Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Call for Papers for Conference and Special Issue on
VARIETIES OF ASIAN CAPITALISM:
INDIGENIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
Deadline for submission: April 15, 2007
Conference venue: Brisbane, Australia
Conference dates: November 2007
Targeted publication date for the Special Issue: Late 2008 or early 2009
Special Issue Editors:
Michael Carney (Concordia University)
Eric Gedajlovic (University of Connecticut)
Xiaohua Yang (Queensland University of Technology)
Conference Sponsors:
Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology
Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA)
Asia Academy of Management (AAOM)
The relationship between national institutions and firm level phenomena such
as competitive advantage, corporate governance, and the adoption of new
strategy are central concerns in management research. A particularly
suggestive approach to the institution-firm link is found in the Varieties
of Capitalism (VoC) perspective. The VoC perspective brings important
insights on the complementarities found among labor market, social welfare,
and antitrust institutions on the one hand, and patterns of industrial
relations, corporate finance, product market strategies, firm growth, and
national systems of innovation on the other hand. However, much of this
research is focused upon developed countries.
To what extent are Asias emerging economies enlarging the repertoire of
viable forms of capitalism? What institutional innovations or novel
combinations contribute to sustained economic success in Asia?
Alternatively, what kinds of processes inhibit the emergence of supportive
and complementary institutions? The VoC perspective also assumes, at least
implicitly, that one single organizational form (e.g., the equity-financed
managerial enterprise, the bank-monitored alliance-centered firm, the
dominant shareholder-family firm) prevails within a given capitalism. Yet,
the Asian institutional contexts suggest that any given institutional
architecture may support a wide variety of novel and hybrid organizational
forms, such as family business groups, industry clusters, global commodity
chains, and state-controlled firms. With the exception of Korea and Japan,
many Asian economies appear to have a hard time establishing specialized
technology-intensive firms or globally scaled and integrated international
firms. How Asian capitalist institutions support or hamper the establishment
and growth of specific organizational forms is not well understood.
Asian capitalism has strong interest in indigenization and
localizationrecall the bragging about indigenous Asian values prior to
1997? At the same time, Asian capitalism does not develop in a vacuum. In
the post-1997 crisis era, Asian economies are increasingly subject to
international and global forces and many have experienced substantial
institutional change. A fundamental question for management scholars is: How
does the development of varieties of capitalism within Asia underpin or
constrain the processes of indigenization and internationalization of Asian
firms?
The special issue of the APJM seeks either comparative or single-country
studies that contribute to our understanding of the emergence, persistence,
and change in the institutional varieties of Asian capitalism and their
impact on the management and growth of Asian firms. Manuscripts with themes
pertaining to (but not limited to) the following issues are of interest:
The relationship between institutions and firm governance and competitive
advantage
The co-evolution of institutions and firms
Heterogeneity of organizational forms within particular institutional
architectures
Diffusion and hybridization of management practice in contrasting
institutional settings
Forms of Asian capitalism and the linkages with the global economy
All papers are to be submitted to
http://apjm.edmgr.com. The deadline for
submission is April 15, 2007. The format must comply with submission
guidelines posted at the APJM website. Please indicate that your submission
is to be reviewed for the special issue on the Varieties of Asian
Capitalism. Because we will not be able to start the review process until
after the deadline, we do not encourage papers to be submitted significantly
ahead of the deadline. The most ideal submission time is approximately 1-2
weeks before the deadline.
Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. We will make initial editorial
decisions by August 1, 2007. Authors invited to revise and resubmit their
work will be asked to present the papers at the APJM special issue
conference in November 2007. They will then resubmit in early 2008. The
(tentative) publication date for the special issue is late 2008 or early 2009.
There will be no conference registration fee for invited authors. Invited
authors will be provided with free board and lodging for the two days of the
conferencethey will be responsible for their own travel to and from the
conference venue.
The combination of a conference and a special issue follows a highly
successful APJM initiative to bring out the full potential of authors and
papers. Recent conferences and special issues include:
Asian business networks (conference in Shanghai, December 2004, special
issue published in 2005/4, edited by Tina Dacin and Andrew Delios)
Asian business groups and conglomerates (conference in Singapore, December
2005, special issue published in 2006/4, edited by Mike Peng and Andrew Delios)
Knowledge management and innovation strategy in Asia Pacific (conference
to be held in Xian, China, July 2007, special issue to be published in 2008,
edited by Yuan Lu, Eric Tsang, and Mike Peng)
For questions about the special issue, please contact any of the Special
Issue Editors:
Michael Carney, APJM Senior Editor (Concordia University)
mcarney@jmsb.concordia.ca
Eric Gedajlovic, APJM Editorial Review Board member (University of
Connecticut)
egedajlovic@business.uconn.edu
Xiaohua Yang (Queensland University of Technology)
x3.yang@qut.edu.au
APJM web-page:
http://www.springer.com/10490
Asia Academy of Management web-page: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/baf/asia-aom