*_Reminder, CfP: 4^th Copenhagen Conference on Outward Investment from
Emerging Economies_*
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*The 4^th Copenhagen Conference on: *
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*/'Emerging Multinationals':
Outward Investment from Emerging Economies/*
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http://sf.cbs.dk/ofdi/conferences
Date: 9-10 October 2014
Venue: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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*Overview*
This year's conference welcomes all papers related to the broad
conference theme of outward investment from emerging economies. In
addition, the conference particularly invites papers related to home
country effects.
Multinational companies from emerging economies (EMNCs) are becoming
major players in the globalized world economy and wield growing
influence on economic dynamics in developed, emerging, and developing
countries alike. Firms and governments in developed countries
increasingly need to engage with the array of challenges and
opportunities presented by emerging-economy multinationals seeking
access to their markets and assets. Important impacts of outward direct
investment from emerging economies (OFDI) will also be felt in
developing host countries, where investments from emerging economies are
becoming more and more significant. No less important will be the
effects in the home countries of the outward investing firms themselves.
The rise of outward investment from emerging and developing countries
requires further scrutiny, both theoretically, empirically and
methodologically.
All papers related to the broad conference theme are welcome. In
addition, this year's conference particularly solicits papers with a
focus on home country-related aspects of outward investment from
emerging economies. There are significant opportunities for improving
our understanding of how home country environments affect processes and
outcomes that drive EMNCs, and thus to advance theories of the
multinational enterprise. Consequently, we invite empirical and
theoretical work addressing these complex relationships between various
forms of home country environmental heterogeneities and EMNCs.
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Topics*
The emergence of MNCs from emerging economies raises a wide range of
challenges for theorists, business strategists, and policymakers alike.
This year's conference promotes 'home country effects' as a special but
not exclusive theme.
* How do the institutional framework and the resource endowment of the
home country influence the patterns and processes of organizational
learning and capability building that enable investments abroad?
* What are the dynamics of motives with which EMNCs invest abroad,
which strategies do they pursue and which challenges do they face?
* From a co-evolutionary perspective, what are the dynamics of the
interrelationship between institutional change and corporate
strategy? How do EMNCs leverage their experience abroad to impact
institutional development at home?
* Are internationalization patterns and strategies of EMNCs
qualitatively different from what we know from extant theories?
* How do EMNCs leverage political and social ties at home to access
and compete in foreign markets, especially developed country markets?
* How are home economies affected by the internationalization of
domestic firms? Should home countries pursue particular policies to
accelerate or otherwise influence their OFDI?
* How do EMNCs impact on different types of host economies? How are
costs and benefits distributed? How are benefits captured? Which new
policy challenges do they introduce?
* How are EMNCs and OFDI affected by the lingering global stagnation
-- globally and regionally and at the level of countries, sectors
and firms?
* Do EMNCs differ from developed-country MNCs in terms of corporate
governance and corporate social responsibility?
* How are companies from China and India in particular coming to
internationalize their operations?
* What distinguishes international investment strategies by
state-owned and privately owned EMNCs? Is government ownership
enabler or liability in internationalization?
* Which are the roles of sovereign wealth funds?
* How does EMNC behavior vary between different industries and why?
* How does the rise of EMNCs influence global competition in different
industries?
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Keynotes*
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University
Ari Kokko, Copenhagen Business School
Peter Ping Li, Copenhagen Business School
Rajneesh Narula, University of Reading
Ravi Ramamurti, Northeastern University
Max von Zedtwitz, Peking University
*Important dates*
Submission of paper deadline:13 June
Paper acceptance/rejection: 27 June
Registration & submission of final paper: 1 September
Conference:9-10 October
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Submission & publication*
Please email your paper as an MS Word document to Helle-Merete Hagedorn,
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Accepted papers will be uploaded to an 'electronic proceedings' on the
conference website.
As part of the conference, post-conference publications opportunities of
submitted papers will be explored.
The previous conferences have produced special issues of Journal of
International Management, International Journal of Technology
Management, European Journal of Management, International Journal of
Emerging Markets, and International Journal of Technological Learning,
Innovation and Development.
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Conference fee*
The conference fee is EUR200. The fee covers meals, refreshments and
conference materials. The concluding dinner is an optional extra.
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Further information*
For further information contact:
Peter Gammeltoft
Department of International Economics & Management
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Web: www.cbs.dk/int <http://www.cbs.dk/int>
Visit also the conference website: http://sf.cbs.dk/ofdi/conferences
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Organizing committee*
Peter Gammeltoft, Department of International Economics & Management
Bersant Hobdari, Department of International Economics & Management
*Sponsors*
Otto Mønsted Foundation
Department of International Economics & Management, CBS
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