Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Call for book chapters: Effective Marketing in Contemporary Globalism:

Further details:


The deadline for completed Chapters is November 15, 2013.

Target Audience

The primary intended audience is scholar-practitioners who have the need for qualified Reference material regarding the subject matter of the proposed publication as outlined above. The secondary intended audience is business executives and undergraduate/graduate business students who require the same Reference material. While having academic rigor, the book will be written in a way such that it can also be understood by non-academics and non-specialists.

Recommended Topics (include, but are not limited to, the following):

1. Strategic Marketing Management
2. Guerilla Marketing 3. Strategic Marketing & Technology 4. International Marketing 5. Cultural Intelligence (CQ) 6. Thinking Patterns and Intellectual Styles 7. Business & Product Life Cycles 8. Incremental Innovation 9. Radical Innovation 10. Strategic Marketing Management 11. Globalization, Glocalization, and Grobalization 12. Schwartz: Seven Value Types or Motivational Domains 13. Convergence / Divergence Theory: Consumer Behavior 14. Online Marketing 15. Product Development 16. Integrated Marketing Communications 17. Segmentation, Evaluation, and Positioning 18. Marketing Channels and Supply Chain Management 19. International Language Management 20. Global Marketing Theory 21. Cross-cultural Marketing 22. Branding & Brand Equity 23. Third Culture Individuals 24. Government-University-Industry Collaboration 25. Strategic Value of Scholar-Practitioner-Leaders in Marketing 26. Social Processes: Motivation, Needs, and Drives 27. Global Competitiveness 28. International Diversity Management 29. Supply Chain Management 30. Case Studies


Submission Procedure


As this is the Final Call for this upcoming publication, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a completed manuscript on or before November 15, 2013. Authors of accepted chapters will be notified by December 31, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Please send ALL correspondence to Bryan Christiansen at: tmiri2014@gmail.com.


Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Call for papers: The Journal of World Business Special Issue on Global Governance & International Nonmarket Strategies


Back to the Great Illusion

Global Governance and International Nonmarket Strategies  for the 21st Century

  • Jonathan Doh
Villanova School of Business
Villanova University
  • Steven McGuire
School of Management & Business
Aberystwyth University
  • Toshiya Ozaki (corresponding contact)
College of Business, Rikkyo University
Tokyo, Japan 171-8501

by September 1, 2013. Inquiries about the special issue may be made to any of the special issue co-editors listed above. All submissions should follow the JWB author and style requirements, which are available at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620401/authorinstructions
Submissions will be double blind reviewed according to JWB procedures. Below is a rough timeline for consideration of papers and publication of the special issue. A workshop at which promising submissions will be presented and discussed is planned for January 27 and 28, 2014, at the London School of Economics. Professor Steve Kobrin of the Wharton School of Business will be the keynote presenter. Additional details will be provided once submissions are received and reviewed.
Submissions will be double blind reviewed according to JWB procedures. Below is a rough timeline for consideration of papers and publication of the special issue. A workshop at which promising submissions will be presented and discussed is planned for January 27 and 28, 2014, at the London School of Economics. Professor Steve Kobrin of the Wharton School of Business will be the keynote presenter. Additional details will be provided once submissions are received and reviewed.

  • Fall 2013:                          First round decisions
  • January 27 – 28, 2014:    Workshop, LSE, London, UK 
  • March 1, 2014:                 Revisions due
  • June 1, 2014:                   Second round decisions
  • September 1, 2014:         Third round decisions/Final papers due and decision letter issued
  • 2014/2015:                        Special issue published
Professor of International Business
College of Business, Rikkyo University
Tokyo, Japan 171-8501
Tel: +81-3-3985-4077




The Journal of World Business is soliciting papers to contribute to a special issue on the state of global governance and international nonmarket strategy in the 21st century. This special issue is focused on exploring the antecedents, processes and outcomes of the interaction between global governance systems and institutions and the international nonmarket strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs).
BACKGROUND
The global political economy is increasingly integrated and interdependent. In his book, The Great Illusion (1910), Norman Angell advanced the view that because of the increasing global interdependencies that linked nation states together in the first part of the 20th century, countries would hesitate before engaging in conflicts because they would be self- destructive. The two World Wars proved Angell wrong, and revealed one critical condition that was missing in his account: stable and sustainable economic interdependence requires well designed and well founded institutions on which cross-border commercial activities may flourish. The business community, especially MNEs in the United States and Europe, played an important role in helping policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic to design and develop the postwar international economic system. It is significant to note that these firms assumed the role not simply because of their altruism or social responsibility, but because of their self-interest in sustained international growth, facilitated by the Bretton Woods inspired global governance system. Similarly, the more recent rise of emerging markets MNEs owes much of their international success to the international regulatory system that catalyzed market activity both within and between home country economies.
Global business environments, and especially institutional arrangements to govern and sustain global trade and commerce, increasingly show strains and fissures. As Kobrin (2009) has argued, we may be entering a new uncharted phase of opportunities and challenges characterized by new types of participants (governments, firms, nongovernmental organizations) who have more diverse and unaligned interests, purposes and preferences than in previous eras. This complex environment is also characterized by more difficult and vexing issues – climate change, cyber-terrorism, and financial dependencies and volatility, to name a few – that may undermine traditional forms of global governance and render cooperation more difficult. The advancement of information and communication technology (ICT), which lowers barriers and allows firms and individuals to equip themselves with information and intelligence, exacerbates these challenges, but also offers new opportunities for addressing them.
The international business field has long been concerned with the structure and nature of business-government relations in the global environment and the institutional architecture that governs firm-state relations. In the area of MNE-government interactions, the seminal work of Vernon (1971), Fagre and Wells (1982), and Kobrin (1987) explored the delicate interactions among states and firms as they navigated an increasingly integrated global economy. More recent literature has addressed how governments shape the varying institutional contexts – both national and supranational (Henisz, 2002) – that firms encounter, as well as how firms themselves are able to adapt and adjust – and influence – the emerging institutional environments (Boddewyn & Brewer, 1994; Kostova & Roth, 2002). With the proliferation of additional actors in global business-government interactions, international business scholars have incorporated international institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) as formal participants in the traditional business-government bargaining model (Prakash, 2002; Ramaurti, 2001). Most recently, the emerging presence of civil society and nongovernmental institutions as important players in these increasingly complex and multifaceted business-government-institutions-nongovernmental relationships has drawn the attention of IB scholars who seek to broaden and expand the scope of the global business system in which MNEs operate (Boddewyn & Doh, 2010; Kobrin, 1998b; Teegen, Doh & Vachani, 2004; Lucea, 2009).
Dramatic changes in global governance systems and processes and the dissolution of traditional global alliances are reshaping and reformulating the system of global governance that has dominated the post-war period (McGuire, 2012). For example, the decades-long global coalition of countries and firms in support of increasingly liberalized trade has apparently fractured, climate change negotiations have reached an impasse, and there is little consensus as to how best to manage and regulate the increasingly complex and interlinked global financial system. Given this reality, it is appropriate to revisit some of the assumptions and approaches that have prevailed in the treatment of global governance systems and the actors that shape and are shaped by it. Further, it is important and timely to explore the current state of governance for global business, the sustainability of its underlying institutions, and alternative governance arrangements that may be emerging from private and nongovernmental actors. In addition to these macro-level considerations, the special issue will focus on the nonmarket strategies (Baron, 1997) of firms responding to these changing conditions, and how MNES are themselves influencing the systems that are emerging. Finally, just as the governance system for global business may be undergoing a fundamental shift, studies of international business have come a long way in their efforts to integrate various disciplines and approaches in examining these governance systems and understanding consequent firm nonmarket strategies. We believe the time is ripe to look back and reflect on these achievements, but also to call attention to unanswered questions.
Kobrin (1977, 1978, 1987, 1998a, 1998b, 2004, and 2009) is one of the key contributors to our understanding of the interactions between politics, economics and international business. He has sought to account for the impact of political distance/difference between countries on international business and examined different levels and types of political risk and how risk contributes to differing firm strategies and structures (Kobrin, 1977, and 1978). More recently, Kobrin has turned his attention to changes in global governance and nonmarket activity, and has called attention to the potential fracturing of the global governance systems and the emergence of alternative actors and approaches (1998a, 1998b, 2004, and 2009). Building on this work, this issue will focus on the complex interactions of economic liberalization, the role and responsibilities of international institutions, and global firm strategy. In particular, we encourage papers that examine how the changing role of international institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO is influencing firms’ nonmarket strategies. We also encourage submissions that explore the emergence of substitute institutional arrangements such as private regulations, codes and other forms of “soft” regulation, and how these complementary forms of global governance are influencing how firms develop and advance their social and political strategies. In addition to submissions that explore how Western MNEs are responding to this new global governance architecture, we also encourage submissions that explore the evolution of emerging market firms as corporate actors at the international level, especially as they increasingly interact with foreign governments, global institutions, and private regulation.
POTENTIAL TOPICS
We seek conceptual, theoretical, empirical and review papers that address this broad topic. While the focus of the special issue is intentionally broad and integrative, below are potential topics and questions that could be relevant to the call, although they are certainly not exhaustive.
  • ·        How has the nature, influence and effectiveness of global governance systems evolved in the post-World War Two period? What does this mean for the study of IB generally, and MNE nonmarket strategies in particular?
  • ·        Does the changing and evolving nature of global governance mechanisms call for the development of a theory of transnational corporate political and/or social activity? If so, what theory or theories could inform this phenomenon?
  • ·        What is the relationship between levels of governance (regional, multilateral) and nonmarket (political and social) strategy?
  • ·        What is the impact on MNE nonmarket strategy of global private regulation and codes of conduct such as the UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative, ISO 1400 and 2100? Are these new forms of regulations substitutes or complements to traditional international law and regulation?
  • ·        How has the emergence of individual nongovernmental organizations (e.g. Greenpeace, WWF, Amnesty; Oxfam) and collectives of NGOs and associations of NGOs and firms influenced how firms direct their nonmarket strategies? Are firms refocusing their energies on these new actors and downplaying traditional global institutions?
  • ·        How do the nonmarket (political and social) strategies of emerging market firms, especially those directed at supranational institutions, compare to those of firms from developed countries?
  • ·        How can corporate interests be aligned across national boundaries, societies and cultures such as they continue to support global institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO and so on) while also recognizing the changing nature of global governance?


PROCESS AND TIMING
Papers that respond to this call should be forwarded to:jwbglobalgovernance@gmail.com
Key Dates
September 1, 2013:         Submissions due to co-editors at email address above
REFERENCES
Angell, N. (1910).The Great Illusion: A study of the relation of military power in nations to their economic and social advantage.  New York/London: Putnam.
Baron, D.P. (1997). Integrated strategy, trade policy, and global competition. California Management Review 39: 145-169.
Boddewyn J., & Doh, J. (2011). Global strategy and the collaboration of MNEs, NGOs, and governments for the provisioning of collective goods in emerging markets. Global Strategy Journal, 1: 345-361
Boddewyn, J.J., & Brewer, T.L. (1994). International Business Political Behavior: New Theoretical Directions. Academy of Management Review, 19: 119-143
Fagre, N., & Wells, L.T. (1982). Bargaining power of multinationals and host governments. Journal of International Business Studies, 13: 9-23
Henisz, W.J. (2000). The institutional environment for multinational investment. Journal of Law Economics & Organization, 16: 334-364
Kobrin, S. J. (1978). When does political instability result in increased investment risk?The Columbia Journal of World Business, 14: 113-122
Kobrin, S.J. (1979). Political risk : A review and reconsideration. Journal  of International Business Studies10: 67-80. 
Kobrin, S.J. (1987). Testing the bargaining hypothesis in the manufacturing sector in developing countries. International Organization 41: 609-638.
Kobrin, S.J. (1998a). Back to the future: Neomedievalism and the postmodern digital world economy.  Journal of International Affairs51: 361–86.
Kobrin, S J. (1998b).  The MAI and the clash of globalizations. Foreign Policy, Fall, 97-109.
Kobrin, S.J. (2004). Safe harbours are hard to find: the Trans-Atlantic data privacy dispute, territorial jurisdiction and global governance.  Review of International Studies, 30: 111-131.
Kobrin, S J.  (2009). Private political authority and public responsibility: transnational politics, transnational firms and human rights, Business Ethics Quarterly, 19: 349-374.
Kostova, T., & Roth, K. (2002). Adoption of an organizational practice by subsidiaries of multinational corporations: Institutional and relational effects. Academy of Management Journal 45: 215-233
Lucea, R. (2010). How we see them versus how they see themselves: A cognitive perspective of firm-NGO relationships. Business & Society, 49: 116-139
McGuire, S (2012). What Happened to the Influence of Business? Corporations and organized labour in the WTO. In Narlikar, A, Staunton, M. & Stern, R. (eds) The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, (pp. 320-339), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Prakash, A. (2002). Beyond Seattle: globalization, the nonmarket environment and corporate strategy. Review of International Political Economy, 9: 513-537
Ramamurti, R. (2001). The obsolescing “bargaining model”? MNC-host developing country relations revisited, Journal of International Business Studies, 32: 23-39.
Teegen, H., Doh, J.P., & Vachani, S. (2004). The importance of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in global governance and value creation: an international business research agenda. Journal of International Business Studies, 35: 463-483
Vernon R. (1971). Sovereignty at Bay:The multinational spread of U.S. enterprises. New York: Basic Books.

Toshiya Ozaki, PhD

Call for conference papers on: Marketing in BRICS


2014 World Marketing Congress
August 5-8, 2014 Lima, Peru
Track “Marketing in BRICS”
Co-Chairs Gregory Kivenzor and Deon Nel
You are cordially invited to submit your research paper and/or special session proposal for this track in a PDF format via the link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmc17esan

Suggested topics for this track include:
marketing in transitional BRICS economies; comparison among BRICS consumers and these with Western markets; cross-cultural and multicultural marketing in BRICS; cultural issues and their effect on marketing successes and failures; peculiarities of B2B and B2C marketing environment; marketing to the growing middle-class; marketing to consumers in the bottom of the pyramid; marketing luxury products in BRICS; marketing effects on ethics, sustainable practices and CSR; competition between MNCs and local players in BRICS; SMEs in BRICS; firms from BRICS entering developed markets; teaching marketing disciplines in BRICS; brands in BRICS.
This list is neither comprehensive nor exclusive, other BRICS related topics will be considered.
Track co-Chairs foresee the use of different session formats: competitive paper presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions, etc. General requirements are listed in the AMS Call for Papers: http://tinyurl.com/lql5s3x.

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2013.  

By this date, you need to submit only an extended abstract (up to 5 pages) for the purpose of review. You may find useful an example of the structured abstract posted on the AMS site: http://tinyurl.com/kxbxvse.
If you have any questions, please contact track co-Chairs:



Note: co-Chairs are in a dialog with publishers and explore opportunities to publish full academic research papers presented at the “Marketing in BRICS” track in a book.

Call for special issue on “Brand and Innovation Interdependency”

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science


Call for Papers for a Special Issue on

“Brand and Innovation Interdependency”
Guest edited by Barry L. Bayus, Tim Oliver Brexendorf, and Kevin Lane Keller

The topics of brand and innovation management are strongly interrelated. Strong brands are not only supported by innovation, but they are also an important path to and source of innovation.

Brands give new products and services meaning and guidance and facilitate and support the process of the new product and services launch. The brand allows ownership of the innovation, adds credibility and legitimacy, enhances visibility, and supports communication. Concurrently, successful product/services innovations strengthen brand equity because they may reinforce and in some cases broaden brand meaning, help to revitalize brands, act as an effective measure against private labels, and improve brand value and profitability.

A lot of research is done in the fields of brand management and product innovation management separately. Although both the search for product innovation excellence and for brand leadership have clearly become important management priorities and points of differentiation for many companies (e.g., Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Henkel), the relationship between product innovation and branding is still under researched. Preliminary research findings indicate complex interactions among product innovation and brand management. Nevertheless, little integration of these two streams with each other has appeared.

To address these issues, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science is issuing a call for papers that explore the relationship between innovation and brand management. Submissions should address gaps that exist in the research of product and service innovation and brand management and investigate related research questions. Critical questions include:


  • How should a brand be managed as a growth platform for innovations?
  • What does the brand need and how can the brand support an innovation?
  • What is the effect of existing product and brand portfolios on successful launch strategies?
  • How can the long-term new product potential of a brand be assessed?
  • What are successful branding strategies for different forms of innovation?
  • What kind of brand associations facilitate or inhibit the introduction of new product or service innovations?
  • Are there any downsides of innovation for brand equity? Can innovation lead to consumer confusion, frustration, or mistrust?
  • How do brand credibility and brand trust influence the perception of new products?
  • What is the impact of new product preannouncements on brand perceptions?
  • How do various launch strategies strengthen brand equity?
  • How do brand values influence product development processes?
  • How does brand position influence the organization of innovation activities?
  • How does the breadth of a firm’s brand portfolio influence its R&D processes?
  • What is the relationship between product design and branding?
  • How can product design enhance a firm’s branding strategy?



Papers targeting the special issue should be submitted using the JAMS submission system (www.edmgr.com/jams) and will also undergo the same review process as regularly submitted papers. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2014. Questions pertaining to the special issue should be directed to Tim Oliver Brexendorf (tim.brexendorf@whu.edu) or the JAMS Editorial Office.


JAMS Editorial Office
G. Tomas M. Hult, Editor
Anne Hoekman, Managing Editor
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48864-1121, USA
Phone: +1-517-353-4336

Email: jams@msu.edu

Friday, August 16, 2013

Call for Conference Papers: McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Santiago Chile

McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Santiago Chile, 2-5 Sep 2014 

The 17th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference on

New frontiers & directions in IE
To be held at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), Chile 2-5 September 2014
International entrepreneurs and entrepreneurially-oriented firms have dominated the growth of the global economy in the past two decades. These firms deploy innovative and competitive strategies to achieve growth at home and global markets; they also force older firms to re-examine their past strategies and influence the dynamics of competition.
Following the tradition established by the previous conferences since 1998, this conference aims to bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars, insightful practitioners and policy makers with interests in the fields of International Entrepreneurship to examine the potent forces and influences, consequent changes and the dominant pattern(s) of emerging developments in international entrepreneurship. In previous plenary sessions, prominent scholars, including Zoltan Acs, Howard Aldrich, Paul Beamish, Nicole Coviello, Leo-Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad, Jean François Hennart, Jan Johanson, Jerome Katz, Peter Liesch, Benjamin Oviatt, Patricia McDougall, Tage Koed Madsen and Alan Rugman, among many others, presented provocative ideas in moving research frontiers forward. 
1.- Plenary session & Research-Intensive Workshop
1.- Plenary session & Research-Intensive Workshop
The intensive, two-day research conference will focus on examination and the further development of potent concepts, frameworks, theories and methodologies for better understanding of internationalizing entrepreneurial firms facing internationalization challenges. This will provide a unique opportunity for scholars to discuss path-breaking concepts, ideas, frameworks and theory-essentials in the competitive paper sessions by discussing their on-going research. Only unpublished completed, or nearly completed, papers are invited for presentation and feedback from other scholars.
A selected list of competitive papers will be considered for further publication in scholarly venues, including special issues of the Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research and McGill International Entrepreneurship Book Series (Elgar publishing), among others. The 2014 MIE conference will include two best paper awards for competitive papers presented at the conference.
Empirical and theoretical research papers on any of the following topics and related areas are invited:

• Cross-national comparisons of growth patterns of internationally-oriented and entrepreneurial firms
• New challenges in internationalizing firms
• De-internationalization and its consequences
• Gender issues in International Entrepreneurship
• IE in the context of regional industrial clusters
• Internationalization trajectories over a firm’s life-cycle
• Impacts of internationalizations of upstream and downstream value chains on International Entrepreneurship
• Impact of entrepreneurially-oriented firms on regional and national economies
• Impact of institutional, learning and network theories on entrepreneurial internationalization
• Internet-enabled IE
• IE in the Southern Hemisphere
• IE in Latin America and emerging economies
• Internationalization of smaller entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets
• Ethnic, family and international entrepreneurship
Empirical and theoretical research papers on any of the following topics and related areas are invited:
• Cross-national comparisons of growth patterns of internationally-oriented and entrepreneurial firms
• New challenges in internationalizing firms
• De-internationalization and its consequences
• Gender issues in International Entrepreneurship
• IE in the context of regional industrial clusters
• Internationalization trajectories over a firm’s life-cycle
• Impacts of internationalizations of upstream and downstream value chains on International Entrepreneurship
• Impact of entrepreneurially-oriented firms on regional and national economies
• Impact of institutional, learning and network theories on entrepreneurial internationalization
• Internet-enabled IE
• IE in the Southern Hemisphere
• IE in Latin America and emerging economies
• Internationalization of smaller entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets
• Ethnic, family and international entrepreneurship
• Cross-national comparisons of growth patterns of internationally-oriented and entrepreneurial firms
• New challenges in internationalizing firms
• De-internationalization and its consequences
• Gender issues in International Entrepreneurship
• IE in the context of regional industrial clusters
• Internationalization trajectories over a firm’s life-cycle
• Impacts of internationalizations of upstream and downstream value chains on International Entrepreneurship
• Impact of entrepreneurially-oriented firms on regional and national economies
• Impact of institutional, learning and network theories on entrepreneurial internationalization
• Internet-enabled IE
• IE in the Southern Hemisphere
• IE in Latin America and emerging economies
• Internationalization of smaller entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets
• Ethnic, family and international entrepreneurship
3.- Business plenary
3.- Business plenary
Past Publications
Past Publications
The McGill International Entrepreneurship Series of books (Edward Elgar Publishing) has also published five volumes of conference papers. This conference will follow the same practice including special issues of journals with high impact.
The 2014 MIE conference social programme will feature visits to entrepreneurial and world-class wineries.

Additional information and key dates:
1. Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts (about1000 words): March 10, 2014
2. Feedback/Acceptance for presentation will be communicated by April 7, 2014
3. Completed Papers & detailed synopsis of PhD research (6000 to 8000 words) may be submitted electronically, as a Word attachment to: 2014mie.conference@uai.cl by May 30, 2014

Conference Chair: 
Christian Felzensztein, PhD
Professor & Director, Research Center for International Competitiveness UAI
Academic Director, PhD in Management UAI
The 2014 MIE conference social programme will feature visits to entrepreneurial and world-class wineries.
Additional information and key dates:
1. Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts (about1000 words): March 10, 2014
2. Feedback/Acceptance for presentation will be communicated by April 7, 2014
3. Completed Papers & detailed synopsis of PhD research (6000 to 8000 words) may be submitted electronically, as a Word attachment to: 2014mie.conference@uai.cl by May 30, 2014

Conference Chair: 
Christian Felzensztein, PhD
Professor & Director, Research Center for International Competitiveness UAI
Academic Director, PhD in Management UAI
www.uai.cl/cci
http://www.uai.cl/docentes/christian-felzensztein

Additional information and key dates:
1. Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts (about1000 words): March 10, 2014
2. Feedback/Acceptance for presentation will be communicated by April 7, 2014
3. Completed Papers & detailed synopsis of PhD research (6000 to 8000 words) may be submitted electronically, as a Word attachment to: 2014mie.conference@uai.cl by May 30, 2014
Conference Chair: 
Christian Felzensztein, PhD
Professor & Director, Research Center for International Competitiveness UAI
Academic Director, PhD in Management UAI
www.uai.cl/cci
http://www.uai.cl/docentes/christian-felzensztein

Conference Chair: 
Christian Felzensztein, PhD
Professor & Director, Research Center for International Competitiveness UAI
Academic Director, PhD in Management UAI
www.uai.cl/cci
http://www.uai.cl/docentes/christian-felzensztein
If you have any question please contact conference coordinator Loreto Rocha at loreto.Rocha@uai.cl 

The McGill international Entrepreneurship (MIE) conference series has traditionally examined frontier issues related to entrepreneurial internationalization and internationalization of the small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs).
The 2014 annual conference will follow the following structure:
A plenary session with key speakers including Professors Patricia McDougall (Indiana, USA), Rod B McNaughton (Auckland, NZ) and Pavlos Dimitratos (Glasgow, UK) discussing the topic "Present and Future of IE Research: New directions" will be the opening session of the conference.
2.- Doctoral Colloquium
This one-day intensive workshop is designed to address the problems and challenges in the rapidly emerging field of International Entrepreneurship for Doctoral Candidates in the field. They are encouraged to participate in the entire conference fully as well. A limited number of competitive scholarships (conference fee waiver) will be awarded to the attending and contributing Doctoral Candidates from emerging countries. A detailed program will be available shortly.
This part will consist of an open plenary session for interaction with key members of the business and policy communities. Executives from internationalizing firms of Latin America and policy makers of Chile will be invited to join and interact with scholars and share mutual perspective on related themes.
Leading-edge contributions from the previous conferences have appeared in prestigious journals and edited books. Special issues of scholarly journals, such as Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Management International Review, Small Business Economics, among others, have published a cohesive collection of the conference papers.

Key contacts & useful links:

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Call for Papers: Labour market flexibility and spatial mobility


International Journal of Manpower

Call for Papers for the Special Issue on: Labour market flexibility and spatial mobility

Submissions Deadline: September 2, 2013
  • different aspects of labour market flexibility such as: occupational mobility, working time flexibility, functional flexibility, wage flexibility, and their effects on links to spatial mobility and education
  • role of human capital in labour mobility processes during different economic periods (e.g. booms and crises)
  • interactions between labour market flexibility and spatial mobility
  • role of formal education and lifelong learning for certain aspects of labour market flexibility
  • knowledge and workers' flows in Europe
  • ``brain-drain'', ``brain-waste'' and ``brain-gain'' in East-West migration.


CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Manpower is pleased to announce a special issue focused on labour market flexibility and spatial (labour) mobility. The special issue will examine different aspects of labour market flexibility, spatial mobility of workforce and its effects on labour market flexibility, factors influencing both labour market flexibility and spatial mobility, role of education and/or life-long learning for certain aspects of labour market flexibility and spatial mobility. The special issue aims to offer a range of economic, social and cultural perspectives on issues of labour market flexibility and spatial mobility in different countries (country groups) during different economic cycles (e.g. booms and crises). Special issue will focus on three main research fields: how labour flexibility is linked with spatial mobility; how formal education and lifelong learning affect labour market flexibility; and how educational and labour policy and different institutional settings contribute to labour market flexibility and mobility during different economic cycles.

AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Labour market flexibility as an issue of competitiveness of a country has become even more important in the context of recent economic recession and it is that the concept must be linked with spatial mobility. Job related commuting is the most effective way for overcoming a jobs-people mismatch, especially since migration literature presents growing evidence not only of decreased intensity of permanent migrations, but also increased daily mobility. Emigration and return migration are very important in understanding labour market adjustments for changing macroeconomic conditions (like it happened in Baltic countries and Ireland during recent recession or in Greece due to its week economic outlook).
Both labour market flexibility and labour mobility are directly influenced by educational settings. It is well established in the literature that educated migrants are not crowding out domestic labour, on the contrary, they have a value added effect on the domestic labour market (Wadhwa et al., 2008). It is also known that a more educated workforce is more open to lifelong learning (Jenkins et al., 2002; OECD, 2001). Through new knowledge and skills the labour force becomes more flexible and more open for occupational mobility. If people work abroad they increase not only the wellbeing of their families (through remittances), but also their human capital by acquiring new knowledge and skills.
The purpose of the special issue is to cover some research caps in the existing literature. For example, there is still little research on interactions between education settings and labour market flexibility (one exception is Eichhorst et al 2009); between spatial mobility and labour market flexibility, despite the fact that some authors (e.g. Monastiriotis, 2005; Paas and Eamets, 2007) find that labour mobility is an essential part of labour market flexibility.

The key themes and topics that we would like to explore include some of (but are not limited to) the following:

Papers on any of these or associated topics are welcome; the IJM is an empirically-based research journal though the Guest Editors will be pleased to consider theoretical as well as empirical research papers for the special issue. While there is no preference for any specific research paradigm, innovative research methodologies adopted to collect and analyze the data and cases are welcomed.
This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind reviewed in the normal way. Submission will be taken to imply that a paper contains original work that has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should follow the journal’s regular guidelines, as published in every issue of the journal. Authors should make an effort to keep within the IJM word length guidelines of 7500 words including references.

Schedule


September 2, 2013: Submission of full papers
January 15, 2014: Editorial decision
2014: Anticipated publication of the special issue

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Guest Editors




Friday, August 2, 2013

Call for conference papers: FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference, Buenos Aires


Global and Regional Powers in a Changing World



July 23rd-25th 2014
Co-hosted by FLACSO

The increasing gravitation of emerging economies is changing the landscape of international politics. This has implications for the possibilities of a new global order where emerging powers have begun to engage in the construction of new norms, governance institutions, development agendas and citizenship practices. Likewise, the context of regionalism and regionalization processes is also being transformed with the global projection of emerging powers. China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa are increasingly acquiring pivotal roles in the articulation of regional and global dynamics. At the same time, traditional powers became more focused on pressing domestic and regional challenges due to the financial and economic crisis that started in 2008.  These changes and reconfigurations constitute a new terrain of innovation, collaboration and dispute of an increasingly wider scope of policies, economic interests, identities and sources of legitimization of the international order.
The FLACSO-ISA joint conference will seek to improve our understanding of global and regional reconfigurations of power across several dimensions. Does the rise of emerging powers translate into global structural changes? Is there a new emerging regional architecture of world politics? What are the changes and continuities? How are these regional powers shifting North-South relations? What type of South-South relations are these emerging powers encouraging? What are the regional implications and the resulting configurations in global-regional dynamics? How are traditional powers reacting to these changes in world politics? What are the main challenges of these transformations in terms of development, foreign policy, trade, finance, sustainability, human rights, war, peace, sub-national, regional and supra-national arrangements, public and private authorities and the role of transnational social and economic actors as agents of international politics?
The Graduate Student Workshops provide an opportunity for graduate students and post-docs to present their research in a small-group panel setting with detailed feedback from senior scholars. They are intended to offer professional development and networking opportunities for graduate students and post-docs.

Call for conference papers: World Business History Conference


Call for Papers



"State of the art in World Business History - a first review" 


Call for Papers: World Business History Conference 
Sunday 16 and Monday 17 March 2014 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany 

The globalisation of business has changed the landscape of academic enquiry into business activities. Business historians around the world engage in extensive research on the Business History of local economies, of regional economies and in many instances in the global opera-tions of business. An initiative was launched in September 2012 to bring together Business Historians from around the world in a conference on WORLD BUSINESS HISTORY in 2014. The focus is the global scope of Business History as it is practiced around the world today. With attention on as many countries around the globe, the WORLD CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS HISTORY will focus on the exciting and new research in Business History as prac-ticed in many countries of the world, in as many regions of the world and on all continents comprising the globe. The growing presence of Business History research in emerging econ-omies and developing regions makes it imperative to bring all of those scholars together. The global integration of Business and Research call for academic engagement at a world conference dedicated to Business History. The multi-disciplinary nature of Business History enquiry across time and place offers a unique opportunity to bring scholars from all over the world together to deliberate on the entire scope of Business History disciplinary enquiry. A variety of topics such as the following can lead to exciting new insights and future collabora-tion especially when comparative: 

  • - Business across the wide scope of different stages of globalization. 
  • - Varieties of capitalism and the nature of business. 
  • - Business history and Economic development in different regions and across centuries. 
  • - Varieties of the forms of business organisations, business groups, industrial districts, clusters, cartels and small and medium sized enterprises, coops, etc. 
  • - Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial families 
  • - Enterprises in sectors such as finance, agriculture, transport, tourism, teaching, med-ical care etc. 

This is a call for papers - or panels of papers - on any of the topics outlined above, but also for new innovative submissions that can assist us in expanding Business History research and global collaboration in the discipline. 

An exploratory conference will be held in Germany 16-17 March 2014. This conference will follow on the joint BHC/Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte congress the week be-fore. While the aim is to bring Business historians together from around the world, the lan-guage of deliberations will be English, but the participants will be from multi-lingual native-language and multi-cultural origin. The success of this pre-conference will take the initiatives forward to the WORLD CONGRESS OF BUSINESS HISTORY in June 2016 in Bergen, Norway! 


Applications (for the World Business History Conference, 16 - 17 March 2014 in Frankfurt): 
Please send your application to 
Dr. Andrea Schneider ahschneider@unternehmensgeschichte.de 

Content: 
I) for single contributions: 
  • A) 1 page of abstract, 
  • B) 2-4 key words, 
  • C) 0,5 to 1 page of cv, 

II) for whole sessions: 
  • A) 1 page of abstract on the aim of the whole session, 
  • B) 1 page of abstract on each contribution, 
  • C) 0,5-1 page of cv for each contributor. 
  • Sessions cannot have more than 5 contributions. (Any suggestion for the commentator would be appreciated.) Also with whole sessions each application will be considered by arbitrators. 


Deadline: 1st October 2013 


Download CfP WBHC_CfP.pdf

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Call for papers. Special issue on Corporate Social Responsibility and International Marketing

Call for papers - Corporate Social Responsibility and International Marketing

Special issue call for papers from International Marketing Review



Guest Editors

  • Byung Il Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea 
  • Chang Hoon Oh, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Pervez N. Ghauri, King’s College London, United Kingdom


Despite the recent economic slump and subsequent fluctuations of development activities in some markets, the general trend of economic growth around the globe has continuously shown upward movement over the last three decades. Along with the improvement in the quality of life, consumers are paying more attention to ethical and philanthropic activities of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Due to this phenomenon, corporate social responsibility (CSR) research is growing in importance. Scholarly evidence increasingly confirms that CSR activities are beneficial for corporate success (e.g., Orlitzky et al., 2003; Waddock and Graves, 1997). We presume that this is probably because consistent CSR activities induce a corporation's image enhancement, which subsequently results in consumer's trust in its products (Turker, 2009). Taken together, there is a general consensus that CSR is often considered as a key factor significantly influencing market image and corporate success at home as well as in international markets.

Reflecting the trend discussed above, scholars and business practitioners perceive CSR as an integral part of marketing strategy. In addition, in order to maximize shareholder wealth by carrying out actions that increase business profit, various stakeholders also need to be convinced that the company is a good citizen in the society (Freeman, 1984). Meanwhile, it should be noted that among all the stakeholders, one important group that appears to be particularly influential for firms to initiate CSR activities is consumers (Du, Bhattacharya and Sen, 2010). Considering the globalization of the markets, companies need to create a positive image in all international markets. However, a thorough review of the literature indicates that most studies exploring CSR are concentrated only on Domestic Marketing (e.g., the impact of CSR on consumer loyalty in the local markets) (see e.g., Adams, Licht and Sagiv, 2011; Muller and Kräussl, 2011; Luo and Bhattacharya, 2006; Lai et al., 2010), which clearly indicates that CSR research tends to have an implied domestic marketing bias and very little research into CSR issues has considered CSR’s international marketing implications.

CSR activities can also be used as a valuable international marketing strategy. For instance, some studies in International Marketing suggest that CSR by international marketers will significantly improve their national and corporate brands in developing and emerging markets (Torres et al., 2012). As another example, the spread of good word-of-mouth about desirable business practices between international consumers is definitely crucial for multinational enterprises to achieve successful subsidiary operations in foreign markets (Luo and Bhattacharya, 2006). Despite these facts, it is hard to find scholarly attention paid to the discussions linking international marketers, their CSR behavior and its influence on success/failure in foreign markets. Many major questions thus remain unanswered with respect to the nature and consequences of CSR activity for MNEs’ marketing strategies.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together theoretical and empirical advancements connecting CSR and international marketing issues. We seek both theoretical and empirical papers that may address, but are not limited to, the following list of potential research questions:

  • • Do international marketers' CSR practices function as a catalyst enhancing international competitiveness and organizational performance in foreign markets?

  • • Does good corporate image derived from CSR practices play a pivotal role in acquiring local market information and eventually improving competitiveness in international markets?

  • • What are the motivations for CSR practices in foreign markets? Is there any particular relationship between the level of foreign CSR and national brand enhancement? Is there a difference in motivations between the CSR activities of international marketers in developed and developing nations?

  • • How do international marketers adapt themselves to host country CSR practices and regulations? What factors influence this adaptation? Does this adaptation process increase the brand value of MNEs?

  • • Do international marketers adopt standardized CSR practices, or do they adapt their approaches to host countries? What are the potential benefits/drawbacks and other marketing related consequences?

  • • Are the marketing-related and ethically-related benefits of CSR activities universal across foreign markets?

  • • Do foreign firms’ advanced environmental and marketing capabilities affect their CSR practices and brand image?

  • • How do firms transform environmental capability in order to internationally link it to marketing advantages under the institutional void (i.e., in least developed countries)?

  • • How do international marketers manage their CSR best practices in different local market environments?

  • • What are international marketing strategies of social enterprises? 

  • • Is the CSR activity of global marketing firms related to the development of country of origin perceptions, country image or consumer ethnocentrism?

  • • Do MNEs in developed and emerging markets differ with respect to their CSR activity, and if so, why? Does it matter in terms of marketing success?

  • • Multinational CSR activity: what is it and how should it be measured?

  • • What is the impact of CSR communications on employee citizenship behavior across different markets?

  • • Do consumers, employees and investors in different countries respond differently to CSR activities and communications?

Submission Instructions

The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2014. Submissions should be made via ScholarOne Manuscripts: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/imrev

All submissions will be subject to the regular double-blind peer review process at the International Marketing Review. The guest editors are seeking reviewers for this issue and are soliciting nominations and volunteers to participate as reviewers. Please contact the guest editors to volunteer or nominate a reviewer.

More Information

To obtain additional information, please contact the guest editors:


References


  • Adams, R. B., Licht, A. N., and Sagiv, L. (2011), “Shareholders and stakeholders: how do directors decide?”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 1331-1355.
  • Du, S., Bhattacharya, C. B. and Sen, S. (2010). “Maximizing business returns to corporate social responsibility (CSR): The role of CSR communication”, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 8-19.
  • Freeman, R. E. (1984), Strategic Management: A stakeholder approach. Boston, MA: Pitman.
  • Lai, C. S., Chiu, C. J., Yang, C. F., and Pai, D. C. (2010), “The effects of corporate social responsibility on brand performance: the mediating effect of industrial brand equity and corporate reputation”, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 95, pp. 457-469.
  • Luo, X., and Bhattacharya, B. (2006), “Corporate social responsibility, customer satisfaction, and market value”, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 70, pp. 1-18.
  • Muller, A., and Kräussl, R. (2011), “Doing good deeds in times of need: a strategic perspective on corporate disaster donations”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 911-929.
  • O’Shaughnessy, K. C., Gedajlovic, E. and Reinmoeller, P. (2007), “The influence of firm, industry and network on the corporate social performance of Japanese firms”, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol. 24, pp. 283-303.
  • Orlitzky, M., Schmidt, F., and Rynes, S. (2003). “Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis”, Organization Studies, Vol. 24, pp. 403–441.
  • Torres, A., Bijmolt, T. H. A., Tribo, J. A., and Verhoef, P. (2012), “Generating global brand equity through corporate social responsibility to key stakeholders”, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Vol. 29, pp. 13-24.
  • Turker, D. (2009), “How corporate social responsibility influences organizational commitment”, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 89, pp. 189-204.
  • Udayasankar, K. (2008), “Corporate social responsibility and firm size”, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 83, pp. 167-175.
  • Waddock, S. A., and Graves, S. B: (1997). “The Corporate Social Performance – Financial Performance Link”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 303–320.


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College of Business Administration
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