Description
This online International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) Special Issue Launch Event will feature talks from the guest editor team, as well as keynotes from the IJMR co-editor in chief, Dr Dermot Breslin and expert in leadership, qualitative research and critical theory, Professor Mats Alvesson. The event is hosted and chaired by Dr Inge Hill (chair of the Strategy SIG) and Dr Sanne Bor (chair of the IOC-PAN SIG)
The guest editor team (Prof. Qile He, Prof. Maureen Meadows, Dr Emanuel Gomes, Prof. Duncan Angwin, and Prof. John Child) will introduce the background as well as themes of the SI; Dr Dermot Breslin will focus on IJMR nature of papers and journal requirements; Prof. Mats Alvesson will discuss about Challenging Assumptions and Problematization Approach. There will also be opportunities for Q&As and open discussion surrounding the SI and the Problematization Approach.
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Provider Information
Co-organized by the Inter-Organizational Collaboration: partnerships, alliances and networks (IOC-PAN) and the Strategy SIGs.
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Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1, A2 and A3, as detailed in the BAM Framework
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Speakers & Facilitators
Dr Inge Hill
Dr Hill is the Associate Head Research, Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange at the Royal Agricultural University. She is a passionate academic teacher with over 25 years’ experience. She focuses on sustainable business education aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals to create responsible impact aware leaders for The Future of Work. She holds two Master’s in Education. She is a strategic influencer of enterprise entrepreneurship education since 2003 and was awarded the 2020 prestigious Management Education Practice Award for Experienced Teaching Practitioners by the British Academy of Management. A sought after speaker, her latest invite was for the Westminster Business Forum in 2021. Her teaching related publications are internationally renowned including a textbook.
Dr Sanne Bor
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.
Professor Dermot Breslin
Dermot Breslin is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rennes School of Business, France. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield, UK, Tor Vergata University, Italy, the University of Saarlandes, Germany and Lincoln Business School, UK. His current research focuses on evolutionary approaches in organization studies, organizational learning and creativity. Dermot has been Co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews since 2017, and he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, International Small Business Journal and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. His research has been published in leading business and management journals including International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Work Employment and Society, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, European Management Review and Studies in Higher Education. Before entering academia, Dermot worked in the steel, aluminium and paper industries, in engineering design, operations and sales management.
Prof Maureen Meadows
Maureen Meadows is Professor of Strategic Management at the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University. Maureen spent ten years at the Open University Business School, including five years as Head of Department for Strategy and Marketing, OUBS, and leader of the MBA module in strategic management. She was previously at Warwick Business School for thirteen years, where she directed the MSc in Management Science and Operational Research for five years.
Prof Qile (Horace) He
Professor Qile He, also known as Horace, is a Professor of Strategy and Performance Management at the University of Derby, UK. He was previously a Reader in Operations Management and the Associate Head of School for Research of the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University, UK, successfully leading the school research portfolio.
His research expertise and interests are in the area of interfirm alliances and partnerships, innovation strategies and processes of organizations, as well as sustainable and responsible business, and inter-organizational knowledge transfer. He has published over 80 papers in refereed journals, books, and leading international conference proceedings.
Prof Duncan Angwin
Duncan Angwin MA (Hons), PGCE, M.Phil., MBA, PhD, is the Dean of the University of Nottingham Business School in the UK. He is also Professor in Strategic Management. Prior to this position he held a named personal chair, the Sir Roland Professor of Strategic Management and was Head of Department at Lancaster University, UK. Duncan gained his PhD from Warwick Business School, which focused upon UK takeovers, and held many posts there during his 20 years tenure. Prior to his time in academia, Duncan was a senior investment banker, predominantly based in London and Paris, focusing upon corporate finance, international mergers and acquisitions transactions and strategic advice. His original degrees were from the University of Cambridge.
Dr Emanuel Gomes
Emanuel Gomes is an Associate Professor at Universidade Nova, Nova School of Business and Economics (Portugal). Previously, he was the Deputy Head of the Strategy and International Business department at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School (UK). He is the Regional Editor (Africa) for the Journal of Knowledge Management and serves as a guest editor in various special issues and also as a reviewer for several international peer reviewed journals. He is the author of three books ‘Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances: Understanding the Process’, ‘Acquisitions in the UK Car Industry: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Merger Processes.’ and ‘Mergers and Acquisitions as Strategic Methods of Business Development in the Global Automobile Industry: An Analysis of Five Cases’.
Prof John Child
John Child is Emeritus Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the British Academy of Management. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. He was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards by the International Association for Chinese Management Research [IACMR] in 2012, by the British Academy of Management in 2015, and by the Academy of International Business in 2019. His degrees are all from the University of Cambridge.
Prof Mats Alvesson
Professor Mats Alvesson current research projects focus on leadership, functional stupidity in organizations and experiences of bureaucracy and managerial work in universities. His research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, leadership, identity, organizational image, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science. His most recent books include Return to Meaning (Oxford University Press 2017), Reflexive Leadership (Sage, 2017, with Martin Blom and Stefan Sveningsson),The Stupidity Paradox (Profile 2016, with André Spicer), Managerial Lives (Cambridge univ Press 2016, with Stefan Sveningsson),The Triumph of Emptiness (Oxford University Press 2013), Qualitative Research and Theory Development (Sage 2011, with Dan Kärreman), Constructing Research Questions. (Sage 2013, with J Sandberg) Interpreting Interviews (Sage 2011), Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding leadership in the real world. (Routledge 2011, ed with André Spicer), Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (Oxford University Press, edited with Todd Bridgman and Hugh Willmott). Understanding gender and organizations (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed with Yvonne Billing), Reflexive methodology (Sage, 2009, 2nd ed, with Kaj Skoldberg), Changing organizational culture (Routledge 2015 2nd ed, with Stefan Sveningsson), and Knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms (Oxford University Press,2004).
He currently teaches courses on qualititative methods, knowledge work, and organizational change at the PhD and masters levels at Lund University.
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Benefits of attending
- Learn about the SI and type of papers invited by the SI
- Learn about the expectations for the SI
- Able to make clarifying questions about the SI
- Learn about the problematization approach
- Able to network and discuss with speakers and peers
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-BAM Members: £25
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