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2021 AIB-Canada Chapter Conference

 

MANAGING THE MULTINATIONAL AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

IN A TURBULENT WORLD

 

December 3-4

IN PERSON AND ONLINE

Ivey Business School, Western University Canada

London, Ontario

 

DOWNLOAD FULL CFP & SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

https://aib.to/canada2021

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School

Alain Verbeke, University of Calgary.

Women in AIB Fellow’s Panel:

Rosalie Tung (Simon Fraser), Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M), Becky Reuber

Industry Keynote Speaker (tbc)

 

JIBS-JIBP PDW FACILITATORS

Klaus Meyer (Ivey Business School)

Becky Reuber (Rotman School of Management)

Ari van Assche (HEC Montreal)

Ram Mudambi (Temple University)

Geoffrey Wood (Western University)

 

KEY DATES:

Submission deadline: October 30, 2021

Authors notified by November 15, 2021

Conference dates: December 3-4, 2021

 

Organizing Team:

Andreas Schotter ([log in to unmask]), Conference Chair,

Klaus Meyer ([log in to unmask]),

Anthony Goerzen ([log in to unmask]), AIB Canada Chair

 

Location:

Ivey Business School, Western University Canada, London, Ontario

 

Contact:

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CONFERENCE THEME:

The multinational enterprise (MNE)—in its traditional configurational structure—faces unprecedented challenges caused by technological and political turbulences that contest the globalization model of the past 80 years (Narula, Asmussen, Chi, & Kundu, 2019). Some experts even argue that globalization is reversing itself (Cuervo-Cazurra, Doz, & Gaur, 2019; Witt, 2019). Besides political headwinds, radical, particularly digital technological advances threaten the very key advantages long enjoyed by MNEs, raising many critical issues concerning the future of the MNE and its subsidiaries. With this conference we seek to advance research conversations on the development, evolution, and management of the MNE and subsidiary nexus, focusing on the political environment, technological advancements (particularly digitalization and automation) and small open economies.

 

We are particularly interested in the context of small open economies such as Canada, Israel, Norway or South Korea, where companies face competition from countries with much larger domestic markets and resource bases. In such contexts, potential dependence on foreign sources and limited market size increase the benefit of openness, but also the vulnerability to external shocks. What do the above-described turbulences mean for MNEs and their subsidiaries in these contexts?

 

In Canada, a major challenge for young firms are that once they get past the commercialization stage, they often get funded and acquired by larger players from the United States and elsewhere. In part, this is because the players often require access to export markets quickly because of the limited size of the Canadian market. The same phenomenon arises in many small open economies throughout the world. Companies and governments must figure out how to become more valuable on their own.