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This is the third and final call for papers for the APJM SI with updated
dates for the SI Conference (see below). Kind regards.



> *Asia Pacific Journal of Management*
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> Special Issue and Conference on
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> *“From Emerging to Emerged: A Decade of Development of Dragon
> Multinationals”*
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> *Submission Deadline: **April 15, 2015*
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> *Conference Place and Date: 11-12 December, **2015 *
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> *Venue**: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia*
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> *Estimated Date of Publication**: November 2016*
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> *Special Issue Guest Editors:*
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> Jane Lu (University of Melbourne and National University of Singapore)
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> Xufei Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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> Lucy Taksa (Macquarie University)
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> Yue Wang (Macquarie University)
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> *Special Issue Consulting Editors: *
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> Mike Peng (University of Texas at Dallas)
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> Ravi Ramamurti (Northeastern University)
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> *Conference Sponsor:*
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> Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Sydney,
> Australia.
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> In 2006, the *Asia Pacific Journal of Management* (APJM) published an
> influential article “Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century
> globalization” (Mathews, 2006a, 23:5-27). In this conceptual article, John
> Mathews (Macquarie University, Australia) defines firms from the
> periphery—especially those from the Asia Pacific region—as ‘dragon
> multinationals’. The author develops a new model to illustrate the three
> pillars common in these firms’ pattern of accelerated internationalization
> and summarizes them into his linkage, leverage, and learning (LLL) model.
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> According to Mathews (2006a), for dragon multinationals, the best and the
> quickest way to capture global opportunities and to tap into global
> resources is first to link up with firms around the global, second to
> leverage such links to overcome resource barriers (including foreign direct
> investment (FDI) through acquisitions), and third to learn to build up
> their own capabilities in a cumulative fashion. These three pillars of
> linkage, leverage and learning are what make dragon multinationals’
> international expansion distinctive from the internationalization pattern
> of Western incumbents.
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> To the extent that firms that lack initial resources may take advantage of
> the increasingly interconnected global economy in a pattern consistent with
> the LLL model, the LLL model may become one of the dominant paradigms in
> international business (IB) research in the 21st century, just like how the
> OLI model was viewed by the IB and management community in the 20th
> century. We do not know whether this significant paradigm development will
> happen, but the fact that John Mathews’ article won the second *APJM*
> Best Paper Award in 2009 and became the second most cited APJM paper ever
> (with over 600 Google Scholar citations) in just a few years after its
> appearance in 2006 is a strong signal that the IB and management community
> may just be ready to embrace such a paradigm development. However, whether
> such a paradigm development will materialize (Dunning, 2006; Narula, 2006)
> is at least dependent on two critical issues, which will be addressed in
> this Special Issue. First, do we have accumulated sufficient evidence to
> suggest that there is indeed a need for a new paradigm such as the LLL
> model to account for a very different internationalization process? Second,
> nearly ten years since Mathews (2006a), do we have sufficient knowledge
> about ways that those already emerged dragon multinationals (such as Acer,
> Li & Fung, and Lenovo that appeared in Mathews’ original article) manage
> their global operations?
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> To further enrich our understanding of the merits and limits of the LLL
> model, we also call for papers that provide new theoretical or empirical
> insights to help us better understand the internationalization patterns and
> strategies adopted by firms from the rapidly developing Asia Pacific region
> including those are still emerging and those already emerged in the global
> stage. To the extent that management problems remain the same over time
> while their solutions differ from part of the world to part of the world
> (Hostede, 2007), we also welcome manuscripts that look at the impact of the
> emerging or emerged dragon multinationals on the strategies and behaviours
> of Western MNEs in different parts of the world.
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> Overall, this Special Issue provides an opportunity to (1) reflect on John
> Mathews’ influential article on the then emerging dragon multinationals,
> and (2) bring together research on recent development of those dragon
> multinationals that are already emerged in the global market as well as
> research on the interactions between these (relatively) new players and
> incumbent western players in an increasingly interconnected global business
> environment. To serve these purposes, manuscripts are not restricted to,
> but could deal with the following topics:
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>    Empirical studies to test the validity of the LLL model in a broader
>    range of firms (including but not limited to emerging and emerged dragon
>    multinationals).
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>    How the strategies, structures, and management practices (e.g. how to
>    manage the challenge of diverse workforce) adopted by those emerged dragon
>    multinationals differ from MNEs from the West and Japan.
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>    How the LLL model and OLI model complement or substitute each other.
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>    How the expansion of dragon multinationals to regions such as Africa
>    and Australia affects the strategies of Western MNEs in these regions.
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>    How the pattern of expansion of dragon multinationals is affected by
>    varying institutional conditions in their home countries.
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>    What the performance implications are as a result of the expansion of
>    dragon multinationals.
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> Papers for the Special Issue should be submitted electronically to the
> APJM Online Submission System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/apjm/,
> and identified as submissions to the “From emerging to emerged: a decade of
> development of dragon multinationals” Special Issue. The deadline for
> receipt of papers for this special issue is April 15, 2015. The format of
> submissions must comply with submission guidelines posted at the APJM
> website. Please indicate that your submission is to be reviewed for the
> Special Issue on “From Emerging to Emerged: A Decade of Development of
> Dragon Multinationals” (choose that in the “article type” item during the
> submission process).
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> Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. We will make initial editorial
> decisions by July 1, 2015. Authors invited to revise and resubmit their
> work will be invited to present the papers at a Special Issue development
> conference hosted by the Department of Marketing and Management at
> Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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> The papers accepted and presented at the special issue conference will be
> considered for publication in the Special Issue of the APJM. Presentation
> at the conference does not necessarily guarantee publication in the special
> issue. The combination of a development conference and a Special Issue
> nevertheless follows a highly successful APJM initiative to bring out the
> full potential of authors and papers.
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> For questions about the special issue, please contact any of the Special
> Issue Editors:
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> Jane Lu
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> Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, University of
> Melbourne; and National University of Singapore
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> Xufei Ma
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> Associate Professor, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong
> Kong
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> Lucy Taksa
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> Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
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> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> Yue Wang
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> Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie
> University
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> Email:  [log in to unmask]
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> *References:*
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> Hofstede, G. (2007). Asian management in the 21st century. Asia Pacific
> Journal of Management, 24: 411-420.
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> Dunning, J. H. (2006). Comment on Dragon multinationals: New players in
> 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 139-141.
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> Narula, R. (2006). Globalization, new ecologies, new zoologies, and the
> purported death of the eclectic paradigm. Asia Pacific Journal of
> Management, 23: 143-151.
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> Mathews, J. A. (2006a). Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century
> globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 5-27.
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> Mathews, J. A. (2006b). Responses to Professors Dunning and Narula. Asia
> Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 153-155.
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> Yue Wang, PhD
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