Sub-theme 11: (SWG) The MNE and Developing Economies: Entering Markets and Managing Organizations
Convenors:
Florian Becker-Ritterspach, German University in Cairo, Egypt
Rick Molz, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Ali Taleb, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, DEREE-609
Divergent Perspectives on Intercultural Encounters in MNEs
Chair: Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Irina Lyan
"Start-up Nation" vs. "The Republic of Samsung": Cross-cultural encounters in international collaboration among ex-peripheries
Valéry Krylov and Vincent Montenero
Implementing automotive subcontracting industry in Russia: Limits of the standardised approach
Eric Davoine and Dorra Yahiaoui
From colonial to post-colonial relationships in French MNC subsidiaries
Alexei Koveshnikov
"I do not know but I've been told": Cultural stereotypes, 'contextual confidence' and trust formation in a Finnish-Russian
multinational
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, DEREE-609
MNEs as Institutional Entrepreneurs
Chair: Ali Taleb
Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Knut Lange and Jutta Becker-Ritterspach
Divergent patterns of institutional entrepreneurship of MNCs
Tim Weiss
All dressed up and nowhere to go: Firms’ moves for working within conditions of organizational scarcity
Graham Hollinshead, Rafia Faiz and Cynthia Forson
MNEs and sifarish, or personal networking, in Pakistan: A case of competing dominant logics
Kajari Mukherjee
CSR approaches of MNEs in developing countries: Common-sense morality of sending water-tankers to parched neighbors
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, DEREE-609
MNEs and Institutional Complexities
Chair: Knut Lange
Tao Wang and Oksana Grebinevych
Co-creation of meso-level organizational field: Special economic zones as institutional intermediaries in emerging economies
Wei Lu, Ayse Saka-Helmhout and Rebecca Piekkari
Compensation practice in China: The impact of regional institutions and MNC decentralisation on adaptation
Chul Chung
The conditions of local adaptation in the transfer of HRM policies: A case of a South Korean MNE's subsidiaries in India
and the USA
Hao Sun
Fluctuation of foreign direct investment and changing logics of local actors in emerging markets
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, DEREE-609
Mergers and Acquistions in Emerging Market Contexts
Chair: Rick Molz
Andrew Papadopoulos and Ali Taleb
Mergers and acquisitions between firms from developing and developed economies: A multilevel perspective
Fadia Korbi and Karim Said
What scope of integration does IOIS have within asymmetric strategic alliances? The case of the Euro-Tunisian alliances
Kathleen Park
CEO leadership in emerging MNCs – Innovating, expanding and internationalizing using technology-oriented acquisitions
Stephanie E. Newell, Kunal Banerji and Alankrita Pandey
Tata Motors globalization strategy: Acquiring the Jaguar Land Rover Group
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, DEREE-609
Innovation and Learning in Emerging Markets
Chair: Knut Lange
Stephanie Hurt
Co-creation of global knowledge from internationalization reciprocal learning
Ajit Nayak
Building dynamic capabilities in emerging economies: Unowned and state-transformative processes
Chacko George Kannothra
Creating shared value in global value chains: Learning from impact sourcing service providers in U.S., India and Kenya
Maciel Prediger, Roberta Aguzzoli, Vanderlei Ribeiro and Cristina Eick
Market orientation, learning proclivity and innovation as antecedents of export performance of Brazilian firms
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, DEREE-609
Internationalisation of Chinese MNEs
Chair: Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Veronica H.I. Fong and Jacky F.L. Hong
Strategic agent, re-framing process and the internationalization of Chinese firms
Keyan Lai and Glenn Morgan
Why so many expatriates? Expatriate staffing in a Chinese MNC: An ethnography and an institutional perspective
Ramsin Yakob
Mitigating managerial capacity restraints in foreign subsidiaries through collectivity building: Volvo Cars in China
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, DEREE-609
MNEs and CSR in Emerging Markets
Chair: Ali Taleb
Emmanouela Mandalaki
Similar threats, different strategies: "Glocalized" CSR reactions to cognitive framing of institutional pressures
Robin Schnider
Deliberative Coase theorem: An externality based view on CSR
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Same same but different: New firms, transitional markets and neo-institutional responses to gender egalitarianism