Area Profile: Strategy and International Business

• Published date: 01 September 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1335
• Author: Chang Hoon Oh
• Date: 01 September 2015

Area Profile: Strategy and International Business

Associate Editor: Dr. Chang Hoon Oh

Dr. Oh is a Beedie Research Fellow and Professor of

international business at the Beedie School of Business, Simon

Fraser University. Before he joined Simon Fraser University in

2012, he worked for Brock University as an associate professor,

and for the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, as an

associate instructor. He also worked for Samsung Electronics

and Samsung Corporation as a marketing manager at their

headquarters. He served his military service as an instructor,

f‌irst lieutenant ROTC, in South Korea. Dr. Oh received his PhD

degree (2007) from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana

University-Bloomington.

His research centers on internationalization strategy,

country risk, business continuity and sustainability, and

globalization versus regionalization. He also proceeds to

interdisciplinary works and bridges between business and

economics, and between business and political science. His

Research has been supported by the Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). Biography

from http://beedie.sfu.ca/prof‌iles/ChangHoonOh.

Aims, Scope, and Guidelines for Authors

The goal of the strategy and international business area

of CJAS is to publish innovative and impactful research on

strategy and international business. This area seeks to pub-

lish both theoretical and empirical research that is relevant to

real-world problems and phenomena. Submissions can be

either conceptual, theoretical, or empirical, and should make

signif‌icant contributions to theories and practices of strategic

management and international business. While academic

research is more likely to incrementally improve existing

literature, we also encourage innovative research that pro-

vides alternative or conf‌licting views of mainstream research

or develops new domains within broad disciplines of strat-

egy and international business. Regardless of the type of

manuscript, all submissions should be well-written, theoret-

ically sound, logically correct, and analytically rigorous, and

make a clear contribution to the literature. Failure to meet

this initial threshold will result in the manuscript being

returned to the authors.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of this area, I would

like to outline what makes a manuscript suitable for

consideration in strategy and international business. First,

strategy manuscripts should contain research questions

relevant to corporate strategy, structure, and performance.

Second, international business (IB) manuscripts should have

either multi-host country or multi-home country in their

context. Ideally, IB manuscripts should have multi-level

investigation across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. A

paper discussing strategy or international business in a func-

tional area without making a signif‌icant improvement to

strategic management and international business theories

will be reviewed by the appropriate functional area in CJAS

rather than the strategy and international business area. For

example, if a manuscript discusses the relationship between

stock option policy and top management team composition,

it would be considered in the f‌inance area. If a paper dis-

cusses marketing strategies of Chinese f‌irms in China, it will

be directed to the marketing area. Good examples include

Bell and Deng (2013) and Benito-Osorio, Colino, and

Zúñiga-Vicente (2015) for strategy manuscripts and

Edwards and Molz (2014) and Park and Choi (2014) for

IB manuscripts. In addition, we are looking for manuscripts

that analyze the intersection between market and non-market

strategies and that analyze under-represented geographic

contexts such as Africa and South America. However, the

manuscript must meet CJAS guidelines and standards before

it can enter the review process.

References

Bell, G.G., & Deng, S. (2013). Beyond clusters: How regional

geographic signature affects f‌irm value and risk. Canadian

Journal of Administrative Sciences,30(2), 71–85.

Benito-Osorio, D., Colino, A., & Zúñiga-Vicente, J.A. (2015).

The link between product diversif‌ication and performance

among Spanish manufacturing f‌irms: Analyzing the role of

f‌irm size. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences,32(1),

58–72.

Edwards, G., & Molz, R. (2014). MNE practice transfer as a pro-

cess of institutional change. Canadian Journal of Administra-

tive Sciences,31(2), 116–127.

Park, B.I., & Choi, J. (2014). Foreign direct investment motivations

and knowledge acquisition from MNEs in overseas subsidi-

aries. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences,31(2),

104–115.

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Revue canadienne des sciences de l’administration

32: 145 (2015)

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