Call for Papers: JIBS. Multilevel empirical research in international business

Special Issue of the Journal of International Business Studies

Multilevel empirical research in International Business


Special Issue Editors

• Jean-Luc Arregle, University of Luxembourg, jean-luc.arregle@uni.lu
• Shige Makino, Chinese University of Hong Kong, makino@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk
• Xavier Martin, Tilburg University, x.martin@uvt.nl
• Mark F. Peterson, Florida Atlantic University, mpeterso@fau.edu
• Anand Swaminathan, Emory University, aswamin@emory.edu

Deadline for submission: April 30, 2010

Tentative publication date: Fall 2011 or Spring 2012


Introduction

This special issue seeks to promote and shape the future direction for multilevel quantitative research in the field of international business.
Multilevel research investigates phenomena at several levels of analysis - such as individuals, groups or subsidiaries, firms, networks or business groups, industries or organization sets, and countries and regions - to illuminate the multiple causes or consequences of behaviors at and across these levels. This allows us to better analyze international business actions within a comprehensive and integrative framework. Multilevel conceptual models are common in international business, but empirical research has usually tested them at a single level of analysis at a time.
The single-level approach creates several statistical problems including spurious disaggregation (where researchers disaggregate higher-level data to use a non-multilevel method), misestimated precision and ignorance of intra-class correlation, which increase Type 1 and Type 2 errors. In fact, multilevel methods have been almost ignored in quantitative international business.

The purpose of this special issue is to narrow the gap between theoretical models and quantitative methods in international business research. We want to showcase high-quality multilevel quantitative studies, to encourage international business researchers to apply these methods, and to underline their value in studying new international business topics or renewing the analysis of older ones. Hence, we seek original empirical contributions using multilevel quantitative methods to extend international business research. As a result, this special issue should set a definite standard of the use of multilevel methods in high-quality IB research that uses such data, and serve as a milestone for the development and spread of these methods in IB.
Special Issue Theme

Multilevel research has gained visibility in management research since its first formal introduction to management in an Academy of Management Review special issue in 1999 (edited by Klein, Tosi and Cannella). It took years to transfer this idea to research practice, leading to a special issue in the Academy of Management Journal in 2007 (edited by Hitt, Beamish, Jackson and Mathieu). Now, there is a consensus that this type of research improves our understanding of managerial issues (see Hitt et al., 2007). This consensus has been reinforced by the development of statistical software dedicated to multilevel quantitative methods (including HLM, MLwIN, SuperMix, etc.) and by the addition of multilevel capabilities in general software (such as Stata). These developments have enlarged the types of multilevel methods that are available to researchers and made their use easier.

Surprisingly, when we consider publications in international business, it is manifest that, despite this consensus and the availability of these methods, they have been largely ignored. For instance, there were no international business articles in the AMJ special issue about multilevel research, and less than 5% of the articles published in JIBS since 2002 use these methods.
In fact, most international business researchers keep testing multilevel models with non-multilevel methods, limiting the development of more elaborated research frameworks and questions (Arregle, Hebert, and Beamish, 2006). Beyond the crucial point of methodological validity, the use of multilevel methods would also allow researchers to develop (and test) more comprehensive models looking at level-1, level-2 or level-3 variables, and their interactions.

This gap is even more striking if we consider the nature of international business. As an integrative field, international business should cut across macro/micro divisions. By definition international business researchers have to deal in their frameworks with individuals, subsidiaries, MNEs, industries and networks, countries and regions, etc. Therefore, by design, international business researchers work very often on multilevel research models. Hence, the objective of this special issue is to generalize the use of multilevel quantitative methods and thereby narrow the gap between theory and evidence to decisively bring multilevel quantitative methods into the mainstream of international business research.


Topics for the Special Issue
This special issue will consider only multilevel quantitative papers. We hope to include various forms of multilevel quantitative research that advance our understanding of international business phenomena. All the different academic disciplines belonging to international business (human resources management, strategy, marketing, organizational behavior, finance,
etc.) are relevant. Although articles for the special issue must demonstrate a good mastery of multilevel quantitative methods, they must first and foremost contribute strongly to international business research. They should address international business issues considering different levels of analysis in a single theoretical and empirical model. Multilevel methods are increasingly sophisticated, so we look for submissions that give theoretical meaning to higher-level constructs and do not treat them as categorical variables as was done in simpler moderated regression models. They encompass a diversity of specifications such as linear and logistic regression, Bernoulli, Poisson and negative binomial, tobit, survival analysis, latent variable analysis etc., that can be used to address these questions. The latest methods can consider 2 or 3 levels of analysis with nested or cross-nested data structure, and accommodate network data.

For instance, and just as an illustration, MNEs often aggregate or amass investments within a country or region to exploit their advantages, yet they may also make arbitrage decisions by terminating a subsidiary in one country and relocating to another country within the same or another region. These aggregation and arbitrage decisions are taken for subsidiary or country-level issues (e.g., number of existing subsidiaries in the country, role and importance of a subsidiary, country's attractiveness or resources), but also for region-level and corporate-level reasons (e.g., corporate-level international strategy, portfolio of subsidiaries, international experience, parent-firm's performance). Therefore, these decisions result of choices made at different levels of analysis. Applying multilevel methods, it would be possible to develop hypotheses about the role of variables at these different levels of analysis in the same theoretical model and test them.

A second illustration is the broad range of multilevel issues in cross-cultural research. These include issues in the construction of measures of values developed at the level of individuals as compared to measures developed at the level of societies or nations. For example, what is the relationship between measures of commonly used constructs like individualism or collectivism that are designed for individuals in comparison to constructs with similar labels that are designed for nations and similar large collectivities and institutions. Cross-cultural questions also include problems of how to assess measure equivalence between different levels and what equivalence at different levels implies. They also include issues of the theoretical meaning and quantitative assessment of relationships between cultural measures at the nation, region or other higher level on the one hand and either levels of individual or group level variables (e.g., societal cultural predicting leadership) or relationships between individual or group level variables on the other (e.g., societal culture predicting the relationship between leadership and performance).

We encourage prospective authors to address a variety of questions while applying multilevel methods in an international or comparative context.


Submission Process
All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this special issue.
Manuscripts must be submitted in the window between April 7, 2010 and April 30, 2010, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibs . Please select the option from the special issue drop-down menu on Manuscript Central that identifies your paper as a submission for the "Multilevel Research & IB" special issue, and include the words "Multilevel Research and IB Special Issue Submission"
on your title page. All submissions will go through the JIBS regular double-blind review process and follow the same norms and processes. As manuscripts are accepted for publication, they will be posted in the Advance Online Publication system on http://www.jibs.net .

For more information about this Call for Papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor (managing-editor@jibs.net ).


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Anne Hoekman
Managing Editor, Journal of International Business Studies

Call for Papers: The Great Recession of 2008 and its Impact on International Business.

Special Issue – Call for Papers:
The Great Recession of 2008 and its Impact on International Business.

Guest Editor: Amir Shoham, College of Management – Academic Studies, Israel.

This special issue will include studies dealing with the current economic crisis and the lessons that it can teach about the international environment and management of international businesses.
The perspective on the development of the global economic crisis is still short-term and provides a look straight from the eye of the storm.
Understanding the sources of the crisis and its impact can teach us much about how to manage, what to do and not to do and, perhaps, how to avoid similar complex events in the future. Since the crisis is global and encompasses so many different sectors and countries, it is important to present research on a broad variety of topics related to its socio-political and economic antecedents and impact. Some topics suitable for inclusion in the Special Issue include:

• Company, national, industry and regional factors associated with
global economic crises
• Impact of the global economic crisis on emerging markets
• Impact of the crisis on select local and global industries
• How companies have managed the great recession
• Strategies to deal with structural and cyclical fluctuations in
the global economy
• Do we need to change or adapt theories in light of new evidence?

The Editor of the Special Issue has intentionally kept the list of suggested topics short so as to stimulate creativity and encourage prospective authors to adopt a variety of perspectives when approaching this subject. The Special Issue will include a state-of-the art collection of papers relating what we can learn about impact of the crisis and business management in an international environment.

DEADLINE: The Special Issue will be published in 2010. Submissions should be sent no later than December 1, 2009.

All articles will be submitted to a process of peer evaluation, in accordance with the editorial policy of TIBR. They must conform with TIBR’s editorial policy, which is available at www.thunderbird.edu/tibr

For questions regarding this special issue, authors are invited to
contact: amir1s@colman.ac.il
Submissions for this issue should be submitted electronically to TIBR at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tibr. Please indicate that the submission is for this special issue. IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT upload your title/cover page when submitting the manuscript.

Call for Book Chapters: The handbook of Islamic Marketing

THE HANDBOOK OF ISLAMIC MARKETING


Editors: Özlem Sandıkcı, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gillian Rice, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Publisher: Edward Elgar, UK


Muslims constitute twenty percent of the world population and actively participate in the global economy as investors, suppliers, manufacturers, bankers, and traders. Muslim consumers represent one of the fastest growing consumer segments. However, despite its increasing significance, the intersection between Islam and marketing theory and practice remains still largely understudied and poorly understood.

This edited book aims to provide relevant theoretical background and to present the results of the latest empirical research in the domain of Islamic marketing. The book will be a collection of conceptual and empirical original contributions that will offer a systematic, up-to-date, and multidimensional framework for examining the implications of Islam for consumption and marketing practices. The book aims to acquaint scholars and practitioners with foundational issues as well as emerging trends in Islamic marketing. The book encourages high quality chapters that do not only enhance knowledge in this increasingly important domain of marketing theory and practice but also present promising ideas that can be pursued in further research.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book is people interested in various aspects of Islamic marketing. The book will address primarily researchers in the marketing discipline but also will be useful for academics in international business, consumption studies, and the various sub-disciplines of social sciences such as sociology, anthropology, economics, and psychology that deal with consumers, markets, and companies. Managers (of MNCs and of Muslim-owned and non-Muslim-owned SMEs) and industry professionals will benefit from the collection. The book can also serve as a supplement for graduate-level courses in cross-cultural marketing and international business.

Scope/Recommended Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Both conceptual and empirical studies are welcome.

The rise of “Islamic Marketing”
- History, authenticity, scale, theoretical and managerial significance
- Implications of Islamic law, ethics, norms, ideals, and values on marketing
- Capitalism and Islam
- Challenges and opportunities faced by companies (both Muslim and non-Muslim-owned or managed)

Islamic Consumptionscape
- The Muslim consumer (beliefs, values, lifestyles, social networks, behavioral patterns, etc)
- Practices of Islamic/Muslim consumption (in various domains such as fashion, food, cosmetics, etc.)
- Spaces of Islamic/Muslim consumption (domestic spaces, shopping spaces, festival spaces, space and gender intersection etc.)

Islamic Marketing Practices
- Branding
- Market development, segmentation, and positioning practices
- Communicating with the Muslim consumers
- Islamic advertising agencies
- Pricing strategies
- Distribution networks
- E-marketing and mobile marketing
- Selling to Islamic markets
- Buying from Islamic markets

Commodification/Commercialization of Islam
- The border/dilemma between faith and commerce
- Political/ideological implications of “too much” marketing
- Ethical/managerial/social implications of using Islam to sell products

Globalization, Postmodernity, and Islamic Marketing
- Implications of globalization
- Implications of postmodernity
- Impact of political/social events, such as 9/11, Danish cartoons, Middle East conflict etc., on Muslim consumers and Islamic marketing practices


Submission Procedure

Interested researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before September 15, 2009, a 750-1000 word manuscript proposal clearly explaining the purpose, outline of issues to be discussed, and likely contribution of the proposed chapter. Send submissions to Özlem Sandıkcı at sandikci@bilkent.edu.tr or Gillian Rice at Gillian.Rice@thunderbird.edu
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 15, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted on or before April 30, 2010.

Schedule:

September 15, 2009: Proposal submission (750-1000 word abstract)
October 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance
April 15, 2010: Full chapter submission
June 15, 2010: Reviewer comments sent out
September 15, 2010: Final chapter submission

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference on Research Frontiers in International Business

Sixth Annual Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference on Research Frontiers in International Business
International Business and the Transforming Public-Private Interface

Host: Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Venue: Charleston Place Hotel, Charleston, SC
http://www.charlestonplace.com/web/ocha/ocha_a2a_home.jsp
Dates: December 3-5, 2009
Register: http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moore/ciber/conference/index.html

Deadline for Submission of Proposals for Papers & Panels: August 24, 2009 (2-3 page summary of paper or panel).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Any questions and submissions should be sent to Professor Gerald McDermott at frontiers@moore.sc.edu. The submission should be marked as Frontiers 2009.


Deadline for Submission of Proposals for Papers & Panels: August 24, 2009 (2-3 page summary of paper or panel). Invitations to be issued by September 15, 2009

Program Committee
Gerald McDermott (Program Chair, USC), Ruth V. Aguilera (University of Illinois), Laura Alfaro (Harvard University), Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (USC), Tatiana Kostova (AIB Vice President, USC), Andrew Spicer (USC), Tomas Hult (AIB Executive Director, Michigan State University), Yves Doz (AIB President, ex officio, INSEAD), Lorraine Eden (JIBS Editor-in-Chief, ex officio, Texas A&M University).

Conference Theme
For the past twenty years, scholars of public policy have increasingly focused research on the changing boundary between the public and the private domains, be it couched in phrases like "the state and market" or "business and society." This research suggests that traditional conceptions of the public-private interface may be inadequate to examine the increasingly complex and overlapping relationships between these two domains. A growing stream of research in economics, political science and sociology has begun to explore the procedural and constitutive effects of state and societal actors on economic activity, incorporating a public-private lens to analyze such issues of economic development, capital markets, varieties of capitalism, regulation, and transnational governance regimes. This discussion on the changing public-private interface has gained the increased attention of international business scholars, particularly as research incorporates institutional and network factors to explain cross-national effects on such issues as FDI, MNC strategy, and corporate governance. Despite the growing inter-disciplinary nature of research in these areas, to our knowledge scholars of international business and of the shifting public-private domains rarely have had the opportunity to directly engage and learn from one another’s substantive and methodological approaches. The 2009 Frontiers Conference aims to fill this void and explore the ever growing intersection of research streams between international business and public-private institutions.
In particular, we hope to encourage research and discussion that focuses on the interaction between two levels of experiments taking place across advanced and developing countries alike. Governments are increasingly working with private organizations, be they firms or NGOs, to build new institutional arrangements to achieve joint goals of technological upgrading, national competitiveness, poverty reduction, environmental sustainability,
infrastructure enhancement, and global economic cooperation. At the same time, both domestic and foreign firms are engaged in ongoing organizational experiments to anticipate the shifting public-private boundaries – from developing novel strategies of risk management to reshaping their corporate forms to maximize both global synergies and local responsiveness to building new collaborative arrangements with firms, governments, and NGOs in areas as diverse as R&D, export promotion, and labor standards.
The purpose of the conference is twofold. First, it presents an opportunity for researchers to explore paradigmatic shifts in IB in particular and management in general. New theory typically emerges from analyses that focus on new processes in a wide range of different contexts. For instance, although IB researchers have often incorporated institutional variables into their analyses, the various institutional theories themselves are being revised in real time as they shift from a focus on the role of institutions to a focus on institutional change and creation. Hence, IB researchers will need to build models of firm strategy based less on static notions of institutions and more on the dynamic factors of institutional transformation. Second, we offer a forum for scholars to explore their overlapping, interdisciplinary research agendas and to learn directly from one another about their different assumptions and methods to capture multi-level process of change in cross national contexts. Just as institutional theories themselves are changing, they are doing so in different ways, not only because of the different substantive issues and regional contexts they draw on but also because of the different paradigms, from which they have emerged – from economics to sociology to political science. Scholars will confront converging and diverging notions of institutional change as it affects similar economic activities.
Topics of interest include:

• MNC Strategies in Shifting Institutional Domains – In what ways have MNCs altered their strategies and organizational designs to adapt to regulatory changes in both advanced and developing countries? Conversely, how do different approaches to institutional change improve or hinder the ability of MNCs to create sustainable backward linkages and positive spillovers in the host economy?
• Comparative Corporate Governance and Regulation – How do countries vary in reshaping their regulatory structures for capital markets and banks? In which ways do these changes impact corporate governance for both domestic firms and MNCs? How does the current crisis force a revision of current governance theories and the process of financial market integration across countries?
• Re-evaluating Risk – What are the innovations in measuring and overcoming economic, political, and social risk in the volatile environments of developing countries? How does the process of creating new institutional environments alter our understanding of risk?
• Institutions, Innovation, and Social Networks – How do public and private actors forge new institutions and networks to construct innovative capacities that will allow their industries to compete in global markets? Is public policy limited to transplanting optimal regulatory designs to protect property rights from one country to another? Or are governments constructing new configurations of institutions to bolster the knowledge resources of their industries?
• The Transnationalization of the Regulatory State – Regulation is not going away, it’s changing. How do MNCs, multilaterals, regional trade blocs, and international NGOs impact the transformation of rule-making and regulation in both advanced and developing countries?

This list of topics is meant to be suggestive and is not exhaustive. We encourage especially research that seeks to integrate frameworks and methods from a variety of disciplines. Moreover, we seek proposals on research conducted at different analytical levels, including the individual, firm, country, industry, subnational region, or comparative levels. To further the interdisciplinary dialogue, the conference will emphasize the participation of scholars from a variety of disciplines such as management, politics, history, economics, and sociology who offer contrasting paradigmatic approaches to the above topics.

Submissions and Review Process:

We invite proposals for both panels and papers. Proposals must be submitted by August 24, 2009, and authors will be notified of the decision by September 15, 2009. Proposals should consist of a 2-3 page, single-spaced summary of the proposed paper or panel. Frontiers 2009 is especially interested in panels that maximize debate and discussion among the participants. Traditional paper presentations are not prerequisites for a panel. Panel proposals should include the names of panelists and their personal notes to attend, should the panel be accepted. Submissions should be sent to Professor Gerald McDermott at frontiers@moore.sc.edu. The submission should be marked as Frontiers 2009.

Sponsors:
Academy of International Business

The CIBERs from:
Brigham Young University
Duke University
Florida International University
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana University
Michigan State University
Purdue University
San Diego State University
Temple University
Texas A&M University
The Ohio State University
The University of Texas at Austin
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Colorado at Denver
University of Connecticut
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Kansas
University of Maryland
University of Memphis
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin

Call for Book Chapters: Corporate Governance and Responsibility for the 21st Century: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

“Corporate Governance and Responsibility for the 21st Century: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis”

Call for Book Chapter Proposals


Over the last two decades, the world-wide issues of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility have attracted much public concern. Corporate fraud, corporate failure and collapse, abuse of management power, excess of executive remuneration, and corporate social and environmental irresponsibility have all been heated topics in media reports, public forums, academic debates, and governmental policy and regulatory agendas. Nevertheless, many of these failures in corporate governance and social responsibility would not have been so exacerbated and exposed had it not been for the global financial and economic meltdown in 2008. Most people have believed and, perhaps, argued that the severity and increasingly circular nature of the financial and economic crisis has been deeply connected to weak or over-regulation, the ineffective implementation of corporate governance principles, the failure of corporate boards and internal control, and irresponsible corporate attitudes and behaviours towards shareholders and other stakeholders. A number of large financial institutions and other corporations have been bailed out by governments and partially or wholly nationalised, and these bailouts have triggered a renewed public debate on the systems and functions of modern corporations and corporate governance, and on the long-unsolved issues of market failure or governmental failure in regulating, controlling or running corporations.

To learn what must be learned from the current financial and economic crisis, as well as from those that came before it, and to prevent future institutional, systemic and moral failures of corporate governance and social responsibility, we must rethink the fundamental causes of the current financial and economic crisis and its circularities, and the role of corporate governance and social responsibility in it. Therefore, the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Research Group (CGSRG) at the Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, China, has decided to undertake a research project entitled “Corporate Governance and Responsibility for the 21st Century: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis”.

As one of the outcomes of this research project, a book intended to benefit practitioners, policy makers, regulators, scholars and researchers will be published by a leading publisher in the UK, with a Chinese version of the book to be published by a leading publisher in China in 2010. In order for the book to generate multiple insights from scholars and practitioners and inspire a wide range of readers, we are extending an invitation to talented scholars to contribute to the book.

We ask potential contributors to investigate and rethink the fundamental issues of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in relation to the current financial and economic crisis from different angles, different lenses and different experiences, and to make recommendations that would mitigate and/or prevent future economic crisis and failures in corporate governance. We particularly encourage multiple perspectives, critical and in-depth analyses, international comparisons and the use of different methodologies in studying these key issues.

Interested scholars should send a proposal for a book chapter that clearly states the research topic, aim and objectives, key investigative issues, potential contributions to knowledge, and research approaches and methods. The proposal should be in the range of 500-1000 words and sent by email to X.Sun@leedsmet.ac.uk. The deadline for submitting proposals is 05 August 2009. We will contact the authors of accepted proposals with guidelines for writing the chapters.

We also welcome scholars and researchers who are interested in doing research in the fields of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and sustainability to join our research group and engage in international collaboration. The Corporate Governance and Sustainability Research Group (CGSRG) is a leading research organisation focused on critical studies, multiple and cross-cultural perspectives, and international comparative analysis in these areas. The research group is based at Leeds Metropolitan University in UK and has been joined by scholars and researchers from many countries. If you are interested in joining this group or have any suggestions for international collaborations, please contact Dr. William Sun at the email address: X.Sun@leedsmet.ac.uk.


Dr. William Sun
Director of Corporate Governance and Sustainability Research Group
Faculty of Business and Law
Leeds Metropolitan University
Visiting Professor in Management
Faculty of Economics and Management
Harbin Engineering University

Call for Papers: Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development (AWBMAMD) is

Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development Conference
12-15th July, 2010
Oulu, Finland.
CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 2ND NOVEMBER 2009
The Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development (AWBMAMD) is delighted to announce its 4th Biennial conference that will be held on the 12–15th July, 2010 in Oulu, Finland. The University of Oulu, Business School in Finland will host the 2010 conference.
Manuscripts for this 2010 AWBMAMD refereed Conference are invited in terms of competitive papers, case studies, research in progress, special sessions and doctoral research papers in any of the various track areas which include marketing, management, finance, banking, accounting, human resource management, organizational behaviour, information technology and systems, foreign direct investment, e-business/ e-marketing, business and management in aviation industry, education administration, economics, tourism and hospitality, aviation and aerospace, transportations, health care, entrepreneurship, business law, leadership style, computer engineering, privatization, etc.
The deadline for submission of papers is 2nd November 2009. For detailed information about the conference and track chairs please visit: http://www.academyofworldbusiness.com/conf2010.html
or contact the Executive Conference Director and Program Chair: Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun. Email: ogunmokun@academyofworldbusiness.com
2010 TRACK AREAS
Track 1: Agribusiness Management, Agrimarketing/Food Marketing
Track 2: Aviation and Aerospace
Track 3: Commercial Law/Business Law
Track 4: Consumer Behaviour
Track 5: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Africa
Track 6: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in
Australia & New Zealand
Track 7: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Asia
Track 8: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in the
Middle East
Track 9: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Europe
Track 10: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Latin
America
Track 11: Technology/Research and Development
Track 12: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in North
America
Track 13: Business & Management Development in Transitional Economies
Track 14: Economic Development Policies
Track 15: Ethics and Social Responsibility
Track 16: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
Track 17: Environmental Management and Environmental Marketing Issues
Track 18: Management Education and Training
Track 19: Foreign Direct Investments
Track 20: Accounting, Banking, Finance, Taxation and International Finance.
Track 21: Globalization, International Management and Culture
Track 22: Health Care Marketing and Management
Track 23: Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety
Track 24: Industrial Marketing/Business- to- Business Marketing
Track 25 International Trade
Track 26: Information Systems, E-Commerce and E-Marketing
Track 27: International Marketing and Exporting
Track 28: Marketing Management
Track 29: Promotion Strategy and Marketing Education
Track 30: Not-for-Profit Research
Track 31: Organizational Behaviour
Track 32: Tourism and Hospitality Management
Track 33: Political, Legal and Social Environment
Track 34: Strategic Management, Planning and Strategy
Track 35: Strategic Marketing and Planning
Track 36: Services Marketing and Relationship Marketing
Track 37 Business and Management in Aviation Industry
Track 38 Health Informatics
Track 39 Women in Leadership and Management
Track 40 Caribbean and African Entrepreneurship
Track 41Special Session and Doctoral research papers

Professional Development in International Business (PDIB) Program

Professional Development in International Business (PDIB) Program
MUMBAI and CHENNAI,
Dec 16 - 23, 2009

India’s colossal economy is intrinsically dynamic and innovative. In today’s globalized and interdependent economy, innovation is recognized as an essential engine of growth and India is seen as a top global player. Despite the global slowdown, and although growth has slowed from last year, the economy is still expanding faster than most other countries.
The program is designed for faculty and professionals interested in pursuing their interests in the Indian business environment. Participants will experience first hand how multinationals and leading Indian companies are riding the downfall, while simultaneously reshaping the Indian business environment resulting in a competitive INDIA INC.
The program will take place in Mumbai and Chennai, two of the most advanced and business forward cities throughout India. In Mumbai, the participants will visit top multinational companies such as GlaxoSmithKline Limited, Siemens, RPG Group, and US Foreign Commercial Service. In Chennai, participants will visit companies such as TATA Consultancy Services, BMW, as well as take part in lectures at Park Global School of Business Excellence.
Tentative Itinerary:
Dec 16, 2009
Arrival in Mumbai
Dec 17-18
Company visits in Mumbai
Dec 19
Mumbai city tour / Evening flight to Chennai
Dec 20
Chennai city tour
Dec 21-22
Company visits in Chennai
Dec 23
Return flight to U.S.
Registration:The program cost for each participant is $3000 (not including air-fare to India). Program fee includes single occupancy lodging, domestic flight from Mumbai-Bangalore, all local transportations and tours, all breakfasts, welcome & farewell dinner.Participants will enhance their knowledge of one of the most fascinating economies today, India. It will be a life-changing event for your participants. So, plan ahead now, mark your calendars. For more information, kindly visit our web site at http://ciber.fiu.edu or email to ciber@fiu.edu
Interested participants may also contact a nearest CIBER center for funding opportunities. Please visit http://ciberweb.msu.edu/cibers.asp for the list of 31 ciber's.

Call for Papers: Creating Value through Knowledge Sharing in

The 3rd Annual Copenhagen Conference on Partnerships "Creating Value through Knowledge Sharing in Inter-organizational Partnerships"

Firms and organizations may significantly improve their knowledge and innovative capabilities by leveraging the skills of others through the transfer and sharing of knowledge with external partners. However, inter-organizational knowledge management is a complex phenomenon and in practice, successful sharing of knowledge is often not easy to achieve. The focus of this year’s conference is on how value is created through effective governance of knowledge sharing processes in inter-organizational partnerships.
This conference invites researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields to elaborate upon theoretical and practical issues related to the effective management of knowledge in strategic alliances and partnerships. While the focus will be on value-creation via knowledge management practices, we invite contributions within a range of related areas, such as (but not limited to):
Performance measurement in alliances; how do/should firms measure the outcome of knowledge transfer and sharing?
Motivation for knowledge sharing; how do/should firms and organizations encourage individuals and groups to share knowledge across organizational borders?
Knowledge governance; how do/should firms organize activities for effective knowledge sharing?
Trust and knowledge management; what is the role of social capital in inter-organizational knowledge sharing?
The purpose of the conference is to encourage dialogue between partnership professionals and academics. Both theoretical and empirical submissions are welcome. A cross-disciplinary and practical emphasis is particularly encouraged.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Business Alliances

The Danish Research Academy sponsors a "best paper award" of Euro 1000.
Submissions & Deadlines: Full Papers: 1 August 2009 to bn.smg@cbs.dk
Notification: 15 August 2009 Conference registration: 12 October 2009

More information: For further details we refer to the conference website
http://uk.cbs.dk/research_knowledge/konferencer/ccp
Or contact: Bo Bernhard Nielsen, SMG bn.smg@cbs.dk

Call for Papers: The Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development

Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development Conference

12-15th July, 2010

Oulu, Finland.

Deadline 2ND NOVEMBER 2009
The Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development (AWBMAMD) is delighted to announce its 4th Biennial conference that will be held on the 12–15th July, 2010 in Oulu, Finland. The University of Oulu, Business School in Finland will host the 2010 conference. Manuscripts for this 2010 AWBMAMD refereed Conference are invited in terms of competitive papers, case studies, research in progress, special sessions and doctoral research papers in any of the various track areas which include marketing, management, finance, banking, accounting, human resource management, organizational behaviour, information technology and systems, foreign direct investment, e-business/ e-marketing, business and management in aviation industry, education administration, economics, tourism and hospitality, aviation and aerospace, transportations, health care, entrepreneurship, business law, leadership style, computer engineering, privatization, etc. The deadline for submission of papers is 2nd November 2009.

For detailed information about the conference and track chairs please visit: http://www.academyofworldbusiness.com/conf2010.html or contact the Executive Conference Director and Program Chair: Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun.
Email: ogunmokun@academyofworldbusiness.com 2010

TRACK AREAS

• Track 1: Agribusiness Management, Agrimarketing/Food Marketing
• Track 2: Aviation and Aerospace
• Track 3: Commercial Law/Business Law
• Track 4: Consumer Behaviour
• Track 5: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Africa
• Track 6: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Australia & New Zealand
• Track 7: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Asia
• Track 8: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in the Middle East
• Track 9: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Europe
• Track 10: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Latin America
• Track 11: Technology/Research and Development
• Track 12: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in North America
• Track 13: Business & Management Development in Transitional Economies
• Track 14: Economic Development Policies
• Track 15: Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Track 16: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
• Track 17: Environmental Management and Environmental Marketing Issues
• Track 18: Management Education and Training
• Track 19: Foreign Direct Investments
• Track 20: Accounting, Banking, Finance, Taxation and International Finance.
• Track 21: Globalization, International Management and Culture
• Track 22: Health Care Marketing and Management
• Track 23: Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety
• Track 24: Industrial Marketing/Business- to- Business Marketing
• Track 25 International Trade
• Track 26: Information Systems, E-Commerce and E-Marketing
• Track 27: International Marketing and Exporting
• Track 28: Marketing Management
• Track 29: Promotion Strategy and Marketing Education
• Track 30: Not-for-Profit Research
• Track 31: Organizational Behaviour
• Track 32: Tourism and Hospitality Management
• Track 33: Political, Legal and Social Environment
• Track 34: Strategic Management, Planning and Strategy
• Track 35: Strategic Marketing and Planning
• Track 36: Services Marketing and Relationship Marketing
• Track 37 Business and Management in Aviation Industry
• Track 38 Health Informatics
• Track 39 Women in Leadership and Management
• Track 40 Caribbean and African Entrepreneurship
• Track 41Special Session and Doctoral research papers