This focused workshop is about the Globalization of Chinese companies and the political and business contexts. Topics: • Outward Direct Investment (ODI) of China and Chinese companies • Impacts of Chinese outward investment on host markets • Chinese global competitiveness and export...

Special Issue - International Entrepreneurship - Do Institutions Matter?

This one and a half day workshop will involve 30-40 invited participants including leading IS scholars conducting cutting edge research in the area of Global Offshoring and Outsourcing as well as faculty members and graduate students from NYU and affiliate universities and researchers from IBM....

This conference is the premier training and networking event for anyone interested in community development venture capital (CDVC). This year's conference will focus on "Adding Value to Portfolio Companies," featuring sessions on ways that funds can increase both the financial and the social...

The Ethical Sourcing Forum (ESF) is an action oriented continuous learning industry initiative, open to those willing to play an active role in the development and successful implementation of sustainable social and environmental supply chain practices. The ESF platform gathers and compiles...

The Economics and International Business Research Conference, Miami (EIBR) publishes articles of interest to members of the Business Community and will provide leadership in introducing new concepts to its readership. Because business is a diverse field, articles should address questions...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research in economics, undertaken both by IMF staff and by outside economists, and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policy makers. The theme of this year's conference is Capital Flows.

Theoretical and applied papers are invited in all areas of industrial policy, including the following: - Drivers of industrial development: large versus small firms - Spatial dimensions of industrial development - Governance and the determinants of local economic development - Policies to...

Topics: Human Resources, Growth and Immigration, Health, Climate Change and the Environment, Energy, Water, Global Economy, Human Capital and Globalization, Education and Culture, Information Technology and Society.

The Conference will commence with a luncheon at noon on Friday, January 27. A plenary session on "Fair Value" on Friday afternoon will consist of two panel discussions. The first panel will address issues related to defining, measuring, and implementing fair value accounting. After a brief...