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national and international policies are being reviewed by many countries; and, finally, to take on board views
and ideas from the AIB as part of the process of evolving, elaborating and improving the IPFSD. (For more
information, please contact: Hafiz Mirza, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD, Switzerland:
Hafiz.Mirza@unctad.org)
Session: 1.3.2 - Panel
Track: 9 - Cross-cultural Management and HRM
Complex Cross-Cultural Interaction: Building, Studying, and Learning from Relationships
among Multiple Stakeholders
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 13:00-14:15
Chair: Mary Margaret Maloney, University of St. Thomas
Co-Chair: Mary Elizabeth Zellmer-Bruhn, University of Minnesota
Panelists:
Mary Margaret Maloney, University of St. Thomas
Mary Elizabeth Zellmer-Bruhn, University of Minnesota
Laura Grosso, Kids Connection Haiti
Chris Peot, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
Dana McDaniel, California State University, Long Beach
Mikael Søndergaard, University of Aarhus
Davina Vora, SUNY New Paltz
Inspired by the AIB 2012 conference theme this interactive panel is designed to enhance our understanding of
the relationships between people from business, government, and NGOs. In this panel we examine the micro
aspects of inter-organizational relationships, as a reminder that business-government-NGO interactions
ultimately take place between people and groups of people. We propose an innovative panel session designed
to elicit lively interaction among panelists and AIB members, aiming to provoke thinking across disciplinary and
institutional divides. We frame our inquiry and session using the "engaged scholarship perspective" (Van de Ven
2007) which proposes that solving complex problems requires researchers to communicate with and be
informed by multiple stakeholders. To this end, our panel includes representatives from international business
scholarship, and NGOs, public organizations. The panel will involve an interactive discussion including roundtable
breakouts aimed at discovering important research problems about cross-boundary interpersonal
relationships as well as novel theoretical perspectives and research designs to investigate these problems. In
addition, we will build on the relationships developed in this session by connecting interested AIB members
through social media, to share outcomes and encourage an ongoing dialogue among stakeholder groups. [194
Words] (For more information, please contact: Mary Margaret Maloney, University of St. Thomas, USA:
mmmaloney@stthomas.edu)
Session: 1.3.3 - Panel
Track: 7 - Emerging Economies
Doing Business in Latin America
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 13:00-14:15
Chair: Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Co-Chair: Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Northeastern University
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