Big Issues and Critical Thoughts

 

Organizer 

Emerging Markets Cross-Cultural Research Group at Stockholm Business School (SBS), Stockholm University

Venue: The Board Room, Building 3A, Kräftriket, Roslagsvägen 101, Stockholm, Sweden
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Host professor

Tony Fang

Programme

08:00-08:30 REGISTRATION

08:30-10:00 OPENING & PRESENTATION

Welcoming Speech
Tony Fang, Professor, SBS, Stockholm University

Opening Speech
Maria Frostling Henningsson, Associate Professor, Head of SBS, Stockholm University

A global climate model with endogenous technological development
John Hassler, Professor of Economics, IIE, Stockholm University

Crisis, what crisis? MNE subsidiary responses during socio-economic upheaval in an emerging market
Fredrik Tell, Professor, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University Henry Lopez Vega, Assistant Professor, Jönköping International Business School

The generation of emotions through intercultural interaction within a multinational enterprise
Jeremy Clegg, Professor, Leeds University Business School, UK

10:00-10:30 FIKA

The 2018 EMIC Award

10:30-11:30 PRESENTATION

Leading global virtual teams
Lena Zander, Professor, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University

Fostering frugal innovation through digital tools: Cases from Brazil
Stefan Bernat, PhD Student, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

Pricing cryptocurrency options: The case of CRIX and Bitcoin
Aijun Hou, Associate Professor of Finance, SBS, Stockholm University

11:30-13:30 LUNCH

13:30-15:00 PRESENTATION

Revisiting Maslow to understand the dynamics of human rights in emerging economies
Tony Fang, Professor, SBS, Stockholm University

Text mining for data collection in production economics research
Ou Tang, Professor of Production Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University

The impact of environmental dynamism and firm capabilities on performance: A study of emerging economy firms
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University
Christian Berggren, Professor Emeritus, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University

Regional institutions, organizations and the interrelatedness with global knowledge exchange: The new media industry in Norway and China
Ju Liu, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University

15:00-15:30 FIKA

15:30-17:00 PRESENTATION

Trust and relationships in marketing of health services
Maria Fregidou-Malama, Lecturer, Department of Business & Economic Studies, University of Gävle
Akmal S. Hyder, Professor, Department of Business & Economic Studies, University of Gävle

The role of emotions in intercultural business communication: Language standardization in the context of international knowledge transfer
Gajewska-De Mattos, Lecturer, Leeds University Business School, UK

Headquarters value adding to subsidiaries in emerging-market multinationals & The paradox of political ties on headquarters-subsidiary motives for knowledge transfer
Cong Su & Lingshuang Kong, PhD students, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University

Strategy research on emerging markets: Key issues and future directions
Anthea Yan Zhang & Haiyang Li, Professors, Rice University, USA

17:00-17:30 REFLECTIONS

17:30 THE END