Knowledge Intensive Services and Changing Organisational Forms

Wednesday 26^th November 2003

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.45

Session 1
Welcome & Introduction
Rod Coombs (Manchester School of Management)

Marcela Miozzo and Damian Grimshaw
(Manchester School of Management, UMIST)
The Other Side of IT Outsourcing: the New Boundaries and Coordination of the Large Innovating Firm
[Abstract]

14.45 - 15.30

Session 2 - Firm Strategy and IT Outsourcing

Leslie Willcocks
(Warwick Business School)
Global Information Technology Outsourcing in the USA and UK
[Abstract]

15.30 - 16.00

Tea/Coffee

16.00 - 16.45

Volker Mahnke and Mikkel Lucas Overby
(Copenhagen Business School)
Make and/or buy of IT Enabled Innovation: The Role of Knowledge-creation and Dissemination Risk
[Abstract]

19.15

MBS Bar for drinks

20.00

Dinner - Stock Restaurant, 4 Norfolk St, Manchester city centre

Thursday 27^th November 2003

09.30 - 12.30

Session 3 - Knowledge Intensive Services and National Systems

09.30 - 10.15

Jeremy Howells
(University of Manchester)
Outsourcing and National Systems

10.15 - 11.00

Mark Lehrer
(University of Rhode Island)
The Outsourcing of the German Software Function in Historical and Comparative Perspective
[Abstract]

11.00 - 11.30

Tea/Coffee

11.30 - 12.15

Glenn Morgan and Andrew Sturdy
(Warwick Business School and School of Management, Imperial College)
The Impact of National Institutions and Globalization on Management Consultancies
[Abstract]

12.15 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 16.00

Session 4 - Contracting and Changing Organisational

13.30 - 14.15

Bart Nooteboom
(Erasmus Universitieit Rotterdam)
An Integrated Survey of Theory on Sourcing, Inter-firm Collaboration and Networks
[Abstract]

14.15 - 15.00

Damian Grimshaw and Marcela Miozzo
(Manchester School of Management)
IT Outsourcing in the UK and Germany: a Comparison of Contracting Relations and Performance
[Abstract]

15.00 - 15.30

Tea/Coffee

15.30 - 16.00

General Discussion and Concluding Remarks