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Standing Working Group 1 – Sub-theme 01:

Comparative Study of Economic Organizations – Functional Conversion and the Renewal of Organizations

 

Convenors:

Steven Casper
Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Colleges (USA)
steven_casper@kgi.edu

Michel Goyer
IROB Unit, Warwick Business School (UK)
michel.goyer@wbs.ac.uk

Bob Hancké
European Institute, London School of Economics (UK)
r.hancke@lse.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30

Bob Hancké
The emergence of inter-firm coordination in Central Europe

Karl Lilja, Eli Moen and Christer Peterson
Business renewal: Adapting to the globalized economy through experimental use of institutional resources in Nordic Countries

Glenn Morgan and Izumi Kubo
Functional conversion and institutional stability: The changing nature of the stock market in Japan

Discussant: Gunnar Trumbull
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30

Gunnar Trumbull
The politics of consumer credit

Sigrid Quack
Euro law firms and national models of law practice

Risto Tainio, Michal Frenkel, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen and Janne Tienari
Security regimes and the transformation of national business systems: Finland and Israel compared

Discussant: Glenn Morgan
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30

Andrea Herrmann
Do national institutions influence choice and stability of competitive strategies? A case study of the European pharmaceutical industry

Eva Passarge and Raimund Hasse
Institutional change in coordinated cconomies: The development of the biotech sector in Switzerland

Lori de Paauw
Institutional recombination and Ccange in organizational strategy: The case of Biotech Hybrid

Discussant: Mark Lehrer
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30

Steven Casper
Social structure and marketplace formation within California biotechnology

Mark Greeven
Developing innovative competences in an emerging business system: Software entrepreneurs in Hangzhou

Åge Mariussen
Fields of innovation: Heterogeneities of strategies of innovation

Discussant: Andrew Tylecote
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45

Matthew Allen
Revisiting institutions and innovation: Can works councils facilitate radical change in Germany?

Katharina Bluhm and Bernd Martens
Rebuilt institutions, smaller firms strategies and bank relationships in Germany

Andrew Tylecote and Francesca Visintin
Fast and slow reconfiguration of national business systems: A comparative study reviewing effects on technological advantage

Discussant: Bob Hancké
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30

Lazaros Goutas
Identifying actual change: The links between logics and institutional change in the corporate governance of the German business system

Rick Molz and Carol Ann Tetrault Sirsly
Globalization as a driver of corporate and institutional renewal: Corporate social responsibility in different national institutional frameworks

Graham Winch
Perceptions of cultural and institutional difference: The case of French and British architectural practices

Discussant: Michel Goyer
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45

Epaminondas Epimononda and Richard Whitley
Colonialism, institutional transformation and diversity of economic organization: The case of Cyprus

Michel Goyer
The trivial necessity of preferences, the critical necessity of institutions: The rise of short-term capital in France

Mark Lehrer, Phillip Nell and Lisa Gärber
A national systems view of university development: Towards a broadened perspective on the entrepreneurial university based on Germany and US experience

Discussant: Steven Casper

 

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