Transnational Communities

Workshop, April 17–18, 2008

Program

Thursday, April 17

1 p.m.

Welcome lunch

2 p.m.

Introduction

Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack

Global Structures: Markets, Transnational Organizations, Networks – and Communities?

Renate Mayntz

2:45 p.m.

Communities with a "Classical Base" and a Transnational Extension

In Pursuit of Comfort in Transnational Space: A Comparative Perspective on Ethnic Chinese Enterprises Venturing Across National Borders

Heidi Dahles

Transnational Communities and the Organization of Economic Activity: The Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul

Mine Eder, Özlem Öz

3:45 p.m. Coffee

4:15 p.m.

Professional Communities with a Transnational Extension (1)

Transnational Boards and Governance Regimes: France and Britain Compared

Charles Harvey, Mairi MacLean

Private Equity Managers: Global Financial Markets and Transnational Communities

Glenn Morgan, Izumi Kubo

The Historical Institutionalisation of Finance as a Global Concern: Evidence from the Foundings of Global Finance Governance Associations 1879-2006

Asma Hussain, Marc Ventresca

5:45 p.m.

Closing for the day.

7 p.m.

Joint dinner at "Haus Müller."

Friday, April 18

9 a.m.

Professional Communities with a Transnational Extension (2)

Exporting Professional Models: The Expansion of the Multinational Audit Firm and the Transformation of the French Accountancy Profession since 1970

Carlos Ramirez

Transnational Communities in the High-Tech Labour Force

Anca Metiu

10 a.m. Coffee

Transnational Interest or Issue-Based Communities (1)

10:15 a.m.

The Transnational Temperance Network

Mark Schrad

European Trade Unions as a Transnational Network of Debates about "Industrial Democracy"

Thomas Fetzer

The Making of a Comprehensive Transnational Discourse Community: The Mont Pèlerin Society of Neoliberal Intellectuals

Dieter Plehwe

11:45 a.m. Lunch

1 p.m.

Transnational Interest or Issue-Based Communities (2)

The Global Warming Community

Age Mariussen

Emergent Communities of Social and Environmental Certification

Tim Bartley, Shawna Smith

Creative Commons - The "Share Alike" Community between Global Norms and Local Translation

Leonhard Dobusch, Sigrid Quack

2:30 p.m. Coffee

3 p.m.

Summing up

Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack

End of the conference 3:45 p.m.