Call for Papers
Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 31 (2014)
Finance and Strategy
Volume Editor: Belén Villalonga
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013
Strategy and finance are closely interrelated in the practice of management, and have become even more so over the past decade. With the increased informational demands resulting from regulatory changes like Sarbanes Oxley and Reg FD, the boundary between the roles of CEO and CFO has become increasingly blurred. Moreover, the global financial crisis has made the interdependence between corporate financial policies and firms' strategies painfully salient.
In academic research, however, the two fields have by and large developed independently of each other. Even on research topics that have received much attention from both fields, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate diversification, or corporate governance, there has been little cross-fertilization between the two fields.
This AiSM volume seeks to fill this gap with rigorous research papers that bridge the strategy and finance fields by building on and contributing to both of them. We are interested in all possible combinations between the two main subdivisions of strategy research-corporate strategy and business (competitive) strategy-and the two main subdivisions of finance research-corporate finance and capital markets. Theoretical as well as empirical contributions are welcome and encouraged, as are different underlying disciplines (economics, sociology, psychology, political science) and research methodologies, consistent with the variety that exists across and within these two fields.
Potential research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· How do financial constraints (external or internal) shape firms' strategies?
· How are corporate and business strategies affected by capital structure?
· How are corporate and business strategies affected by ownership structure?
· How has the relation between banks and corporations changed in recent years?
· How has the division of roles between the CEO and the CFO changed?
· What role do research analysts play in shaping firms' strategies?
· How does firm valuation or misvaluation impact strategic decisions?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions are due no later than October 15, 2013. All submissions must represent original research not previously published elsewhere. Submissions will be subject to in-depth review, and editorial decisions and revision requests will be communicated to authors by November 30, 2013. Authors going forward to the second review round will be invited to present their revised paper at a conference in January 2014 (exact date/location TBD). The targeted publication date is July 2014.
To submit a paper, or for questions regarding the content of this AiSM volume or the editorial process, please contact the volume editor, Belén Villalonga (bvillalonga@nyu.edu) or the AiSM series editor, Brian Silverman (silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca ). Further information on the series can be found at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=0742- 3322 or at http://www- 2.rotman.utoronto.ca/~silverman/AiSM/asm_index.html.
Advances in Strategic Management is an ISI Web of Science-indexed journal.