In search of confidence: Context,collaboration, and constraints

The development of any field of scientific inquiry involves global scholarly conversations. While we agree with Meyer’s (2006) key tenets, we extend his discussion of Asia management scholars’ need for self-confidence by exploring the role of context, collaboration, and constraints in global scholarly discourse. In particular, we highlight the need for consideration of multi-level context, the development of theories that are good for local stakeholders’ management practice and technology-facilitated and super-institutional collaboration. We illustrate our arguments for the development, legitimization, and institutionalization of Asia Pacific management research with examples from management and other scholarly disciplines in Australia, China, Europe, and North America.

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Xiaohua Yang   (PhD, University of Kansas) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Queensland University of Technology. She leads the China study tour and has presented and published her work in leading management journals and conferences around the world. She has taught in the United States, Australia, Mainland China, and Taiwan and has lectured in Europe. She is a co-editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management’s special issue on Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Indigenization and Internationalization. Her research interests are in the areas of global strategy, expatriate management and corporate social responsibility. Her current research is on internationalization of firms in emerging markets. Siri Terjesen   (PhD, Cranfield University) is a Senior Lecturer in the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany. She has published her international research in the Strategic Management Journal, Small Business Economics, and other journals. She is a member of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. In the northern summers, she teaches entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Peking University. Her research interests include strategy and entrepreneurship.