ASHCROFT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
in Association with
THE ATHENIAN POLICY FORUM
Present a Conference
on
STRUCTURAL REFORM AND THE
TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANISATIONS
AND BUSINESSES
3rd – 6th SEPTEMBER 2003
HOMERTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 3rd September
16:00 19:00 Registration desk open
18:30 20:30 Hot Running Buffet and Informal Welcome to Delegates
Thursday 4th September
7:30 8:45 Breakfast
8:30 Conference Registration desk open
9:45 10:15 Boulind Room
Formal Opening and Welcome to Conference
Philip Knowles, Dean, Ashcroft International Business School
Ross Catterall, Director, International Finance, Economics and Accounting
Research Group, AIBS
Chris Paraskevopoulos, York University, Canada & President, The Athenian Policy
Forum
10:15 11:30 Room 106
Session 1 - Knowledge Assymetries and Convergence
Katalin Illes, AIBS, UK
Managing Education Policy in Globalised Knowledge-based Societies:
Lessons from Hungary
Gary Spraakman, York University, Toronto, Canada
The Use of Convergence in the Development of Economics: A Study of
the Work of Nobel Laureates
11:30 12:00 Tea & Coffee
12:00 13:30 Room 106
Session 2 - Issues in Corporate Governance
George Eaton, York University, Toronto, Canada
Pension Capitalism and Challenges Posed to Corporate Governance and
Accountability.
Jean Chen, University of Surrey, UK
Corporatisation of Chinas State-Owned Enterprises and Corporate
Governance
Penelope Hood, AIBS, UK
Managing Peaceful Transition - Towards One Sri-Lanka
12:00 13:30 Room 117
Session 3 - Issues in Economic Integration
George Demopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stability and Welfare of an Enlarged Common Market
Nicholas Baltas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
The Effects of the Proposed
Reform of the Common Agricultural
Policy
Evrard Claessens, University of Antwerpen, Belgium
Trading Asymmetries in the European Union
13:30 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 16:00 Room 106
Session 4 -Transition Economies
Doinita Ariton, Dunarea de Jos University, Romania
The Asymmetries of Information Society
Mike Pournarakis & Nikos Varsekelis, Athens
University Economis & Business,
and Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, GREECE
Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern European Countries:
Do Institutions matter?
Vincent Fitzsimmons, University of Huddersfield, UK
The Hidden Economy and the Growth of Corruption in Transitional
Economies: Causes and Consequences.
14:30 16:00 Room 117
Session 5 - Development and Underdevelopment
Edward Nissan, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Asymmetry of Human Development and Income
Bala Batavia,Cheick Wague& P. Nandakumar, De Paul University, USA
Financial Openness and True Financial Integration in Emerging
Economies
Ibtisaam El-Gaafarawi, NCSCR, Egypt
Unemployment and Underemployment
During Structure Adjustment in
Egypt
16:00 16:30 Tea & Coffee
16:30 Boulind Room
Session 6 - KEYNOTE SPEECH
Richard Eckaus, Ford Professor Emeritus of
International Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The Search for the Grail of Development
19:30 for 20:00 Drawing Room
Gala Dinner attended by Michael Malone- Lee,
Vice-Chancellor, APU
Friday 5th September
7:30 8:45 Breakfast
9:45 11:00 Boulind Room
Session 7 - INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP (all delegates are invited to
attend)
Bronwen Rees & John Wilson, AIBS, UK
Towards an Understanding of Organisational Transformation Through
Ethical Enquiry
11:00 11:30 Tea and Coffee
11:30 13:00 Boulind Room
Session 8 - KEYNOTE SPEECH
Sven Arndt, Director of Lowe Institute of
Political Economics & C.M Stone
Professor of Money, Credit and Trade, Claremont McKenna College, California,
USA
Trade, Foreign Investment and Cross-Border Production Sharing
13:00 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 15:30 Room 106
Session 9 - Issues in Development
Hend Belaid, Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, France
Telecommunication Infrastructure and Economic Development:
Simultaneous Approach; Case of Developing Countries
Derek Aldcroft, University of Leicester, UK
The Fatal Inversion: The African Growth Disaster
Theodore Koutsobinas, University of Aegean, Greece
Alternative Routes to Globalization, Asymmetric Responses to Financial
Crises in the Periphery and the Need for New World Financial
Institutions
14:00 15:30 Room 117
Session 10 - The Efficient Competitor
George Bitros, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Firm Ownership and Economic Efficiency
Carsten Zimmerman, Cambridge University / AIBS, UK
Internationalisation and
Competitive Performance: Issues and Needs of
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the East of England
Jiten Borkakoti, Middlesex University, UK
Impact of Globalisation on Firms
15:30 16:00 Tea and Coffee
16:00 Boulind Room
Session 11 - KEYNOTE SPEECH
Ivailo Kalfin, Economic Adviser to the President of Bulgaria, Bulgaria
The Fiscal Decentralisation - A Major Part of the Fiscal Policy
Transformation Preparing for the EU Membership: The Case of
Bulgaria
19:15 Lawn
Barbeque – Morris Dancers / Music in Bar from ‘Two Let Loose’
Saturday 6th September
7:30 8:45 Breakfast
9:15 10:45 Drawing Room
Session 12 - Agents of Change
Kieron Toner, AIBS, UK
Jimmy Carter and Economic Reform in an Era of Diminished
Expectations: A Frustrated Vision
Liliana Moga, Dunarea de Jos University, Romania
The Public Administration of a Transition Country in Information
Society: Case of Romania
Nikos Varsekelis, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Education, Political
Institutions and Innovative Activity: A Cross-
Country Empirical Investigation
9:15 10:45 Room 106
Session 13 - Reforming Government and Organisations
Harvey Schwartz, York University, Toronto, Canada
The New Governmental Structure of Toronto and its Relevance for the
Economic and Social Environment of the 21st Century
James Brox, University of Waterloo, Canada
The Role of Academic Research in the Restructuring of Canadian
Manufacturing since the Formation of NAFTA
Shahidur Rahman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Comprehensive Structural Reforms of the United Nations Organisation
towards the Twenty-First Century
10:45 11:15 Tea & Coffee
11:15 12:30 Boulind Room
Session 14 - Closing Session on Structural and Organisational Reform
Chair: Chris Paraskevopoulos
12:30 13:30 LUNCH