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Dear Colleagues:
The Academy of Management International Management Division Teaching Committee is pleased to announce our next webinar: 

In this webinar, we explore the application of the concept of global value chains (GVCs) to teach core concepts of globalization and international business to undergraduate and master's-level students. Students' everyday lives involve the use of familiar products – t-shirts, sneakers, coffee, mobile phones, etc. – that represent the end products of complex GVCs.  To make these global processes more visible and tactile, unbundling value chains into their component parts allows students to explore important but frequently invisible questions in their lives: How is my stuff made? Who makes it? Where are they located? Who is responsible for the environmental and social conditions in the GVCs? And what is my role in these GVCs as a consumer, citizen, employee, and future corporate leader?

At the seminar, we will first have three international business faculty members speak for 20 minutes each about how they incorporate global value chains into their teaching, followed by an open discussion on ways to expand such approaches in new directions.

 

Date: December 3, 2025, 10 a.m. EST (US Eastern Standard Time)

Sponsor: Academy of Management International Management Teaching Committee

Andrew Spicer is an associate professor in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.  He is a former co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Business & Society,  and presently serves as the faculty director of the undergraduate international business major at the Darla Moore School.   In his teaching, he has developed the core class for undergraduate international business majors that has increasingly become centered around the core idea of global value chains.

Ari Van Assche is Full Professor of International Business at HEC Montréal, Co-Director of the International Institute of Economic Diplomacy, and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Policy, Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Director of the Economics Axis at CERIUM's Chair of Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies. He is recognized globally for his expertise on the organization of global value chains and their implications for economic security, sustainability, and public policy.

Michael Murphree is a senior lecturer of International Business in the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney. He teaches global business environments, export management and innovation management. His research interests include global value chains, industrialization and economic upgrading, innovation in emerging economies, and technology standards. He has conducted field research in ten Chinese cities and regions since 2007 and speaks fluent Mandarin.

If you have any questions about the webinar, you can contact Carl Fey at carl.fey@bi.no.  -  Carl Fey, Chair AOM IM Teaching Committee and BI Norwegian Business School