Sub-theme 13:

Socio-Political Interaction in Transnational Social Spaces: Power, Micro-Political Strategizing and Cross-Border Conflicts in Multinational Companies

Chair: Karen Williams

Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert
Welcome and introduction

Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Bridging roles, social skill, and embedded knowing in multinational organisations
Presenter: Florian Becker-Ritterspach

Stefan Schmid and Andrea Daniel
How perception gaps concerning the subsidiary's role may lead to conflict – A social psychological aproach
Presenter: Christopher Williams
 

Chair: Arndt Sorge

Hanane Beddi
Power relationships between the MNC headquarters and its subsidiaries: An internal differentiation within the MNC?
Presenter: Andrea Daniel

Ursula Mense-Petermann
Expatriates as micro-political agents in multinational companies
Presenter: Hanane Beddi

Christopher Williams
Subsidiary manager socio-political interaction: The impact of host country culture
Presented: Graham Hollinshead
 

Chair: Christoph Dörrenbächer

Arndt Sorge
The importance of local resource construction in gobally integrated and locally non-responsive multinationals: Jet engine manufacturers in Germany
Presenter: Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

Karen Williams and Mike Geppert
Micro-political strategizing in MNCs: An investigation of the opportunities and constraints facing local actors' strategic use of employment relations resources in the socio-political construction of transnational social spaces
Presenter: Martina Fuchs

Martina Fuchs and Johannes Winter
Competencies in subsidiaries of transnational corporations. The case of the automotive supply industry in Poland
Presenter: Stefan Schmid
 

Chair: Florian Becker-Ritterspach

Kathleen Park and Dave Bouckenooghe
Against all odds? Toward a sociopolitical framework for understanding success or failure in the merging of multinational companies
Presenter: Alexei Koveshnikov

Graham Hollinshead and Mairi Maclean
Contesting social space in the Balkan region: The case of a 'red' joint venture
Presenter: Kathleen Park

Alexei Koveshnikov
Who we are and where do we come from: National identity in time of organizational globalization. A case study of two Finnish-Russian organizations
Presenter: Mairi Maclean
 

Chair: Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Christoph Dörrenbächer
Transfer and learning in MNEs: Towards a micro-political perspective
Presenter: Janis Hilaricus

Janis Hilaricus
Why is there so much transfer failure within MNCs
Presenter: Kadire Zeynep Sayım

Kadire Zeynep Sayım
Country of origin and host-country influences on policy transfer: Pay and performance management systems in US multinationals in Turkey
Presenter: Karen Williams
 

Chair: Kathleen Park

Matthias Kuss and Jonatan Pinkse
Developing a global strategy for sustainability: The role of absorptive capacity
Presenter: George Mathew Kandathil

George Mathew Kandathil and Twinkle Ann Varghese
Who does fix the meaning of time? Exercise of ideological power and semiotic power during the implementation of enterprise resource planning in a Western organization in India
Presenter: Ursula Mense-Petermann

Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert
Final discussion
 

– no Session VII –
 

Mode of operation for the sessions

• Papers are presented by a nominated group participant
• Presenter gets 10 minutes to state the key arguments of the paper and suggest some topics for discussion
• Authors get 5 minutes to respond
• Followed by a group discussion on each paper (approx. 10 minutes)
• Task of the chair is time management and to ensure 10 to 15 minutes at the end of each session for general discussion on the theme of session and contributions of the papers
  

Beamer and Laptop will be available