Thursday, April 18th 2024

from 9:00 am to 5:15 pm

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9:00AM-9:15AM Welcome
Frank Dobbin, SCANCOR Weatherhead Director, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

9:15AM-10:45AM Session 1: Technological Innovations
All presentations in Session 1 will be virtual

“Detecting AI-Generated Content Via Intuition”
Speakers: 
Katharina Fellnhofer, Marie-Curie-Fellow / TU-Dresden Fellow, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich 
Lars Hornuf, Professor, Chair of Business Administration, Esp. Finance and Financial Technology, Dresden University of Technology

“Platformisation of Professions and Expertise – Social Media Influencer as a New Platform Profession”
Speakers:
Anne Kovalainen, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Knowhow, University of Turku
Seppo Poutanen, Senior Research Fellow and Docent of Sociology (Associate Professor), University of Turku

“Blockchain Technologies in Textile Supply Chains”
Speaker: 
Juho Lindman, Full Professor of Information Systems; Director Blockchain Lab, University of Gothenburg

11AM-1:00PM Session 2: Theoretical Explorations
All presentations in Session 2 will be virtual

“Relationship Ontology and New Professions– Synopsis and Conclusion of Relational Ontology as a Scientific Concept Adapted to Modern Day Advanced Society and Ongoing Decline and Fragmentation of Traditional Professions”
Speaker: 
Antoinnette Hetzler, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Lund University

“IN-Stakeholder Theory as a High-Liberal Conception of the Firm”
Speaker: 
Jukka Veikko Mäkinen, Professor of Business Ethics, Estonian Business School

“How Institutional Theory and Theories of Firm Discuss the Role of Firms in Societies?”
Speaker: 
Seija Kulkki, Professor Emerita of Management and Organization, Aalto University

“Ecosystems in International Business Research – Conceptualizations, Review, Co-citation Analysis and Ways Forward”
Speaker: 
Christina Öberg, Professor of Marketing and Tourism Studies; Business and Economics, Linnæs University

2:00PM-3:30PM Session 3: Innovation
All presentations in Session 3 will be in person

“Heritage in Europe: New Technologies in Craft for Preserving and Innovating the Future”
Speaker: 
Vishv Priya Kohli, Associate Professor of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School

“Narratives and Temporality in Social Innovation: How Chefs a Serving ‘A Plate of Hope’ in Food Relief”
Speaker:
Silviya Svejenova Velikova, Professor of Organization, Copenhagen Business School

“Artificial Intelligence: A Disruptive or Symbiotic Innovation?”
Speaker:
Emrah Karakaya, Associate Professor of Industrial Dynamics and Sustainable Business Models, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

3:45PM-5:15PM Session 4: Inequalities
All presentations in Session 4 will be in person

“Why Gender is Not a Dummy? A Review and Critique of Research on Gender and Leadership”
Speaker: 
Sabina Nielsen, Professor of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School

“Approaching Voluntary Work as Work: A Research Proposal on Voluntary Work Conditions and the Reproduction of Inequalities”
Speaker:
Johan Hvenmark, Associate Professor of Civil Society and Religion, Marie Cederschiöld University

“Rethinking Core and Periphery: Green Energy Investment of MNCs in Peripheral Cities”
Speaker: 
Iiris Saittakari, Assistant Professor of Management Studies, Aalto University

Friday, April 19th 2024

from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

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9:00AM-10:30AM Session 1: Knowledge
All presentations in Session 1 will be virtual

“Challenge Accepted: Rethinking Information Literacy Education at the University Library”
Speaker: 
Ida Lunde Jørgensen, Information Specialist, Ph.D., Royal Danish Library, Aarhus University

“Multispecies Organizing in the Web of Life – as Matter of Care”
Speaker: 
Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics

“Basic Rationales in Science, Technology & Innovation Policy: Sorting out Ideational Patterns and Organizational Tensions”
Speaker: 
Signe Vikkelsø, Professor of Science, Technology and Organization, Copenhagen Business School

10:45AM-12:15PM Session 2: Governance
All presentations in Session 2 will be virtual

“EU Climate Governance Generating Insights: Lessons Learned and Future Research Challenges”
Speaker: 
Elin Lerum Boasson, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo

“The Impact of Soviet Sphere Regimes on Global Governance and Trends in West European Social Policy”
Speaker: 
Astrid Hedin, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Malmö University

“Between Spaces: Imagining the Museum of the Future at the Nexus of Global and Local Influences”
Speaker: 
Tiina Ritvala, Assistant Dean; Associate Professor of Management Studies, Aalto University

1:15PM-2:45PM Session 3: Governance II
All presentations in Session 3 will be in person

“Civil Society and Bureaucracy in the Nordic Region”
Speaker: 
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo

“Unarmed Financial Markets”
Speakers:
Giovanni Cardillo, Assistant Professor in Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, University of Bologna  
Eleonora Monaco, Senior Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Bologna

“Public Management Reform and Public Value. The Case of the Elderly Care Reform in Denmark”
Speaker:
Carsten Greve, Professor of Public Management and Governance, Copenhagen Business School

3:00PM-4:30PM Session 4: Sustaining Tradition
All presentations in Session 4 will be in person

“An International Gastronomic Journey– How to Export Norwegian Bacalao Fish to the Iberian Peninsula to Get a New Regional Identity Back”
Speaker:
Rolv Petter Amdam, Professor Emeritus of Business History, BI Norwegian Business School

“Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Society: Citizens’ Responses to High-risk AI Applications”
Speaker:
Matilda Dorotic, Associate Professor of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School

“University Collegiality: Resistance, Activation, and Maintenance”
Speaker:
Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Professor of Organization Theory and Management, Gothenburg University

4:30PM-5:00PM Takeaways: Frank Dobbin and Silviya Svejenova Velikova