Dear esteemed professors & faculty members,
The Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations (CGIO) at NUS Business School would like to invite you to our CGIO Academic Conference on the theme 'Network and Governance'. It will be held on 27-28 August (Thurs-Fri).
The keynote speaker for this year's conference is internationally-renowned Professor Jerry Davis. You can also look forward to a strong and diverse line-up of other leading academics who will be presenting their papers. In addition, you can choose one of four breakout sessions on the discussion in emerging trends in governance research.
More details are in the announcement below.
Registration is required for admission. To register, please click here.
We look forward to seeing you in late August.
Yours Sincerely,
Profs James Lincoln & Chung Chi-Nien (Conference Organisers)
On behalf of Profs Lawrence Loh & Marleen Dieleman
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| | | Date: | 27 - 28 August 2015 | | Venue: | Mochtar Riady Building, Level 3, Innovation 3-a (Room #3-7), NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 Map | Direction | | Dress Code: | Office Attire | | Organisers: | Prof James Russell Lincoln & Prof Chung Chi-Nien | | | | | Registration is required for admission. Registration ends on 20 August 2015 or earlier when all seats have been taken up. | | |
| | | Day 1 Programme (Thursday, 27 August 2015) | | 9.30 – 10.00am | Registration with coffee & tea | | 10.00 – 10.10am | Welcome Speech: Lawrence Loh, Director, CGIO | | 10.10 – 11.00am | Keynote Speech: Emerging models of governance | | Presenter: Jerry Davis Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management and Sociology University of Michigan View CV | | | 11.00 – 12.10pm | Paper 1: "Friends with benefits": The effects of repeated collaborations on performance of VC syndicates Read full synopsis | | Author: Igor Filatotchev Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy City University London View CV | Paper 2: So You Think The Prices Would Go Higher? Private and Public Discrepancy in the Beijing Real Estate Market in the Fall of 2012 Read full synopsis | | Author:Jiayin Zhang Assistant Professor Tsinghua University View CV | Discussant, Question & Answer | | 12.10 – 2.00pm | Lunch at Innovation 3-b (Function Room #3-8) | | 2.00 – 3.10pm | Paper 3: Do family firms learn more from other family firms than from non-family firms? Adoption of the board reform Read full synopsis | | Author:Toru Yoshikawa Professor of Strategic Management Singapore Management University View CV | Paper 4: Lost in Translation? "Independent Directors" Reinterpreted by U.S. listed Chinese Companies Read full synopsis | | Author: Sun Hyun Park Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Management Seoul National University View CV | | | 3.10 – 4.20pm | Breakout Session (four options) | Option 1: | Emerging trends or issues of governance research in the US (led by Jerry Davis and Emily Erikson) | | Option 2: | Emerging trends or issues of governance research in China (led by Victor Nee and Jiayin Zhang) | | Option 3: | Emerging trends or issues of governance research in Europe (led by Anja Tuschke and Dalhia Mani) | | Option 4: | Emerging trends or issues of governance research in emerging economies (led by Igor Filatotchev, Toru Yoshikawa, and Sun Hyun Park) | | | 4.20 – 5.00pm | Sharing of group discussions led by James Lincoln
Tea Break at Innovation 3-b (Function Room #3-8) | | Day 2 Programme (Friday, 28 August 2015) | | 9.30 – 10.00am | Registration with coffee & tea | | 10.00 – 11.10am | Paper 5: Social Networks, Institutions, and Early-Modern Market Development Read full synopsis | | Author: Emily Erikson Assistant Professor of Sociology Yale University View CV | Paper 6: Endogenous Dynamics of Institutional Change Read full synopsis | | Author: Victor Nee Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor Cornell University View CV | Discussant, Question & Answer | | 11.10 – 12.20pm | Paper 7: How and when do board networks function? Evidence from two recent studies Read full synopsis | | Author: Anja Tuschke Ludwig-Maximilians-University View CV | Paper 8: Putting the Group back in Closed Groups: Brokerage and Closure in the Indian Corporate Ownership Network Read full synopsis | | Author: Dalhia Mani Assistant Professor of Strategy HEC ParisView CV | Discussant, Question & Answer | | 12.20 – 12.30pm | Concluding Remarks by Chung Chi-Nien, NUS Business School | | 12.30 – 2.00pm | Lunch at Innovation 3-b (Function Room #3-8) | |
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