Sub-theme 13: Global Sourcing and the Reorganization of Firms, Industries and Employment
Convenors:
Arie Y. Lewin, Duke University, USA
Stephan D. Manning, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Silvia Massini, Manchester Business School, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, H-C33
Global Sourcing Strategies
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Aylin Ataay
Why and how Turkish companies are offshoring their activities and functions: Evidences from a developing countries
Bent Petersen and Peter D. Ørberg Jensen
Global sourcing of advanced services – A strategic management analysis
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, H-C33
Firm Boundary Choices
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Stephan D. Manning, Arie Y. Lewin, Silvia Massini and Carine Peeters
The ever changing logic of outsourcing decisions: Client strategies, path dependencies and industry dynamics
Xia Han, Dorota Piaskowska and Zengyu Huang
Foreign entry mode choice and performance: The influence of uncertainties
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, H-C33
Changing Firm Structures and Processes
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Alan O'Sullivan
Outsourcing for learning, not forgetting: Managing suppliers' designing for newproduct development
Liviu Birza and Anabella Davila
Accidental vertical integration – Product development in mixed modes of interorganizational strategies
Heekyung Na
Exploiting "coopetition": Essential strategy for value creation
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, H-C33
Changing Global Value Chains
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Simy Joy
Boundaries are changing; how about the core?
Giulio Buciuni and Lapo Mola
How does GVC's governance take shape when no big players are involved?
Stephan D. Manning and Pratyush Bharati
The internationalization of global service providers: The role of service capabilities and client expectations
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, H-C33
Changes in Employment Practices
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Graham Hollinshead and Jane Hardy
International sourcing and asymmetry, the human resource strategies of international software development companies 'near-shoring'
to Ukraine
Florence Duvivier and Carine Peeters
The use of expatriates in the offshoring of services – Framework and research propositions
Dimitris Stevis, Kadire Zeynep Sayim, Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen and Jörg Sydow
Towards a multi-organizational practice perspective on implementation: Labor standards in global production networks
Simon Collinson, Mark Easterby-Smith, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor and Pamela A. Suzanne
SMEs: Surviving the Chinese 'War for Talent'
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, H-C33
Organizing Suppliers and Partners
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Elisa Vuori
Competitive advantage in sourcing networks of knowledge-intensive business services
Laurance Saglietto, Federico Pigni and Thierry Bouron
Information platforms: Exploring the creation of new value added services
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, H-C33
Regional Cluster Dynamics
Chair: Arie Y. Lewin, Stephan Manning and Silvia Massini
Yeda Swirski de Souza and Marcelo Machado Barbosa Pinto
Upgrading in global value chains: Lessons from the fashion apparel industry
Maria Cristina Cinici, Daniela Baglieri and Vincent Mangematin
Knowledge networks in nanotech clusters: An anchor perspective