Dear Colleagues:
By popular request, the deadlines for paper submission to the following special issue has been extended to March 31, 2016.
Thank you, Chris Tang.
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Special Issue on Value Chain Innovations in Developing Economies
Editor
Hau Lee
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, haulee@stanford.edu
Motivation
As the world becomes more globalized, the value chains of most companies span over many continents, and increasingly, developing economies constitute important parts of the supply side of these value chains. The supply could be in the form of sourcing of natural resources and materials, or manufacturing operations in which these economies provide low cost of labor. The supply can also be in the form of intellectual capital as some of these economies develop their design and innovation capabilities. Similarly, these economies are becoming sources of demand, as even the bottom of the pyramid had huge demand needs and so they can be potentially big markets. While they form parts of the global value chains, most of these economies faced challenges of extreme poverty. About 1.2 billion people in the world still live below US$1.25 per day. Hence, innovations in the value chains of these developing economies, while benefiting global enterprises, can also play a role in the alleviation of poverty. This special issue is M&SOM's call to stimulate research in how value chain innovations can make a difference in developing economies.
Scope and Topics
A value chain is a network of suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, producers, distributors, third-party service providers, channels, customers, and customers' customers, which, together provides products or services from end to end. A value chain also operates, possibly in more than one country, with stakeholders like governments, competitors, non-profit governmental organizations, and peer companies all being a part of the eco-system that could affect the success of a value chain. In order for entrepreneurs or innovators to be able to successfully build or scale up their businesses, being able to run your value chain effectively is critical. We invite papers that make use of analytical modeling, empirical analysis, and extensive field-base case studies that advance our knowledge on how to use innovations, technologies, and entrepreneurship for value chain innovations in developing economies. The innovations can either be on ways or developments that serve the needs and improve the livelihood of the people in developing economies, or that create opportunities and improve the means of developing economies to increase their ability to create high economic values by serving the global markets. Examples of such innovations could be:
Serving the needs of the people in developing economies
- Designing extremely affordable products
- Improving productivity for products and services for local needs
- Enhancing financing operationally
- Effective distribution of products and services for local demands
Creating higher economic values to serve the global markets
- Improving productivity in production and farming
- Deploying resources in environmentally and socially responsible ways
- Increasing value-add of production
- Reducing cross-border logistics frictions to improve export trade
Important Dates
Submission deadline: January 31, 2016 March 31, 2016.
Authors will be strongly encouraged to revise and resubmit their papers within three months. Acceptance will be made within two review cycles.
Submission Procedure
Please prepare the article following M&SOM's submission guidelines:
http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/msom/submission-guidelines
Please also submit online at ScholarOne Manuscripts: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msom
Authors wondering whether a current research project is a fit for the special issue are invited to email a short description (no more than one page) of their project to the guest editor Hau Lee (haulee@stanford.edu). The guest editor will provide feedback on whether the topic meets the goals of the special issue. However, the guest editor will not evaluate the quality of the research based on the description. That determination will be left to the review process. (There is no requirement to submit a description before submitting a paper.)
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Christopher Tang
Professor
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA
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