COMPETITIVE PAPERS:- EIBA 1999
Preliminary Programme
Session Title, Chair, Presentation Time and Location
Monday 13th 8.45-10.00 | Keynote Address | Whitworth Room |
Chair: Alan Rugman, Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK
What do we know about International Joint
Ventures?
Peter Buckley, Leeds University Business School, UK.
CP A: Capital Markets and MNEs
Monday 13th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Christopher Kobrak, Groupe ESCP, France
Directors' Suite
European Financial
Market Integration: The Case of Private Sector Bonds and Syndicate Loans.
Christian Harm, University of Munster, Germany.
The Effect of Multinationality
on the Performance of Initial Public Offerings.
Ram Mudambi, Case Western Reserve University and University of Reading,
Arif
Khurshed, ISMA Centre, University of Reading, UK and Marc Goergen,
Manchester School of
Management, UMIST, UK.
Cash Management
Relationships: Market-based and Credit-based Financial Systems.
Poul Houman Andersen, Niels Peter Mols, and Per Nikolaj D. Bukh, Aarhus
School of
Business, Aarhus University, Denmark.
In Search of Corporate
Finance and Governance: Should the Transition Economies Emulate Japans
Acclaimed "Main Bank" System?
Terutomo Ozawa, Colorado State University, USA.
CP B: Political Economic Environment and
International Business
Monday 13th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Orjan Solvell, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Whitworth Room
Global Firms, the
Government Affairs Function and the WTO.
Stephen Young, University of Strathclyde, UK and Thomas L. Brewer,
Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark.
Stumbling
Blocks on the Silk Road: the Dynamics of International Trade and Production
Relations in the Chinese Silk Industry.
Jim Newton, University of Hong Kong and Roger Strange, Kings College,
London, UK.
The
Behaviour of International Firms in Socio-Political Environments in the European
Union.
Amjad Hadjikani, Uppsala University, Sweden and Pervez Ghauri, University
of Groningen,
The Netherlands.
CP C: Cross-Cultural Management
Monday 13th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Bradford, UK
Blenheim Room
Culture
Makes a Difference A Comparison of Cultural Standards in Austrian and
German Management.
Frank Brueck, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,
Austria.
Conflict
in International Management: Some Considerations on a Conceptual Framework for
Conflict Resolution.
Brij Nino Kumar and Ina Graf, University Erlangen- Nuernberg, Germany.
Management
Training across Cultures: the German versus the British Perspective.
Astrid Kainzbauer, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Administration, Austria.
Managing
Japanese Manufacturing in Thailand: An Ethnographic Search for "Efficient
Standardised Products across Cultures."
Mitchell Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
CP D: Investment in Transition
Economies and
Corporate Performance
Monday 13th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Robert Pearce, University of Reading, UK
Kensington Room
Foreign
Direct Investment in Poland and the Quality Catch-Up of Polish Foreign Trade.
Jorgen Ulff-Moller Nielsen, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.
The
Evolution of Market Strategies and Company Performance in Eastern Europe: Empirical
Evidence from Finnish and Austrian Companies.
Jarmo Nieminen, Jorma Larimo, University of Vaasa, Finland, and Reiner
Springer, Vienna
School of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
Direct
versus Indirect FDI: Impact on Home Country Exports and Employment. Empirical
Evidence for Austrian FDI in CEECs.
Wilfried Altzinger, and Christian Bellak, University of Economics and Business
Administration, Vienna, Austria.
Specifics
of Corporate Ownership and Governance in Russia during the Post-Privatization
Period.
Victoria Krivogorsky, University of Richmond, USA, Mstislav Afanasiev,
Government of the
Russian Federation, Russia, Pavel Kuznetsov, Center of Economic Reforms,
Russia, and
Alexander Fominykh, Moscow State University, Russia.
CP E: Regional Subsystems
Monday 13th 13.30-15.00
Chair: Steven Young, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Whitworth Room
The
Significance of European Small Country Regions in the Geographical Division
of Labour of European Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Corporations.
John Cantwell, University of Reading, UK and Grazia D. Santangelo,
Universita degli studi
di Catania, Italy.
International
Relocalisation: Methodological Issues and Empirical Estimate s: An Analysis
for the "Made in Italy" Sector.
Roberto Schiattarella, University of Camerino, Italy.
European
Integration, Regional Subsystems and MNE Responsiveness: The Case of Germany.
Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg, Adam Cross, and Heinz Tuselmann, Leeds
University Business
School, University of Leeds, UK.
CP F: Compensation and Staffing
Practices in
International HRM
Monday 13th 13.30-15.00
Chair: Krzysztof Obloj, University of Warsaw, Poland
Directors' Suite
Whos
in Charge? An Empirical Study of Executive Staffing Practices in Foreign Subsidiaries.
Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Bradford, UK.
The
Challenge of Expatriate Compensation: The Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
among Expatriates.
Vesa Suutari and Christelle Tornikoski, University of Vaasa, Finland.
Comparative
Human Resource Management in Britain and India: An Empirical Study.
Pawan S. Budhwar, Cardiff Business School, Wales.
CP G: Export Development and Export
Marketing
Monday 13th 13.30-15.00
Chair: Bernard Wolf, York University, Canada
Kensington Room
Initial
Export Stimulation: Any Difference between Developed and Developing Country
Factors?
Kevin I.N. Ibeh, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Export
Channel Dynamics: An Empirical Analysis of Changes in the Organization of Foreign
Distribution.
Gabriel R.G. Benito, Norwegian School of Management, Torben Pedersen and
Bent Petersen,
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Local
External Influence on SME Export Marketing Activity in Marshallian Districts:
An Investigation of the Danish Furniture Industry.
Poul Houman Andersen, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.
CP H: Export Performance: Country
Studies
Monday 13th 15.30-17.00
Chair: Eugene Jaffe, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Bar-Ilan
University,
Jerusalem
Directors' Suite
Characteristics
Associated with High Export Performance in the Scottish Economy.
Colin N. Wheeler, University of Strathclyde, Scotland and James H. Taggart,
University of
Glasgow, Scotland.
The
Performance Consequences of Export Market-Oriented Behaviours: Evidence on Moderator
Variables using Cross-National Data.
John W. Cadogan, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK, Sanna Sundqvist,
Risto T.
Salminen, and Kaisu Puumalainen, Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Finland.
Management
Orientation and Export Performance. The case of Norwegian IT Companies.
Carl Arthur Solberg, and Ulf H. Olsson, Norwegian School of Management,
Norway.
CP I: Evolutionary Dynamics in
International Business
II
Monday 13th 15.30-17.00
Chair: Peter Buckley, University of Leeds, UK
Whitworth Room
Historical
Evolution of Technological Diversification.
John Cantwell, University of Reading, UK and Giovanna Vertova, University
of Bergamo,
Italy.
Dynamics
of Success of SMOPEC Firms in Global Markets.
V.H. Kirpalani, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Helsinki School
of Economics
and Business Administration, Finland and Reijo Luostarinen, Helsinki School
of Economics
and Business Administration, Finland.
Survival
of Foreign Subsidiaries and Domestically Owned Companies in Denmark 1895-1995.
Steen Thomsen, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
CP J: Strategies for Knowledge
Acquisition
Monday 13th 15.30-17.00
Chair: Mats Forsgren, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Kensington Room
Organisational
Learning and Inter-Firm Collaboration: The Case of Licensing.
Victor Corado Simoes, CEDE, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Multinationals,
Technology and Transition: Knowledge Strategies and Industrial Transformation
in Central and Eastern European (CEE) Economies.
Julia Manea and Robert Pearce , University of Reading, UK
Determinants
of in-house R & D and Technology Transfers of MNE Subsidiaries: the Case
of the Food Industry in Greece.
G. Anastassopoulos, University of Aegean, Greece and Marina Papanastassiou,
Athens
University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece.
CP K: International Business and Marketing
Implications of E-Commerce and the Information Superhighway
Tuesday 14th 0845-10.15
Chair: Pervez Ghauri, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Blenheim Room
Research
on Global Marketing & Information Technology: The State-of-the-Art.
Christopher Lettl, Department of International Marketing and Management of
the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. and Bodo B.
Schlegelmilch,
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
From
Technical Revolution to Market Revolution? The Case of the Insurance Industry
on the Information Highways.
Bertrand Venard, ESSCA, France.
Shopping
Bots: Intelligent Shopper or Virtual Department Store?
Jennifer Rowley, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, UK.
CP L: International Alliances
Tuesday 14th 0845-10.15
Chair: Juan Duran, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Directors' Suite
Coalition
Dynamics in Service Industries the Case of Airline Industry Alliances.
Birgit Kleymann and Hannu Seristo, Helsinki School of Economics and Business
Administration, Finland.
Compensation
Contingency and Organizational Modality in the Acquisition of Technology via
International Alliance Agreements: Negotiation Power as a Moderating Variable.
Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers University, USA, and Wonchan Ra, Korea
Institute for
Industrial Economics and Trade, Korea.
A
Sensemaking Perspective on International Alliances.
Hannu Seristo and Eero Vaara, Helsinki School of Economics and Business
Administration,
Finland.
CP M: Supplier Relationships in
International
Business
Tuesday 14th 0845-10.15
Chair: Reijo Luostarinen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Kensington Room
Integration
of Internationalisation Factors in a Retailers/Producers Relationship inside
a Marketing Channel.
Fatna Harrar, University of Nice, France
Contexts
of Firm Internationalisation: The Importance of Business and Ownership Integration.
Jesper Strandskov, and Poul Houman Andersen, Aarhus School of Business,
Denmark.
Distance
is not Dead: Why there is an L Factor in Virtual Organisations.
Michael J. Mol, and Otto R. Koppius, Rotterdam School of Management,
Netherlands.
CP N: Strategies for Technology and
Knowledge
Acquisition
Tuesday 14th 0845-10.15
Chair: Victor Simoes, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Whitworth Room
Technology
Foresight in Industrial Firms: Learning from Experiences for Public Services
Companies.
Guido Reger, University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany, Hans
Dietmar Buergel
and Rene Ackel-Zakour, University of Stuttgart, Germany
From
the Early Internationalisation of Corporate Technology to Global Technology
Sourcing.
John Cantwell, University of Reading, UK.
Connecting
Knowledge Systems: Exploring the Role of Global Business Services.
Jeremy Howells, Manchester Federal School of Business and Management,
Manchester, UK and
Joanne Roberts, School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences,
University of
Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
CP O: Asset Price Behaviour and
Financial Risk
Management
Tuesday 14th 10.30-12.30
Chair: James Dean, Western Washington University, USA and Simon Fraser
University, Canada
Blenheim Room
The
Euro and International Diversification Benefits.
Kpate Adjaoute, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Jean-Pierre
Danthine, University
of Lausanne, Switzerland.
The
Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Corporate Performance the external
reporting perspective.
Lars Oxelheim, Lund University, Sweden.
Exchange
Rate Exposure Management: An Empirical Study into the Strategies of Industrial
Companies.
Tom Aabo, Aarhus School of Business,
Denmark.
An
Empirical Study of Chaotic Dynamical Behaviour: A Case of Thailands Stock
Market.
Jyoti Gupta, Alain Chevalier, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris,
France and Suchai
Sutapak, Asian Institute of Technology, Bankok, Thailand.
CP P: MNE Control and Subsidiary
Competence
Development I
Tuesday 14th 10.30-12.30
Chair: James Taggart, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Kensington Room
Development,
Recognition and Integration of Competence of Subsidiaries in the Multinational
Corporation.
Maria Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden, Patrick Furu, Swedish School
of Economics and
Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland and Christine Holmstrom, Uppsala
University,
Sweden.
Co-ordination
and Control in Multinational Enterprises. New Empirical Evidence.
Jose Pla-Barber, University of Valencia, Spain
The
Subsidiary Role for MNC Competence Development Information Bridgehead
or Competence Distributor.
Mats Forsgren, Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of
Economics, Sweden,
Ulf Holm, Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of
Economics, Sweden and
Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Torben Pedersen and Deo
Sharma,
Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark.
CP Q: Theoretical Aspects of
Internationalisation and
Global Strategy
Tuesday 14th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Terutomo Ozawa, Colorado State University, USA
Whitworth Room
Internationalization
Revisited: the Big Step Hypotheses.
Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and J. Myles Shaver,
Stern School of
Business, New York University, USA.
Multinational
Enterprises and the End of Global Strategy.
Alan. M. Rugman, Templeton College, Oxford University, UK.
Modelling
the Impact of Economic Integration on Multinationals Strategies.
Ana Teresa Tavares, University of Reading, UK.
An
Evolutionary Perspective on the Globalization of Enterprises in the Global Network
Competition.
Martin K. Welge, and Thomas Borghoff, University of Dortmund, Germany.
CP R: The Home and Host Country Impact
of FDI
Tuesday 14th 10.30-12.30
Chair: Jorma Larimo, University of Vaasa, Finland
Directors' Suite
Outward
FDI in Manufacturing from Portugal: Internationalisation Strategies from a New
Foreign Investor.
Peter J. Buckley, Leeds University Business School, UK and Francisco B.
Castro, Leeds
University Business School, UK and Faculdade de Economia do Porto,
University of Porto,
Portugal.
European
FDI in the U.S.: Economic Impact, Geographic Dispersion, and Performance.
Rolf Mirus, and Barry Scholnick, University of Alberta, Canada.
Outward
Foreign Direct Investment and Country Specific Characteristics.
Dimitrios Kyrkilis, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Pantelis
Pantelidis, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
A
Normative Framework for Analysing the Country of Origin Effect.
Rajendra Mulye, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
CP S: Joint Ventures
Tuesday 14th 14.30-15.30
Chair: Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers University, USA
Whitworth Room
Performance
and Problems of International Joint-Ventures in Malaysia.
Mohamed Sulaiman, University of Ohio, USA.
Autonomy
in UK International Joint Ventures.
Keith W. Glaister, Rumy Husan, and Peter J. Buckley, Leeds University
Business School,
Leeds, UK.
CP T: Internationalisation Strategies of SMEs.
Tuesday 14th 14.30-15.30
Chair: Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Kensington Room
International
Growth and Development of Small Firms: Patterns of Start-up and Internationalisation.
Marian V. Jones, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of
Strathclyde,
Scotland and Stephen K. Tagg, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Knowledge
Creation and Transfer: The Emergemce of Israel as a High-Tech Powerhouse.
Israel D. Nebenzahl, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
CP U: MNE Control and Subsidiary
Competence
Development II.
Tuesday 14th 14.30-15.30
Chair: Mo Yamin, UMIST, UK
Directors' Suite
Subsidiary
Embeddedness, Expected Performance and MNC Competence Development.
Ulf Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden, Mats Forsgren, Stockholm School
of Economics,
Sweden and Ulf Holm, Uppsala University and Stockholm School of Economics,
Sweden.
Subsidiary
Specific Advantages in Multinational Enterprises.
Alan Rugman, Templeton College, Oxford University, UK and Alain
Verbeke, Solvay
Business School, University of Brussels, Belgium.
CP V: The Internationalisation Strategies
of MNEs
Tuesday 14th 15.45-17.15
Chair: Rolf Mirus, University of Alberta, Canada
Whitworth Room
Funding
Sources and the Strategic Roles of Decentralised R & D in Multinationals.
Robert Pearce, University of Reading, UK and Marina Papanastassiou, Athens
University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece.
The
Internationalisation of Italian Banks in the 90s.
Marco Mutinelli, Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy and Lucia Piscitello,
Politecnico di Milamo, Italy.
Patterns
of Technological Internationalisation and Corporate Technological Diversification.
John Cantwell and Elena Kosmopoulou, University of Reading, UK.
CP W: Paradigms and Research Methods
in International
Business
Tuesday 14th 15.45-17.15
Chair: Sabine Urban, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, France
Directors' Suite
Interviewing
Elites in International Organizations: a Balancing Act for the Researcher.
Catherine Welch, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Rebecca
Marschan-Piekkari,
Sheffield University Management School, UK, Heli Penttinen and Marja
Tahvanainen, Helsinki
School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland.
Inward
Internationalisation. Does a Novel Field need a New Theory?
Benjamin Stahl, Uppsala University, Sweden.
CP X: Modes of Market Entry
Tuesday 14th 15.45-17.15
Chair: Seev Hirsch, College of Management, Rishon Letzion, Israel
Kensington Room
Greenfield
vs. Acquisition: The Strategy of French Investors.
VÈronique Favre-Bonte Nicoletti, Cerag-Ecole,Superieure des Affaires,
France.
Entry
Mode Analysis and the Internationalisation of Business Explaining and
Evaluating the Case of McDonalds.
David Law, Wolverhampton Business School, Wolverhampton, UK.
The
Entry Mode Choice of Leading EU Companies (1987-1997)
Giampaolo Vitali, Institute of Research on the Firm and Development of
Italian National
Research Council, Torino. Italy.