The Department of Strategy and Policy (formerly known as Department of Business and Policy) at NUS Business School had hosted its inaugural annual Strategy Research Conference on Wednesday and Thursday, August 26-27, 2009.
The focus of the conference was on the theme of Corporate Governance and Institutions. General topics of interest include:
- Role of intellectual property rights, political rights, and civil liberties in innovation and economic growth;
- Impact of corporate legal and regulatory framework on firm behavior and performance;
- Role of business groups in emerging market countries;
- Impact of institutions in individual countries-in addressing a common environmental shock, e.g., global financial crisis;
- Evolution of institutions with interactions among individual actors and governments
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
Institutional Collision in Corporate Governance: The Incorporation of Independent Directors in Family Firms in Taiwan
Discussant: Wu Changqi (Peking)
Session 2: Business Groups and Governances
James R. Lincoln (UC Berkeley)
Governance or embeddedness? Ownership, reciprocity, and 3rd party ties in Japanese corporate networks
Discussant: Kai-Yu Hsieh
Jordan Siegel (Harvard)
Quality of Corporate Governance in Indian Business Groups
Discussant: Sai Yayavaram
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
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 effects the Use of Inter-firm Alliances Internal Mechanism of International Joint Ventures
Discussant: Nitin Pangarkar
Session 5: Emerging Market Institutions and Corporate Strategy
Jiangyong Lu (Peking), coauthored with Xiaohui Lu, Igor Filatotchev and Mike Wright
Domestic Diversification and International Expansion: The Role of Top Management Team and Institution
Discussant: Jane Lu
Xiaohui Lu, coauthored with Brian Wu
Evolution of Firm Capabilities during Market Transition -- Evidence from China's Zhongguancun Science Park
Discussant: Christina Ahmadjian