• Lorraine Eden, Editor-in-Chief
• Sri Zaheer, Reviewing Editor
• Rosalie Tung, Area Editor (International Human Resource, Comparative, and Cross-Cultural Management)
• Witold Henisz, Area Editor (Institutional and Political Environment of International Business)

Chair: Lorraine Eden,  Editor-in-Chief

Panel:

• Sea-Jin Chang, Area Editor (Managing the Multinational Enterprise)
• Witold Henisz, Area Editor (Institutional and Political Environment of International Business)
• Anand Swaminathan, Area Editor (Organization Theory and International Business)
• Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Area Editor (Economics, Ecology and Strategy in International Business)

“The Global Competitiveness of the Automotive Manufacturing Industry” by Marc Fetscherin

“The Global Competitiveness of the Automotive Manufacturing Industry” by Marc Fetscherin

“Firm Heterogeneity and Technology Seeking Strategies” by Roger Smeets

Session 1: Technology Transfer
Chair:  Sea-Jin Chang

• “Impact of Cross-border Technological Acquisitions on Technological Capabilities of Chinese MNEs” by Gloria Lan Ge and Siah Hwee Ang
• “Organizational Mechanisms for Exploration and Exploitation of Foreign Technological Knowledge: Dilemmas in Managing R&D at Home and in the US” by Seiko Arai
• “The Passage From India:  Management of the Internationalization Process in Indian Multinational Enterprises” by Stephen Rudman and Saikat Banerjee

Session 2: Entrepreneurship and Emerging Industries
Chair: Arjen van Witteloostuijn

• “To Hold or To Let Go: Impact of Brand Deletion on Firm Financial Performance” by Helena Allman
• “Individual, Cultural and Temporal Effects on the Success of International Pairings of Investors and Entrepreneurs” by Dilene Crockett
• “Understanding the Dynamics Between Entrepreneurial Orientation, Performance and Early Internationalization – Individual vs. Firm level Conceptualizations” by Johanna Hallbäck
• “Institutional Distance and Industry Emergence: The Case of Transferring Cholesterol-lowering Functional Foods to the U.S.” by Tiina Ritvala
• “Managing Ambidexterity in International SME’S: Qualitative Findings” by Ulku Yuksel and Catherine Sutton Brady

Session 3: Internationalization
Chair: Anand Swaminathan

• “Determinants of Inward Foreign Direct Investment To Ghana: Antecedents And Consequences” by Samuel Yaw Akomea and Marian Perry Asiedua Ofosu
• “Starting and Internationalization International Business Research in a Late Comer Open Economy”  by Erzsébet Czakó
• “Internationalization Through an Institutional Perspective” by Oxana Smochin
• “Born Global Verses Traditional Internationalizers” by Xiaohua Yang
• “How Global are the World's Largest Empires?” by Sandra Seno-Alday

Session 4: Cross-Cultural Management
Chair: Mark Peterson

• “Language Strategies Used by MNCs in Portugal” by Madalena Domingues
• “An Array of Different Types of Trust in Cross-cultural Interactions” by Marcos Oliveira
• “Cross-cultural Differences in the Effects of Word-of-Mouth on Trust in Relational Service Exchange Empirical Evidence for the Moderating Role of Uncertainty Avoidance” by Jan Schumann

Session 5: The Institutional and Political Environment
Chair: Witold Henisz

• “Refocusing in Emerging Markets: Evidence from “Multi-Focus” Diversification Strategies of Turkish Business Groups” by Ayse Karaevli
• “Corporate Social Responsibility in Overseas Subsidiaries:  Does It Transfer across Borders and Does It Pay Off?” by Candice Martinez and Gayle Allard
• “A Resource-based View of Prosecuting a Trade Remedy Case in the United States of America” by Johan Paul Lindeque and Steve McGuire

• Lorraine Eden, Editor-in-Chief
• Laszlo Tihanyi, PDW Organizer