ASIA ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT

THIRD CONFERENCE

　

CALL FOR PAPERS

　

Innovating Asian Management in the 21st Century

　

Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-14, 2002

Hosted by the Chulalongkorn University

　

The Asia Academy of Management invites papers for its third conference on the captioned theme.  Before the financial crisis, the Asia experience has been described as "Asian miracle".  However, there is much skepticism for the future of Asian businesses during and after the financial crisis.  Will Asia business firms able to learn from this experience and become better ones?  Or, will they lose the momentum in re-establishing their successful trend?  These may depend on whether Asian businesses are able to innovate their management practices.  Innovating Asian management in the 21st century and other related themes about Asia management will form the core issues to be addressed in the conference.  More specifically, issues related to the broad theme of the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:

What are the salient characteristics of Asian firms concerning their strategies and human resources?  Why are they successful in the past?  Will these characteristics be assets or liabilities in the future?

What are the important characteristics of Asian management?  How are Asian firms adjusting and innovating their management practices?  What is the relevance of these characteristics when compared to Western management practices?

How are Asian firms responding to the changing environment after the financial crisis?  What are the changes in the business environment and the strategies of Asian firms?  How do Asian firms perceive the future environment in Asia and in the world?  Are they ready for the trend of increasing globalization?

What are the similarities and differences among firms in different Asian countries?  Are they responding similarly or differently to the changing environment?  Are their competitiveness enhanced or deteriorated?

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2002

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Though submissions relating to the major theme of the conference are encouraged, papers can deal with other issues relating to the broad topic of Asian management systems and strategies of Asian firms.  The papers may be grounded in any major management discipline including business strategy, organization behavior and theory, human resource management, international management, and ethics and social issues in management.  Conceptual, theory-building, or empirical papers from the above disciplines are welcome.

All submissions must be original and should not have been previously accepted for publication in a journal, presented in another conference or be under review at another conference.

Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference.  The proceedings will also include abstracts of all the papers presented at the conference.

All papers will be blind reviewed.  At least one author of each paper must register for the conference and present the paper.

There is no page limit but contributors are encouraged to limit their paper to less than or equal to 20 pages (A-4 paper, font 12, double spacing with margins of about 1 inch) including the cover page, abstract, text, references, table and figures.  Contributors are encouraged to use both sides of the paper.

Papers should be prepared in English.  However, contributors may contribute to the interactive poster sessions.  For the interactive poster sessions, papers may be prepared in languages other than English with an extensive English abstract (about 1000 words).

Contributors should submit three copies of their papers to: Dr. Chi-Sum Wong, Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., HONG KONG.  Manuscript prepared by Microsoft Word can be submitted electronically to the address: cswong@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk.

CONFERENCE VENUE, FORMAT AND FEES

The conference venue is Bangkok.  The conference will consist of keynote session, panel discussions, paper presentations and interactive poster sessions.  The registration fee for the conference will be around US$150 (the exact amount will be announced later), not including room and board.  A limited number of subsidies may be available to needy candidates.  The subsidy will cover the registration fee as well as a portion of room charges.

ENQUIRY

Web-Page: click "conference" at www.cuhk.edu.hk/baf/asia-aom

For questions concerning logistic arrangement, please contact:

Dr. Pasu Decharin

Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy

Chulalongkorn University

Payathai Rd., Pathumwan

Bangkok, Thailand 10330

Phone: (662) 218-5827

FAX: (662) 218-5765

Email: fcompdc@phoenix.acc.chula.ac.th

For questions concerning paper submission, please contact:

Dr. Chi-Sum Wong

Department of Management

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 3943-7794

FAX: (852) 2603-6840

Email: cswong@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk