Divestment: Corporate Strategies, the Regions and Policy Responses

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* 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
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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
ƒ Reflexos territoriais do processo de reestruturação
industrial em Portugal - uma análise da década de
noventa, Eduarda Costa and Nuno Costa, CEG/UL
ƒ Manufacturing disinvestments and local responses
in a southern european region: the andalusian case,
Daniel Coq, Dept. of Applied Economics II, Univ. of
Seville
ƒ A manifestação de uma nova geografia do
[sub]desenvolvimento capitalista na Europa: razões
para repensar a região do Alentejo, Josué Caldeira,
CEG/UL
ƒ O declínio de centros mineiros tradicionais e as
estratégias de reconversão territorial em curso, Mário
Barroqueiro, CEG/UL
ƒ 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
ƒ 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
ƒ 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
ƒ 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
ƒ A
capacidade
empresarial
das
regiões
portuguesas, Regina Salvador, Dept. of Geography
and Regional Planning, New Univ. of Lisbon
ƒ 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
ƒ 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
ƒ A reconversão urbana de Lisboa Oriental: as
actividades culturais no eixo Xabregas-Parque das
Nações, Jorge Gaspar and Eduardo Brito Henriques,
CEG/UL
ƒ Conformação e perfomance da "Cidade Difusa":
uma perspectiva arquitectónica, Gonçalo Furtado
and Rui Afonso, Architecture Faculty, Oporto
University
ƒ 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
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