My email to the listserv and Robert Tian was rejected because of the  
attachment - here is the rejected email minus the attachment - any  
one interested in the article please email me off line and I will  
send it to you - Bob

Dear Robert - find attached an article that might be of interest -  
this is also my first post to PHD-Design to whom I send my greetings.
The sLab (Strategic Innovation Lab at the Ontario College of Art and  
Design) where I am the Chief Scientist makes use of design thinking  
and strategic foresight to imagine the products and serices of the  
future by monitoring and analyzing emerging technologies and changing  
patterns of human behaviour. I am also a physics prof who  
collaborated and published with Marshall McLuhan. And here Robert is  
a business anthropology article dealing with the Open Source Economy.  
- best wishes to all - Bob Logan
______________________

Robert K. Logan
Chief Scientist - sLab at OCAD
Prof. Emeritus - Physics - U. of Toronto
www.physics.utoronto.ca/Members/logan

On 24-Aug-10, at 4:01 PM, Robert Tian wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I sincerely invite you to write an article for International  
> Journal of Business Anthropology to review for publishing.  See  
> below for your information.
>
> International Journal of Business Anthropology
>
> ISSN 2155-6237
>
> The International Journal of Business Anthropology is a newly  
> created peer-reviewed referral journal in the field of business  
> anthropology published by the North American Business Press (NABP)  
> biannually. NABP is a professional press that publishes seven  
> academic journals, including:  Journal of Applied Business and  
> Economics,  Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability,  
> Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, Journal of  
> Management Policy and Practice, Journal of Marketing Development  
> and Competitiveness, International Journal of Business  
> Anthropology, International Journal of China Marketing.
>
> Currently, the acceptance rate of NABP journals is less than twenty  
> percent, with the Journal of Applied Business and Economics at nine  
> percent.  The journals are indexed by UMI-Proquest-ABI Inform,  
> EBSCOhost, GoogleScholar, and listed with Cabell's Directory,  
> Ulrich's Listing of Periodicals, Bowkers Publishing Resources, the  
> Library of Congress, the National Library of Canada, and  
> Australia's Department of Education Science and Training.  
> Furthermore, the journals published by NABP have been affirmed as  
> scholarly research outlets by the following business school  
> accrediting bodies: AACSB, ACBSP, IACBE & EQUIS. For more  
> information about the North America Business Press please visit  
> their homepage at: http://www.na-businesspress.com/
>
> The International Journal of Business Anthropology is composed of a  
> group of scholars who believe that given the rapidly growing field  
> of business anthropology it is necessary to have such a journal as  
> a platform to share ideas and knowledge.   We define business  
> anthropology as an academic and scholastic field in which  
> anthropologists and scholars from other disciplines apply  
> anthropological theories, methods, and skills to identify, study,  
> and provide the solutions to solve all kinds of business related  
> problems across a range of businesses and industries, domestically  
> and internationally.  Moreover, the field of business anthropology  
> also includes academic and scholastic works by a diverse group of  
> anthropologists who use business concepts and principles to  
> understand many different kinds of communities and social  
> organizations under their study.
>
> Accordingly, we define business anthropologists as those  
> anthropologists who study the business fields of management,  
> operations, marketing, advertising, consumer behavior,  
> organizational culture, human resources management, international  
> business, competitive intelligence, knowledge management, and so  
> on, as well as those anthropologists who study various social  
> organizations and communities by applying business principles and  
> concepts.   Their study is done through anthropological methods,  
> particularly through ethnographic methods, such as participant  
> observation, informal and structured interviews, and other typical  
> anthropological research methods. Business anthropologists should  
> and are able to play key roles in the business world, by helping  
> business organizations develop culturally appropriate ways of doing  
> business with suppliers, business partners, clients and customers.  
> Promoting smooth working relationships among employees who are
>  increasingly likely, thanks to recent equal opportunity employment  
> legislation, to represent different age groups, ethnic groups, and  
> gender equality. Business anthropologists should also be able to  
> help all kinds of organizations and communities become more  
> efficient in their everyday operations by implementing business  
> principles and concepts.
>
> Our journal is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of  
> business and anthropology knowledge by publishing, through a blind,  
> refereed process, ongoing results of research in accordance with  
> international scientific or scholarly standards. Articles are  
> written by corporate and industrial anthropologists, business  
> leaders, policy analysts, and active researchers for an audience of  
> specialists, practitioners and students.  Articles of regional  
> interest are welcome, especially those dealing with lessons that  
> may be applied to other regions around the world.  This would  
> include, but not limited to, areas of general business anthropology  
> theories and methods, anthropological approach to marketing and  
> consumer behavior, anthropology of business, anthropology of  
> management, anthropological applications to product design,  
> competitive intelligence, human resources management, cultural  
> auditing and management, organizational theory and behavior,
>  operations management, cross-cultural communications in the  
> business world, or any of these disciplines in an international  
> context,  anthropological and ethnographic studies of traditional  
> or modern business communities, leaders and strategies.
>
> Objectives:
> - to explore the use of anthropological theories and methods in  
> business practice
> - to expand the use of business principles and concepts in  
> anthropological study projects
> - to generate an exchange of ideas between scholars, practitioners  
> and industry specialists in the field of applied anthropology
> - to enhance the development and growth of business anthropology
> - to promote the development of business anthropology education
> - to acknowledge and disseminate forms of achievement in regional  
> business and economic development thinking from an anthropological  
> perspective
> - to encourage a bridge between practice inside and outside the  
> academic world
> - to provide a vehicle of communication and source of career  
> information for anthropologists working outside academia seeking  
> careers in business settings
> - to provide an additional outlet for scholars and experts to  
> contribute their ongoing work in the area of applied cross- 
> functional business and economic topics
> - to serve as a forum for inquiry into the present state and future  
> of anthropology in general
> - to discuss and debate the public face of anthropology and the  
> directions it takes in business applications
>
> Editors
>
> Dr. Robert G. Tian
> Dr. Daming Zhou
> Dr. Alfons van Marrewijik
>
> Members of Editorial Board (to be extended)
>
>
> Dr. Gordon Bronitsky, Bronitsky and Associates
> Dr. Catriona Macaulay, University of Dundee UK
> Dr. Julia C. Gluesing, Wayne State University
> Dr. Kewal Krishan, Panjab University
> Dr. Michael Lillis, Medaille College
> Mr. Toby Nord, Senior Lecturer, University of Minnesota
> Dr. Shuting Pan, Fudan University
> Dr. Devinder Pal Singh, Panjab University
> Dr. Jean N. Scandlyn, University of Colorado Denver
> Dr. Josephine Smart, University of Calgary
> Dr. Tulasi Srinivas, Emerson College
> Dr. Dixon Wong, Hong Kong University
> Dr. Alf Walle, Galen University
>
> Members of Advisory Board (to be extended)
>
>
> Dr. Elizabeth Briody, Cultural Keys LLC
> Dr. Jayne Howell, California State University Long Beach
> Dr. Robbie Blinkoff, Context-Based Research Group
> Dr. Timothy de Waal Malefyt, BBDO Worldwide Advertising
> Dr. Robert J. Morais, Weinman Schnee Morais, Inc.
> Dr. Pamela Puntenney, Environmental & Human Systems Management
> Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall, University of Illinois at Chicago
> Dr. Shengmin Yang, Central University of Nationalities
>
> Please send your manuscripts, news notes and correspondence to Dr.  
> Robert Guang Tian, Co-Editor, IJBA, via e-mail at ijba@na- 
> businesspress.com, or [log in to unmask]
> Volume 1(1)
> International Journal of
> Business Anthropology
> Table of Content (Tentative)
>
> Unique Methods and Unique Contribution:  The Importance of Business  
> Anthropology
> Ann T. Jordan
>
> European Developments in Business Anthropology
> Alfons van Marrewijik
>
> How Anthropologists Can Succeed in Business:  Mediating Multiple  
> Worlds of Inquiry
> Robert J. Morais and Timothy de Waal Malefyt
>
> Transactions en la Tienda: Alternatives to Traditional Financial  
> Service Providers among Hispanic Immigrants in Virginia
> Daisy Stevens Rojas
>
> Indigenous People and Human Resource Management
> Alf Walle
>
> Group Differences among Nongmingong: An Ethnographic Field Work  
> Report  on Dacheng Stationary Factory
> Daming Zhou and Jin Huang
>
> Creating Spaces Where Things Happen: The Life Story of a Business  
> Anthropologist
> Gordon Bronitsky
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Robert Guang Tian
> Doctoral Faculty Mentor
> Core Professor of Business Administration
> TUI University
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> Personal Telephone Voice/FAX #: (443)495-0013
>