Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions to a special issue of Cross Cultural & Strategic Management (2017 IF: 1.516) titled "Family Business and Local Development in Iberoamerica." The purpose of this special issue is to publish work that will significantly enhance our theoretical and empirical understanding of family business in Iberoamerica.
Within the scope of this special issue, potential themes for individual submissions can include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Cultural aspects that frame family and family business values, norms, and ethics.
• Traditional family business research topics (e.g., succession, management, corporate governance, ownership, etc.) contextualized in Iberoamerica.
• Economic and social impact of family firms.
• Origin and evolution of family firms.
• Historical, sociological, and anthropological perspectives for studying family firms.
• Cooperation and/or competitive dynamics in family firms.
• Role of government policies in the start-up, development, and/or death of family firms.
• Applicability of mainstream theories for understanding family business behavior.
• Strategies adopted by family firms and business families to counteract/compromise/obey institutional isomorphism.
• Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Family firm (economic and non-economic) performance, including family business goals.
• Internationalization of family firms.
• Family businesses, family business groups, and family elites.
• The impact of context on shaping family business management and governance practices.
We invite empirical, conceptual, methodological, and literature review papers for submission. Submissions must be cross-country or comparative in nature (i.e., two or more countries and at least one of them should be a country from Iberoamerica). The expected year of publication for this special issue is 2019.
Timeline and Submission instructions
Submissions are due by January 31, 2019. All manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review process. Submissions should be between 6,000-9,000 words, including references, figures and tables, and follow the manuscript requirement outlined on the journal's website. For questions regarding this special issue, please contact any of the guest editors: Claudio G. Muller (cmuller@fen.uchile.cl), or Ana Cristina Gonzalez (gonzaana@gvsu.edu) or Rodrigo Basco (bascorodrigo@gmail.com).
More info
http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7409
Guest Editors
Luis Gómez-Mejía
Arizona State University, USA
Claudio G. Muller
University of Chile, Chile
Ana Cristina González
Grand Valley State University, USA
Rodrigo Basco
Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business, American University of Sharjah, UAE