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Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation February 16 - 17, 2007

Agenda

Some papers are available in PDF below. For those that are not posted here, please contact the authors directly. On Saturday, Feb 17, all events are at Hawes Hall, Room 302.

Friday, February 16
12:00 p.m.
Lunch

Kresge Board Room (Kresge Hall, Ground Floor)

1:30 p.m.
Welcome remarks

Hawes Hall, Room 302

2:00 p.m.
SESSION 1: Designing and Making the Rules

Hawes Hall, Room 302
Chair: Michael Lenox (Duke)

Choosing the Rules for Formal Standardization

by Joseph Farrell and Tim Simcoe (Toronto)

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Competing Through Cooperation: Standard-Setting in Wireless Telecommunications

by Aija Leiponen (Cornell)
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The Groucho Effect of Uncertain Standards

by Rick Harbaugh, John W. Maxwell (Indiana) and Beatrice Roussillon
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Discussant: Victor Stango (Dartmouth)

3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m.
SESSION 2: Industry Self-policing to Enforce the Rules

Hawes Hall, Room 302
Chair: Andrew King (Dartmouth)

Coming Clean … and Cleaning Up? Examining the Effects of Self-Policing

by Michael Toffel (Harvard) and Jodi Short
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Ownership Structure and Enforcement Incentives at Self-Regulatory Financial Exchanges

by David Reiffen (US CFTC) and Michel Robe
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Quality Management and Self-Regulation in Dutch Agri-Food Supply Chains

by Wijnand van Plaggenhoef (Wageningen)
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Green Production through Competitive Testing

by Erica Plambeck and Terry Taylor (Columbia)
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Discussant: Jordan Siegel (Harvard)

5:45 p.m.
Break
6:00 p.m.
Cocktails, Hors d'oeuvres, and Poster Session

HBS Faculty Club (Kresge Hall, 2nd Floor)

Brokering Industrial Ecosystems: Creating Regional Institutional Forms

by Ray Paquin (BU)
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Commercial Antennas and their role in promoting FDI and international trade

by Rafael Corredoira (U Pennsylvania)

Firm Self-Regulation through Certifiable Environmental Standards: Substantive versus Symbolic Implementation of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

by Deepa Aravind (Rutgers) and Petra Christmann

Institutional Predictors of and Complements to Industry Self-Regulation with Regard to Labor Practices

by Harry Van Buren (U New Mexico) and Karen Patterson
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The Self Regulation of Higher Education: Accreditation under Attack

by Paul Weissburg (George Mason) and Michelle Ranville
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Toward a Cooperation-Based Approach for Hazardous Waste Management: A Framework

by Joice Y. Chang (Indiana)

Why Do They Join? An Exploration of Business Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs

by Jonathan Borck (Harvard), Cary Coglianese, and Jennifer Nash
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Will we have the time? Effective organization for uncertain collaborations

by James Howison (Syracuse)
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7:00 p.m.
Dinner and Chat with Josh Lerner (Harvard)

HBS Faculty Club (Kresge Hall, 2nd Floor)

Saturday, February 17
8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast Buffet
8:30 a.m.
SESSION 3: Networks and Self-Regulation

Chair: Tim Simcoe (Toronto)

Public-Private Networks as Sources of Knowledge and Upgrading Capabilities: A Parametric Stroll through Argentine Vineyards

by Gerald A. McDermott (U Pennsylvania), Rafael Corredoira and Greg Kruse
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Standards and Collective Knowledge Flows in the Process of Building Globally Competitive Developing Country Firms: A Chilean Case

by Paola Perez-Aleman (McGill U)

The Emergence of Self Organizing Networks: Small Worlds

by Brian Uzzi, Roger Guimera, Jarrett Spiro (Stanford), and Luis Amaral

Discussant: Olav Sorenson (U Toronto)

10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.
SESSION 4: Collaborating for Innovation: Community-Based Approaches

Chair: Michael Barnett (U South Florida)

User Communities and Hybrid Innovation Processes: Theoretical Foundations and Implications for Policy and Research

by Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilian U) and Philip Mayrhofer

The Strategic Management of Institutions for Value Creation: A study of Hybrid Models for Software development

by Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri (U degli Studi di Palermo)
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Promoting the Penguin: Who is Advocating Open Source Software in Commercial Settings?

by Oliver Alexy and Joachim Henkel (Technical U Munich)
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Discussant: Marco Iansiti (Harvard)

12:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Using technology to manage communities within and among organizations

Andrew McAfee (Harvard) and Karim Lakhani (Harvard)

1:30 p.m.
SESSION 5: Perspectives on Adoption and Impact

Chair: Petra Christmann (Rutgers)

Adoption of Voluntary Environmental Standards: An Empirical Analysis of the Diffusion of LEED Green Building Standards

by Charles Corbett and Suresh Muthulingam (UCLA)

Status Effects in Technological Communities

by Dave Waguespack (Maryland), Tim Simcoe & Lee Fleming
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A Stroll Through the Empirical Literature

by Andrew King (Dartmouth)

Discussant: Dinah Koehler (US EPA)

3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:15 p.m.
SESSION 6: Theory Workbench

Chair: Michael Lenox (Duke)

A positive theory of moral management, social pressure, and corporate social performance

by David Baron (Stanford)

Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets

by Matthew Kotchen (UC Santa Barbara)
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Escaping from the Green Prison: An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach to the Formation and Transformation of Environmental Institutions

by Desiree F. Pacheco (Colorado), David S. Payne and Thomas J. Dean

4:45 p.m.
Concluding remarks
6:00 p.m.
Dinner at Harvard Square

Sandrine's Bistro, 8 Holyoke St., Cambridge