[UCI-Calit2] CRITO HOUR - Change in Speaker/March 23

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

This week's CRITO Hour will feature Martin Kenney, UC Davis professor in
the Department of Human and Community Development, and senior project
director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. Kenney
will address offshoring and its development in India.

 

Event begins with lunch at 11:45 a.m., Thursday, March 23, in the CRITO
Conference Room at Berkeley Place; discussion begins at noon.

 

Topic:

Offshoring of services is a recent phenomenon, but has been growing
rapidly in scale, scope and depth.  India is the primary recipient of
this offshoring.  This presentation will introduce the topic, trace its
trajectory and consider the implications for the location of service
work.  The activities of various firms will be used to illustrate the
development of offshoring in India.

 

Bio:

Martin Kenney is a professor in the Department of Human and Community
Development at the University of California, Davis and a senior project
director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. He
received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research has focused on
the development of Silicon Valley firms, the venture capital industry,
and the offshoring of service work. He has published five books and more
than 100 scholarly articles in journals such as the American
Sociological Review, California Management Review, Economic Geography,
Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, and R&D Management.
His book, Locating Global Advantage, examining corporate strategy for
globalization was published in 2004 by Stanford University Press. He was
an Arthur Anderson Distinguished Visitor at the Judge Institute of
Management Studies at Cambridge University, a visiting professor at the
Institute for Business Research at Hitotsubashi University in Japan, and
the Copenhagen Business School.  Currently, he is currently a lecturer
in the Copenhagen Business School's Executive Education Programs and an
advisor to the World Economic Forum's Nurturing Early-Stage Investment
in China Working Group.  He has consulted for the Association of
Computing Machinery, U.S. Department of Labor, and the World Bank among
others.

 

 

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