AIB 2012 Conference Proceedings - Academy of International ...

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Session: 1.3.P - Special Session
AIB Fellows Eminent Scholar Award Session: Honouring Professor Ikujioro Nonaka
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 13:00-14:15
Chair: Alan M. Rugman, University of Reading
Significance of the AIB Fellows Eminent Scholar Award: Outsider Intellectual Influences on the Field of
International Business
Alan M. Rugman, University of Reading
Introduction of Professor Ikujiro Nonaka
Johny Johansson, Georgetown University
What We can Learn from Japanese Business Practices: Past, Present and Future
Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University
What We can Learn from Professor Ikujiro Nonaka: Past, Present and Future
D. Eleanor Westney, York University
(For more information, please contact: Alain Verbeke, University of Calgary, Canada:
alain.verbeke@haskayne.ucalgary.ca)
Session: 1.3.1 - Special Session
UNCTAD WIR Panel I: Towards an International Policy Framework for Sustainable
Development (IPFSD)
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 13:00-14:15
Chair: James Zhan, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD
Discussant: Peter Buckley, University of Leeds
Panelists:
James Zhan, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD
Hafiz Mirza, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD
Theodore Moran, Georgetown University
Gabriele Suder, SKEMA Business School and ANUCES Fellow
Rajneesh Narula, Reading University
Raj Aggarwal, University of Akron
Pavida Pananond, Thammasat Business School
Mobilizing investment and ensuring its positive contribution to sustainable development are important objectives
for most countries. As a part of the World Investment Report 2012, to assist governments in this task, UNCTAD
has developed a comprehensive set of policy guidelines entitled an Investment Policy Framework for
Sustainable Development (IPFSD). It brings together UNCTAD’s many years of experience in designing balanced
investment policies that are part and parcel of countries’ broader development strategies. The IPFSD consists
of (1) a set of Core Principles for investment policymaking, (2) guidelines for national investment policies, and
(3) options for designing international investment agreements (IIAs). It is a living document. With this in mind,
the IPFSD will be discussed in this panel, first, to introduce the concept and content of the framework;
secondly, to assess how it can be used as a basis for effective policymaking, especially in a period when both
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