arrangement Chair:
Jim
Jansen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Registration
Chair:
Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University, USA
Publicity
Chair:
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Web Chair:
Anna Squicciarina, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Financial
Support Chair:
Min Song, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Treasurer:
Heng Xu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Publication Chair:
Jason Li, Drexel University, USA
Advisory Board:
Please post to members
Doctoral Seminar on M&A
The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the 2012 Doctoral Seminar on M & A that will be held October 2nd and 3rd, 2012 (the two days immediately preceding the conference) in Montreux, Switzerland.
Doctoral students, representing all areas of business, will explore their research interests in a unique interdisciplinary and interactive workshop with a panel of distinguished research faculty. Abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for doctoral students to further develop their research ideas, learn about the challenges of conducting M&A research and building a successful academic career in this field, and broaden their professional networks. The format of the Seminar will facilitate a constructive and supportive discussion among doctoral students and participating faculty on topics of broad interest such as new trends in conducting high-impact M&A research, managing the dissertation stage and the job search process, and successful entry into the academic career. In addition, students will receive concrete feedback on their individual current research projects as well as ideas and guidance for their future research agenda.
For more details, please visit EMRBI website www.emrbi.com and/or email to Prof. Yaakov Weber [log in to unmask] or Dr. Shlomo Tarba [log in to unmask]
Prof. Yaakov Weber
1. Chair, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
School of Business Administration
College of Management
Rabin Blvd. 7
Rishon Lezion, Israel.
2. President, EMRBI
EuroMed Research Business Institute
Dear AIB secretariat, Please kindly post the attached CFP to AIB members. Academy of International Business – US Midwest 2013 Annual Meeting part of the MBAA International Conference at the Drake Hotel Chicago, Illinois Conference: February 27- March 1, 2013 Paper Submission Deadline: October 19, 2012 The Academy of International Business – Midwest, as part of the MBAA International Conference, will hold its conference on February 27 - March 1, 2013 at the beautiful and historical Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The theme for this years’ meeting is “Relevant and Innovative: Advancing Thoughts, Theories, and Practice in Business Disciplines” and the secondary theme is: “Know Your Research Landscape…informed and connected to editors, gurus, and peers”. The MBAA International conference has been dubbed the best deal in academic conferences! Please see www.mbaainternational.org for more information! |
Dear All:
Please join us for our 5th Annual Faculty Development in International Business (PDIB) program to India, January 4 - 11, 2013. This program is designed for faculty and professionals interested in pursuing their
interests in the Indian business environment.
Participants will experience firsthand how multinationals and leading Indian companies are riding the downfall, while simultaneously reshaping the Indian
business environment resulting in a more competitive India.
Participants will visit top multi-national companies and Indian companies, giving them the opportunity to interact with top executives to discuss business
in India. When not visiting top leading companies, participants will tour and visit historical sites in New Delhi, Agra (the Taj Mahal), Bangalore and Mumbai.
The program fee is $3,600 USD and includes hotel accommodations (based on single occupancy) with daily breakfast, internal flights between cities, all
ground transportation during the program, entry to cultural sites as indicated on the itinerary, business visits, and some meals. Double occupancy may be available for a reduced fee of $2,750. International airfare is not included with the program fee.
To learn more about this program, including registering and to view a tentative program schedule, please visit our website at
http://ciber.fiu.edu. For questions, please contact Sonia Verdu at
[log in to unmask] or CIBER at (305) 348-1740.
The faculty director for this program is Dr. Sumit K. Kundu, Professor of International Business at Florida International University. He may be reached
at (305) 348-3251 or [log in to unmask].
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Special Issues of the Journal of International Business Studies
Due October 1, 2012
JIBS
special issues are designed to draw attention to under-researched or controversial
topics or to new emerging themes in international business, and ultimately to
encourage insightful and influential research in line with the JIBS Statement of Editorial Policy.
Special issues are especially welcome that connect the research of the
mainstream AIB community working on international business to streams of
research on international business issues that have been taken up in specific
disciplines, where those strands of research have so far been developed largely
independently of one another.
JIBS normally
publishes 1-2 special issues per year, based on proposals submitted to the
editors of the journal; proposals are now evaluated by the JIBS editors once a
year. Accordingly, the JIBS editors are inviting proposals for potential special
issue topics, with a deadline of October 1, 2012.
Proposals should be submitted to JIBS Managing Editor Anne Hoekman (
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Anne Hoekman
Managing Editor, Journal of International Business Studies
JIBS Editorial Office
Tel: +1-517-481-3518
Fax: +1-517-432-1009
Web: www.jibs.net
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