Wharton-SMU Research Center

In-House Seminar

Guest Speaker:

Bruce Kogut
Felix Zandman Professor of International Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Topic:

Globalization, Ownership Networks, and Changes in National Goverance Systems

Venue:

Business Block, Level 2, Seminar Room 5
Singapore Management University
469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259756

Date:

Wednesday, 15 January 2003, at 4.00pm

Reservation:

This seminar is free. Places are limited. Please confirm your attendance by Tuesday, 14 January 2003, 12 noon with Ms. Lim Lih Yeng at lylim@smu.edu.sg or telephone: 6822-0197.

About the Seminar:

This seminar will treat two topics. The first is the study of globalization on national patterns of ownership and their restructuring. Around this topic, the speaker has organized a research effort consisting of four countries at this time: the United States, Germany, Italy, and Korea. He will review the results of these studies, plus a few humorous results on why countries privatize. The second topic is the utility of network analysis, or more exactly, "small world analysis" for understanding the (slow) speed by which one can expect globalization to change national economies.