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Special Issue: A Tribute to John H. Dunning - Editor: Danny Van Den Bulcke (printable version)
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| The Fribourg 2006 Conference: An evaluation |
by Philippe Gugler 32nd EIBA Annual Conference Conference theme, programme, papers The theme of the 32nd EIBA-Conference was “Regional and National Drivers of Business Location and Competitiveness”. The theme was chosen to invite reflection on the major challenges faced by industrialised countries in the context of globalisation of productions and markets.
The conference was organized during 3 full days at the new Faculty building of the bilingual Fribourg University/ Freiburg Universität. On the first day, Thursday December 7, 2006 the EIBA Doctoral Tutorial and the Nordic Doctoral School In International Business were organized, two activities that provided opportunities for young researchers to receive the comments and suggestions about their Ph.d. projects from experienced and reputed academics. The Opening plenary session, scheduled on Thursday, December 7, addressed the main conference theme. Speakers of the panel were: the former President of Switzerland and former Minister of Economics, Joseph Deiss, John Dunning, Emeritus Professor University of Reading (UK) and Rutgers (US), and the CEO of Ernst &Young Switzerland, Peter Athanas. This session was chaired by Thomas Cottier, Director of the World Trade Institute in Bern. A second plenary session, chaired by Gaston Gaudard - former rector of the University of Fribourg-, was dedicated to ‘Outstanding Issues Regarding International Business Competitiveness’ and could count on the participation of Jean-Pierre Roth, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank and of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS, Basel); of Christian Ketels, Member of the Faculty at the Harvard Business School and of Lars Oxelheim, professor at the University of Lund and member of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm. The closing plenary session was organized by the EIBA Fellows and was held in honour of Prof. Sanjaya Lall. It was chaired by John Dunning and discussed ‘Multinationals, Technology and Development’ together with Francesca Sanna-Randaccio, John Cantwell (Professor, Rutgers University), Anne Miroux (Chief of the Investment Issues Analysis Branch, UNCTAD) and Karl Sauvant (Executive Director, Columbia Program on International Investment, Columbia University). In total 292 were submitted of which 251were accepted after a blind review . The papers were handled by 8 different track chairs. The most successful track was on “Management, Organization and Cultural” issues with 74 papers followed by the track on “International Corporate Strategies” in which 68 papers were accepted. The track on “R&D and Knowledge Management” and the track on “Location and Competitiveness Issues” with a total of more ore than 30 accepted papers. Somewhar less popular were the tracks on “Economic Theory of the MNC” (16 papers), on “International Finance and Accounting” (14 papers), on “Regulatory and Policy Issues” (13 papers) and on “Ethics & Corporate Governance Issues” (11 papers). This year the submission and review process was facilitated by the electronic system used already last year in Oslo. More than 230 colleagues signed up as reviewers, most of them using the electronic system.The total number of proposed posters was 49 of which finally 42 were included in the programme. Moreover, an extra Doctoral Tutorial Poster session has been organised on Friday, December 8 given the important number of good papers received this year. Participants The total number of registered participants was 336, 10 of which registered directly at the welcome desk. Most of the participants were Europeans. The geographical distribution of the participants is as follows: Australia 7, Austria 17, Belgium 7, Brazil 9, Canada 3, Croatia 1, Czech Republic 4, Denmark 13, Egypt 1, Estonia 3, Fiji 1, Finland 37, France 5, Germany 18, Ghana 1, Greece 3, Hong Kong 1, Hungary 1, Ireland 5, Israel 6, Italy 13, Japan 2, Lithuania 3, Macau 1, Malaysia 1, New Zealand 7, Nigeria 5, Norway 11, Poland 6, Portugal 8, Romania 1, Slovenia 3, South Africa 1, South Korea 1, Spain 12, Sweden 19, Switzerland 19, Taiwan 2, Thailand 1, The Netherlands 12, Turkey 3, UK 47, USA 14, Ukraine 1 Eight publishers participated to the conference:
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