IOC PhD Conference Pre-Submission Workshop

Dr Sanne Bor

Researcher, LUT School of Business and Management

Sanne Bor holds a PhD in Management and Organization. Her work focuses on collaboration among organizations, particularly in situations where collaboration is essential to solve the big challenges we meet in today's world. She works on helping organizations to collaborate better, with the aim to find fairer, wiser and better solutions to these big societal challenges. At Hanken School of Economics she works on the STN-funded CORE project, where she helps finding tools for collaborative development of solutions to environmental challenges.

At LUT she works on the STN-funded PackageHeroes project, where she focuses on finding ways for overcoming barriers to stimulate collaboration between organizations to enhance the transition from plastic to non-plastic package solutions. Her research interests also include meta-organizations, organizations of organizations, and developing theory to understand this type of organization better. Sanne is also interested in topics related to self-steering and collective decision-making more generally. Sanne has published in Management Inquiry and Administrative Science.

Currently, she serves as co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Collaboration at the British Academy of Management.

Dr Claudio de Mattos

Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Huddersfield

Claudio De Mattos is currently a Senior Lecturer in Management (International Strategy, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Subject Group) at the University of Huddersfield. His current research interests are focused on international business cooperation, including alliances and M&As. It predominantly examines the context of large emerging markets and high technology sectors. Other topics of interest include cross-cultural differences and similarities in international negotiations, international entrepreneurship and international branding. Claudio De Mattos completed his PhD at the University of Bradford under the supervision of Professor Peter Buckley. He has been publishing his work in internationally recognised journals such as the British Journal of Management, 'International Business Review', 'R&D Management', 'International Journal of Human Resource Management', 'International Journal of Operations and Production Management', ‘International Journal of Production Research’, and 'Journal of Marketing Management'. In addition, he has been presenting his work at a number of leading international conferences. He has previously taught in several British Universities such as University of Bradford, University of Leeds, Aston University, the University of Manchester. He is regularly invited for external lectures (e.g., at the University of Leeds and at ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania) and has held a number of external positions such as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL) UK and External Examiner for the University of Bradford, Bradford UK. He was also a Jean Monnet Research Fellow and an EPSRC-BRITEST Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the oil industry as well as in the defence industry.