ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL SPECIAL RESEARCH FORUM CALL FOR PAPERS

摘要

Management scholarship has grown tremendously over the past 60 years. Most of our paradigms originated, in terms of concepts, assumptions, and insights, from the North America of the 1940s-1980s. The empirical phenomena and cultural, philosophical, and research traditions of the time inspired these paradigms, which include resource dependence theory, institutional theory, transaction cost theory, agency theory, equity theory, justice theory, social exchange theory, social network theory, social learning theory, and others. These theories have also been applied and tested in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, and increasing numbers of publications grounded in these paradigms have appeared in top journals such as AM] (Kirkman & Law, 2005). After centuries of Western leadership in most economic matters, China, India, and the rest of the East, with their emerging economies, are asserting themselves with new vigor on the world stage. The 21st century has been called "the Pacific Century" (Wilkins, 2010). The world appears to be in a transition from "West leads East" to "West meets East" (Chen & Miller, 2010). It's time to go beyond Western settings to tap into the empirical phenomena of the East and its cultural, philosophical, and broader intellectual tradition to create a field of management that is richer, more robust, and "powerful" in terms of understanding and managing organizations and behavior globally (Barkema, 2001; Barkema, Baum, & Mannix, 2002; Chen & Miller, 2011; Tsui, 2007, 2009).