Dear Emerging Market Researchers,
Please join us for an exciting caucus, as follows:
Local Firm Growth: Commonalities and Differences in Emerging Economies
Program Session #: 588
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 15 2011 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Hilton Palacio del Rio in La Duquesa North
Description of the Caucus:
Local firms in emerging economies face many challenges as they attempt to grow,
different from foreign MNCs and firms in industrialized nations. Some of these
local firms have experienced success, becoming emerging market MNCs, while
others struggle. Often, black markets, interfering or unstable governments,
pollution, uncertain regulations and poor enforcement of laws such as those
protecting intellectual property, workforce issues, funding, external
organizations, and foreign competitors, among many other issues to be
identified in this forum, present challenges for local firms. They must develop
innovative and resourceful strategies for dealing with them unlike the kinds of
strategies utilized by firms in industrialized nations.
However, emerging economies also display differences on these and other
issues, being in many different parts of the world including South America,
Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, yet we attempt to speak about them in general
as emerging markets. Some researchers have chosen to specialize in a region
or a particular emerging market recognizing the many differences. At this
caucus, I would like to invite them to share their specialized knowledge so,
that we, as emerging market researchers may develop a larger comparative
picture. We will discuss issues that local firms face in these countries with a
goal to discern between which issues some countries have in common and which
are especially unique. What makes emerging markets similar and what is it about
their differing contexts that especially challenge local firms? Additionally,
we will identify strategies local firms are using to deal with barriers and
how institutions are helping or hindering them. These institutions may include
government and non-governmental organizations, including international
organizations. This caucus will also bring together researchers with interests
in this area to provide a networking forum and develop a community of emerging
market researchers.
The caucus will be informal and open to all, but will have some structure.
Participants will be organized into groups according to their emerging market
country or regional specialization. In these groups, they will identify main
issues facing local firms in that particular country or region. Each group will
share these issues with the large group and together, we will identify: (1)
which emerging economies offer similar or unique issues for local firms, (2)
strategies that local firms are using to deal with the issues and how they
compare across countries having similar issues, and (3)how the institutional
environment is affecting those strategies, whether helping or hindering local
firms.
If you come, please bring your laptop to record notes in your groups. Thanks!
Already, we have the following set of participants and we invite you to join
us:
Organizer: Deborah E. de Lange; Memorial U. of Newfoundland;
Participant: Niels Billou; U. of Western Ontario;
Participant: Javier Delgado-Ceballos; U. of Granada;
Participant: Sukhbir Sandhu; U. of South Australia;
Participant: Jonathan P Doh; Villanova U.;
Participant: Jose G Vargas-Hernández; U. de Guadalajara;
Participant: Peggy A Golden; Florida Atlantic U.;
Participant: Lance Brouthers; Kennesaw State U.;
Participant: Alexander Settles; State U. - Higher School of Economics;
Participant: Stephen A Drew; Florida Gulf Coast U.;
Participant: Carlos Alcerreca; Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico;
Participant: Yang Xu; Pennsylvania State U.;
Participant: Asadul Hoque; U. of Waterloo;
Participant: Markus David Taussig; Harvard Business School;
Participant: Elena Obukhova; MIT Sloan;
Participant: Neerja Raman; Stanford U.;
Participant: Liesl Riddle; George Washington U.;
Participant: Yipeng Liu; Institute for Small Business Research, U. of Mannheim;
Participant: Alpha Ayande; ESG-UQAM;
Participant: Florian A. Täube; EBS Business School;
I hope you will join us and look forward to a great working and networking
session so as to build a community of emerging market researchers.
Best wishes,
Dr. Deborah de Lange
Assistant Professor of International Business
Faculty of Business Administration
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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