New Explanations of Subsidiary Role Developments

Center for Knowledge Governance welcome you to an exciting day of discussion of some of the major issues in international business research.

Presentations by the following key note speakers:

• Professor William Egelhoff, Fordham University, New York

• Professor Ulf Holm, Uppsala University

• Professor Frank McDonald, University of Hull

• Assistant Professor Marina Papanastassiou, Athens University of Economics and Business

• Dr. Christoph Dörrenbächer, Social Science Center Berlin

• Associate Professor Jens Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School

In this one-day conference, CBS puts the spotlight on recent and future developments in the international business field.

Key international scholars, as well as CBS scholars, present and discuss their views on the multinational corporation, and in particular on the activities and strategic mandates related to its foreign subsidiaries.

Among the topics that the speakers will address are:

• How Knowledge Governance affect subsidiary role developments

• Technology and knowledge creation in subsidiaries

• The subsidiaries embeddedness into local markets

• The relationship between subsidiary role and host country employment

• The role of subsidiaries in East European markets

The conference is free of charge; however, please do register before April 15th 2005. Register online