Thursday, April 10th 2025

from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

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9:00–9:15    Welcome 

• Jocelyn Viterna, Acting Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center. Professor, Department of Sociology; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.

9:15–10:45    Session 1: Financialization

• Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Associate Professor, Hanken School of Economics.
  “Financialization of Ecological Restoration: Analyzing the Organizational-Territorial Dynamics of Green Extractivism in the Global South” (Virtual) 
• Torkel Strömstem, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics.
  “Strategic Categorization in Financialization Processes: A Longitudinal Analysis of Top Management’s Strategic Use of Multicategory Membership” (Virtual)
• Yumi Park, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School.
  “Varieties of Globalization: Trade Openness, Bank Lobbying, and the Political Economy of Financial Liberalization” (In Person)

11:00–1:00    Session 2: Sustainability

• Samuli Patala, Assistant Professor, Aalto University of Business.
  “When Global Formal Meets Local Informal: Institutional Interfaces in Circular Economy Transitions” (Virtual)
• Nishant Kumar, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, and Shreyas Pandit, PhD Candidate, Stockholm University.
  “The Risks of Rapid Sustainability Scaling: Case of Northvolt” (In Person)
• Frauke Urban, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
  “Sustainability Transitions in Transport – Perspectives from Sweden” (In Person)
• Hanna Silvola, Associate Professor, Hanken School of Economics.
  “‘Walk the Talk’ Report of Sustainability Reporting Performance in Finnish Companies” (In Person)

2:00–3:30    Session 3: Management and Leadership

• Katharina Fellnhofer, Director, Research and Innovation Management GmbH & Research Visitor, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. 
  “The State of Remote Work in Europe: Evidence from 20,013 Workers” (Virtual)
• Christina Öberg, Professor, Linnæs University.
  “In the Head of a Disruptor – A Conceptual Discussion” (Virtual)
• Rolv Petter Amdam, Professor Emeritus, BI Norwegian Business School, and Ragnhild Kvålshaugen, Professor, BI Norwegian Business School.
  “The Impact of Context on the Reinterpretation of Narratives About Leadership Development: How the Narrative About the American Consultant, George Kenning, Working in Norway Got a New Meaning?” (In Person)

3:45–5:00    Session 4: States

• Juho Lindman, Full Professor, Director Blockchain Lab, University of Gothenburg.
  “Municipal Open Data from Sweden” (In Person)
• Astrid Hedin, Associate Professor, Malmö University.
  “Communist State Capacity — How It’s Different” (In Person)
• Olga Iermolenko, Associate Professor, Nord University Business School.
  “(Neo)Colonialism in the Evolving Geopolitical Landscape – A Study of Valuing and Thieving Natural Resources in the Context of War” (In Person)

Friday, April 11th 2025

from 9:00 am to 3:45 pm

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9:00–10:30    Session 5: Organizational Culture

• Seija Kulkki, Professor Emerita, Aalto University.
  “Culture and Vitality” (Virtual)
• Johan Hvenmark, Associate Professor, Marie Cederschiöld University.
  “The Present Through the Future: Time, Temporality and Tomorrow’s Importance for Today’s Nonprofit Organizations” (In Person)
• Tiina Ritvala, Associate Professor, Aalto University.
  “When Corporate Headquarters of Multinationals Narrate: Symbols of the Past or Shapers of Future Cities?” (Virtual)

10:45–12:45   Session 6: Ethics and Innovation

• Jukka Veikko Mäkinen, Professor, Estonian Business School.
  “Ethics of Money Laundering in Banking” (Virtual)
• Matilda Dorotic, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School.
  “Impact of Moral Judgments on the Permissibility of High-Risk AI and Effectiveness of Privacy-Protection Safeguards” (Virtual)
• Vishv Priya Kohli, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School.
  “Ethical and Sustainable Innovation in the Craft Sector in the EU: Changes in Regulation and Impact in Practice” (In Person)
• Øivind Hagen, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School Trondheim.
  “The Ethics of Driving Change Through Auto Communication” (In Person)

1:45–3:15    Session 7: Gendering Organizations

• Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School.
  “Explaining the Development of Depersonalization that Leads to Rape Myth Acceptance in Policing” (In Person)
• Ed Saiedi, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School.
  “The Gender Contract Gap in Startup Funding” (In Person)
• Suen Wang, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University.
  “Do Gender Quotas Increase Legislative Turnout in the European Parliament?” (In Person)

3:15–3:45    Concluding Remarks 

• Jocelyn Viterna, Acting Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center. Professor, Department of Sociology; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.