CALL FOR PAPERS (see also the attached file please)
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Special issue on: Hybrid innovation management and global corporations
Guest editors: Yuosre Badir (Asian Institute of Technology, AIT),
Christopher Tucci (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL),
Chihiro Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology). Email:
badir@ait.ac.th
Innovation is a complex phenomenon that involves all areas of
technological, economic, and social activity. It can come from anyone
within or outside a company and occur anywhere along the value chain.
Nowadays, due to globalization and liberalization of economies, in
addition to emerging big players, market competition has intensified
and the rate of technological change has increased. Companies are
reviewing their innovation systems and seeking new methods for
innovation generation and new ways of managing the entire innovation
process so they can compete on a global level.
In such a competitive market, global corporations operate within
different regions, countries, and continents, and are more exposed to
different innovation management systems / techniques / practices, each
with its own strengths and weaknesses. To compete anywhere, be that in
the West or East, in developed or developing economies, global
corporations may wish to adopt an appropriate hybrid innovation
management style in which they retain their own values and strengths of
the practices that have made their innovation system effective, while
changing what has to be changed. Hybrid innovation management
incorporates different, and sometimes opposing, innovation management
systems / techniques / practices from other countries/firms and fuses
them into one homogeneous system. Examples of different/opposing
management systems include, but are not limited to: open vs. closed
innovation, internal vs. external R&D, hierarchy vs. market
transaction, exploration vs. exploitation, flexible vs. rigid
organization, performance-based vs. seniority-based HR
promotions/compensation systems, shareholder- vs. stakeholder-focused
approaches, strong vs. weak social ties, etc.
Transfer of innovation management systems / techniques, or some of its
elements, from one country / firm to another always involves uprooting
original constructs and introducing them into different institutional
systems (for example, culture, national strategy and policy,
socio-economic systems, entrepreneurial infrastructure, and education).
Effective corporations must consider the characteristics of the
original and new institutional systems. The appropriate hybrid
innovation management system depends on how well it fits the
surrounding institutional systems as well as the companys culture and
business.
This special issue offers a prime opportunity to understand the
development and implementation (or practice) of hybrid innovation
management in global corporations and its relation with institutional
systems. Some interesting questions may include: In the hybrid
innovation management context, what should be retained and what
changed? How do institutional systems influence innovation management
practices? Which differences in innovation management practices are of
particular importance? Where do they come from? What facilitates the
fusion of different innovation management practices? What are the
barriers to fuse innovation management practices? Should global
corporations try to fuse or let coexist different innovation management
practices? How does the existence of different innovation management
practices in global corporations influence their innovation
performance? And how is hybrid innovation management implemented at
local/global levels?
Both research and practice papers are welcome, as are papers that
advance theory development, use large-sample methods, or that explore
one or a few global corporations in-depth. We are interested in
articles discussing hybrid management of global corporations related,
but not limited, to: Innovation management; corporate strategy;
strategic alliances; organization design; organizational behavior;
human resources; organization culture; and institutional systems.
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2009. Papers should be submitted
electronically to
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tem-ieee. The cover
letter should indicate that the paper is being submitted to the special
issue on hybrid innovation. Initial editorial decisions will be reached
in 2010.