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  • 1.  Call for Papers - Special Issue and Conference

    Posted 06-11-2012 08:54

    To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR), a special conference on national governance bundles is being held Cambridge Judge Business School September 28-29, 2012.  The best papers from the conference will be published in a subsequent special issue of CGIR.

     

    Scholars who wish to participate in this conference should submit a 300-600 word structured abstract to cgir@odu.edu by July 1, 2012. These abstracts will be processed and decisions will be issued by July 15, 2012.

     

    Scholars must present their papers at the conference to be considered for the subsequent special issues. If the presenter would like to submit a full paper for consideration for publication in the special issue, then these papers must be submitted to CGIR's online submission system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cgir) by September 1, 2012.

     

    The co-sponsors of this conference will be the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher of CGIR. The conference will be coordinated by the Conference Manager and Gishan Dissanaike, Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance at Cambridge Judge Business School. Conference details may be found at: http://www.corporategovernance.group.cam.ac.uk/news-events/conference-on-national-governance-bundles/

     

    The full Call for Papers can be viewed at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-8683

     

    Additional Information:

    Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) was founded in 1992. Over the past twenty years, this journal has grown in reach and stature as the world has come to understand the pivotal role of corporate governance within the global economy. Over these two decades, its central mission remains the same: 'To develop a rigorous and relevant global theory of corporate governance.' To commemorate its first twenty years, we will be holding a special conference focused on national governance bundles and publishing a subsequent special issue of the best papers presented at this conference.

    National governance bundles are configurations of corporate governance mechanisms that simultaneously operate on the firm- and national-levels to govern firms within an overall economy or collection of economies. Previous studies of corporate governance bundles have only examined firm-level complementarities of corporate governance mechanisms with limited consideration of the national context. Previous studies of national governance systems have compared "Coordinated Market Economies" with "Liberal Market Economies", "Anglo-American", "Communitarian", and "Emerging" economies, and "Market-Oriented" against "Network-Oriented" systems, with limited consideration of firm-level governance mechanisms. Unfortunately, these two promising streams of research have yet to converge and inform each other.

    The aim of this conference and subsequent special issue is to move the field closer to a global theory by advancing our understanding of national governance bundles, which combines insights from the literature on firm governance bundles with insights from the national governance systems literature

    Keynote speakers: Ruth V. Aguilera, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Carla Millar, Professor of International Marketing & Management, University of Twente; and Randall Morck, Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance, University of Alberta

    Professors Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University; Igor Filatotchev, Cass Business School, City University London; Randall Morck, University of Alberta; and Eduardo Schiehll, HEC-Montreal will serve as distinguished guest editors for this focused issue on national governance bundles.

    APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS.

    Krista Lewellyn

    Managing Editor

    Corporate Governance: An International Review

     



  • 2.  Call for Papers - Special Issue and Conference

    Posted 06-23-2012 10:43
    Asia Pacific Journal of Management
    Call for Papers for Conference and Special Issue on

    EMERGING ECONOMY MULTINATIONALS AND HOME COUNTRY EFFECTS: DOES ORIGIN MATTER?

    Deadline for submission: December 1, 2013
    Conference venue: Copenhagen, Denmark
    Conference dates: September 2014
    Targeted publication date for the Special Issue: June 2015

    Special Issue Editors:
    Bersant Hobdari (Copenhagen Business School)
    Peter Gammeltoft (Copenhagen Business School)
    Klaus Meyer (CEIBS and University of Bath)
    Jing Li (Simon Fraser University)

    Over the last decade emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) have become important players in the world economy. This has led to increased interest in their behavior by academics and policy makers alike who are beginning to come to grips with the most important analytical and policy issues that affect the world economy due to the rise of EMNCs. A lively debate in the literature is discussing the applicability of lessons from the study of developed country multinationals to EMNCs, and the contributions that the study of EMNCs can offer to theories of the multinational enterprise in general.

    Studies from developed economy multinationals recognize that both firm-specific and environmental factors help explain international diversification. Over the last decade, increasing attention has been given to the drivers of internationalization strategies of firms from emerging economies and evidence on the relationship between EMNCs' competitive advantages and the nature of their internationalization strategies is beginning to emerge. In this context, extant literature has focused on aspects of home country environments as potential determinants of EMNCs' advantages and internationalization processes. Erramilli, Agarwal and Kim (1997) observed "that firm-specific advantages are molded by home-country environment has received some empirical scrutiny and support." Yet, there remain significant unresolved questions in the international business and strategic management literatures as to how the home environment of a firm impacts its international strategies and operations. The substantial increase in outward foreign direct investment from countries such as China and India emphasizes the importance of this question.

    The global economy is shifting in ways that offer new opportunities and new challenges for firms from emerging economies. These firms often originate from institutional environments which are heterogenic and segmented, have co-evolved their structures and practices within idiosyncratic institutional environments, and need to overcome differences between diverse institutional settings in their foreign direct investments. These challenges are often compounded by limited organizational and managerial experience and capabilities to internationalize.

    We believe that there are significant opportunities for improving our understanding of how home country environment affects various processes and outcomes that drive EMNCs, and thus to advance theories of the multinational enterprise. Consequently, we are soliciting empirical and theoretical work addressing these complex relationships between various forms of home country environmental heterogeneities and EMNCs. This special issue provides an opportunity to bring together the research of scholars from a diverse range of disciplinary traditions such as economics, sociology and political science. As such, the following list of potential research questions is merely illustrative of the broad range of studies that could fit in the special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM):

    • How do EMNCs leverage political and social ties at home to gain access to and/or leadership in foreign markets, especially developed country markets?
    • How do the institutional framework and the resource endowment of the home country influence the patterns and processes of organizational learning and capability building that enable investments abroad?
    • From a co-evolutionary perspective, what are the dynamics of the interrelationship between institutional change and corporate strategy? How do EMNCs leverage their experience abroad to impact institutional development at home?
    • What is the extent and modalities through which emerging market governments influence the operations of EMNCs?
    • What distinguishes international investment strategies by state-owned by privately-owned EMNCs? Is government ownership enabler or liability in internationalization?
    • What role do country of origin formal (regulatory) and informal (cultural) institutions play in pace of internationalization and degree of international commitments?
    • How do governance structures, such as ownership and managerial incentives, affect internationalization decisions and the success or failure of overseas operations?

    All papers are to be submitted to the APJM website http://apjm.edmgr.com. The deadline for receipt of papers for this special issue is December 1, 2013. The format of submissions must comply with submission guidelines posted at the APJM website, and we have a marked preference for submissions which debate with, extend, and/or refute the indicative literature cited below. Please indicate that your submission is to be reviewed for the Special Issue on Emerging Economy Multinationals (choose that in the "article type" item during the submission process).

    Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. We will make initial editorial decisions by June, 2014. Authors invited to revise and resubmit their work will be invited to present the papers at the APJM special issue workshop to be held at the conference on "Emerging Economy Multinationals" at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark.

    The papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of the APJM. Presentation at the workshop does not necessarily guarantee publication in the special issue. The combination of a workshop 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 Bersant Hobdari, Guest Editor, at bh.int@cbs.dk.

    Indicative Contemporary Literature

    Bhaumik, S.K., Driffield, N. & Pal, S., 2010. Does ownership structure of emerging market firms affect their outward FDI? The case of the Indian automotive and pharmaceutical sectors, Journal of International Business Studies, 41: 437-450.
    Boisot, M. & Meyer, W. 2008. Which way through the open door? Reflections on the internationalization of Chinese firms, Management and Organization Review 4(3): 349-366.
    Buckley P.J., Clegg J., Cross A., Rhodes, H., Voss H. & Zheng, P. 2008. Explaining China's outward FDI: an institutional perspective', in: Sauvant, K. ed., The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets, Cheltenham: Elgar.
    Chen Y.Y. & Young, M.N. 2010. Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Chinese listed companies: A principal–principal perspective, Asia Pacific Journal of Management 27(3): 523-539.
    Cui, L. & Jiang, F. 2012. State ownership effect on firms' FDI opwnership decisions under institutional pressure: A study of Chinese outward-investing firms, Journal of International Business Studies, online advance.
    Dunning, J.H., 2006. Comment on 'dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization', Asia Pacific Journal of Management 23, 139-142.
    Erramilli, M. K., Agarwal S. & Kim S. 1997. Are Firm-Specific Advantages Location-Specific Too, Journal of International Business Studies 28(4), 735-757.
    Filatotchev, I., Strange, R., Piesee, J. & Lien, Y.C. 2007. FDI by firms from newly industrialized economies in
    emerging markets: Corporate governance, entry mode and location, Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4): 556-502.
    Gammeltoft, P. 2008. Emerging multinationals: Outward FDI from the BRICS countries, International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, 4(1): 5-22.
    Gubbi, S.R. Aulakh, P., Ray, S., Sarkar, M.B. & Chitoor, R. 2010. Do international acquisitions by emerging-economy firms create shareholder value? The case of Indian firms, Journal of International Business Studies 41, 397–418.
    Jormanainen, I. & Koveshnikov, A. 2012. International activities if emerging market firms: A critical assessment of research in top management journals, Management International Review, advance online.
    Lin, W.-T., & Cheng, K.-Y. 2012. The effect of upper echelons' compensation on firm internationalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. doi:10.1007/s10490-011-9261-9.
    Luo Y.D., Xue Q. & Han B. 2010. How emerging market governments promote outward FDI: Experience from China. Journal of World Business 45(1): 68-79.
    Mathews, J. A. 2006. Dragon multinationals: New players in 21st century globalization. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 5-27.
    Meyer, K.E. & Thaijongrak, O. 2013. The dynamics of emerging economy MNEs: How the internationalization process model can guide future research, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, in press.
    Morck R., Yeung B. & Zhao M. 2008. Perspectives on China's outward foreign direct investment. Journal of International Business Studies 39(3): 337-350.
    Ramamurti, R. 2012. What is really different about emerging market multinationals? Global Strategy Journal 2(1): 41-47.
    Tan, D. & Meyer, K.E. 2010. Business groups' outward FDI: A managerial resources perspective, Journal of International Management, 16(2): 154-164.
    Yang, H., Sun, S. L., Lin, Z., & Peng, M. W. 2011. Behind M&As in China and the United States: Networks, learning, and institutions. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 28(2): 239-255.
    Bersant Hobdari