UK ESRC Programme: One Europe or Several?
Project:
THE EMERGING INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WIDER
EUROPE: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIAL AND
POLITICAL STRUCTURES
Project Conference
March 21. 22 (Thursday and Friday) 2002
Venue:
University College London
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Thursday, March 21. 2002,
13.30 – 17.30
Venue: Senate Room, Senate House, University of London
Welcome and introductory statements, 13.30- 13.40
Jim Rollo, Programme director, One Europe or several?, UK ESRC
George Kolankiewicz, Director, School of Slavonic and East Euroepan Studies,
University College London
Session 1: 13.40- 15.40
Slavo Radosevic, Nick von Tunzelmann, David Dyker, Denise Eylem Yoruk, Francis
McGowan, , Ulrike Hotopp: Overview of the project results
Session 2: 15.30-17.30
Slavo Radosevic, Nick von Tunzelmann, David Dyker, Denise Eylem Yoruk, Francis
McGowan, , Ulrike Hotopp: Overview of the project results (continuation)
Friday, March 22, 2002
10.30 – 18.00
Venue: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 336, Third floor
Session 3: Country case studies: Ireland, Slovenia, Hungary, 10.30-12.00
Tom O’Conno:Ireland
Matija Rojec; Slovenia
Judith Hammar: Hungary
Session 4: Country case studies: Spain, Romania, Poland 12.15-13.45
Jose Molero: Spain
Rick Woodword: Poland
Geomina Turlea: Romania
Session 5: Business and policy perspectives, 15.00-16.00
Sangita Shah, Leading Edge Technologies Ltd, Innovation Strategies in Central Europe:
A Corporate Perspective
Baroness Margaret Sharp, EU industrial policy: implications for the CEECs
PANEL: Industry networks and the emerging industry architecure of the wider
Europe, 16.15- 17.30
Discussion. Invited speakers tba.
ESRC Programme: One Europe or Several?
Project:
The Emerging Industrial Architecture of The Wider Europe: The CoEvolution of Industrial and Political Structures
General
1. Radosevic, S. ‘Pan-European industrial networks as factor of convergence or
divergence within Europe: Conceptual and empirical issues for research’, In Wallace, H.
(Ed.): Whose Europe? Interlocking Dimensions of Integration, Macmillan, London, 2001,
pp.
2. Radosevic, S ‘Integration through industrial networks in the wider Europe: An
assessment based on survey of research’ In Koschatzky, K./Kulicke, M./Zenker, A. (Eds.):
Innovation Networks – Concepts and Challenges in the European Perspective, Physica
Verlag, Heidelberg and New York, 2001, pp. 153-174.
3. David Dyker, The dynamic impact on the Central – Eastern European Economies of
Accession to the European Union, Project Working Paper No. 2, April 2000
(http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm)
Firm case studies
4. Radosevic, Slavo, European integration and complementarities driven network
alignment: the case of ABB in central and eastern Europe, Working paper No. 11,
(available on the ESRC project site: http://www.ssees.ac.uk/economic.htm)
5. Deniz Eylem Yoruk, Industrial integration and growth of firm in transition economies:
the case of Soufflet, (forthcoming as project working paper)
6. D. Eylem Yoruk, Growth of a Polish meat company: mergers and acquisitions and the
role of strategic investors (forthcoming as project working paper)
7. Radosevic Slavo and Deniz Eylem Yoruk. 'Videoton: the Growth of Enterprise through
Entrepreneurship and Network Alignment' , SSEES Department of Social Sciences
Electronic Working Paper in Economics and Business, No. 4, June 2001
(http://www.ssees.ac.uk/economic.htm)
8. Radosevic, Slavo, D. Dornisch , D. E. Yoruk), 'The issues of enterprise growth in
transition and post-transition period: the case of Polish 'Elektrim.' No. 1, April 2001
(available on the ESRC project site : http://www.ssees.ac.uk/economic.htm)
9. D. E. Yoruk and S. Radosevic 'International Expansion and Buyer-Driven Commodity
Chain: the Case of TESCO', No. 5 , November 2000, (available on the ESRC project
site: http://www.ssees.ac.uk/economic.htm)
10. D. E. Yoruk, The case study of Romanian bakery producer: Dobrogeia ,
(forthcoming as project working paper)
Sectoral studies
11. Deniz Eylem Yoruk, Patterns of industrial upgrading in the clothing industry in
Poland and Romania, (forthcoming as project working paper), 2002
12. Slavo Radosevic: Electronics industry in CEE, 2002, (forthcoming as project working
paper)
13. Deniz Eylem Yoruk and Nick von Tunzelmann: Food industry in CEE, 2002,
(forthcoming)
14. Francis, McGowan, East European Electricity Case Study, 2002, (forthcoming)
Country studies
15. David Dyker and Nick von Tunzelmann: Network alignment in firms in transition
countries: a survey of Hungarian and Slovenian companies, 2002 (forthcoming)
16. Geomina Turlea, Cezar Mereuta, Markets and networks in Romania – life after
disorganisation?, 2002 (forthcoming as project working paper)
17. Tom O’Connor, FDI and Indigenous Industry in Ireland; Review of Evidence, Project
Working Paper No, 5, 2001 (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm)
18. Jose Molero, Industrialisation and Internationalisation in Spanish Economy, Project
Working Paper No. 8, 2001 http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm
19. Matija Rojec and Andreja Jaklic, Integration of Slovenia into EU and global
industrial networks: review of existing evidence, 2002 (forthcoming as project working
paper)
20. Stefan Dunin-Wasowicz, Michal Gorzynski, Richard Woodward, Integration of
Poland into EU global industrial networks:The evidence and the main challenges, 2002
(forthcoming as project working paper)
21. Judith Hammar, FDI and industrial networks in Hungary, (forthcoming as project
working paper) 2002
22. David Dyker et al, East`-‘west’ networks and their alignment: industrial networks in
Hungary and Slovenia, 2001, Project Working paper No. 10, January 2002
(http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm)
Trade aspects
23. Ulrike Hotopp, Slavo Radosevic and Kate Bishop, Trade and industrial upgrading in
countries of central and eastern Europe: patterns of scale and scope based learning,
2002 (forthcoming as project working paper)
Regional level
24. Regional Innovation Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: Determinants,
Organizers and Alignments’, Journal of Technology Transfer 27, 2002, pp87-96,
(extended version available project Working paper No. 1, April
2000)(http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm)
Foreign direct investment and employment
25. Mickiewicz, T., Radosevic, S. and U. Varblane (2000) The value of diversity:
Foreign direct investment and employment in central Europe during economic recovery,
Project working paper No. 3, April 2000. (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/esrcwork.htm)
26. David A. Dyker, The impact of foreign direct investment from western Europe on
central Europe, 2001
State and policy issues
27. Francis McGowan, 'State Strategy and Regional Integration: the EU and
Enlargement' (forthcoming), 2002
28. Margaret Sharp: Policy implications of the project (forthcoming)