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International Business and Local Development

Track Chair: Pervez Ghauri, Manchester Business School (UK)

 

COMPETITIVE PAPERS

 

Outsourcing for development - towards a developing country firm perspective

Michael W. Hansen, Centre for Business and Development Studies, Copenhagen Business School

Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Centre for Business and Development Studies, Copenhagen Business School

Eugene Pottenger, Centre for Business and Development Studies, Copenhagen Business School

 

The logic of spillover interception: The impact of global supply chains in China

Faith Hatani, University of Surrey

 

Outward foreign direct investment and firm performance

Yama Temouri, Aston University

Nigel Driffield, Aston University

Dolores Anon, Higon Aston University

 

Country image: Effects of hosting a major sport event

Geir Gripsrud, BI Norwegian School of Management     

Erik B. Nes, BI Norwegian School of Management        

Ulf H. Olsson, BI Norwegian School of Management

 

MNE strategies and implications for economic development? The role of infrastructure

Mo Yamin, Manchester Business School   

Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Manchester Business School

 

FDI and spillovers in Switzerland: interaction effects between spillover mechanisms and domestic technological characteristics

Lamia  Ben Hamida, University of Fribourg / World Trade Institute Berne      

Philippe Gugler, University of Fribourg / World Trade Institute Berne            

 

International trade and industrial restructuring in Romania from 1995 to 2006

Laura Nicoleta Haar, Manchester Business School

 

Value capture from advantages  and glocal governance for sustainable value creation

Christos N. Pitelis, University of cambridge, Judge Business School

 

Domestic plant productivity and incremental spillovers from foreign direct investment

Carlo Altomonte, Bocconi University        

Enrico Pennings, Erasmus University

 

Is the influence of industrial district on internationalization strategies eroding after globalisation? Evidence from a traditional manufacturing industry

José Pla-Barber, University of Valencia    

Francisco Puig, University of Valencia      

Joaquin Camps, University of Valencia

 

Comparative international entrepreneurship: The software industry in the Indian sub-continent

Shameen Prashantham, University of Glasgow

Amer Qureshi, Q Consulting and Training    

Stephen Young, University of Glasgow    

 

Chinese multinationals in a new world: Micro-evidence on outward FDI

Marina Papanastassiou, Copenhagen Business School    

Bersant Hobdari, Copenhagen Business School   

Evis Sinani, Copenhagen Business School 

Robert Pearce, University of Reading

 

Subsidiary response to adverse local conditions: A classification for the Venezuelan case

Luis E. Sigala-Paparella, Universidad Centrooccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA)

Fidel León-Darder, Universitat de València

 

Multinational firms in small, advanced economies: Foreign direct investment, linkages and firm development proposal for cross-country research

Joanna Scott-Kennel, Victoria University of Wellington

Fabienne Fortanier, University of Amsterdam

Axele Giroud, Manchester Business School

 

Factors influencing the internationalisation of export ventures

Natasha Evers, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown

 

Russian investments in Belarus

Peeter Vahtra, Pan-European Institute

 

Managing conflict in virtual teams: The role of communication technologies

Chi-Yun Chen, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester 

Paul Jackson, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

 

Proximity to knowledge sources and the location of knowledge based start-ups

Joana Mendonça, IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, Instituto Superior Técnico 

Rui Baptista, IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

 

Mapping foreign activities in UK regions: The role of environmental determinism and dynamism

Fragkiskos  Filippaios, Kent Business School, University of Kent

Constantina Kottaridi, Department of Economics, School of Management and Economics, University of Peloponnese          

 

International champions' from large fast growing economies: Brazil's corporate emergence dynamics compared to China's and India's

Jean-Paul Lemaire, ESCP-EAP European School of Management, Paris

 

WORKSHOP PAPERS

 

The impact of foreign ownership on subsidiaries: positive, negative, balanced or neutral?

Tiia Vissak, University of Tartu

 

An examination of international firms' intentions to relocate: A loyalty approach

Jan Møller Jensen, University of Southern Denmark      

Per Servais, University of Southern Denmark     

Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark

 

The rise of the BRIC economies: Challenges of a multi-polar world for international Business Scholars and Managers

Asta Salmi, Helsinki School of Economics 

Joanna Scott-Kennel, Victoria University of Wellington

 

How to increase regional competitiveness in a context of international opening?

Milena Viassone, University of Cassino

 

Why the manufacturing firms in developing countries can be competitive? The evidence of China

Can Huang, UNU-MERIT     

Mingqian Zhang, Hebei University of China

Yanyun Zhao, Renmin University of China

Celeste Amorim Varum, University of Aveiro

 

Exertion of power or division of work: Management knowledge in a cross-border automotive supply chain

Roland Bardy, Fachhochschule Worms

 

Foreign direct investment and technological spillovers: Evidence from China's regions

Peter J. Buckley, University of Leeds      

Jeremy Clegg, University of Leeds 

Chengqi Wang, University of Nottingham  

Elizabeth Yi Wang, University of Leeds

 

Organisational relationships, autonomy and the employment of skilled labour by subsidiaries

Frank McDonald, Bradford University School of Management

Jens Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School         

Heinz Tuselmann, Manchester Metropolitan University    

Christoph Dörrenbächer, University of Groningen

Andreas Stephan, Europa University Viadrina

 

International joint ventures and processes of organizational identity construction

Ed Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London   

Anna Soulsby, Nottingham University Business School

 

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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