Max Havelaar Lecture 2010

At the Max Havelaar Lecture ‘Chains for Change’, various speakers from a wide range of perspectives provided us with their vision and ambitions on how supply chain management can contribute to global sustainability and empowerment.

At the Max Havelaar Lecture 2008, Noreena Hertz, distinguished fellow at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, author of ‘The Silent Takeover’ and ‘The Debt Threat’ and Visiting Professor at the RSM Erasmus University, held a speech about partnership for development.

By Rob van Tulder & Alex van der Zwart

This dissertation addresses the issue of agricultural innovation in Asia. Agricultural production and productivity in many Asian countries have grown rapidly over the past decades. Yet, important challenges are ahead. Growing incomes lead to rapid changes in consumption patterns: not only do people eat more food, they also demand more animal products and, fruits and vegetables. While demand is growing the resource base from which to feed a growing and more affluent population is declining: good agricultural land is lost to erosion, urbanization, industrial development and recreation.

This study is about mapping the mind of the strategist – quantitatively measuring the core beliefs that executives have about the best way to approach strategic issues. The objective is to develop a reliable instrument for measuring these strategy beliefs, which can be reused across a broad range of cognitive studies. The intention is to create a Hofstede-like universal instrument for quantitatively capturing strategic beliefs of executives across any range of industries and cultures.

The primary aim of this study is to examine inward FDI as an industrial phenomenon how the introduction of a new competitive force through FDI inflows influences the development of industries. It offers an interdisciplinary effort to advance the understanding of the FDI impact on industrial development in emerging markets. Based on a multidimensional, dynamic and comparative approach to analysing industrial advancement, this study investigates in particular the development of two Chinese industries the automotive industry and the electronics and ICT sector. It illustrates the critical role of the policy environment in determining the effects of inward FDI. The policy environment at the industrial level is largely defined by both entry restrictions and trade barriers.

The 2001 Erasmus (S)coreboard of Core Companies documents the restructuring and internationalization strategies of a representative sample of the world's largest companies. The present (S)coreboard assesses the 'true face of globalization', exposing in particular the reality behind several major debates of the 1990s, including the myth of globalization, the fallacy of lean production/increased outsourcing, and the alleged diminished significance of 'Old Economy' players.