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the session will be structured around five themes: (1) Institutional Theory Development, (2) Multinational
Enterprises and Country Institutions, (3) Institutional Polycentrism and International Business, (4) Institutional
Change in Emerging Markets, and (5) Designing Studies of Institutions. (For more information, please contact:
Laszlo Tihanyi, Texas A&M University, USA: ltihanyi@tamu.edu)
Session: 2.4.1 - Panel
Track: 1 - Institutions, Governance, and CSR
Trading Places: The Evolving Role of Government, Business and Civil Society in the Global
Business Environment
Presented On: July 2, 2012 - 14:30-15:45
Chair: Jonathan P. Doh, Villanova University
Trading Places: The Evolving Role of Government, Business and Civil Society in the Global Business Environment
Robert Hemphill, AES Solar
Robert Kaplan, Inter-American Foundation
Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School
Chris Jochnick, Oxfam America
John Stoner, McKinsey & Co.
This panel seeks to explore the implications for IB theory and practice of the changing roles of governments,
private firms, and NGOs in the international business environment. In particular, we explore the increased
private provision of public, collective goods, and the growing collaboration among all three sectors in the joint
responses to social and institutional voids in developing and emerging markets. Panelists with extensive
involvement studying or engaging in such efforts – including cross-sectoral collaborations – will reflect on their
experience and what it means for international business theory and practice and the overall conference theme.
(For more information, please contact: Jonathan P. Doh, Villanova University, USA:
jonathan.doh@villanova.edu)
Session: 2.4.2 - Panel
Track: 9 - Cross-cultural Management and HRM
Bi/Multiculturals and their Roles in Organizations
Presented On: July 2, 2012 - 14:30-15:45
Chair: Davina Vora, SUNY New Paltz
Panelists:
Mary Yoko Brannen, INSEAD
Stacey Fitzsimmons, Western Michigan University
Fiona Moore, Royal Holloway, University of London
Terry Mughan, Anglia Ruskin University
Anne-Marie Søderberg, Copenhagen Business School
Christopher Voisey, Nyenrode Business University
Davina Vora, SUNY New Paltz
Bi/multiculturals, people who have internalized two or more cultures, are becoming increasingly common in
today's global environment. These individuals not only have skills and capabilities that monoculturals do not, but
they also have the potential to help firms fulfill organizational goals. Despite this, research on the roles of
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