Welcome to MESD 2012

Dear Conference Participants,

We take great pleasure in inviting you to the third Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development International Conference (MESD 2012). This conference is co-organized by the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College, ICN Business School, Nancy, France, the CEREFIGE (Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - a multi-university European business research consortium), Nancy-Metz, France and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

Strategic choices for technology and innovation have become key success factors in implementing sustainable development policies. The 2012 MESD Conference focuses on the "Managing MNE Dynamics and Sustainable Development: Best Strategies, Practices and Models." This event, an excellent opportunity to discuss and address questions at the core of sustainable strategic management, is designed for management scholars, economists, lawyers, sociologists and those in relevant engineering fields. We encourage participants to consider and share potential answers to questions such as why, when and how innovative and strategic technological choices will be made and deployed. We will also compare worldwide corporate policies and best practices.

We are looking forward to a rigorous and focused exchange of ideas. From this, we will publish selected papers and presentations in a proceedings book and in a special issue of international business journals to enrich a growing body of policy and management literature.

Conference Co-chairs
Rabi Narayan KAR, Silvester IVANAJ, Vera IVANAJ and John MCINTYRE,

Conference Patron
Prof. P.K. KHURANA