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Inviting to SMS Panel on Business Groups in Emerging Markets- October 13

  • 1.  Inviting to SMS Panel on Business Groups in Emerging Markets- October 13

    Posted 09-28-2009 03:55
    Dear all, hi (and sorry for cross-posting).
     
    As the SMS Conference is quickly approaching, we would like to invite you all to a Panel Symposium on Competitive Dynamics of Business Groups.  We are looking forward to seeing you at the panel in Washington DC!

    Session 195: Competitive Dynamics of Business Groups

    Panelists: (in the alphabetical order)
    Brian Boyd, Arizona State University 
    Mason Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
    Andrew Delios, National University of Singapore
    Takashi Hikino, Kyoto University  
    Robert Hoskisson, Rice University
    Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School 
    James R. Lincoln, University of California, Berkeley
     
    Session Chair: Asli M. Colpan, Kyoto University
     
    Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
    Time: 11:30 – 12:45
    Room: Auditorum
     
    Abstract: This panel session aims to shed light on the sources of the competitive resilience and innovative dynamics of diversified business groups in emerging market economies. Developing economies have long been volatile environments in which local as well as multinational enterprises faced high levels of economic, political, and societal uncertainty. Business groups represent the dominant organizational form of big business in most of those economies, and on the whole they have adapted well to that uncertainty and in many cases functioned as a force for macroeconomic advancement. Rather than portray diversified business groups as a second-best instrumental alternative to the multidivisional enterprise so prevalent in mature economies, the symposium examines the reasons behind business group adaptation and its role in those economies' long-term growth.

    With kind regards,

    Organizers of the Panel:
    .  Asli M. Colpan; Kyoto University
    .  Takashi Hikino; Kyoto University
    .  James R. Lincoln; University of California, Berkeley