The 1st EMIC conference programme included 22 presentations with various inspiring themes derived from emerging markets related research. Professor Jeremy Clegg, Professor Fredrik Tell and Professor Tony Fang were the three keynote speakers who encouraged more research initiatives directed towards emerging markets topics for inspiration and theory rebuilding. The EMIC Conference was organized by the Emerging Markets Cross-Cultural Research Group, a Stockholm Business School (SBS) based network of researchers undertaking emerging markets research from cross-cultural interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. The 2nd EMIC Conference is expected to take place in May 2017; more information in this regard will be announced in due course.
 

Keynote speakers at the EMIC conference:
 

Professor Jeremy Clegg,  Leeds University  Business SchoolProfessor Jeremy Clegg, Leeds University Business School

Professor Fredrik Tell,  Department of Business  Studies, Uppsala University

Professor Fredrik Tell, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University
Professor Tony Fang,  Stockholm Business School,  Stockholm UniversityProfessor Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
     

PROGRAM


08:30-9:45 OPENING

Welcome speech
- Professor Tommy Jensen, Head, Stockholm Business School, Sweden

Keynote speech 1: Emerging markets and International Business (IB) research
- Professor Jeremy Clegg, Leeds University Business School, UK

Keynote speech 2: Can emerging markets inspire theory building in business and management studies?
- Professor Fredrik Tell, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Keynote speech 3: Problematizing bigger research questions with philosophical inspirations from Yin-Yang
- Professor Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden


9:45-10:15 FIKA

10:15-11:00 PRESENTATIONS

Core value transfer in global organizations: Cultural contexts and boundary subjects
- Professor Lena Zander, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

Boundary construction in the emic and etic approaches to IB research
- Senior Lecturer Hanna Gajewska De Mattos & Professor Jeremy Clegg, Leeds University Business School, UK

Research on business in Africa: A review and the way forward
- Senior Lecturer Richard Owusu, Linnaeus University, Sweden
 

11:00-11:15 BREAK

 11:15-12:00 PRESENTATIONS

Refugees industry: A new research frontier
- Yashar Mahmud, PhD student, Stockholm Business School, Sweden

“Dark trades” in international business
Assoc. Professor Amos Thomas, Stockholm Business School, Sweden

Sensemaking in co-creation of inclusive business: Multisector collaboration in low-income emerging markets
- Tytti Nahi, PhD student, Aalto University School of Economics, Finland
 

12:00-13:15 LUNCH

13:15-14:30 PRESENTATIONS

 Political party governance in Sweden and China: An interpretation of Party Organization
- Minru Liu, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Sweden

The role of Chinese government and the internationalization of Chinese MNCs
- Professor Jeremy Clegg, Leeds University Business School, UK

Internationalization of Swedish SMEs to China
- Dr Ya Zhang, PhD from Linköping University, Sweden

Withdrawing from China: A Swedish case of reshoring
- Assist. Professor Daniella Fjellström, Gävle University & Professor Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Sweden

The paradox of Chinese state MNCs’ intent to learn and acquire knowledge from overseas subsidiaries
- Cong Su & Lingshuang Kong, PhD students, Uppsala University, Sweden
 

14:30-15:00 FIKA

15:00-15.45 PRESENTATIONS

Danish-Vietnamese joint ventures: Cross-cultural concepts revisited in globalization
Assistant Professor Li Thuy Dao, International Business Centre, Aalborg University, Denmark

Role of network relationships in CSR implementation in supply chain: The case of Bangladesh
- Professor Akmal S. Hyder, PhD, Gävle University, Sweden

The role of networks in foreign market entry: Empirical evidence from Estonia and Croatia
- Professor Aihie Osarenkhoe, PhD, Gävle University, Sweden


15:45-16:00 BREAK

16:00-17.00 PRESENTATIONS

Organizing alignment of information system
- Min Tian, PhD student, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Cross-country variation in governance and the role of independent director in financial markets
- Associate professor Sabur Mollah, Stockholm Business School, Sweden

Spirituality and culture: Implications for cross-cultural business research
- Assistant professor Nishant Kumar, Stockholm Business School & Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School

Media coverage on Chinese acquisition of Volvo Car and implications for doing unconventional research
- Dina Chimenson, PhD student & Professor Tony Fang, Stockholm Business School, Sweden


17:00-17:10 BREAK

17:10-18.00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS ON RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

All the conference participants 

Round table discussions
Round table discussions