C II:1 New Approaches to MNE management and strategy SP 112

Chair and discussant: Christos Pitesil, Judge Institute of Management

Will 'Buyer-Driven' Commodity Chains Replace Multinational Corporations? Lesson from the Garment Industry (225)
Roger Strange, King's College London,
Jim Newton, The University of Hong Kong


A Transaction Cost Analysis of Staffing Decisions in International Operations (80)
Gabriel R.G. Benito, Copenhagen Business School,
Sverre Tomassen, Norwegian School of Management,
Jaime Bonache-Perez, Universidad Carlos III
José Pla-Barber, Universitat de Valéncia


Globalization and the Regional Multinationals (64)
Alan Rugman, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University


C II:2 New Perspectives on MNE Theory SP 112

Chair and discussant: Tamir Agmon

If Hymer were writing now (218)
Christos Pitelis, Judge Institute of Management,
John Dunning, University of Reading


The Emergence of the Multinational Enterprise - A Formal Model (135)
Niron Hashai, Hebrew University,


On the Coexistence of National Companies and Multinational Enterprises (104)
Joern Kleinert, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel


W II:1 The Geography of MNEs SP 112

Chair: Krzysztof Obloj, School of Management, University of Warsaw

Strategic Options of Home Country Firms Faced with MNC Entry (273)
Eugene D. Jaffe, Bar-Ilan University
Israel D. Nebenzahl, Bar-Ilan University
Israel Schorr, Bar-Ilan University


The Geography of US Outward Foreign Direct Investment within the OECD: A Cross-Regional Empirical Analysis (125)
Marina Papanastassiou, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Filippaios Fragkiskos, Athens University of Economics and Business


International Business and Development Economics: A Winning Combination (96)
Tamir Agmon, The College of Management


W II:2 Strategy and Organization of MNEs SP 112

Chair: Christopher Kobrak, ESCP-EAP, European School of Management

Determinants of International Activities: Are SME's Different? (67)
Heinz Hollenstein, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology


Globalfocusing: From Domestic Conglomerate to Global Specialist (83)
Klaus Meyer, Copenhagen Business School


On the Idealized Insitutional Evolution of Organizational Forms (227)
Håkan Pihl, Kristianstad University


Virtual Transnational Corporations: Redefining the Economic Geography of International Partnership in the New World Economic Order (317)
Pradeep Ray, University of New South Wales
Sunil Venaik, University of Queensland Business School


Measuring Corporate Globalization - An Empirical Test of the Integration-Differentiation Grid (106)
Petra Kuchinka, Johannes Kepler University Linz