Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses
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Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses
Registration form Last name: First name: Title: Nationality: Contact Address: * The aim of the international conference is to critically assess the corporate strategies and the decision-making process of disinvestment and its impacts for regional development. This involves a review of current theoretical debates on the subject, with emphasis on the firm level and the regions in a global economy. The international conference intends to discuss and compare specific case studies of divestment in Portugal with international experiences in a sectoral and regional perspective. The debate of divestment processes and impacts should inform policy responses. Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses Phone: Fax: E-mail: International Conference on Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses Lisbon, 22nd and 23rd September, 2003 Registration fee Normal, €100 Students, €50 * Registration after 7th September: more 50% on the registration fee, limited to the conference room capacity. Method of payment ♦ By check, to Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa or F.U.L. ♦ By paying the registration fee directly at the conference desk *The Divest Research project (POCTI/34037/GEO/2000) has the goals of : (i) analyzing the causes of divestment on manufacturing activities and producing a typology of divestment; (ii) studying its impacts in the regional economies, labour market and land use; (iii) giving a contribution to policy measures targeted to anticipate divestment or to minimize its effects. Bearing in mind a multidisciplinary approach the project team joins geographers, economists and sociologists, from the Centro de Estudos Geográficos (CEG/UL), Secção Autónoma de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (SACSA/UNL) and from the Centro de Estudos e Documentação Europeia (CEDE/ISEG). 22nd and 23rd September, 2003 Faculdade de Letras University of Lisbon Lisbon International Conference on Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses Lisbon, 22nd and 23rd September, 2003 PROGRAMME 22nd September 8h30m – Reception of participants 9h00m – Opening session: Diogo de Abreu, Director of the CEG/UL; Mário Vale, Research coordinator of the Divest project 9h10m – Keynote Lecture: Corporate strategies and regional development in an enlarged Europe, Ray Hudson, Geography Dept., Durham Univ. 10h00m – Coffee Break 10h30m – I. Divestment and regional economic restructuring Reflexos territoriais do processo de reestruturação industrial em Portugal - uma análise da década de noventa, Eduarda Costa and Nuno Costa, CEG/UL Manufacturing disinvestments and local responses in a southern european region: the andalusian case, Daniel Coq, Dept. of Applied Economics II, Univ. of Seville A manifestação de uma nova geografia do [sub]desenvolvimento capitalista na Europa: razões para repensar a região do Alentejo, Josué Caldeira, CEG/UL O declínio de centros mineiros tradicionais e as estratégias de reconversão territorial em curso, Mário Barroqueiro, CEG/UL Desinvestimento e crise industrial numa região interior, Mário Vale and Rui Dias, CEG/UL 13h00m – Lunch 14h00m – II. Divestment, labour market and corporate strategies in a global economy Impacto do desinvestimento no mercado local de emprego: o caso de uma unidade da indústria metalomecânica, António Brandão Moniz and Cláudia Gomes, SACSA/Fac. of Science & Technology, New Univ. Lisbon Emprego e desemprego numa área de especialização industrial: reestruturação do sector vidreiro na Marinha Grande, Pedro Soares and Heitor Gomes, CEG/UL Project Divest – Divestment and Economic, Social and Territorial Impacts (POCTI/34037/GEO/2000) Project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (cont.) 22nd September Corporate strategies in alcoholic drinks and the reestructuring of the sherry wine industry 1980-2002, Marta Soler, Dept. of Applied Economics II, Univ. of Seville A capacidade empresarial das regiões portuguesas, Regina Salvador, Dept. of Geography and Regional Planning, New Univ. of Lisbon Estruturação de um mercado Ibérico: impacto do (des)investimento espanhol em Portugal, José Afonso Teixeira and Iva Pires, Fac. of Social and Human Sciences, New Univ. of Lisbon Desinvestimento em Filiais Estrangeiras em Portugal: Lógicas e Dinâmicas, Vítor Corado Simões, Institute of Economics and Business Administration, Technical University of Lisbon 16h30m – Coffee Break 17h00m – Keynote Lecture: Divestment seen through the lenses of international business strategy, Gabriel Benito, Dept. of Strategy, Norwegian School of Management BI 23rd September 9h00m – III. Urban redevelopment in deindustrialized areas A reconversão urbana de Lisboa Oriental: as actividades culturais no eixo Xabregas-Parque das Nações, Jorge Gaspar and Eduardo Brito Henriques, CEG/UL Conformação e perfomance da "Cidade Difusa": uma perspectiva arquitectónica, Gonçalo Furtado and Rui Afonso, Architecture Faculty, Oporto University Estratégias de valorização de áreas desindustrializadas: o caso da Quimiparque, Margarida Queirós and Filipa Martins, CEG/UL 10h30m – Coffee Break 11h00m – Keynote Lecture: Geographical Political Economy of Closure, Andy Pike, CURDS, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne 12h00m – Round Table and Closing Session: Policy Responses to Divestments, Jorge Gaspar, CEG/UL (Moderator) International Conference on Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses Lisbon, 22nd and 23rd September, 2003 Please send this REGISTRATION FORM to: CENTRO DE ESTUDOS GEOGRÁFICOS Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa Cidade Universitária 1600-214 LISBOA Portugal Tel. 351 – 21 796 54 69 ∗ 21 794 02 18 Fax: 351 – 21 793 86 90 or E-MAIL REGISTRATION to: [email protected] FEDER Supports: