Topic 1: Which business opportunities to pursue? The role of business planning for creating new venture success

In the research talk Prof. Jan Brinckmann presents his research stream on the role of business planning and alternative activities for successfully launching new ventures.
He will give an overview of the outcomes uncovered based on various samples and analytical approaches and provide a reflection of the much cited meta-analysis on business planning for the performance of SMEs. Moreover, he will outline future research opportunities in the domain of business planning.

Topic 2: Political Capabilities, Institutional Duality, and MNE – Local Firm Rivalry in an Emerging Market

Recent corporate political activities (CPA) studies have shown that MNE subsidiaries’ political capabilities in emerging markets are shaped not just by host country institutions, but by home country ones too. Indeed, certain political capabilities developed in reaction to the home country institutional context can be transferred to host countries and provide MNE subsidiaries with a competitive advantage. An important question to understand MNE - domestic firm rivalry is: which political capabilities are transferable across institutional contexts and which ones are locally embedded. In his speech, Dr. Schnyder will discuss the differences in MNE subsidiaries’ and domestic firms’ ability to cope with an emerging market political environment arising from the different political capabilities available to them.

About the speakers:

Jan Brinckmann

Dr. Jan Brinckmann is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at ESADE Business School in the Strategy and General Management Department. He is Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Research Group at ESADE as well as ESADE’s business creation activities called EWorks. He is also on the editorial review board of the Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice - the two top entrepreneurship focused academic journals. Before coming to ESADE, he taught at Loyola University Chicago and Cornell University and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University. Beyond his dedication to academia, Dr. Brinckmann has a passion for empowering entrepreneurs. He cofounded, invests and is a board member of various international high growth technology companies.

Dr. Gerhard Schnyder is a Reader in International Management at Loughborough University London. He joined LU LND in August 2017 from King’s College London where he worked from 2009 as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader in Comparative Management. Before that he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge (2007 – 2009) and the Centre for International Studies, and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS, University of London (January – August 2009).

He hold a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008), an MA ("DEA") in political science from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva (2003) and a BA ("licence") in political science from the University of Lausanne (2001).