Managing organizational change in emerging markets

Abstract

The twenty-first century is known as centuries of emerging markets (EMs) countries which are geographically and culturally spread over across the globe. The challenges and opportunities in the business environment of the EMs are exciting ones as they comprise of organizations which are truly multinational and global in character as well as many local organizations with dreams to go global. The EMs provide them with a set of unique and threatening business challenges to fix but many-a-times they miserably fail to provide relevant solutions while leveraging management architectures as designed and tested by them, especially in the developed world markets. Such a scenario puts pressure on to the organizational abilities to effectively manage emerging challenges faced in both internal and external environments of the firms in operations in the EMs. Hence, it becomes pertinent for the researchers, the practitioners and the management thinkers to share their research-based papers which if leveraged will help these organizations to get into continuously renewal mode and become smart enterprise in a boundary less world. It is in this context that a special issue (SI) on “Managing organizational change in emerging markets” in Journal of Organizational Change Management was conceptualized.