Dear AIB List serve Moderator:
Please post the following announcement.
Theoretical
and Empirical
Research on the Internationalization of Latin American
Enterprises
Call
for Papers for a special issue of the Journal
of Business Research
Guest
Editors: Luciano Ciravegna (Royal Holloway, University
of London; INCAE), Sumit
K. Kundu (Florida International University), Luis Lopez
(INCAE)
Submission
Deadline:
September 15, 2014
Since 2008-2009
emerging markets generate the lion share of the world’s
economic growth. As a result, managers and business scholars
have focused their
attention on studying the dynamics of emerging markets (Buckley,
Clegg, Cross,
Liu, Voss, and Zheng, 2007; Cavusgil,
Ghauri, and Akcal, 2012;
Guillen and
Garcia-Canal, 2012; Khanna and Palepu, 2010: Ciravegna,
Fitzgerald and
Kundu, 2013; Wright, Filatotchev,
Hoskisson, and Peng, 2005). The rise of
multinational
companies from emerging markets is becoming a major phenomenon
(Ramamurti and
Singh, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Luo and Rui, 2009; Yamakawa,
Peng and Deeds,
2008).
Emerging market
multinationals (EMNEs) internationalize differently from
developed economy multinationals (Guillén and
García-Canal, 2009; Luo and Rui, 2009;
Matthews, 2007; Yiu, Lau and Bruton, 2007). According
to Luo and Tang’s (2007) “springboard
perspective”, EMNEs internationalize before reaching a stage of
maturity in
domestic markets because internationalization nurtures the
acquisition of capabilities
and assets that they may lack. Some scholars reject this view,
positing that
EMNEs behave similarly to multinationals based in developed
economies, only they
have different sets of country specific and firm specific
advantages (Narula,
2012). Finally, some scholars point that EMNEs may
internationalize in order to
escape from difficult conditions in their domestic economies or
to pursue
opportunities in an entrepreneurial fashion (Khanna and Palepu,
2010; Madhok
and Keyhani, 2012).
Most of the studies
on which EMNEs theories focus on a very small number
of emerging markets especially China and India (Ciravegna,
Fitzgerald, and
Kundu, 2013). Several Latin American firms have
internationalized in aggressive
and innovative ways, often outcompeting established players
(Casanova, 2009).
Latin American firms are now among the world global players in
several
industries, ranging from cement (Cemex), to aerospace (Embraer),
bread (Bimbo),
sweets (Arcor), and wine (Concha y Toro) (Guillén and
García-Canal, 2009). However, our understanding of
internationalization
strategy of Latin American firms remains shallow (Pérez-Batres,
Pisani, & Doh, 2010).
International business scholars point that Latin American firms
internationalize rather regionally, though the number of
empirical studies
examining the phenomenon is limited, and tends to focus on a few
well known
cases, whereas the majority of Latin American firms, including
mid-sized
multinational companies, have thus far been under the radar of
scientific
research (Casanova, 2009; Lopez, Ciravegna and Kundu, 2009;
Rugman and Verbeke,
2004). The result is an empirical gap with regards to the
generalizability of
EMNE theories to Latin American firms.
Do Latin American
firms behave similarly to the Chinese and Indian firms
that have been discussed more thorougly by the international
business literature?
Or do they behave more in line with developed economy
multinationals, internationalizing
gradually as they accumulate resources and capabilities?
This special edition
of JBR
aims to contribute to the debate on emerging market
multinationals by inviting
scholarly articles focusing on the internationalization of firms
based in Latin
America. We are particularly interested in new studies, which
use fresh
empirical evidence to examine whether and how the
internationalization of Latin
American firms corresponds to the EMNE theories (e.g.
springboard perspective,
institutional void perspective, linkage-leverage-learning
perspective), or
whether they follow conventional IB theories (e.g. eclectic
paradigm, resource
based view, gradual internationalization process model,
internalization theory,
and network theory).
The guest editors
seek studies focusing on firm internationalization
based on one or multiple countries of Latin America. The
contributions can
tackle, among others, the following research questions:
- Which
theories from the international business, international
entrepreneurship, and international
marketing fields are suited to
explain the internationalization of Latin American
companies?
- Does
the
internationalization of Latin American enterprises contribute to
the development of emerging markets multinational
enterprises
(EMNEs) internationalization
theories? How?
- Do
the springboard
and linkage-leverage-learning perspectives apply to Latin
American firms?
- What
explains
the speed and scope of internationalization of Latin American
firms?
- What
are
the motives for internationalizing of Latin American firms?
- How
important
are ownership and the composition of the management team for the
internationalization of
Latin American firms?
- Does
the
eclectic paradigm explain the internationalization of Latin
American firms?
- Do
institutional
characteristics contribute to explain the international behavior
of Latin American
companies?
To submit your work,
please email your paper to Luciano Ciravegna at
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All papers accepted in
an initial screening will enter double-blind peer
review process.
Submissions
will be limited to 50 pages of text and
up to ten figures and tables.
Submissions must comply to the JBR
style requirements. For
JBR style
requirements, go to http://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/jbrrequirements.pdf.
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Thanks.
-- Dr. Sumit K. Kundu Professor James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business Academic Director - Master's in International Business program Department of Management and International Business College of Business Administration Florida International University 345-B Ryder Business Building 11200 SW 8 Street Miami, FL 33199 USA Telephone: (305) 348-3251 Fax: (305) 348-6146 Email: [log in to unmask]