ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 2006 ANNUAL MEETING BEIJING, CHINA JUNE 23 – 26, 2006 PROGRAM ERRATA 1. Table of Contents (p. 3) Line 3 of the Table of Contents should have read "AIB 2006 Conference Sponsors". Line 4 should have read "AIB 2006 Reviewers". Both lines incorrectly refer to 2005, instead of 2006. 2. AIB 2006 Reviewers (p. 13): Affiliation Correction: Janet Y. Murray, University of Missouri, St. Louis, United States 3. Session 0.5 - Opening Plenary (p. 41): Room Change: The opening plenary will be held in Room 17, not in Room 3. 4. Session 1.2.4 (p. 45): Change of Panelist: Michael Enright replaces Bernard Yeung as a panelist. 5. Session 1.2.7 (p. 45): Withdrawn: “Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Poverty: Where is the link?” Doren D. Chadee, University of Auckland Lise Eriksen, University of Auckland 6. Session 1.2.10 (p. 46): Change of Session Chair: Gregory Fisher replaces Allan Bird as session chair. 7. Session 1.3.4 (p. 47): Change of Session Chair: Allan Bird replaces Gregory Fisher as session chair. 8. Session 1.5.2 (p. 53): Withdrawn: “The Puzzle of the Performance Implications of Cultural Differences in Mergers and Acquisitions: Opening up the Black Box of Integration” Guenter Stahl, INSEAD 9. Session 1.5.7 (p. 56): Manuscript Addition: The following manuscript had successfully gone through the peer review process and was scheduled to be presented in this session. However, the manuscript was accidentally left off the program during the design process. The authors have presented the paper in this session, as was originally scheduled. AIB regrets the error. “Two-Tier Location Strategies of MNEs: Korean Firms’ Experiences in China” Chung-Sok Suh, University of New South Wales Yue Wang, University of New South Wales 10. Session 1.6.4 (p. 56): Change of Session Chair: Shenxue Li replaces Gary Dessler as session chair. 11. Session 1.6.6 (p. 56): Email Correction: Xia Zhao (China Agricultural University) has a new email address: zhaoxia_pku@yahoo.com.cn. Name Correction: Chad Allred’s full name is Chad R. Allred. 12. Session 1.6.11 (p. 57): Affiliation Correction: Lianxi Zhou is at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and the University of Guelph in Canada (lxzhou@ln.edu.hk). 13. Session 2.4.1 (p. 62): Affiliation Correction: Wayne Daniel Jones is at Roosevelt University, United States (wdjones@roosevelt.edu).
14. Session 2.4.12 (p. 64) Co-author Correction: The second co-author's name for the manuscript titled "Location Choice and Governance Mechanism Design for Taiwan Manufacturing Firm's Investment in China" was cut-off from the page during the design process. AIB regrets the error. The correct manuscript listing is as follows “Location Choice and Governance Mechanism Design for Taiwan Manufacturing Firm's Investment in China” Shih Kuan Chiu, Feng Chia University Han Sheng Huang, Feng Chia University 15. Session 2.5.6 (p. 66): Manuscript Moved to Session 3.1.12: “An Assessment of the Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth” Jonathan Andrew Batten, Macquarie University Xuan Vinh Vo, University of Western Sydney 16. Session 2.7 (p. 70) Speaker Change: Jiafu Wei is unable to deliver the keynote speech due to a scheduling conflict. COSCO’s perspective will be presented by Zehua Ma, COSCO Group Vice President. 17. Session 3.1.3 (p. 71) Correction: Anne Tsui, the Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review will also be participating in the Meet-the-Editors Roundtable. Her name was cut-off from the page during the design process. AIB regrets the error. The complete session listing is as follows: Meet the Editors Session 1: Learning to Publish in International Business Roundtable discussions with the editors of leading international journals: S. Tamer Cavusgil, Journal of International Marketing (Editorial Review Board Member, Ex-Editor 1993-2000) Pervez Ghauri, International Business Review (Editor) Klaus Macharzina, Management International Review (Honorary Editor) Anne S. Tsui, Management and Organization Review (Editor) 18. Session 3.1.4 (p. 71): Withdrawn: “Do We Buy More or Less When We Want to Learn? The Knowledge Strategies and Structural Forms of US Cross-Border Acquisitions” Manuel Ferreira, Instituto Politecnico de Leira Stephen Tallman, University of Richmond Dan Li, Indiana University 19. Session 3.1.6 (p. 71): Change of Session Chair: Dana Farrow replaces Ping Ping Fu as session chair. 20. Session 3.1.12 (p. 73): Withdrawn: “Factors Influencing the Internationalisation of Firms: Micro Foundations of Macro Determinants” Christos N. Pitelis, University of Cambridge George Argitis, University of Crete Addition: “An Assessment of the Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth” Jonathan Andrew Batten, Macquarie University Xuan Vinh Vo, University of Western Sydney 21. Session 3.2.1 (p. 73): Change of Panelist: Bernard Wolf replaces Karl Sauvant as a panelist.
22. Session 3.2.4 (p. 74): Withdrawn: “The Multinational Corporation and the Global Sourcing of Knowledge: Remodeling Absorptive Capacity” Christos N. Pitelis, University of Cambridge Marina Papanastassiou, Copenhagen Business School Constantina Kottaridi, University of Peloponnese Dimitris Thomakos, University of Peloponnese 23. Session 3.4.1 (p. 79): Affiliation Correction: Wayne Daniel Jones is at Roosevelt University, United States (wdjones@roosevelt.edu). 24. Session 3.4.6 (p. 80) Correction: The manuscript titled "Is Chinese Currency Undervalued? --an Empirical Analysis" should have also listed Christopher Gan, Lincoln University as the third co-author. His name was cut-off from the page during the design process. AIB regrets the error. The correct manuscript listing is as follows: “Is Chinese Currency Undervalued?--an Empirical Analysis” Peng Tao, Chinese Financial Service Minsoo Lee, American University of Sharjah Christopher Gan, Lincoln University