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Session: 1.1.P - Special Session
ABSTRACTS FOR SUNDAY, JULY 1, 2012
Washington DC Deans Panel: Widening the Tent: Incorporating Non-profit and
Government Actors in Global Business Education
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 09:00-10:15
Chair: Robert Grosse, George Mason University
Panelists:
G. "Anand" Anandalingam, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Michael J. Ginzberg, Kogod School of Business, American University
Doug Guthrie, George Washington University School of Business
Jorge Haddock, George Mason University School of Management
(For more information, please contact: Susan Feinberg, Temple University, USA: 2012dc@aib.msu.edu)
Session: 1.1.1 - Panel
Track: 1 - Institutions, Governance, and CSR
Current Topics in Comparative Corporate Governance
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 09:00-10:15
Chair: Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Co-Chair: Ilir Haxhi, University of Amsterdam
Panelists:
Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University
Rafel Crespi-Cladera, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Thomas Clarke, University of Technology Sydney
Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University
William Q. Judge, Old Dominion University
Our panel seeks to discuss current topics in comparative corporate governance research in different advanced
industrialized and emerging markets, and draws on several theories such as institutional and agency theory
broadly speaking. We will pay special attention to examining the drivers of existing corporate governance
structures, what triggers change of corporate governance practices, and the diffusion of these practices over
time. The panel will touch on topics that address questions such as to what extent are European and Anglo-
American governance systems parallel or colliding universes (Clarke); what explains the stickiness of the
Japanese corporate governance system (Ahmadjian); how are the process of economic liberalization,
privatization and globalization affecting governance mechanisms in emerging markets like India (Gaur); to what
extent the demographic characteristics of a Dutch business elite network propel the diffusion and adoption of
shareholder-oriented best practices in the context of the Netherlands (Haxhi and van Ees); or even what is the
role of corporate governance in family firms, and what are the drivers of the control by families along
generations that make these organizations potentially more competitive (Crespí-Cladera). (For more
information, please contact: Ilir Haxhi, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: i.haxhi@uva.nl)
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