2013 SYSBS International Management Symposium Successfully Held

 
On December 7-8, Sun Yat-sen Business School held the 2013 SYSBS International Management Symposium on “Innovating Business Models for Global Competition”.

Group Photo
 

With an intention of providing an academic platform that nurtures research on business models in global competition and further leads the discourse on some fresh perspectives on designing and innovating business models for MNEs, the first day of the symposium was featured with keynote speeches by internationally recognized scholars in the area, including Oded Shenkar (Ohio State), Stephen Tallman (U. of Richmond), Klaus Meyer (CEIBS), Marshall Meyer (U. of Pennsylvania), Jeff Reuer (Purdue) and Yadong Luo (U. of Miami & SYSBS). The keynote speeches covered a series of critical topics, such as imitation-based business model, cooperation-based business model, going-out by going-in model, business model innovation, and general frameworks of business model, all in the context of global competition. A large number of scholars from China, Asia, North America, and Europe attended the two-day symposium. After the keynote sessions, a session of “Meeting Editors” was also held, inviting these keynote speakers who have served or being serving as editors in such journals as JIBS, GSJ, SMJ, JBW, and MOR. These editors provided a myriad of constructive and insightful suggestions and advices on publishing in such journals.

Oded Shenkar, Stephen Tallman, Klaus Meyer,
Marshall Meyer, Jeff Reuer, Yadong Luo
 

In the spirit of helping papers to be developed further along, two parallel paper sessions were organized in the second day of the symposium. These paper development sessions were instructed by the keynote speakers who offered developmental suggestions to the authors from various countries such as the U.S., U.K., Sweden, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, among others. In each session, the keynote speakers offered thorough and constructive comments that are instrumental in guiding the authors to further improve their papers. The authors expressed gratitude to the keynote speakers/editors for benefiting tremendously from their insights, directions and suggestions. The keynote speakers, the authors, and the guests also commended SYSBS for its excellent organizing and hosting of the symposium.

Paper Session
 

Each summer and winter, SYSBS organizes a series of advanced research methods and frontier theories in international management, which bring strategy, management, and business scholars from China together with their global counterparts to co-learn and co-develop emerging management theories and winning strategies.