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[Navdeep Mathur]

APROS 12 ----- Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies


Challenges in Organizing and Managing in Rapidly Emerging Economies:
Learning to Organize in the Global World

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India

December 9-12, 2007

About APROS
APROS is a forum founded 25 years ago, in which academics and practitioners
in organization studies, particularly those from the Asia-Pacific region,
convene every two years to present ideas and proposals. It encourages
participants to bring forth their expertise, research and perspectives to
generate dialogue that opens up new vistas. It seeks to make a difference in
both theory and practice in organizations. This is the 12th edition of the
APROS colloquium. The last colloquium was organized by the Victoria Graduate
School of Business, Melbourne in December, 2005.

Call for Papers
The present era is different. For the first time in human history, many
people are truly global citizens, living in communities imbricated in
extensively inter-connected production and consumption patterns. For
multinational organizations, which have always grappled with the search for
the best way to organize globally, the stakes and challenges have
intensified. The context in which they now operate is different.  A large
portion of global commerce is migrating from established markets to Rapidly
Emerging Economies (REEs) such as China, India and other countries in Asia,
Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Indeed, the activities
driving globalization have been characterized by the rapid growth of markets
and customers in REE, the accentuation of cost and capital advantages,
leading to, in some cases, the development of local talent and capabilities
and the emergence of REE based competitors with different probabilities of
return on investments, resource allocations, tolerance of risk and
uncertainty, cycle time for management reviews, quality of senior and local
management attention,  and organizational tradeoffs and platforms. Some key
questions arise:

·         What does the changing context hold for MNCs that are increasingly
locating their sourcing, manufacturing, selling, conducting R&D and
off-shoring services in these REEs?
·         What has been the impact of this changing context on business
strategies, operational processes, management tools and techniques, as they
seek to out-compete others, successfully manage the dualities of being
global in cost, quality and service and yet domestic and local in the
customization and specificity of their offerings, and as they seek to govern
and canalize the energies of the diverse set of people's cultural
differences, regional variations and idiosyncrasies of geographical
uniqueness?
·         What are the natures and characteristics of emerging
organizational forms as firms seek to develop meta-capabilities to change
continuously, as they seek to compete through networks and alliances and as
they integrate organizing and strategizing into a single duality?
·         What are the new power relations that are developing between
states, MNCs, and other actors in the emergent global order?
·         In what ways should existing theories of organizations, culture,
and social relations change as a result of the shifts from homogeneity to
heterogeneity in organization design, from continuity to discontinuity in
organizations' temporal experiences, from existing spatial articulations to
their disarticulation by management at the speed of fibre-optics?

Domestic companies from REEs now have to live with continuous change as a
result of globalization and their rapid exposure to international
competition and markets that inject their operating environment with
unprecedented and unexpected complexity and turbulence. Intertwined with
political, macro-economic and social dynamics in their economies, these
companies and their managers have been continuously under pressure to keep
pace with rapid technological advances, global competition and new, and at
times shifting, government policy initiatives. These organizations are still
groping for what can be considered as an effective corporate response to
globalization and liberalization in terms not only of strategic choices but
also systemic adaptations as they seek to expand, diversify, integrate and
globalize.
·         What elements and activities do REE firms need to develop to be
viable and competitive in the emerging new world order?
·         What ideas, practices and processes can be learnt from experiences
elsewhere, in place and time, in terms of differing understandings of these
by various theoretical, intellectual and political perspectives?
·         What futures of global relations are likely to be experienced? Who
will be the winners and the losers?
·         What are the implications of the changing relations of states,
markets and firms for stakeholders in civil society?

The APROS colloquium will consider issues and challenges involved in the
clash of commercial cultures from the developed west in their interaction
with the operating context immanent in the REEs, and the domestic companies
from the REEs in their quest to survive, compete and join the ranks of
'cutting edge organizations'.

The colloquium will bring together international scholars and practitioners
to address the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional
and legal factors and issues that have an impact upon the governance
structures, employment relations, management practices and functioning of
organizations.

The colloquium will debate how evolving management practices, processes and
change, in their convergence and divergence across industries, cultures and
nations, are shaping the world, and our understanding of it, today.

COLLOQUIUM STREAMS
*      Streams will be announced on the web site: www.apros.org <
http://www.apros.org/<https://ex1.bham.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.apros.org/>
>
*      Interested parties are invited to submit stream proposals

SUBMISSIONS
APROS 12 invites scholars and practitioners to submit empirical or
theoretical papers, case studies and proposals for symposia. The work must
be original and not have been presented or submitted for presentation at any
other conference. Papers and Case Studies from work-in-progress research may
also be submitted. Submissions can be made in any of the above mentioned
tracks. All submissions will be double blind reviewed. Once the submission
is accepted for presentation, the author must register for the conference in
order to present.  Only those papers that are submitted as complete, reach
the organizer by the due date, and are registered to be presented, will be
published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will
include full papers and abstracts on CD. It is intended that a selection of
the papers presented at the conference will be published either as a special
issue of Organization or in an edited collection by a reputable publisher..
Conveners of Individual Streams in the Colloquium may also develop
publications from their stream. Authors will be requested to provide
non-exclusive copyrights of their paper to the conference organizers to
ensure consideration for such a publication.

TIMELINES
·         Deadline for the submission of the Abstracts:  February 25, 2007.
·         Notification of acceptance of proposals: On or near April 28,
2007.
·         Submission of final paper: September 30, 2007
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
*      Abstracts should be up to 800 words in length.
*      Submissions must be made in MS Word and Times New Roman 12 pt, double
spaced with 2.54 cm margin all around
*      The name (s) of the Author(s) and their institutional logo must not
appear anywhere on the abstract page but on a cover sheet which must include
the title of the proposal and each author's name, affiliation, address,
telephone, fax and email.
*      Do not send documents in "read only" or PDF format (as papers need to
be anonymized for the blind review process)
*      Abstracts may also be submitted electronically

ENQUIRIES AND CONTACT DETAILS
Dr. Subir Verma
Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior
Management Development Institute
Sukhrali, Gurgaon-122001
India
Tel: +91 124 4560301; 2340162
Fax: +91 124 2341189
Email:  <mailto:sverma at mdi.ac.in <sverma at mdi.ac.in>> sverma at mdi.ac.in
Web site:  <http://www.mdi.ac.in/<https://ex1.bham.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mdi.ac.in/>>
www.mdi.ac.in



Conference Chairperson
Prof. Pritam Singh

Conference Convener
Prof. Subir Verma

Conference Co-Convener
Prof. Jyotsna Bhatnagar


Local Academic Committee
Local Organizing Committee
APROS Advisory Committee

Prof. V. Sridhar
Prof. Asha Bhandarkar
Prof. Stewart Clegg

Prof. Abha Chaturvedi
Prof. Madhushree Agarwal
Prof. Michael Muetzelfedlt

Prof. Anil Chaturvedi
Prof. Anil A. Pathak
Prof. Eduardo Ibarra

Prof. Radha Sharma
Prof. Gita Bajaj
Prof. Alicia Leung

Prof. A. Sahay
Prof. Rohit Prasad
Prof. Bobby Bannerjee

Prof. Rajen Gupta
Prof. Neelu Bhullar
Professor Chris Carter

Prof. Debi Saini
Prof. A.K. Jain
Dr. Martin Kornberger


Prof. Sangeeta Bhardawaj
Dr. Tyrone Pitsis
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