Funding for new Open Access journal 'Asia Matters'

1 februari 2012

The NWO Incentive Fund Open Access has awarded funding for the establishment of a new Open Access journal, Asia Matters. Business, Culture and Theory. The funding covers the financial support of the new journal for the first 3 years.

Asia Matters aims to be the foremost forum for academic exchange and debate on Asian business both in Asia and in other parts of the world where Asian businesses emerge as powerful players in national economies. Asian business is becoming more relevant and compelling to address in research and teaching as entrepreneurship, entrepreneurialism, and the business perspective at large is taking over the conventional development approach to emerging societies and economies. Asia is regarded as the cradle of this development and features both as a model of and a model for such developments worldwide.

Acknowledging the urgency of the business perspective also entails the acceptance of priority to be given to a socially embedded approach and to multidisciplinarity to be practiced in this field. The new journal addresses a global audience of scholars and (under-)graduate students located at universities, research centres, business schools, Asian studies departments, in MBAs, and academically inclined professionals and practitioners. The journal aims to provide a professional and academic platform for cutting edge and innovative research bringing together analyses of business-related developments based on an interpretive paradigm. The journal accepts contributions based on various methodologies such as ethnographic research, discourse analysis, and well-balanced mixed methods papers.

Asia Matters will be edited by Heidi Dahles (VU University Amsterdam), Juliette Koning (Oxford Brookes University) & Ooi Can Seng (Copenhagen Business School). The journal will be published three times a year by VU Amsterdam Library, starting spring 2013.