Activities - MLGRG

Recent activities sponsored by the group:

Puplished

2010: The Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries: Local versus Global Logic

Edited by: Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, Ali Taleb

This book focuses on the uneasy interaction between the traditional logics of developing countries and the economic logic of MNEs. The traditional logics of most developing countries are built around community-based legitimacy and an intuitive but concrete epistemology. Conversely, the economic logic of MNEs from developed economies is built around technical and economic legitimacy and an abstract intellectual epistemology. Unpacking the uneasy interactions between these two logics will help achieve MNEs’ objectives of competitiveness in developing countries as well as globally.

Now available from Routledge and other book sellers.

ISBN: 9780415492522

Forthcoming: A Special Issue of International Studies of Management and Organization

Theme:
From Dilemma to Theory to Research Agenda: Doing Business in Developing and Transitional Countries

Edited by:
> Rick Molz and Mehdi Farashahi
John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Members of Montreal Local Global Research Group

Contributors:
> Peter J Buckley, Malcolm Chapman, Jeremy Clegg and Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos: Doing Business In Developing And Transitional Countries: Challenging The Dominant Logic

> Max Boisot, John Child and Gordon Redding: Working the System: Towards a Theory of Cultural and Institutional Competence

> Marie-Laure Djelic: From the Rule of Law to the Law of Rules – Transnational Governance and its Impact on Local Structures and Dynamics

> Glenn Morgan: Multinationals And Institutions In Developing And Transitional Economies

> Mike Peng and Hao Chen: Not a Toy Problem: Strategic Responses to Global Industry Rule Changes in the Chinese Toy Industry

> Joseph Ofori-Dankwa and Scott D. Julian: Utilizing an Integrative, Multi-Lens Model to Explain Firm Performance in “Double Void” Emerging Economies

> Andreas Schotter and Paul W. Beamish: CEO Staffing and Performance in Transition Economy Subsidiaries: A Sub-National Analysis

MEETINGS SPONSORED

August 2010: International Business symposium at the Academy of Management meeting

Actors and Agency: MNE Innovation and Change in Diverse Institutional Settings

Chair: Ayse Saka (U. of Surrey)
Organizer: Gwyneth Edwards (Concordia University)

Arndt Sorge (U. of Groningen)Tatiana Kostova (U. of So Carolina)

Shih-Chang Hung (National Tsing Hua U.)

Richard Whittington (Said Business School)

Mike Geppert (U. of Surrey)

Rick Molz (Concordia U.)

August 2009: Showcase symposium at the Academy of Management meeting

MNEs from Emerging Countries: Would They Displace Multinationals from Developed Markets?

Organizers/chairs: Rick Molz (Concordia) and

Ali Taleb (HEC Montreal)

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (University of South Carolina)

Ravi Ramamurti (Northeastern University)

Rosalie L. Tung (Simon Fraser University)

Daphne W. Yiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Oguz N. Baburoglu (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey)

August 2007: Sponsor of a Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management annual conference

From Dilemma to Theory to Research Agenda: Doing Business in Developing and Transitional Countries.

Donald Lessard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Henry Mintzberg (McGill University)

Joseph Ofori-Dankwa (Saginaw State University)

Ravi Ramamurti (Northeastern University)

June 2007: Sponsor of a symposium at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada annual conference

Perspectives on Global-Local Dynamics

Fred Bird (Concordia)
Taïeb Hafsi (HEC Montreal)
Alfred Jaeger (McGill University)
Emmanuel Raufflet (HEC Montreal)
Sid Ahmed Soussi (University of Quebec at Montreal)

August 2006: Sponsor of a Professional Development Workshop, Academy of Management annual conference

Business in Developing Countries: Interaction Between Local Institutional & Global Economic Dynamics

Nancy Adler (McGill University)
Tina Dacin (Queens University)
Taïeb Hafsi (HEC Montreal)
Stuart Hart (Cornell University)
Gerte Hofstede (University of Maastricht)
Rick Molz (Concordia University)

Description: During this PDW we conducted a state of the art discussion about the ways MNC's that conduct business in developing countries have coped with local issues (economic, cultural, ethics, environmental). We also explored the existing and new theories that would help to better explain the strategic decision-making process of such companies.