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Professor Hafiz Mirza BRADFORD CENTRE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - SEMINAR
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, Ambler Room, Heaton Mount, 2pm (refreshments from 1:30pm)
"Emerging developments in TNC strategies and global FDI flows: drivers,
motives and consequences"
In his talk entitled "The Emerging 21st Century Paradigm: Implications for TNC strategies and global FDI flows", Professor Hafiz Mirza, (Bradford School of Management/UNCTAD) presented the latest UNCTAD statistics on global FDI flows and discussed the consequences of the global financial crisis on the level FDI flows from and into developed as well developing countries. He also provided information on the global FDI flows in the agricultural sector and raised interesting questions regarding the changing role(s) of Transnational Corporations in the coming decades. Download his presentation (PDF).
Hafiz Mirza, Bradford School of Management/UNCTAD
Jean-François Hennart BRADFORD CENTRE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - ANNUAL LECTURE
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, Samuel Lister Theatre, 2pm (refreshments from 1:30pm)
"Not so Fast! Why we should not close the book on the theory of the multinational enterprise"
Jean-François Hennart (CentER and Department of Organization and Strategy, Tilburg University)
In his fascinating talk at the BCIB, Jean-Francois Hennart argued that further work is required to provide a coherent theoretical framework for explaining Multinational Enterprises. He explained why the versions of the theory of the Multinational Enterprise that are based on the OLI paradigm and on naïve versions on internalization theory contain some crucial errors, and why the newer versions based on resource or knowledge-based views are even more problematic. He suggested that researchers move beyond “MNE-centric” explanations of the MNE and take into account the efficiency of markets for assets that firms aim to access when expanding internationally.
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Rudolf Sinkovics BRADFORD CENTRE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - SEMINAR
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009, Kempner room, Heaton Mount, 2pm
"Multilingual elite-interviews and software-based analysis - Problems and solutions based on CAQDAS"
Rudolf Sinkovics (Manchester Business School)
Rudolf Sinkovics argued that multilingual interviews with corporate elites are increasingly important in terms of obtaining accurate accounts of strategic decisions and long-term business perspectives. Hence, language would play a critical role in the research process. However, as Sinkovics argued in his talk, the practice of qualitative data-collection and analysis has not been addressed sufficiently against the background of new and innovative software-based tools. In his presentation, he outlined the conceptual challenges in setting up qualitative projects when interviewing corporate elites and discussed practical implementation issues in terms of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS).
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Academy of International Business (AIB) UK & Ireland Chapter workshop
Publishing in academic journals: An introduction
Date:
Tuesday, November 17, 2009; 10.30 to 16.00.
Location:
Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL);
Address: Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, University
of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
Target group:
Early career international business scholars and 3rd year
doctoral students.
Workshop fee:
There is no registration fee. In the event of over subscription,
preference will be given to AIB members.
Additional information:
You must book a place in advance. Places are
limited to 25 people. If you wish to attend the workshop, please complete the
application form, save and return to Dr Mario Kafouros as an attachment. His
email address is: mk@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Description:
This workshop is aimed at early career IB researchers and
3rd year doctoral students who would like to submit their work to a journal.
The workshop will cover a wide range of topics including the submission process,
common mistakes and reasons for rejection, publication strategy and journal
rankings. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a mock peer review
session. Participants will be asked to submit one of their journal papers (up
to 7000 words), review other papers, and play the role of a referee. Sessions
will be delivered by a number of international business scholars and journal
editors including Professor Peter Buckley, Professor Jeremy Clegg and Professor
Joep Cornelissen.
AIB Workshop
- Application Form
In June 2009 Jenny Fairbrass was awarded €49,000 by the European Commission, Jean Monnet Programme Key Activity 1, Information and Research Activities for 2009-2010 for a UACES led programme of events entitled 'Communicating European Citizenship' involving school age children, trainee and newly qualified teachers, EU and UK public policy makers, civil society organisations and academics. She also won funding as part of a University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) funded Collaborative Research Network (CRN) entitled 'The Governance of Sustainability'. Jenny Fairbrass also hosted the first UACES funded Collaborative Research Network at the School of Management, Univesity of Bradford in July 2009 (23rd and 24th) which was attended by more than twenty-two delegates from five different EU countries.
Abhijit Sharma has received full funding from RCUK (ESRC and the BBSRC) & AES to present a research paper at the IAAE Congress in Beijing, August 2009, £2000.00.
New associate members
Dr Choi Soon-Gwon, an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Business at Pukyong National University in South Korea, has joined the Bradford Centre in International Business for his year of study leave. He will be working with Professor Frank McDonald, Dr Alex Mhor, Dr Chengang Wang and other members of the Centre on FDI in and from South Korea.
(External) Dr Jaya Prakash Pradhan , an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) in New Delhi, is working with members of the Centre on the development of Multinational Corporations in emerging countries and FDI to and from emerging countries.
Mr Mark Robson, the International Trade Director for UK Trade and Investment in Yorkshire and the Humber, has become an Associate member of BCIB and is working with members of the centre to promote links between researchers in International Business with user communities in companies and business support agencies.
22-24 October 2009
2009 EAMSA 26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Globalization of Technology, Innovation & Knowledge: The Euro-Asia Connection
EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland
Deadline for paper submission: 1th July 2009
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Bradford Centre in International Business seminar
At 13.00 in the Kell Room Heaton Mount
Refreshments from 12.30
"
Effects of Expatriate's Characteristics on International Knowledge
Transfer
" by
Professor Soon-Gwon Choi, Pukyong National University, Korea
RSVP to Kate Franks by 16 January, tel: 01274 234327 e-mail: c.h.franks@bradford.ac.uk
Members of the BCIB have won the FHDW research award for an article to be published in the Journal of International Business Studies. The paper entitled "Beyond entry mode choice: Explaining the conversion of joint ventures into wholly owned subsidiariesinthePeople'sRepublicofChina" (byJFPuck, DHoltbrügge and Alex Mohr) empirically investigated the determinants of changes in the ownership-structure of foreign firms in the Peoples' Republic of China.
The goal of the award is to honor outstanding scientific studies and concepts which describe paths towards the achievement of sustainable internationalization. In addition to the required relevance to the topic, relevance to business practice and innovation were among the criteria used for evaluation.
The prize and the prize money of 10.000 Euro will be presented to the authors
during a ceremony on October 21th, in Bielefeld, Germany.
Friday 3 October 2008
Bradford Centre in International Business seminar
At 13.00 in the Ambler Room Heaton Mount
Refreshments from 12.30
"
Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions
Is there an Asian Model
?" by
Yanrui Wu, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
RSVP to Kate Franks by 26 September 01274 234327
Dr Jonas Puck
The
Bradford Centre in International Business
will host
Dr Jonas Puck
(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) who has won this year's
EIBA Fellows Research
Award for a Promising Young Scholar in International Business
. The European
International Business Academy, founded in 1974, is the major European-level
association for academics, business people and other interested persons with
a professional interest in the field of International Business.
The purpose of the EIBA Fellows Research Award is to help to broaden the research programme of promising younger scholars in the international business field, to widen their network of research contacts and open a new research collaboration for them at an early stage of their academic careers, and to enhance the formation of international research exchange arrangements amongst international business scholars.
Jonas will work on a project on "The normative value of transaction cost
economics and institutional theory for IJV to WFOE conversions in the Peoples
Republic of China (PRC)" and extend the results of an earlier project on
IJV-to-WFOE conversion that will be published in the Journal of International
Business Studies later this year. Jonas will work with Dr Alex Mohr, Dr Anna
Zueva and Professor Frank McDonald and other members of the centre.
Bradford Centre in International Business launch event
Bradford Centre in International Business launch event
PowerPoint slides from the event:
- Asian Emerging Markets and Development.ppt (98 Kb)
- Key issues in the future of International Business Research.ppt (196 Kb)
- Trends in International Investment.ppt (2671 Kb)
Photographs from the event (click image for a larger version):
Professor Mark Cleary
Professor Arthur Francis
Professor Frank McDonald, Professor Arthur Francis, Professor Mark Cleary, Professor Hafiz Mirza
Professor Mark Cleary
Professor Arthur Francis
Professor Frank McDonald, Professor Arthur Francis, Professor Mark Cleary, Professor Hafiz Mirza
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