Geography and Strategic Management: Innovation and Firm Location Decisions
Session Type: Presenter Symposium
Location: Sheraton – Fountain view Room
Scheduled: August 12 (Monday) 2024, 15:00 PM – 16:30 PM (CT)
Submission: 14862 | Sponsors: STR, TIM, IM
Geography plays an important role in firms' decision-making and consequent performance. Firms choose geographic locations for a variety of reasons, such as expanding to new markets, accessing new resources-including knowledge and human capital-or benefiting from positive agglomeration spillovers. Yet, understanding the relationship between firm strategy and geography is challenging, given variations in competition levels, regulatory intensity, and other institutional factors across different geographic markets and over time. The objective of this symposium is to bring together a diverse set of papers and scholars interested in the intersection of geography and strategy. The symposium highlights four papers related to how geography shapes firm knowledge flows and innovation, as well as firm location choices.
Discussants
Minyuan Zhao – Washington U. in St. Louis
Maryann P. Feldman – Arizona State U.
Presentations and Authors
"Firm Capabilities, Heterogeneous Business Environments, and Geographic Expansion Limits"
Roxanne Jaffe – Vanderbilt U.
Siddharth Sharma – Indian School of Business
Wilbur Chung – U. of Maryland
"Immigrants and the Assignment of Expatriate Managers: Evidence from South Korean MNCs"
Elena Kulchina – North Carolina State U.
Jaeho Kim – Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania
Zeke Hernandez – Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania
"Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms"
Dany Bahar – Brown U.
Raj Choudhury – Harvard U.
Sara Signorelli – Ecole Polytechnique
James Sappenfield – Brattle Group
"Policy Uncertainty, Innovation, and Geographic Agglomeration"
Gianni De Bruyan – U. of South Carolina
Min Jung Kim – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Organizers
Min Jung Kim – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roxanne Jaffe – Vanderbilt U.
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers Min Jung Kim (minjungk@illinois.edu) or Roxanne Jaffe (roxanne.l.jaffe@vanderbilt.edu)
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Roxanne Jaffe
Vanderbilt University
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Roxanne Jaffe
Vanderbilt University
Nashville TN
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