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Programme for the Conference: "Competences, Governance and Entrepreneurship". The DRUID 1998 Summer Conference, Bornholm, June 9-11, 1998.
See also the list of contributions for the Conference. The contributions can be downloaded in pdf-format.
Tuesday, June 9 10.00 Departure from Copenhagen Airport 11.00 Arrival at Hotel Fredensborg, Bornholm 11.30 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 13.15 Opening addresses Finn Junge-Jensen, President of Copenhagen Business School Nicolai Foss, organizer of the conference 13.15- 14.00 Keynote address (plenary session) Bo Carlsson and Bengt-Åke Lundvall: "Industrial Dynamics Revisited: What Have We Learned?" 14.00 - 15.15 Session A: Fundamental Perspectives Chair: Bo Carlsson Sidney G. Winter: "Evolutionary Production Theory:Principles and Elements" Richard N. Langlois: "Capabilities and Governance: the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization" Paul Geroski: "The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice" Discussants: Ulrich Witt and Giovanni Dosi Session B: Competences and Technology Strategy Chair: Bengt-Åke Lundvall Franco Malerba: "Knowledge Proximity and Technological Diversification" Mette Præst: "Processes of Technological Competence Accumulation: A Synthesis" Jens Frøslev Christensen: "Pursuing Corporate Coherence in Decentralized Governance Structures: the Role of Technology Management in Multi- Product Companies" Discussants: Massimo Colombo and Finn Valentin 15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break 15.45 - 17.00 Session C: Perspectives on Interfirm Organization Chair: Peter Maskell Bart Nooteboom: "Competence in Mutual Dependence" Massimo Colombo: "The Choice of the Form of Strategic Alliances: Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond" Anoop Madhok: "Cost, Value, and the Management of Interfirm Collaborations" Discussants: Steen Thomsen and Henrik Lando Session D: Competences, Transaction Costs, and Strategy Chair: Jens Frøslev Christensen Kirsten Foss and Nicolai Foss: "The Knowledge-Based Perspective: Some Organizational Economics Foundations" Jack Nickerson: "Toward an Economizing Theory of Strategy" Nicholas Argyres: "Contractual Commitments, Bargainining Power, and Governance Inseperability:Incorporating History into the Transaction Cost Theory of Firm" Discussants: Torger Reve and Oliver Williamson 17.00 Session E: Competences and Transaction Costs (plenary session) Chair: Volker Mahnke Roundtable with Oliver Williamson, Sidney Winter, Brian Loasby, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, G.B. Richardson, Jay Barney, and Giovanni Dosi 19.00 Dinner __________________________________________ Wednesday, June 10 9.00 - 9.30 Keynote address (plenary session) G.B. Richardson: "Production, Planning and Prices" 9.30 - 10.45 Session A: Evolution and Industrial Organization Chair: Rikard Stankiewitz Esben Sloth Andersen: "The Evolution of the Organisation of Industry" Martin Fransman: "Analysing the Evolution of Industry: the Relevance of the Telecommunications Industry" Frank Kristensen:" Towards a Dynamic Theory of Industrial Organisation" Discussants: Vivien Walsh and Stan Metcalfe Session B: Evolution and the Firm Chair: Nicolai Foss Ulrich Witt: "Between Entrepreneurial Leadership and Managerial Governance - The Contingent Ontogeny of the Firm Organization" Luigi Marengo: "Interdependencies and Division of Labor in Problem Solving Techniques" Giovanni Dosi: "Learning to Govern and Learning to Solve Problems" Discussants: Richard Langlois and Brian Loasby 10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 12.30 Session C: Empirical Work on the Competence Perspective Chair: Peter Maskell Guido Reger: "European Technolgy Policy and Internationalization: An Analysis against the Background of the International Innovation Strategies of Multinational Enterprises" Torben Pedersen: "Do MNCs Learn Through Their International Operations?" Birgitte Andersen and Vivien Walsh: "Co-Evolution of Technological Systems, Blurring of Industry Boundaries, and Broadening of Competences in the Chemical Industry" Discussants: Keld Laursen and Bo Carlsson Session D: Real Options and the Theory of the Firm Chair: Steen Thomsen Ron Sanchez: "Uncertainty, Flexibility and Economic Organization: Foundations for an Option Theory of the Firm" Jay B. Barney: "Transaction Costs, Real Options, Learning and Property Rights" Eric Pfaffman: "How Does a Product Influence the Boundaries of the Firm?" Discussants: Jack Nickerson and Volker Mahnke 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 Sightseeing on Bornholm 18.30 Dinner 20.30- Session E: Technology and Competence Accumulation (plenary session) Chair: Jens Frøslev Christensen Keith Pavitt: "Technologies, Products and Organisation in the Innovating Firm: What Adam Smith Tells us and Joseph Schumpeter Doesn't" Rod Coombs and Stan Metcalfe: "Distributed Capabilities and the Governance of the Firm" Gunnar Eliasson: "The Nature of Economic Change and Management in the Knowledge-Based Information Economy" Discussants: Charles Edquist and Bengt-Åke Lundvall _____________________________________________________ Thursday, June 11 8.45 - 9.15 Keynote address (plenary session) Oliver E. Williamson: "Strategic Management and Core Competences: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective" 9.15 - 10.30 Session A: Knowledge, Decisions and the Firm Chair: Esben Sloth Andersen Brian J. Loasby: "Decision Premises and Economic Organisation" Neil Kay: "Some Rude Thoughts on the Growth of Firms" Patrick Llerena: "The Theory of the Firm in an Evolutionary Perspective: a Critical Development" Discussants: Ron Sanchez and Keith Pavitt Session B: Learning, Communication and Internal Organization Chair: Kirsten Foss Jacques de Bandt: "Competence and Organizational Learning Requirements for Complex Knowledge Production" Henrik Lando: "Communication Costs, Individual and Collective Ownership" Mark Casson: "An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm" Discussants: Stan Metcalfe and Nicholas Argyres 10.30 - 10.45 Coffee break 10.45 - 12.00 Session C: The Role of Geographical Proximity Chair: Bent Dalum Kristian Philipsen: "The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Development of a Local Industrial Cluster" Mark Lorenzen: "Information Costs, Learning, and Trust" Dieter Ernst: "What Permits Small Firms to Compete in High-Tech Industries?" Discussants: Peter Maskell and Mark Casson Session D: Extended Views of Governance Chair: Esben Sloth-Andersen Steen Thomsen and Torben Pedersen: "Ownership Structure and Economic Performance in the Largest European Companies" Paul H Andersen: "Organizing International Technological Collaboration in Subcontractor Relationships: An Investigation of the Knowledge- Stickiness Problem" Allan Næss Gjerding: "Technical Collaboration as Social Construction: Some Observations on Tacit Knowledge and Shared Meanings" Discussants: Birgitte Andersen and Massimo Colombo 13.00 Departure for Rønne Airport
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