Imprinting and agglomeration: How does a firm's founding location impact its business model, for example, its vertical and horizontal scope? What drives firms to be multi-location at founding? What role do internal and external agglomerations play in a firm's performance as it diversifies geographically?
Spatial networks and global markets: How are outsourcing /offshoring trends changing as more firms diversify geographically? What are the trends in insourcing/backshoring? What effect has the emergence of global market exchanges, such as oDesk for labor, or supply chain electronic markets, had on the global organization of firms?
Competition: What drives the intensity of competition or cooperation across markets? What is the right timing and pace for geographic diversification? What are the internal and external drivers that impact the timing of entry?
Institutions and governments: How do intellectual property regimes affect the geographic distribution of innovation and competitive outputs? What type of government incentives lead to strong, sustainable and innovative locations? What is the role of multiple, and sometimes competing, geographic centers of innovation? What is the effect on innovation of shifting manufacturing to low-cost locations?
Organization: How does the spatial organization of firms matter to their innovative capabilities, evolution and performance? What types of spatial organization forms do firms follow? Can firms manage flexibly their activities over space and time to transfer learning? A related theme is how firms' activities, in turn, affect their institutional contexts.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions are due no later than December 15, 2015. All papers submitted must represent original research not previously published elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to in-depth review, and editorial decisions and revision requests will be communicated to authors by February 15, 2016. The targeted publication date for the volume is January 2017.
To submit a paper, or to ask questions about the content of this AiSM volume or the editorial process, please contact volume editors Juan Alcacer (jalcacer@hbs.edu) or Catherine Thomas (C.M.Thomas@lse.ac.uk), or the AiSM series editor, Brian Silverman (silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca).
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