Call for conference papers: Academy of World Business. Marketing and Management Development Conference

Academy of World Business. Marketing and Management Development Conference

in Dubai, UAE 11-14 August 2014

Hosted by University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE. Win a free iPad or eReader.

DEADLINE FoR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS EXTENDED TO: 24 FEBRUARY 2014

CONFERENCE THEME

Marketing, Managing and Financing Organizations in Today’s Environment of Slow Economic Growth: To achieve the best level of performance in today’s environment of slow economic growth, managers must be innovative and competitive. They must be prepared to acquire and utilize multi-dimensional skills that are essential for managing, marketing and financing organizations successfully. Contemporary research findings and theories presented at this conference will shed light into the policies and strategies that are vital for achieving effective growth and enhance organizational performance. This 6th biennial Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development Conference aims to share research knowledge, theories and practice that exist in the world in the areas of business, marketing, finance and management. Manuscripts for this double blind peer reviewed conference are invited in terms of competitive papers, case studies, research in progress, literature review, special sessions and doctoral research papers in any of the track areas listed below:

2014 TRACK AREAS

• Track 1: Agribusiness Management/Agrimarketing
• Track 2: Business, Marketing and Management Development in Transitional Economies
• Track 3: Consumer Behaviour and Psychology
• Track 4: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Africa
• Track 5: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Asia
• Trck 6: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Australia and New Zealand
• Track 7: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Central America and the Caribbean
• Track 8: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in Europe
• Track 9: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in the Middle East
• Track 10: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in North America
• Track 11: Current Issues in Business, Marketing and Management in South America
• Track 12: Economics, International Trade and Banking
• Track 13: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
• Track 14: Environmental Management/Environmental Marketing Issues
• Track 15: Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Track 16: Finance, Foreign Direct Investments, Accounting and Taxation
• Track 17: Globalization and International Management
• Track 18: Health Care Marketing and Management
• Track 19: Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety
• Track 20: Industrial Marketing/Business-to-Business Marketing
• Track 21: Information Systems, E-Commerce, E-Marketing
• Track 22: International Business in Emerging Economies
• Track 23: International Marketing and Exporting
• Track 24: Management and Organizational Behaviour
• Track 25: Marketing Management
• Track 26: Marketing and Management of Education and Training
• Track 27: Marketing and Management of Non Profit Organizations
• Track 28: Promotion Strategy and Communication
• Track 29: Public Administration
• Track 30: Services Marketing and Relationship Marketing
• Track 31: Social Media
• Track 32: Strategic Management
• Track 33: Strategic Marketing
• Track 34: Sustainable Management/Sustainable Marketing
• Track 35: Technology/Research and Development
• Track 36: Tourism and Hospitality Marketing and Management
• Track 37: Transportation, Aviation and Aerospace Management
• Track 38: Women in Leadership and Management
• Track 39: Special Session – Doctoral Research Papers
• Track 40: Special Session – Legal issues, Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, etc

TYPES OF PAPERS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Your submission can be in any of the following four categories.

· An abstract only paper of least 100 words but not more than one page; or

· A proposal/work in progress paper to be no longer than 5 pages; or

· A competitive full paper to be no longer than 15 pages; or

· A literature review paper to be no longer than 15 pages but needs to provide theoretical insights based on reviews of relevant literature.



PAPER AWARD AND PUBLICATION: Conference participants have a chance to win a free iPad or eReader through random drawing of names. There is a ‘Best Paper Award Certificate’ or ‘Commendation Award Certificate’. Very good competitive papers will be recommended to be double blind refereed again for possible publication in a refereed book or for publication in any of the following double blind refereed journals:

· Journal of International Marketing and Exporting (ISSN 1324-5864)

· Journal of Management and World Business Research ISSN (1449- 3179)

· International Journal of Business and Marketing (ISSN 1448-9848) – New double blind peer refereed journal.

· International Journal of Business, Social Sciences, Humanities and Education (ISSN 2201-3105) – New double blind peer refereed journal.



Publication in the proceedings – Although all papers to be presented at the conference are entitled to appear in the conference proceedings, the Academy will allow every author to decide whether to publish his or her full paper in the proceedings or to publish only the abstract.



PRIZES: Participants who register and present their papers at the conference as well as attend the conference dinner have a chance to win a free iPad or eReader through random drawing of tickets. If a number is drawn and the person with the ticket number is not available in the room when the number is drawn, another number will be drawn because the person whose number is drawn must be present to win the prize. The Program Chair and the Associate Program Chairs cannot win these prizes.



CALL FOR TRACK CHAIRS: All track chairs must attend the Conference. To be considered to serve as a track chair/co-track chair please email Executive Conference Director and Program Chair, Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun the following information:

(i) Track Number/Area you are interested in being a track chair for.

(ii) Your title, name, highest qualification, current position in your organization, address of your organization, and your email address:



The responsibilities of a track chair/co-track chair will include:

· Submitting a joint or individual paper for the conference to the Program Chair Prof Ogunmokun who will organize it to be double blind peer reviewed;

· Attending the conference and serving as a chair for one of the sessions;

· Receiving papers from contributors in your Track area for review;

· Sending the papers you have received to reviewers on behalf of the conference organizers;

· Forwarding the papers that reviewers have accepted to the organizers, with the reviewers’ comments; and

· Promoting the conference to other people in your area.



The 2014 Executive Conference Director and Program Chair Program Chair is Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun and the Associate Program Chair is Professor Prakash Vel.



For detailed information visit: http://academyofworldbusiness.com/wp/conferences/2014-dubai-uae-2/ or contact Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun by email using the two email addresses below.



Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.



Regards,



Gabriel

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Professor Gabriel Ogunmokun, PhD (Monash)

President and Executive Conference Director and Program Chair

Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development

GPO Box K 789, Perth, Western Australia 6842

(Chair of Department of Marketing and Management; and Chair of Research - School of Business, University of the Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands).

Email: ogunmokun@academyofworldbusiness.com; ogunmokun@academyofworldbusiness.org



Website: http://academyofworldbusiness.com/wp/conferences/2014-dubai-uae-2/

Call for papers: South Asian Diasporas: Facilitators of Trade, Investment, and National Competitive Advantage

South Asian Journal for Global Business Research 

Special Issue Call for Papers

South Asian Diasporas: Facilitators of Trade, Investment, and National Competitive Advantage

Guest Editors:

• Masud Chand (Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA)
• Shaista E. Khilji (George Washington University, Washington DC, USA)
• Florian Täube (EBS Business School, Germany)
• Henry Chung (Massey University, New Zealand)

A 3-page abstract due: Dec 1, 2013

Full papers due: April 30, 2014

The countries that make up South Asia have some of the world’s largest and most geographically dispersed diasporas (Chand, 2013). While diasporas have existed for thousands of years, globalization and increasing human and capital mobility have enhanced their importance and left them uniquely positioned to act as facilitators of trade and investment between their countries of origin (COO) and their countries of residence (COR). Modern diasporas have played vital roles in facilitating trade and investments between their COO and COR, including direct activities such as investing in their COOs (Buckley, Wang, & Clegg, 2007; Geithner, Johnson, & Chen, 2005) as well as more indirect facilitation activities such as providing transnational social networks that serve as conduits for trade (Khanna, 2007; Saxenian, 2002; Chand, 2010), helping with institutional and human capital development in the COO (Saxenian, 2006), driving the ‘immigrant effect’ (Chung & Tung, 2013; Chung, Enderwick & Naruemitmongkonsuk, 2010), improving the image of the COO in the COR (Chand & Tung, 2011), introducing the culture of the COO in the COR (Chand, 2010), contributing to ‘soft power’ for the COO (Chand & Tung, 2011), and contributing to technology transfer and capacity development in the COO (Lin, 2010).

The roles of diasporas are undergoing important changes as the pressures of globalization on the one hand and the pull of the homeland on the other presents them with a unique set of challenges. While COOs try to leverage them as assets, there is also pressure to become a part of the COR, leading to emerging questions of cross-national and intra-national identity. The rising level of diaspora return to their COO and the increasing importance of brain circulation give this topic special importance in the twenty-first century. An organized diaspora community, particularly when augmented by large numbers and organizational resources, can command considerable political capital in a host country. This political capital can be used to help improve the nation brand of the COO and in improving its image in the COR.

This special issue call especially welcomes papers focusing on South Asian diasporas, but is not restricted to them. We are also open to conceptual/theoretical papers on diasporas that draw implications for South Asia and its relationship with its diasporas, and comparative research on other diaspora communities that can have lessons for South Asian businesses and policy makers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Comparisons of diaspora management across countries, with implications for the South Asian region 
• The genesis of individual country diasporas (for e.g., India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) and their role in driving trade and investment between the COO and COR 
• Case studies of South Asian diaspora led organizations that span across multiple countries and explain how they help facilitate trade and FDI 
• Conceptual papers dealing with creating and managing diasporas from a COO perspective 
• The geopolitical importance of South Asian diasporas 
• Challenges of diasporas living in CORs, and its effects on transnational trade 
• Social networks of South Asian diasporas, and their effects on cross-border trade and investment 
• Diaspora led FDI and its effects on policy making in COOs 
• South Asian diasporas as agents of institutional and human capital development in their COO 
• The role of South Asian diasporas in driving the COO effect 
• Diasporas caused by ‘pull’ or ‘push’ effects 
• Conceptual papers on diasporas with implications for South Asian countries and their relationship with their diasporas 
• South Asia as ‘COR’ – intra-regional migration and implications for South Asian diasporas 
• Differences between South Asia and the West as COR 

The guest editors are happy to discuss initial ideas for papers and can be contacted directly via email.

Contributors should note: 

This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed as per the editorial policies of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research.
Submitted papers must be based on original material not accepted by, or under consideration with, any other journal or outlet.
For empirical papers based on data sets from which multiple papers have been generated, authors must provide the guest editors with copies of all other papers based on the same data.
The guest editors will select a limited number of papers to be included in the special issue. Other papers submitted to the special issue may be considered for publication in other issues of the journal at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

Deadlines:

We invite authors to email their abstracts (up to 3 pages including references) to Masud Chand, Shaista E. Khilji, Henry Chung, or Florian Täube at: Masud.Chand@wichita.edu, shaistakhilji@gmail.com, H.Chung@massey.ac.nz, or Florian.Taeube@ebs.edu by December 1, 2013 for a review. Authors will be notified of a decision by early Jan 2014. Those invited to submit a full paper (8000 words) will be asked to meet the April 30, 2014 deadline. Please note that all full papers are to be submitted via ScholarOne, and subject to a double blind review before being accepted for publication. We are also open to authors submitting full papers without submitting an abstract first.

Anticipated Publication Date: 2015

About the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (SAJGBR)

SAJGBR is multidisciplinary in scope. We accept submissions in any of the business fields—Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Technology—and are open to other disciplines that enhance understanding of international business activity, including anthropology, political science, psychology and sociology, etc. However, authors must clearly underline how their study relates to the advancement of international business theory and/or practice. We are especially interested in manuscripts that integrate theories and concepts taken from different fields and disciplines.

We aim to publish high quality research articles, policy reviews, book reviews, country/practitioner/personal perspectives, conference reflections and commentaries, which contribute to the scholarly and managerial understanding of contemporary South Asian businesses and diaspora. We encourage authors to study relevance of mainstream theories or practices in their fields of interest, critique and offer fresh insights on South Asian businesses and diaspora, as well contribute to the development of new theories.

South Asian Journal of Global Business Research is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. For more information, please refer to: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/sajgbr.htm

References:

Buckley, P., Wang, C. and Clegg, J. (2007). The impact of foreign ownership, local ownership and industry characteristics on spillover effects from foreign direct investment in China. International Business Review, 16 (2): 142-158.

Chand, M. (2010). Diasporas as Drivers of National Competitiveness. In T.M. Devinney, T. Pedersen, & L. Tihanyi (2010), Advances in International Management: The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management, Volume 23,(pp. 583-602). New York, NY: Emerald.

Chand, M. and Tung, R.L. (2011) Diasporas as the Boundary-Spanners: The role of Trust in Business Facilitation. Journal of Trust Research, 1 (1), 107-129.

Chung, H.F.L and Tung, R.L. (2013). Immigrant social networks and foreign entry: Australia and New Zealand firms in the European Union and Greater China. International Business Review, 22 (1): 18-31

Chand, M. (2013). The South Asian diaspora- knowledge flows in the age of globalization. In Globalization, change and learning in South Asia (Khilji, S.E., & Rowley, C). Chandos Publishing: Oxford.

Chung, H.F.L., Enderwick, P. and Naruemitmongkonsuk, J. (2010). Immigrant employee effects in international strategy: An exploratory study of international service firms. International Marketing Review, 27 (6): 652-675

Geithner, P., Johnson, P. & Chen, L. (Eds.) (2005). Diaspora philanthropy and equitable development in China and India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Khanna, T. (2007). Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are reshaping their futures- and yours. Harvard Business School Press, Harvard University Press, Boston, MA.

Kotabe, M., Riddle, L., Sonderegger, P. and Täube, F. (2013). Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship: The Role of People, Their Movements, and Capital in the International Economy, Journal of International Management, 19(1): 3-5.

Lin, X. (2010). The diaspora solution to innovation capacity development: Immigrant entrepreneurs in the contemporary world. Thunderbird International Business Review, 52 (2): 123-136.

Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs ( 2012). Annual Report 2011-2012. http://www.moia.gov.in/writereaddata/pdf/Annual_Report_2011-2012.pdf

Saxenian, A. (2002). Brain circulation: How high-skill immigration makes everyone better off. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2002/winter_immigration_saxenian.aspx.

Saxenian, A. (2006). The new Argonauts: Regional advantage in a global economy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sonderegger, P. and Täube, F. (2010). Cluster lifecyle and Diaspora effects: evidence from the Indian IT cluster in Bangalore, Journal of International Management 16(4): 383-397.


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Brian Keilson

Editorial Coordinator

South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (SAJGBR)



www.emeraldinsight.com/sajgbr.htm