Dear all,

please find attached our updated Call for Papers for the special issue of Technovation "Innovation in the East Asian Automotive Industry".

The online system is now ready for submission.

Deadline for submissions is Nov. 30, 2015.

Please find the relevant details and a note on the submission process below.

We look forward to your submissions.

The guest editors,

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The questions we want to address in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

–        Frugal Innovation: How do Asian engineers "simplify and strip out" products to achieve cost-competiveness in their home base and other emerging markets? How do Western multinationals adapt their products? What process and business model innovations can we observe in the East Asian automotive sector?

–        What are the institutional factors that enable radical innovations and leapfrogging in East Asia? E.g. what is the role of domestic consumers, governments and regulations, or home country knowledge sources?

–        How does the internationalization of technology sourcing affect East Asian automotive firms and automotive suppliers (e.g. Chinese automaker Qoros or component purchasing in East Asia for the BMW i3 model)?

–        Which organizational processes account for the success of firms like Hyundai and Toyota in bringing radical innovation to the mass-production stage? How do theycombine the paradox of continuous improvement and “technological leaps” (see also Osonono, Shimizu & Takeuchi 2008)?

–        Are Asian carmakers such as Hyundai (Korea) and Geely or SAIC (China) better equipped to design cars for emerging market consumers? How can cost-advantages in production be combined with innovative product development?

–        How do Asian carmakers globalize their product development activities to create innovation for their local consumers?

–        What is the role of supplier networks and business groups (i. e., Keiretsu, Chaebol) in the innovation process?

–        What patterns of supplier development strategies do we see by East Asian carmakers and to what extent do they transfer their supplier development strategies to other regions?

–        How do carmakers and suppliers from the emerging countries in East Asia deal with the increasing need to integrate diverse technological fields such as mechanics, electronics and software in new car developments? Are methods different than in the west?

–        How do automotive firms who invest in Chinese production and R&D units deal with problems of knowledge transfer and the danger of knowledge dispersion?

–        How do national and micro (organization level) innovation systems interact in East Asia in the introduction of new technologies such as electric vehicles? What are the local challenges of standard setting in the automotive industry and how do they affect technology diffusion?

–        How can we judge the success of infant industry policies towards automotive firms in East Asia and what does this mean for carmakers in dynamic markets such as China?

–        How are new service industries created and coordinated around new vehicle technologies? What is the role of innovative start-ups and the SME sector in Asia?

–        Values: Do certain social pre-conditions support innovativeness? Do informal institutions and informal social networks play an important role in the automotive industry?

 

 

Instructions for submission:

• The submission website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/technovation/default.asp
• Deadline for submission of the full paper via the Technovation submission system is November 30, 2015
• Make sure to select “SI: East-Asian Automotive” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process, so that the link to the Special Issue is established.
• Enquiries related to journal fit or content can be sent to Roman Bartnik ([log in to unmask]), who will coordinate a response among the guest editors.
  
• For technical assistance, if you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technovation/, describing the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors)
• Papers will be subject to the Technovation double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.
• Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

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