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Foo, C.T. (2015), "Aerospace and knowledge: Harbin Model Conference", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 9 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-09-2015-0207
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Aerospace and knowledge: Harbin Model Conference
Article Type: Editorial From: Chinese Management Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4
Today is the third and last day of the 5th Global Chinese Management Studies Conference. Having sat through 30 viva voce presentations on research by academics from China, I can sense the intense heat to compete to publish (see note[1] or[2] for fast-video). Despite their handicap in English, I now find Chinese professors above 45 years as equally determined to get their research published. That is good for me as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of this journal. For a discipline like management, human experiences matter for deep insights about life come only with age.
As EIC, I want to select papers from authors with a deeper understanding about Chinese management. As aptly put by Dr Maynard Amerine, a wine researcher: "Drink wine, not labels". Equally, we should be reading the writings and judge the authors more on the basis of their persuasions, arguments and reasoning. We should simply go by the rankings of journals that they publish in. Most critically, one should not abandon one's own ability to judge for oneself the merit of a piece of research.
This issue marks the end of a highly successful series of thematic issues for the journal. Since the Third Conference (Figure 1), I have wanted to gather the best papers from Chinese professors for the journal on Space. For competition between China, probably a 6,000-year-old civilization, and superpower USA, the Outer Space is the outermost limit. To win, one has to go yonder: beyond what is existing knowledge. Thus, the title of our contribution (with Wei-wei WU and Yu BO): integrating knowledge and aerospace space.
Figure 1 Conference 2013 brochure
To source for high-quality papers based on this theme, Professor WU Wei Wei and Professor Yu Bo (himself, the Editor-in-Chief of China's top journal, Management Science) as Guest Editors and I decided to organize a Call for Papers for an International Conference on Knowledge and Aerospace Management, May 30th, 2015 (Plate 1). Harbin Institute of Technology sponsored the event (Conference premise, lunch and dinner). During the Conference, I shared my views of what should constitute an ideal CMS manuscript. The approach for CMS Conference is having heard the presentation, I present my views on how the paper may be further enhanced for publication.
Plate 1 International conference on knowledge and aerospace management
Almost every member of Chinese professoriate told us: "很 好 的 收 获" (hen hao shou hou) or equivalent in English: "what a good harvest" (Google translate). For this reason, the core editorial team members are looking to organizing a similar, Harbin-style Workshop or Conference (with presentations) inside and across China. The core idea is to afford Chinese professoriate an opportunity to learn about our journal: Chinese Management Studies, as well as to fully appreciate our Author's Guide. Face-to-face communication is invaluable for effective communication.
As for the past thematic issues, I am very glad that we have in this Knowledge and Aerospace Management issue the contribution of Professor J.C. Spender (Plate 2): a long-established scholar in the field of knowledge management. He pointed to me in an email the critical importance of authors explaining to Anglo-American readers the rationale for adopting Chinese approaches toward thinking critically about some of the issues.
Plate 2 Professor spender with Professor Check Teck Foo
Check Teck Foo
Editor-in-Chief, School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Peoples Republic of China
Notes
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrqxNedhJ4&feature=youtu.be