Sessions for International Business Management Track
Track Chair:
Professor Pervez Ghauri, UMIST
Tuesday 31st August
Session One
08:30 – 10:00
Authors
Fang Lee Cooke
Noor Azlinna Azizan
Dmitrij Slepniov
Laura Salciuviene
Regina Virvilaite
Hina Khan
David Bamber
Title
Mergers and acquisitions in China: trends, patterns and
implications for HRM
Nonlinearity in Market Efficiency: Comparison study of
Malaysia, London and Singapore
Category
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Accelerated Internationalization of Companies: The Case
of Lithuanian BORN Globals
Country-of-origin effect on Pakistani consumers’
purchasing decisions
F
Session Two
10:30 – 12:00
Authors
Alan Rugman
Alain Verbeke
Malcolm R. V.
Goodman
Paul Iles
Maurice Yolles
Catarina Figueira
Joseph Nellis
David Parker
Title
Towards a Theory of Regional Multinationals: A
Transaction Cost Economics Approach
Category
F
F
The Winds of Change
Knowledge Migration and the Transfer of Knowledge in
Managing Change in the National Radio of Bulgaria
The Effects of Private versus State and Foreign versus
Domestic Ownership on Bank Efficiency in Latin
America
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Session Three
13:00 – 14:30
Authors
Alan Rugman
Alain Verbeke
Roderick Martin
Greg J. Bamber
Title
Multi-Regional Strategy and Structure
Strategic Choice or Political Economy? Explaining
International Differences in Comparative Employment
Relations
Category
F
F
Michael C. Nippa
How Striking is the Criticism on Success Factor
Research?
F
Session Four
15:00 – 16:30
Authors
Klaus E. Meyer,
Delia Ionascu,
Przemyslaw
Kulawczuk,
Anna Szczesniak,
Zoltán Antal-Mokos,
and Krisztina Tóth
Gillian Rice
Joel Haire
Mona Chung
Shu-cheng Chi
Shu-chen Chen
Title
Category
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The Changing Patterns of Foreign Investment in Eastern
Europe: Results from a New Survey
The Impact of Cultural Values on Creativity and
Innovation: An Empirical Study of Egyptian Business
Organizations
Cross-CulturalCharmine
Knowledge Management - An
Exploratory Case
Hartel
Study of an Australian Joint Venture in
China
Repatriates’ Perceived Fulfillment of Psychological
Contract and Their Sense-Making through
Counterfactual Thinking
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Category
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Session Five
17:00 – 18:30
Authors
Kate Hutchings
David Weir
Paul Iles
Maurice Yolles
Cindy Wang
A. Almhdie
Paul Iles
R. Li-Hua
Networking in China and Arab Nations: Lessons for
International Managers
F
HRM and knowledge Migration in viable Chinese –
Western Alliances
F
Examining HRM Aspects of Knowledge Transfer in the
Libyan Oil Industry
Wednesday 1st September
Session Six
08:30 – 10:00
Authors
Yuka Fujimoto
Nasya Bahfen
Jan Fermelis
Title
Individualists and Collectivists in the Global Village:
Online Cross-cultural Communication and Human
Resource Management
Category
F
Chen-Yu James Liu
Lynne, Butel
Paul Simion
Session Seven
10:30 – 12:00
Authors
A Study of Unconventional International Joint Venture
Formation in China: Sino-Taiwanese Joint Ventures
Dialectic between Geographic Quasi-Mini-State and
Strategy of Company
Title
Jean-Pierre van der RestRoom Rate Pricing Practice in an International Hotel
Angela Roper
Group: some initial findings
Josephine Igoe
Subsidiary Initiatives and the Development of
Subsidiary-Specific Advantages in High-technology
Multinationals based in Ireland
Sarah E.A. Dixon
The Importance of managerial resources in effecting
transformational change: the case of the russian oil
industry
Luke Thomas
Paul Thomas
Global Alliances; An India Mobile First Experience
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Category
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D
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F
Session Eight
13:00 – 14:30
Authors
Mohamed Branine
David Pollard
Michael Horn
Hong (Rose) Quan
Title
Human Resource Management with Islamic
Management Principles? A dialectic.
Anglo-American' versus 'German' Corporate
Governances: Culture, Structure and Strategy Moderate
Their Effects on Innovation Capabilities
The market entry mode choice of SMEs from developing
to developed countries: the experience of Chinese firms
investing in the UK
Category
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Session Nine
15:00 – 16:30
Authors
Carmen Raluca Stoian
Reza Salami
Christina Butler
Steven Price
Title
Multinationals in Emerging Markets: Good or Evil?
Comparative Evidence from Poland and Romania
The Role of Industrialization policies in the
Technological Development of Less Developed
Countries, the Experience of Iran
Kenyan and British Time Orientations: The Importance
of Understanding Differences for Change Programmes
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