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Announcing Two New MRN Research Networks
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Corporate Strategy & Business Policy Network (POL) and the International Business & Management Network (INTL) within the Management Research Network. Both networks will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all areas related to their respective focuses, following the model of other subject matter networks within SSRN.
We expect POL and INTL to become comprehensive online resources for research in business and management studies, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship.
POL's founding director is Michael C. Jensen, Managing Director, Organizational Strategy Practice, Monitor Company; Professor of Organizational Strategy, Monitor University; Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, Harvard Business School; and Chairman of Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. Initially, POL will begin with the following 9 subject matter eJournals, and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until November 2009.
INTL's founding director is Timothy M. Devinney, AGSM Professorial Research Fellow, University of New South Wales - School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Initially, INTL will begin with the following 4 subject matter eJournals, and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until November 2009.
MRN CORPORATE STRATEGY & BUSINESS POLICY NETWORK (POL)
Change Management Strategy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers that deal with strategies designed to effectively manage organizations in a dynamic business environment. Topics contained in this journal include complexity and chaos strategies, innovation and strategy, adaptive leadership strategies, and cultural cognitive change management strategies. Topics may address, but are not limited to, change management issues including innovation, cultural adaptation, adaptive leadership, and change's driving forces.
Diversification Strategy & Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers focused on strategies related to horizontal, vertical, and non-related diversification as a primary means of expansion and growth. This diversification may occur through mergers, acquisitions, internal start-up, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and green field ventures. Topics may address, but are not limited to, cross-business strategic fit, resource allocation priorities, performance prospects, degree of coupling, restructuring, cultural fit, combination strategies, added-value testing, and post-diversification strategies.
Industry Specific Strategy & Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers focused on business strategy and policy development, implementation, and monitoring within the manufacturing, service, wholesale, and retail industries. The research may address declining, emerging, fragmented, and mature segments of the specified industries. Topics may cover, but are not limited to, research concerning the industry's attractiveness, conditions, demand, environment, growth rate, leaders, life cycle, opportunities, profitability, and uncertainty.
International Strategy & Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers related to both expansion of operations into and existing operations in international markets. The markets specific to this journal include Asia, Middle East, European, North and South America, and the underdeveloped third-world. Topics may address, but are not limited to, issues related to labor, culture, law, stability, political environment, exchange rates, and logistics.
Resource Based Strategy & Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers focused on strategies and policies related to the effective and efficient selection, acquisition, allocation, and control of organizational resources. More specifically, the journal seeks research related to strategies that focus on value chain enhancement. Topical areas in this journal include the economic view of the firm, the accounting view of the firm, resource financing strategies, and value chain management. Topics may address, but are not limited to, resource considerations involving fit, requirements, strengths, competencies, transfer, definition, and integration.
Strategy & Macroeconomic Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers focusing on how the various dimensions of strategy affect the organization's structural components. The journal seeks research related to how specific external variables impact the organization's strategic management process. Areas of focus in this journal include government regulation, government fiscal and taxation policies, Federal Reserve monetary policy, international monetary policy and exchange rates, and global economic markets.
Strategy & Microeconomic Policy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers that focus on how the various dimensions of strategy affect the organizations structural components. The journal seeks research on outcomes related to how specific strategies and strategic planning models impact organizational performance. Areas of focus in this journal include profit maximization, production efficiency, cost minimization and control, resource efficiency, and value chain performance. Topics may address, but are not limited to, strategies that focus on attaining organizational efficiency and effectiveness through economies of scale, economies of scope, organizational restructuring, lean manufacturing, task reengineering, job enhancement, job enrichment, technology development, technology acquisition, and value chain enhancement.
Strategy & Social Policies
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers that focus on the components of strategic planning related to social policies. Primary topics in this journal include moral, ethical, and integrity best practices, environmental responsibility best practices, and social responsibility best practices.
Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted papers focused on strategic planning models designed to enhance organizational performance. The journal's topics include economic resource planning models, integrated accounting models, human resource management models, and boundary spanning and mapping models. Topics may address, but are not limited to, controlling, documenting, recording, compiling, and dissemination of information relevant to costs and revenues associated with the use of organizational resources.
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MRN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT NETWORK (INTL)
International Business Strategy & Structure
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Editors: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina - Department of International Business, and Timothy M. Devinney, AGSM Professorial Research Fellow, University of New South Wales - School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Description: This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers related to multinational enterprise structure, processes and policies, the firm's global strategy and tactics - including market entry and market related strategy - the international dimension of industrial organization and market structure, and market positioning and competition. The journal welcomes research with a focus on international corporate governance (both its influence and structure), organizational design, headquarters-subsidiary relationships, firm strategy and structure, international market positioning, market entry (inc. mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances), and market structure. It also encourages papers that look at the local market and firm impact of international competition and the entry of multinational enterprises. Theoretical work relating specific internationalization theories from/across the basic disciplines of economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and political science to practical phenomena and comparing and contrasting theory are encouraged.
International Environment of Global Business
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Editors: Jonathan P. Doh, Herbert G. Rammrath Chair in International Business, Director of the Center for Global Leadership, Associate Professor of Management, Villanova University - School of Business, and Paul M. Vaaler, Associate Professor of International Business, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Description: This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers related to structure and impact of the global and local environment facing multinational organizations. The focus of the journal is on the economic, technological, socio-cultural, and politico-legal environment of multinational firms, including management in countries with distinctive characteristics (e.g., emerging markets and transition economies), and the impact and role of supranational authorities and non-governmental organizations on both multinationals and local firms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, intellectual property rights, national competitiveness, economic development, poverty, international trade and financial systems, trade, tariffs and international agreements, political risk analysis, political economy, global stakeholder relations, particularly government, international institutions and non-governmental organizations relations, and managing in emerging markets and less developed economies.
International Management of Organizations & People
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Editors: David A. Ralston, Michael F. Price Chair in International Business/Specialist in International Managerial Behavior, University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, and Guenter K. Stahl, Associate Professor, INSEAD - Organisational Behavior, Professor of International Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna)
Description: This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers related to the management of organizations and people in a global context. The focus of the journal is on four areas:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, organizational learning in multinational enterprises, managing global teams, stakeholder relations, global corporate governance, the structure of the top management team, ethics and values, corporate social and environmental responsibility, global corporate finance, global taxation and accounting, global marketing, global sourcing and outsourcing, and the global aspects of all the management functions. Empirically and theoretically, topics relating to the measurement of organizational and national culture and its implications for management theory are encouraged.
Latin American Business
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Editors: Denise Dimon, Professor of Economics and Director of the Ahlers Center for International Business, University of San Diego - School of Business Administration; Sebastian Edwards, Henry Ford II Chair in International Management, University of California, Los Angeles - Global Economics and Management (GEM) Area; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and Ricardo P.C. Leal, Professor, COPPEAD Graduate School of Business at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Description: This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers dealing with all aspects of the business environment of Latin America. Topic areas include marketing, management, human resources management, strategy, operations, logistics, information systems, and international business in general. Abstracts will be published in English, but the papers may be written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. In the future this journal will be expanded to include abstracts of published papers, including those from Latin American journals. Papers in all areas of finance and economics shall be sent to our sister publication: Latin American Economics Abstracts.
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HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
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Individual subscriptions to the POL and INTL eJournals will be free during the start-up phase, ending November 2009. After that, individual subscriptions, for all POL and INTL eJournals, will be $60 per year. Organizational Site Subscriptions will also be available.
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Sincerely,
Michael C. Jensen
Director
Management Research Network
Posted 5/26/09