Summer Strategy Conference


All sessions will take place at the Cluny and Dalvey rooms at the Kent Ridge Guild House (KRGH). Please click here for the map to KRGH. The rooms are located on the second level of KRGH.


August 26,
Wednesday


 8:45am - 9:00am             Welcome Speech 
                                        Bernard Yeung, Dean


 9:00am - 10:00am            Keynote Speech
                                        Tarun Khanna (Harvard)


10:00am - 10:20am           Break @ Kent Ridge Guild House


10:20am - 11:50am           Session 1: Family Firms and Governances
                                         
                                        Yupana Wiwattanakantang (Hitotsubashi), coauthored with Vikas Mehrotra, 
                                        Randall Morck and Jungwook Shim 
                                        Adoption Expectations: Rising Son Tournaments in Japanese Family Firms
                                        Discussant: Elizabeth Boyle

                                        Young-Choon Kim, coauthored with Chi-Nien Chung and Edward Zajac
                                        Contingent Effects of Global Financial Markets: Appointing Independent Directors
                                        on Corporate Boards of Taiwanese Firms 
                                        Discussant: Wu Changqi (Peking)


12:00pm - 1:30pm            Lunch @ Kent Ridge Guild House


 1:30pm - 3:00pm             Session 2: Business Groups and Governances

                                        Jordan Siegel (Harvard)
                                        A Reexamination of Tunneling: New Data and New Methods
                                        Discussant: Sai Yayavaram

                                        James R. Lincoln (UC Berkeley)
                                        Governance or embeddedness?  Ownership, reciprocity, and 3rd party ties in
                                        Japanese corporate networks
                                        Discussant: Kai-Yu Hsieh


 3:00pm - 3:20pm             Break @ Kent Ridge Guild House


 3:20pm - 4:50pm             Session 3: Governance Reforms in Historic and Social Perspectives

                                       Christina Admadjian (Hitotsubashi), coauthored with Shusai Nagai
                                       Diversity from isomorphism: Board reforms in the Japanese electronics industry
                                       Discussant: Chi-Nien Chung

                                       Edmund Terence Gomez (U of Malaya)
                                       The Rise and Fall of Capital: Corporate Malaysia in Historic Perspective
                                       Discussant: Sangchan Park


 6:00pm - 9:00pm             Dinner (Jumbo Seafood Restaurant - East Coast Seafood Centre)

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August 27,
Thursday

 
 9:00am - 10:30am          Session 4: Governance Mechanisms in Inter-Firm Alliances

                                       Susan Perkins (Northwestern), coauthored with Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung
                                       Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal
                                       Group Firms
                                       Discussant: Peter Hwang

                                       Minyuan Zhao (Michigan), coauthored with Pranav Garg
                                       Shopping for the Family: How Intra-firm Organization affects the Use of Inter-firm
                                       Alliances Internal Mechanism of International Joint Ventures
                                       Discussant: Nitin Pangarkar


10:30am - 10:50am          Break @ Kent Ridge Guild House


10:50am - 12:20pm          Session 5: Emerging Market Institutions and Corporate Strategy

                                       Jiangyong Lu (Peking), coauthored with Xiaohui Liu, Igor Filatotchev and Mike
                                       Wright
                                       "Learning at Home how to Invest Abroad": Domestic Diversification, Top 
                                       Management Teams and International Expansion from Emerging Markets
                                       Discussant: Jane Lu

                                       Xiaohui Lu, coauthored with Brian Wu
                                       Complementary Assets, Institutional Linkages and Upgrading -- Evidence
                                       from China's Zhongguancun Science Park
                                       Discussant: Christina Ahmadjian


12:30pm - 1:30pm            Lunch @ Kent Ridge Guild House

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