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AoM Symposium - The Integration of Market and Nonmarket Strategy

You are cordially invited to attend the AOM symposium

"The Integration of Market and Nonmarket Strategy"

Tuesday, Aug 9 2016 8:00AM - 9:30AM at Hilton Anaheim in Lido B

Sponsors: BPS, SIM

This symposium aims to advance our understanding of how firms integrate or coordinate their strategies undertaken in both the market and the nonmarket context in order to improve organizational performance. It includes four papers, each of which focuses on specific mechanisms through which such integration occurs, or how market and nonmarket factors are interrelated in shaping firms' activities in different settings. Specifically, the papers discuss how firms handle political uncertainties during the process of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), adopt nonmarket activities to better facilitate post-M&A integration of newly acquired businesses, weigh political and economic factors in making location choices, and pursue nonmarket activities such as lobbying and bribery based on market situations such as industry competition. We believe that the common goal of the four papers and the diversified approaches adopted to address this goal will stimulate productive exchange of ideas to contribute to robust empirical research on "integrated strategy"

Symposium Organizers:

Nan Jia, U. of Southern California

Bo Zhao, The U. of Hong Kong

Symposium Papers:

(1) Corporate Political Strategy During Mergers and Acquisitions

Guy Holburn, U. of Western Ontario

Richard G. Vanden Bergh, U. of Vermont

(2) Integration of Nonmarket and Market Activities in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions

Jedrzej George Frynas, Middlesex U.

Mohammad Faisal Ahammad, Sheffield Hallam U.

Shlomo Yedidia Tarba, U. of Birmingham

Andrew Scola, Global PMI Partners

(3) Political Connections and Firm Location Choices

Bo Zhao, The U. of Hong Kong

Nan Jia, U. of Southern California

Jiangyong Lu, Peking U.

Wei Zheng, Peking U.

(4) Formal versus Informal Channels of Influence? How Size Affects Firms' Policymaking Approaches

Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown U.

John Mayo, Georgetown U.

Stephen Weymouth, Georgetown U.

Regards,

Nan Jia

Nan Jia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
BRI 306, 3670 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
Tel: 1.213.740.1045
Fax: 1.213.740.3582
Email: nan.jia@marshall.usc.edu