CfP. International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems. Innovation in Latin America

International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems

Call for Papers for Special Issue on: “Innovation in Latin America”

Guest Editors

• Prof. Jerry Haar, Florida International University, USA
• Prof. Robert E. Grosse, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA 

The aim of this special issue is to attract research that addresses and discusses the emergence, status and outlook for innovation in Latin America embodied in its many aspects and dimensions. The transformational (and disruptive) prowess of globalisation continues to impact nearly every nation on the globe. Industrialised and developing countries in every region are experiencing its effects economically, socially, and politically. While both the public and private sectors have, indeed, allocated greater resources to boost growth (and profitability), in manufacturing, services, and natural resources, sustaining competitive levels of performance is more and more difficult. The recognised solution for countries, industries, and firms is to innovate.

Innovation is impacting every region and functional dimension of the global economy. It is an essential driver of economic productivity, social progress, and ultimately human achievement. Innovation is inextricably tied to success and profit, whether the enterprise is a technological giant like Microsoft or Siemens; a natural resources firm like CVRD or BHP Billiton; a conglomerate like Samsung or GE; or a small or medium-sized global enterprise. 

With reference to Latin America, it is the second most entrepreneurial region in the world, according to the World Bank. Its Internet and mobile density are higher than the world average, and the accelerated pace of start-ups - both tech and non-tech based - has been occurring irrespective of economic and political ups and downs in the region. Last year, start-ups in Latin American ballooned to 1,333 and accelerators to 62, with investment approaching $32 million. 

Within this context the ecosystem of innovation in Latin America is built upon the interrelationship between three drivers: national policy (although subnational policies are important, as well), facilitating institutions (e.g. science parks, R&D labs, accelerators, incubators), and firm-level innovation. Each continues to shape the competitiveness of countries and regions in the hemisphere, as well. 

There is a real challenge to innovation in Latin America in that the level of R&D activity is far below that in the Triad countries (US, Japan, and EU), as well as far below that in Eastern Europe and developing Asia. It would be useful to see some discussion of how Latin American companies and governments can stimulate more R&D – as well as pursuing even greater innovation in business models and practices, as evidenced by the high level of entrepreneurship noted above.

Subject Coverage

Topics 

include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Innovation in the structure, organisation and management of the firm 
• Product, process, service and business model innovation 
• Macro-level economic and regulatory policies that impact innovativeness 
• New thinking on innovation in the services sector 
• Innovation in HR policies and practices 
• Open Innovation 
• Innovation in export-oriented small and medium size firms 
• How do we measure innovation? 

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. Please read our Submitting articles page.

If you have any queries concerning this special issue, please email the Guest Editors Prof. Jerry Haar at haarj@fiu.edu and Prof. Robert E. Grosse at grosser@global.t-bird.edu  .

Important Dates

• Submission of manuscripts: 31 December, 2017 
• Notification to authors: 15 March, 2018
• Final versions due: 15 May, 2018

CfPs: Management and Internationalization of Latin America´s Firms

International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (IJBEM)

ISSN print: 1753-6219 | ISSN online: 1753-6227

Call for Papers for the Special IJBEM Issue on

Management and Internationalization of Latin America's Firms

Submission deadline: October 31, 2015

Guest Editors: Dr. Ilan Avrichir (iavrichir@espm.br) and Dr. Felipe Borini
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM, São Paulo, Brazil


Latin America (LA) grows faster, attracts more foreign domestic investment (FDI), and is more populous than the European Union and North America. Though its stock of inward FDI matches that of China, top management journals have given little attention to the region, while conferences, journals, and specialists on China abound. Even when scholars have examined LA, they have focused more on addressing disciplinary issues than on providing insights about the region’s specific issues.

The purpose of this special issue is therefore to promote research that focuses on the economic, cultural, geographical, and/or social conditions specific to LA. We seek articles that test the validity of results obtained in other contexts or that develop or empirically verify new concepts and hypotheses concerning conditions particular to LA.


Suitable questions for these topics would include, but are not limited to, the following:

• · What challenges and opportunities do the relatively low levels of economic and institutional development, as well as high dependence on commodity exports, that predominate in the region confront and offer to companies operating in it? 
• · What managerial and leadership styles are compatible with the scarcity of resources that tend to be significantly greater in LA than in most economically advanced regions? What are characteristics of these styles, and how can they be developed and/or promoted? 
• · What managerial and leadership styles are compatible with features such as orality, informality, and flexibility that research indicates characterize LA’s cultural cluster? Does speaking about a Latin American way of management make sense? Or, is it reasonable to expect one to develop? 
• · Why are negative phenomena such as corruption and the low level of innovation so common, and what measures and experiences have been successful in confronting and mitigating these phenomena? 
• · In what ways and to what extent are the characteristics of the internationalization of LA firms similar or different to those of other regions? How and why is entrepreneurial orientation related to these characteristics? 
• · Do social, economic, and environmental sustainability assume different significance in the context of the region? If so, in what ways should firms seeking to be sustainable act differently in LA than in other locations? 
• · Why have some firms in LA been successful amid international competition despite the adverse circumstances that they must negotiate? How do these firms circumvent the liability of origin? Is their performance linked to comparative advantages? What lessons can be learned from their experiences? 

Important Dates

• · Submission of manuscripts: October 31, 2015 
• · Comments to authors: January 31, 2016 
• · Revised paper submission: April 30, 2016 
• · Publication in late 2016 or early 2017 

Paper submissions

All papers must be submitted online. For more details and the submission link, please see the web page http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2913.

If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact the publishers via e-mail at submissions@inderscience.com – describing the exact problems you are experiencing. Include in your message: the title of the Special Issue; the title of the Journal; the name of the Guest Editor; your name and your return e-mail address.

Notes for Authors

• · Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). 
• · All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page. 
• · All authors must declare that they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. Here is a full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors page. 

Call for Special Issue: Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

Journal of World Business

Call for papers for a special issue

Submission deadline: May 4, 2015

Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America 

Guest Editors:

• Ruth Aguilera
• Luciano Ciravegna
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

“Name some Brazilian multinationals. Even harder than "famous Belgians", isn't it? Despite Brazil being the world's eighth-largest economy, with plenty of big, profitable firms, few of them have a reasonable share of their operations abroad and are thus genuinely multinational.” The Economist, Sept 21, 2000.

“For the first time Brazil has a crop of companies that can be described as multinationals. Some of them are already well known outside Brazil: Petrobras; Vale, one of the world’s largest mining companies; and Embraer, the world’s third-largest maker of passenger jets.” The Economist, November 12, 2009.

These two quotes from the British newspaper The Economist reflect the change in view about Multilatinas, or Latin American multinational companies. The reason is not that there were no Multilatinas before 2000. In fact, there have been Multilatinas for over a century. For example, the Argentinean shoemaker Alpargatas was created in 1885 and established subsidiaries in Uruguay in 1890 and in Brazil in 1907. The reason is that there were few studies analyzing Multilatinas before the 2000s. This was part of a general trend in the international business literature that appeared to have ignored the region. For example, a review of articles in two leading journals in the field of international business (Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review) in the period 1987-1997 indicated that fewer than 6% of the articles mentioned Latin America (Elahee and Vaidya, 2001). This paucity of studies on the region had not changed in recent times. A review of studies in four leading international business journal (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review) in 2001-2005 indicated that only 2.75% of articles studied firms in the region (Perez-Batres, Pisani and Doh, 2010). Nevertheless, a few analyses of multinationals have indicated that firms from this region are becoming multinational rapidly and some of them are becoming leaders in their industries (Casanova, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2008,; Fleury and Fleury, 2010; Santiso, 2013).

In this special issue we plan to take stock of what is known about these firms and identify potential avenues for future research. Other special issues of the Journal of World Business have analyzed various regions of the world such as India (Varma and Budhwar, 2012), China (Laforet, Paliwoda and Chen, 2012), Africa (Kamoche, 2011), the Middle East (Mellahi, Demirbag and Riddle, 2011), and Korea (Paik and Lee, 2008). This special issue contributes to the global scope of the Journal of World Business by studying firms from Latin America, which have, thus far, been underrepresented in the management and business literature (Brenes, Montoya and Ciravegna, 2014).  With this special issue, we aim to not only increase our understanding of Multilatinas, but also to identify the particular characteristics of their internationalization and how it compares with the internationalization of firms from other regions.

The rise of emerging market multinationals has been well documented (for example see the papers in the special issues edited by Aulakh, 2007; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Gammeltoft, Barnard and Madhok, 2010; Luo and Tung, 2007; and in the books edited by Cuervo-Cazurra and Ramamurti, 2014; Ramamurti and Singh, 2007, Sauvant, 2008; Williamson et al., 2013), yet the literature on emerging market multinationals has thus far focused mainly on firms from regions other than Latin America. With this Special Issue of Journal of World Business, we aim to fill this gap, contributing to the international business literature and the body of knowledge documenting the practices of multinational companies.

This call is an attempt to integrate different aspects that might have influenced the growth and internationalization of Latin American firms. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and case studies submission addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• ·         Successful Multilatinas expanding outside their region
• ·         Comparative ownership advantages/disadvantages of Multilatinas
• ·         Internationalization patterns of Latin American firms
• ·         The internationalization of state-owned Latin American firms
• ·         Institutional constraints for Latin American companies to internationalize
• ·         Foreign performance of Latin American firms
• ·         Effects of exports promotion agencies on the internationalization of Latin American firms
• ·         Governance in Multilatinas
• ·         The internationalization of Latin American business groups  
• ·         Global leadership in Multilatinas
• ·         Dimensions of management diversity in Multilatinas
• ·         Determinants of outward FDI from Latin America
• ·         The role of governments in Latin American International Business
• ·         Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices in Multilatinas
• ·         The role of family-owned business conglomerates in Multilatinas
• ·         Oligopolistic structures and internationalization in Multilatinas
• ·         Multilatinas and economic and political crises
• ·         Cultural challenges in doing business from Latin America
• ·         The role of Latin American diaspora and returning emigrants in international business

Submission process:

By May 4, 2015, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the new Journal of World Business EES submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is: http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb. 

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select ‘SI: Latin American MNCs’ when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal of World Business Guide for Authors available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-world-business/1090-9516/guide-for-authors . All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the Journal of World Business’s blind review process.

We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.

Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors:

• ·         Ruth V. Aguilera, Northeastern University, United States (r.aguilera@neu.edu)
• ·         Luciano Ciravegna, King’s College, London, UK, (Luciano.ciravegna@kcl.ac.uk)
• ·         Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University, United States (a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu)
• ·         Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia (mgonza40@eafit.edu.co)

References:

Aulakh, P. S. (2007). Emerging multinationals from developing economies: motivations, paths, and performance. Journal of International Management, 13, 338-355.

Brenes, E. R., Montoya, D., & Ciravegna, L. (2014). Differentiation strategies in emerging markets: The case of Latin American agribusinesses. Journal of Business Research, 67, 847-855.

Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2008). The multinationalization of developing country MNEs: The case of Multilatinas. Journal of International Management, 14, 138-154.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2012). How the analysis of developing country multinational companies helps advance theory: Solving the Goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2, 153-167.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Ramamurti, R. (2014). Understanding multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Economist. (2001). Brazil's Gerdau: Who dares wins. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/374586

Economist. (2009). Special Reports Economist Brazil. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/14829517

Elahee, M. N., & Vaidya, S. P. (2001). Coverage of Latin American business and management issues in cross-cultural research: An analysis of JIBS and MIR 1987-1997. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 4, 21-31. 

Fleury, A. & Fleury, M. T. L. (2011). Brazilian multinationals: Competences for internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Gammeltoft, P., Barnard, H., & Madhok, A. (2010). Emerging multinationals, emerging theory: macro- and micro-level perspectives. Journal of International Management, 16, 95-101.

Kamoche, K. (2011). Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa. Journal of World Business, 46, 1-4.

Laforet, S. Paliwoda, S. and Chen, J. (2012). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 47, 1-3.

Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481-498.

Mellahi, K., Demirbag, M., & Riddle, L. (2011). Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of World Business, 46, 406-410.

Paik, Y., & Lee, S. H. (2008). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 43, 1-4.

Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. (2010). Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10, 3-7. 

Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (eds). (2009). Emerging multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Santiso, J. (2013). The decade of the Multilatinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sauvant, K. P. (ed). (2008). The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: Threat or opportunity? Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Varma, A., & Budhwar, P. (2012). International Human Resource Management in the Indian context. Journal of World Business, 47, 157-338.

Williamson, P., Ramamurti, R., Fleury, A., & Fleury, M. T. (eds). (2013). Competitive advantages of emerging country multinationals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Call for papers: Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS

Call for papers for a special issue
Submission deadline: May 4, 2015

Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America

Guest Editors:

• Ruth Aguilera
• Luciano Ciravegna
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

“Name some Brazilian multinationals. Even harder than "famous Belgians", isn't it? Despite Brazil being the world's eighth-largest economy, with plenty of big, profitable firms, few of them have a reasonable share of their operations abroad and are thus genuinely multinational.” The Economist, Sept 21, 2000.

“For the first time Brazil has a crop of companies that can be described as multinationals. Some of them are already well known outside Brazil: Petrobras; Vale, one of the world’s largest mining companies; and Embraer, the world’s third-largest maker of passenger jets.” The Economist, November 12, 2009.

These two quotes from the British newspaper The Economist reflect the change in view about Multilatinas, or Latin American multinational companies. The reason is not that there were no Multilatinas before 2000. In fact, there have been Multilatinas for over a century. For example, the Argentinean shoemaker Alpargatas was created in 1885 and established subsidiaries in Uruguay in 1890 and in Brazil in 1907. The reason is that there were few studies analyzing Multilatinas before the 2000s. This was part of a general trend in the international business literature that appeared to have ignored the region. For example, a review of articles in two leading journals in the field of international business (Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review) in the period 1987-1997 indicated that fewer than 6% of the articles mentioned Latin America (Elahee and Vaidya, 2001). This paucity of studies on the region had not changed in recent times. A review of studies in four leading international business journal (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review) in 2001-2005 indicated that only 2.75% of articles studied firms in the region (Perez-Batres, Pisani and Doh, 2010). Nevertheless, a few analyses of multinationals have indicated that firms from this region are becoming multinational rapidly and some of them are becoming leaders in their industries (Casanova, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2008,; Fleury and Fleury, 2010; Santiso, 2013).

In this special issue we plan to take stock of what is known about these firms and identify potential avenues for future research. Other special issues of the Journal of World Businesshave analyzed various regions of the world such as India (Varma and Budhwar, 2012), China (Laforet, Paliwoda and Chen, 2012), Africa (Kamoche, 2011), the Middle East (Mellahi, Demirbag and Riddle, 2011), and Korea (Paik and Lee, 2008). This special issue contributes to the global scope of the Journal of World Business by studying firms from Latin America, which have, thus far, been underrepresented in the management and business literature (Brenes, Montoya and Ciravegna, 2014). With this special issue, we aim to not only increase our understanding of Multilatinas, but also to identify the particular characteristics of their internationalization and how it compares with the internationalization of firms from other regions.

The rise of emerging market multinationals has been well documented (for example see the papers in the special issues edited by Aulakh, 2007; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Gammeltoft, Barnard and Madhok, 2010; Luo and Tung, 2007; and in the books edited by Cuervo-Cazurra and Ramamurti, 2014; Ramamurti and Singh, 2007, Sauvant, 2008; Williamson et al., 2013), yet the literature on emerging market multinationals has thus far focused mainly on firms from regions other than Latin America. With this Special Issue of Journal of World Business,we aim to fill this gap, contributing to the international business literature and the body of knowledge documenting the practices of multinational companies.

This call is an attempt to integrate different aspects that might have influenced the growth and internationalization of Latin American firms. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and case studies submission addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

• Successful Multilatinas expanding outside their region
• Comparative ownership advantages/disadvantages of Multilatinas
• Internationalization patterns of Latin American firms
• The internationalization of state-owned Latin American firms
• Institutional constraints for Latin American companies to internationalize
• Foreign performance of Latin American firms
• Effects of exports promotion agencies on the internationalization of Latin American firms
• Governance in Multilatinas
• The internationalization of Latin American business groups 
• Global leadership in Multilatinas
• Dimensions of management diversity in Multilatinas
• Determinants of outward FDI from Latin America
• The role of governments in Latin American International Business
• Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices in Multilatinas
• The role of family-owned business conglomerates in Multilatinas
• Oligopolistic structures and internationalization in Multilatinas
• Multilatinas and economic and political crises
• Cultural challenges in doing business from Latin America
• The role of Latin American diaspora and returning emigrants in international business

Submission process:

By May 4, 2015, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the new Journal of World Business EES submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is: http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select ‘SI: Latin American MNCs’ when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal of World Business Guide for Authors available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-world-business/1090-9516/guide-for-authors. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the Journal of World Business’s blind review process.

We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.

Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors:

• Ruth V. Aguilera, Northeastern University, United States (r.aguilera@neu.edu)
• Luciano Ciravegna, King’s College, London, UK, (Luciano.ciravegna@kcl.ac.uk)
• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University, United States (a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu)
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia (mgonza40@eafit.edu.co)

References:

• Aulakh, P. S. (2007). Emerging multinationals from developing economies: motivations, paths, and performance. Journal of International Management, 13, 338-355.
• Brenes, E. R., Montoya, D., & Ciravegna, L. (2014). Differentiation strategies in emerging markets: The case of Latin American agribusinesses. Journal of Business Research,67, 847-855.
• Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2008). The multinationalization of developing country MNEs: The case of Multilatinas. Journal of International Management, 14, 138-154.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2012). How the analysis of developing country multinational companies helps advance theory: Solving the Goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2, 153-167.
• Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Ramamurti, R. (2014). Understanding multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Economist. (2001). Brazil's Gerdau: Who dares wins. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/374586
• Economist. (2009). Special Reports Economist Brazil. The Economist. www.economist.com/node/14829517
• Elahee, M. N., & Vaidya, S. P. (2001). Coverage of Latin American business and management issues in cross-cultural research: An analysis of JIBS and MIR 1987-1997.International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 4, 21-31. 
• Fleury, A. & Fleury, M. T. L. (2011). Brazilian multinationals: Competences for internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Gammeltoft, P., Barnard, H., & Madhok, A. (2010). Emerging multinationals, emerging theory: macro- and micro-level perspectives. Journal of International Management,16, 95-101.
• Kamoche, K. (2011). Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa. Journal of World Business, 46, 1-4.
• Laforet, S. Paliwoda, S. and Chen, J. (2012). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 47, 1-3.
• Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481-498.
• Mellahi, K., Demirbag, M., & Riddle, L. (2011). Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of World Business, 46, 406-410.
• Paik, Y., & Lee, S. H. (2008). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 43, 1-4.
• Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. (2010). Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10, 3-7. 
• Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (eds). (2009). Emerging multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Santiso, J. (2013). The decade of the Multilatinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sauvant, K. P. (ed). (2008). The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: Threat or opportunity? Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
• Varma, A., & Budhwar, P. (2012). International Human Resource Management in the Indian context. Journal of World Business, 47, 157-338.
• Williamson, P., Ramamurti, R., Fleury, A., & Fleury, M. T. (eds). (2013). Competitive advantages of emerging country multinationals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Call for chapters proposals: Business Development Opportunities and Market Entry Challenges in Latin America

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014
Business Development Opportunities and Market Entry Challenges in Latin America
A book edited by

• Dr. Mauricio Garita (Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala)
• Dr. José Godinez (Merrimack College, North Andover, USA)

To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/1n4tuHc

Part of the Research Essentials Collection

Publications released as Research Essentials will offer a succinct discussion on niche topics in a wide variety of subjects. Sized and priced appropriately, these concise, advanced, and timely resources will be perfect for supplementary course usage, targeted towards instructors and students, as well as the independent researcher looking for the most recent and innovative research in their field.

Introduction

Latin America has been a region of conflict, economic growth and development. The region has also continued to be characterized by a wide range of social structures, political systems, and economic models. The region has seen a steady economic growth, which has caught the attention of international investors. In contrast, however, the region has also been characterized by a large economic disparity between its inhabitants.

Progressively, Latin America has been experiencing economic growth but with such growth several challenges are encountered. The proposed book’s aim is to analyze the economic changes in Latin America that have affected the countries in the region and the factors behind such changes as well as their consequences.

Objective of the Book

This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of economic issues in Latin America and will provide further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers and managers to understand economic policy in Latin America.

Target Audience

Policy makers, managers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this text useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in entry challenges and business developments in the region.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• · Trust model – a conceptual framework
• · Trust in global networks
• · Trust in new economy
• · Trust and value creation in a network economy
• · Trust as capital
• · Improving market performance through trust
• · Trust as a management strategy
• · Trust from the perspective of knowledge management
• · Trust in public administration / sector

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted bySeptember 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Proposals should be submitted through the link at the bottom of this page.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2015.

Important Dates

• Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014
• Full chapter Submission: September 30, 2014
• Review Process: September 30, 2014 –November 30, 2014
• Review Results to Authors: December 15, 2014
• Revised Chapter Submission: January 30, 2015
• Final Acceptance Notifications: February 15, 2015
• Submission of Final Chapters: February 28, 2015
• Final Deadline: March 30, 2015

Inquiries can be forwarded to
Dr. Mauricio Garita
Department of Business Economics
Universidad Rafael Landivar
E-mail: mgaritag@correo.url.edu.gt


Jose Godinez
Girard School of Business
Merrimack College
E-mail: godinezj@merrimack.edu

Call for conference papers: AIB-Lat 2015. Internationalization of Family and Entrepreneurial Businesses in Latin America

Internationalization of Family and Entrepreneurial Businesses in Latin America 

Santiago, Chile, January 22-24, 2015


Latin American countries, with few exceptions, have experienced the increasing landing of foreign MNCs in the last two decades, as a consequence of global strategies developed by firms, and a more liberalized and stable environment during these past twenty years. However, this economic and political landscape has also inspired and motivated the internationalization process of a growing number of MNCs from the region –the so-called multilatinas- with operations in several countries across the continent.

Who are behind these multilatinas? How have these companies emerged and developed? Although some research has been done in recent years on the topic of multilatinas, most of them are family or entrepreneurial businesses. In fact, experts estimate that more than 90% of Latin American firms are family-owned companies or entrepreneurial ventures, and most family firms initiated as a start-up of the family founder. Thus, the majority of companies listed in the stock markets in Latin America are family-controlled, and most regional conglomerates, known as grupos, are family-based.
To deal with these interesting issues, the Latin American Chapter of the Academy of International Business is pleased to announce that the conference "Internationalization of Family and Entrepreneurial Businesses in Latin America" will be held in Santiago at ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes, on January 22-24, 2015. This AIB-LAT conference aims to promote the best and latest research findings and theoretical developments in the fields of Internationalization, Family Business and Entrepreneurship in Latin America, and especially the overlaps and intersections of these three fields.

We cordially invite you to share your experience in this field of research, by submitting empirical and conceptual papers explicitly or implicitly related to the theme of the conference.

Below is an illustrative list of topics that will be considered:

• Internationalization in LA and entry modes 
• Subsidiary management and performance 
• Knowledge management in the region 
• International entrepreneurship 
• International marketing 
• Cross-cultural management 
• Inward and outward FDI 
• Offshoring and outsourcing in the region 
• Corporate governance, international finance and international standards 
• Regional policies, IGOs, NGOs 
• Research methods in international business 
• Internationalization of family firms 
• Entrepreneurship and internationalization 

This will be the fifth conference of the AIB Latin America chapter, following meetings in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010), Miami, USA (2012), Puebla, Mexico (2013), and Medellin, Colombia (2014). Each conference has built upon successes of the prior one, and we are aiming for the best yet in 2015. Details regarding a doctoral consortium, paper development workshop, keynote speakers, publishing opportunities, potential side-trips in and around Santiago and other conference details will be announced shortly.

Submission guidelines:

There will be a link to the AIB submission system from www.aib-lat.org at least one month before the submission deadline, so that you can submit your work. Please make sure that your submission meets the JIBS Style Guide format. All submissions will be subject to a double blind peer review process. Please direct questions to: lat2015@aib.msu.edu

Key dates

• Full paper submission: August 31, 2014
• Full paper acceptance: October 15, 2014

Organizers:

Jon Martínez, Conference Chair
William Newburry, Chapter Chair

Call for papers: Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Internationalization of Latin American Enterprises

Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Internationalization of Latin American Enterprises

Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Business Research

Guest Editors: 

• Luciano Ciravegna (King’s College, University of London; INCAE), 
• Sumit K. Kundu (Florida International University), 
• Luis Lopez (INCAE)

Deadline: September 15, 2014

Description:


Since 2008-2009 emerging markets generate the lion share of the world’s economic growth. As a result, managers and business scholars have focused their attention on studying the dynamics of emerging markets (Buckley, Clegg, Cross, Liu, Voss, and Zheng, 2007; Cavusgil, Ghauri, and Akcal, 2012; Guillen and Garcia-Canal, 2012; Khanna and Palepu, 2010: Ciravegna, Fitzgerald and Kundu, 2013; Wright, Filatotchev, Hoskisson, and Peng, 2005). The rise of multinational companies from emerging markets is becoming a major phenomenon (Ramamurti and Singh, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Luo and Rui, 2009; Yamakawa, Peng and Deeds, 2008).

Emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) internationalize differently from developed economy multinationals (Guillén and García-Canal, 2009; Luo and Rui, 2009; Matthews, 2007; Yiu, Lau and Bruton, 2007). According to Luo and Tang’s (2007) “springboard perspective”, EMNEs internationalize before reaching a stage of maturity in domestic markets because internationalization nurtures the acquisition of capabilities and assets that they may lack. Some scholars reject this view, positing that EMNEs behave similarly to multinationals based in developed economies, only they have different sets of country specific and firm specific advantages (Narula, 2012). Finally, some scholars point that EMNEs may internationalize in order to escape from difficult conditions in their domestic economies or to pursue opportunities in an entrepreneurial fashion (Khanna and Palepu, 2010; Madhok and Keyhani, 2012).

Most of the studies on which EMNEs theories focus on a very small number of emerging markets especially China and India (Ciravegna, Fitzgerald, and Kundu, 2013). Several Latin American firms have internationalized in aggressive and innovative ways, often outcompeting established players (Casanova, 2009). Latin American firms are now among the world global players in several industries, ranging from cement (Cemex), to aerospace (Embraer), bread (Bimbo), sweets (Arcor), and wine (Concha y Toro) (Guillén and García-Canal, 2009). However, our understanding of internationalization strategy of Latin American firms remains shallow (Pérez-Batres, Pisani, & Doh, 2010). International business scholars point that Latin American firms internationalize rather regionally, though the number of empirical studies examining the phenomenon is limited, and tends to focus on a few well known cases, whereas the majority of Latin American firms, including mid-sized multinational companies, have thus far been under the radar of scientific research (Casanova, 2009; Lopez, Ciravegna and Kundu, 2009; Rugman and Verbeke, 2004). The result is an empirical gap with regards to the generalizability of EMNE theories to Latin American firms.

Do Latin American firms behave similarly to the Chinese and Indian firms that have been discussed more thorougly by the international business literature? Or do they behave more in line with developed economy multinationals, internationalizing gradually as they accumulate resources and capabilities?

This special edition of JBR aims to contribute to the debate on emerging market multinationals by inviting scholarly articles focusing on the internationalization of firms based in Latin America. We are particularly interested in new studies, which use fresh empirical evidence to examine whether and how the internationalization of Latin American firms corresponds to the EMNE theories (e.g. springboard perspective, institutional void perspective, linkage-leverage-learning perspective), or whether they follow conventional IB theories (e.g. eclectic paradigm, resource based view, gradual internationalization process model, internalization theory, and network theory).

The guest editors seek studies focusing on firm internationalization based on one or multiple countries of Latin America. The contributions can tackle, among others, the following research questions:

• Which theories from the international business, international entrepreneurship, and international marketing fields are suited to explain the internationalization of Latin American companies?
• Does the internationalization of Latin American enterprises contribute to the development of emerging markets multinational enterprises (EMNEs) internationalization theories? How?
• Do the springboard and linkage-leverage-learning perspectives apply to Latin American firms?
• What explains the speed and scope of internationalization of Latin American firms?
• What are the motives for internationalizing of Latin American firms?
• How important are ownership and the composition of the management team for the internationalization of Latin American firms?
• Does the eclectic paradigm explain the internationalization of Latin American firms?
• Do institutional characteristics contribute to explain the international behavior of Latin American companies?

To submit your work, please email your paper to Luciano Ciravegna atLuciano.ciravegna@incae.edu

All papers accepted in an initial screening will enter double-blind peer review process.

Submissions will be limited to 50 pages of text and up to ten figures and tables. Submissions must comply to the JBR style requirements. For JBR style requirements, go tohttp://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/jbrrequirements.pdf.

References

Buckley, P. J., Clegg, L. J., Cross, A. R., Liu, X., Voss, H., & Zheng, P. (2007). The determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 499-518.

Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas [Electronic book]: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cavusgil, S. T., Ghauri, P. N., & Akcal, A. A. (2012). Doing business in emerging markets. Sage.

Ciravegna, L.; Fitzgerald, R., & Kundu, S. (2013) Operating in emerging markets. Financial Times (FT) Press, Pearson, New York, USA.

Ciravegna, L.; Lopez, L. & Kundu, S. (2013) “Country of origin and network effects on internationalization: A comparative study of SMEs from an emerging and developed economy”, Journal of Business Research,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.07.011

Ciravegna, L.; Lopez, L. & Kundu, S. (2009) “Born Global or Born Regional? Evidence from an exploratory study in the Costa Rican Software Industry”, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 40 (7): 1228-1238.

Contractor, F. J., Kumar, V., & Kundu, S. K. (2007). Nature of the relationship between international expansion and performance: The case of emerging market firms. Journal of World Business, 42(4), 401-417.

Cuervo‐Cazurra, A. (2012). Extending theory by analyzing developing country multinational companies: solving the goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2(3), 153-167.

Guillén, M. F., & García-Canal, E. (2009). The American model of the multinational firm and the “new” multinationals from emerging economies. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(2), 23-35.

Guillén, M. F., & García-Canal, E. (2012) Emerging markets rule. McGraw Hill, US.

Khanna, T., & Palepu, K. G. (2010). Winning in emerging markets: A road map for strategy and execution. Harvard Business Press.

Hoskisson, R. E., Eden, L., Lau, C. M., & Wright, M. (2000). Strategy in emerging economies. Academy of Management Journal, 43(3), 249-267.

Luo YD, Rui HC. 2009. An ambidexterity perspective toward multinational enterprises from emerging economies. Academy of Management Perspectives 23(4): 49–70.

Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 481-498.

Mathews, J. A. (2006). Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(1), 5-27.

Madhok, A., & Keyhani, M. (2012). Acquisitions as entrepreneurship: asymmetries, opportunities, and the internationalization of multinationals from emerging economies. Global Strategy Journal, 2(1), 26-40.

Narula, R. (2012). Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries? Global Strategy Journal, 2(3), 188-204.

Peng M.W., Wang D.Y.L., Jiang Y. 2008. An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies. Journal of International Business Studies 39(5): 920–936.

Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. 2010. Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10(1): 3-7.

Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (Eds.). (2009). Emerging multinationals in emerging markets. Cambridge University Press.

Ramamurti, R. (2012). What is really different about emerging market multinationals? Global Strategy Journal, 2(1), 41-47.

Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A. (2004). A perspective on regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises. Journal of International Business Studies, 35(1), 3-18.

Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M. W., & Deeds, D. L. (2008). What drives new ventures to internationalize from emerging to developed economies? Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32(1), 59-82.

Yiu, D. W., Lau, C., & Bruton, G. D. (2007). International venturing by emerging economy firms: the effects of firm capabilities, home country networks, and corporate entrepreneurship. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 519-540.

Wright, M., Filatotchev, I., Hoskisson, R. E., & Peng, M. W. (2005). Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom*. Journal of Management Studies, 42(1), 1-33.

Call for papers: Latin American Economic Review

Latin American Economic Review aims to be the leading general interest journal on topics relevant to Latin America. The journal welcomes high-quality theoretical and quantitative papers on economic, social and political-economy issues with a regional focus.
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• Editorial: Greetings from the Editor-in-Chief Juan Rosellón 
• Real exchange rate and manufacturing growth in Latin America Paulo Henrique Vaz, Werner Baer 
• Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Edward B. Barbier 
• What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramírez-Zea, Aryeh D. Stein 
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Call for papes: Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Internationalization of Latin American Enterprises

Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Internationalization of Latin American Enterprises

Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Business Research

Guest Editors: 

• Luciano Ciravegna (Royal Holloway, University of London; INCAE), 
• Sumit K. Kundu (Florida International University), 
• Luis Lopez (INCAE)

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014

Since 2008-2009 emerging markets generate the lion share of the world’s economic growth. As a result, managers and business scholars have focused their attention on studying the dynamics of emerging markets (Buckley, Clegg, Cross, Liu, Voss, and Zheng, 2007; Cavusgil, Ghauri, and Akcal, 2012; Guillen and Garcia-Canal, 2012; Khanna and Palepu, 2010: Ciravegna, Fitzgerald and Kundu, 2013; Wright, Filatotchev, Hoskisson, and Peng, 2005). The rise of multinational companies from emerging markets is becoming a major phenomenon (Ramamurti and Singh, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Luo and Rui, 2009; Yamakawa, Peng and Deeds, 2008).

Emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) internationalize differently from developed economy multinationals (Guillén and García-Canal, 2009; Luo and Rui, 2009; Matthews, 2007; Yiu, Lau and Bruton, 2007). According to Luo and Tang’s (2007) “springboard perspective”, EMNEs internationalize before reaching a stage of maturity in domestic markets because internationalization nurtures the acquisition of capabilities and assets that they may lack. Some scholars reject this view, positing that EMNEs behave similarly to multinationals based in developed economies, only they have different sets of country specific and firm specific advantages (Narula, 2012). Finally, some scholars point that EMNEs may internationalize in order to escape from difficult conditions in their domestic economies or to pursue opportunities in an entrepreneurial fashion (Khanna and Palepu, 2010; Madhok and Keyhani, 2012).

Most of the studies on which EMNEs theories focus on a very small number of emerging markets especially China and India (Ciravegna, Fitzgerald, and Kundu, 2013). Several Latin American firms have internationalized in aggressive and innovative ways, often outcompeting established players (Casanova, 2009). Latin American firms are now among the world global players in several industries, ranging from cement (Cemex), to aerospace (Embraer), bread (Bimbo), sweets (Arcor), and wine (Concha y Toro) (Guillén and García-Canal, 2009). However, our understanding of internationalization strategy of Latin American firms remains shallow (Pérez-Batres, Pisani, & Doh, 2010). International business scholars point that Latin American firms internationalize rather regionally, though the number of empirical studies examining the phenomenon is limited, and tends to focus on a few well known cases, whereas the majority of Latin American firms, including mid-sized multinational companies, have thus far been under the radar of scientific research (Casanova, 2009; Lopez, Ciravegna and Kundu, 2009; Rugman and Verbeke, 2004). The result is an empirical gap with regards to the generalizability of EMNE theories to Latin American firms.

Do Latin American firms behave similarly to the Chinese and Indian firms that have been discussed more thorougly by the international business literature? Or do they behave more in line with developed economy multinationals, internationalizing gradually as they accumulate resources and capabilities?

This special edition of JBR aims to contribute to the debate on emerging market multinationals by inviting scholarly articles focusing on the internationalization of firms based in Latin America. We are particularly interested in new studies, which use fresh empirical evidence to examine whether and how the internationalization of Latin American firms corresponds to the EMNE theories (e.g. springboard perspective, institutional void perspective, linkage-leverage-learning perspective), or whether they follow conventional IB theories (e.g. eclectic paradigm, resource based view, gradual internationalization process model, internalization theory, and network theory).

The guest editors seek studies focusing on firm internationalization based on one or multiple countries of Latin America. The contributions can tackle, among others, the following research questions:

• Which theories from the international business, international entrepreneurship, and international marketing fields are suited to explain the internationalization of Latin American companies? 
• Does the internationalization of Latin American enterprises contribute to the development of emerging markets multinational enterprises (EMNEs) internationalization theories? How? 
• Do the springboard and linkage-leverage-learning perspectives apply to Latin American firms? 
• What explains the speed and scope of internationalization of Latin American firms?
• What are the motives for internationalizing of Latin American firms?
• How important are ownership and the composition of the management team for the internationalization of Latin American firms?
• Does the eclectic paradigm explain the internationalization of Latin American firms?
• Do institutional characteristics contribute to explain the international behavior of Latin American companies?

To submit your work, please email your paper to Luciano Ciravegna at Luciano.ciravegna@incae.edu

All papers accepted in an initial screening will enter double-blind peer review process.

Submissions will be limited to 50 pages of text and up to ten figures and tables. Submissions must comply to the JBR style requirements. For JBR style requirements, go to http://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/jbrrequirements.pdf.

References

Buckley, P. J., Clegg, L. J., Cross, A. R., Liu, X., Voss, H., & Zheng, P. (2007). The determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 499-518.

Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas [Electronic book]: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cavusgil, S. T., Ghauri, P. N., & Akcal, A. A. (2012). Doing business in emerging markets. Sage.

Ciravegna, L.; Fitzgerald, R., & Kundu, S. (2013) Operating in emerging markets. Financial Times (FT) Press, Pearson, New York, USA.

Ciravegna, L.; Lopez, L. & Kundu, S. (2013) “Country of origin and network effects on internationalization: A comparative study of SMEs from an emerging and developed economy”, Journal of Business Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.07.011

Ciravegna, L.; Lopez, L. & Kundu, S. (2009) “Born Global or Born Regional? Evidence from an exploratory study in the Costa Rican Software Industry”, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 40 (7): 1228-1238.

Contractor, F. J., Kumar, V., & Kundu, S. K. (2007). Nature of the relationship between international expansion and performance: The case of emerging market firms. Journal of World Business, 42(4), 401-417.

Cuervo‐Cazurra, A. (2012). Extending theory by analyzing developing country multinational companies: solving the goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2(3), 153-167.

Guillén, M. F., & García-Canal, E. (2009). The American model of the multinational firm and the “new” multinationals from emerging economies. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(2), 23-35.

Guillén, M. F., & García-Canal, E. (2012) Emerging markets rule. McGraw Hill, US.

Khanna, T., & Palepu, K. G. (2010). Winning in emerging markets: A road map for strategy and execution. Harvard Business Press.

Hoskisson, R. E., Eden, L., Lau, C. M., & Wright, M. (2000). Strategy in emerging economies. Academy of Management Journal, 43(3), 249-267.

Luo YD, Rui HC. 2009. An ambidexterity perspective toward multinational enterprises from emerging economies. Academy of Management Perspectives 23(4): 49–70.

Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 481-498.

Mathews, J. A. (2006). Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(1), 5-27.

Madhok, A., & Keyhani, M. (2012). Acquisitions as entrepreneurship: asymmetries, opportunities, and the internationalization of multinationals from emerging economies. Global Strategy Journal, 2(1), 26-40.

Narula, R. (2012). Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries? Global Strategy Journal, 2(3), 188-204.

Peng M.W., Wang D.Y.L., Jiang Y. 2008. An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies. Journal of International Business Studies 39(5): 920–936.

Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. 2010. Latin America’s Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10(1): 3-7.

Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (Eds.). (2009). Emerging multinationals in emerging markets. Cambridge University Press.

Ramamurti, R. (2012). What is really different about emerging market multinationals? Global Strategy Journal, 2(1), 41-47.

Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A. (2004). A perspective on regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises. Journal of International Business Studies, 35(1), 3-18.

Yamakawa, Y., Peng, M. W., & Deeds, D. L. (2008). What drives new ventures to internationalize from emerging to developed economies? Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32(1), 59-82.

Yiu, D. W., Lau, C., & Bruton, G. D. (2007). International venturing by emerging economy firms: the effects of firm capabilities, home country networks, and corporate entrepreneurship. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 519-540.

Wright, M., Filatotchev, I., Hoskisson, R. E., & Peng, M. W. (2005). Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom*. Journal of Management Studies, 42(1), 1-33.

Revised Call for Papers. AIB-Lat 2014.

Revised Call for Papers

Innovation, Geography and Internationalization in Latin America

Medellin, Colombia - March 20-22, 2014

In March 2013, Medellin, Colombia was named “Innovative City of the Year” in a competition by the Wall Street Journal and the Urban Land Institute and sponsored by the Citigroup from among 200 global contenders, beating out the other two finalists, New York and Tel Aviv. “Few cities have transformed the way that Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city, has in the past 20 years” (Urban Land Institute, 2013). As such, the city serves as the perfect backdrop for the fourth annual meeting of the Latin American Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB-LAT), with the theme “Innovation, Geography, and Internationalization in Latin America".

This year's AIB-LAT conference aims to promote the best and latest research findings and theoretical developments related to geographical aspects associated with innovation and internationalization in the Latin American context. Firm innovation and internationalization are often intertwined, as well as being tied to geographic factors such as agglomeration economies within a city or region, or the degree to which the local institutional structure supports these activities. Within this conference, we intend to highlight issues related to how factors such as cities, country boundaries, and various distance types (e.g., Cultural, Administrative, Geographic, and Economic; Ghemawat, 2001) promote and/or inhibit innovation and internationalization. Any contribution that furthers these topics, or related ones, in the context of MNCs in Latin America is most welcome.

The Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia will be hosting this year´s event. Universidad EAFIT was founded in 1960 as Colombia's first business school and since then has grown into a university with more than 22,000 undergraduate students, 79 graduate (Masters and Graduate Diplomas) and four PhD programs. Medellin is immersed in Colombia, a country with an excellent geographical location, constituting a middle meeting point for foreigners from the Americas, and it remains as a point of global convergence for people coming from Europe, Asia, Africa and other continents.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please note the following submission options. Details regarding each can be found on the conference website:

• · Competitive Paper Track – Intended for more advanced papers (Up to 30 pages following JIBS style guide) 
• · Interactive Paper Track – Intended for research in earlier stages of development (Extended abstracts and shorter manuscripts will be considered)
• · Case Study Track
• · Undergraduate/MBA Student Paper Track
• · Pre-Conference Doctoral Consortium
• · Pre-Conference JIBS Paper Development Workshop (Details to be announced soon)

Please look for a separate announcement regarding publication opportunities for the Conference Best Papers, including a Special Issue of the International Journal of Emerging Markets.

To submit your work, please access the AIB submission system at: http://meetings.aib.msu.edu/lat/2014/. All works will be subject to a double blind peer review process. For more information, please e-mail: lat2014@aib.msu.edu or consult http://www.eafit.edu.co/aiblat2014/

KEY DATES:

• Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 11, 2013
• Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2013

CONTACT: 

• William Newburry, Chapter Chair (newburry@fiu.edu )
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Local Chair (mgonza40@eafit.edu.co )

Call for conference papers: LAEMOS (Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies)

LAEMOS (Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies) 2014, Havana, Cuba, 2-5 April (www.laemos.com)

SUBTHEME 06:Performing Alternatives To Capitalism: Which Theories, Models And Mechanisms?

Subtheme Conveners:

Mário Aquino Alves (FGV–EAESP, Brazil), Luciano Barin-Cruz (HEC Montréal,Canada), Jean-Pascal Gond (City University London, UK)

Contact:

mario.alves@fgv.br, luciano.barin-cruz@hec.ca, Jean-Pascal.Gond.1@city.ac.uk

Call for Papers:

Although the models inherited from economics and finance have been described as key sources of organizational troubles, mainly due to their performative or self - fulfilling effects (Ferraro, Pfeffer and Sutton 2005; Ghoshal 2005), they remain the dominant ways of thinking in the post - 2008 crisis world (Davis 2009). More importantly, these models have a drastic influence in the South through global institutions such as the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund.

On the one hand, performativity studies in economic sociology have documented the mechanisms whereby assumptions from economics or financial theory have been turned into social reality for actors and organizations, and, in doing so, have become ‘performed’ (Cabantous and Gond 2011; Callon 1998; MacKenzie and Millo 2003). However, these works have little to say about which alternative theories or organizational models could be performed (Butler 2010), or how emancipatory models (Freire 2000a; 2000b) may emerge and be mobilized by those who are usually seen as ‘followers’ of the performed dominant economic models.

On the other hand, critical scholars have proposed alternative emancipatory ideals for organizations and management practitioners, but have often adopted an ‘anti-performative’ stance (Fournier and Grey 2000) maintaining them at a ‘cynical distance’ from their object of study (Fleming and Spicer 2003). Although the concept of ‘critical performativity’ partially addresses this shortcoming (Spicer, Alvesson and Kärreman 2009), it does not describe how alternative theories or models are transformed into social reality.

Hence, missing from both streams of research is an analysis of which theories, which organizational models and which mechanisms can help make social reality fit, in terms of representation of human beings and organizations that are alternatives to the dominant ones proposed by finance theory or economics. In addition, prior works on performativity have rarely considered performativity in the South (Fridman 2010) nor attached specific attention to how theories developed in the South have been performed.

This workshop aims at addressing these important gaps in organizational studies by documenting which alternative theories and organizational models are currently performed and how they have been, or could be performed. We welcome explorations of any of the following topics, as well as other relevant ones.

· Which theories? We would encourage studies discussing whether and how alternative theories “from the South” have been performed, or how theories “from the North” can be performed in the South. For instance, how have the ideas of authors such as Guerreiro - Ramos (1976), Freire (2000a) or Singer (2011) contributed to the Performativity of emancipatory ideals? Which theories or representations inform alternative organizational forms in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico, or in African and Asiatic countries? How are different versions of Marxism or post-colonialism mobilized in practice to change organizational contexts? To what extent can concepts designed and promoted by scholars embedded in mainstream institutions actually be translated in the context of the South? The Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) and the notion of Creating Shared Value (CSV) offer two interesting cases in point to follow the journey of such concepts across the world. How are these Northern concepts and labels experienced in the South? How are they appropriated or transformed into local models?

· Which organizational models? A second set of questions relates to the alternative organizational models that can be performed to turn emancipatory ideals or theories into social reality (Imas and Weston 2012). For instance, are workers cooperatives a sustainable alternative to capitalist organizations from an economic, social and ecological viewpoint? Are social enterprises an alternative or a new way to reproduce capitalist models? What are the economic, social and environmental consequences of this new model? Which alternative organizational process can help address human needs while taking into account the ecological constraints? How can new organizational forms be designed in order to minimize negative externalities?

· Which mechanisms? A final set of questions relates to the mechanisms whereby alternative theories or models are performed. Under which conditions can a theory successfully influence a region of the world by facilitating the development of new organizational forms? Are the ideals promoted by some thinkers from the South immunized from perverse effects? Which mechanisms can explain the capacity of emancipatory theories to transform social reality? Can alternative or heterodox economic theories also become self-fulfilling prophecies?

We will also accept submissions in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Submit your abstract (1000 words) no later than 15 November 2013 at http://laemos.com/abstractsubmitform.html

References

• Bulter, J. 2010. Performative agency. Journal of Cultural Economy, 3(2): 147–161.
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