If you will be in Prague, we welcome you to the Global Strategy Interest Group's Sunday program, on 7th October, which will include three very interactive sessions and the business meeting/social event! Please see below for details.
We look forward to seeing you in Prague!
Best regards,
Charles Dhanaraj (IG Chair), Tim Devinney (IG Program Chair), and Beth Rose (IG Associate Program Chair)
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08:00 – 09:15, in room "Club A"
Strategy Implementation: Global Challenges
(Session 129, Joint session with the Strategy Practice IG)
Session Co-chairs: Hanna Lehtimaki (University of Eastern Finland) and Elizabeth Rose (Aalto University)
Panelists:
Yves Doz, INSEAD
David Seidl, University of Zurich
Kurt Verweire, Vlerick Business School
George Yip, China Europe International Business School
In this session, the panelists and the audience will engage in discussion about strategy implementation, which is one of the main items on the agenda of top managers in firms around the world. The panel will discuss both frameworks and practice related to strategy implementation in the global context. Combining the managerial perspective with both macro (global strategy) and micro (strategy practice) academic viewpoints will enable a broad-ranging discussion of the challenges associated with strategy implementation, both domestic and across national borders.
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09:30 – 10:45, in room "Club A"
Practicing Strategy in Transition Economies: Reframing, Rethinking and Renewing
(Session 130, Joint session with the Stakeholder Strategy and Strategy Practice IGs)
Session Chair: Sotirios Paroutis, University of Warwick
Panelists:
Charles Dhanaraj, Indiana University
Jonathan Doh, Villanova University
Loizos Heracleous, University of Warwick
Marjorie Lyles, Indiana University
Sybille Sachs, University of Applied Sciences Zurich
Richard Whittington, University of Oxford
In this session, we will hear from a panel of distinguished scholars who will discuss approaches that can help us to better understand, explain and anticipate the complex issues that characterize strategy in transition economies. The panelists will share their views on leveraging a multi-disciplinary approach to inform and advance the agenda related to the practice of strategy in such economies. Panel members will discuss theoretical and methodological innovations in academic research from three perspectives –strategy as practice, stakeholder theory and global strategy – that pertain to strategic management in transition economies, and will share their views on how organizations can create novel and innovative ways of thinking and doing business. The session will engage participants in interactive knowledge sharing, so everyone will have the opportunity to leave the room with ideas and inspiration for opportunities and the potential for collaborative research.
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11:15 – 12:30, in room "Club A"
Global Strategies in the Service Sector
(Session 131)
Session Chair: Elizabeth Rose (Aalto University)
Panelists:
Pervez Ghauri, King's College London
Hemant Merchant, University of South Florida - St. Petersburg
Hussain Rammal, University of South Australia
Eleanor Westney, York University
Although critical to global business, research on the internationalization of services lags practice. This session will address a range of issues pertaining to how service-sector firms access foreign markets and manage across borders. We will consider the full spectrum of services, from pure and highly intangible (e.g., consulting), to hard services with manufacturing-like attributes, to product-associated services (e.g., after-sales service) provided by manufacturers. The session will be highly interactive, emphasizing the exchange of ideas among panellists and audience, addressing issues including (but not limited to) strategies for globalizing culturally-embedded services and creating quality service across borders, managing the services-product overlap, global professional mobility, and challenges associated with doing research on international service strategy. The goal is to create an environment that fosters a free-wheeling discussion that continues beyond the session and generates connections that will lead to more services-related work undertaken through the many theoretical lenses that characterize strategy research.
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AND THE "BUSINESS MEETING"...
Rather than holding a traditional business meeting, our Global Strategy IG Business Meeting will be offsite at the Black Angels Bar (http://www.blackangelsbar.cz) on Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí 460/29). This event will be from 5 – 7PM (17:00 – 19:00) with a cash bar but a private section of the bar and our own bartender. The IG will provide some food, based on our limited budget, plus your first drink! After the session, you are free to stay or head out on the town. The official part,of the meeting will be held from approximately 5:15 to 6:15 (17:15 – 18:15). We know that many will want to come later, so please come and meet the team. Maps will be available in the session rooms on Sunday. (Note you will need to walk from one of three metro stations (Staroměstská, Můstek, or Náměstí Republiky, or take a tram.)