News Updates

IACMR Bimonthly Briefing – June 2020

•IACMR News

1. One-Month Extension of Application for Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant
2. Call for Applications: 2020 IACMR The Scholarship and Methods of Teaching Workshop
3. IACMR Education Committee Set Up
4. IACMR Research Seminar Series Launched
5. IACMR Young Scholar Development Series Launched
6. IACMR Membership Extended One Year
7. Online Celebration for Zhijun Yaos Retirement
8. IACMR New Book Released 

 Management and Organization Review (MOR) Updates

1. The Article of the Month”(May-June
2. MOR Special Issue: Second Call for Proposals
3. MOR 16.2 Abstracts and Table of Contents

Management Insights (MI) Updates

1. Xiao-Ping Chen: The Nature of Leadership
2. Current MI issue

• IACMR News

1. One-Month Extension of Application for Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant

In view of influences and difficulties brought by COVID-19 disruptions this year, we extended the deadline for the application to Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant to June 15, 2020 to give interested doctoral students sufficient time to complete their proposals. The date of winner announcement will also be pushed back by one month.

2. Call for Applications: 2020 IACMR The Scholarship and Methods of Teaching Workshop

2020 IACMR “The Scholarship and Methods of Teaching” Workshop will be held in Dalian, China. The host school is Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. The deadline for application to participate in the program is July 10, 2020. Applications should be sent to IACMR Office (iacmrbj@pku.edu.cn). Acceptance notice will be sent by July 31, 2020. Please click here to see more details about the Workshop.

3. IACMR Education Committee Set Up

IACMR set up its Education Committee recently, please click here to view the members of the Committee.

4. IACMR Research Seminar Series Launched

IACMR launched Research Seminar Series in June 2020, the series is a monthly, online-based seminar series for scholars around the world. Through this platform, we hope to provide IACMR members with greater access to high quality management research, especially during these times of restricted travel. Please click here to get more information about the IACMR Research Seminar Series.

The first session Positivism vs. Interpretivism: Comparison of Two Classic Case Research Paradigms and Their Inspirations was successfully held on June 24, with more than 470 scholars participated. The speaker was Professor Runtian Jing from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The second session will be held on July 22 by Professor Xiao-Ping Chen from University of Washington, the title of her speech will be Moral Consistency or Moral Licensing? The Conceptualization of Moral Elasticity Quotient and a Preliminary Test. 

5. IACMR Young Scholar Development Series Launched

IACMR Young Scholar Development Series is a monthly, online-based seminar series, with the purpose of providing IACMR members especially young scholars a place to seek advices in career development (both in research and teaching). Topics include but not limited to:

• key issues about publishing papers in international journals;
• publishing papers in Chinese journals
• applying for funds with NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China)
• teaching experience sharing
• training on paper reviewing
• improving presentation skills

Please click here for more information about this series.

The first session titled as Way out: Career Development for Junior faculty will be led by Dr. Amy OU from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is going to be held on July 14. Please click here to know more about session #1.

6. IACMR Membership Extended One Year

Due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19, the 9th IACMR Biennial Conference has been postponed by one year, from June 2020 to June 2021. In view of this, we have decided to extend a year of membership for free for those whose membership expired between December 2019 and June 2020 (the original registration period of the 9th Biennial Conference).You can check your membership status on your IACMR profile. If you have any concerns, please contact us at: iacmrmembership@pku.edu.cn.

7. Online Celebration for Zhijun Yaos Retirement

Zhijun Yao, the Executive Director who served IACMR for eight years, retired in June 2020. IACMR held an online celebration party on June 17. IACMR board members, past Presidents and staffs at Beijing office attended the online party. Participants sincerely expressed their best wishes to Ms Yao and thanked her for her great contribution to IACMR in the past eight years.

·Management and Organization Review (MOR) Updates

1. The Article of the Month”(May-June

May-June

Exploring Firm-Level Antecedents that Drive Motives of Internationalization: A Study of Knowledge Intensive Indian FirmsFaisal M. Ahsan, Ashutosh Sinha and R Srinivasan

2. MOR Special Issue: Second Call for Proposals

The second preliminary proposal submission deadline for MOR special issue on ‘Responsible Leadership in China and Beyond’ is July 1, 2020, followed with the proposal development workshop to fine-tune your research design.

Those who wish to have their proposal reviewed and discussed should submit a preliminary proposal (Five pages, excluding references, tables, and figures) to the MOR Managing Editor (MORManagingeditor@cambridge.org) with the subject line ‘Responsible Leadership in China Proposal‘ by July 1, 2020.

Please click here for more information about the CFP.

3. MOR 16.2 Abstract and Table of Contents

Please click to get MOR 16.2 Abstract and Table of Contents.

 Management Insights (MI) Updates

1. Xiao- Ping Chen: The Nature of Leadership 

The Chief Editor of MI Xiao-Ping Chen delivered an online speech about The Nature of Leadership on June 13, the review of her speech was post on MI WeChat account on June 15.

2. Current MI issue

MI website is under maintenance recently, please search “复旦管理视野” small program in WeChat for current and back MI issues.

Your Input Welcomed 

Your contributions are also welcomed. You can send us news about members’ activities, research information, feedback about IACMR, and information from management field, etc. to iacmrmembership@pku.edu.cn. Submission deadline is 15th of every even-month.