2023 Conference

Programme at a Glance

08:15 – 08:30 Welcome by The Conference Chairs Dr Marianna Marra and Prof Vasiliki Bamiatzi, University of Sussex Business School, BAM Chair Prof Emma Parry, Cranfield University. Followed by University of Sussex Business School Research Showcase I Online

08:30 – 10:00 Paper sessions (1) I Online

10:00 – 10:15 Refreshment break I Online

10:15 - 11:45 - Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) Round 1 I Virtual

AI in higher education - from technological pushes to ethical perspectives
Competitive and Conspicuous Consumption: A Critical Exploration Workshop
Diversity Sensitivity Training for Managers and Team Leads
Does the third sector get a 'fair' share of postgraduate business course curriculum? A panel discussion
Entrepreneuring and not entrepreneurship? Studying entrepreneurship with a practice theory lens - a workshop
How can EDI research disrupt and transform management prectices and organisational cultures for a more sustainable future?
Imagine - How Distruptive Technologies Could Reshape the Future of Higher Education
Mental Health and Well-being: the lived experiences ofAcademics in UK Business Schools: Implication for Policy and Practice
MoSMoP - More Sustainable, More Profitable Business - Avenues for Research and Industrial Impact
Pracademic Reflections on the Role of Real-Life Experiential Projects in Advancing Student Adaptive Competencies in the VUCA Environment
Reimagining your ethical voice in found peotry: Poetic engagement for developing ethical leadership as a force for positive change
Simulation in Entrepreneurship Education - SimVenture Evolution
The Skill of Bouncing Back: coaching resilience in postgraduate researchers and early-career academics

Pre-booking will open on 31st July. For further details please click here.

11:45 – 12:45 Panel 'Meet the Non-BAM Editors' Prof Caroline Gatrell, Journal of Management Studies, Prof Thomas Lawton, Journal of Long Range Planning, Prof Sarah Robinson, European Management Journal, Prof Paul Nightingale, Research Policy Journal, Prof Mark Learmonth Human Relations Journal, chaired by Prof Andy Charlwood, University of Leeds I Online

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break I Online

12:30 - 13:30 'Lunch & Learn - Supporting Education Career Paths - How BAM MKE can help, Prof Kate Black, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Prof Ashley Roberts, Warwick Business School I Online

13:30 – 15:00 Paper Sessions (2) I Online

15:00 – 15:15 Refreshment break I Online

15:15 – 16:15 I Keynote Panel 'Disrupting Business Models: Strategies and Policy' Prof Tima Bansal, Ivey Business Scool, Unversity of Western Ontario, Prof Anita McGahan, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, chaired by Prof Andrew Davies, University of Sussex Business School I Online

16:15 - 16:30 Refreshment break I Online

16:15 - 18:00 'BJM MKE Launch Symposium' Prof Paul Hibbert, School of Management, University of St Andrews. Presented papers:

Dirk Lindebaum and Peter Fleming, ‘An epistemological deconstruction of ChatGPT and its role in management knowledge: Mind that siren song’
April L. Wright, Sandra Pereira, Jonathan Staggs and Kathryn Hartwell, ‘Institutional logics and risk: Navigating frontline professional work in extreme events’
Katy Mason, Lisa Anderson, Kate Black and Ashley Roberts, ‘Why pedagogy is not a dirty word' I Online

16:30 – 18:00 Paper session (3) I Online

18:00 – 19:00 BAM SIGs and Networks Annual Meetings I Online

Monday 4th September (pre-Conference activities)

On Monday 4th September, BAM SIGs/Networks and Tracks will be running networking activities and other events for their members, including joint track events, informal gatherings and workshops. More events will be published in due course.

Registration desk opens at 10:00 - 17:00 I Fulton Building

Positive or troubled future? Collaborative Design for Sustainability workshop (Hosted by Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG)

Time: 15:00 - 16:30

Location: TBC

This innovative experiential and interactive activity allows learners to engage in dialogue about what contributes to sustainability in both constructive and destructive ways. The activity has a special focus on aspects such as health, diversity, wellbeing and climate change, which are fundamentally issues about ethical choices that are increasingly dominating the news, with declarations of climate emergency in Europe, Canada, the US and Australia.

While the session fits many elements of the conference theme, we specifically highlight three dimensions: first, the workshop demonstrates exercises to develop ethical leadership and collaboration strategies necessary for achieving positive change by visually and viscerally laying out two potential futures for humanity.

Second, the exercise is a unique idea for helping participants identify their character strengths and put them into action by identifying steps they can take that contribute to a positive or negative climate future.

Third, using the cards is ethical decision-making in motion, illustrating graphically what actions can be used to create positive and negative change for individuals, organisations, communities and the planet. This experiential exercise involves a set of cards focused on two potential future scenarios related to climate change. The “Positive Futures” half of the cards identify scientific and human interventions that could positively contribute to climate action resulting in a decrease in the overall global temperature. The “Troubled Future” half of cards detail destructive individual and organisational activities that fuel carbon emissions and global warming beyond the limits for species survival.

There will be a Q&A session at the end. Pre-registration will open on 31st of July 2023.

Early Career Researchers Consortium (Hosted by Entrepreneurship, Strategy, International Business, Innovation, Inter-Organizational Collaboration, and Management & Business History SIGs)

Call for Applications.

The British Academy of Management SIGs Entrepreneurship, Strategy, International Business, Innovation, Interorganizational Collaborations, and Business History are hosting an Early Career Researchers Consortium on Monday 4^th September 2023. If you have started your first faculty position in the last few years, this consortium is for you!

The consortium will provide an intimate forum for interacting with senior colleagues and peers about how to prosper in your academic career. It will include a combination of feedback sessions, panels, and facilitated discussions focused on three key topics: 1) developing your research for publication with the help of seasoned scholars in your area; 2) strategies for impact, funding, and growth as a researcher and teacher; and 3) navigating the early years of building a successful faculty career in diverse institutional settings.

This year’s presenters offer diverse scholarly and geographic perspectives. The roster includes:

Barak S. Aharonson, University of Guelph, Canada
Yuyu Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham, UK
Wilson Ng, IDRAC Business School, France
Stratos Ramoglou, University of Southampton, UK
Shuang Ren, Belfast University, UK
Joerg Sydow, Free University Berlin, Germany
Roger Strange, University of Sussex, UK
Kevin Tennent, University of York, UK
Dianne HB Welsh, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA

To download the programme, please click here

Reflexive Practice in Qualitative Research: Levels and Challenges workshop

Time: 11:30 -13:00

Location: Room TBC

This event is particularly targeted at doctoral students and early-career researchers, and it provides an overview of reflexivity as a personal as well as an academic project. The workshop explores how the researcher’s development of reflexive practice that incorporates awareness on bodily, emotional, rational and relational levels, and a cycle that moves between past-oriented and future-oriented perspectives, are important for understanding and implementing reflexivity. The workshop also draws on emerging research to show how the levels of reflexive practice can overlap, with a particular focus on the pivotal role of emotions. Overall, this workshop will help researchers to situate their own approach to reflexivity in management and organization studies research, in thoughtful and practical ways.

Navigating the Publication Process in IBR journal (hosted by International Business and International Management SIG)

Time: 15:00 - 16:30

Location: Room G-22, Jubilee Building

We are delighted to offer to our SIG members a session with Prof. Roger Strange the Editor in Chief of the International Business Review journal. Prof. Strange will help us in navigating the publication process in IBR a leading IB journal.

Welcome Networking Event hosted by Identity SIG

Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Location: G35, Jubilee Building

This networking session is for members of the Identity SIG as well as anyone else that is interested in joining us for a chatter! The session will provide an opportunity to meet informally, discuss potential research collaborations and expand your network! We will also meet from 7pm for an informal meal (advance sign up needed).

Welcome Reception hosted by Gender in Management SIG & Human Resources Management SIG

Time: 4-6pm

Location: The Atrium, Jubilee Building

GiMSIG and HRMSIG have historically shared interests and membership. As a result, there have been collaborations between the SIGs as well as between SIG members. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen these collaborative, inclusive, collegial relationships. Our proposed session would be structured as followed:

Welcome reception: This would be a short introduction by SIG Chairs, highlighting the plans for each of the SIGs and the collaboration opportunities between the SIGs. This will also include the opportunity for new members to meet the SIG Chairs in an informal setting.

Informal networking: This would follow a semi-structured setting, where colleagues would be allowed to join others on tables for informal conversations and possibility to explore collaborative opportunities.

Project Experiences (PREX) SIG Networking Reception

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: The Seahorse (26 Kings Rd, Brighton BN1 2LN)

Registration: Please register HERE

We will be hosting a networking reception for the members of BAM PREX and anyone who is interested in joining us. The networking reception will provide members with the opportunity to meet informally, discuss potential research collaborations and expand their network. The reception will be sponsored by the Association for Project Management (APM) and will include a few short impulse talks from the APM leadership, senior academics and the SIG/track chairs.

Developing Sustainability Strategies for Resilience to Modern Challenges (hosted by the Strategy SIG and Sustainable Responsible Business SIG)

Time: TBC

Location: TBC

Further details will be published shortly.

Financial Management Networking Event

Time: TBC

Location: TBC

In this informal networking event we plan to discuss ways in which the FM SIG can further support our members and affiliates, explore ways to maintain a high level of communication and socialize our growth plans.

We will also discuss with our members and collect ideas about future BAM-supported activities and academic events.

🌻 Tour of the Ridgeview Estate Winery 18:00-19:30 (Pre-registration will open in due course)

Our vineyard is a special place for us; it’s where our award-winning sparkling wines’ journey begins, and we love nothing more than welcoming visitors to share the sustainable viticulture behind our world-class English sparkling wine.

You will be guided through our home vineyard in the South Downs National Park for a relaxed and informative walk through the vines, followed by a relaxed tasting experience to explore our English sparkling wines

Coaches depart from the University at 17:30, returning at 19:30.

Tuesday 5th September

🌻 - social activities

🌻 07:30 - 08:30 Mindfulness Session by Sussex Mindfulness Centre, Brighton and Hove I meeting point at 07:25 by the Peace Statue on the seafront near Western St - Pre-registration required

🌻 08:00 - 09:00 Indoor Mindfulness session by Sussex Mindfulness Centre I Jubilee Building I Room G32 I Pre-registration required

08:00 – 17:30 Registration I Fulton Building

09:30 – 11:00 Paper Sessions (4) I In-person

🌻10:25 - 13:00 Tour of Shoreham Port, West Sussex - The coach will depart from the i360 by the seafront in central Brighton at 10:25 I tour starts 11:00. The coach will then return visitors from the port at 12:40 to our Falmer campus at approximately 13:15. I Fully booked

11.00 - 11.30 Refreshment Break I In-person

🌻11:00 - 13:30 Guided Tour of Brighton & Hove Albion AMEX Stadium I Assembly at Fulton building entrance at 10:30 I Pre-registration required

11:30 - 13:00 Paper Sessions (5) I Breakout Rooms I In-person

11:30 - 13:00 Towards disruptively sustainable careers: doing academic careers differently Workshop, Hosted by the Critical Management Studies Track I Lecture Theatre B, Fulton Building

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break I In-person I Marquee, Fulton Building

International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) Editorial Lunch I In-Person I Room 143 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

BAM Peer Review College (PRC) Fellows meeting I In-Person I Room G-31 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Operations, Logistics & Supply Change Management SIG Lunch I In-person I Room 115 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Inter-Organisational Collaboration SIG Lunch I In-person I Room G36 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Research Methodology SIG Lunch I In-person I Room 155 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Strategy SIG Lunch I In-person I Room 118 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG Lunch I Room 144 I Jubilee Building I By invitation only

Organisational Psychology SIG Lunch I Room TBC I By Invitation only

14:00 – 15:40 Grand Conference Opening & Award Ceremony: Building a Sustainable Future: The Intertwined Role of Dynamic Capabilities, Government and Society, Prof David Teece, Haas School of Business (Berkeley), University of California and Prof Richard Whittington, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Chaired by Prof Vassiliki Bamiatzi, University of Sussex Business School I Jubilee Plenary Theatre I Hybrid

15:40 – 16:00 Refreshment break I In-person

15:40 – 16:40 Fellows Networking Cafe, Prof Martyna Sliwa, Durham University Business School, Prof Howard Thomas, Singapore Management University, Prof Yehuda Baruch, University of Southampton, Prof David Denyer, Cranfield University, Prof Fiona Wilson, University of Glasgow, Prof Denis Fischbacher-Smith, University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Prof Nelarine Cornelius, Queen Mary University of London, Prof Dermot Breslin, Rennes School of Business I In-person I Jubilee Atrium Cafe I Jubilee Building I Pre-registration required

16:00 – 17:30 Paper Sessions (6) I In-person

🌻19:30 – Gala Dinner I The Grand Hotel I 97-99 Kings Rd, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 2FW I Tickets are purchased in advance of the Conference starting

🌻Social Activities

Mindfulness Sessions provided by Sussex Mindfulness Centre, Brighton and Hove - 07:30-09:00

The Sussex Mindfulness Centre brings together teachers, trainers and researchers of Mindfulness-based Approaches at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The Centre aims to improve the wellbeing and mental health of all people who can benefit from mindfulness.

Indoor and outdoor Mindfulness sessions will take place on mornings Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 September.

Indoor sessions taking place in the Jubilee Building (room G32 on the groundfloor) on our campus at 08:00-09:00.

Outdoor sessions taking place on Brighton beach (meeting point at 07:25 by the Peace Statue on the seafront near Western St) 07:30-08:30. Participants are encouraged to bring waterproof coats for outdoor sessions in case of rainy weather.

Read more about Sussex Mindfulness Centre.

Guided Tour of Shoreham Port, West Sussex - 10:30-13:00 (Pre-registration will open in due course)

Near Brighton and Hove, Shoreham Port handles a range of cargoes from across Europe in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Committed to sustainability in the Maritime sector, Shoreham has been a certified “EcoPort” for 10 years, being one of only 2 ports in the UK to achieve full audited and reviewed status under the Port Environmental Review System (PERS). Visitors to the Port will be guided through its “Anchor Points Trail” showcasing its sustainable initiatives, including its seabins and butterfly bank, and history.

The coach will depart from the i360 by the seafront in central Brighton at 10:25, arriving visitors in time for the 90-minute tour at 11:00. The coach will then return visitors from the port at 12:40 to our Falmer campus at approximately 13:15.

Brighton & Hove Albion AMEX Stadium, Falmer, Brighton and Hove - 11:00-13:30 (Pre-registration required)

Located just across the road from our campus in Falmer, the American Express Community Stadium, otherwise known as Falmer Stadium, has been home to Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. since 2011 and now stages Premier League football since the club’s rise to the top tier in 2017. Attendees are invited to register for 90-minute guided tours of this iconic sports venue.

Visitors will assemble at Fulton building entrance on campus for 11:00 before making their way on foot to the stadium.

11:00 - 12:30 Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) Round 2 I In-person

Art and Music for Climate
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Futures of Work
Be professional, be developmental, be kind: The art and craft of peer-review for publications and grant applications
Collaboration for Sustainable Development Goals: techniques, approaches and impact
Conducting Qualitative Research in Transitional Contexts: When the everyday Becomes the Sensitive
Connecting Minds: Fostering Inclusion, Diversity, Equality and Respect through Collaborations in Gender and Management Research
Creative Praxis in the Classroom: Using the impactful-five (i5) Pedagogy
Education and careers: Understanding our educational experiences and impact through use of the BAM MKE "SEEL Model"
Exploring Entrepreneurship Education
Professional Development Workshop for New Professors
Reflexive Practice in Qualitative Research: Levels and Challenges
The constitutive role of accounting and finance in sustainability organising: Conversations with accounting and finance scholars - CANCELLED
The role of Impact Artificial Intelligence for societal benefit
The Secrets of Successful Case Writing
Visual Methodologies, Hand's On: practical tips for interviewng with photographs and analysing visual data
What's New in Innovation? Trends in Innovation Research Publishing

Pre-booking will open on 31st July. For further details please click here.

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch I In-person I Marquee, Fulton Building & Jubilee Building

12:30 -13:30 Identity SIG Catch-up & Farewell Lunch I In-person I Room G-31 I Jubilee Building

12:30 - 13:30 Organisational Transformation, Change and Development SIG & Leadership SIG Lunch I In-person I Room G-35 Jubilee Building I By invitation only

12:30 - 13:30 Project Experiences SIG Lunch I In-person I Room 155 I Jubilee Building

12:30 - 13:30 Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG Lunch I in person I Room 107 I Fulton Building

12:00 - 12:45 Lunch session - Business schools and business engagement: new opportunities and role of BAM facilitated by Melanie Knetsch, Deputy Director: Innovation and Impact ESRC I In-person I Room 118 I Jubilee Building I Pre-registration required

12:30 – 13:30 British Journal of Management (BJM) Editorial Lunch I In-person I Room 143 I Jubilee Building | By invitation only

13:30 – 14:30 Keynote Panel Leadership for Sustainability - Prof Mette Morsing, UN Global Compact, Robin Sundaram, Nestlé, Sowmya Parthasarathy, Arup, Chaired by Dr Zahira Jaser, University of Sussex Business School I In-person I Jubilee Plenary Theatre

14:30 – 14:45 Refreshment Break I In-person I Jubilee Building

14:45 – 16:15 Paper sessions (8) I Breakout rooms I in-person

🌻15:30 - 17:00 Guided Tour of Earthship Brighton & Stanmer Park walk by The Low Carbon Trust I Assembly at 14:45 Jubilee building entrance I Pre-registration required

16:15 – 16:45 Refreshment break I In-person I Fulton Building, Marquee & Jubilee Building

16:45 – 18:15 Paper session (9) I Breakout Rooms I In-person

🌻18:00 - 19:30 Tour of the Ridgeview winery I Coaches will depart from outside the Fulton Building on campus at 17:30 and return to the i360 by the seafront in central Brighton for approximately 20:00 I Pre-registration required

🌻Social Activities:

Brighton & Hove Albion AMEX Stadium, Falmer, Brighton and Hove

10:30-13:00 (Pre-registration will open in due course)

Tour of Earthship Brighton & Stanmer Park (including Stanmer Park walk from campus)

15:30-17:00 (pre-registration will open in due course)

From the Low Carbon Trust website https://www.lowcarbon.co.uk/earthship-brighton:

“Earthship Brighton was the Low Carbon Trust's first project and was the first Earthship to be built in England. Earthship Brighton is an off-grid building that heats, cools, powers itself from the sun, harvests it's water from the sky and treats it's wastewater onsite using plants. To find out more about Earthship Brighton, we offer tours and training courses on how to build an earthship. We have a new Self-building an Earthship online course for people to learn remotely. The project was built as a community centre for use by Stanmer Organics, a Soil Association accredited site in Brighton. This pioneering demonstration project has evolved over the last ten years, providing jobs for local workers and enabling people to come and experience a cutting edge eco-build and be inspired to respond to climate change in their own ways back at home and work. The aims of the Earthship Brighton project were to deliver a sustainable community centre in response to a genuine local need, change values in the construction industry and inspire positive action in individuals to generate environmental change through modifying people's behaviour to less carbon intensive lifestyles. Throughout the project the focus has been spreading a positive message of climate change education and helping people to modify their behaviour to live with a lighter carbon footprint.”

30-minute walk from campus through the scenic Stanmer Park at the foot of the South Downs. Visitors will assemble at the Jubilee building entrance on campus at 14:45 on the day of the tour. Read more about Earthship Brighton.

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