10:45 – 12:30 p.m. | Parallel Sessions and Symposia (choose one of four)
(1) Innovation in globalizing industries: U.S. firms in a flatter world
Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University (chair)
Personal computing Ken Kraemer, University of California, Irvine| Paper (PDF)
Solid state lighting Susan Sanderson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Paper (PDF)
Pharmaceuticals Iain Cockburn, Boston University
(2) Travel and tourism for economic development
The future Chinese outbound tourism market Rich Harrill, University of South Carolina (chair)
The real estate content of travel and tourism in a globalizing world Cynthia Kroll* and Ashok Bardhan, University of California at Berkeley | Paper (PDF)
The present and future of medical travel: Trends and questions for the tourism industry Andrew N. Garman* and Tricia J. Johnson, Rush University
Casinos, hotels, and crime William Reece, West Virginia University
Technological and organizational changes in employment and labor-management relations in the electronic media industry Lois Gray and Maria Figueroa*, Cornell University | Slides (PDF)
Reconstructing construction unions: Beyond top down and bottom up Dale Belman, Michigan State University,* and Allen Smith, Innovative Construction Research | Paper (PDF)
Building a better workplace: The use and impact of union-negotiated work-family flexibility policies in U.S. and Australian universities Peter Berg,* and Ellen Kossek, Michigan State University, and Marian Baird, Sydney University
(Australia)
Competitiveness and workforce development: The case of the Boston area advanced technical education connections (BATEC) Ramon Borges-Mendez, University of Massachusetts, Boston | Paper (PDF)
(4) Energy, security, and sustainability
Karen Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair)
The economic development potential of wind energy Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University
Emerging organizational field: Enacting opportunity in an as yet unrecognized industry Alfred Marcus* and Marc Anderson, University of Minnesota | Paper (PDF)
Multifaceted transition dynamics for alternative fuel vehicles and transportation systems Jeroen Struben, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Paper (PDF)
Security-Preparedness of Firms in U.S. Food Supply Chain Swati Agiwal and Jean Kinsey, University of Minnesota, and Hamid Mohtadi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Minnesota | Paper (PDF)
(5)
R & D in China and India
Gary Gereffi, Duke University (chair)
A comparison of VC investment patterns in China and India Martin Kenney, University of California at Davis, and Rafiq Dossani, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
Divergent globalizations of R&D: Semiconductor design in India and China Douglas B. Fuller, Kings College (UK)
The divergent paths of microchip design in China and India Clair Brown* and Greg Linden, University of California at Berkeley | Paper (PDF)
Hierarchical segmentation of R&D process: Evidence from multinational R&D labs in China Xiaohong Quan, San Jose University | Paper (PDF)
