Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture
Yearly event celebrating the work of a famed SPRU professor.
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Upcoming Events
- Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture
27 March 2023 (16:15 - 19:30 GMT), University of Sussex Campus
The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School are delighted to host the 2022 Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture in-person. This annual event celebrates the outstanding contributions that Professor Marie Jahoda CBE made to SPRU.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Sir James Bevan, CEO of the Environment Agency, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
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- Eu-SPRI 2023 Conference
14 - 16 June 2023, University of Sussex Falmer Campus
The European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI) summer conference is the leading, annual European event on science, technology and innovation policy. The Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) are delighted to host this year's conference on the theme: Research with Impact.
Ahead of the conference, an Early Career Researcher Event will be held on June 13th, aiming to support early career scholars in developing their research profile and professional career.
For more information visit the EuSPRI 2023 conference website.
- BAM 2023 Conference
1 September (virtual day) and 5 - 6 September 2023 (in-person), University of Sussex Falmer Campus
This September, the British Academy of Management's 37th Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Sussex Business School. Explore the exciting theme of BAM 2023: Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges.
The Call for Papers opens on January 10th and will close on March 10th.
Research Seminars: Spring 2023
- Accounting & Finance
Wednesday 8 March: Matej Nevrla – Charles University
Common Idiosyncratic Quantile Risk
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Tuesday 14 March: Panos Tzouvanas – University of Sussex
Climatic Conditions, Financial and Subjective Wellbeing Evaluations
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- Business Finance
Thursday 9 February: Koji Takahashi – BIS, Basel
Bank of Japan's ETF Purchase Program and Equity Risk Premium: A CAPM Interpretation
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Thursday 23 February: Anh Tran – City, University of London
When and How Are Rule 10b5-1 Plans Used for Insider Stock Sales?
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Thursday 2 March: Quan Pham Minh Nguyen – University of Sussex
Satellite Launches, Investor Attention, and Stock Return Comovement
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Thursday 16 March: Christian Conrad – Heidelberg University
Macroeconomic Announcements and the Volatility Feedback Effect
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Thursday 23 March: David Buckle – INQUIRE
When a dearth of active management affects market performance either the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox is explained, or the asset management industry needs a levy
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Thursday 30 March: Marianna Marra – University of Sussex
Research assessment exercises and research innovation: An empirical investigation for the UK case
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- Digit Debates
- Economics
Wednesday 1 February: David de la Croix – UC Louvain
The Emergence of the Child Quantity - Quality Tradeoff - insights from early modern
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Wednesday 8 February: Phillip McCalman – University of Melbourne
e-Globalization and Trade Agreements
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Wednesday 15 February: Yujung Hwang – John Hopkins University
Structural Analysis of Xenophobia
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Wednesday 1 March: Travis Lybbert – UCDavis
Testing the Limits of Cellphone Metadata for Poverty Measurement and Impact Evaluation in Haiti
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Wednesday 29 March: Lukasz Wozny
On efficient mechanisms for rewarding academic publications
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- Energy
- Information Systems
Friday 24 February: Will Venters – LSE
The breakdown of process in Customer Relationships Management (CRM) infrastructure: Examining coupling in the coordination of customer and advisor
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- Joint Surrey Sussex Seminar
Wednesday 25 January: Pádraig Carmody – University of Dublin
A Global Digital Reversal? Interrogating the Potential of Digital Technology in the Global South
Thursday 23 March: Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki
Two sides of the Coin: Methodological Pluralism and Fit in Qualitative Research
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Wednesday 10 May: Adam D. Dixon – Edinburgh Business School and Javier Capapé – IE University
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Between the State and Markets
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- QFIN (Quantitative FinTech)
Wednesday 1 February: Sam Rosen – Temple University
Investor Experience Matters: Evidence from Generative Art Collections on the Blockchain
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Wednesday 8 February: Marc-Oliver Pohle – Goethe University, Frankfurt
Generalised Correlation
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Wednesday 15 February: Grigory Vilkov – Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Media Narratives and Price Informativeness
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Wednesday 22 February: Jie Cao – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Forecasting Option Returns with News
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Wednesday 8 March: Bing Han – University of Toronto
Idiosyncratic Volatility and the ICAPM
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Wednesday 22 March: Carole Bernard – Grenoble Ecole de Management
Option-Implied Dependence and Correlation Risk Premium
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Wednesday 29 March: Raman Uppal – EDHEC Business School
What is Missing in Asset-Pricing Factor Models
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- SPRU
Thursday 26 January: Nonhlanhla Dube – Lancaster University
Resourcing by Humanitarian Organisations in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: The Quest for Sustained and Sustainable Outcomes
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Friday 24 February: Mark Dodgson – Oxford University
Innovation ecosystems and research in times of crisis: the cases of fusion power and the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
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Wednesday 8 March: Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling – University of Sussex
Let the pluriverse grow
Friday 24 March: Gary Dushnitsky – LBS
Where is Shopify Valley? Mapping Neighborhood Inclusion in Low-Code Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 29 March: Anindya Chakrabarti – IIMA
Technology Replacement in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Electronic Medical Records
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Tuesday 2 May: Professor Elizabeth Cobbs – Texas A&M University
Book Talk: Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
- Strategy & Marketing
Wednesday 27 April: Giana Eckhardt – King’s College London and Dr Alexsandrina Antanasova – Bayes Business School
Liquid Consumer Security
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Wednesday 15 March: Professor Chris Chapman – University of Bristol
Materiality as boundary object: Accretion of significance for sustainability (online)
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Wednesday 22 March: Professor Abraham Lioui – EDHEC Business School
Understanding the Carbon Price(s) of Risk
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Wednesday 26 April: Professor Mahbub Zaman – University of Hull
CEO Leadership and ESG Performance: Boardroom Diversity and Critical Mass
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Tuesday 2 May: Professor Stavros Zenios – University of Cyprus
The risks from climate change to sovereign debt
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Wednesday 10 May: Professor Tom Chemmanur – Boston College
The Entrepreneurial Finance of Fintech Firms and the Effect of Fintech Investments on the Performance of Corporate Investors
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- Visiting Leading Scholar
Friday 31 March: Paul Hibbert – University of St Andrews Visiting Leading Scholar
Reflexivity and Reflexive Practice Workshop
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Academy of Management Learning & Education Paper Development Workshop
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Research Seminars: Autumn 2022
- Accounting and Society
Wednesday 28 September: Turan Bali – Georgetown University
A Factor Model for Stock Options
Thursday 29 September: Turan Bali – Georgetown University
Publishing in top journals: What we need to know
Monday 3 October: Accounting workshop
Accountability & Finance for Crisis workshop
Thursday 8 December: Panagiotis Koutroumpis – University of Sussex
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Survival: Evidence from the Climate and Pandemic Crises
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- Business Finance
Thursday 27 October: Jack Downey & Kwame Ababio – Prequin
Preqin Pro - Alternative Assets Data Platform
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Thursday 17 November: Bo Wang – University of Southampton
Do Tournament Incentives Influence Labor Investment Efficiency?
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Wednesday 30 November: Samuel Fosu – University of Sussex
Credit information sharing and cost of debt in developing countries
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- Digit Debates
Wednesday 12 October: Fang Lee Cooke - (Monash University), University of Sussex Leading Visiting Scholar
Can we talk about strategic Human Resource Management in the gig economy?
Wednesday 2 November: Becky Faith – Institute of Development Studies and Digital Futures at Work Research Centre
Digital Levelling up in Sussex
Wednesday 16 November: Tomas Kochan – MIT
Shaping the future of work: an activist research agenda
Wednesday 23 November: Pawel Adrjan – Director of EMEA Economic Research at the Indeed Hiring Lab & Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Working from home after Covid-19
- Economics
Monday 10 October: Subrato Bannerjee – Indian Institute of Technology
Fairness is flexible: A study of competing focal points
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Wednesday 12 October: Pawel Doligalski – University of Bristol
Redistribution with Performance Pay
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Wednesday 26 October: Meredith Crowley– University of Cambridge
The Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Agreements
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Wednesday 2 November: Carlo Pizzinelli – IMF
Job Polarization and the Declining Wages of Young Female Workers in the United Kingdom
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Wednesday 9 November: Somdeep Chatterjee – IIM
Sweet Cash: Is Healthcare a Normal Good for Women in Developing Countries?
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Wednesday 16 November: Pawel Gola – University of Edinburgh
On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting
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Wednesday 21 November: Matthias Doepke – Northwestern University
The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
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Wednesday 30 November: Ilse Lindenlaub – Yale University
Firm Sorting and Spatial Inequality
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Monday 5 December: Akanksha Marphatia – UCL
A biosocial perspective on women’s early marriage in rural India and Nepal
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Wednesday 7 December: Severine Toussaert – University of Oxford
Stochastic dominance and preference for randomization
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- Energy
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 19 October: George O White III – University Michigan-Flint
Laying down the law: Assessing the effects of ethical codes and legalism on MNE monitoring of foreign subsidiary supply chain partners in emerging markets
Wednesday 23 November: Zaheer Kan – University of Aberdeen Business School
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Wednesday 7 December: Mirko Benischke – Erasmus University
Emerging Multinationals and Pro-Market Reversals: Escape OFDI In Response to Institutional Change
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- QFIN (Quantitative FinTech)
- Responsible Business
Thursday 1 December: Yvette Sterbenk, Ithaca College; Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Brunel Business School; Emma Cleary, Flexibility Matters; Gülsünay Uysal Kaba, Teklas
New Approaches to Addressing Gender Inequality in Business and Society
- SPRU
Wednesday 28 September: Tony Golding – Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
Cambridge Mechatronics Limited – A Case Study in Technological Innovation
Wednesday 12 October: Ann Light – University of Sussex
Abundant creativity
Wednesday 2 November: Mahmood Bhutta – BSMS
Sustainable Supply Chains for Healthcare Equipment
Wednesday 9 November: Max Lacey Barnacle – University of Sussex
Community Wealth Building in an age of just transitions: exploring civil society approaches to net zero and future research synergies
Thursday 10 November: Inga Ulnicane – De Montfort University
Bad Governance? Critical perspectives on governance of Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday 16 November: Laur Kanger – University of Sussex
Should we (still) rethink science, technology and innovation? Evidence from the Deep Transitions framework?
Wednesday 30 November: Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling – University of Sussex
Let the pluriverse grow
Thursday 8 December: Allison Loconto – INRA France
Governing agroecological transitions: Standards as institutional innovations
- Strategy & Marketing
Monday 10 October: Marina Biniari – Aalto University
How employees’ Time Valuations Influence Innovation Implementation
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- Sustainability in Accounting, Finance & Economics
Thursday 13 October: Mansoor Afzali – Hanken School of Economics
Climate Change Denial and Corporate Environmental Performance
Tuesday 8 November: Jiří Witzany – University of Economics, Prague
Machine learning applications to valuation of options on non-liquid markets; carbon derivatives
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Wednesday 16 November: Xian Gu – Durham University
Friends in High Places: Political Ties and SEC Oversight of Foreign Firms
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- Visiting Leading Scholar
Wednesday 19 October: Fang Lee Cooke – Monash University
Publishing in top human resource management journals
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Research Seminars: Spring 2022
- Accounting and Society
Wednesday 25 May: Jill Atkins – Sheffield University Management School
Exploring the Historical Roots of Environmental and Ecological Accounting
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Wednesday 27 April: Susan O’Leary – Royal Holloway University of London
Misadventures in participatory accountability? Nomadic subjects and affirmative otherness in a humanitarian NGO
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Wednesday 23 March: Steven Young – Lancaster University
Mandatory annual report descriptions of business model and strategy, investor uncertainty, and disclosure cascade effects
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Wednesday 16 February: Ebba Sjögren – Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Maintaining a measurement apparatus: The calibration of robust internal measurement of a public sustainability target
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Wednesday 19 January: Jill Atkins – Sheffield University Management School
Exploring the Historical Roots of Environmental and Ecological Accounting
- Business Finance
Thursday 19 May: Meziane Lasfer – Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Tournament incentives and insider trading
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Thursday 28 April: Armin Schwienbacher – SKEMA Business School
Private Equity Debt Funds: Who Wins, Who Loses?
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Wednesday 16 March: David Elliott – Bank of England
Nonbank Lenders as Global Shock Absorbers: Evidence from US Monetary Policy Spillovers
Thursday 10 March: Richard Fairchild – University of Bath
Patterns of Corporate Fraud: reputations, superegos and emotions - a manager-regulator game analysis
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Thursday 17 February: Dilyara Salakhova – ECB
Are ethical and green investment funds more resilient?
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- Circular Economy
Monday 25 April: Nur Gizem Yalçın - ECR for C-PlaNeT
A systemic approach to transitions towards circular economy: the case of Brighton and Hove
Monday 14 March: Antonius Schröder - Technische Universitat Dortmund Social Research Centre
European Skills Alliances: Skills for the Digital, Green, and Social Transition
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- Creative and Digital Economy
Wednesday 4 May: James M Crick – University of Leicester
Coopetition Strategies in the Canadian Wine Industry
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Thursday 17 March: Greg Richards – Tilburg University
The role of the creative industries in placemaking
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- Digit Debates
Wednesday 30 March: Helen Milner OBE, Group Chief Executive, Good Things Foundation and Al Mathers, Director of Research, The RSA
How fixing the digital divide will help the country level up
Wednesday 23 March RESCHEDULED: Zlatko Bodrožić, Associate Professor in Technology, Organisation and Sustainability, University of Leeds
Authoritarianism, oligarchy, localism or democracy? Alternative Futures for the Digital Transformation
Wednesday 16 March: Wil Hunt, Research Fellow, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre & University of Sussex Business School; Sudipa Sarkar, Senior Research Fellow, IER, University of Warwick; Chris Warhurst, Director, IER and Professor of Work & Employment, University of Warwick
Is AI taking our jobs? Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders
Wednesday 9 March: Derya Guer-Seker, Research Associate, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Threat or opportunity? (Social) media perspectives on AI and the future of work
- Economics
Wednesday 11 May: Pieter Serneels – University of East Anglia
The collective action mechanism in community-based monitoring of public services
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Wednesday 4 May: Andrea Goldstein – OECD
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Wednesday 27 April: Bart Golsteyn – Maastricht University
Educational outcomes of migrant children in a tracked system: lessons from a policy change
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Wednesday 6 April: Swati Dhingra – LSE
Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation
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Wednesday 16 March Ben Etheridge – University of Essex
Working from Home and Worker Productivity Through the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Wednesday 9 March: David Jaeger
Sheepskin Effects and Heterogeneous Wage-Setting Behavior: Evidence from Mozambique
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Wednesday 2 March: Stefan Hubner – University of Bristol
It's complicated: A Nonparametric Test of Preference Stability between Singles and Couples
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- Energy
- Food Research Methodologies
Thursday 7 April: Abby Lopes - School of Design, University Technology Sydney
Social Design Research Methods that Co-evolve ‘Solutions’ with Partners/Stakeholders
- Joint Sussex Surrey Seminar
Wednesday 6 April: Ajai Gaur - Rutgers University
Deal Completion in Cross Border Acquisitions: The Role of Wave Timing, Acquisition Pace and Linguistic Distance
Wednesday 9 March: Jonathan Doh – University of Villanova
Climate Change and Innovation: The Role of Climate Risk and Institutional Context
Wednesday 2 March: Heather Berry, George Washington University and Róisín Donnelly, Tilburg University
Defending knowledge abroad
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Wednesday 16 February: Keith Brouthers – KCL
Charting New Courses to Enter Foreign Markets:Conceptualization, Theoretical Framework, & Research Directions on Non-traditional Entry Modes
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Wednesday 16 February: Ebba Sjögren – Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Maintaining a measurement apparatus: The calibration of robust internal measurement of a public sustainability target
Wednesday 19 January: Shameen Prashantham – CEIBS
Gorillas can dance: Lessons from Microsoft and other corporations on partnering with start-ups
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- QFIN (Quantitative Fintech)
Wednesday 27 April: Junlei Hu – Essex University
Pareto-optimal insurance contracts with premium budget and minimum charge constraints
Wednesday 30 March: Christian Conrad – Heidelberg University
Modelling Volatility Cycles: The MF2 GARCH Model
Wednesday 9 March: Richard Gerlach – University of Sydney
Improving the accuracy of tail risk forecasts by combining several realized volatility estimators
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Wednesday 2 February: Igor Makarov – LSE
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
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Wednesday 26 January: Dexin Zhou – Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business
Anomalies, Management Expectations, and Stock Returns
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- Responsible Business
Thursday 26 May: Hari Bapuji (University of Melbourne), Gokhan Ertug (Singapore Management University)
Implications of caste for MNEs and international business research
Thursday 19 May: Adam Greene - International Labour Organization
The State Duty to Protect as a prerequisite for the Corporate Responsibility to Respect
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Thursday 12 May: Inés Alegre and Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Mission statements: So important and so overlooked
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Thursday 28 April: Armando Castro – UCL
Irresponsible Businesses and the Paradox of Governance and Trust in Construction Cartels
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Thursday 31 March: Helen Beney – University of Sussex
Ecological entrepreneurial orientation and sustainable supply chain management
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Thursday 24 March: Stephan Manning & Ana Suarez Lopez – University of Sussex
Uncovering corporate scandals: The role of impact film production
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Thursday 10 March: Haya Al-Dajani – Mohammed Bin Salman College for Business and Entrepreneurship
Women Entrepreneurship and (Dis)Empowerment?
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Thursday 3 March: Eva Selenko – Loughborough University
On the political consequences of job insecurity: Empirical findings and theoretical explanations
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Thursday 24 February: Patrick Velte – Leuphana University
Sustainable Corporate Governance - What it is and why it matters
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- SPRU
Friday 6 May: Colleen Cunningham – London Business School
Keeping Invention Confidential
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Friday 29 April: Patrizia Casadei – LSE CANCELLED
Friday 8 April: Nicola Lacetera - Rotman School, University of Toronto
Is the price right? The role of morals, ideology and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges
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Friday 1 April: Cosmas Ochieng – World Resources Institute CANCELLED
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Friday 18 March: Lea Fünfschilling - CIRCLE, Lund
Knowledge in transition
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Friday 11 March: Arianna Martinelli - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
The direction of technical change in AI and the trajectory effects of government funding
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Friday 4 March: Paola Criscuolo - Imperial College Business School
Organization Structure of Development and Firm Innovation
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Friday 25 February: W. Brian Arthur – External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Complexity Economics: a Different Approach to Economic Thinking?
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Wednesday 23 February: Adrian Ely & Adrian Smith – University of Sussex
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Friday 11 February: Arvids Ziedonis – KU Leuven
State Government Innovation Programs and the Retention of Science and Technology Start-Ups: Evidence from the Great Lakes Region
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Friday 4 February: Georg von Graevenitz – QMUL
The Importance of Quality in Austere Times: University Competitiveness and Grant Income
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Wednesday 12 January: Jan Kinne – ISTARI AI
ISTARI.AI: Near-time economic data from large-scale web scraping and AI analyses
- Visiting Leading Scholar
Wednesday 9 March: Mats Alvesson – Lund University
Reimagining the Research Process
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Friday 4 March: Mats Alvesson, Lund University
Building an academic career
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Research Seminars: Autumn 2021
- Accounting & Society
Wednesday 1 December: Susan Smith – University of Sussex
Contributors to the international award gap: a comparative analysis of the capitals of both UK and China domiciled students
Wednesday 17 November: Timothy Loughran – Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA
Measuring Firm Complexity
Wednesday 13 October: Rainer Lueg & Yassin Bouzzine - Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Denmark
The reputation costs of executive misconduct accusations: A stock market perspective on #MeToo in the US
Thursday 30 September: Massimo Contrafatto – University of Sussex
Organisational Responses to Competing Institutional Logics: The Emergence of Social and Environmental Reporting in a Chinese State-owned Enterprise (co-authored with Teng Li and Ataur Belal) - Business Finance
Thursday 9 December: Wasim Ahmad – Cranfield University
Board Cultural Diversity and IPO Survival: Evidence from UK AIM
Thursday 25 November: Marc Goergen – IE Business School
Between Scylla and Charybdis: CEO Political Ideology, Dividends and Downsizing During the Pandemic
Thursday 4 November: Sami Adwan & Mostak Ahamed – University of Sussex
Non-executive employee ownership and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from Europe
- Economics
Wednesday 8 December: Jishnu Das – Georgetown University
Randomized Regulation: The impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets (co-authored with Guadalupe Bedoya and Amy Dolinger)
Wednesday 1 December: Richard Blundell – UCL
Wage Progression, Human Capital and Labour Market Inequality
Wednesday 24 November: Ian Crawford – Oxford University
Econometrics for Economic Theorists: Structural models without Error Terms
Wednesday 17 November: Helene Turon – University of Bristol
Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market (co-authored with Juan Jose Dolado and Etienne Lale)
Wednesday 3 November: Stephen Redding – Princeton University
Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium (co-authored with Benny Kleinman & Ernest Liu)
Wednesday 27 October: Pavel Chakraborty – Lancaster University
Cross-border environmental regulation and firm labor demand
Wednesday 20 October: Gianmario Impulliti – University of Nottingham
Globalisation and Market Power
Wednesday 13 October: Luca J. Uberti - Department of Economics and Management, University of Luxembourg
The Feminisation U, Cultural Norms, and the Plough (co-authored with Elodie Douarin)
Wednesday 6 October: John Quah - Johns Hopkins University and National University of Singapore
A Theory of Revealed Indirect Preference (co-authored with Gaoji Hu, Jiangtao Li, and Rui Tang)
- Economics (internal research)
Monday 13 December: Annemie Maertens – University of Sussex
Absentee landlords and land tenancy in India
Monday 6 December: Simone Vannuccini – University of Sussex
Market Selection in Global Value Chains
Monday 29 November: Rocco D’Este – University of Sussex
Scientific Advancements in Illegal Drugs Production and Institutional Responses: New Psychoactive Substances, Self-Harm, and Violence Inside Prisons
Monday 18 October: Lisa Capretti
Agricultural technology, food security and nutrition: the role of female empowerment for oil palm growers in Ghana (joint work with Farai Jena Amrita Saha)
Monday 11 October: Richard Tol – University of Sussex
The climate niche of Homo Sapiens - Energy
- Information Systems
Thursday 25 November: Panos Panagiotopoulos - Queen Mary University of London
Algorithmic regulation and the digital transformation of regulatory authorities - International Business & Development
Wednesday 8 December: Joint Sussex-Surrey event
Understanding and profiting from intellectual property in international business
Speaker: Deli Yang - Michael Neidorff School of Business, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Wednesday 24 November: Joint Sussex-Surrey event
The Contest for Value in the Global Apparel Supply Chain
Speaker: Lilac Nachum - Baruch College of the Zicklin School of Business, New York
Wednesday 10 November: Joint Sussex-Surrey event
Innovation in MNEs
Speaker: Katarina Blomkvist - Uppsala University
Discussant: Shasha Zhao - Surrey University Business School
Chair: Marianna Marra - University of Sussex Business School - PhD Research Collaboration
Wednesday 3 November: Seminar Series on PhD Research Collaboration
Towards a Synergistic View on CSR in Crisis: How Large Global Firms Responded to Covid-19
Speakers: Vicky Bamiatzi, Stephan Manning, Steven Brieger, Swati Bhargava and Shi Shi – University of Sussex and Tahir Islam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
- QFIN (Quantitative Fintech)
Thursday 9 December: Jozef Barunik – Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague
Probabilistic Forecasting with Machine Learning and Big Data
Wednesday 1 December: Zhan Shi – PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
The Dark Side of Machine Learning: Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market
Wednesday 17 November: Evgeny Lyandres – Coller School of Management
Competition and product quality: Fake trading on crypto exchanges
Wednesday 10 November: Matthias Reginald Fengler – University of St. Gallen
Identifying structural shocks to volatility through a proxy-MGARCH model
Wednesday 3 November: George Filis – University of Patras
Vulnerability of stock market risks to oil price volatility shocks
Wednesday 13 October: Thomas Nitschka – Swiss National Bank
Stock market evidence on the international transmission channels of US monetary policy surprises - SPRU
Wednesday 15 December: Bernardo Cantone, Nicholas Dacre, David Eggleton, and Vasilis Gkogkidis – SPRU
A SPRU Wednesday seminar by the Innovation & Project Management Research Mobilisation Group
Friday 10 December: Paula Stephan – Georgia State University
Uncertainty and Risk Taking in Science
The presentation builds upon joint research with Chiara Franzoni and Reinhilde Veugelers
Wednesday 8 December: Jan-Peter Kleinhaus and Julia Hess – Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Understanding the Global Chip Shortage
A SPRU Wednesday Seminar by the AI Research Mobilisation Group
Friday 3 December: Gino Cattani - NYU Stern
Penrosian Resources, Shadow Options and Exaptation: The Emergence of New Drug Uses in the Pharma Industry (co-authored with Pierpaolo Andriani, Kedge Business School)
Friday 26 November: Tine de Moor - Rotterdam School of Management
Coping through cooperation? Institutions for Collective action in and after crises, in past and present
Friday 19 November: Mirva Peltoniemi - University of Jyväskylä
Explaining the survival of an R&D consortium for 93 years
Friday 12 November: Fulvio Castellacci - TIK, University of Oslo
Innovation and social welfare: A new research agenda
Friday 5 November: Carliss Baldwin - Harvard Business School
How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chandler vs Moore
Friday 29 October: Chirantan Chatterjee - SPRU
Research and Market Structure: Evidence from A Pathogenic Outbreak (joint work with Mayank Aggarwal, Anindya Chakrabarti and Matthew Higgins).
Friday 22 October: Aija Leiponen - Cornell University
Profiting from Attention to Data Privacy? Evidence from U.S.-listed Firms under the GDPR
Wednesday 20 October: Peter Senker – SPRU Honorary Fellow
The need for reform of agricultural and food industries
Friday 15 October: Raphie Kaplinsky, University of Sussex & Carlota Perez, SPRU Honorary Fellow
Not just a sustainable environment – Systemic sustainability seen through the lens of techno-economic paradigms
Friday 15 October: Rema Padman – Carnegie Mellon University, Maria Savona & Michael Hopkins - University of Sussex
Ask the Doctor to Prescribe a YouTube Video? An Augmented Intelligence Video Analytics Approach for Patient Education and Health Literacy (by Rema Padman, Carnegie Mellon University)
A SPRU Digital Medical Innovation Workshop
Friday 8 October: Erica Fuchs and Christophe Combemale – Carnegie Mellon University
Not all technological change is equal: how the separability of tasks mediates the effect of technology change on skill demand
Research Seminars: Spring/Summer 2021
- Accounting & Society
Wednesday, 21 April: Danielle McConville – Queen’s University, Belfast
Accounting at the margins? A structured literature review of nonprofit accounting research and future opportunities
Thursday 18 March 2021: Ileana Steccolini - University of Essex
Moral sentiments and collective action: performing accountability at the time of a crisis (co-authored with Claudio Columbano and Daniela Pianezzi)
Wednesday 13 January 2021: Tobias Polzer, University of Vienna & Galina Goncharenko, University of Sussex
The Legitimation of Digital Innovations and Accountability Relationships between Government and Citizens: A Case of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the UK
- Business Finance
Thursday 27 May: Ljubica Dordevic– IMF
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from Industry-Level Data (Co-authored with Ata Can Bertay & Can Sever)
Thursday 20 May: Louisa Chen – University of Sussex
The impact of capital flow volatility on exchange rate volatility: from mitigating factors to the FX resilience measure (Co-authored with Estelle Xue Liu (IMF) and Zijun Liu (HKMA))
Thursday 6 May: Qizhi Tao - Southwestern University of Finance & Economics
Board Social Networks, Risk-Taking, and Firm Performance
Thursday, 15 April: Andre De Silva – Federal Reserve Board
Pirates without Borders: the Propagation of Cyberattacks through Firms’ Supply Chains
Thursday 8 April: Rebecca De Simone – London Business School
Effect of Passive Investing on Stocks: Evidence from Adoption of ETF Creation in Israel (Co-authored with Polina Dovman (Columbia Business School) and Ilan Gildin (Israel Securities Authority))
Thursday 25 March 2021: Barbara Casu – Cass Business School
Offshore wholesale funding and liquidity shocks: evidence from the Euro sovereign debt crisis (co-authored with A. Gallo, A. Kontonikas and S. Maiani)
Thursday 18 March 2021: Elisabeth Kempf – University of Chicago Booth, School of Business
The Political Polarization of U.S. Firms (co-authored with Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College, ECGI, CEPR & Margarita Tsoutsoura Cornell University, CEPR, ECGI, and NBER)
Thursday 25 February 2021: Giorgia Barboni – Warwick Business School
Cultural Proximity and the Formation of Lending Relationships (co-authored with A. Accetturo, M. Cascarano and Emilia Garcia-Appendini)
Thursday 18 February 2021: Richard Fairchild – University of Bath
Patterns of Corporate Fraud: reputations, superegos and emotions - a manager-regulator game analysis
Thursday 4 February 2021: Izidin El Kalak – University of Cardiff
Unconventional monetary policy and stock liquidity
- Economics
Wednesday 28 April: Giacomo de Giorgi – University of Geneva
Lifecycle Inequality: Blacks and Whites Differentials (Co-authored with Luca Gambetti & Costanza Naguib)
Wednesday 21 April: Costas Meghir – Yale
Migration and Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial and a Structural Mode (Co-authored with Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Corina D. Mommaerts & Melanie Morten)
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Hamish Low – Oxford University
Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences (co-authored with Luigi Pistaferri)
Wednesday 17 March 2021: Jan Eckhout – BGSE/UPF
Market Power and Wage Inequality (co-authored with Shubhdeep Deb, Aseem Patel, Larry Warren)
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Clemens Puppe - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Resource Allocation by Frugal Majority Rule (co-authored with Klaus Nehring)
Wednesday 3 March 2021: Mary-Ann Bronson – Georgetown University
The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Kareen Rozen – Brown University
Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation (co-authored with Geoffroy de Clippel)
Wednesday 17 February 2021: Gerelt Tserenjigmid – Virginia Tech
Behavioral Foundations of Nested Stochastic Choice and Nested Logit (co-authored with Matthew Kovach)
Wednesday 10 February 2021: Paula Gobbi – Université Libre de Bruxelles
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility Cycles: Baby Boom and Busts in Twentieth Century America (co-authored with Bastien Chabé-Ferret)
Wednesday 3 February 2021: Rahul Deb – University of Toronto
Choice Consistency with Learning from Common Information
- Economics (internal research)
Monday 26 April: Amalavoyal Chari – University of Sussex
Monday 19 April: Tom Potoms – University of Sussex
A House and a Spouse are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle (Co-authored with Bram De Rock (ECARES, KU Leuven) and Mariia Kovaleva (ECARES))
Monday 22 March 2021: Peter Dolton – University of Sussex
Econometric Challenges of Modelling Covid-19
Monday 15 March 2021: Gio Mion – University of Sussex
The UK's great demand and supply recession
Monday 8 March 2021: Rocco D’Este – University of Sussex
Universal Credit and Crime
Monday 1 March 2021: Gabriella Cagliesi – University of Sussex
Are We All in This Together? Alleviating the Childcare Constraint for Women in Economic Crises (co-authored with Denise Hawkes)
Monday 22 February 2021: Pawel Dziewulski – University of Sussex
A comprehensive method for studying non-transitive indifferences and approximate utility maximisation with limited data
Monday 15 February 2021: Tom Potoms – University of Sussex
What can we learn from a menu card? Rationalisable menu design (co-authored with Thomas Demuynck)
Monday 8 February 2021: Luca Rondina – University of Sussex
Imperfect Credibility, Sticky Wages, and Welfare
- Energy
- Future of Work
Thursday 20 May: Fabio Landini – University of Parma
Robots, Digitalization, and Worker Voice
Thursday 22 April: Mats Alvesson – Lund University
Return to Meaning. For a social science with something to say
Thursday 18 March 2021: Nada Endrissat - Bern University of Applied Sciences, New Work Institute
From Sites to Vibes. Practices of Technology and the Navigation of Space
Wednesday 3 March 2021: Janine Berg, Senior Economist, International Labour Office, Geneva (Joint Seminar with Digit (Digital Futures at Work Research Centre))
Protecting workers in the digital age
Thursday 18 February 2021: Simel Eşim Head – Cooperatives Unit, ILO
Cooperatives and the Wider Social Economy Response to the Future of Work
Thursday 4 February 2021: Eli Revelle Yano Wilson – University of New Mexico
Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers
- International Business & Development
Wednesday 19 May: Joint Sussex-Surrey event
Female Leaders in Global Firms
Panellists:
Zahira Jaser – University of Sussex;
Gabriele Zedlmayer - Former Hewlett Packard Chief Progress Officer
Natalia Baldizzoni - Senior Design and Construction Manager for KFC Central and Eastern Europe
Wednesday, 28 April: Joint Surrey-Sussex seminar series
International Business, Climate Change and the Energy Transition
Speakers: Francesca Ciulli & Ans Kolk
Facilitated by: Shasha Zhao
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Vicky Bamiatzi – University of Sussex; Roger Strange, Taz Rajwani, Stephan Manning, John Luiz.
Publishing in International Business Journals (Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar)
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar chaired by John Da Silva Luiz – University of Sussex
International Business in Africa
Pamela Mreji, GIBS, University of Pretoria and University of Johannesburg & Helena Barnard, GIBS, University of Pretoria presented: The micro-foundations of returnee liability: The interpersonal challenges of returnee entrepreneurs in Kenya
Helena Barnard, GIBS, University of Pretoria,; Prof Anastacia Mamabolo, GIBS, University of Pretoria presented: On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experiences in four African countries
Wednesday 10 February 2021: Prof Mike Peng - University of Texas (Dallas)
Post-covid debates in global strategy and business (Joint Surrey/Sussex seminar)
- QFIN (Quantitative Fintech)
Wednesday 21 April: Dunhong Jin – Hong Kong University Business School
The golden mean: The risk mitigating effect of combining tournament rewards with high-powered incentives
Wednesday 17 March 2021: Markus Leippold – University of Zurich
Ask BERT: How Regulatory Disclosure of Transition and Physical Climate Risks affects the CDS Term Structure
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Menelaos Tasiou – Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth
CISEF: A composite index of social, environmental and financial performance
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Wese Simen – University of Liverpool
The Index Effect: Evidence from the Option Market
- Responsible Business
Thursday 18 March 2021: Ozgu Karakulak– University of Sussex
The effect of framing the idea of refugees in shaping social partnerships’ activities
Thursday 11 March 2021: Bobby Bannerjee – Cass Business School
Stakeholder Management in International Business: Interculturality and the Decolonial Project
Thursday 4 March 2021: Madeleine Rauch – Copenhagen Business School
From 'Publish or Perish' to societal impact: Organisational repurposing towards responsible innovation through creating a medical platform
Thursday 25 February 2021: Pablo Munoz - University of Liverpool Management School; Discussant: Stephan Manning – University of Sussex
Social impact measurement: A governance and accountability mechanism in social entrepreneurship (joint seminar with international Business & Development Research Group)
Thursday 4 February 2021: Elizabeth David-Barrett – University of Sussex
Private-sector collective action against corruption in international business
- SPRU
Friday 7 May: Silvia Lindtner – University of Michigan
Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
Friday 30 April: Ariel Dora Stern – Harvard University
Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation
Friday 23 April: Pai-Ling Yin – University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Heterogeneous Applications and Platform Market Stability: Mobile Apps
Friday 16 April: Lars Frederiksen – Aarhus University, Department of Management
The Ripple Effect: The Effect of Rejections on Idea Supporters (Co-authored with M. Beretta, Aarhus University, A. Thomas, ESMT Berlin & L. Dahlander, ESMT Berlin)
Friday 26 March 2021: Mercedes Delgado – Copenhagen Business School
Clusters and the Great Recession: Implications for the COVID-19 Crisis
Friday 19 March 2021: Andrea Brock, Lecturer in International Relations and International Development, Global Studies; Dr Saurabh Arora, Senior Lecturer in Technology and Innovation for Development at SPRU; Dr Amber Huff, social anthropologist and political ecologist, research fellow at IDS; Dr Adrian Smith, Research Professor in Technology & Society at SPRU
The Case for Degrowth, followed by a panel discussion
Friday 12 March 2021: Matthew Agarwala – University of Cambridge, Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Investments for a sustainable future: the wealth economy approach
Friday 5 March 2021: Marco Grazzi – Universita' Cattolica di Milano
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Effects of Automation on Wage and Gender Inequality Within Firms
Friday 26 February 2021: Grazia Cecere – Institut Mines Telecom, Business School
Trade-offs in Automated Political Advertising Regulation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Friday 19 February 2021: Igor Asanov – University of Kassel, Institute of Economics
Showing Life Opportunities: Increasing Opportunity-Driven Entrepreneurship and STEM Careers Through Online Courses In Schools.
- Strategy & Marketing
Thursday 28 January 2021: Marina Puzakova & Amir Grinstein - Lehigh Business & D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northwestern University
Are Robots in Service of Brands’ Socially Responsible Image?
Past Events
- 20th International Studying Leadership Conference
11-13 December, Brighton
This year's conference, hosted by the University of Sussex Business School, seeks papers that ask big questions about important issues that connect in multiple forms to the conference theme of Leadership for the Future of Humanity.
- Seminar: In conversation with James Bacchus
21 September, 4-5 pm
Can the international trade system be reformed? In this seminar, Professor James Bacchus will discuss his new book and the challenges and reform prospects for the multilateral trading system, and respond to audience questions.
- 29th International Annual EurOMA Conference
1 - 6 July 2022 | Estrel Hotel & Conference Centre in Berlin
The University of Sussex Business School recently hosted the 29th Annual EurOMA Conference in Berlin. Over 500 participants from 39 countries attended with many presenting research towards the conference theme of 'Brilliance in resilience: operations and supply chain management’s role in achieving a sustainable future'.
- University of Sussex Business School AI Lecture 2021
14 December 2021 | Jubilee Building and Online
This year's annual AI Lecture was given by Sara Hooker, Research Scientist at Google Brain. The lecture was followed by a fireside chat with Melissa Heikkilä, POLITICO Europe's AI Correspondent.
- Storying food: gendered, racialised and classed politics and possibilites
This two-day online symposium explored the politics of how food stories are encouraged or required in different organisational contexts such as fancy restaurants, food charities, museums and community food organisations. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological traditions, including feminist food studies, the symposium brought together scholars from organisation studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, food studies and geography. Presented by the University of Sussex Business School and the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities), in conjunction with Brighton and Sussex Universities Food Network, the symposium included a work in progress stream, reading groups, international keynotes, and panel of scholar-activists.
- Climate Finance: Challenges and Lessons for the Future
15 - 16 November 2021 | Online
This two-day conference, co-organised by the University of Nottingham and the University of Sussex, explored the key developments within the financial and capital markets industry, and provided participants with unique insights into the current processes in leading institutions, strategic considerations, product development and regulatory challenges that will be central in governing climate finance over the next decade
- Project X Conference: Sustainable Futures for Project Delivery
Wednesday 6 October 2021 | Online
This one-day conference organised by Project X explored how aspirations for improved project delivery can be achieved whilst addressing commitments for Levelling-Up, Net Zero and the Plan for Growth.
- Launching Sustainable Futures: A Manifesto for Transformative Investment
Wednesday 15 September 2021 | Online 1-2pm BST
The official launch of the Deep Transitions Futures Global Investors Panel. The Panel, along with a prominent research team, is creating a manifesto for 'Transformative Investment' which looks at steering investments towards decarbonisation, the 'race to net zero' and a sustainable future.
- Freeman Centenary/Research Policy 50th Anniversary Conference
Friday 10 September 2021 | Hybrid (both physical and online attendance will be available)
To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chris Freeman, and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Research Policy, the journal that he founded, SPRU is organising a one-day conference.
- EurOMA 2021
5-7 July 2021 | Online
The 28th international annual EurOMA conference was held on the theme of 'Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times'.
- Virtual CineClub Special: In the Meantime Midday Comes Round...
Wednesday 28 April | Online
This screening of the film adaptation of Marie Jahoda's and Paul F. Lazersfeld's revolutionary Marienthal study was held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of Marie Jahoda, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum.
- The Atom: A Love Affair - Virtual screening & Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 5 May | Online
This screening of ‘The Atom: A Love Affair' explored the West's relationship with nuclear power since the end of World War 2, and included a discussion with the director Vicki Lesley and Professor Andy Stirling and Dr Phil Johnstone about their research on nuclear.
- NGO Research Day 2021
Wednesday 17 March | Online
The NGO Research Day 2021 discussed to what extent and how technology shapes the modern perceptions of the sector, its performance, governance and accountability and NGO identities. This event was connected to a Special Issue of The British Accounting Review that calls for reassessing NGO performance, governance and accountability in the new settings and contexts of digitalisation, but also the concerns, ambiguities and threats posed by technology.
- Sussex Innovation Forum: Scaling Up Innovations and Pilots
Friday 12 March | Online
The Sussex Innovation Forum is an inclusive and informal series of events for businesses, local authorities and community groups to work together on driving decarbonisation in Sussex. This Forum focused on scaling up innovations and pilots.
- Climate Finance and Economics Workshop
Friday 12 March | Online
Climate change is creating new opportunities in modern finance and economics. This one-day workshop on climate finance and economics delved into the economics of green finance, environmental finance, climate risk, hedging climate change, climate finance assets, and the impact of weather changes on the economy.
- Eu-SPRI Mini Course 2020
3 December 2020 | Online
Co-organised with the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation, this Mini Course provided doctoral students, early-career researchers and professionals with an intensive training, focused on the intersection between innovation theory and scenario analysis.
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