Workshop on International Management Issues and M&A (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar)

Date&Time Friday, November 11, 2016, 2:00pm-4:45pm
Place Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)
Intended Audience Faculties, Graduate Students and People with Equivalent Knowledge
Language English
Note Copies of the paper will be available at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration.

2:00pm-2:45pm

Speaker H Richard NAKAMURA
Affiliation School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Topic Project Description: The role of HR practices in organizational harmonization processes at Japanese firms owned by foreign MNCs

2:45pm-3:30pm

Speaker Ramsin YAKOB
Affiliation School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Topic Fostering Local Managerial Capacity in China: HRM, Matched-Pairs, and Collectivity of Practice
Abstract Socialization as a powerful mean for successful knowledge transfer- and development within the MNC is well established. However, social interaction and the platform for knowledge flows provided by the MNCs internal network does not automatically result in knowledge transfer- and development. Our understanding of the organizing approach of MNCs when using socialization as a conduit of knowledge transfer- and development to emerging economy subsidiaries is still in its. AIMS are to; empirically and theoretically examine and discern underlying mechanisms of individual- and interpersonal-level micro-foundations of knowledge transfer and learning in the MNC. Explore forms of managerial capacity development through socialization/knowledge development in an emerging economy subsidiary of a MNC.

4:00pm-4:45pm

Speaker Pao-Lien CHEN
Affiliation Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University
Topic Acquiring for growth? The influence of managerial experience and ties on the likelihood of intra-industry acquisitions
Abstract This paper examines how managers' industrial knowledge and ties affect a firm's likelihood of taking intra-industry acquisition. This paper proposes that a firm's intra-industry action depends on the perceived need for using acquisition to obtaining resources for growth and opportunity of finding appropriate targets by managers, and thereby managerial knowledge and external ties. Empirical findings from firms in the cell-phone service industry during 1983 to 1998 suggest that intra-industry knowledge of managers is negatively related to a firm's intra- industry acquisition. Further, different industrial ties of managers contribute differently to a firm's intra-industry acquisition. More importantly, a firm's is even more unlikely to take on intra-industry acquisition when its managers have both a high level of intra-industry knowledge and ties to competitors.