Institutional Voids and the Governance of Developing Economies

Institutional Voids and the Governance of Developing Economies

Date: 16 May 2011

Venue: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein, T-building, Room T3-14 (third floor), Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam

The symposium is jointly organized and sponsored by the IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Rotterdam School of Management, the Centre for Governance, Institutions & Organizations at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore and the Erasmus Research Institute of Management.

Convenors:

• Prof. Tak-Wing Ngo, IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance and Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Dr Marleen Dieleman, Centre for Governance, Institutions & Organizations at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
• Dr Mark Greeven, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

A common problem faced by many developing countries is the presence of institutional voids. While it is an established wisdom that institutions matter in development, most developing economies are characterized by the absence of much-needed institutional arrangements to regulate market exchange, mobilize economic resources, and coordinate social activities. This symposium seeks to explore the phenomenon of institutional void and to locate the kind of actors, the source of entrepreneurial agency, the organizational principle of firms, the nature of government-business relations, the structure of social order, and the wider socio-political context that are conducive to new forms of governance that fill those institutional voids.

Speakers:

• Eric Jones (La Trobe University, Australia)
• Marleen Dieleman (NUS Business School, Singapore)
• Bennet Zelner (Duke University, USA)
• Michael Carney (Concordia University, Canada)
• Mun Young Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
• Tak-Wing Ngo (IIAS and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
• Susana Moreira (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Mark Greeven (RSM, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
• Loraine Kennedy (l'École des Hautes – Études en Sciences Sociales, France)
• Vijayabaskar Manimegalai (Madras Institute of Development Studies, India)
• Ray Yep (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Sam Wong (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• Pei Sun (Fudan University, China)
• Hoaping Xu (Fudan University, China)
• Yuri Sadoi (Meijo University, Japan)

Information and Registration:       
For the detailed programme and more information, see: www.iias.nl
For questions or registration, contact Ms Martina van den Haak at M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nl

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