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BMM Asia 2012

Introduction

Business Market Management Asia 2012, Langkawi, Malaysia, 26-29 Nov 2012, Chairs Michael Kleinaltenkamp, Ian Wilkinson and Louise Young; Summary deadline "end of February"

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Journal of Business Market Management
Call for Papers
Business Market Management Asia 2012
Bon Ton Resort, Langkawi Malaysia
November 26-29, 2012

Theme: Business Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems and the implications for Theory, Research, Strategy and Policy

What are you doing in late November 2012? You might want to change your mind.

The BMM conference goes for the first time to Asia, hosted by Michael Kleinaltenkamp (Freie Universität Berlin), Ian Wilkinson (University of Sydney) and Louise Young (University of Western Sydney), and of course by the people, cats and dogs of Bon Ton and Temple Tree – but more on that below.

We have timed the conference to allow people to attend this conference as well as other related conferences scheduled around this time. These include the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference, to be held in the first week of December, and the IMP Asia Conference to be help in India after the ANZMAC conference as well as the Forum on Markets and Marketing to be held in Auckland also after the ANZMAC conference.

The conference is a boutique conference of like minded researchers limited to under 50 participants. This ensures few if any parallel sessions and more open and intense interaction of people and ideas.

The theme for the conference focuses on complexity science theory and research theory and methods. Business markets are characterized by complex adaptive networks of interdependent firms, organisations and relations that are continually being and becoming. They are dynamic, evolving, living systems that self-organise and emerge and evolve over time. Such a perspective challenges traditional notions of management and policy development as control and direction. Instead concepts of participation, self-organisation, learning and adaptation come to the fore. New types of theories and methods related to complexity science are revolutionizing the way we do science. It leads to a dynamic, process oriented and evolutionary perspective, to theories of mechanisms, event sequences, emergence and path dependence. Thus, it complements comparative static, variables based models in which time is absent and in which we seek to reproduce correlations and covariance among variables rather than explaining the systems behave, change and evolve over time.

Applications

There are only a limited number of spaces available. We seek papers and people that subscribe to these ideas and research papers that address the many issues arising from this complex systems perspective. We will be inviting papers from some leading researchers but a general call for papers is also being made. All papers will be subject to a double blind review process to determine acceptance.

Initial expressions of interest in participating and a brief summary of the proposed paper should be sent to any of the hosts by end of February 2012. The Venue: Bon Ton and Temple Tree Boutique Resorts

“It is early in the morning and the many dogs and cats that are around Bon Ton are greeting me as I steal out from our 120 year old Malaysian Nobelman’s wooden cottage, on stilts, to avoid waking Louise, who is slumbering with one of the cats tucked up beside her. I had a quick dip in the lap pool before writing this.” Ian Wilkinson at Bon Ton early 2011 Langkawi is a duty free island located off the northwest coast of Malaysia, not far from Phuket, Thailand. Bon Ton is located on the south west of the island, not far from the airport. Bon Ton and its sister resort next door, Temple Tree, have been rated among the top 100 boutique hotels in the world. It is an animal refuge as well as a resort. Pussy cats are everywhere and welcome you to their home. The dogs are on leashes but you can take them for a walk – or rather they take you!

Ancient Malaysian wooden cottages have been reassembled with all modern conveniences around a lake and lap pool, with an open area dining room and other meeting and lounging places. It is truly glorious. Temple Tree is made up of Malaysian Colonial style houses to stay in – big and beautiful rooms with another two pools. They are also close to Cenai beach, with many bars, shops, restaurants and other hotel complexes. But not over developed like in Phuket or Bali. Langkawi is a gem and duty free and cheap as chips. We are taking over all of Bon Ton for this conference. This is where the meetings will be held as well as the reception and dinner on the second night. For the last night we take a sunset cruise to a beachside restaurant run by an award winning chef.

There are only a limited number of places to stay at Bon Ton and Temple Tree. But there are plenty of other places for you and family and friends to stay at nearby – at all price points. Go look Langkawi up on the Internet.

It is a great place to think.

Please send your initial expressions of interest in participating and a brief summary of the proposed paper by end of February 2012 either to

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