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Dear AIB-colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline (30 March) for the workshop on “INNOVATION IN EMERGING ECONOMIES” is rapidly approaching.
The event takes place from the 13 – 14 July 2017 at the Technical University Berlin (Germany). The aim of the workshop is to discuss novel research on innovation and technological upgrading in the BRICS countries as well as less researched emerging economies. We invite submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Measurement and indicators
- Sector and technological dynamics
- New innovation patterns and business models
- FDI, multinational enterprises and innovation
- Upgrading in global value chains
- Innovation policy
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Maria Savona
Professor of Innovation and Evolutionary Economics (University of Sussex – SPRU, United Kingdom)
Glenda Kruss
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Mike Morris
Professor of Economics (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Please submit your extended abstract to [log in to unmask] by the 30 March 2017. The extended abstract should carry the name of all authors, all contact details and should summarize the content of the paper (no longer than 2 pages).
Submissions presented at the conference are considered for publication in two related special issues scheduled for 2018:
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change has a special issue on “Exploring Technology Upgrading of Emerging and Transition Economies: From ‘Shifting Wealth I’ to ‘Shifting Wealth II’?”
- The International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development offers a special issue on “Technological Upgrading and Innovation in Emerging Economies”
We offer a number of travel allowances for young researchers and/or researchers from transition and developing countries.
For the complete call for papers as well as up-to-date information on the workshop, please visit our workshop homepage.
We appreciate your contributions and intend to create a very productive forum for professional exchange and networking for scholars of different disciplinary background. We also recommend this occasion for a short visit to Berlin. During summer it is simply a very exciting place to be.
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Call for Papers - Special Thematic Symposium
Emerging Paradigms of Corporate Social Responsibility, Regulation and Governance
I.
Guest Editors
Rudolf Sinkovics, The University of Manchester, UK; Bimal Arora, The University of Manchester, UK; Stephen
Brammer, MacQuairie University, AU
II.
Introduction to the Special Thematic Symposium
The interconnectivity and interdependence of our economic system reinforces the need and importance of business ethics and sustainability
(Banai
& Sama, 2000; Kolk & Van Tulder, 2004). Over the past two decades, issues around self-regulation, transnational private regulation,
and other voluntary nongovernmental forms of global governance have gained in visibility
(Bair
& Palpacuer, 2015; Rasche, de Bakker, & Moon, 2013).
Private sector voluntary initiatives manifest through a plethora of corporate codes of conduct, process and certification standards, labels, as well as collaborative and multi-stakeholder initiatives
(Bartley,
2007; Levy & Kaplan, 2008; Nadvi & Wältring, 2004; Rasche, 2010; Rasche et al., 2013).
Driven by diverse operation, implementation and marketing methodologies, such initiatives are mostly been framed, analyzed and debated under the broad rubric of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
In the business and management literature on CSR, there is a gradual shift from decades of normative, firm/corporate-centric and instrumental approaches to CSR – which attempt to find the business case for firm/corporate
engagement with CSR – to a growing recognition of the importance of historically and contextually shaped institutions. This involves analyzing CSR through the lens of institutional theory
(Basu
& Palazzo, 2008; Brammer, Jackson, & Matten, 2012; Campbell, 2007).
Some CSR scholars argue that CSR should transcend discretionary and voluntary behaviors and, instead, be implemented as a “mode of governance”
(Brammer
et al., 2012, p.3).
The developing world may have experienced economic and employment gains from the growing practice of outsourcing and off shoring by modern multinational enterprises (MNEs). There has also been a simultaneous rise in
global, regional, national and local inequalities, the destruction of the environment, a diminished biodiversity, and inappropriate application of technologies
(Margolis
& Walsh, 2003; Wilks, 2013). The emergence of CSR as an institutionally embedded phenomenon is explained as a form of transnational,
nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance (Brammer
et al., 2012; Fransen & Kolk, 2007). Indeed, companies - advanced MNEs in particular - are increasingly adopting and endorsing
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) in their supply chains, aimed at improving social and environmental performance of their production networks.
While there is a rich and diverse literature on business ethics and CSR, the recent “governance” turn in CSR studies takes CSR scholarship, as well as CSR policy and practice, to an exciting, new level. Consequently,
there are conceptual, theoretical and empirical challenges that are wide open for research.
Given only limited exchange and collaboration among academic sub-disciplines, and the multidisciplinary nature and the use of CSR as forms of regulation and governance
(Wouters,
Bijlmakers, Hachez, Lievens, & Marx, 2013), forging cross- and multidisciplinary dialogue and research collaboration seems
imperative. This cross- and multidisciplinary collaboration will help to advance the conceptual and theoretical understanding of business ethics and CSR, and contribute to effective conduct, regulation and governance of corporate and organizational behavior.
III.
Conceptual and Empirical Topics of Particular Interest
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We welcome theoretical, empirical and review papers from different academic disciplines and sub-disciplines to examine: How are the notions of ethics, CSR, sustainability standard, regulation and governance connected?
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How does the transfer of regulatory power from traditional democratic nation-state processes to private, regulatory schemes connect with democratic legitimacy issues?
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What is the impact of private standards and certification schemes on the livelihoods of farmers and workers; what about inclusion and exclusion of specific actors due to the certification and labelling processes and how does this
connect with the transformation of markets
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How does the marketization of regulation and governance affect business models of these private initiatives, and the organization of dynamics within global production networks?
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How do rising powers participate and engage with transnational, nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance.
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How do different academic disciplines and sub-disciplines engage with the topics of
business ethics, CSR,
transnational, nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance?
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What are the opportunities and challenges associated with
transnational, nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance?
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What are the differences and similarities in various geographies and institutional environments towards
transnational, nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance?
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How do
nation states and actors from developing and emerging economies perceive and engage in the transnational, nongovernmental private and voluntary regulation and global governance?
IV.
Submission Process and Deadlines
Regular paper deadline |
30 September 2017 |
Review feedback deadline round 1 |
January 2018 |
Review feedback deadline round 2 |
June 2018 |
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Authors should refer to the Journal of Business Ethics website and the instructions on submitting a paper. For more information see: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/10551
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Submission to the Special Thematic Symposium is required through Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/busi/
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Informal enquiries about expectations, requirements, the appropriateness of a topic, and so forth, should be directed to the guest editors:
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Prof. Rudolf R. Sinkovics,
Professor of International Business, The University of Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK,
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Prof. Stephen
Brammer, Professor of Strategy & Executive Dean,
MacQuairie University, AU, [log in to unmask]
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Dr. Bimal Arora,
Research Associate in Responsible International Business, The University of Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK,
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V.
References
Bair,
J., & Palpacuer, F. (2015). CSR beyond the corporation: Contested governance in global value chains.
Global Networks, 15(s1), S1-S19. doi: 10.1111/glob.12085
Banai, M., & Sama, L. M. (2000). Ethical dilemmas in MNCs' international staffing policies a conceptual framework.
Journal of Business Ethics, 25(3), 221-235. doi: 10.1023/a:1006079511331
Bartley, T. (2007). Institutional emergence in an era of globalization: The rise of transnational private regulation of labor and environmental condition.
American journal of sociology, 113(2), 297-351. doi: 10.1086/518871
Basu, K., & Palazzo, G. (2008). Corporate social responsibility: A process model of sensemaking.
Academy of management review, 33(1), 122-136. doi: 10.5465/amr.2008.27745504
Brammer, S., Jackson, G., & Matten, D. (2012). Corporate social responsibility and institutional theory: New perspectives on private governance.
Socio-Economic Review, 10(1), 3-28. doi: 10.1093/ser/mwr030
Campbell, J. L. (2007). Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? An institutional theory of corporate social responsibility.
Academy of management review, 32(3), 946-967. doi: 10.5465/amr.2007.25275684
Fransen, L. W., & Kolk, A. (2007).
Global rule-setting for business: A critical analysis of multi-stakeholder standards.
Organization, 14(5), 667-684. doi: 10.1177/1350508407080305
Kolk, A., & Van Tulder, R. (2004). Ethics in international business: Multinational approaches to child labor.
Journal of World Business, 39(1), 49-60.
Levy, D. L., & Kaplan, R. (2008). Corporate social responsibility and theories of global governance: Strategic contestation in global issue arenas. In A. Crane, A. McWilliams, D.
Matten, J. Moon & D. S. Siegel (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.003.0019
Margolis, J. D., & Walsh, J. P. (2003). Misery loves companies: Rethinking social initiatives by business.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(2), 268-305. doi: 10.2307/3556659
Nadvi, K., & Wältring, F. (2004). Making sense of global standards. In H. Schmitz (Ed.),
Local enterprises in the global economy: Issues of governance and upgrading (pp. 53-94). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Rasche, A. (2010). The limits of corporate responsibility standards.
Business Ethics: A European Review, 19(3), 280-291. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2010.01592.x
Rasche, A., de Bakker, F. G. A., & Moon, J. (2013). Complete and partial organizing for corporate social responsibility.
Journal of Business Ethics, 115(4), 651-663. doi: 10.1007/s10551-013-1824-x
Wilks, S. (2013).
The political power of the business corporation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Wouters, J., Bijlmakers, S., Hachez, N., Lievens, M., & Marx, A. (2013). Global governance and democratic legitimacy: A bottom-up approach.
Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 26(3), 197-200. doi: 10.1080/13511610.2013.771898
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Learning by doing in emerging market multinationals, Journal of World Business (2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951616300670
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State-Owned Multinationals: Governments in Global Business. Palgrave (2017) http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319517148
Emerging Market Multinationals: Managing Operational Challenges for Sustained International Growth. Cambridge University Press (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Market-Multinationals-Operational-International/dp/1107073146/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458691130&sr=1-1
What Is at Stake in China-US Relations?
An Estimate of Jobs and Money Involved in the Bilateral Economic Tie
Farok J. Contractor
Rutgers University
Alarm bells are ringing about President Donald Trump’s pronouncements against China as well as his threats to impose a 45% tariff against Chinese imports after declaring the country to be a “currency manipulator.” For all the concern, however, I have not seen a single calculation of the dollar costs, or impact on jobs, if Trump’s policies were actually implemented.
This article is an attempt to estimate the answers to the following questions: In the event of a break in the bilateral relations,
1) How many jobs in the US and China are at risk?
2) What would be the extra purchase price for consumers if, hypothetically, imports from China were replaced by US manufactured products?
3) Is it possible, or even likely, to “bring back” production from China to the US?
4) What would be the consequences if China retaliated against US-made products and services? What if China pulled out its $1.2–1.8 trillion investment in US securities? And what about American companies’ investments in China?
5) How undervalued is the Yuan (RMB) really?
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Below is a short article published in YaleGlobal that summarizes my numbers and estimates to answer the above questions. But some may want to know my assumptions, data sources and methodology. For that please go to a longer version of the piece at Globalbusiness.blog https://globalbusiness.blog/2017/03/10/whats-at-stake-in-china-us-relations-an-estimate-of-jobs-and-money-involved-in-the-bilateral-economic-tie/
or Rutgers Business Review, March 2017 https://www.rbusinessreview.org/rbr020101
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Disrupting US-China Relations Will Incur High Costs
Efficient production lines, millions of jobs and affordable consumer products of all types depend on stable US-Chinese relations
Farok J. Contractor
YaleGlobal, Tuesday, February 28, 2017 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/disrupting-us-china-relations-will-incur-high-costs
NEW BRUNSWICK: Alarm bells are ringing about President Donald Trump’s angry pronouncements against China, calling the nation a “currency manipulator” and threatening tariffs on Chinese imports. Official designation must come from the Treasury Department, and so far, these claims have been backed with little calculation of costs or jobs gained or lost.
Trump highlights the lopsided trade imbalance between China and the US – a deficit of $338 billion. So China has more to lose, but until 2014 plowed their surpluses back into US government Treasury bonds and securities. US consumers could expect higher prices, and China could retaliate on US-made products and services and sell its $1 trillion-plus investments in US securities – although this would hurt China too, as any attempt to unload large amounts of US securities would immediately reduce the dollar’s value.
Estimating the numbers of workers involved in US-China trade is a tricky task. Taking data from the World Bank surveys on the “labor share of export value,” and inferring from that the labor content in each country’s exports, offers a rough estimate of 16.39 million Chinese workers engaged in exports to the US and 1.24 million American workers engaged in exports to China.
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Calculations: The number of workers producing exports for China and the United States is inferred from a number of sources: a) US Census, b) World Bank, c) The Economist, d) BLS, e) YaleGlobal, f) National Association of Manufacturers
Foreign direct investment: Besides imports, consumers can obtain foreign products through foreign direct investment. A Chinese buying a Buick is not buying a car made in the US, but one made by the Shanghai subsidiary established by General Motors in 1997. An American who purchases a small refrigerator at Walmart is likely buying from Haier, a Chinese company whose US subsidiary, Haier America, Inc., produces refrigerators in South Carolina. Both products include parts imported from other firms along the supply chain, and this is among the many complications in understanding foreign direct investment data.
Chinese FDI in the US accelerated after 2010, according a 2016 report by the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Rhodium Group. By 2015, investment by Chinese companies in US operations had reached an annual level of $15.3 billion – $3.4 billion from Chinese government enterprises and $11.9 billion from presumably privately held Chinese companies.
The value of Chinese acquisitions of American firms was eight times the number of built-from-scratch investments, suggesting a Chinese strategy to gain technological and market knowledge. FDI from most emerging nations has a knowledge-seeking motivation.
Americans need not be alarmed for two reasons: The biggest Chinese investments are in innocuous sectors such as real estate, hospitality, and business services where proprietary technology is not an issue. The largest Chinese investment to date has been in pig farming. Even in sensitive sectors such as computer technology and life sciences, the White House–guided Committee on Foreign Investment has embargoed foreign investment in sectors deemed sensitive or if the intelligence services or Commerce Department indicate danger to competitiveness of American firms.
US firms, as far as FDI is concerned, have more to lose in the event of trade disputes. Chinese FDI in the US in 2015 amounted to $15.3 billion, but US investment in China was almost five times as big, at $74.6 billion. For 2015, there were 6,677 American company affiliates in China compared with around 1,200 Chinese-owned companies in the US.
Many more FDI jobs are at stake in China – up to 1.6 million according to Chinese Ministry of Commerce – because of greater use of cheap labor. The Rhodium Group estimates the 1,200 or more Chinese affiliates in the US employ directly around 90,000 Americans. Alternative estimates, including direct as well as indirect employment, suggest between 317,730 and 357,000 US workers connected with Chinese FDI in the US. The US Commerce Department reports that up to 10 million US residents work for foreign companies directly and indirectly, and Chinese FDI represents only about 3.5 percent of FDI in the US.
In sum, with total US employment at 122 million and Chinese employment at 775 million, bilateral-FDI represents a small, albeit significant fraction of overall jobs for either nation.
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Adding up the numbers for exports as well as FDI between China and the US, the maximum number of jobs at risk in China is up to 18 million, and in the US it is less than 1.6 million.
Such estimates represent maximum impact on jobs in the worst-case scenarios – and short of a calamitous dispute between the countries, the worst is unlikely to happen. Still, the above estimates give an idea of the numbers of jobs at stake.
Extra costs to US consumers: The United States is one of the few nations that could produce almost everything domestically that it now imports from China – with higher costs for households and hundreds of billions in transition costs for businesses.
US consumers are patriotic, but they also care about their pocketbooks. A Boston Consulting Group report found that more than 80 percent of US respondents said they prefer US-made items and are willing to pay more. But confronted with a tangible choice in an Associated Press survey, only 30 percent preferred US jeans priced at $85 over imported jeans for $50.
Moreover, of every dollar a consumer pays for a Chinese-made product, 55 cents is kept by US businesses for services such as marketing and sales. Only 45 cents goes to the Chinese producer. And only 2.7 percent of US consumer spending overall goes to products made in China, according to the Federal Reserve Bank and other studies. This sounds small, but the calculation works out that the additional cost for US consumers would be about $295 billion in 2016 alone, or $2,380 for each household.
Is re-shoring realistic? In the absence of dire national emergency, US consumers won’t prefer paying additional costs. The $2,380 estimate assumes replacing Chinese imports with US manufacturing. But a more realistic scenario is that if Chinese products were embargoed, production would move to other low-wage nations such as Vietnam or Bangladesh, as is already happening.
In 2015 General Electric’s appliance division tried to “re-shore” manufacturing to the US assuming that automation and productivity could offset higher US wages. But GE encountered another challenge – the parts-supply base for appliance components had disappeared from the US. Chinese parts suppliers are efficient and low-cost. Adding the transport costs of parts shipped from China to US assembly lines, plus management and additional inventory costs, made producing appliances in the US more costly.
In June 2016 GE sold their appliances division to the Chinese company Haier for $5.4 billion. Restoring all elements of the supply chain in the US would require decades and is a theoretical dream.
China’s $2 trillion in US securities: The Chinese government holds $1.3 trillion in US Treasury bonds, and Chinese entities collectively own about $2 trillion in US securities, second only to Japan, not counting the ownership of more than 1,200 US-based companies through FDI. The total may be higher, considering investments through Hong Kong and Caribbean tax havens where owners’ identities are often murky.
In an emergency, the Chinese could precipitously sell their US security holdings, panicking US bond and equity markets, eventually resulting in a plunge in the dollar’s value. But then, the Chinese would receive a lower return. The scenario is unlikely, short of a military confrontation. For the past 25 years, the Chinese government has regarded the US as its principal foreign market.
China has every incentive for keeping the US economy going strong. Simply put, it’s a matter of self-interest. The $2 trillion in investments in US securities do not earn a high return, but the investment is safe. In effect, the holdings demonstrate Chinese support for US-China trade and the global trading system.
While the Chinese may not be thrilled about entanglement with the US economy, both nations have a mutual self-interest. Together, they account for 40 percent of world GDP.
Participation in global trade has created employment for more than 100 million Chinese. The US gains from the relationship with up to 1.6 million jobs that depend on China, $295 billion annually in lower consumer prices, as well as investment in US securities and low interest rates.
Trump may be right in asserting that China has benefited more from the relationship than has the US. But international trade theory and practice never suggest consistent and perfect trade balances. Theory holds that nations are better off by participating in international trade. And his claim that the loss of US jobs is “…the greatest theft in the history of the world,” true only in small part, fails to consider that three out four US jobs have been lost due to automation, information technology and other productivity boosters.
Proposals to return jobs to the US are economically non-viable. Should the US carry out threats to levy a tariff on Chinese products, production is unlikely to return to the US. Other low-wage nations are ready to compete including Vietnam, India or Bangladesh, where hundreds of millions of people work for less than $1 per hour. With rising wages and a shortage of skilled workers, thousands of Chinese factories have already relocated to such low-wage nations. Disruption of global value chains would add hundreds of billions per year to US businesses, increasing prices for US buyers – with extra costs falling disproportionately on lower-income Americans.
The two great nations need each other. They can pursue a relationship that is “bipolar,” fraught with anxiety, or they can continue historic cooperation and lead to develop the 21st-century global economy.
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The Yuan: Four Facts
Farok J. Contractor
President Donald Trump described China as the “grand champions” of currency manipulation just hours after his treasury secretary pledged a more methodical approach to analyzing Beijing’s foreign exchange practices.
Consider four facts that undercut the allegations:
Yes, the yuan was undervalued in 2005. Today – following a 10-year appreciation and significant wage inflation – the Chinese currency is no longer substantially undervalued. The Chinese can only be as mystified as US citizens might be about pronouncements related to past concerns that no longer are true
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Table of Contents 9(2), 2017
Editorial
-- Satyendra Singh
Labour productivity in the Palestinian family industries
-- Nidal Rashid Sabri, Raniya Yaser Jaber, Wafaa Yosef AL-Bitawi, Jawana Awwad
Do BRIC countries stock market
volatility move together? An empirical analysis of using multivariate GARCH models
-- Naliniprava Tripathy
Institutional development
and subsidiary decision making autonomy: theory and evidence from Taiwan
-- Sven Dahms
The impact of perceived quality
of after-sale services on post-purchase evaluation outcomes of passenger automobiles customers in Egypt
-- Heba Fouad, Wael Kortam
Exploring cultural context
congruency in television: a conceptual framework for assessing the impact of media context on advertising effectiveness in an emerging market
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Claire Grant, Arlene Bailey, Alphonso Ogbuehi
Book Review
Winning Plays–Tackling Adversity and Achieving Success in Business and in Life, Center Street, USA
-- Thomas Tanner (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)
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*** Sixth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/ *** Submission Deadline: 17 April 2017 (extended) *** The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-793332-0&changeHeader). The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper with students as first authors will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adbis2017 . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: April 17, 2017 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for a Special Issue of
Journal of Global Mobility
ON STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR STAKES
IN THE EXPATRIATION PROCESS
Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2017
Guest Editors:
Thomas Hippler, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Michael Morley, University of Limerick, Ireland
The tremendous growth in foreign direct investment over the past three decades has resulted in a need to staff hundreds of thousands of foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) (UNCTAD, 2015) in increasingly diverse, under researched territories many of which may require polycontextually sensitive research approaches designed to unearth “multiple and qualitatively different contexts embedded within one another” (Shapiro, Von Glinow & Xiao, 2007: 129). The staffing needs in these MNE affiliates, especially at managerial and technical levels, have often been met through the deployment of company-assigned expatriate employees, i.e. “employees working for business organizations, who are sent overseas on a temporary basis to complete a time-based task or accomplish an organizational goal” (Shaffer, Kraimer, Chen, & Bolino, 2012: 1286). This development has been paralleled by a substantial and evolving body of literature on expatriate management (Dabic, González-Loureiro & Harvey, 2015) and international human resource management (Tung, 2016). This burgeoning literature has taught us much about the critical and expensive resource that are expatriate employees, including an understanding of all stages of the expatriate cycle, i.e. recruitment, selection, on-arrival and on-site support and repatriation.
Given their criticality as a talent pool and the expense involved, it is only natural that we concentrated most of our collective research efforts on these focal individuals, i.e. the expatriate employees themselves. However, in doing so, we often overlooked the fact that expatriates neither live nor work in a vacuum. Rather, they share their space and experiences with other stakeholders, who also have a legitimate interest in how the international assignment unfolds and its consequences. Thus families (partners/spouses, children and members of the extended family), who either join the employee on assignment or stay home, co-workers at various levels (superiors, peers and direct reports among host country nationals (HCNs), parent company colleagues and third country nationals), external business contacts (customers, suppliers, etc.), the HR and international mobility functions in the home and host countries, host communities and entire nations, among others, all have a legitimate, if varying stake, in the process. Consequently, our literature has been criticised for being overly expatriate-centric to the detriment of its empirical and theoretical advancement (e.g. Takeuchi, 2010) and calls have been made for the incorporation of greater stakeholder perspectives and accounts in the expatriate literature (Doherty & Dickmann, 2012; Takeuchi, 2010).
Freeman (1984: 46) defines a stakeholder as “any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives”. While some important stakeholders have been recognised, a systematic mapping of relevant and legitimate stakeholders and their stake in the expatriate management process is still outstanding, as is a detailed analysis of how each stakeholder influences and is influenced by expatriates. Where, for example, HCNs have been recognised as relevant actors, it was their impact on the expatriate that was the focus of attention rather than the other way round (e.g. Toh & DeNisi, 2007). Some studies that have recognised multiple stakeholders in the expatriate management process have nonetheless focused on the expatriate’s performance as the terminal variable of interest (e.g. Malek, Budhwar & Reiche, 2015) while others such as Bonache, Sanchez and Zárraga-Oberty (2009), in examining the effect of the perceived unfairness of expatriate compensation levels on HCNs have sought to inject a less expatriate-centric perspective into their inquiry.
Not only do other stakeholders influence expatriates and are being influenced by expatriates, but in each case this influence can be detrimental or benign. The stakeholder and expatriate can be a problem or a resource in each case, a fact that so far has been mainly recognised in the context of the expatriates’ work-family interface (e.g. Haslberger, Hippler & Brewster, 2015). However, this could arguably extend to several other stakeholders.
What constitutes ‘expatriate success’ is still subject to much debate; even the appropriate conceptualization of ‘expatriate performance’ is much contested (Haslberger, Brewster & Hippler, 2014). With regard to other stakeholders, this debate has hardly commenced. What constitutes assignment success for an accompanying spouse or partner? For an accompanying child? For a HCN peer? For a host government? What, exactly, is ‘at stake’ for them?
Haslberger et al. (2014) have drawn attention to the importance of a temporal perspective when assessing the success of an expatriate. This importance extends to other stakeholders. During the expatriate assignment, an accompanying partner might experience a career interruption (a cost now), but may gain valuable international experience that furthers his or her career upon return (a benefit later). Moreover, the various stakeholders may gain or lose salience at different points in time throughout the assignment. Expatriates may require extensive support from the foreign HR department immediately upon arrival until they have moved into their new accommodation, have registered with the relevant authorities and have obtained a bank account and insurance, but might require relatively little support after this initial phase. Moreover, the cost-benefit-analysis can change over time. HCNs may have to invest considerable amounts of time in supporting the expatriate in the early stages of an assignment (costs outweigh benefits), but gain valuable knowledge from the expatriate later on (benefits outweigh costs). We feel there is an urgent need to adopt a process view, establishing not only who the relevant stakeholders are, but when they emerge as salient and when they are beneficial for the assignment and/or benefit themselves and when they are detrimental to the assignment and/or themselves affected negatively by the assignment.
In addition, the literature has yet to investigate mediated effects to any significant extent. What, for example, is the effect of the knowledge gained from an expatriate on the HCNs’ performance, and through this, on the subsidiary’s overall performance over time? How does the social capital an HCN gains (‘knowing whom’) affect his or her individual career outcomes in the longer term?
Against the backdrop of these debates, for this special issue we are particularly interested in manuscripts that:
Potential questions that manuscripts for this special issue might address could include, but are not limited to, the following:
Both conceptual and empirical contributions are welcome.
Submission Process and Timeline
Submitted papers must be based on original material not under consideration by any other journal or publishing outlet. The editors will select up to 5 papers to be included in the Special Issue, but other submissions may be considered for regular issues of the journal. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process and will be evaluated by at least two reviewers and a Special Issue editor.
To be considered for the Special Issue, manuscripts can be submitted anytime between April and September 2017 but no later than 30 September 2017, 5:00pm Central European Time. Final acceptance is dependent on the following:
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 30 September 2017
Acceptance notification: March 2018
Publication: June 2018
References
Bonache, J., Sanchez, J. I., & Zárraga-Oberty, C. (2009). The interaction of expatriate pay differential and expatriate inputs on host country nationals' pay unfairness. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20(10), 2135-2149.
Dabic, M., González-Loureiro, M. & Harvey, M. (2015) Evolving research on expatriates: what is ‘known’ after four decades (1970–2012), The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26:3, 316-337.
Doherty, N. & Dickmann, M. (2012). Measuring the return on investment in international assignments: An action research approach. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(16), 3434-3454.
Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. London: Pitman.
Haslberger, A. Brewster, C. & Hippler, T. (2014) Managing Performance Abroad: A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment. Studies in Human Resource Development. New York: Routledge.
Haslberger, A., Hippler, T. & Brewster, C. (2015) 'Another Look at Family Adjustment.' In: Mäkelä, L. and Suutari, V., (eds.) Work and Family Interface in the International Career Context. Springer, pp. 53-70.
Malek, A. M., Budhwar, P., & Reiche, B. S. (2015). Sources of support and expatriation: a multiple stakeholder perspective of expatriate adjustment and performance in Malaysia. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(2), 258-276.
Shaffer, M. A., Kraimer, M. L., Chen, Y. P., & Bolino, M. C. (2012). Choices, challenges, and career consequences of global work experiences: A review and future agenda. Journal of Management, 38, 1282-1327.
Shapiro, D.L., Von Glinow, M.A. & Xiao, Z. (2007). Toward polycontextually sensitive research methods, Management and Organization Review 3(1), 129–152.
Takeuchi, R. (2010). A critical review of expatriate adjustment research through a multiple stakeholder view: Progress, emerging trends, and prospects. Journal of Management, 36(4), 1040-1064.
Toh, S. M., & DeNisi, A. S. (2007). Host country nationals as socializing agents: A social identity approach. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28, 281-301.
Tung, R. L. (2016). New perspectives on human resource management in a global context. Journal of World Business, 51(1), 142-152.
UNCTAD (2015) World Investment Report 2015. New York: United Nations
Best regards,
Jan
Professor Jan Selmer, Ph.D.
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Global Mobility (JGM)
The Home of Expatriate Management Research (Emerald)
www.emeraldinsight.com/jgm.htm
Department of Management
Aarhus BSS - School of Business and Social Sciences
Aarhus University
Call for nominations for the IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award 2017
International Management Division of the Academy of Management
Call for nominations for the IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award 2017
The
IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award recognizes the contribution to international management scholarship by a junior scholar. The winner is nominated by the IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award Committee and approved by the Executive Committee. The winner
is honored at the business meeting of the IM division, with a plaque and cash prize of $1500.
Eligibility
Criteria
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Candidates must be nominated by others; no self-nominations are considered.
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Nominees must have an interest in, and contributed to, international management scholarship.
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Nominees must have completed their Ph.D. within the previous 8 years at the time of nomination.
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Nominees must be members of the IM Division.
Selection
Criteria
Candidates
are evaluated based on the following criteria:
Nomination
and Evaluation Process
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Nomination letter(s) should be e-mailed to the Professional Achievement Awards Committee Chair, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra ([log in to unmask]) with a subject heading of “IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award” by May 1, 2017.
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Nomination letter(s) (3 pages maximum) should provide a rationale of how the nominee meets the eligibility and selection criteria above. The nominee’s curriculum vitae should be appended to the letter.
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The IM Division Professional Achievement Awards committee will review all nominations and may select a winner. In keeping with the highest standards, a winner may not be selected every year.
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The award will be announced and presented to the winner at the IM Division business meeting at the AOM 2017 Annual Meeting. The winner’s attendance at the annual meeting is required.
I look forward to receiving your nominations
Best wishes,
Alvaro
P.S. Apologies for the multiple postings
Alvaro CUERVO-CAZURRA, Ph.D.
Professor of International Business and Strategy and Lloyd J. Mullin Research Fellow
Co-Editor, Global Strategy Journal
Immediate Past Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management
Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business
313 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone 1.617.373.6568, Fax 1.617.373.8628
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www.cuervo-cazurra.com
Recent articles:
Overcoming human capital voids in underdeveloped countries, Global Strategy Journal (2017) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.1144/full
Multilatinas as a source of new theoretical insights: The learning and escape drivers of international expansion, Journal of Business Research
(2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296315005810
Learning by doing in emerging market multinationals, Journal of World Business (2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951616300670
Recent books:
State-Owned Multinationals: Governments in Global Business. Palgrave (2017) http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319517148
Emerging Market Multinationals: Managing Operational Challenges for Sustained International Growth. Cambridge University Press (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Market-Multinationals-Operational-International/dp/1107073146/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458691130&sr=1-1
Call for nominations for the IM Division Outstanding Educator Award 2017
International Management Division of the Academy of Management
Call for nominations for the IM Division Outstanding Educator Award 2017
The
IM Division Outstanding Educator Award recognizes continuous excellence and innovation in international management education at all levels and in a global context. The winner is awarded a plaque and cash prize of $500.
Eligibility
Criteria
•
Candidates have to be nominated by others; no self-nominations are considered.
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Nominees must have an interest in, and contributed to, international management education.
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Nominees must have at least 15 years of education experience in the area of international management.
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Nominees must be members of the IM Division.
Selection
Criteria
Candidates
are evaluated based on the following criteria:
Nomination
and Evaluation Process
•
Nomination letter(s) should be e-mailed to the Professional Achievement Awards Committee Chair, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra ([log in to unmask]) with a subject heading, “IM Division Outstanding Educator Award” by May 1, 2017.
•
Nomination letter(s) (3 pages maximum) should provide a persuasive explanation of how the nominee meets the eligibility and selection criteria above. The nominee’s curriculum vitae should be appended to the letter.
•
The Professional Achievement Awards Committee will review all nominations and may select a winner. In keeping with the highest standards, a winner may not necessarily be selected every year.
•
The award will be announced and presented to the winner at the IM Division business meeting at the AOM 2017 Annual Meeting. The winner’s attendance at the annual meeting is required.
I look forward to receiving your nominations
Best wishes,
Alvaro
P.S. Apologies for the multiple postings
Alvaro CUERVO-CAZURRA, Ph.D.
Professor of International Business and Strategy and Lloyd J. Mullin Research Fellow
Co-Editor, Global Strategy Journal
Immediate Past Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management
Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business
313 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone 1.617.373.6568, Fax 1.617.373.8628
[log in to unmask],
www.cuervo-cazurra.com
Recent articles:
Overcoming human capital voids in underdeveloped countries, Global Strategy Journal (2017) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.1144/full
Multilatinas as a source of new theoretical insights: The learning and escape drivers of international expansion, Journal of Business Research
(2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296315005810
Learning by doing in emerging market multinationals, Journal of World Business (2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951616300670
Recent books:
State-Owned Multinationals: Governments in Global Business. Palgrave (2017) http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319517148
Emerging Market Multinationals: Managing Operational Challenges for Sustained International Growth. Cambridge University Press (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Market-Multinationals-Operational-International/dp/1107073146/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458691130&sr=1-1
Call for nominations for the IM Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award 2017
International Management Division of the Academy of Management
Call for nominations for the IM Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award 2017
The
IM Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award recognizes continuous excellence in serving the international community. While the IM Division provides opportunities to serve the global community, this is not an award for service to our division.
Rather, the award scope is sufficiently broad to recognize service made via many organizations including international institutions, governments, and/or non-governmental organizations. The award favors longstanding service, but impactful service in a concentrated
period of time will also be considered. The winner is awarded a plaque and cash prize of $500.
Eligibility
Criteria
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Candidates must be nominated by others; no self-nominations are considered.
•
Nominees must have an interest in, and contributed to, the international community.
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Nominees must have more than 5 years in the service of the international community.
Selection
Criteria
Candidates
are evaluated based on the following criteria:
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Demonstrated outstanding service to the international community over a long period of time. May also have more intensive and impactful service over a shorter period of time.
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Had an important impact on service of others by developing an organization or platform for global service.
Nomination
and Evaluation Process
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Nomination letter(s) should be e-mailed to the Professional Achievement Awards Committee Chair, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra ([log in to unmask]) with a subject heading of “IM Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award” by May 1, 2017.
•
Nomination letter(s) (3 pages maximum) should provide a rationale of how the nominee meets the eligibility and selection criteria above. The nominee’s curriculum vitae should be appended to the letter.
•
The IM Division Professional Achievement Awards committee will review all nominations and may select a winner. In keeping with the highest standards, a winner may not be selected every year.
•
The award will be announced and presented to the winner at the IM Division business meeting at the AOM 2017 annual meeting. The winner’s attendance at the annual meeting is required.
I look forward to receiving your nominations
Best wishes,
Alvaro
P.S. Apologies for the multiple postings
Alvaro CUERVO-CAZURRA, Ph.D.
Professor of International Business and Strategy and Lloyd J. Mullin Research Fellow
Co-Editor, Global Strategy Journal
Immediate Past Chair, International Management Division, Academy of Management
Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business
313 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone 1.617.373.6568, Fax 1.617.373.8628
[log in to unmask],
www.cuervo-cazurra.com
Recent articles:
Overcoming human capital voids in underdeveloped countries, Global Strategy Journal (2017) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.1144/full
Multilatinas as a source of new theoretical insights: The learning and escape drivers of international expansion, Journal of Business Research
(2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296315005810
Learning by doing in emerging market multinationals, Journal of World Business (2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951616300670
Recent books:
State-Owned Multinationals: Governments in Global Business. Palgrave (2017) http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319517148
Emerging Market Multinationals: Managing Operational Challenges for Sustained International Growth. Cambridge University Press (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Market-Multinationals-Operational-International/dp/1107073146/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458691130&sr=1-1
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
Simon Fietze
Adjunkt/Assistant Professor
T +45 6550 1748
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www.sdu.dk/ansat/simonf/
Syddansk Universitet/University of Southern Denmark
Institut for Entreprenørskab og Relationsledelse/Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management
Alsion 2, A2
6400 Sønderborg
Danmark
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Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to present a paper or symposium at the joint conference of the 24th ICAM and the 10th ICSI that will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel on July 14-17, 2017.
Joint Conference: 24th
International Conference on Advances in Management (ICAM) & 10th
International Conference on Social Intelligence (ICSI)
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1. PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS
You are invited to submit a summary of your paper and/or proposal for a
symposium(s) for review to one of the Tracks at the ICAM website http://icam1990.com on or
before April 15, 2017. Each submission should include the name, affiliation,
phone, and email of each author. Symposium proposals must include a statement
of objectives and a two-page summary of each presentation.
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2.SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCEDURE
Submissions must be RECEIVED by March 15, 2017. A double-blind review process will evaluate all submissions. Papers should not have been presented or published elsewhere prior to the conference and you are restricted to three submissions.
3.PROGRAM ORGANIZATION
The meeting will be organized around ten tracks and will feature competitive and invited paper sessions, symposia, and workshops designed to share ideas and research findings. Innovative sessions are encouraged, as are research and theory targeted toward practitioners.
4.PUBLICATIONS
Summaries of papers, symposia, and workshops presented at the conference (ICAM & ICSI) will be published in the Proceedings. Selected papers will be published in Current Topics in Management, Vol. 19. If you want your paper to be considered for publication in CTM, please send it as an attached file in Word with an email to the President.
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Center for Advanced Studies in Management
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President, ICAM
Western Kentucky University
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Life President, ICAM
Editor, Current
Topics in Management
University Distinguished Professor of Management
Hays Watkins Research Fellow
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to call your attention to a call for papers for a special issue on “Intercultural Communication in International Business Research” at the
Journal of World Business.
The goal of this special issue is to encourage theoretical and empirical development on intercultural communication as it relates to organizations. We are particularly interested in communication
processes and strategies that facilitate understanding between individuals and, as a consequence, facilitate team and organizational management performance. Through this special issue, we aim to advance our theoretical conceptualization and understanding of
intercultural communication with the specific focus on capturing the iterative, interactive, context-dependent processes of intercultural communication to improve global business practices.
We welcome submissions from various methodological traditions and invite interdisciplinary work. We seek contributions from various disciplines, using multiple theoretical frameworks and methodologies.
We invite both conceptual and empirical papers. We are particularly interested in communication processes as they relate to international management and organizations.
Deadline for submission: 31 October 2017
Submission open: 1 October 2017
Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors or supervising editor:
Betina Szkudlarek, University of Sydney, Australia ([log in to unmask])
Luciara Nardon, Carleton University, Canada ([log in to unmask])
Joyce Osland, San Jose State University, United States ([log in to unmask])
Lena Zander, Uppsala University, Sweden ([log in to unmask])
The full call for papers can be found here:
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Dear colleagues,
I’d be mostly grateful if you could recommend competent students to apply for this fantastic PhD studentship at the University of Northampton, UK.
Funding: The successful candidates will receive
a tuition fee waiver and Ł14,296 bursary per annum, plus Ł1,000 (cumulative) as research expenses budget to support travel and conference attendance
Duration of award: 3 years full time
Eligibility: This funding is open to UK and
international students.
Start Date: October 2017
Deadline for applications: Friday 28th April
2017
Supervisory Team:
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For further information about the PhD opportunity please follow:
many thanks in advance,
Shaowei
Dr. Shaowei He
Senior Lecturer
China and Emerging Economies Centre:
http://www.northampton.ac.uk/research/research-centres/china-and-emerging-economies-centre-ccec/
Faculty of Business and Law, University of Northampton, Boughton Green Road, Northampton,
NN2 7AL
UK, Telephone: +44 (0)1604 892163
Just published:
Shaowei He, Grahame Fallon, Zaheer Khan, Yong Kyu Lew, Kwang-Ho Kim & Ping Wei (2017), Towards a New Wave in Internationalisation of Innovation? The Rise of China’s
Innovative MNEs, Strategic Coupling and Global Economic Organisation, forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
Latest research project (supported by Leverhulme/British Academy
Small Research Grant 2015):
Emerging economy multinational enterprises’ acquisitions in developed countries and capability upgrading in their acquired firms: a multiple case study in the UK
I’m thrilled to tell you that Global Marketing, 2e has just gotten published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)! The book is authored by professors from
4 different countries, with extensive international and marketing experiences. You can see the features and benefits of the book online
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and you can order a complimentary review copy for adoption directly online from the same website. Kindly consider this book for your future courses in International Marketing and refer the book to colleagues who teach the subject.
Kind Attention:
Department and Search Committee Chairs,
I am actively seeking tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in marketing or a closely related area. Currently, I am pursuing Ph.D. in marketing at Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University, Detroit, and am into my sixth year of the program. My dissertation topic is, “Global Brands and Drivers of Consumers’ Purchase Behavior: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective”. I successfully defended my “Dissertation Proposal” in March 2016 and is expect to make the final defense by July 2017.
Below is the link to my profiles, I hope that my background, skills, research and teaching experience will interest you.
I should be available to start my new assignment by August 2017 and am open to relocation anywhere in the United States (preferably) or around the world. Looking forward to an opportunity to meet and discuss my research, teaching interests, expectations, and
explore the possibilities of a good fit. Please feel free to let me know should you need more information from my side.
Thanking you,
Nayyer (Nick) Naseem Dated: Mar 27, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate (Marketing),
Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University,
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