May 25-26, 2023

Conference Chair Tony Fang

Conference hosts
Jeremy Clegg, University of Leeds, UK Tony Fang, Stockholm University, Sweden Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University, Sweden

Program

Sweden, Scandinavia, central Europe (CET)

For program times in other time zones see pdf

8th EMIC Timetable (771 Kb)

May 25

13:00-13:05
Fredrik Nordin Head of Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
Welcome speech Fredrik Nordin (63 Kb)

13:05-13:30
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
“Away out of the polycrisis”

13:30-14:00
Mats Alvesson, Lund University
“Re-imagining the research process. New ideas for how to understand and do research”

14:20-14:40
Marina Latukha Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire
“Human capital outflow and geopolitical turbulence: Unpacking new research perspectives”

14:40-15:00
Mike Peng, University of Texas at Dallas
“Managing in Communist Capitalism”

15:00-15:30
Rickard Grassman, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“Bank crises and ethics”

15:30-16:00
Yih-Teen Lee, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
“Temporal and cultural transcendence: Insights from the construction of Sagrada Familia across 140 years”

16:00-16:20
Hinrich Voss, University of Bristol
"International production and climate change"

16:20-16:40
Ari Van Assche HEC Montreal
“Global supply chain practices and inequality of opportunity”

16:40-17:00 Break

17:00-17:30
Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“The global success of Swedish music”

17:30-18:00
Andrei Panibratov, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire
”Bulls and bears: Inscribing SOEs’ roles into the global climate agenda”

18:00-18:30
Olga Golubeva, Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“The impact of sanctions on Russia on Swedish MNEs: How accounting can contribute to our understanding”

18:30-19:00
Gary Gereffi, Duke University
“Rethinking Supply Chain Resiliency in a Post-Pandemic World”

19:30-20:00 Break

20:00-20:20
Sigbjørn Landazuri Tveteraas, University of Stavanger
“Do economic complexity and change agency determine how destinations emerge from crises?”

20:20-20:40
Etel Solingen University of California, Irvine
“Snarled in the Gray Zone: The Geopolitics of GVCs”

20:40-21:00
Rosalie L. Tung Simon Fraser University Ivo Zander, Uppsala University
Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“Tech Cold War and implications for IB research”

21:00-21:30
Fredrik Tell, Uppsala University
“Reglobalization in a disruptive world – Strategic challenges for multinationals”

May 26

09:30-10:00
Changqi Wu, Shandong University
“Why does BRI work?”

10:00-10:30
Rudolf R. Sinkovics, University of Glasgow
“Towards societally engaged international business”

10:30-11:00
Bryan Jean, National Taiwan University
“Does business model innovation enhance international performance for emerging market firms?”

11:00-11:20
Lena Zander, Uppsala University
”More Task-oriented Leadership in Times of Trouble: tonic or toxic?”

11:20-11:40
Jeremy Clegg University of Leeds
"How should research capture today's less effective reality?"

11:40-12:00
Chris Medlin, University of Adelaide, Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“Yin-Yang thinking and Western Cartesian modes of theorizing”

12:00-13:00 Break

13:00-13:20
Anlan Zhang, Cardiff University
“Corporate legitimation competition in the media: A case study of Trump’s TikTok ban”

13:20-13:40
Patrik Ström, Stockholm School of Economics
“Services and the green transition in emerging economies”

13:40-14:00
Elizabeth Yi Wang, University of Leeds
“Revisiting International Business’s Contribution to Poverty Alleviation”

14:00-14:20
Fang Zheng, Agder University
“A systematic review of international business policy”

14:20-14:40
Li Ma, Peking University
“Issues on Bell and Road Initiative (BRI)”

14:40-15:00
Niina Nummela, University of Turku
“Problematising research on global mobility – focus on individuals with cosmopolitan identity”

15:00-16:00 Break

16:00-16:20
Peter P. Li, Copenhagen Business School
“On decoupling"

16:20-16:40
Pervez Ghauri, University of Birmingham
“MNEs and sustainable development”

16:40-17:00
Karin Berglund, Anna Wettermark, Jessica Lindberg, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
“Transforming enterprise education”

17:00-17:30

8th EMIC Lifetime Achievement Award

The award goes to Gary Knight, Professor of Global Management, Willamette University, USA

Read more about Gary Knight

See Gary Knight's speech

“The Past and Going Forward: Some Thoughts on International Business and Sustainability”

Presentation Gary Knight (1073 Kb)

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