2022 Conference Track Descriptions and Track Chairs
For more information concerning a specific track, please contact the respective track chair.
Accounting, Finance and Economics
Chair: Olga Kandinskaia,Cyprus International Institute of Management, olga@ciim.ac.cy
Co-Chair: Michele M. McGowan, King’s College, MicheleMcGowan@kings.edu
The round-table discussions in our friendly and supportive track welcome cases in all areas of finance, accounting and economics dealing with decision dilemmas in companies or non-profit organizations in any country around the globe. Preference will be given to decision-focused cases based on primary sources (interviews and field visits). We will also consider decision-focused cases based on secondary sources, e.g. legal proceedings, SEC filings, conference calls, annual reports, etc. Although cases may be disguised, they must be based on real events and real people in real organizations. In finance, we typically have cases in corporate finance, for example, mergers and acquisitions, dividend and financial policy, initial public offerings, leasing, hybrid financing, real options, bankruptcy, working capital management, also corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. We also discuss investment cases, including corporate investment, efficient markets and excess returns, and international finance. Another area is banking and wealth management (personal finance) cases, involving bank mergers, personal wealth management, capital requirements and capital markets. Accounting cases include financial and managerial accounting, corporate and personal tax issues, ethics and fraud and social responsibility. Economics cases tend to focus more on macro issues in the domestic and international economies. Cases discussed concern large and small businesses, investment funds, including corporate investments, pension funds, mutual funds, etc., commercial and investment banks, personal finance issues and general economic issues.
Cases Written in Chinese Language
Chair: William X. Wei, MacEwan University, WeiX@Macewan.ca
Co-Chair: Jingqin Su, China Management Case Centre, Dalian University of Technology, jingqin@dlut.edu.cn
Co-Chair: Haibo Hu, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, hbhu@jxufe.edu.cn
The track invites all the cases written in Chinese that present contemporary management topics in China and international context. Issues from all areas are welcome: business innovation, e-commerce, investment, human resource, sustainable development, green economy, marketing, operation strategy, etc.
北美案例协会2022年会诚邀您投稿，主题为中国国有企业/中小型企业在新时代下的管理问题探讨，主题包括但不限于：商业模式创新，电子商务，投资，人力资源管理，可持续发展，绿色经济，市场营销，运营战略等。
Cases Written in French
Chair: Christine Kratz, ICN Business School, christine.kratz@icn-artem.com
This track gathers all the case studies written in French, dealing with contemporary topics that company managers and national/international organizations have to cope with. Issues from many subjects (marketing/communication, finance, human resources, entrepreneurship, strategy) lead to fruitful exchanges during the conference.
Ce track rassemble toutes les études de cas rédigées en français, qui traitent de problématiques actuelles auxquelles sont confrontés les managers d’entreprises ou plus largement d’organisations dans un cadre national ou international.
Les sujets issus de disciplines très diverses : marketing/communication, finance, ressources humaines, entrepreneuriat, stratégie, … contribuent ainsi à la richesse des échanges lors de la conférence.
Cases Written in Portuguese
Chair: Erica Berte, Metropolitan State University, erica.berte@metrostate.edu
Co-Chair: Tania Casado, University of Sao Paulo, tcasado@usp.br
This track welcomes submissions of cases written in Portuguese about different areas in management, including but not limited to: accounting, careers, digital technologies, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, human resources, innovation, international business, marketing, operations strategy, organizational behavior and sustainability. The objective of this track is to attract participants from Portuguese-speaking countries interested in addressing specific issues and problems related to their countries and cultures. The feedback to the submitted cases will be multidisciplinary, as participants will be from a variety of disciplines. A multidisciplinary approach is an important factor to analyze different aspects of decision-making process, which is the method used in the case analysis. The launching of a track for cases written in Portuguese by NACRA will bring more opportunities for academics from different countries who wish to publish and use Teaching Cases.
Este track convida à submissão de casos de ensino em língua portuguesa, abrangendo diversas áreas do conhecimento. Como áreas sugeridas, mas não exaustivas, podem ser citadas: gestão de pessoas e carreiras, comportamento organizacional, empreendedorismo, estratégia, ética, contabilidade, economia, finanças, inovação, gestão socioambiental, internacionalização de empresas, marketing, operações e transformação digital. O objetivo deste track é atrair participantes de países lusófonos, interessados em abordar temas e problemas contemporâneos específicos de seus países de origem. O feedback às submissões será multidisciplinar, uma vez que os participantes neste track serão advindos de diferentes disciplinas. A multidisciplinariedade é um fator importante para analisar diferentes aspectos em processos de tomada de decisão, que é a abordagem típica dos casos de ensino. Com o surgimento do track em língua portuguesa, o NACRA abre mais oportunidades para acadêmicos de diversos países que desejam publicar e utilizar Casos de Ensino.
Cases Written in Russian
Co-Chair: Madina Subalova, Satbayev University, m.subalova@gmail.com
Co-Chair: Aigerim Raimzhanova, Narxoz University, aigerim.raimzhanova@narxoz.kz
The Central Asian and post-Soviet countries represent transitional economies with wide-ranging historical, cultural, and political undercurrents. This implies the formation of unique business environment, which results in unconventional business cases that reflect strategic dilemmas, organizational models, and decision-making processes that could be faced by practitioners in emerging markets. Authors and researchers from all social science fields with a clear business case are invited to submit to this track. The exchange of knowledge and expertise from a diverse pool of regions, backgrounds, and economic structures will enable synergy, multidisciplinary cooperation and capacity building and will greatly enhance the NACRA conference.
Основной целью русского трека NACRA является продвижение case movement- а именно разработки и публикаций кейсов на русском языке. Страны Центральной Азии и постсоветского региона представляют собой уникальное бизнес-пространство, ассоциированное с разнообразными историческими, политическими и культурными аспектами. Это способствует формированию специфических подходов игроками рынка при стратегическом анализе, принятии решений и создании новых организационных моделей. Мы приглашаем авторов и исследователей со всех сфер социальных наук подать заявку на данный трек. Обмен знаниями и опытом учёных из разных регионов и экономических строев подразумевает мультидисциплинарное сотрудничество, синергию и развитие навыков. Мы верим, что данный трек привнесёт значимый вклад в конференцию NACRA-2021.
Cases Written in Spanish
Chair: Josep Lluís Cano Giner, ESADE joseplluis.cano@esade.edu
Co-Chair: Josep Mª Sayeras, ESADE josepm.sayeras@esade.edu
The main characteristic of the Spanish track is its multidisciplinary nature. In contrast to the majority of other tracks which are focused on a business area or functional division, the Spanish track receives cases from all the areas (marketing, business strategy, human resources, economy, finance, information technology,…). The feedback is also multidisciplinary, because the professors in this track come from each of the aforementioned disciplines. The result is that this track fosters an excellent environment as it provides experience of an enormous variety of academic and professional backgrounds that help authors to approach proposed cases with a wider vision than the area itself.
El track de casos en español tiene como particularidad principal su enfoque multidisciplinar. A diferencia de la mayoría de los otros tracks, que están centrados en las divisiones empresariales o en las funciones gerenciales, el track de casos en español recibe casos de todas las áreas (marketing, estrategia, recursos humanos, economía, finanzas, sistemas de información….). La retroalimentación es, a su vez, multidisciplinar dado que los profesores que componen el track proceden de cualquier de las disciplinas citadas. Ello convierte a este track es un excelente banco de pruebas porque permite reproducir la enorme variedad de experiencias académicas y profesionales que pueden encontrarse en el aula y así ayudar a completar los casos propuestos con una visión más allá de la propia área.
Corporate Governance and Ethics
Chair: Vijaya Narapareddy, University of Denver, vnarapar@du.edu
Recent corporate scandals and ethical lapses have prompted a renewed interest in the subject of corporate governance and ethics. We welcome you to submit your decision-oriented case that deal with the following and other corporate governance and ethics topics.
- Content, process, structure embedded in corporate governance and ethics decisions and issues;
- Corporate and/ or individual behavior in leadership or managers of organizations;
- Balancing the interests of various stakeholder groups, including shareholders, partners, suppliers, employees, community, local governments, customers.
- Issues pertaining to large for-profit organizations, small to medium family businesses, non-profit organizations, NGOs and social enterprises;
- Cross-cultural dimensions of corporate governance, leadership and ethics;
- Ethical lapses that pertain to corporate governance.
Digital Technologies and Operations
Chair: Clinton Daniel, University of South Florida, cedanie2@usf.edu
This track invites cases in all areas of these two fields:
- Digital Technologies focuses on transformation technologies (e.g.: artificial intelligence, mobility, cloud, IOT, blockchain, big data) and its impact on today’s organization. We encourage interdisciplinary research related to how digital technologies can improve operational performance in an organization as well.
- Operations focuses on management of goods and services in an organization. Decision topics include, but are not limited to capacity planning, data analytics, demand forecasting, facility layout, lean systems, logistics, process design, process improvement, project management, quality, supply chain management, purchasing, innovation and scheduling.
Entrepreneurship, Family and Small Business
Chair: Erin Pleggenkuhle-Miles, University of Nebraska Omaha, erinpmiles@unomaha.edu
This track is composed of two research streams. The first research stream is family business. In the family business stream, we welcome cases focusing on the heterogeneity of family businesses, including differences arising from intergenerational intentions, family ownership / management involvement, and family ownership dispersion. Cases involving the professionalization of family businesses, exit strategies, the internationalization of family firms, and copreneurship issues are also welcome. Family business cases that focus on areas such as knowledge transfer, stakeholder management, environmental and sustainability practices, corporate social performance, financial performance, strategic choices, and innovation are also appropriate for this track.
The second research stream centers around entrepreneurship and small business management. In this second stream, we welcome cases that exemplify the role of prior knowledge and social ties in entrepreneurial awareness, entrepreneurial intentions, opportunity recognition, and new venture performance. Cases focused on entrepreneurial failure are particularly welcome. We also encourage submissions of cases analyzing entrepreneurship and small business management by members of minority groups including as military service veterans, women, ethnic minority, and immigrant entrepreneurs. Cases based on the Lean LaunchPad or cases with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and small business management education and teaching strategies are ideally suited for this research stream
Marketing and International Business
Chair: Silvia Cacho Elizondo, IPADE University, s.cacho@ipade.mx
Co-Chair: Grishma Shah, Manhattan College, grishma.shah@manhattan.edu
The Marketing and International Business track is focused on understanding, acquiring, retaining, and growing customers within domestic and international markets. We welcome cases set in B2B and B2C contexts, exploring the wide range of possible Marketing or International Business learning outcomes. Typical topics include the marketing environment, value creation process, consumer & buyer behavior, product, branding, pricing, channel, and communication strategies & metrics, as well as international market entry, and international product and market portfolio management, among others. Given the rapidly changing technology, media, and consumer contexts, we look forward to receiving quality cases exploring emerging digital and social media marketing topics.
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Chair: Mike Annett, MacEwan University, mike.annett@macewan.ca
Co-Chair: Chuck Kalnbach, University of Oregon, kalnbach@uoregon.edu
Co-Chair: Bruce Thomson, MacEwan University, thomsons2@macewan.ca
There are two research streams for this track. First, cases in this track center themselves in the scholarship of organizational behavior. This includes attitudes and perception, emotions and moods, decision-making, personality, motivation, leadership, conflict management, organizational culture, organizational change, group and team dynamics, communication, negotiations, organizational power and politics, diversity, job satisfaction, and stress management. Second, cases under the umbrella of human resources include topical materials on human resources laws / regulation, human resource planning, recruitment, selection, performance management, compensation, safety and health, employee and union relations, discipline, training, and development. Cases can incorporate legal and ethical dilemmas as these pertain to the fields of organizational behavior or human resources.
Pedagogy: Pushing the Case Method Frontier: Experiences, Experiments, Critiques and Ideas
Chair: A. K. Dey, Birla Institute of Management Technology, ak.dey@bimtech.ac.in
Chair: Anjan Gosh, Narxoz University, anjan.ghosh@narxoz.kz
Co-Chair: Shreya Mishra, Birla Institute of Management Technology, shreya.mishra_july14@bimtech.ac.in
Last year was the maiden year for this pedagogy track. The track attracted good quality conceptual papers and authors were happy to receive in-depth and academically rich feedback. Being the opening session of the conference, the track attracted many attendees. With lot of hopes we are continuing with this track.
As the case method has evolved during the last few decades into short cases, video cases, graphic cases, live cases, and raw cases, apart from the traditional cases, so has the challenges for case authors, teachers, and researchers. These challenges may include struggles in understanding the socio-economic-political-cultural- geographical context of a case, good cases not reaching an audience due to language and contextual issues, cases with interdisciplinary potentials remain mapped to specific topics, learning outcomes, or fields. Further, cases not being accepted in high-quality journals or case journals being categorized in lower strata in Rankings and Indexing, reduce the chances of citations for case authors. Given the unending challenges, this track wishes to bring the stakeholders together to engage in research and constructive debate in identifying the crucial challenges and then leverage our collective experiences, experiential learnings, and even experiments to find answers to the opportunities and challenges. In this track, we invite articles that are grounded primarily on Reflexive Research, Problem-Solving Instrumentalist Research, Critical Theory, and Participatory Research.
Social Impact and Sustainability
Chair: Maria A Ballesteros-Sola, California State University Channel Islands, Maria.Ballesteros-Sola@csuci.edu
Participants in this track offer and receive developmental feedback on teaching cases that relate to socially and environmentally responsible organizations, including but not limited to, social entrepreneurship, social impact, social business, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), non-profit organizations, impact investment/ESG, micro-finance/micro-credits, social crowdfunding, social innovation, certified B-Corporations, new legal structures such as benefit corporations among others. The cases can be related to any functional area (Marketing, Finance, Accounting, HR, Operations, etc.) and to any vertical industry. We also encourage submissions from different geographical perspectives as NACRA keeps growing its international presence.
Strategy and Policy
Chair: Karin Schnarr, Wilfrid Laurier University, kschnarr@wlu.ca
Co-Chair: Brent Beal, The University of Texas at Tyler, bbeal@uttyler.edu
The Strategy and Policy track is focused on understanding how organizations compete and win in today’s global environment. Cases explore how firms can develop, implement and evaluate strategies that allow them to achieve superior firm performance and sustain it over the long run. Typical topics include identifying industry environments, recognizing geo-political shifts that impact the strategic direction of organizations, the identification of resources, capabilities and organization structure, the role of the general manager, identification and evaluation of strategic choices, strategy implementation, assessment of organizational performance, managing growth, dealing with competitive threats, managing corporate strategies and structures, and dealing with rapidly evolving situations and environments. The strategy and policy tracks welcomes cases exploring both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations as well as cases set in all geographies.