PROGRAM
The 8th EIASM Workshop on
International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management
hosted by Tübingen University
Thursday, 07 October
16:00 – 17:30 Pre-conference Get-together
Café Ranitzky, Town Hall Square (opposite the historical town hall), outside if
weather permits, Phone: +44 7071 21391
17:30 – 19:00 Walk through the Historic Old Town of Tübingen
Meeting point: Café Ranitzky (see above)
19:00
Welcome Dinner
S’Urige, Am Lustnauer Tor 8, Phone: +49 7071 927518
Friday, 08 October
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
In the castle Schloss Hohentübingen, Round Tower, Institute of Archeology, in
front of Seminar Room 165
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome by the Workshop Organisers (room 165)
09:10 – 10:10 Keynote Address 1 (room 165)
by Pervez Ghauri – Kings College, London
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:30 Workshop Sessions 1 & 2
Session 1 – Theory Development in Cross-Cultural Management (room 165)
The Cross-Cultural Change Agent: Management Practice Transfers and Cultural
Competence
by Lena Zander & Audari Mockaitis
Cross-Cultural Management: The Role of Culture And Leadership in the Strategic
Process
by Alfonso Henriques Azevedo Nogueira & Victor Vroom
Cultural Perspective on Developing Business Relationships: An Interaction
Approach
by Maria Ivanova
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Cultural Accommodation in the Context of Trust
by Stefan Volk & Markus Pudelko
Session 2 – Firm Performance, Values and Emotional Intelligence (Library room)
The Effects of Liabilities of Foreignness, Economies of Scale, and Multinationality on
Firm Performance – An Information Cost View
by Jan Hendrik Fisch & Miriam Zschoche
Analyzing Parenting Advantage: Empirical Evidence from a Global Survey
by Matthias Kruehler & Ulrich Pidun
Individualism-Collectivism and Organizational Values: A Tale of Two Countries
by Fauziah Noordin
Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Version 1.50 (Teique): Testing for
Validity Across Cultures
by Karim Jahanvash & Robert Weisz
12:30 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 15:40 Workshop sessions 3&4
Session 3 – Empirical Studies in International Human Resource Management
(room 165)
Towards Global Careerists - Expatriate Danish Engineers
by Torben Andersen, Erling Rasmussen & Steen Scheuer
Developing Effective Global Relationships through Staffing with Inpatriate
Managers: The Role of Interpersonal Trust
by Sebastian Reiche, Michael Harvey & Miriam Moeller
Multinational Teams in the Context of National Culture: An Interaction Based
Approach
by Aida Hajro & Markus Pudelko
The Relative Importance of Cultural and Institutional Sources of Conflict in Foreign
Subsidiaries
by Markus Pudelko & Helene Tenzer
Session 4 – The Strategy of the Firm (Library room)
Latvia Based Joint Venture Eco-Brand Development in the EU
by Andrejs Limanskis
Have Global Hotels Adopted Good Governance and Environmental Policies
by Sonia Dahab, Jose Paulo Esperança & Conceiçao Santos
Long Tails and Destination Management: The Impact of Market's Diversification on
Competitiveness in Touristic Services. The Case of Garda Lake
by Alessandra Tedeschi Toschi, Luciano Pilotti & Roberta Apa
Low Cost Airlines: Regional, Global or Are We Seeing the Emergence of a New
Paradigm?
by Chris Carr & Nora Weisskopf
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:10 Keynote address 2 (room 165)
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Dr Stefan Wolf – CEO of ElringKlinger AG
ElringKlinger AG, a vehicle component company, is a typical “hidden champion” for
which the state of Baden-Württemberg is world-famous (www.elringklinger.de)
17:10 – 17:30 Walk to the River Neckar
17:30 – 18:30 Punting (Boating on the River Neckar in the typical “Stocherkähne”)
19:30
Dinner in Restaurant
Hotel am Schloß, Restaurant Mauganeschtle, Burgsteige 18 (right next to the gate
of the castle Schloss Hohentübingen), Phone: +49 7071 92940
Saturday, 09 October
09:00 – 09:30 Best Paper Presentation (room 165)
Individual-Level Outcomes in Poorly Managed Cross-Border Mergers and
Acquisitions: A Holistic View of the Relevant Processes
by Aida Hajro & Abhijit Mandal
09:30 – 10:00 Best Student Paper Presentation (room 165)
Corporate Portfolio Management and Firm Performance – What Distinguishes the
Best From The Rest
by Robert Untiedt
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Workshop sessions 5 & 6
Session 5 – The Effect of Culture in Developing Nations (room 165)
Preindustrial Patterns in Chinese Organizational Culture
by Simon Kragh
Company Age and the Degree of Internationalization of Chinese SMEs: The
Inconsistent Mediating Role of Guanxi
by Xian Zhang & Yong Wang
Understanding Paradoxes in Middle Eastern Arab Culture
by Shaoai Randy & Tony Fang
Session 6 – The Internationalization of the Firm (Library room)
From AAA To CCC – Customer Impact on Firms’ Internationalization Strategy
by Zelal Ates & Christiane Prange
Global Transformation Technologies Limited (Gtt); The Saga of an India China
Collaboration
by Sekhar Bhattacharyya Som, Christo Fernandes Tamara & Ann Falerio Vivek
Raja
Internationalization through Cooperation – Local Clusters as a Resource for SMEs
to Gain Global Competitive Advantage
by Alexander Bode, Simon Alig & Stefan Boxen
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12:00 – 12:10 Concluding remarks by the workshop organizers (room 165)
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End of Workshop
12:10 – 13:30 Farewell Lunch
For workshop participants staying on:
13:30 – 14:00 Bus trip to Bebenhausen Monastery and Castle
14:00 – 16:00 Visit of Bebenhausen Monastery and guided visit of Bebenhausen Castle
(www.kloster-bebenhausen.de)
16:00 – 16:30 Return to Tübingen
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