Session Summary

Session Number:186
Session ID:S52
Session Title:Cross-Border Transfer of Management Knowledge for Large System Change
Short Title:S: Cross-border Knowledge Tran
Session Type:Showcase Symposium
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:LL1
Room:Water Tower
Time:Monday, August 09, 1999 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Sponsors

IM  (Farok Contractor)farok@andromeda.rutgers.edu (973) 353-5348 
ODC  (Rami Shani)ashani@calpoly.edu (805) 756-1756 
MC  (Anthony Buono)abuono@lnmta.bentley.edu (617) 891-2529 

General People

Chair Murrell, Kenneth  U. of West Florida kmurrell@uwf.edu (850)-474- 2308 
Organizer Saner, Raymond  Center for Socio-Economic Development saneryiu@csend.org (41-22) 731 9207 

Submissions

The Marshall Plan and Early Transfers of Managerial  
Presenter Djelic, Marie-Laure  ESSEC P_Djelic@edu.essec.fr +331 3443-3052 
Intercultural Problems in East-West Management: The Collective Culture Shock in Hungary and Czech Republic 
Presenter Fink, Gerhard  U. of Vienna fink@fgr.wu-wien.ac.at +431 313 364137 
Presenter Meierewert, Sylvia  U. of Vienna meierewe@fgr.wu-wien.ac.at +431-313-365084 
The Change of Japan's Financial Management System after World War II: Similarities and Dissimilarities with Eastern Europe after the Cold War 
Presenter Inagawa, Nobuko  Hamamatsu University inagawa@hamamatsu-u.ac.jp +8153-428-3511 
From Import to Export: Can Western Economies Benefit from the Transfer of Management Ideas from Malaysia and Singapore? 
Presenter Callender, Guy  U. of Technology, Sydney guy.callender@uts.edu.au +612-9514-3608 
Presenter Johnston, Judy  U. of Technology, Sydney (UTS) judy.johnston@uts.edu.au +612-9514-3640 
Matsushita Electric: Can the Circle be Squared? 
 Holden, Nigel  Copenhagen Business School njh.sprqk@cbs.dk 45 3312 7030 

Abstract

The need for cross-border knowledge transfer has been acute expecially at times of historical discontinuities (e.g. post WWII and post Cold War) and during times of rapid industrial development (e.g. Asian NIEs). However, transferring knowledge across national and developmental boundaries has not been a linear nor a predictable proces. Substantive efforts of transferring knowledge, for instance during the Marshall Plan in Western Europe, have resulted on one hand in a growing convergence of industrial production while on the other hand leading to divergence of organizational and managerial practice due to cultural and political resistances at national levels. Scholarly contributions have helped identify divergent cultural recipes for the development of national economies and business organizations (Albert, Whitley, Hampden-Turner) while other scholars have identified barriers to management transfers due to divergent managerial value orientations (Hofstede) or debated the congruence fit between American organization development technology and cultural pluralism at international levels( Jaeger, Golembiewski). What is missing is a better understanding of how managerial knowledge transfer across borders contributes to large system change (Mohrman, L.D.Brown) over an extended period of time at times of discontinous and accelerated change in diferent national and cultural contexts. This symposium offers pertinent and pioneering reserch results and analyses from post WWII countries (France, Japan), post Cold War countries (Hungary, Czech Republic), Asia Pacific countries (Malaysia, Singapore,Australia) and an example of knowledge transfer between the Copenhagen Business School and a large Japanese multinational company (Matsushita).