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We provide a corner here to facilitate communication among our members. You could ask questions, seek research collaborations or convey  messages....etc, to our membership. Send your message to our co-ordinator, Mr Red Ng at iacmr@asu.edu He will help you to post your message if we find it appropriate.

 

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Call for input for the new IACMR newsletter In the last few years, we have circulated announcements and relevant news by e-mail. Until now this has been functioning quite well, but it is time for a more professional and structured approach as the IACMR is growing and its agenda is developing. A quarterly electronic Newsletter will replace the e-mails starting this autumn. Its planned publication date is November 15, 2005. Each newsletter may contain information under at least the following headings: - 'From The President' - IACMR News: announcements: conferences, workshops and other activities; calls for papers. - IACMR Member News: reports  (like conferences and workshops); - What Others Do: announcements of activities by other organizations in the field of Chinese Management Research which may be of interest to members - Research Market:  announcements from individual IACMR members on their current researches, calls for information and collaborations, etc. - Job Market: announcements of position openings and visiting opportunities; brief bios of members seeking permanent or visiting positions - Member Publications: articles or books published by IACMR members - MOR News: new issues, call for papers for special issues, etc. In principle all input from members is welcome, if it contributes to the objectives of the IACMR. Input is welcome in both English and Chinese. The newsletter will offer all information in both languages. Dr. Huibert de Man, professor of Organization and Human Resources at the Maastricht School of Management and the Open University of the Netherlands has offered to act as an editor for the English version. He will work in close co-operation with Mrs. Jie Gui (Gui is her family name)-- a PhD student at Beijing Institute of Technology, who will  do the necessary translation work. They expect to need a few issues to develop the definitive form of the Newsletter. The Newsletter will only work with your input. Please send it in English or Chinese, as part of an email or as an attachment in Microsoft Word, to Winee Wu at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: mnwinee@ust.hk Winee will see that your contribution be processed. Please send your contributions between Oct. 15 and Oct. 30, and we will try our best to publish our Newsletter around November 15. It will be distributed as a pdf-file attached to an email and it will also be made available on the IACMR website at this page. Thank you for your continuous support! IACMR

A case recently written by Michael Young Donald Liu titled “Hong Kong Disneyland,” Ivey Publishing, 2007

Michael Young, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dong LIU (Donald), PhD Student, Department of Management and Organization Department, University of Washington

Abstract:
Disney began internationalizing its theme park operations with the
opening of Tokyo Disneyland in 1983, which his regarded as one of the
most successful amusement parks in the world. Disney attempted to
replicate this succession in France, which is the largest consumer of
Disney products outside of the US. In 1992, they opened Disneyland
Resort Paris, which is largely regarded to be much less successful than
the park in Japan. One explanation for the difference in results may be
due to the way that Disney's strategic assets - such as products,
practices and ideologies - were translated to and interpreted in the
Japanese and French contexts. This is a process that Brennan (2004)
calls recontextualization. This case explores Disney's efforts to open
its third park outside of the US, Hong Kong Disneyland. This case begins
by discussing the experiences of Tokyo and Paris Disneylands, and then
discusses the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, including the structure
of the deal, and how the operations, HRM and marketing were tailored to
fit the Chinese cultural environment. The case also discusses the
tourism industry in Hong Kong and the particular problems that were
encountered during the first year of operations. The stage is set for
students to discus whether Disney's strategic assets have a good
semantic fit with Chinese culture.

Disciplines: General Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, International
Issues: Competitive Dynamics, Cross-Cultural Management, Industry, Positioning, International Expansion
Industry: Amusement and Recreation Services
Setting: Hong Kong, Medium organization, 2006
Difficulty: 4 - Undergraduate/MBA
Length: 16 pages

Qualified academics can register through the link below to download the full text at no charge and/or where they will find full ordering details: http://cases.ivey.uwo.ca/cases
 

Congratulations to Prof. Shuming Zhao, who was selected to be one of 32 Young and Middle-aged Chief Scientists by Jiangsu Provincial Government (updated on June 29, 2007)

Professor Zhao Shuming, Senior Vice President of International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR) and Dean of School of Business of Nanjing University, was selected as one of the 32 Young and Middle-aged Chief Scientists of “333 High-level Talent Project” by Jiangsu provincial government on June 22nd, 2007.  These 32 scientists are from 21 colleges and universities, scientific research institutions, and high-tech corporations in Jiangsu province, in which Nanjing University and Southeast University are ranked on the top of the list with five professors from each of these two universities.  This award recognizes significant scientific breakthroughs and technology innovation reaching advanced international standards.  The achievements covers the fields of high and new technologies in electronic, new materials, biological medicine, new energy source and saving, and environment protection; agricultural scientific and technological innovation, social development, including ecological environment, population and health, cycling economy, residential environment and public safety.  Professor Shuming Zhao is the only professor in the field of management.  Congratulations, Prof. Zhao.  IACMR is very proud of you and your accomplishments.

 

 

  Chinese Management Scholar Research Methods Workshop, Xian, 2005 Updated on 1 Dec 2004

 

Two new books by Yasheng Huang and Oded Shenkar

Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era
by Yasheng Huang, William Kirby, Cambridge University Press 2003 

China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. For
a number of years in the 1990s, China was the second largest recipient of
foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world. Many hail Chinas large FDI
absorption as a celebrated achievement of reforms. The central claim of
this book is that the large absorption of FDI by China is a sign of some
substantial weaknesses in its economy. FDI inflows into China surged in the
1990s because domestic firms were uncompetitive and they failed to
capitalize on new business opportunities. Foreign firms responded by
investing in China. Chinas partial reforms, while successful in increasing
the scope of the market, have so far failed to address many allocative
inefficiencies in the Chinese economy.

Click here for the link to the book

The Chinese Century
by Oded Shenkar, Wharton Publishing 2004

The book assesses the impact of a rising China on the global economy on nations, businesses, consumers and employees in the coming decades. The author views China’s ascent as equivalent to the rise of the United States as a major economic and political power a century ago and addresses the challenges posed by the Chinese advance to current business models. 

Click here for the link to the book

 

News on the Inaugural Conference

Media Coverage and related news (In Chinese) Updated on 6 July 2004

Conference photos Updated on 6 July 2004

Economic Observer interviewed with Anne S Tsui - China needs management research (in Chinese) pdf format

Seminar by Prof. Anne S Tsui at Shanghai Jiaotong University, PRC on July 3, 2004 "Employment Relationship: A Program of Research on Its Effects" Updated on 28 June 2004

2004 Nomination of Program Vice-President and four Representatives-at-Large now open! Click here for more information.

Call for Participation in the Academy of Management PDW, "New Venture Growth Strategies in China's High Technology Industries" Click here for more information.

There will be a special, cross-cultural, leadership-oriented conference that will be held in Seoul, Korea, 10-12 June 2004, prior to the IACMR conference in Beijing, PRC. IACMR members are cordially invited to attend. Click on the conference website for more information. Updated on 17 February 2004

Please click here for the Call for Papers

Forthcoming March/April 2004, Organization Science Special Issue on China:

"Corporate Transformation in the People's Republic of China, Implications for Management" , guest edited by: Anne S. Tsui, ChungMing Lau, Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Marshall W. Meyer, and George T. Milkovich. updated on 8 December 2003

9 articles included in this issue:
Please contact the authors directly if you are interested in receiving a copy of the paper 

First set - Inter-firm relationships in the emerging economy

Capital structure in transition: the transformation of financial strategies in China's emerging economy - Lisa A. Keister

Entrepreneur's access to private equity in China: The Role of Social Capital - Bat Batjargal and Mannie M Liu

Institutional effects on strategic alliance partner selection in transition economies: China versus Russia - Michael Hitt, David Ahlstrom, Tina Dacin, Edward Levitas, and Lilia Svobodina 

Second set - How economic reform in the PRC has affected opportunity structures and social processes 

Chinese organizations in transition: changing promotion patterns in the reform era - Wei Zhao and Xueguang Zhou

Guanxi practices and trust in management: a procedural justice perspective - Chao Chen, Yaru Chen, and Katherine Xin

Generation cohorts and personal values: a comparison of China and the US - Carolyn Egri and David Ralston

Third set - How economic reform has affected individuals and their behavior within organizations in China

Reward allocation preferences of Chinese employees in the new millennium: the effects of ownership reform, collectivism, and goal priority - Wei He, Chao Chen, and Lihua Zhang

Employment relationships in China: Do workers relate to the organization or to people? - Chun Hui, Cynthia Lee and Denise Rousseau

Organizational citizenship behavior in the People's Republic of China - Jiing-Lih Farh, James Zhong, and Dennis Organ 

The articles in this special issue of Organizational Science will introduce organizational scholars to management in the Chinese context and motivate them to think deeply about China as an empirical context. Combining existing theories of organizations with deep knowledge of the context will contextualize our general knowledge and allow us to generalize from the Chinese context.

Call for Papers for the International Conference on Multinationals in China "Competition and Cooperation" Updated on 19 November 2003

Please click here to view the details of the Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the special issue for SCIP 2004 Academic Conference "Translating Competition and Strategy Research for Practitioners" Updated on 7 July 2003

Please click here to view the details of the Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the special issue for the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies" Updated on 12 Feb 2003

Please click here to view the details of the Call for Papers.

Congratulations to our founding member, Romie F. Littrell Updated on 11 Feb 2003

The paper "Leadership preferences of multi-cultural managers in China", by founding member Romie F. Littrell, The Journal of Management Development, (21)1: 5-74. received the "Outstanding Paper" for 2002 in the Industrial
Management & Data Systems category of the MCB Emerald Library Literati Club.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/
The paper may be reviewed at
http://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/

Links:

The Centre for Cross Cultural Comparisons:
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/

IACMR Research Awards 

Updated on 21 Nov 2002
In recognition of IACMR mission, we wish to confer awards for excellence in Chinese management research. The first awards will be made in 2003 and every other year thereafter, in conjunction with the bi annual meeting of the Association. We are seeking nominations for two IACMR awards. 

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Officers
President Anne S. Tsui	Professor, HK Univ. of Science and Technology/Arizona State University
VP-Program Chair Xiao-Ping Chen	Associate Professor, University of Washington
VP-Program Chair Weiying Zhang	Professor, Peking University
VP-Program Chair Elect Max Boisot	Professor, The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona
Executive Secretray/Treasurer David A. Ralston	Professor, The University of Oklahoma
Representatives at Large
David Lamond	Professor, University of Western Sydney
Chung-Ming Lau	Professor, The Chinese University of HK
Yadong Luo	Professor, University of Miami
Oded Shenkar	Professor, Ohio State University