Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Journal of International Management [cid:[log in to unmask]] Global Innovation Networks - Organizations and People Submission Deadline: May 1, 2016 Editors Marcelo Cano-Kollmann, Ohio University T. J. Hannigan, Temple University Ram Mudambi, Temple University International Business, Economic Geography and Innovation (iBEGIN) Research Program The distribution of economic value creating activities across space has intrigued scholars since at least the nineteenth century. The modern study of this phenomenon has its roots in the classic work of Marshall (1920). Over the course of the last century, it has been studied from different perspectives, leading to the formation of several research communities and each with an associated body of literature. Economic geographers and regional scientists mainly study the characteristics of places while international business scholars focus on the organization of economic activities. In other words, economic geographers' and regional scientists' main focus of interest is the location, while for international business scholars, it is the (multinational) firm. Over the last few decades, innovation has received increasing amounts of attention from both research communities who recognize it as one of the key drivers of the modern knowledge economy. In the main, these three location-based literatures have moved along in parallel with one another, but their actual analytical connections remained very limited, and their treatment of location, geography and the spatial organization of the firm remains very partial and fragmented. The main goal of the International Business, Economic Geography and Innovation (iBEGIN) research program is to work at the nexus of these three research communities and literatures and build knowledge conduits among them. This research aims to encourage cross- and inter-disciplinary dialog with the view of building a holistic view of the spatial organization of economic activity. There are three megatrends underlie much of the change that we have witnessed over the last few decades and that will continue to shape the world economy (Mudambi, 2015). The first megatrend is the shift from trade-in-goods to trade-in-activities. Beginning several decades ago, but accelerating rapidly over the last decade, products and services are increasingly emerging from global value chains (GVCs) that are geographically dispersed around the globe. These GVCs are orchestrated, in the main, by multinational enterprises (MNEs) and increasingly disaggregated and fine-sliced into narrow, highly specific activities that are undertaken in economic clusters. These narrow activities produce intermediates (and not complete goods or services) and these compose the vast majority of all international trade today. The second megatrend is the rise of knowledge-intensive intangibles. Value is rapidly migrating out of tangible goods and services that are becoming commoditized and into the soft intangibles that encase them. These intangibles arise from specialized, upstream knowledge (R&D, patents, inimitable organizational routines, software, training) and downstream knowledge (brands, trademarks, customer service) activities. This migration of value has dramatically magnified the importance of innovation, concomitantly shortening technology lifecycles. The third megatrend is the rise of emerging markets. The number of locations where the highly specific GVC activities can be performed has ballooned over the last two decades. A long list of clusters locations in Asia and South America and even some parts of Africa have become integral parts of GVCs. These locations are tightly woven into global economy and give rise to perceptions of "flatness" perceived by many lay observers. The disaggregation of global value chains, global innovation systems and emerging market catch-up processes are salient examples of topics at the heart of the iBEGIN research agenda. All papers that address the iBEGIN nexus, both theoretical and empirical, are welcome. Submission deadline: March 1, 2016. Please submit by email attachment to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Submission format: Please visit the Journal of International Management website for detailed "Instructions for Authors". http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-international-management/ References Marshall, A. 1920. Industry and trade. London, Macmillan. Mudambi, R. 2015. Local enterprise, global value. Research Focus - Business & Management, 1: 25-27 Marcelo Cano-Kollmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business College of Business, Ohio University 536 Copeland Hall Phone 919-943-3003 Email: [log in to unmask] ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.