• What does the changing context hold for MNCs that are increasingly locating their sourcing, manufacturing, selling, and conducting R&D and off-shoring services in these REEs?
  
• What has been the impact of this changing context on business strategies, operational processes, management tools and techniques, as they seek to out-compete others, successfully manage the dualities of being global in cost, quality and service and yet domestic and local in the customization and specificity of their offerings, and as they seek to govern and canalize the energies of the diverse set of people's cultural differences, regional variations and idiosyncrasies of geographical uniqueness?
  
• What are the natures and characteristics of emerging organizational forms as firms seek to develop meta-capabilities to change continuously, as they seek to compete through networks and alliances and as they integrate organizing and strategizing into a single duality?
  
• What are the new power relations that are developing between states, MNCs, and other actors in the emergent global order?
  
• In what ways should existing theories of organizations, culture, and social relations change as a result of the shifts from homogeneity to heterogeneity in organization design, from continuity to discontinuity in organizations' temporal experiences, from existing spatial articulations to their disarticulation by management at the speed of fibre-optics?

Domestic companies from REEs now have to live with continuous change as a result of globalization and their rapid exposure to international competition and markets that inject their operating environment with unprecedented and unexpected complexity and turbulence. Intertwined with political, macro-economic and social dynamics in their economies, these companies and their managers have been continuously under pressure to keep pace with rapid technological advances, global competition and new, and at times shifting, government policy initiatives. These organizations are still groping for what can be considered as an effective corporate response to globalization and liberalization in terms not only of strategic choices but also systemic adaptations as they seek to expand, diversify, integrate and globalize.

• What elements and activities do REE firms need to develop to be viable and competitive in the emerging new world order?
  
• What ideas, practices and processes can be learnt from experiences elsewhere, in place and time, in terms of differing understandings of these by various theoretical, intellectual and political perspectives?
  
• What futures of global relations are likely to be experienced? Who will be the winners and the losers?
  
• What are the implications of the changing relations of states, markets and firms for stakeholders in civil society?

The APROS colloquium will consider issues and challenges involved in the clash of commercial cultures from the developed west in their interaction with the operating context immanent in the REEs, and the domestic companies from the REEs in their quest to survive, compete and join the ranks of 'cutting edge organizations'.

The colloquium will bring together international scholars and practitioners to address the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional and legal factors and issues that shape governance structures, employment relations, and management practices in the contemporary functioning of organizations.

The colloquium will debate how evolving management practices, processes and change, in their convergence and divergence across industries, cultures and nations, are shaping the world, and our understanding of it, today.

Submissions

APROS 12 invites scholars and practitioners to submit empirical or theoretical papers, case studies and proposals for symposia. The work must be original and not have been presented or submitted for presentation at any other conference. Papers and Case Studies from work-in-progress research may also be submitted. Submissions can be made in any of the above mentioned tracks. All submissions will be double blind reviewed. Once the submission is accepted for presentation, the author must register for the conference in order to present. Only those papers that are submitted as complete, reach the organizer by the due date, and are registered to be presented, will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will include full papers and abstracts on CD. It is intended that a selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published either as a special issue of Organization or in an edited collection by a reputable publisher. Authors will be requested to provide non-exclusive copyrights of their paper to the conference organizers to ensure consideration for such a publication.