Call for Papers
Richard Wesley Conference on Environmental Politics & Governance University of
Washington, SeattleMay 14-16, 2015
Sponsored by
Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle(http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/)
Dear Colleagues:
University of Washington's Center for Environmental Politics is organizing an
international conference on Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) in
Seattle on May 14-16, 2015. The conference aims to showcase the cutting edge
scholarship on EPG, provide a venue for scholars to present their research and
network, and shape future EPG research across social science discplines.
Agenda and RationaleFew will deny the importance of environmental challenges in the contemporary
era. As scholars we are asked by policy practioners for solutions to
environmental challenges. Universities increasingly are recognizing the
immense interest among students for environmental courses. The Nobel Prize to
Elinor Ostrom for her work on common-pool resources showed that international
community recognizes the scholarly contributions of EPG scholars. Yet, and
tragically so, EPG remains an under-studied area in political science and in
other social sciences as well. One reason is that the study of EPG tends to
take place in different subfields. This silo approach leads to inadequate
sharing and accumulation of knowledge, and the tendency to work with
issue-focused frameworks instead of generalizable theories. We hope this and
subsequent conferences will motivate EPG scholars to advance theoretical
insights, work with generalizable theories, and use cutting-edge empirical
methods.
Why focus on politics and governance? Although there has been substantial
progress in the development of technical and scientific knowledge about the
causes of several environmental problems, the translation of these ideas into
politically feasible policy regimes has been a major stumbling block. The
repeated lessons of these failures underscore the basic point that
environmental issues pose important political challenges that need to be
addressed with equal footing to their economic and technical dimensions. This
conference will provide a forum for EPG scholars to present research and
develop research networks with the objective to push the frontiers of knowledge
via theoretically informed, rigorous empirical work. The format of the
conference will allow for substantial give and take, and opportunities to
network with others.
VenueThe 2015 conference will be held at the bucolic Islandwood conference facility
near Seattle (http://www.islandwood.org/gatherings-and-events/lodging). With
its majestic Northwest architecture and the location on Bainbridge Island, this
facility provides an ideal venue for EPG scholars to meet, network, and present
their work. Recognizing that conference participants confront issues of
information overload and cabin fever, we will leave ample time for them to
enjoy the beautiful Northwest surroundings. To top it all, the food at this
resort is excellent, a testimony to the reputation of Seattle as a foodie city!
We will email information on logistics to conference participants in due
course. For planning purposes, participants should plan on arriving by late
afternoon on Thursday 14 May and leave on the morning of Sunday May 17.
ExpensesThis conference has been made possible by the generous gift of Dr. Richard
Wesley, who is a longtime supporter and benefactor of University of
Washington's Department of Political Science and has a strong interest in
environmental issues. Thanks to his gift, the Center for Environmental Politics
will defray the following costs (for one participant per paper only).
- Lodging and food (3 nights, May 14, 15 & 16). - Economy Airfare
and local travel expenses up to $500 for participants from North America and
$1,000 for participants from others part of the world.
There are no conference fees. We have reserved a limited number of rooms in
the Islandwood facility for participants. Should a co-author desire to attend
at their own expense, please contact us upon acceptance to explore relevant
options.
ProcessAn international steering committee of leading EPG scholars will review paper
proposals. Through a double-blind review process, this committee will identify
the most promising paper proposals.
Paper proposals should consist of electronic submission of a Word document with
a cover page listing authors, affiliations, and contact information; and up to
two pages of a paper abstract that details the relevance of the work to the EPG
literature. To submit your paper proposal, please go to the Center's website
(http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/) and click on "2015 conference" (top
right corner).
We will consider work-in-progress only. Please DO NOT submit published,
forthcoming, or accepted work.
Time Line:1. Proposal submission deadline: November 3, 2014. 2. Notification of
paper acceptance: January 15, 2015.
3. Arrival in Seattle: the afternoon of Thursday, May 14, 2015 4.
Conference begins: evening of May 14, 2015. 5. Organized panels: Friday, May
15 and Saturday May 16, 2015. 6. Conference ends: the morning of Sunday,
May 17, 2015
Steering CommitteeCo-Chairs
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle
Peter J. May, University of Washington, Seattle
Members
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Liliana Andonova, Graduate Institute for International & Development Studies,
Geneva Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Xun Cao, Pennsylvania State University Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of
Business, Hyderabad
Stephen Dovers, Australian National University
Andreas Duit, Stockholm University
Riley Dunlap, Oklahama State University
Adrienne Heritier, EUI Florence
Robert Keohane, Princeton University
David Konisky, Georgetown University
Wai-Fung (Danny) Lam, University of Hong Kong Mark Lubell, UC Davis
Helen Milner, Princeton University Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon
Matthew Potoski, UC Santa Barbara
Hugh Ward, University of Essex
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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3530
http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, IMD-L automatic digest system wrote:
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> 1. Journal of World Business Special Issue on Latin American Multinationals
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:45:45 +0000
> From: "Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro" <
A.CuervoCazurra@NEU.EDU>
> Subject: Journal of World Business Special Issue on Latin American Multinationals
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> JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
> Call for papers for a special issue
> Submission deadline: May 4, 2015
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> Emerging Market Multinationals: Perspectives from Latin America
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> Guest Editors:
> Ruth Aguilera, Luciano Ciravegna, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
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> "Name some Brazilian multinationals. Even harder than "famous Belgians", isn't it? Despite Brazil being the world's eighth-largest economy, with plenty of big, profitable firms, few of them have a reasonable share of their operations abroad and are thus genuinely multinational." The Economist, Sept 21, 2000.
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> "For the first time Brazil has a crop of companies that can be described as multinationals. Some of them are already well known outside Brazil: Petrobras; Vale, one of the world's largest mining companies; and Embraer, the world's third-largest maker of passenger jets." The Economist, November 12, 2009.
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> These two quotes from the British newspaper The Economist reflect the change in view about Multilatinas, or Latin American multinational companies. The reason is not that there were no Multilatinas before 2000. In fact, there have been Multilatinas for over a century. For example, the Argentinean shoemaker Alpargatas was created in 1885 and established subsidiaries in Uruguay in 1890 and in Brazil in 1907. The reason is that there were few studies analyzing Multilatinas before the 2000s. This was part of a general trend in the international business literature that appeared to have ignored the region. For example, a review of articles in two leading journals in the field of international business (Journal of International Business Studies and Management International Review) in the period 1987-1997 indicated that fewer than 6% of the articles mentioned Latin America (Elahee and Vaidya, 2001). This paucity of studies on the region had not changed in recent times. A review of studies in four leading international business journal (Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review) in 2001-2005 indicated that only 2.75% of articles studied firms in the region (Perez-Batres, Pisani and Doh, 2010). Nevertheless, a few analyses of multinationals have indicated that firms from this region are becoming multinational rapidly and some of them are becoming leaders in their industries (Casanova, 2009; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2008,; Fleury and Fleury, 2010; Santiso, 2013).
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> In this special issue we plan to take stock of what is known about these firms and identify potential avenues for future research. Other special issues of the Journal of World Business have analyzed various regions of the world such as India (Varma and Budhwar, 2012), China (Laforet, Paliwoda and Chen, 2012), Africa (Kamoche, 2011), the Middle East (Mellahi, Demirbag and Riddle, 2011), and Korea (Paik and Lee, 2008). This special issue contributes to the global scope of the Journal of World Business by studying firms from Latin America, which have, thus far, been underrepresented in the management and business literature (Brenes, Montoya and Ciravegna, 2014). With this special issue, we aim to not only increase our understanding of Multilatinas, but also to identify the particular characteristics of their internationalization and how it compares with the internationalization of firms from other regions.
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> The rise of emerging market multinationals has been well documented (for example see the papers in the special issues edited by Aulakh, 2007; Cuervo-Cazurra, 2012; Gammeltoft, Barnard and Madhok, 2010; Luo and Tung, 2007; and in the books edited by Cuervo-Cazurra and Ramamurti, 2014; Ramamurti and Singh, 2007, Sauvant, 2008; Williamson et al., 2013), yet the literature on emerging market multinationals has thus far focused mainly on firms from regions other than Latin America. With this Special Issue of Journal of World Business, we aim to fill this gap, contributing to the international business literature and the body of knowledge documenting the practices of multinational companies.
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> This call is an attempt to integrate different aspects that might have influenced the growth and internationalization of Latin American firms. We welcome theoretical, empirical, methodological and case studies submission addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:
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· Successful Multilatinas expanding outside their region
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· Comparative ownership advantages/disadvantages of Multilatinas
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· Internationalization patterns of Latin American firms
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· The internationalization of state-owned Latin American firms
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· Institutional constraints for Latin American companies to internationalize
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· Foreign performance of Latin American firms
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· Effects of exports promotion agencies on the internationalization of Latin American firms
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· Governance in Multilatinas
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· The internationalization of Latin American business groups
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· Global leadership in Multilatinas
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· Dimensions of management diversity in Multilatinas
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· Determinants of outward FDI from Latin America
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· The role of governments in Latin American International Business
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· Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices in Multilatinas
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· The role of family-owned business conglomerates in Multilatinas
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· Oligopolistic structures and internationalization in Multilatinas
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· Multilatinas and economic and political crises
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· Cultural challenges in doing business from Latin America
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· The role of Latin American diaspora and returning emigrants in international business
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> Submission process:
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> By May 4, 2015, authors should submit their manuscripts online via the new Journal of World Business EES submission system. The link for submitting manuscript is:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jwb.>
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> To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration for this Special Issue, it is important that authors select 'SI: Latin American MNCs' when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process
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> Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal of World Business Guide for Authors available at
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-world-business/1090-9516/guide-for-authors. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the Journal of World Business's blind review process.
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> We may organize a workshop designed to facilitate the development of papers. Authors of manuscripts that have progressed through the revision process will be invited to it. Presentation at the workshop is neither a requirement for nor a promise of final acceptance of the paper in the Special Issue.
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> Questions about the Special Issue may be directed to the guest editors:
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· Ruth V. Aguilera, Northeastern University, United States (
r.aguilera@neu.edu)
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· Luciano Ciravegna, King's College, London, UK, (
Luciano.ciravegna@kcl.ac.uk)
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· Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University, United States (
a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu)
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· Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia (
mgonza40@eafit.edu.co)
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> References:
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> Aulakh, P. S. (2007). Emerging multinationals from developing economies: motivations, paths, and performance. Journal of International Management, 13, 338-355.
> Brenes, E. R., Montoya, D., & Ciravegna, L. (2014). Differentiation strategies in emerging markets: The case of Latin American agribusinesses. Journal of Business Research, 67, 847-855.
> Casanova, L. (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's emerging multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan.
> Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2008). The multinationalization of developing country MNEs: The case of Multilatinas. Journal of International Management, 14, 138-154.
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> Cuervo-Cazurra, A. (2012). How the analysis of developing country multinational companies helps advance theory: Solving the Goldilocks debate. Global Strategy Journal, 2, 153-167.
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> Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Ramamurti, R. (2014). Understanding multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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> Economist. (2001). Brazil's Gerdau: Who dares wins. The Economist.
www.economist.com/node/374586>
> Economist. (2009). Special Reports Economist Brazil. The Economist.
www.economist.com/node/14829517> Elahee, M. N., & Vaidya, S. P. (2001). Coverage of Latin American business and management issues in cross-cultural research: An analysis of JIBS and MIR 1987-1997. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 4, 21-31.
> Fleury, A. & Fleury, M. T. L. (2011). Brazilian multinationals: Competences for internationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
> Gammeltoft, P., Barnard, H., & Madhok, A. (2010). Emerging multinationals, emerging theory: macro- and micro-level perspectives. Journal of International Management, 16, 95-101.
> Kamoche, K. (2011). Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa. Journal of World Business, 46, 1-4.
> Laforet, S. Paliwoda, S. and Chen, J. (2012). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 47, 1-3.
> Luo, Y., & Tung, R. L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481-498.
> Mellahi, K., Demirbag, M., & Riddle, L. (2011). Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of World Business, 46, 406-410.
> Paik, Y., & Lee, S. H. (2008). Introduction. Journal of World Business, 43, 1-4.
> Pérez-Batres, L.A., Pisani, M.J., & Doh, J.P. (2010). Latin America's Contribution to IB Scholarship. Academy of International Business Insights, 10, 3-7.
> Ramamurti, R., & Singh, J. V. (eds). (2009). Emerging multinationals from emerging markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> Santiso, J. (2013). The decade of the Multilatinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> Sauvant, K. P. (ed). (2008). The rise of transnational corporations from emerging markets: Threat or opportunity? Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
> Varma, A., & Budhwar, P. (2012). International Human Resource Management in the Indian context. Journal of World Business, 47, 157-338.
> Williamson, P., Ramamurti, R., Fleury, A., & Fleury, M. T. (eds). (2013). Competitive advantages of emerging country multinationals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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> Apologies for the cross-postings
> Alvaro
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> Alvaro CUERVO-CAZURRA, Ph.D.
> Professor of International Business and Strategy
> Walsh Research Professor
> Robert Morrison Fellow
> Reviewing Editor, Journal of International Business Studies
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> Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business
> 313 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
> Phone 1.617.373.6568, Fax 1.617.373.8628
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> Our latest book on emerging market multinationals is out
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/management/international-business/understanding-multinationals-emerging-markets>
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