5Th International Conference On

Program

5th International Conference on

ECONOMICS AND

MANAGEMENT OF

NETWORKS

December1 to December 3, 2011

Limassol, CYPRUS

The purpose of this 5th conference is to provide an international discussion forum for research in economics and management of networks (franchising, cooperatives, joint ventures, strategic alliances, clusters and corporate governance relations). Theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers from all areas in economics and management of networks are presented.

Organizing Committee:

Nina Gorovaia

Department of Business Administration, FrederickUniversity

Josef Windsperger

Center ofBusiness Studies, University of Vienna

Program

Thursday:December 1, 2011

13.30 to 15.30: Registration

15.30 to 16.00: Welcome (Havana conference hall)

Dean of the School of Economic Sciences and Administration: Prof. Ioannis Violaris (FrederickUniversity)

Organizing Chair:Nina Gorovaia (FrederickUniversity), Josef Windsperger (University of Vienna)

16.00 to 16.45 – Plenary Session (Havana conference hall):

Keynote Speaker:

Prof. Claude Menard, University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Plural Forms of Organization: Where Do We Stand?

16.45 to 17.15: Break

Parallel Sessions (17.15 – 19.00)

17.15 to 19.00 – Session: Franchising I (Europa A)

Session Chair: Thomas Ehrmann

Robert E. Stassen, Marko Grünhagen*:

Empirical Evidence on Franchisee Exits in Mature U.S. Franchise Systems

Ilan Alon*, Michèle Boulanger, Everlyne Misati:

Can Signaling Theory Help Agency and Resource Scarcity Theories Explain Franchisee Failure? Predicting SBA-Backed Loan Defaults

Magali Chaudey*, Muriel Fadairo, Frédéric Perdreau:

Contract Duration and Franchisors Performance – An Empirical Study on French Data

17.15 to 19.00 – Session: Cooperatives I: Cooperative Degeneration and Regeneration (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Kostas Karantininis

Karin Hakelius*, Konstantinos Karantininis:

Cooperative Beehiving

Johan Gaddefors*, Lena W. Lind:

The Depleted Cooperative Organization – Losing Balance between Providing Meaning and Generating Profit

Jerker Nilsson*, Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen:

The Lack of Social Capital as an Explanation to the Demise of Large and Complex Cooperatives

17.15 to 19.00 – Session: Strategic Alliances I (Havana conference hall)

Session Chair: Zafar Yaqub

Dries Faems*, Inge Neyens:

Organizing Alliance Portfolio Management

Ana Aleksic Miric*, Richard M. Burton, Mirjana Petkovic:

Coordinating Inter-Organizational Learning Through Alliance Evolution

Muhammad Zafar Yaqub:

The Moderating Effect of Leverage-Potential and Relational Polygamy on the Value-Enhancement through Value-Creating Relational Investments: A PLS-MGA model

19.00 to 20.30– Reception(Zodiac cocktail bar)

Friday:December 2, 2011

9.00 to 10.45 – Session: Franchising II: Decision Making and Vertical Integration (Europa A)

Session Chair: Gerard Cliquet

Susana López-Bayón*, Begona López-Fernández:

Delegation and Performance of Franchise Relationships

Nada Mumdziev*, Josef Windsperger:

An Extended Transaction Cost Model of Allocation of Decision Rights – The Case of Franchising

Magali Chaudey, Muriel Fadairo*, Gwennael Solard:

Sector-Based Explanation of Vertical Integration in Distribution Systems: Evidence from France

Esther Calderon-Monge*, Pilar Huerta-Zavala:

Is a Master Franchise an Effective Approach to Reducing the Information Costs of Franchisors? A Case Study of Neck and Neck.

9.00 to 10.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances II (Europa B)

Session Chair: Jon Hanf

Taras Gagalyuk, Jon H. Hanf*:

Networks and their Goals – Implications for Strategic Chain Management

Katsuhiko Yonezaki, Haruo Imai:

Airport Competitions on Airline Networks: From the Viewpoint of Network Theory

Kerstin Lange:

Stabilization of Inter-Firm Cooperation in the German Automotive Industry

9.00 to 10.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances III (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Tahir Nisar

Rena Polat, Tahir M. Nisar*:

Financial Crisis and Changes in Firm Governance and Boundaries

Henry Schäfer, Sebastian Baumann:

Incentives for Cooperative Behaviour within Supply Chain Networks in the Automotive Industry – A Positive Analysis of a Project Finance Approach in Financing Network-Specific Inventories

J. Antonio Ariza-Montes, M. Carmen López-Martin, Alfonso C. Morales-Gutiérrez, Ana Maria Lucia-Casademunt:

Virtual Networks of Solidarity: The Development of E-Social Banking

10.45 to 11.15 Break

11.15to 13.00 – Session: Franchising III (Europa A)

Session Chair:Brinja Meiseberg

Nina Gorovaia:

Real Options, Intangible Resources and Performance of Franchise Networks

Hanane El Zeiny*, Gérard Gliquet:

Can Service Quality be Standardized in a Franchised Network? The Case of McDonalds’ Egypt

Thomas Ehrmann, Brinja Meiseberg:

The Prevalence and Performance Impact of Synergies in Dual Distribution Networks

11.15 to 13.00 – Session: Cooperatives III (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Petri Ollila

Li Feng*, Jerker Nilsson, Petri Ollila, Kostas Karantininis

The Human Values behind Farmers’ Loyality to their Cooperatives

Thomas Björklund, Kostas Karantininis*, Jerker Nilsson:

Interlocking Directorates in Agricultural Enterprises in Scania, Sweden

Zuhui Huang, Yuzhi Fu, Qiao Liang*, Yu Song, Xuchu Xu:

The Efficiency of Chinese Farmer Cooperatives and its Influencing Factors

Zsuzsanna Kispál-Vitai*, Yann Regnard, Klara Kövesi:

Cooperative Rationales in the 21st Century: A European Comparative Perspective

11.15 to 13.00 – Session: Strategic Alliances IV: Networks and Innovation (Europa B)

Session Chair: Frédéric Perdreau

Alexander Bode, Simon Alig*:

Strategies for Innovation Networks

Marc Banaszak, Muhamed Kudic*, Ann Weiland:

Technology Transfer and Firm-Level Innovation Output– Empirical Evidence from the German Photovoltaic Industry

Spyros Arvanitis*, Thomas Bolli:

A Comparison of National and International Innvoation Cooperation in Five European Countries

Anne-Laure Le Nadant*, Frédéric Perdreau*:

LBOs and Innovation: The French Case

13.00to 15.30: Lunchat the main restaurant beach

15.30 to 17.30 – Session: Cooperatives IV: Governance Structure Issues in Cooperatives (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: George Hendrikse

Xiangping Jia, George Hendrikse, Yamei Hu, Jikun Huang:

Centralized Versus Individual: Governance of Farmer Professional Cooperatives in China

Qiao Liang*, George Hendrikse, Zuhui Huang, Xuchu Xu:

Core and Common Members in Chinese Farmer Cooperatives

George Hendrikse*, Jerker Nilsson, Jos Bijman:

Board Structure Variety in Cooperatives

Jos Bijman*, Frans Verhees:

Member or customer? Farmer Commitment to Supply Cooperatives

15.30 to 17.30– Session: Strategic Alliances V (Europa A)

Session Chair: Josef Windsperger

José M. Sánchez, Maria L. Vélez*, Concha Álvarez-Dardet:

Evolving Functions of Interorganizational Governance Mechanisms

Tomislav Hernaus, Ana Aleksic Miric*, Miha Skerlavaj:

Strategic Alliances’ Creation: Rationality vs. Emotions

Thomas Ehrmann, Brinja Meiseberg:

“Solitude is Impractical and Yet Society is Fatal?” – Sources and Effects of Network Skepticism in SMEs

Patrick Hippmann*, Josef Windsperger:

Complementarity between Formal and Real Authority in Interorganizational Networks

15.30 to 17.30 – Session: Strategic Alliances VI (Europa B)

Session Chair: Zeljko Panian

Sascha Albers, Bastian Schweiger*:

Network-Based Competition – Antecedents, Forms and Research Implications

Zeljko Panian:

Social Networking and Knowledge Management

N. Arranz, Juan Carlos Fdez de Arroyabe*:

Network Effect on the Performance of Joint R&D Projects

17.30to 17.45 Break

17.45 to 19.45 – Session: Franchising IV: Internationalization through Franchising (Europa A)

Session Chair: Muriel Fadairo

Mahmood A. Khan, Maryam Khan:

Global Expansion Decision Making: An Assessment of the Impacting Factors for Restaurant Franchises

Odile J. Streed*, Gerard Cliquet:

International Market Expansion of Retail Networks: Governance Modes and Failures in Emerging Countries

Maria Jell:

The Governance Structure of the International Franchise Firm – An Integrative Approach

17.45 to 19.45– Session: Cooperatives V: Agricultural Cooperatives, Value Chains and Rural Development (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Jos Bijman

Roldan Muradian, Claire Chagwiza, Worku Tessema, Ruerd Ruben:

Pro-Poor Value Chain Development, Upgrading and Inclusion: Drawing Theoretical Insights from the Field

Amsaya Anteneh*, Roldan Muradian, Ruerd Ruben:

Market Outlet Choice Decision of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Coffee Marketing: Factors Affecting Coffee Farmers Market Outlet Choice Decision. The Case of Sidama Zone, Ethiopia

Claire Chagwiza*, Roldan Muradian, Ruerd Ruben, Worku Tessema:

Collective Entrepreneurship: A Comparison between two Producer Organizations in the Ethiopian Honey Sector

Lena Lind*, Caroline Liljenstolpe, Se Liang

Pig Farmers’ Exit and Voice in Relation to Slaughterhouses with different Ownership

17.45 to 19.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances VII: Network Formation and Dynamics (Europa B)

Session Chair: Stefan Leitmannslehner

Stefan Leitmannslehner:

Contractibility, Strategy and Network Dynamics

Bernd Hellingrath, Jörg Becker, Daniel Beverungen, Carsten Böhle*, Michael Räckers:

On the Coalescence of Supply Networks and Information Systems

Elodie Gardet, Pierre-Laurent Felix:

The Methods of Distributing Results in Exploratory Partnerships

Beate Pinior*, Vera Belaya, Brigitte Petersen, Thomas Selhorst:

Structures and Relationships in Supply Chains and Networks: Conceptual Issues and Application in German Dairy Sector

20.30– CONFERENCE DINNER (at the Amadeus Restaurant)

Saturday:December 3, 2011

9.00 to 10.45 – Session:Franchising V (Europa A)

Session Chair: Rozenn Perrigot

Rozenn Perrigot*, Guy Basset, Danièle Briand-Meledo, Gérard Cliquet:

Franchisees’ Transactional Websites and Concept Uniformity: A New Challenge for Franchisors

Waltraud Martius:

Governance of Franchising Systems: The “Network-Governance-Kodex” (NGK)

Jenni Torrika:

Exploring Various Entrepreneurial Processes of the Franchisee Training Program Graduates: Empirical Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

9.00 to 10.45 – Session: Cooperatives VI (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Dietmar Rössl

Helmut M. Dietl, Tobias Duschl, Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang*:

Explaining Cooperative Enterprises through Knowledge Acquisition Outcomes

Petri Ollila*, Jerker Nilsson, Claudia von Brömssen:

Changing Member Loyality in Producer Cooperatives

Jon H. Hanf, Vera Belaya, Erik Schweickert:

Power Changes and their Consequences for Cooperatives

Isabella Hatak, Richard Lang, Dietmar Roessl*:

Trust, Social Capital and the Governance of Cooperatives

9.00 to 10.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances VIII (Europa B)

Session Chair:Josef Windsperger

Marijana Srećković:

Trust and the Choiceof Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms in Clusters

Olivier Francois Vilpoux:

Raw Material Supply in Brazilian Agribusiness Companies: Importance of Trust and Informal Governance

Muhamed Kudic*, G. Buenstorf, K. Guhr:

Disentangling the relationship between cooperation events, ego-network charachteristics, and firm innovativeness

10.45to 11.15Break

11.15 to 13.00– Session: Franchising VI (Europa A)

Session Chair: Marko Grünhagen

Hanane El Zeiny*, Gérard Cliquet:

The Influence of Culture on the Relationship between the Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Potential of Franchising in Emerging Countries: The Case of Egypt

Jenny Buchan:

Exploring the Limitations of Pre-Contract Disclosure as a Franchisee-Protection and Empowerment Mechanism in Business Format Franchising

Vanesa Solis-Rodriguez*, Manuel Gonzales-Diaz:

Learning Effect and Contractual Completeness: The Case of Franchising

11.15 to 13.00 – Session: Cooperatives VII (Executive meeting room)

Session Chair: Michael Cook

Michael L. Cook*, Molly J. Burress:

The Impact of CEO Tenure on Corporate Governance

Daniela Maria Pozzobon*, Decio Zylbersztajn, Jos Bijman:

Modeling Heterogeneity and Member Participation in Cooperative Governance

Svetlana Golovina*, Jerker Nilsson, Axel Wolz:

The Development of Agricultural Production Cooperatives in the Russian Federation

Andrej Cechin*, Jos Bijman, Stefano Pascucci, Decio Zylbersztajn, Onno Omta:

IOF versus Cooperative in Broiler Production: Exploring Differences in Relationship Characteristics and Supplier Quality Performance

11.15 to 13.00 – Session: Strategic Alliances IX (Europa B)

Session Chair: Horvath Sonja

Belkahir Ghizlane, Moncef Btissam*:

Relational Governance of International Joint Ventures: The Case of IJV Established in Morocco

Hugo Zarco-Jasso:

Determinants of Entry Modes Choice in Developing Countries: Bargaining between HostStates and MNCs

Oskar Kayasan:

State Business Interplay of Global Alliances

Sonja Horvath:

The Governance Structure of International JV: Property Rights and Transaction Cost Explanations

13.00to 14.00Lunch at the main restaurant

14.00 to 15.30 – Session: Franchising VII: Governance Structure of Franchise Firms (Europa A)

Session Chair: Andrew Terry

Andrew Terry, Cary Di Lernia:

Quasi-Franchising: A New Model for Strategic Business Cooperation

Dildar Hussain, Josef Windsperger:

Single-unit versus Multi-Unit Franchising: Empirical Results from the German Franchise Sector

14.00 to 15.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances X: Special Topics on Entrepreneurship and Networks (Europa B)

Session Chairs:Gille Pache

Catherine Thevenard-Puthod*, Christian Picard:

How Do Craft Firm Owner-Managers Profiles Influence the Type of Network their Firms Belong to?

Odile Chanut*, Gilles Paché:

Supply Networks in Urban Logistics- Which Strategies for 3 PL?

Veronica Maier*, Anca Borza, Razvan Nistor:

Defining Entrepreneurship in Organisations

Susanne Gretzinger*, Susan Royer:

Social and Symbolic Capital in Firm Clusters:

An Empirical Investigation of Relational Resources and Value Creation

14.00 to 15.45 – Session: Strategic Alliances XI (Executive meeting room)

Conference Organizers: Victor Lankin

Romain Gandia*, Elodie Gardet:

Dependence in an Industrial Sector and Strategic Implications for Video Game Developers

Vera Belaya, Jon H. Hanf:

The ‘Power Paradox’ in Agri-Food Supply Chains and Networks: Empirical Evidence and Mangerial Implications for Russia

Violetta Volkova, Viktor Lankin*, Anna Tatarova:

Informational Models of Partnership Organization Process

Victor Lankin*, Jan de Jong:

Issues of a Joint Venture Organization and Operation with the Russian Partner Participation

15.45 to 16.00– Plenary Session (Europa B):

Publication Possibilities

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