Session 1: Trends & Patterns

Paz Tolentino (Birkbeck College, UK)
The determinants of the outward foreign direct investment of China and India: Whither the home country?
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Fabienne Fortanier and Rob Van Tulder (RSM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
MNEs’ Internationalization trajectories between 1990 and 2004: A cross-country comparison
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Session 2: Motivations and Modes-Sector Views

Suma Athreye (Brunel University, UK) and Andrew Godley (University of Reading, UK)
Internationalising to create Firm Specific Advantages: Leapfrogging strategies of U.S. Pharmaceutical firms in the 1930s and 1940s & Indian Pharmaceutical firms in the 1990s and 2000s
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Nagesh Kumar ( RIS, Delhi) and Alka Chadha (National University of Singapore)
Outward investments from China and India with special reference to metals
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Jorge Niosi (University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada) and F. Ted Tschang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
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Session 3: Firm Strategies: Two Case Studies

Andrea Goldstein (OECD, Paris)
The Internationalization of Indian Companies: The Case of Tata

Geert Duysters (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht)
Internationalization and Technological Catching Up of Emerging Multinationals: A Case Study of China’s Haier Group
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Session 4: Responding to Globalisation: Opportunism & Strategy

Sandeep Kapur (Birkbeck College, UK): Preliminary thoughts on an integrative framework

Panel Discussion  (moderated by Suma Athreye)

Participants: Roberto Simonetti (Open University, UK);  Xiaolan Fu (University of Oxford, UK), Rene Belderbos (University of Leuven, Belgium), Ravi Ramamurti (North Eastern University, USA)

End of conference

Lunch at V&D terrace, Grote Staat 5-15, Maastricht [map]