Previous workshops
Previous Workshops
Term 2 2026
| 22nd January 2026 | Aradhna Krishna (University of Michigan) "Sound: Similarity and Change Perception" |
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| 5th February 2026 | Isobel O'Neil (Nottingham University Business School) "Hazy Glimpses: Entrepreneurial identity play |
| 25th February 2026 (Wednesday)* | "Typically Unequal: Mapping the Differential |
| 5th March 2026 | Andrea Roncoroni (ESSEC Business School) "Large-Scale Disruptions, Capacity Reallocation, |
| 12th March 2026 | Michael Haenlein (ESCP Business School) "From the Ivory Tower to the Public Square: How (GenAI-generated) Managerial Summaries Enhance the Societal Impact of Academic |
| 19th March 2026 | "The Wade Test: Generative AI and a CEO Bot" |
| 26th March 2026 | Elke Schüßler (Leuphana University Lüneburg) "What if Society Collapses? Re-envisioning Strategy and Organization Scholarship through Radical Hope" |
| 1st April 2026 (Wednesday)* | "Organizing Human–AI Creative Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment" |
| 9th April 2026 | "Making sense of agentic boundaries: Aligning and contesting human-AI assemblages in journalistic media organizations" |
| 15th April 2026 (Wednesday)* | Eric Zhao (Saïd Business School) "Optimal Distinctiveness Measurement" |
| 22nd April 2026 (Wednesday)* | Jane Lu (City University of Hong Kong) "How do firms respond to geopolitical tensions? A political compensating approach in the context of the U.S.-China trade war" |
Term 1 2025
25th September 2025 | Indranil Bose (NEOMA Business School) "All that Glitters is Not Code? Understanding the Predictors of Developer Popularity and Sponsorship on a Social Coding Platform" |
1st October 2025 (Wednesday)* | "Liabilities of Origin Revisited: Temporality and Political Absorptive Capacity in Firm Internationalization" |
9th October 2025 | Mats Alvesson (Lund University) "Serendipity Favours the Prepared Mind and Vice Versa" |
13th October 2025 (Monday)* | Meng Li (University of Houston) "AI in Operations Management" |
23rd October 2025 | Bryan Spencer (University of Alberta) "Modes of Ambiguity: The Consequences of AI Tool Development on Professional Expertise" |
28th October 2025 | Alan Zhang (Columbia Business School) "Category Interference: When Early Prototypes Both Elicit and Impede Later Goals" |
30th October 2025 | "The Shadow of the Past: The Impact of Immigrant CEOs’ National Animosity on Firms’ Location and Governance Mode Choices in Foreign Markets" |
12th November 2025 (Wednesday)* | Alan Benson (University of Minnesota) "Learning to Discriminate on the Job" |
20th November 2025 | Susi Geiger (University College Dublin) "Peak pharma and a new political economy of health: Why it’s time now to consider alternative forms of organizing in unusual places" |
4th December 2025 | "Inflation, Shrinkflation, Skimpflation: Consumers’ Beliefs about the Fairness of Price Increases, Product Size Decreases, and Product Quality Decreases" |
11th December 2025 | Nazlı Gürdamar (Koç University) "The Cost of Saving Time: The Unintended Consequences of Saving Time for Low-Income People" |
Term 3 2025
Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
7th May 2025 | Mark Pagell (University College Dublin) "The Tension Between Worker Wellbeing and Operational Performance: The Paradoxical Role of Firm Temporal Orientation" |
15th May 2025 | Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD) |
20th May 2025 | Miriam Wilhelm (WU Vienna) |
21th May 2025 | Siobhan O'Mahony (Boston University Questrom School of Business) |
29th May 2025 (1:30-4pm)* | Beth Bechky (UC Davis) |
12th June 2025 | Chidiebere Ogbonnaya (Kings College London) |
Term 2 2025
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
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| 23rd January 2025 | Prof. Gerard Puccio (Buffalo State University) "Psychological Difference in Creative Thinking and Their Implications for Personal and Professional Success" |
| 6th February 2025 | Prof. Rodolphe Durand (HEC Paris) "Research on Corporate Purpose: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" |
| 13th February 2025 | Prof. Jie Wu (University of Aberdeen) "A Coevolutionary Model of Corporate Innovation: How Performance and Competitive Rivalry Shape R&D" |
| 20th February 2025 | Prof. Michel Clement (University of Hamburg) "Do shorter home video release windows cannibalize movie theater attendance? An empirical analysis of consumer expectations, preferences, and behavior" |
| 13th March 2025 | Dr. Heeyoung Yoon (Bocconi University) "Selection Neglect: People Choose Among Assortments as If They Were to Consume All of Their Options" |
| 27th March 2025 | Prof. Daniel Arenas (ESADE) "Exploring the Interplay Between Stakeholders, Expertise, and Scale in Sustainability Challenges: The Case of Water Management in Spain" |
| 2nd April 2025 (Wednesday)* | Dr. Georg Rilinger (MIT) "Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning" |
| 3rd April 2025 | Dr. Güneş Biliciler (Koç University) "Dark” Magic of Tidying Up: Orderliness Can Lead to Unfavorable Evaluations" |
Term 1 2024
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
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| 24th September 2024 (*Tuesday) | Prof. Zeynep Gürhan Canli (Koç University) "To defer or not to defer? Exploring consumers’ privacy decisions" |
| 26th September 2024 | Dr. Fehmi Tanrısever (Bilkent University) |
| 3rd October 2024 | Dr. Kushagra Bhatnagar (Aalto University) "Of Disciples and Heretics: Understanding authority dynamics in processes of self-quantification" |
| 8th October 2024 (*Tuesday) | Prof. Mats Alvesson (Lund University) "Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role-Distancing for Middle Managers" |
| 11th October 2024 (*Friday) | Prof. Dovev Lavie (Bocconi University) "Orchestrating a Cooperative Economy Platform as a Solution to Economic Inequality" |
| 17th October 2024 | Dr. Anastasia Sergeeva (VU University Amsterdam) "The Contestation of Algorithmic Intelligence: Professional Jurisdiction and Digitalization in Dentistry" |
| 14th November 2024 | Prof. Thomas Astebro (HEC Paris) |
| 19th November 2024 (*Tuesday) | Dr. Amanda Sharkey (Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame) "Institutional Scarring and Relational Legal Consciousness: The Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers" |
| 28th November 2024 | David Barberá-Tomás (University of Valencia) "From hazards to allies: translation and the labelling data process during the development of AI algorithms" |
| 5th December 2024 | Dr. Stefano Tasselli (RSM, Erasmus University Rotterdam) "The Micro-Foundations of Brokerage Disintermediation: How Low Self-Monitors Brokees Foreclose High Self-Monitors’ Brokerage Opportunities" |
| 12th December 2024 | Prof. Gino Cattani (NYU Stern) "Novelty Evaluation and Framing Strategies: The Outsider Challenge" |
Term 3 2024
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
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| 25th April 2024 | Nitisha Tomar "Market-Mediated Play as a Creative Mode of Public Dialogue" |
| 9th May 2024 | Lukas Andreas Falcke (VU Amsterdam) |
| 16th May 2024 | Quentin Plantec (Toulouse Business School) "Industry Collaboration Patterns During (Future) Star Scientists’ Early Career" |
| 21 May 2024 (*Tuesday, 1-2pm) | Kaitlin Woolley (Cornell SC Johnson College of Business) "Adherence to Personal Resolutions Over Time, Culture, and Domain" |
| 23rd May 2024 | Fernando Suarez (Northeastern University) "Bridge or Trap? Intergenerational Hybrids during the Technological Transition in the U.S. Automobile Industry 2009—2021" |
| 30th May 2024 | Madeleine Rauch (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School) "Between War and Peace: How Boredom Shapes the Enactment of Idealized Futures at Work" |
| 13th June 2024 | Kostas Selviaridis (Lancaster University) |
| 19th June 2024 (*Wednesday) | Kristin Diehl (USC Marshall) "Privacy is Important, but is it Thought About?" |
| 20th June 2024 | Lisa Cohen (McGill University) "Collaborative job design: How investors and entrepreneurs collaboratively build and broker to create structures that endure" |
Term 2 2024
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 11th January 2024 | Mohammad Jalali, Havard University |
| 19th January 2024 | Scott Ganz, Georgetown University |
| 25th January 2024 | Anatoli Colicev, University of Liverpool |
| 1st February 2024 | Phanish Puranam, INSEAD |
| 6th February 2024 | Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey/Said Business School |
| 8th February 2024 | Li Ding, Durham University |
| 15th February 2024 | Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School |
| 22nd February 2024 | Abhishek Borah, INSEAD |
| 29th February 2024 | Paolo Barbieri, Bologna Business School |
| 5th March 2024 | Selin Atalay, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management |
| 14th March 2024 | Babis Mainemelis, Alba Graduate Business School |
| 21st March 2024 | Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School |
Term 1 2023
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
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| 5th October 2023 | Joseph Nunes, USC Marshall |
| 12th October 2023 | Andrew Oswald, Warwick |
| 19th October 2023 | Chengwei Liu, ESMT Berlin |
| 26th October 2023 | Daniel Muzio, University of York |
| 2nd November 2023 | Shazad Ansari, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School |
| 9th November 2023 | Neil Stewart, WBS |
| 16th November 2023 | Minne Halme, Aalto School of Business |
| 23rd November 2023 | Jens Roehrich, University of Bath |
| 30th November 2023 | Panos Constantinides, The University of Manchester |
Term 3 2023
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 25th May 2023 | Kurt Sandholtz, BYU Marriott School of Business |
| 1st June 2023 | Pooyan Khashabi, ESSEC |
| 15th June 2023 | Christian Busch, USC |
| 21st June (Wednesday) 2023 | Paul Adler, USC |
| 22nd June 2023 | Naliya Ordabayeva, Tuck School of Business |
| 26th June (Monday) 2023 | Siobhan O'Mahony, Boston University |
| 29th June 2023 | Filippo Wezel, USI |
| 13th July 2023 | Sergei Savin, The Wharton School |
Term 2 2023
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 26th January 2023 | Christian Hampel, Imperial College London |
| 16th February 2023 | Juliane Reinecke, Saïd Business School |
| 23rd February 2023 | Llewellyn Thomas, IESE |
| 2nd March 2023 | Sascha Raithal, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 9th March 2023 | Ashley Metz, Tilburg University |
| 23rd March 2023 | Andrew Parker, Durham University |
| 22nd March 2023 (Wednesday) | Maqbool Dada, Johns Hopkins University |
| 30th March 2023 | Kevin Rockmann, George Mason University |
| 6th April 2023 | Shirah Foy, TBS Education |
| 13th April 2023 | Han Kyul Oh, Tilburg University |
Term 3 2022
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 5th May 2022 | Mats Alvesson, Lund University |
| 19th May 2022 | Nicolas Bastardoz, KU Leuven |
| 26th May 2022 | Massimo Maoret, IESE Business School |
| 14th June 2022 | Julien Cayla, Nanyang Business School |
| 16th June 2022 | Kristin Diehl, University of Southern California |
| 20th June 2022 | Tingting Yan, Wayne State University |
| 30th June 2022 | Margherita Pagani, SKEMA Business School |
| 5th July 2022 | Amy Dalton, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Term 2 2022
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 17th February 2022 | Jan Recker, Universistat Hamburg |
| 3rd March 2022 | Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna |
| 10th March 2022 | Elena Giovannoni, Royal Holloway University of London |
| 17th March 2022 | Sirio Lonati, NEOMA Business School |
| 22nd March 2022 | Sabine Brunswicker, Purdue University |
| 24th March 2022 | Matt Cummins, ESSEC |
| 7th April 2022 | Stefano Tasselli, Erasmus University |
| 14th April 2022 | David Clough, UBC Sauder School of Business |
| 28th April 2022 | Arianna Marchetti, London Business School |
Term 1 2021
| Date | Research Seminar Series Term 1 2021 |
|---|---|
| 7th October 2021 | Maciej Workiewicz, ESSEC |
| 14th October 2021 | Ivanka Visnjic, ESADE |
| 27th October 2021 | Peeter Verlegh, VU Amsterdam |
| 28th October 2021 | Jovana Karanovic, Erasmus University |
| 4th November 2021 | Pier Vittorio Mannucci, London Business School |
11th November 2021 | Anna Grandori, Bocconi University |
| 18th November 2021 | Halszka Lelen, University of Warmia and Mazury |
| 25th November 2021 | Paulo Arvate, School of Business Administration of the Getulio Vargas Foundation |
| 2nd December 2021 | Paolo Quattrone, The University of Manchester |
| 9th December 2021 | Linus Dahlander, ESMT Berlin |
Term 3 2021
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 27th May 2021 | Timothy Folta, University of Connecticut |
| 3rd June 2021 | Amelia Compagni & Giulia Cappellaro, Bocconi University |
| 10th June 2021 | Andy Wu, Harvard Business School |
| 17th June 2021 | Ryan Raffaelli, Harvard Business School |
| 24th June 2021 | Ben Holt, British Red Cross |
| 1st July 2021 | Vlad Babich, Georgetown University |
Term 2 2020 - 21
| Date | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 4th February 2021 | Yuval Millo, University of Warwick |
| 11th February 2021 | Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University |
| 25th February 2021 | Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University |
| 3rd March 2021 | Veronica Hay Villena Martinez, Penn State University |
| 11th March 2021 | Navid Asgari, Fordham University |
| 25th March 2021 | Claudio Giachetti, University of Venice |
| 1st April 2021 | Stella Seyb, University of Oaklahoma |
| 9th April 2021 | Amber Epp, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 15th April 2021 | Dovev Lavie, Bocconi University |
| 29th April 2021 | Anne Smith, University of Tennessee Knoxville |
Term 1 2020 - 21
| Date & room number | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 1st October 2020 | George Chondrakis, ESADE |
| 8th October 2020 | Koen Pauwels, Northeastern University, Raoul V. Kübler, WWU Münster |
| 15th October 2020 | Henri Schildt, Aalto University |
| 22nd October 2020 | Sebastiano Massaro, Surrey Business School |
| 29th October 2020 | Bryant Hudson, IÉSEG |
| 5th November 2020 | Markus Giesler, Schulich School of Business |
| 19th November 2020 | Joerg Sydow and Carolin Aushcra, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 26th November 2020 | Sabina Siebert, Adam Smith Business School |
| 3rd December 2020 | Philipp Kern, Institute for International Management |
| 10th December 2020 | Marco Tonellato, LMU |
Term 2 2019 - 20
| Date & room number | Research Seminar Series |
|---|---|
| 23rd January 2020 | Stefano Puntoni, Rotterdam School of Management
Consumers and autonomous technology: An emerging framework |
| 6th February 2020 | Luigi Marengo, LUISS Make, Buy, or Re-design. The impact of digital technologies on the organization of production |
| 11th February 2020 | Leif Nelson, University of California Berkeley Closing the gap between scientific claims and scientific truths: Policies and anecdotes from consumer research, psychology, and behavioral economics |
| 13th February 2020 | Nicola Breugst, TUM
Digital images as entrepreneurial opportunities: Insights from social media influencers |
| 20th February 2020 | Bart Vanneste, UCL Generalised trust, external sourcing and firm performance |
| 27th February 2020 | Tobias Kretchmer, LMU Platform Competition and User Generated Content: Evidence from Game Wikis (with Johannes Loh) |
| 5th March 2020 | David Kirsch, Robert Smith School of Business Technology-ology in Strategic Management: An Application to Technology-led Market Transformation |
Term 3 2017 -18
| Date | Term 3 2017 - 18 |
|---|---|
| 26th April | Bruno Cirillo, SKEMA Business School The effect of knowledge and social interdependencies on inventors' outward mobility and entrepreneurship |
| 2nd May | Henk Volberda, Erasmus University Modes of Business Model Innovation |
| 3rd May | Stine Gordal, Boston University Big, Beige and Bulky: Aesthetic Shifts in the hearing aid industry (1945-2015) |
| 10th May | Claus Rerup, Frankfurt School of Business and Management Time pacing and attentional triangulartion: The Pearl Jam concert accident at Roskilde Festival |
| 31st May | Siobhan O'Mahoney, Boston University Explaining the Escalation of Activism through Repertoire reconfiguration |
| 7th June | Violetta Splitter, University of Zurich Employees' participation in strategy making over time: The recursive relation between participation and resources |
| 14th June | Benjamin Warnick, Washing State University The dangers of transforming a hobby into a business: How and why obsessive passion enhances venture performance at the expense of entrepreneurial well-being |
| 21st June | Christopher Steele, Alberta School of Business Reworking the 'truth machine': How data analysts and others, (re)construct the epistemic practices of organizations |
| 27th June | Ahmet Colak, Clemson University Title TBC |
| 28th June | Raffaele Conti, Catolica Lisbon The impact of entrepreneurship on pay discrimination: Evidence from and entry deregulation reform in Portugal |