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Management, Organisation and Cultural Issues

Track Chair: Ram Mudambi, Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University (USA)

 

COMPETITIVE PAPERS

 

International management, political arena and dispersed entrepreneurship in the MNC

Christopher Williams, University of Amsterdam   

Soo Hee Lee, Birkbeck College, University of London

 

Drivers of interpersonal and inter-unit relational social capital in multinational corporations

Kristiina Mäkelä, Hanken

Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Hanken

Ingmar Björkman, Hanken

 

Organizational acculturation in a European MNC

Adam Smale, University of Vaasa 

Vesa Suutari, University of Vaasa 

Jan Selmer, University of Aarhus

 

Entry mode choice: Testing new approaches to measuring psychic distance and international experience

Douglas Dow, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School        

Jorma Antero Larimo, University of Vaasa, Department of Marketing  

 

Inpatriates' boundary spanning and knowledge sharing at the headquarters: The moderating effect of absorptive capacity

B. Sebastian Reiche, IESE Business School

 

Does distance really play no role at all on the web? The impact of psychic distance on foreign website visits

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Nijmegen School of Management    

Arjen Slangen, Rotterdam School of Management

 

The importance of shared values for knowledge diffusion in multinationals - Myth or reality?

Mats Forsgren, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

Ulf Holm, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

 

Ranking and rating in native-language versus English-language questionnaires: A methodological comparison

Anne-Wil Harzing, University Of Melbourne

Joyce Baldueza, Worldbank

Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Swedish School of Economics

Cordula Barzantny, Groupe Esc Toulouse Business School

Anne Berthelot, University of Texas At El Paso

Anabella Davila, Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership,

Tecnologico de Monterrey

Alvaro Espejo, Adolfo Ibañez University’s Business School

Rita Ferreira, Iese Business School Spain, Essec Business School

Axele Giroud, Manchester Business School

Kathrin Koester, University of Heilbronn

Sharon Leiba O'Sullivan, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa

Yung-Kuei Liang, Tatung University

Audra Mockaitis, Victoria University of Wellington

Michael J Morley, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick

Barbara Myloni, University of Piraeus

Joseph O. T. Odusanya, Haygroup SA

Paulo Prochno, Fundação Dom Cabral

Srabani Roy Choudhury, International Management Institute

Ayse Saka, University of Groningen

Sununta Siengthai, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Linda Viswat, Otemon Gakuin University

Ayda Uzuncarsili Soydas, Marmara University

Lena Zander, Stockholm School of Economics

 

Organizational learning capability, innovation and export intensity: Evidence from Italian and Spanish ceramic tiles producers

Joaquin Alegre, University of Valencia      

José Pla-Barber, University of Valencia    

Ricardo Chiva, University Jaume I

 

The co-evolution of charters, capabilities and structures in the internationalization process

Tina Claudia Ambos, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and The University of Edinburgh     

Bodo B. Schlegelmilch, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration 

Björn Ambos, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration    

Barbara Brenner, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

 

Managing post-acquisition cultural change: An acquired company's perspective

Anna V. Zueva, University of Bradford School of Management 

Pervez N. Ghauri, Manchester Business School

 

The impacts of institutional distance and home country economic openness on the relationship between international diversity and firm performance

Mike Chao, Baruch College, CUNY  

Vikas Kumar, Bocconi University

 

 

WORKSHOP PAPERS

 

Managing cultural differences in exporter-importer relationships

Gro Alteren, NORUT as

 

Psychic distance under assimilation and contrast bias: A directional equivalence approach

Ronaldo Parente, Rutgers University

Victor Almeida, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Daniel Baack, Bal State University

 

Antecedents of HRM integration mechanism usage in MNC subsidiaries in China

Adam Smale, University of Vaasa

Ingmar Björkman, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Jennie Sumelius, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

 

The impact of culture on performance evaluation styles - A comparison of CEE and German speaking countries

Andreas Feichter, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

 

Sino-German business collaborations in the 21st century: will management practices converge?

Tanja Rabl, University of Bayreuth

Torsten Maria Kühlmann, University of Bayreuth

 

The antecedents of psychic distance

Lars Håkanson Copenhagen Business School

Björn Ambos, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

 

The pulse of liability of foreignness - Dynamic legitimacy and experience effects in the German car market

Ulrich Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark

Wolfgang Sofka, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

 

The importance and dynamics of types of distance: An empirical test of Ghemawat's CAGE framework

Arjen Slangen, RSM Erasmus University

Fabienne Fortanier, University of Amsterdam       

Rob Van Tulder, RSM Erasmus University

 

Configuration of value activities in international service firms. A network analysis of HRM practices

Nicola  Berg, University of Dortmund       

Dirk Holtbrügge, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg      

Katja Wiedemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

Virtual assignments: A knowledge-based perspective

Dirk Holtbrügge, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of International Management

Katrin Schillo, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of International Management

 

International transferability of corporate cultures: A formal approach to  feasibility

Heike Schütter, Agder University

 

Impact of organizational acculturation on subsidiary performance:

Competence Exploiting versus Competence Creating

Pooja Thakur, Rutgers University

 

Drivers of Interpersonal and Inter-unit Relational Social Capital in Multinational Corporations

Kristiina Mäkelä, Hanken

Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Hanken

Ingmar Björkman, Hanken

 

Opening Plenary

International Business and Science-Technology Relationships

International Business and Local Development

Theory of MNCs

Management, Organisation and Cultural Issues 

International Corporate Strategies

Corporate R&D and Knowledge Transfer

Corporate Governance, Ethics and Sustainable Development

International Business and Finance

International Business and International Marketing

Economic Policy Issues

Poster sessions

List of reviewers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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