Team
Led by Professor Jordi Surroca, the SIBE Group brings together scholars, early career researchers and PhD students with an interest in the areas of strategy and innovation, international business and entrepreneurship.
Subject group leads
SUBJECT GROUP HEADProfessor Jordi Surroca |
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DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONDr Danai Christopoulou |
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DIRECTOR OF RESEARCHProfessor Dilani Jayawarna |
Staff
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Senior Lecturer in Management |
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Senior Lecturer in Strategy Director of Studies: MBA Programmes |
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Lecturer in Strategy |
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Lecturer in Strategy |
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Professor in Entrepreneurship Director: Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship |
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Professor in Innovation Management |
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Lecturer in International Business |
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Chair in Strategy and Organisation |
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Senior Lecturer in International Business and Strategy Director of Education: SIBE Group Director of Studies: International Business BA programmes |
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Senior Lecturer in Strategy Director: Online Programmes Director of Studies: Online MBA |
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Director of Studies Taicang Undergraduate Year 1 Programme Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship |
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Lecturer in International Business and Strategy Director of Studies: BA International Business |
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship |
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Research Associate |
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Professor International Business and Innovation ULMS Director of Ethics |
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Lecturer in International Business & Strategy Director of Studies: MSc International Business ULMS Postrgraduate Lead |
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Senior Lecturer in Management Director of Studies MSc Online Management |
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Senior Lecturer in Innovation Management Deputy Director of Studies BA International Business |
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Lecturer in Strategic Management & Innovation |
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Professor of Entrepreneurship Director of Research: SIBE Group |
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University Teacher and Entrepreneur in Residence |
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurial and Organisational Learning |
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Professor of International Business |
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Lecturer in Strategy and International Business |
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Professor of Management and Corporate Governance Associate Dean (International) |
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Lecturer in Strategic Management and Innovation |
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Chair in International Business Director: Postgraduate Research Programmes |
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Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship |
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Professor in International Business |
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Senior Lecturer in SIBE Principal Investigator for the Heseltine Institute |
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Lecturer in Strategy and Business Ethics |
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Chair in Strategic Management Subject Group Head: SIBE Group |
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Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Director of Studies MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Postgraduate Lead Strategy, IB and Entrepreneurship |
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Lecturer in International Business |
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Chair in Sports Business |
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Senior Lecturer in Strategy Director of Studies PhD Business and MRES |
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Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business Postgraduate Academic Integrity Officer |
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Lecturer in Strategic Management |
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Lecturer in Strategy |
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Deputy Chair UG Board of Examiners Senior Lecturer in International Management |
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Professor in Organisation Studies |
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Education
As well as the International Business BA and International Business MSc, our Group leads the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management MSc programme, focused on the management of innovations and entrepreneurial firms, both small and large.
We also contribute to a wide range of modules as part of the School's general management academic offering at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with leading roles on The Liverpool MBA, Online MBA and Executive DBA, as well as on the School's doctoral programmes.
Teaching is led by evidence-based research produced by our team of international experts, whose work is shaping world-class academic thought, and making a direct impact on a wide range of organisations and institutions.
Research
The results of our research have been published in top management journals with a focus on any of our four research themes, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Research Policy, as well as in more general management journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Organization Science.
The group's academics also hold senior editorial positions in prestigious journals and sit on numerous editorial boards.
Selected recent publications
2023
Borah, D., Massini, S., Malik, K. (2023). 'Teaching benefits of multi-helix university-industry research collaborations: Towards a holistic framework', Research Policy, 52(8), 104843
Cornelissen, J., & Kaandorp, M. (2023). 'Towards Stronger Causal Claims in Management Research: Causal Triangulation Instead of Causal Identification', Journal of Management, 60(4), 834-860
- DOI: 10.1111/joms.12897
Day, L., Balogun, J., Mayer, M. (2023). 'Strategic change in a pluralistic context: Change leader sensegiving', Organization Studies, 44(8), 1207–1230
Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Tasselli, S. (2023). 'Theorizing about the implications of multiplexity: An integrative typology', Academy of Management Annals, 17(2), 626-654
Papageorgiadis, N., Procopiou, A., Sofka, W. (2023). 'Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms’ patent litigation', Research Policy, 52(8), 104816
Valero-Gil, J., Surroca, J.A., Tribo, J., Gutierrez, L., Montiel, I. (2023). 'Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance', Research Policy, 52 (4), 104737
2022
Mikołajewska-Zając, K., Márton, A., Zundel, M. (2022). 'Couchsurfing with Bateson: An ecology of digital platforms', Organization Studies, (43)7, 1115-1135
Brennecke, J., Ertug, G., Elfring, T. (2022). 'Networking fast and slow: The role of speed in tie formation', Journal of Management, 0(0)
Distel, A. P., Sofka, W., de Faria, P., Preto, M. T., & Ribeiro, A. S. (2022). 'Dynamic capabilities for hire - How former host-country entrepreneurs as MNC subsidiary managers affect performance', Journal of International Business Studies, 53, 657–688
Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., Kovacs, B., Zou, T. (2022). 'What does homophily do? A review of the consequences of homophily', Academy of Management Annals, 16(1), 38-69
Grecu, A., Sofka, W., Larsen, M.M., Pedersen, T., (2022). 'Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires', Journal of International Business Studies, 53(3), 534-549
Grimpe, C., Sofka, W., Kaiser, U. (2022). 'Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries', Journal of International Business Studies, 54(4), 657-685
Horner, S., Papageorgiadis, N., Sofka, W., Angelidou S. (2022). 'Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing', Research Policy, 51(10), 104598
Macpherson, A., Breslin, D., Akinci, C. (2022). 'Organizational learning from hidden improvisation', Organization Studies, 43(6), 861-883
Spencer, L., Anderson, L., Ellwood, P. (2022). 'Interweaving scholarship and practice: A pathway to scholarly impact', Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(3), 422-448
Van Burg, E., Cornelissen, J., Stam, W., & Jack, S. (2022). 'Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact', Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(1), 3-20
Van der Giessen, M., Langenbusch, C., Jacobs, G., Cornelissen, J. (2022). 'Collective sensemaking in the local response to a grand challenge: Recovery, alleviation and change-oriented responses to a refugee crisis', Human Relations, 75(5), 903-930
Zhu, J., Delbridge, R. (2022). 'EXPRESS: The management of second-generation migrant workers in China: A case study of centrifugal paternalism', Human Relations, 75(12), 2272–2299
Gutierrez, L., Montiel, I., Surroca, J. A., & Tribo, J. A. (2022). 'Rainbow Wash or Rainbow Revolution? Dynamic Stakeholder Engagement for SDG-Driven Responsible Innovation', Journal of Business Ethics, 180(4), 1113-1136
2021
Brennecke, J. (2021). 'Media review: Entrepreneurship as networking: mechanisms, dynamics, practices, and strategies', Organization Studies, 1-4
Borah, D., Malik, K., & Massini, S. (2021). 'Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies', Research Policy, 50(3), 104172
Brennecke, J., Sofka, W., Wang, P., Rank, O.N. (2021). 'How the organizational design of R&D units affects individual search intensity-A network study', Research Policy, 50(5), 104219
Burke, G., Wolf, C. (2021). 'The process affordances of strategy toolmaking when addressing wicked problems', Journal of Management Studies, 58(2), 359-388
- DOI: 10.1111/joms.12572
Chatterjee, I., Cornelissen, J., Wincent, J. (2021). 'Social entrepreneurship and values work: The role of practices in shaping values and negotiating change', Journal of Business Venturing, 36(1), 106064
Cornelissen, J., Akemu, O., Jonkman, J.G.F., Werner, M.D. (2021). 'Building character: The formation of a hybrid organizational identity in a social enterprise', Journal of Management Studies, 58(5). pp. 1294-1330
- DOI: 10.1111/joms.12640
Cornelissen, J., & Cholakova, M. (2021). 'Profits Uber everything? The gig economy and the morality of category work', Strategic Organization, 19(4), 722-731
Jayawarna, D., Marlow, S., Swail, J. (2021). 'A gendered life course explanation of the exit decision in the context of household dynamics', Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 45(6), 0-0
MacKay, B., Chia, R., & Nair, A. (2021). 'Strategy in Practices: A process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes', Human Relations, 74(9), 1337-1369
Sofka, W., Grimpe, C., Kaiser, U., (2021). 'Understanding the unwritten rules of the game: Government work experience and salary premiums in foreign MNC subsidiaries', Journal of International Business Studies, 53(6), 1110-1132
Zhu, J., Spence, C., Ezzamel M. (2021). 'Thinking like the state: Doxa and symbolic power in the accounting field in China', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 93. 101235
2020
Belderbos, R., Tong, T. W., Wu, S. (2020). 'Portfolio configuration and foreign entry decisions: A juxtaposition of real options and risk diversification theories', Strategic Management Journal, 41(7), 1191-1209
- DOI: 10.1002/smj.3151
Brennecke, J. (2020). 'Dissonant Ties in Intraorganizational Networks: Why Individuals Seek Problem-Solving Assistance from Difficult Colleagues', Academy of Management Journal, 63(3), 743-778
David, N., Brennecke, J., & Rank, O. (2020). 'Extrinsic motivation as a determinant of knowledge exchange in sales teams: A social network approach', Human Resource Management, 59(4), 339-358
- DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21999
Gilding M., Brennecke, J., Bunton, V., Lusher, D., Molloy, P., Codoreanu, A. (2020). 'Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters', Research Policy, 49(2), 103902
Schildt, H., Mantere, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2020). 'Power in Sensemaking Processes', Organization Studies, 41(2), 241-265
Solinger, O.N., Jansen, P.G.W., Cornelissen, J.P. (2020). 'The emergence of moral leadership', Academy of Management Review, 45 (3), 504-527
Surroca, J. A., Aguilera, R. V., Desender, K., & Tribo, J. A. (2020). 'Is managerial entrenchment always bad and corporate social responsibility always good? A cross-national examination of their combined influence on shareholder value', Strategic Management Journal, 41(5), 891-920
- DOI: 10.1002/smj.3132
Thaning, MS., Zundel, M., Holt, R., Contu, A., Vince, R. (2020). 'From the Editors—Why Reason, Why Now?', Academy of Management Learning & Education, 19(3), 259-268
Research themes
Our SIBE specialists offer research expertise in five different themes:
Sustainable strategy and its governance
This research theme explores how organisations should design appropriate sustainable strategies to create value for their internal and external stakeholders, including employees, customers, community residents, the natural environment, and suppliers of capital and other resources.
Our research looks at the potential of different strategies, such as alliances, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, organisational changes, diversification, internationalisation, etc, to generate positive impact on organisations and their stakeholders.
Form an internal perspective, research within this theme focuses on factors influencing effective corporate governance, including the selection and composition of the top management team as well as the diversity, expertise, power and compensation of managers and corporate boards.
Our researchers also study the mechanisms used to manage interdependencies between an organisation’s internal actors and its multiple external stakeholders, and how effective decision-making can help avoid corporate misconduct and scandals, resolve grand challenges and enhance the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Research subtopics:
- Interrelations between sustainability and strategies at business and corporate levels
- Corporate purpose, social enterprises, and sustainability
- Diversity in the top management team
- Causes and consequences of corporate social (ir)responsibility
- Socially responsible investing and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG)
- Institutions and sustainability
- Addressing grand challenges in the global business environment
- Internationalisation, multinational enterprises (MNEs) and social responsibility
International business and management of people, knowledge and technology across borders
Research within this theme unravels the complexities of the global business, institutional and regulatory environments through four distinct lenses: difference, distance, diversity and disparity.
We explore how these complexities shape or are shaped by the internationalisation, innovation, intellectual property (IP) and human capital strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) and Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across emerging and advanced country contexts.
Several studies within our Group focuses on how organisations navigate the dynamic and changing nature of the global environment, by strategically developing and managing their knowledge, innovation and human capital assets across borders.
Our research reveals novel insights into the characteristics and dimensions of cross-country institutional and regulatory environments, such as the strength of national patent enforcement regimes across countries, corporate social responsibility practices, environmental regulations and the alignment with sustainable development goals.
We make significant contributions to existing theory by elucidating how these factors influence the global business activities and behaviours of firms, including internationalisation strategies, global market integration activities, knowledge transfer between headquarters and subsidiaries, patent and IP litigation strategies and management of human capital.
Research subtopics:
- Global strategy and MNCs
- Institutional contexts and organisational behaviour
- Strategic IP management across global innovation contexts
- Strategic human capital and international business
Innovation, collaboration and emerging digital technologies
Research within this theme encompasses theoretical, empirical and methodological investigations within the field of innovation management.
A central focus of our research lies in exploring the intricate web of collaborations and networks that underpin successful innovations and their emergence, evolution, management and impact on organisational performance.
By investigating how a wide array of stakeholders, including individuals, organisations and entire sectors, such as the four helices of the innovation system (industry, university, government, and civil society), converge to drive innovation, we aim to unveil effective strategies and policies for promoting collaborative innovations.
Understanding innovation as a complex and dynamic process is another pivotal area of our research.
We are interested in unravelling how innovations are brought into being in practice with an aim to develop process theories, frameworks and methodologies that can help organisations systematise innovation efforts in various sectors/industries.
Another significant area of our research focuses on how organisations can effectively navigate the complex landscape of emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, the Internet of things (IoT), satellite imagery, and data analytics.
Specifically, we study the mechanisms and dynamics involved in leveraging and exploiting these new technologies for business model innovations.
Using organisational and learning theories, our researchers are contributing to developing a better understanding of various AI technologies and their impact on the organisation of scientific research, specifically labour processes, learning processes, operational efficiency, and reconfiguration of workplaces.
Research subtopics:
- Collaboration and networks for innovation
- Innovation as a process
- Intellectual property protection, and technology transfer
- Management of emerging digital technologies
Entrepreneurship and social inclusion
Research within this theme explores the nature, untapped potential and scope of micro-enterprise as a sustainable pathway for the socio-economic integration of under-represented and disadvantaged groups.
We hold the view that inclusive entrepreneurship is an important vehicular transit for sustainable and inclusive growth, and suggest that weak institutional settings channel entrepreneurs away from productive activities, due to various reasons relevant at individual, firm, household and country levels.
Our research develops ground breaking knowledge about entrepreneurship as a socially situated phenomenon.
Taking this perspective, we theoretically develop and empirically evaluate how social processes interact with individual abilities to form various productive opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Our goal is to further our understanding of long-term trends, societal impact and the forms of entrepreneurship that can enable productive and 'good' work as policy makers 'build back better', 'level up' and develop inclusive economies.
We consider the process of acquiring and applying resources to be a process of agents interacting with socio-cultural relations that ultimately emerge from deep social relations such as class and gender.
Research subtopics:
- Social inclusion for unlocking entrepreneurship: the potential for increasing entrepreneurial capacity
- Social and responsible entrepreneurship
- Resourcing the entrepreneurial Venture
- Entrepreneurship across time and space
Research centres
Our Group hosts the Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship, which draws upon expertise from across the School to raise the understanding of entrepreneurship and contribute to both theory and practice.
We also work closely with the Centre for Sustainable Business and the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice.
Find out more about the Management School's research centres
Seminars
Our Group regularly organises seminar series with international leading strategy, international business and entrepreneurship experts to present their latest research and ideas.
Wednesday 13 November 2024
- Speaker: Professor Glen Dowell, Cornell University (USA)
- Open to: SIBE Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 1.30-3 pm
- In person: Room TBC
Wednesday 27 November 2024
- Speaker: Dr John Mawdsley, HEC Paris (France)
- Open to: SIBE Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 1.30-3 pm
- In person: Room TBC
Past seminars
2024
There Is a Dark Side to Everything: CEO Creativity and Corporate Social Irresponsibility
- Dr Philip Steinberg, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
- 24 September 2024
Once gone, never come back: The impact of drug shortages on patients' purchases from illegal pharmacies
- Professor Luis Diestre Martin, IE Business School (Spain)
- 19 September 2024
The role of showcasing strategies in entrepreneurs
- Dr Anne ter Wal, Imperial College Business School (UK)
- 26 June 2024
How the validity-consensus incongruity affects propriety beliefs following a negative shock: Evidence from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
- Professor Patrick Haack, HEC Lausanne (Switzerland)
- 5 June 2024
Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights in Autocratic Contexts –The Case for Academic Freedom in Autocratic Regimes and the Contribution of Political CSR and Deliberation
- Professor Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- 20 March 2024
On opportunities and possibilities: The past, the present and the future
- Professor Stratos Ramoglou University of Southampton (England)
- 14 February 2024
Undercover Operations? MNE ‘Concealed Distancing’ in Hostile Geopolitical Environments
- Dr João Albino-Pimentel Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (USA)
- 31 January 2024
2023
The Role of Autonomy in Problem Formulation and Creativity of R&D Workers
- Professor Paola Criscuolo, Imperial College Business School (England)
- 13 December 2023
When the Pursuit of Goodness Fuels Reactance
- Professor Floor Rink, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
- 15 November 2023
How does rivalry affect technology exchanges between firms?
- Professor Pedro de Faria University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
- 25 October 2023
Intra- And Inter-Group Dynamics And The Market For Quality: Examining Mobility Of High Caliber Professionals
- Professor Daniel Muzio, University of York (England)
- 20 September 2023
Contextualizing Entrepreneurship – Taking stock, exploring new directions
- Professor Friederike Welter, Bonn University of Siegen (Germany)
- 12 July 2023
Product Market Choices of Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Role of Prior Experience
- Dr Anu Wadhwa, Imperial College London (England)
- 30 March 2023
Political disruption and international business
- Professor Klaus Meyer, Ivey Business School (Canada)
- 30 March 2023
Home favors and distant troubles: The impact of home bias on global litigation
- Professor Minyuan Zhao, Washington University (USA)
- 8 March 2023
Capitalizing the future: Using language to build opportunity capital
- Professor Dimo Dimov, University of Bath (England)
- 1 March 2023
The issue is not the issue: Stakeholder pressures on Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues and Firm Actions
- Professor Ioanis Ioannou, London Business School (England)
- 14 April 2023
Engaging ethnic minority businesses in HR change: An action research study
- Professor Monder Ram, Aston University (England)
- 22 February 2023
2022
Global Cities and Cosmopolitanism: An Examination of Sub-national and Supra-national Cultural Values
- Professor Torben Pedersen, Bocconi University (Italy) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
- 9 November 2022
Not my CEO: Gender Effects in Employee Evaluations of the Chief Executive
- Professor Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris (France)
- 26 October 2022
Firm Failure From an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective: A Case Study
- Professor Colin Mason, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
- 19 October 2022
Alternatives to templates in qualitative research
- Professor Bill Harley, University of Melbourne (Australia)
- 28 September 2022
Activists Investor Have CEOs on the Ropes – When Does the Board Throw in the Towel
- Professor Margarethe Wiersema, University of California (USA)
- 21 September 2022
A Cross-Country Study of the State's Multifaceted Impact on Greenwashing
- Professor Ruth Aguilera, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University (USA)
- 25 May 2022
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