Call for Proposals
Management and Organization Review
Inaugural Research Frontiers Conference
Globalization of Knowledge Creation and Innovation in the Context of Emerging Economies
Co-sponsored by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST) School of Business, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies,
City University of Hong Kong, and the International Association for
Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
Hong Kong, December 4–7, 2014
We are very pleased and excited to announce the Inaugural
Management Organization Review (MOR) Research Frontiers
Conference. The purpose of the annual MOR Research Frontiers Conference
is to serve as the exploration mode of the journal to stimulate
investigation and knowledge creation of phenomena in
the social sciences underlying management and organizations and
globalization through boundary-crossing dialog and discourse.
The conference is intended to provide the Editors of MOR the basis for framing future special issues of MOR.
The conference draws together social
science thought leaders, management and organization scholars,
executives, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and non-business scholars in a
community building and enhancing setting.
The core theme of the inaugural conference revolves around the
Globalization of Knowledge Creation and Innovation in the Context of Emerging Economies. Potential sub-themes include
but are not limited to the antecedents and future of emerging
economy innovations; exploiting formal institutional voids embedded in
state and local policies and national innovation systems of emerging
economies; industrial clusters and innovation;
MNEs and innovation in emerging economies; culture goods; social and
management innovations; the role of universities on innovation in
emerging economies; new ways of organizing innovation of emerging
economies in the global ecology of innovation; evolution
and role of global on-line STEM communities and innovation in emerging
economies; role of national culture and creativity at the individual
and group levels; business management practices and promotion of
creativity and innovation; innovation competition
between emerging economies (e.g., China and India).
The
choice of the overall theme is wide ranging by design. It recognizes
the national aspirations and priorities that emerging economies are
placing on knowledge creation as a new
lever of economic development and a new arena of competition between
nations in the sphere of knowledge creation. It creates the opportunity
to examine many other evolving dynamics such as structural changes in
the supply and location of science, and technology
pools of talent, the emerging online communities of talent and the
reality of companies rethinking how and where to conduct their
innovation activities including the reorganization of processes and the
many activities involved in R&D and engineering support
functions.
Assembling and Functioning of the Program
The design of the program itself also involves a
new approach. The program will consist of 7 plenary panel
sessions in addition to the opening and closing gala plenary sessions.
The Program Committee is soliciting 3-4 page proposals for plenary
panels on any aspect of the theme of the conference. The
proposals must describe the sub-theme focus of the panel and why it
represents an underexplored but important line of inquiry. The proposal
must also identify 4-5 panelists, the nature of their expertise, and the
panel sub-theme that they will inform and motivate.
Together each panel is expected to outline and delineate the contours
of new lines of inquiry and opportunities for leading edge research
directions. Panelists are not expected to present lengthy papers. The
challenge for each panelist is to plan on a high
level, 15-minute compelling presentation. Lastly each plenary panel
proposal must also include explicit statements from each panelist
committing to personally participate for the
entire conference if the plenary panel proposal is accepted for presentation and discussion in the conference.
Each
plenary panel session is allocated two and half hours (150 minutes).
The format of each plenary panel involves a maximum of 90 minutes for
the presentations
by the panelists and the
leadoff commentator. The formal presentation is followed by
commentaries and discourse among the participants.
It does not follow the traditional Q&A with panel. The key is to
stimulate conversation and plant the seeds for follow up networking and
new collaborations. At the conclusion of each plenary panel the
panelists will be given a few minutes to reprise and respond
to discussion that followed the plenary panel presentation. Each day
will also include a period of downtime for networking, reassessment of
discussions, emergence of new collaborations, and decompression.
Attendance
Participation in
the MOR Research Frontiers Conference is by invitation only
on the basis of the quality, originality, and fit of the panel proposal
with the overall conference theme. The program committee will make
every effort to ensure that the assembled participants
represent a cross section of senior and junior scholars including
advanced PhD students and that participants come from as many diverse
geographies as possible. Attendance in future MOR Research Frontiers
Conferences will strictly implement a requirement that
50% of the participants have not participated in a prior MOR Research
frontiers Conference. This rule is intended to ensure that this
prestigious and influential conference continues to stay vigorously
stimulating, welcoming of new ideas and new perspectives
and counteracts formation of an in-groups and creeping parochialism.
The
program committee expects that much of the plenary program will be
created from proposals and suggestions received from scholars wishing to
participate in the
Inaugural MOR Research frontiers Conference. Some authors will be able
to join the conference by participating in a pre-conference Paper
Development Workshop to be organized and hosted by City University Hong
Kong (details to be announced separately at a later
date).
Individuals
interested in attending the Inaugural MOR Research Frontiers Conference
but not as participant on the program are invited to please submit a
statement
expressing desire and reasons for participating. The program committee
will make every effort to accommodate such requests. The application
deadline for plenary panel proposals or individual applications to
attend is
May 5, 2014. However, overall participation will be limited to a
maximum of 60 participants organized in a Chinese Banquet arrangement
(round tables accommodating up to 8 persons each) at all sessions.
Conference Venue and Schedule
The
conference is hosted on the campus of Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (HKUST). The conference will open with a plenary gala
session on December
4th 2014. Plenary sessions will be held December 5th and 6th. The closing Gala and special closing plenary and wrap up sessions will be held evening of December 6th and morning of 7th. The pre-conference
paper development workshop will be organized and hosted by City University Hong Kong.
Program Committee
Arie
Lewin (Duke University), Kwok Leung (City University of Hong Kong),
Albert Park (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Chen Jin
(Tsinghua University),
Martin Kenney (University of California, Davis), and MOR Senior Editors
Silvia Massini (University of Manchester), J. Peter Murmann (University
of New South Wales), Bilian Sullivan (Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology), and Michael Witt (INSEAD,
Singapore).
Local Arrangements Committee
J.
T. Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Albert Park
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Brian Boyd (City
University of Hong
Kong), Jiing-Lih (Larry) Farh (Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology), Sam Garg (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology),
Yaping Gong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Paul
Hempel (City University of Hong Kong), and Bilian
Sullivan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
Submission of Plenary Panel Proposals
Submission of Papers for Paper Development Workshop
(details to come)
Accommodations and Registration Fee
(details to come)
Individuals having
substantive questions are invited to contact the convener of the
Inaugural MOR Research frontiers Conference and Editor in Chief of MOR
Professor
Arie Lewin (ayl3@duke.edu)
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