Sunday July 23, 2006

Monday, July 24, 2006

8:30-12:00: Networks
Sub-project by: Hans Hendrischke
Reviewers: John Child, Bart Nooteboom
Chairperson: Andrew Tylecote
Paper:
- Networks as Business Networks
Additional readings:
- Bat Batjargal, ' Comparative Social Capital: Networks of Entrepreneurs and Investors in China and Russia', The William Davidson Institute, Working Paper No. 783 (2005)
- Mike W. Peng and Jessie Qi Zhou, ' How Network Strategies and Institutional Transitions Evolve in Asia', Asia Pacific Journal of Management, No. 4, 22 (2006) 321-336

13:00-16:00: Multinationals
Sub-project by: Xueyuan Zhang, Patrick Reinmoeller
Reviewers: Max Boisot, Gordon Redding, Jieqiu Wan
Chairperson: Steven Casper
Papers:
- Introduction
- Foreign Firms in China: Success by Strategic Choices
- Dynamics of Isomorphism: Evidence from the Field of Foreign Invested Enterprises in China
- Dialectics of Preference and Constraints in the Ownership Decision of Foreign Firms in China
Additional reading:
- Lecture by Professor Yongda Yu of Tsinghua University: 'Jiangsu vis-à-vis Zhejiang on Attracting FDI: An Institutional Foundation Analytical Framework'

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

8:30-12:00: Innovation
Sub-project by: Mark Greeven
Reviewers: Steven Casper, Andrew Tylecote
Chairperson: Richard Whitley
Papers:
- Introduction
- The New Great Leap: The Rise of China's ICT Industry
- Challenges of Innovating Firms in An Emerging Economy: Innovation and Institutional Risks in China's Software Industry
Additional readings:
- Anne S. Tsui, ' Contextualization in Chinese Management Research', Management and Organization Review, No. 1,  2 (2006) 1–13
- Jing Cai and Andrew Tylecote, ' A Healthy Hybrid: The Technological Dynamism of Minority-State-Owned Firms in China', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, No. 3, 17 (2005) 257-277

13:00-16:00: Entrepreneurship
Sub-project by: Barbara Krug
Reviewers: John Child, Margit Osterloh
Chairperson: Max Boisot
Paper:
- Enterprise Ground Zero in China
Additional readings:
- Jeroen Kuilman, ' Institutional Change, Diversity, and Competition: Foreign Banks in Shanghai, 1847-2004', Working paper (2006)
- Sonja Opper, ' Going Public without the Public: Between Political Governance and Corporate Governance', Working paper (2006)

Wednesday July 26, 2006

Daytime: Garden tour in Suzhou

Thursday, July 27, 2006

8:30-12:00: Taxation
Sub-project by: Barbara Krug, Ze Zhu
Reviewers: Bruno Frey, Lars Feld
Chairperson: Xianguo Yao
Papers:
- China's Emerging Tax Regime: Local Tax Farming and Central Tax Bureaucracy
- Rational Entrepreneurship in Local China: Exit Plus Voice for Preferential Tax Treatments
- Is China a Leviathan?

13:00-16:00: Culture and Heterogeneity
Sub-project by: David Goodman
Reviewers: Gordon Redding, Stephan Rothlin
Chairperson: Yongda Yu
Papers:
- Narratives of Change: Culture and Local Economic Development 
- China in East Asian and World Culture
- Shanxi as Translocal Imaginary: Reforming the Local     

Friday, July 28, 2006

8:30-12:00: Diversity in organisational forms and business systems
Sub-project by: Jeroen Kuilman, Barbara Krug
Reviewers: Bruno Frey, Richard Whitley
Chairperson: Bart Nooteboom
Paper:
- Whom are We Dealing with? The Dynamics of Organizational Forms in China’s Future Business System
Additional readings:
- Gernot Grabher and David Stark, ' Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis, and Post-Socialism',  Regional Studies, No. 5, 31 (1997) 533-544
- Michael T. Hannan, ' Ecologies of Organizations: Diversity and Identity', Journal of Economic Perspectives, No. 1, 19 (2005) 51–70
- Barbara Krug and Hans Hendrischke, ' Framing China: Transformation and Institutional Change', Working paper (2006)