International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) will hold
its fourth biennial conference in Shanghai on June 16-20, 2010. The
conference theme is Innovation and Change in Chinese Organizations.
Ever since the launch of the economic reform in the late 1970s, change has
been a normal state of affairs in China and in Chinese organizations. The
changes that have been occurring in China dazzled the world with astonishing
speed and scale, which continue to this very day. As China moves beyond its
initial economic success, Chinese organizations are no longer satisfied with
being the cheap imitator of reputable brands and innovative products.
Recently, both the government and the Chinese business community explicitly
set forth innovation as one of the most important national and
organizational strategies that will transform Chinese organizations into
competitive and responsible participants in the global marketplace. This
signals a shift of developmental focus for both the government and the
organizations to prioritize innovation as the true driver for sustainable
growth and change.
As the worlds largest academic community for Chinese management research,
we welcome such a shift in direction and believe that this opens a new
chapter for Chinese and non-Chinese organizations that operate in China
and/or interact with Chinese organizations. In order to further our
understanding of innovation as the key to the next stage of success for
Chinese organizations and those working with them and, subsequently, to
build a knowledge base for such strategic shifts, we chose Innovation and
Change in Chinese Organizations as the theme for the upcoming 2010 IACMR
biennial conference.
We welcome a variety of important and interesting research questions on the
theme of innovation and change, including:
* What transformational and evolutionary changes have occurred or are
occurring in China and Chinese organizations and what are their positive
and/or negative effects on the economic, social, and psychological lives of
organizational members?
* Innovation in China can be top down (e.g., the mandate from the Chinese
government) or bottom up (e.g., family entrepreneurship) or a confluence of
both. Which direction seems to be more prevalent and efficacious, and how is
innovation initiated, carried out, and sustained in Chinese organizations?
* In the midst of change and innovation, how do Chinese organizations,
groups, and individuals deal with tensions between change and stability, and
between innovation and continuity? What role do integrity, fairness and
moral leadership play?
* How to combine qualitative and quantitative research designs on topics
that have not been thoroughly investigated in Chinese management? How to
integrate Western and Chinese perspectives?
Submissions could also include other topics related to organization and
management in the Chinese context (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Singapore, etc.) or Chinese organizations operating globally. We
welcome papers and symposia in the disciplinary areas of Organizational
Behavior, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, as well
as International and Cross-Cultural Management.
Submissions will be electronic to the submission website at
www.iacmr.org,
which will open on August 15, 2009. All papers must be received by October
18, 2009, and all Professional Development Workshop and Caucus proposals by
November 15, 2009. Notification of acceptances or rejections will be made by
February 15, 2010. For any questions about submissions to the conference,
please contact the Program Chair Chao C. Chen at
cchen.iacmr@business.rutgers.edu.