CALL FOR PAPERS
The Institute of Global Management Studies and
Temple University CIBER at the Fox School of Business
presents
The 10th Annual International Business Research Forum
Beyond Silicon Valley: How Emerging Economies are Re-Shaping
our Understanding of Global Entrepreneurship
Research Forum Co-Chairs: Ram Mudambi and T.L. Hill, Fox
School of Business, Temple University
April 17-18, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
Globalization is increasingly multi-directional, with trade,
knowledge and capital flowing as much from and between
emerging economies as from and between developed ones.
Similarly, the internationalization trajectories of emerging
firms are increasingly diverse – following fault lines of
opportunity determined as much by market compatibility with
given business models and the shape of top management team
networks as by conventional considerations of market,
political and cultural similarities and stability. Further,
entrepreneurial firms increasingly draw innovations and
resources from multiple capital markets and centers of
excellence, often operating as multinationals from their
earliest days. The central question for this special issue on
Global Entrepreneurship is how these trends – and especially
the rapid rise of emerging economies with their own
entrepreneurial hotspots – affect both patterns of
entrepreneurship and our understanding of the entrepreneurial
process.
Possible areas of research inquiry include:
· Product, service and firm trajectories. Several
theories of product, service and firm development emphasize
how products and services arise in response to local market
needs and are then adapted for sale in additional markets. Do
these theories hold for products or services developed to
serve customers at the bottom of the pyramid? How does design
for the bottom of the pyramid change product and service
design, business models and internationalization trajectories?
Coping with competition from all sides. One of the
consequences of increased globalization is competition from
unexpected quarters as entrepreneurial firms arise from new
and emerging centers of innovation and value creation. How
does the increased complexity and geographical diversity of
the competitive environment affect the entrepreneurial
process? The requirements for success?
· Managing institutional challenges. In part,
entrepreneurship involves a struggle to establish the
legitimacy of new ideas, technologies, transactional norms and
even language – not to mention the firm itself. How do
entrepreneurs manage the struggle for legitimacy across
multiple – and changing – institutional settings? How does
this struggle affect the growth trajectory and structure of
emerging firms?
· Availability of capital. Arguably, one of the
limiting factors for entrepreneurship in new locations and at
a global level is the availability of financing mechanisms
including angel and venture capital. What factors affect the
availability and distribution of investment capital in various
economies? At a global level? What are the roles of
established modes and concentrations of capital – e.g., family
firms, government-owned firms, public firms, government funds,
pension funds – in the promotion of, or resistance to,
entrepreneurial firms? How does globalization affect the
traditional role of social networks in the matching and
governance of investments and entrepreneurial firms?
· Cluster effects. Industries, and especially
innovations, seem to emerge from geographic clusters of firms
and universities. How is globalization changing the importance
and shape of such clusters? Is it possible for clusters to be
virtual and unanchored in geographic space? Which governmental
policies or initiatives, if any, have been effective in
catalyzing the growth of local and virtual clusters?
· Possible, social, political, cultural and
environmental limits to global entrepreneurship. What impact
do shifting governmental policies and social and political
attitudes have on the prospects for global entrepreneurship?
Given the catalytic role of communication and transportation
technologies in the growth of global firms, how will changing
environmental realities shape the opportunity structure for
entrepreneurship?
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts should be prepared in
accordance with Journal of International Management’s Style
Guide for Authors available at:
http://fox.temple.edu/jim/authors.html. All manuscripts should
be submitted electronically by January 15, 2009 to Kim Cahill,
Managing Editor, Journal of International Management, at
kcahill@temple.edu. Manuscripts are submitted with the
understanding that they are original, unpublished works and
are not being submitted elsewhere. Please direct any questions
regarding the research forum to either of the co-chairs, Ram
Mudambi (
r.mudambi@temple.edu) or T.L. Hill
(
tl.hill@temple.edu). Additional information about the Annual
IB Research Forum may be found on our website at:
http://fox.temple.edu/conferences/ibrf
The best papers from the forum will appear in a Special Issue
of the Journal of International Management.
Kimberly A. Cahill
Director, Temple CIBER
& Institute of Global Management Studies
Managing Editor, Journal of International Management
Fox School of Business
1810 N. 13th St., 349 Speakman Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.3778
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