Latest Past Events

Research Spotlight: The Need for Survey Research in International Business/Marketing: Tips and Trends

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For this webinar, we invited three well-established international business/marketing scholars. Our panelists will discuss the need for survey research to address important international business/marketing phenomena, speaking to contemporary conceptual and methodological best practices. This webinar will include short presentations followed by a discussion moderated by the co-hosts.

Key Takeaways:

Learn areas of research opportunity that can best be explored via survey research

Gain insights into different theoretical foundations for advancing the international business/marketing literature

Tips related to best practices for designing and executing survey research for publication in the international business/marketing literature

MSI Consortium – Manufacturing, Product Strategy and Supply Chain Issues in the Global Automotive Industry

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The automotive industrys market sales are forecast to be US$3.8 trillion in 2022* - and this doesnt even account for all the value chain members and the vast network of stakeholders associated with doing business in this industrial vertical! Technological advances, government regulations and a hyper-competitive market are among the forces directly impacting a flurry of product announces and new manufacturing investments around the world.

Join us with leading experts to explore some of the manufacturing, product strategy and supply chain issues facing the future of the automotive industry in an evolving paradigm.

MSI Consortium – Understanding the Basics of International Tax Avoidance: Methods and Ethics

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Multinational corporations face an unequal world in many ways, including widely varying effective tax rates in different nations (although recent moves by the US, EU and other nations have agreed to start reducing the disparities, by imposing a minimum 15% corporate tax. Nevertheless, the differences in tax rates may shrink, but not disappear.

This webinar is designed to introduce academics and practitioners to the basic methods that have been used by multinationals to pay less tax in higher-tax jurisdictions, by transferring declared taxable profits to lower-taxed countries. This is not a seminar for tax accountants but rather intended as an overview or introduction to a fundamentally important subject, using simple examples that can be understood by instructors, their students and also executives in multinational companies. Across the domain of international business, the sums amount to trillions of dollars