Department of Business and Management

Research seminars

Business and Management seminars take place on Wednesdays during term time, 1pm-2pm in Jubilee Building room G30 (unless otherwise specified). All are welcome.

Contact

For more information, please contact:

Monica Masucci 
Seminar series convenor 
E M.Masucci@sussex.ac.uk

Forthcoming seminars

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Discussant

12 May Monica Masucci
Sussex

Please note that this is a joint seminar with SPRU

Uncovering the determinants of initiative survival in corporate venture units: a multistage selection perspective

 David Storey

Past seminars

Summer term 2013

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Discussant

22 May Franco Fiordelisi
University of Rome III

Pricing operational risk in commercial banking

 Roman Matousek
15 May Laura Frigotto
University of Trento

Please note that this seminar will take place in Jubilee G31 rather than the usual venue

A view from the height: The contribution of Nobel laureate Paul Lauterbur to the evolution of MRI research area

 Piera Morlacchi
8 May Piera Morlacchi
Sussex

This is a joint seminar with SPRU

From ‘built to grow’ to ‘built to sell’: The evolution of new venture creation in the US pacemaker field (1949-2012)


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Spring term 2013

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Discussant

30 January Shova Thapa Karki 
University of Sussex

Please note that this seminar will take place in Arts A103 rather than the usual venue

Good intention – ‘bad’ behaviour: Investigating attitudes, intentions and illegal resource extraction at Bardia National Park, Nepal

 Michelle Luke
6 February David Storey and Alex Coad
University of Sussex

Julian Frankish
Barclays

Is enterprise a route out of deprivation?

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13 February Prof Bill Ziemba
Sauder School of Business,University of British Columbia

When to sell Apple and the NASDAQ? Trading bubbles with a stochastic disorder model

 Carol Alexander
27 February  Antonio Majocchi 
University of Pavia

Please note that this seminar will take place in Arts A103 rather than the usual venue

Are family firms more internationally involved than non-family firms? The case of Italy

 Norifumi Kawai
13 March  Alfred Yawson
University of Adelaide Business School

Extraordinary acquirers

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20 March  Vikrant Shirodhkar
University of Sussex

MNE-subsidiaries’ approaches to non-market strategy in emerging economies

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10 April Giovanni Valentini
Bocconi University

Joint seminar with SPRU; please note that this seminar will take place in Jubilee G22 rather than the normal venue

What is open innovation, really? 

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17 April Mike Osborne
University of Sussex

Please note that this seminar starts at the earlier than usual time of 12.30pm

Is APR a Robust Measure of the Cost of Consumer Credit?

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Autumn term 2012

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Discussant

12 December

 Efthymios G Tsionas 
Athens University of Economics and Business

Revisiting herding behaviour: likelihood evidence

 Emmanuel Mamatzakis

5 December

 Mirela Xheneti 
University of Sussex

Please note: this seminar will begin at 12.30pm

Strategizing the border location: a bricolage perspective on informal entrepreneurial activities

 David Storey
21 November  Kevin Grant and Martin Meyer 
University of Sussex

Addicted to IT: lessons for responsible management

 None
14 November  Glenn Morgan 
Cardiff Business School

Into the greater Asian economic expansion: competition and cooperation between the Korean and Japanese electronics industries

 Ödül Bozkurt
31 October  Surendranath Jory 
University of Sussex

A comparison of bidders of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with bidders of non-SOEs: Deal Structure Decisions and Wealth Effects

 Bruce Hearn
3 October Kostas Nikolopoulos
Bangor Business School

Please note: this seminar will take place in Fulton Building room 203

The relative performance of methods for forecasting Special Events: predicting the success of Policy Implementation

 None
Summer term 2012

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

20 June Barbara Larson
University of Sussex

The strategic participation decisions of social movement organizations 
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
13 June Bruce Hearn
University of Sussex

Time varying liquidity effects in Japanese and Pacific Basin equity markets: An industrial sector analysis 
Please note: this BaM seminar will take place in Shawcross Building room AS02 (rather than in Friston) from 1.15-2.15pm
6 June Maria Savona
University of Sussex

Public R&D strategic interactions across EU-15 countries: A spatial econometric analysis.
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
30 May Caetano Penna
University of Sussex

The co-evolution of societal problems, innovation and incumbent industries: Ups and downs in the issue lifecycle trajectory of American auto-safety (1900-2000)
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
23 May Professor Ulf Andersson
Copenhagen Business School 

Balancing the Trade-Off between Learning Prospects and Spillover Risks: MNC Subsidiaries’ Vertical Linkage Patterns in Developed Countries (Joint seminar with SPRU) 
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
16 May No seminar

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9 May Werner Holzl
Austrian Institute of Economics Research (WIFO) 

Innovation Barriers across Firms and Countries 
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
2 May George Saridakis
Loughborough University 

The relationship between self-employment and unempployment in the long run: a panel cointegration approach 
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm
25 April Emmanuel Mamatzakis
University of Sussex 

What do market expectations reveal about the euro area sovereign debt crisis? 
Please note: This is a joint seminar with SPRU and will take place in the social space of the Freeman Centre from 1.00pm-2.00pm

18 April

Iftikhar Hussain 
University of Sussex 

Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence From School Inspect