School Calendar

Marketing Plan

Career Event

Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:30 pm - 6:45:00 pm
Location: SB 117

marketing plan

All FEMBA Students

Dissertation Defense Announcement & Reception

Ph.D. Program Event

Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: SB 306

The Paul Merage School of Business is pleased to announce that FENG TIAN from the area of Accounting will defend his dissertation titled, "Performance Expectation Ratcheting, Corporate Governance, and Earnings Management", on July 29th at 2:00pm in SB 306.
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Reception immediately following the defense (approx 4pm).

Merage School Only

CRITO Hour - Ted Tschang, Singapore Management University

CRITO Event

Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Location: Other UCI

July 30, 2008
New location: 5251 California Avenue, Suite 105
(corner of Bison and California)
12:00pm

(Due to limited space in our new location, please RSVP to hondak@uci.edu if you would like to attend this CRITO Hour).

"Is Software Industry Growth in Emerging Regions Explainable with the Extant ‘Theory’? Synthesizing the Experiences of India, China and the Philippines"

Ted Tschang, Singapore Management University

Abstract
This talk will broadly theorize on the different paths to software industry formation in emerging economies. I will try to develop a synthetic understanding of three cases that I have studied, to see how we can explain these software industries’ growth paths and the common/variant factors underlying their growth. I will sketch this without much in the way of statistics. The conventional understanding in studies of the software industry primarily ascribes industrial development to three factors: skilled labor, firms’ capabilities and opportunity (Arora and Gambardella 2005). We will look into whether this model explains our cases. Firstly, organizational capability has been built up quite differently – India has been a first mover in this regard. As a consequence, China and the Philippines have had to rely more on the foreign multinationals’ transfer of knowledge, as well as the opportunities associated with the latter. It is worth attempting to describe each “industry” as having acquired its own form of “industrial capability”, defined by a technological capability, which is mediated by the position in the value chain in relation to some production network – international or otherwise.

Biography
Ted Tschang has been assistant professor of management at Singapore Management University since 2001. His research areas are in innovation management and industrial development, in particular, at the industrial and firm level. One area of interest covers how the software and IT-enabled services industries develop in emerging regions. In this, his work focused on the development of firms’ capabilities and strategies in relation to broader national competitive advantages. A second research interest involves examining how the video game industry has been structured and how creativity enters the product development process (mostly based on qualitative research in the United States, and to a limited extent, in China). From this, he is developing theories of creative organization. Recently, he has been developing theory on how virtual worlds organize and emerge, and its implications for the future evolution of the Net. He has a Ph.D. in public policy analysis and management from Carnegie Mellon, and earlier degrees in economics and engineering. Prior to SMU, he worked at think tanks for the United Nations University and Asian Development Bank in Tokyo.

Open to the Public

Resumes & Cover Letters

Career Event

Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 5:30 pm - 6:45:00 pm
Location: MPAA 120

Fundamental to any job search are a results-oriented, professional looking resume and cover letter that make a persuasive and compelling introduction. This session helps students turn their experience and prior resumes into high-impact marketing tools.

All FEMBA Students