Emmanuel James Chao disputerer i International Management

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Emmanuel James Chao har fulgt doktorgradsprogrammet i International Management ved Handelshøyskolen ved UiA. 

Slik beskriver kandidaten selv essensen i avhandlingen:

Contractual governance

Contractual governance merit studying because in today’s business world, the final product involves different firms. Such a trend is likely to continue due to an increased role of emerging markets.

Emerging markets have recently become an interesting and growing area of research, due to their growth potential in global business.

Further, the inter-firm contractual governance literature has also advanced. These advancements have left some gaps which have not been well addressed. These gaps have both structural and contextual elements.

Structural elements involve the theoretical assumption of the concept. Contextual gaps infer to a tendency of using data from developed or homogeneous sets of markets.

To address some of these gaps, the study has used data from two emerging markets i.e. Tanzania and Poland.

The two countries have comparable similarities and differences. Findings suggest that the structural component of contracts is made up of dimensions which have some distinctive features across the markets.

Further, contractual governance and satisfaction in contractual exchange (in emerging markets) is driven by factors that are context dependent.  

Disputasfakta:

Emmanuel James Chao. (Foto: Privat)

Kandidaten: Emmanuel James Chao er født i Tanzania i 1980. Han ble Master in Business Administration fra UiA in 2010, og gikk direkte over i stipendiatstilling.

Prøveforelesning og disputas finner sted i Auditorium B1-001, UiA Campus Kristiansand. Visedekan Jan Inge Jenssen leder disputasen.

Tid for prøveforelesning: 22. august 2014 kl 10:15

Oppgitt emne for prøveforelesning: "How should Western companies succeed in establishing cooperative relationships with local companies in the institutional context of Tanzania?"

Tid for disputas: 22. august 2014 kl 12:15

Tittel på avhandling: «Contractual governance. Perspectives in Emerging Markets”

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Opponenter:

Førsteopponent: Professor Laura Poppo, University of Kansas, USA

Annenopponent: Professor Sven Arne Haugland, Norwegian School of Economics NHH, Norway

Bedømmelseskomitéen har vært ledet av professor Trond Randøy, School of Business and Law, University of Agder

Veiledere i doktorgradsarbeidet var professor Otto Andersen og Risk Manager ved National Oilwell Varco Gøril Hannås, tidligere førsteamanuensis ved UiA.