CfP: Global Strategy in the Age of Skepticism of Globalization

Global Strategy in the Age of Skepticism of Globalization

Call for papers for a Special Issue of 

Global Strategy Journal

Submission period: December 1-15, 2017

Special Issue Editors:

• Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University 
• Yves Doz, INSEAD 
• Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University 

The Objective of this Special Issue:

Globalization, the increasing connection and integration of economies and societies around the world, has seen ebbs and flows during history. In recent times, we witnessed an increase in globalization, thanks to the twin engines of technological advances and economic liberalization. Technological advances in transportation, such as containerization and cargo jets, and in communication technologies, such as computers and the internet, have facilitated the interaction and coordination of activities across national borders, the growth of global value chains and suppliers’ networks, and the reduction of the costs of operating at a distance. Economic liberalization with reductions in governmental and institutional barriers to the free movement of capital, ideas and people across national borders, pro-market reforms, the integration of transition economies and the expansion of free trade agreements, enabled the growth of international trade and the expansion of global firms. The result of these processes has been an increasing interest in international business and advances in the theory of the multinational firm and of global ecosystems, as activities that previously were done within national borders have spread across countries.

However, globalization has brought not only benefits but also costs. On the one hand, there are numerous benefits in the form of lower-cost products and services as a result of the gains from comparative advantage and specialization, and more innovative products and services as a result of global learning and the rapid spread of innovations and technologies across borders. On the other hand, there are also costs in the form of increased competition on domestic companies and workers, who previously were shielded by barriers against foreign products and companies, and in the form of new technologies that have altered traditional careers and expectations regarding relationships between workers, citizens, and firms. Many perceive globalization as a threat to wellbeing. 

Even if some Luddites want to block technological progress, technological advances are difficult to constrain given the ease of the diffusion of technologies, especially nowadays as information is easily accessible thanks to the internet. However, the same cannot be said of economic liberalization and the reduction of barriers to trade and increased economic integration. Those who have been harmed or felt harmed because of globalization, and the labor costs arbitrage it enabled, can place pressure on governments to limit exposure to foreign companies, workers, and investments. Some governments have responded to these pressures by reintroducing tight constraints on the activities of foreign firms and the free movement of capital and labor across borders. What initially were fringe movements of skeptics of globalization that emerged vocally at the end of the 1990s and early 2000s, have become influential movements and political parties that have altered government policy in the 2010s. Some examples are the decision of Britain in 2016 to leave the European Union or the decision of the US government in 2017 not to join the 12-country Transpacific Partnership free trade agreement. However, the debate has become complicated. It seems to have moved away from the polar views of being for or against globalization, and has become more nuanced with arguments on the particular terms of globalization for the country and individuals, including new considerations such as environmental protection, transport costs, climate change, and labor rights. Additionally, there are new conflicting views regarding globalization, with some being in favor of bilateral and regional integration while being against multilateral and global integration, and others promoting the opposite view. 

This skepticism of globalization presents interesting challenges to our current understanding of international business and more broadly to the theory of the multinational organization. Skepticism creates a new source of uncertainty not only from the government but also from citizens on the ability of multinationals to operate across countries and be accepted in host countries as well as at home. Managers of multinationals are facing a questioning of the activities of their companies in the countries in which they operate, and a need to justify the benefits that their companies bring to each country; previously, such justification could be assumed to exist in the form of better products for consumers and employment for local workers. Moreover, this skepticism creates uncertainty not only by the imposition of new constraints on the activities of the firm, but also over the interpretation and application of current rules. Thus, managers of multinationals are now facing new scrutiny over their ability to close down existing operations and move activities to new locations, as some foreign firms experienced in India; to acquire domestic companies, as many Chinese companies have experienced in the US; or in more extreme cases, the nationalization of their subsidiaries, as happened in Argentina and Venezuela. 

Hence, in this special issue of Global Strategy Journal, we want to gain a better understanding of how the skepticism of globalization is altering the way in which we should think about the behavior of multinational firms and the theory of the multinational. Skepticism towards globalization alters decision-making in multinationals as it establishes new constraints on the operations of firms and introduces uncertainty regarding the future viability of investments and activities. Researchers need to understand the extent to which choices now made by managers in global companies and in their networks of suppliers, customers and partners reflect these new constraints and uncertainties. Skepticism towards globalization also changes the relationship between the multinational firms and the broader society, in which managers have to deal with interest groups, and a more generally diffused dislike and suspicion toward multinationals and their operations, both abroad and at home, forcing them to rethink their market and nonmarket strategies.

We are looking for papers that provide a deeper and more nuanced comprehension of the theoretical mechanisms that underpin the theory of the multinational and the relationship between multinational firms and their context under the influence of skepticism and rising uncertainty and ambiguity about globalization. We consider multinationals in a loose sense to include not only corporations that control operations in multiple countries, but also companies that rely on global supply networks or serve a global portfolio of customers without controlling operations abroad, as well as not-for-profit organizations that operate in multiple countries. We welcome theoretical papers that outline how we should think about the multinational firm in the new context of skepticism, large sample empirical studies that test theory-driven arguments of the relationship between skepticism of globalization and firm behavior, or case studies that identify new concepts and relationships underpinning changes in the context of operation and behavior of a firm driven by skepticism of globalization. We particularly welcome studies that outline bridges to disciplines outside the traditional economic basis of global strategy studies such as legal studies, political economy, institutional theory, organizational theory, sociology, psychology, or history.

The following are some of the questions that studies analyzing the relationship between skepticism of globalization and global strategy might analyze. This list is only presented as an illustration of topics rather than an outline of the boundaries of the special issue:

• 1. How do we understand globalization, its dimensions and their impact on firms? How do regional versus global relationships play a role in this debate? 
• 2. How do changes for and against globalization among various constituencies alter the assumptions and predictions of theories of the multinational? What is the role of the broader context of the firm on the theory of strategic management? 
• 3. How do pro-market reversals and economic nationalisms change the predictions of studies on premarket reforms and economic liberalization? How do different types of companies by ownership (private, state, family, diffused, groups) react to skepticism of globalization? Do we see the return of “multi-domestic” MNCs? 
• 4. How do local competitors take advantage of this growing skepticism and the threat to continued globalization it portends? 
• 5. What are the consequences of this skepticism on increasing complex global supply chains, and on local firms that are partners in such supply chain networks? 
• 6. How do new constraints on the operations of firms alter their strategies? What type of reorganization of activities within the multinationals, their networks of suppliers, customers and partners, and across countries are most appropriate for these constraints? 
• 7. What strategies can managers of global firms deploy to face the increased skepticism of globalization? What are the most appropriate market and non-market strategies that manager can implement to deal with new governmental constraints or new customer and citizens demands? 
• 8. How can managers influence the processes of skepticism and counter changing attitudes of government officials, workers, and citizens? 
• 9. How do historical changes in favor of and against globalization help us better understand the strategies that managers can implement to deal with current events? How do attitudes differ across locations and time and what are the lessons that can be learned when establishing strategies? 
• 10. How do differences in the demographic, economic, political, and social situations and relationships among countries explain the attitudes toward globalization and their impacts on firms? 
• 11. How do for-profit and non-for-profit organizations are affected and react to skepticism of globalization? What are the differences in their strategies? 
• 12. What are the underlying assumptions on the relationships between organizations and their context in current models of firms and multinationals and how are these challenges with the attitudes of government officials and citizens? How can these be reconciled? 
• 13. How do changes in laws and their implementation alter contracts and transaction costs and how can companies devise strategies to addresses these legal changes? 

Authors working on submissions to the special issue are welcome to contact the guest editors if they have doubts about the appropriateness of the topic they want to analyze in regards to the theme of the special issue. 

Submission Process:

Between December 1 and 15, 2017, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the Global Strategy Journal submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gsj. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, please click the “Special Issue Article” when selecting the “Article Type” step in the submission process

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Global Strategy Journal Guide for Authors available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-5805/homepage/ForAuthors.html. 

All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s double-blind review process.

We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers in 2018. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation of their work at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue. 

If you have questions about the Special Issue, please direct them to the three guest editors: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University (a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu), Yves Doz, INSEAD (yves.doz@insead.edu), and Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University (ajai@business.rutgers.edu).

Call for book chapters: Climate change and the 2030 corporate agenda for sustainable development

Call for book chapters

Book series title: Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice
ISSN: 2051-5030

 

This edited volume will explore the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it also will analyse its challenges and implications, and it will establish required actions by the private sector in order to reducing global warming and mitigating climate change effects.

This book aims to bring together evidence-based, conceptual and theoretical contributions from a diverse set of geographical locations, and disciplinary backgrounds (international business, strategy, management, economics, marketing, psychology, sociology, legal studies, and anthropology) on the meanings, implications, opportunities and challenges for business around the planet in relation to climate change.

On December 2015, a universal agreement by 195 nations that seriously emphasises the urgency to “address the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels” (United Nations & Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2015: 2). At the agreement is also recognise the “urgent need to enhance the provision of finance, technology and capacity-building support by developed country Parties, in a predictable manner, to enable enhanced pre-2020 action by developing country Parties” (Idem). The some of the implications for Business are the inclusion of “major reductions in the cost of future mitigation and adaptation efforts”(ídem); and the promotion of “universal access to sustainable energy in developing countries, in particular in Africa, through the enhanced deployment of renewable energy” (ídem); the promotion of “regional and international cooperation in order to mobilize stronger and more ambitious climate action by all Parties and non-Party stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, financial institutions, cities and other subnational authorities, local communities and indigenous peoples” (ídem).

What is the meaning of the Paris climate agreement for business?

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

• The meaning of the Paris climate agreement for Business
• The Post-2015 sustainable business agenda
• Sustainability and competitiveness
• Specific case studies on business addressing global warming
• The Business case for climate change
• Internationalisation of Business and climate change
• Tax greenhouse emissions
• International business and environmental sustainability
• Fossil fuels prices and global warming
• Climate refugees and corporate actions
• Corporate agenda and the thirteen SDG 13
• Transferring political will into Business actions
• The agenda for COP 22
•  Green bonds
• PRME and climate change
• Environmental corporate initiatives and the UN Global Compact
• GRI Compass
• Climate finance
• Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)
• Technology transfer for sustainable energy
• B Corps

Important dates:

• Submission deadline for chapter proposals (title and 300-500 words abstract): February 1st, 2016 (to: mgonza40@eafit.edu.co and to liam_leonard@yahoo.com)
• Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapter proposals: February 15th, 2016
• Deadline for full chapter: April 30th, 2016
• Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapter proposals: 15th of May, 2016
• Deadline for submission of final chapters: 15th July 2016
• It is expected the volume to be published at the end of 2016

Accepted chapters will be compiled in a book titled “Climate change and the 2030 corporate agenda for sustainable development”, and it will be published by Emerald Books within the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice serie (indexed in Scopus)

Book Co-editors and further details:

• Liam Leonard, (California State University, Fullerton and University of West Virginia; United States). liam_leonard@yahoo.com
• Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia mgonza40@eafit.edu.co 

Reference:

United Nations & Framework Convention on Climate Change (2015) The adoption of the Paris Agreement. Available online at: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf

Call for conference papers: China Goes Global Conference

9th China Goes Global Conference
October 1-3, 2015

Georgia Tech (CIBER), Atlanta, USA

Further info available at: 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS China goes Global

The 9th annual conference of China Goes Global (a trademark of the Chinese Globalization Association), will be held in Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business, Atlanta, GA, October 1-3, 2015. As the premier conference on the topic, we seek contemporary contributions from the various business disciplines and the broader social sciences on the globalization of China.

Since 2006, China Goes Global pulls together a unique set of contributions on the globalization of the Chinese business environment, economy, and society. The conference is unique in several ways. The conference is developmental in nature and we invite competitive papers, recently published book authors, focused panels and work-in-progress for submission. The conference provides an ideal opportunity for scholars and practitioners as well as Ph.D. students to share and discuss their most recent high-quality work with other experts in this research field.

Best papers are also given the chance to be published in the International Journal of Emerging Markets, a Scopus ranked journal by Emerald. Selected papers will also be published as chapters in a book.

This year’s keynoter is Rosalie Tung.

In addition to insightful ideas, the conference also includes a reception, a performance, and great people and scholars with whom you can network. To join us on linkedin, go to (Chinese Globalization Association). Join us on Facebook.

Please submit your paper through our online submission system no later than April 15, 2015. Papers should follow the author style and referencing guide provided on the conference website. By submitting a paper, all authors also agree to review up to 3 papers.

Submissions must be done online: http://www.chinagoesglobal.org/conference/paper-submission/

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission: April 15, 2015
• Paper acceptance/rejection: May 30, 2015
• Revised paper submission: June 30, 2015

Call for papers. Special Issue: Globalization of Capital Markets: Implications for firm strategies

Special Issue Call for Papers

Journal of International Management
Globalization of Capital Markets: Implications for firm strategies

Guest Editors:

• Igor Filatotchev, City University London and Vienna University of Economics and Business
• R. Greg Bell, University of Dallas
• Abdul A. Rasheed, University of Texas at Arlington

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015

The increasing integration of global capital markets now makes it easier for firms to access capital outside of their home countries. Firms access international capital markets through a variety of means such as initial public offerings (IPO), seasoned equity offerings (SEO), cross-listings, depository receipts, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACS), shelf offerings, private equity and other informal equity capital channels. Firms can also access debt resources outside their market through bank loans, and foreign bond issues. Finally, cross border flows of venture capital (VC) continue to increase rapidly. The objective of this Special Issue will be to explore the challenges firms face in capital markets beyond their domestic boundaries, be it equity, debt, or VC markets.

While IB research continues to evaluate the challenges facing firms in foreign product markets, IB scholars have yet to adequately address the underlying reasons why firms face challenges in foreign equity markets. These include underpricing, higher underwriting and professional fees, higher listing fees, audit fees (Bronson, Ghosh, and Hogan, 2009), and greater risk of lawsuits (Bhattacharya, Galpin, and Haslem, 2007), and home bias on the part of investors (French and Poterba, 1991). Further, research suggests the existence of a “foreign firm discount” relative to host market firms (Frésard and Salva, 2010).

Venture capital and private equity have truly become global phenomena and take many forms such as cross-border investment, foreign acquisitions, VC firms opening offices overseas, and influencing their portfolio firms to enter and exit international stock exchanges. Foreign firms raise significantly more debt than equity in the U.S.. Indeed, the largest component of the international capital market is the bond market. 

Research on the motivation, the processes, the supporting mechanisms, and the range of outcomes that firms experience as a result of entering international capital markets is extremely limited so far. We believe such research can draw from a variety of theoretical perspectives and research traditions in international business. The choice of whether to access financial resources outside of the firm’s home market, how to select the appropriate foreign market, and the manner in which to raise resources are all relevant questions that parallel prior IB research market and entry mode choice. IB scholars consider LOF as the “fundamental assumption driving theories of the multinational enterprise” (Zaheer, 1995: 341). Yet, the conceptualization and research on LOF solely based upon product market may be inadequate today given the increasing integration of capital markets (Bell, Filatotchev and Rasheed, 2012).

In addition to the main theoretical perspectives in international business, the Special Issue welcomes scholars and perspectives from diverse disciplines such as finance, economics, and sociology.

Topics

The interaction between product market and capital market strategies
Prior research shows that the decision to list abroad has implications on the success of the firm’s products. What are the implications of capital market strategies for product market strategies and vice versa?

• Culture and capital markets 

There is a growing body of research that investigates how culture affects both economic exchange and outcomes by affecting expectations and preferences (Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales, 2009). How does culture affect cross-border transactions in formal or informal capital markets?

• The role of distance 

Even in a world where technology has shrunk distance and time, spatial costs are non-trivial. Do spatial costs exist in financial markets? Moreover, do spatial costs impact capital market strategies, and the choice of foreign capital markets?

• The role of innovation 

Financial markets are continuously producing new vehicles through which firms can acquire capital resources. What are the antecedents of innovations in global capital markets? How do firms take advantage of these innovations?

• Institutional environments and their implications on capital market strategies 

New exchanges in Europe and Asia with vastly different listing and disclosure requirements thank New York and London. How has the competition among stock exchanges impacted the international capital raising strategies of firms?

• Liabilities of Foreignness 

What are the sources of Liabilities of Foreignness (LOF) that firms face in formal or informal capital markets and what are the strategies that enable firms to overcome them?

• Informal capital market strategies 

Private equity represents an innovation in the ability to provide capital to unquoted firms. What are challenges that private equity firms face in international markets? Likewise, what are the challenges that private equity portfolio firms face?

• Governance and capital market strategies 

To what extent does internationalization of capital markets lead to convergence of governance practices across countries??

• The role of trust 

Trust has been found to affect the international investment choices of private equity firms (Bruton, Ahlstrom, and Puky, 2009). How does trust impact the international capital market strategies of firms?

• Third parties and capital market strategies 

Capital markets are mediated markets in that sense that participants rely greatly on key third parties, such as investment banks, brokers, and investment analysts for information production. How do third parties impact the choice of foreign capital markets? What are the internationalization strategies that these third parties pursue?

• Processes 

What are the top management and board factors that impact capital market strategies? Both individual and team level factors hold considerable promise providing greater insights into the reasons why firms choose capital resources outside of their home market, and the manner in which these resources are accessed.

• Performance 

What accounts for success in foreign capital markets? How do strategies for firms seeking debt capital differ from those seeking equity? How do home and host country factors determine the outcome of these strategies?

While many of the firms that make their initial public offerings go on to succeed, what is often overlooked is the fact that more than half of these firms actually delist within the first few years (Doidge, Karolyi, and Stulz, 2010). What are the factors that account for the delisting of firms on foreign exchanges?

Submission Instructions

The deadline for manuscript submission is May 15, 2015. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with Journal of International Management’s Style Guide for Authors: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-international-management/1075-4253/guide-for-authors and submitted through the Journal’s submission website. A paper development workshop will be held at the 2015 Academy of Management conference in Vancouver. Final Drafts are due February 28, 2016.

Please direct any questions regarding the Special Issue to Igor Filatotchev (Igor.Filatotchev@city.ac.uk), Greg Bell (gbell@udallas.edu) and Abdul Rasheed (abdul@uta.edu).

References

• Bell, R. G., Filatotchev, I., Rasheed, A. 2012. The liability of foreignness in capital markets: Sources and remedies. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(2): 107-122.
• Bhattacharya, U., Galpin, N., Haslem, B. 2007. The home court advantage in international coporate litigation. Journal of Law and Economics, 50: 625-659.
• Bruton, G., Ahlstrom, D., Puky, T. 2009. Institutional differences and the development of entrepreneurial ventures: A comparison of the venture capital industries in Latin America and Asia. Journal of International Business Studies, 40: 762-778. 
• Doidge, C., Karolyi, A., Stulz, R., 2010. Why do foreign firms leave U.S. equity markets? Journal of Finance 65, 1507-1553.
• French, K., Poterba, J. 1991. Investor diversification and international equity markets. The American Economic Review, 81(2): 222-226
• Frésard, L., Salva, C. 2010. The foreign firm discount. Working Paper, HEC School of Management, HEC Paris. 
• Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. 2009. Cultural biases in economic exchange? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(3): 1095–1131.
• Schmeisser, B. 2013. A systematic review of literature on offshoring of value chain activities. Journal of International Management, 19(4), 390-406.
• Zaheer, S. 1995. Overcoming the liability of foreignness. Academy of Management Journal, 38(2): 341-363.

Call for conference papers: China Marketing International Conference 2015

China Marketing International Conference 2015

Call for Papers

Big Data, Cultural Difference and Marketing

http://www.cnmkt.org/index_en.html

• July 24 - July 27, 2015, Xi’an, China,
• Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015

On behalf of the organizing committee, we sincerely invite you to attend the 2015 China Marketing International Conference organized by City University of Hong Kong, Xi'an Jiaotong University and University of South Carolina. The conference will be held from July 24– 27, 2015 in Xi'an, China.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: April 30, 2015
• Full Paper submission: May 31, 2015
• Doctoral Consortium registration: May 31, 2015
• Conference and hotel reservation: June 15, 2015
• Conference date: July 24 - July 27, 2015

Conference Topics

Scholars are encouraged to present papers addressing the following topics and exchange ideas with each other during the Paper Presentation Sessions:

• 1. Big Data Marketing
• 2. Marketing Strategy
• 3. Big Data and Social Networks
• 4. Consumer Behavior
• 5. Service Marketing
• 6. Brand Management
• 7. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• 8. Cross-cultural and International Marketing
• 9. Marketing Analytics
• 10. Non-profit Marketing
• 11. General Business

For more details about the Conference, please visit our conference website:
http://www.cnmkt.org/index_en.html

Call for special issue: From Emerging to Emerged: A Decade of Development of Dragon Multinationals

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Special Issue and Conference on

“From Emerging to Emerged: A Decade of Development of Dragon Multinationals”

• Submission Deadline: April 15, 2015
• Conference Place and Date: December, 2015 (tentative dates)
• Venue: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Estimated Date of Publication: November 2016

Special Issue Guest Editors:

• Jane Lu (University of Melbourne and National University of Singapore)
• Xufei Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Lucy Taksa (Macquarie University)
• Yue Wang (Macquarie University)

Special Issue Consulting Editors:

• Mike Peng (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Ravi Ramamurti (Northeastern University)

Conference Sponsor:

Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.


In 2006, the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) published an influential article “Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization” (Mathews, 2006a, 23:5-27). In this conceptual article, John Mathews (Macquarie University, Australia) defines firms from the periphery—especially those from the Asia Pacific region—as ‘dragon multinationals’. The author develops a new model to illustrate the three pillars common in these firms’ pattern of accelerated internationalization and summarizes them into his linkage, leverage, and learning (LLL) model.

According to Mathews (2006a), for dragon multinationals, the best and the quickest way to capture global opportunities and to tap into global resources is first to link up with firms around the global, second to leverage such links to overcome resource barriers (including foreign direct investment (FDI) through acquisitions), and third to learn to build up their own capabilities in a cumulative fashion. These three pillars of linkage, leverage and learning are what make dragon multinationals’ international expansion distinctive from the internationalization pattern of Western incumbents.

To the extent that firms that lack initial resources may take advantage of the increasingly interconnected global economy in a pattern consistent with the LLL model, the LLL model may become one of the dominant paradigms in international business (IB) research in the 21st century, just like how the OLI model was viewed by the IB and management community in the 20th century. We do not know whether this significant paradigm development will happen, but the fact that John Mathews’ article won the second APJM Best Paper Award in 2009 and became the second most cited APJM paper ever (with over 600 Google Scholar citations) in just a few years after its appearance in 2006 is a strong signal that the IB and management community may just be ready to embrace such a paradigm development. However, whether such a paradigm development will materialize (Dunning, 2006; Narula, 2006) is at least dependent on two critical issues, which will be addressed in this Special Issue. First, do we have accumulated sufficient evidence to suggest that there is indeed a need for a new paradigm such as the LLL model to account for a very different internationalization process? Second, nearly ten years since Mathews (2006a), do we have sufficient knowledge about ways that those already emerged dragon multinationals (such as Acer, Li & Fung, and Lenovo that appeared in Mathews’ original article) manage their global operations?

To further enrich our understanding of the merits and limits of the LLL model, we also call for papers that provide new theoretical or empirical insights to help us better understand the internationalization patterns and strategies adopted by firms from the rapidly developing Asia Pacific region including those are still emerging and those already emerged in the global stage. To the extent that management problems remain the same over time while their solutions differ from part of the world to part of the world (Hostede, 2007), we also welcome manuscripts that look at the impact of the emerging or emerged dragon multinationals on the strategies and behaviours of Western MNEs in different parts of the world.

Overall, this Special Issue provides an opportunity to (1) reflect on John Mathews’ influential article on the then emerging dragon multinationals, and (2) bring together research on recent development of those dragon multinationals that are already emerged in the global market as well as research on the interactions between these (relatively) new players and incumbent western players in an increasingly interconnected global business environment. To serve these purposes, manuscripts are not restricted to, but could deal with the following topics:

• Empirical studies to test the validity of the LLL model in a broader range of firms (including but not limited to emerging and emerged dragon multinationals). 
• How the strategies, structures, and management practices (e.g. how to manage the challenge of diverse workforce) adopted by those emerged dragon multinationals differ from MNEs from the West and Japan.
• How the LLL model and OLI model complement or substitute each other.
• How the expansion of dragon multinationals to regions such as Africa and Australia affects the strategies of Western MNEs in these regions.
• How the pattern of expansion of dragon multinationals is affected by varying institutional conditions in their home countries.
• What the performance implications are as a result of the expansion of dragon multinationals.

Papers for the Special Issue should be submitted electronically to the APJM Online Submission System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/apjm/, and identified as submissions to the “From emerging to emerged: a decade of development of dragon multinationals” Special Issue. The deadline for receipt of papers for this special issue is April 15, 2015. The format of submissions must comply with submission guidelines posted at the APJM website.

Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. We will make initial editorial decisions by July 1, 2015. Authors invited to revise and resubmit their work will be invited to present the papers at a Special Issue development conference hosted by the Department of Marketing and Management at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

The papers accepted and presented at the special issue conference will be considered for publication in the Special Issue of the APJM. Presentation at the conference does not necessarily guarantee publication in the special issue. The combination of a development conference and a Special Issue nevertheless follows a highly successful APJM initiative to bring out the full potential of authors and papers.

For questions about the special issue, please contact any of the Special Issue Editors:

• Jane Lu, Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne; and National University of Singapore. Email: jane.lu@unimelb.edu.au
• Xufei Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Email: xufei@cuhk.edu.hk
• Lucy Taksa, Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University. Email: lucy.taksa@mq.edu.au
• Yue Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University. Email: yue.wang@mq.edu.au

References:

• Hofstede, G. (2007). Asian management in the 21st century. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24: 411-420.
• Dunning, J. H. (2006). Comment on Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 139-141.
• Narula, R. (2006). Globalization, new ecologies, new zoologies, and the purported death of the eclectic paradigm. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 143-151.
• Mathews, J. A. (2006a). Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 5-27.
• Mathews, J. A. (2006b). Responses to Professors Dunning and Narula. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 153-155.

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: 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

____________________________________________________________________________

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 conference papers: International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies

2014 International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies

Saïd Business School

University of Oxford

Park End Street

Oxford, UK

May 20th-21st 2014

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Michael Barrett, University of Cambridge Prof. Sundeep Sahay, University of Oslo

Theme: Global Management and Innovation across Business Disciplines International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS) provides a platform to discuss challenges pertaining to contemporary issues in management studies. It also fosters multidisciplinary research involved in the development of theoretical and practice knowledge of all business and related fields by researchers, educators and practitioners.

Conference Tracks

• 1. Big Data ? Big Impacts: Governance, Accountability & Control
• 2. Cultural Management
• 3. eLearning/Distance Learning
• 4. Entrepreneurship Management
• 5. Globalization and Sustainability
• 6. Human Capital
• 7. Human Resource Management
• 8. Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Management
• 9. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• 10. Management Information Systems
• 11. Managing Projects
• 12. Marketing Management
• 13. Organization Development and Change
• 14. Pedagogy, Teaching and Curriculum in Management Education
• 15. Perspectives in Management Studies
• 16. Strategic Management & Organization Ecology
• 17. Workplace Diversity
• 18. Workplace Dynamics and Employee Engagement

Submission of Papers:

No submission to 2014 International Conference of AGMS should already have been published in a journal, presented at another conference, or be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. All submissions are reviewed by the track chairs, program committee, and selected reviewers. All reviews are double blind. The editorial board will make the final determination as to whether the accepted papers are published in the 2014 AGMS Proceedings or qualify for publication in the International Journal of Global Management Studies (IJGMS) or International Journal of Global Management Studies Professional (IJGMSP). All AGMS journals and proceedings are refereed and registered with the Library of Congress (IJGMS - ISSN: 1945-3876 print copy and ISSN: 1945-3884 online; IJGMSP - ISSN: 1945-385X print copy and ISSN: 1945-3868 online and AGMS Proceedings 2013 - ISSN:

2150-8461print copy and ISSN: 2150-8488 online). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 15, 2014.

Format of Submitted Papers:

Papers should follow the style recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual. The language of the conference and related publications is English. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference and be accompanied by paid registration. Each submitted paper must include an abstract and must conform to the following format: First Page: Title, authors, mailing address, phone, fax, email address, and abstract. Second and subsequent pages: (limited to 25 double-spaced pages).


Please submit electronic copy in Microsoft Word format to the Conference President(s):

Prof. Dr. John Saee, ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany John.Saee@Reutlingen-University.de OR Dr. Mukesh

Srivastava, College of Business, University of Mary Washington, USA

msrivast@umw.edu or 2014AGMS@ijgms.org no later than March 15, 2014

Any submission that is received after the deadline, exceeds length requirements, or does not adhere to the format will be rejected without review.

Deadlines:

Submission deadline: March 15, 2014

Conference acceptance notification: Rolling acceptance until April 1, 2014 Final version due: April 10, 2014 IJGMS and IJGMSP Journal notification: Rolling acceptance



For more information, style guidelines about journals, and conference registration fee, visit the AGMS website at http://association-gms.org/index.php/conferences/icagms-2014/,



www.association-gms.org, www.ijgms.org and www.ijgmsp.org

Call for papers: International knowledge flows in the context of emerging economy MNEs and increasing global mobility

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of International Business Review

International knowledge flows in the context of emerging economy MNEs and increasing global mobility

Guest Editors: 

• Xiaohui Liu, Loughborough University 
• Axèle Giroud, UNCTAD/University of Manchester

Deadline for Submission: 31 January 2014

Existing studies on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) cross-border knowledge flows have predominantly focused on the movement of knowledge within developed countries’ MNEs and/or on how local firms in developing countries benefit from the entry of foreign firms (Gupta and Govindarajan, 2000; Buckley et al., 2002; Görg and Strobl, 2005; Liu and Buck, 2007; Blalock and Simon, 2009; Ghauri and Yamin, 2009; Liu et al., 2009; Meyer and Sinani, 2009; Giroud et al., 2012; Irsõvá and Havránek, 2013). Such dominance may reflect the technologically leading position of developed countries. However, emerging economy firms that have lagged behind firms from developed countries in the past are now rapidly catching up. In particular, emerging economy MNEs (EMNEs) have gained new momentum in the world economy through actively engaging in outward FDI. These changes have been reflected in a new body of literature which goes beyond early explanations for FDI from emerging economies (Wells, 1983; Lall, 1983; Amsden, 1989), since FDI outflows from emerging economies have increased significantly and represent a rising share of global FDI (UNCTAD, 2006; 2013). The new literature strives to understand whether EMNEs follow different internationalisation paths or whether their strategies differ from those of MNEs from developed countries (Fleury and Fleury, 2011; Ghauri and Santangelo, 2012; Witt and Lewin, 2007); whether existing theoretical concepts apply similarly for these firms (Liu et al., 2005; Luo and Tung, 2007; Matthews, 2006; Wang et al., 2012); whether there are unique differences in the case of EMNEs investing in other emerging economies or least developed countries (UNCTAD, Global Investment Monitor, 2013).

Despite recent literature, there remain gaps in the understanding of how EMNEs engage in the process of intra- and inter-firm knowledge transfer across borders and within host countries. Many important research questions remain unanswered: What is the best way for EMNEs to be successful in their strategic asset seeking investment in developed countries? How do EMNEs’ strategic motives affect the host countries in which they operate? Do EMNEs have new ways of learning or unique mechanisms through which cross-border knowledge flows are facilitated? The lack of answers to these questions is all the more surprising given claims that (1) EMNEs actively invest in developed economies through acquisition in order to access key assets, resources and technologies, and (2) they may have a more positive impact on host developing countries due to similarities in the level of economic development and institutional contexts (Ramamurthi and Singh, 2009; Giroud et al., 2012).

Facilitating international knowledge flows, a significant increase in human mobility has become a major aspect of the globalization process. Emerging economies have attracted a large number of return migrants who moved to developed countries in the past and are now returning to their home countries after several years of education and business experience abroad. This increasing trend of human mobility across countries may have profound implications for international knowledge flows. And yet we know relatively little about whether the cross-border knowledge flows of EMNEs differ from those of developed MNEs in the presence of international labour mobility (Liu et al., 2010; Gao et al., 2013).

These new developments challenge the dominant view of cross-border knowledge flows based on established MNEs from developed countries and represent opportunities to advance existing research in this area. It is theoretically and practically important to examine the nature, direction, process and impact of international knowledge flows in the context of EMNEs and increasing human mobility across borders, and enrich our understanding of these key issues. In particular, we need to unpack the socio-cultural process of cross-border knowledge flows by taking account of the characteristics of EMNEs and increasing global mobility.

This special issue aims to extend this line of research by focusing on cross-border knowledge flows and their impact in the context of EMNEs and human mobility. We wish to encourage IB and management scholars to identify new research questions and reveal new dimensions of international knowledge flows in order to reflect the new landscape of the world economy (i.e. EMNEs and an increasing trend of international labour mobility).

Themes of this special issue

We welcome submissions that make a contribution through interdisciplinary approaches. We invite theoretical/conceptual papers and empirical work that draws on qualitative or quantitative methods or an innovative combination of both. Potential themes include, but are not limited to:

• How do EMNEs learn from host countries?
• In what way is OFDI used as a tool to access international knowledge for EMNEs?
• What are the challenges and difficulties facing EMNEs in terms of reverse knowledge transfer (RKT)/spillovers?
• Have EMNEs established internal or unique mechanisms to enhance cross-border knowledge flows?
• What specific roles do expatriates and/or migrants play in enhancing learning by EMNEs from host countries?
• How or to what extent do institutional contexts affect RKT/spillovers for EMNEs?
• To what extent do host countries learn/benefit from EMNEs?
• What impact do EMNEs have on developed and developing host countries (notably through knowledge spillovers and linkages)?
• How do EMNEs’ strategic characteristics affect their potential for knowledge spillovers and linkages in host countries?
• Do knowledge spillovers and linkages of EMNEs differ from those of established MNEs from developed countries?
• What is the role of expatriates and migrants in enhancing the impact of EMNEs in host countries?

Guidelines and submission information: 

All papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review in accordance with IBR guidelines. Authors should follow IBR guidelines, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-business-review/. All submissions should be submitted electronically to http://ees.elsevier.com/ibr/choosing SI: International knowledge flows and EMENs as the article type. Submission deadline: 31 January 2014. Questions about the special issue can be directed to the guest co-editors: Xiaohui Liu (X.Liu2@lboro.ac.uk); Axèle Giroud (axele.giroud@mbs.ac.uk).

References

Amsden, A. (1989). Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blalock, G., and Simon, D. (2009). Do all firms benefit equally from downstream FDI? The moderating effect of local suppliers’ capabilities on productivity gains. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(7): 1095-1112.

Buckley, P. Clegg, J., and Wang, C. (2002). The impact of inward FDI on the performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms. Journal of International Business Studies, 33(4): 637-655.

Fleury, A., and Fleury, M.T. (2011), Brazilian Multinationals - Competences for Internationalization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gao, L., Liu, X., and Zou, H. (2013). The role of human mobility in promoting Chinese outward FDI: A neglected factor? International Business Review, 22(2): 437-449.

Ghauri, P., and Santangelo, G. (2012). Multinationals and the changing rules of competition, Management International Review, 52(2): 145-154.

Giroud, A., Jindra, B., and Marek, P. (2012). Heterogeneous FDI in transition economies: A novel approach to assess the developmental impact of backward linkages. World Development, 40(11): 2206-2220.

Giroud, A., Mirza, H., and Wee, K. (2012). South-south foreign direct investment: Key role of institutions and future prospects. Handbook of Institutional Approaches to International Business. Wood, G and Demirbag, M. Cheltenham, Northampton, Edward Elgar: 365-381.

Görg, H., and Strobl, E. (2005). Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: an empirical investigation. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107(4): 693-709.

Govindarajan, V. and Ramamurti, R. (2011). Reverse innovation, emerging markets and global strategy. Global Strategy Journal, 1: 191-205.

Gupta, A. K., and Govindarajan, V. (2000). Knowledge flows within multinational corporations. Strategic Management Journal, 21(4): 473-496.

Irsõvá, Z., and Havránek, T. (2013). Determinants of Horizontal Spillovers from FDI: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis. World Development, 42: 1-15.

Lall, S. (1983). The New Multinationals: The Spread of Third World Enterprises. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Liu, X., Buck, T., and Shu, C. (2005). Chinese economic development, the next stage: Outward FDI? International Business Review, 14(1): 97-115.

Liu, X. and Buck, T. (2007). Innovation performance and channels for international technology spillovers: Evidence from Chinese high-tech industries. Research Policy, 36(3): 355-366.

Liu, X., Wei, Y., and Wang, C. (2009). Do local manufacturing firms benefit from transactional linkages with multinational enterprises in China. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(7): 1113-1130.

Liu, X., Lu, J., Filatotchev, I., Buck, T., and Wright, M. (2010). Returnee entrepreneurs, knowledge spillovers and innovation in high-tech firms in emerging economies. Journal of International Business Studies, 41(7): 1183-1197.

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

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

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

Ramamurti, R., and Singh, J.V. (2009). Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

UNCTAD (2006). World Investment Report 2006: FDI from Developing and Transition Economies, Implications for Development (Geneva and New York: United Nations).

UNCTAD (2013). Global Investment Trends Monitor (Geneva and New York: United Nations).

Wang, C., Hong, J., Kafouros, M., and Boateng, A. (2012). What drives the internationalization of Chinese firms? Testing the explanatory power of three theoretical frameworks. International Business Review, 21(3): 426-438.

Wells, L.T. (1983). Third world multinationals: The rise of foreign investment from developing countries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Witt, M. A., and Lewin, A. Y. (2007). Outward foreign direct investment as escape response to home country institutional constraints. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), 579–594.

About the special issue editors

Xiaohui Liu is Professor of International Business and Strategy at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. Her main research interests include knowledge spillovers, human mobility, innovation and the internationalisation strategies of firms from emerging economies. She has published widely, with publications in the Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Business Review, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Management and Organization Review and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She is area editor of the International Journal of Emerging Markets and the Secretary-General of the Chinese Economic Association (UK).

Axèle Giroud is currently working for the Investment Issues Section in the Division on Investment and Enterprise at UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). She is on leave of absence from her position as Reader of International Business at the Manchester Business School University of Manchester. Her main research interests are in multinational corporations’ technology and knowledge transfer, and inter-firm linkages. She has published widely, including books and articles in journals such as World Development, International Business Review, Journal of World Business and Management International Review. She sits on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals.

Call for conference papers: GBATA

Call for conference papers

Full papers, Research-in-Progress, Extended Abstracts, Workshops, Case Studies, and Poster Presentations are invited for the Sixteenth Annual International Conference of the Global Business and Technology Association.

www.gbata.org

• Baku, Azerbaijan
• July 8th-12th, 2014
• Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2014 

Dear colleague:

The Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA) invite you to submit a paper or abstract for the Fifteenth Annual International Conference. The conference will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from July 8th-12th, 2014 and organized around the theme of Managing in an Interconnected World: Pioneering Business and Technology Excellence.

The co-sponsors are listed below:

• Ø Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Azerbaijan
• Ø Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• Ø UNITEC Institute of Technology, New Zealand
• Ø Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
• Ø Nove de Julho University, Brazil
• Ø Kyung-Hee University, Korea 
• Ø Khon Kaen University, Thailand
• Ø Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
• Ø Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Ø Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 
• Ø State University of Management, Russia

GBATA features cutting-edge work and encourages multi-disciplinary as well as discipline-specific research. Many attendees have stated how much they have enjoyed the conferences and the collegiality they foster. The Call for Papers, conference registration form, as well as further background on the GBATA including programs, membership, and services are available on our website at www.gbata.org

Awards Competition: Several papers will be selected for competitive track awards. Winning best track papers will be awarded up to $500.00. The winners will also be recognized for their distinction at the conference and will be considered for inclusion into the refereed Journal of Global Business and Technology (ISSN: 1553-5495).

We look forward to receiving your submissions for the conference.

Please share this information with interested colleagues and graduate students.

Best regards,

Dr. N.J. Delener
President, GBATA
Editor-in-Chief, JGBAT
Founding Dean & Professor
Direct: 631-662-1336
www.GBATA.org