S01.01 - CATARSI: Cleaning, analyzing and visualizing techniques for textual data. An interactive workshop
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
SIG 12 - RM&RP - Research Methods and Research Practice
We propose an interactive symposium, where 10 participants will have the chance to test a beta version of a web based, user friendly, software platform, that integrates existing techniques for cleaning, analyzing and visualizing textual data (developed at UNIBO for CATARSI project). We will offer participants few dataset different for source and type of file. Ten scholars will bring their laptop and test the tool with our databases (70 minutes). A final round table among participants (20 min) will analyze the developed software platform to improve it. To register send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Contact: Luca Pareschi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Università di Bologna
Proponents: Luca Pareschi, Università di Bologna; Paolo Ferri, Università di Bologna; Ivan Heibi, Università di Bologna; Silvio Peroni, Università di Bologna
S01.03 - Lending and Equity Crowdfunding and traditional financial services: competition or coopetition
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
The Symposium aims to show the contribution of online-based crowdfunding platforms (lending and equity) to solve seekers’ financing gap (especially SMEs) during their life cycle, and to offer sustainable investment opportunities to capital providers (retail and professional). How can crowdfunding platforms cooperate with traditional financial services and in the future how can they offer better and sustainable services to seekers and capital providers, and at which level (international, domestic, civic)? How do seekers and providers behave in in making choices about lending and equity platforms, compared to other financing and investment channels?
Contact: Daniele Previati This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Department of Business Studies - Roma Tre University
Proponents: Daniele Previati, Department of Business Studies - Roma Tre University; Sharam Alijani, NEOMA Business School; Jérôme MERIC, University of Poitiers; Lucia Michela Daniele, University of Campania; Francesco Gangi, Università degli Studi della Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli, Department of Economics
Guest Speaker: Oliver Gajda from European Crowdfunding Network
S01.04 - Paradoxes of facts, fashion and Fado in the future of management
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
The facts about the future of management have yet to be socially constructed but the fashion trends are clear and they may well be an occasion for Fado on the part of certain management scholars, those for whom a humanistic appreciation of management as a discipline and a practice was always foremost. Humanism is on the retreat and the present cycle of managerial innovation sees a favouring of machine over human imagery (Abrhamsson and Eisenman, 2008) that has the potential of paradoxically being both as liberating for humanity as it is dehumanizing.
Contact: Stewart Clegg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. UTS
Proponents: Stewart Clegg, UTS; Miguel Cunha, Nova School of Business and Economics; Ace Simpson, University of Technology Sydney Business School; Marco Berti, University of Technology Sydney Business School; Medhanie Gaim, University of Umea Business School, Sweden; Sonia Oliviera, Nova School of Business and Economics
S01.06 - Social Innovation Pathways: From Ethical Engagement to Participative Democracy
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
The accelerating pace of technological change and innovation has had as a corollary a growing concern over social predicaments and societal and environmental dilemmas. In response to market failures and institutional shortcomings, social innovation has spread in policy, practice, and research with increasing impact on the economy and society. Faced with societal, ethical, environmental dilemmas, citizens, organizations and policy makers have engaged in actions to promote responsibility and participative democracy. This symposium aims to stimulate the debate on public and ethical engagement to foster social transformation and enhance responsibility and accountability.
Contact: Sharam Alijani This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. NEOMA Business School
Proponents: Sharam Alijani, NEOMA Business School; William Sun, Leeds Beckett University; Simon Robinson, Leeds Beckett University
S01.07 - The Business for Society Project: New Step
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
The project for the book series launched with RoutledgePublishings is to provide answers to a very simple question: what can business do for society? Said more precisely, how can companies, business ecosystems, interact with citizens and institutions to pursue common good and welfare? A business is an economic and social system, cooperative and conflictual at the same time, in which the coexistence of different actors with multiple and sometimes opposed expectations, requires a constant balance between economic goals and social responsibilities. The increasing complexity to address consists in the coexisting of multiple business functions, from economic organization of resources to an enlarged.
Contact: Rémi JARDAT This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. IRG - Université Paris Est
Proponents: Rémi JARDAT, IRG - Université Paris Est; Francesco Gangi, University of Campania; Jérôme MERIC, University of Poitiers; Lucia Michela Daniele, University of Campania; Corinne VERCHER, University Paris XIII; Pierre Baret, La Rochelle Business School; Alexandre Rambaud, AgroParisTech / CIRED / Université Paris-Dauphine.
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S01.08 - The management of human existential risk in our research and education. Should it be included?
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
SIG 02 - COGO - Corporate Governance
The education of managers has been traditionally focused on organising resouces within organisations to neglect organising resources between organisations. The extinction of natural resources for everyone from their short term over expolitation by a few organisations has long been recognised as "The tragedy of the commons". As identified by 2009 economic laurette Elinor Ostrom avoidence of such tradegies was systemically achieve in pre-modern societies by establishing enduring networks relationships she described as "polycentric compound republics". The knowledge of how to design, construct and manage such external relationship is not taught but is practiced by network governed firms to some degree.
Contact: Morten Huse This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. BI Norwegian Business School
Proponents: Shann Turnbull, International Institute for Self-governance; Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School; Muthu De Silva, Birkbeck, University of London
S01.09 - The Sharing and Collaborative Economy: The P2P business models, strategies and paradigms of innovation
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
SIG 13 - SM - Strategic Management
The symposium by the virtue of its peculiarity has addressed and continue to address the major issues which constitute the core discussions and management knowledge creation at the different EURAM conferences: Spontaneous orders of transactions through people, the proactive and reactive strategies of conventional organizations vis-à-vis the increasingly predominant P2P activities, P2P innovations, impacts on social innovation and businesses, migration involvement in transborder P2P interaction, etc. The core idea of this symposium is not dividing a fortune and distributing its portions among peers. The key concept rather refers to mutual interactions among peers without the intermediation of central hubs.
Contact: Djamchid Assadi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Burgundy School of Business BSB
Proponents: Djamchid Assadi, Burgundy School of Business BSB; Jérôme MERIC, IAE-University of Poitiers; Francesco Gangi, Università degli Studi della Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli, Department of Economics
Joan Enric RICART, Carl Schroeder Chair of Strategic Management, University of Navarra; Dirk Schneckenberg, ESC Rennes School of Business
S02.01 - Methodological challenges in Corporate Governance Research
SIG 02 - COGO - Corporate Governance
Knowledge creation in corporate governance is a double-edged sword, for multiple reasons: Research is interdisciplinary, addresses regional variations in governance norms and characteristics, and embraces both qualitative and quantitative designs. While this combination of features makes for a theoretically rich body of work, it also raises hurdles in the publication process. This symposium will help prospective authors better design the methodology of new governance studies. The session will explore common pitfalls regarding the methodology of governance journal submissions, and also provide recommendations for best practices. A content analysis of published governance studies will also be used to benchmark normative practices.
Contact: Daniel Yar Hamidi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Wolverhampton
Proponents: Daniel Yar Hamidi, University of Wolverhampton; Brian Boyd, City University of Hong Kong; Allesandro Zattoni, LUISS University and Business School; Craig Crossland, University of Notre Dame; Angelo Solarino, Leeds University Business School
S02.02 - SME governance, transitional growth states and board configurations in complex contexts.
SIG 02 - COGO - Corporate Governance
The symposium will engage in a dialog on how boards and governance mechanisms can adapt and develop to better contribute in achieving successful transitions in small and medium firms’ (SMEs’) growth states. Indeed, a large and growing literature relates to the governance of SMEs, with extensive debate over the value and contribution of firm governance and boards of directors and their roles in this context. Much of this debate considers board value from a static perspective. However, the question of board value governance contribution in SMEs is more complex when considered in circumstances of dynamic change.
Contact: Wafa Khlif This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Toulouse Business School Barcelona
Proponents: Wafa Khlif, Toulouse Business School Barcelona; Coral Ingley, AUT; Lotfi Karoui, EM Normandie; Eythor Jonsson, Copenhagen Business School
S05.02 - Preferred Leader Behavior, Gender, and Culture: Europe in Global Context
SIG 05 - GRDO - Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 07 - IM - International Management
The Center for Cross Cultural Comparisons is a consortium of researchers interested in business, management, and leadership across cultures. It has been operating since 1996, and has produced several dozen publications from studies of more than 50 samples across 23 countries. The results of these studies indicate that there is little or no differences in leader behavior preferences between genders across the national samples. The symposium will present study results and potential explanations for the lack of gender-related differences in preferences. This tranche of samples includes Iran and Syria, as well as European and global samples.
Contact: Romie Littrell This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. National Research University-Higher School of Economics-Saint Petersburg
Proponents: Romie Littrell, National Research University-Higher School of Economics-Saint Petersburg; Yaghoub Ahmadi, Payamenoor University Sanandaj Center; Inga Minelgaite, University of Iceland Reykjavik; Gillian Warner-Søderholm, BI Norway; Anca Gaidos, Fundatia Noi Orizonturi/ New Horizons Foundation
S06.02 - Collaboration in core and peripheral regions: symmetry, asymmetry, complementarity and competition
SIG 06 - INNO - Innovation
The launch of European Research Area was driven by the increasing awareness that the innovative capacity of regional economies can be strengthened by the transnational cooperation and competition. In the last decades, several programmes have been introduced in order to encourage interregional and interorganizational collaborations in order to foster processes of interactive knowledge generation and diffusion. Thus, collaboration is a complex and multi-faceted topic requiring to be more deeply explored. This symposium aims at stimulating the debate on how collaborations can be supported inside and outside the regions and how collaborations can reduce the gap between core and peripheral regions.
Contact: Luigi Orsi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Milan
Proponents: Luigi Orsi, University of Milan; Andrea Ganzaroli, University of Milan; Ivan De Noni, University of Brescia; Dirk Fornahl, Universität Bremen, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung und Wirtschaftspolitik; Michaela Trippl, University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research; Fiorenza Belussi, University of Padua; Bodo Steiner, University of Helsinki
S06.03 - Institutional work and legitimation – exploring theoretical connections and practical implications for innovation management
SIG 06 - INNO - Innovation
This symposium puts forward the guiding principles of the concepts legitimization, Institutional work and innovation. With three impulse presentations as a foundation, the symposium aims to establish and enable an interdisciplinary discourse on the foundations, the integrability and possible usefulness of combinations of the three current concepts in service and innovation management.
Contact: Julia Jonas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Proponents: Julia Jonas, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Katrien Verleye, Ghent University
S06.04 - Recent Applications of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA)
SIG 06 - INNO - Innovation
SIG 12 - RM&RP - Research Methods and Research Practice
Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) is a novel methodology, recently published in Organizational Research Methods. The method has already been applied in fields such as innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, organizational behaviour, and human resource management. Given the novelty of the method the goal of this symposium is twofold:
1. Give a platform to researchers who apply NCA to present their ongoing projects.
2. Support researchers who have started or intend to apply NCA and help them to develop this towards a publication.
Contact: Sven Hauff , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Helmut Schmidt University
Proponents: Sven Hauff, Helmut Schmidt University; Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management; Florence Allard-Poesi , Université Paris-Est; Nicole Franziska Richter, University of Southern Denmark
S07.01 - Famous Scholars in Expatriate Management: Women in Academia
SIG 07 - IM - International Management
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
Building on the very successful 2017 and 2018 symposia in Glasgow and Reykjavik, this year we engage with five famous scholars about 'Women in Academia'. Come hear how successful woman have juggled the many demands of work and home life and climbed the ladder to success. This promises to be an honest account of what has worked for these women and what has not. We will draw on personal experiences about resources and support that have been most helpful. Panelists include Marion Festing (Germany), Paula Caligiuri (USA), Helen De Cieri (Australia), Mila Lazarova (Canada), and Vlad Vaiman (USA).
Contact: Jan Selmer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Aarhus University
Proponents: Jan Selmer, Aarhus University; Yvonne McNulty, Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore)
S07.02 - Management Lives in Portuguese-Speaking Countries: Fado, Samba, Morna, Kuduro, and more
SIG 07 - IM - International Management
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
Following the call for an institutional and culturally situated management research (Adsit, London, Crom, & Jones, 1997; Hofstede, 1993), the present proposal challenges scholars to submitt works focusing on the emic or ethic cultural issues of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (PSC) including, but not limited, Brazil (Samba), Portugal (Fado), Cape Verde (Morna), Angola and Mozambique. Some historical perspective studies relating to Managing in PSCs are also welcomed (e.g., Lopes, 2014). There are over 200 Million Portuguese-Speaking people all over the world and the Portuguese is currently the most spoken language in the southern hemisphere. We thus invite you to join this exciting forum of promising research.
Contact: Miguel Lopes This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Proponents: Miguel Lopes, University of Lisbon (Portugal); Lilian Wanderley, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
S09.01 - Careers between Fado and choices
SIG 09 - OB - Organizational Behaviour
Recent career studies have emphasized the role of individual proactive behaviors in shaping career paths. The research attention has followed trends in employment relationships that have become shorter and more flexible, suggesting that traditional conceptualizations of careers as ‘a job for life’, with ‘upward’ mobility as the main indicator of success, are obsolete.
However, structured organization-directed career paths appear still to be common in highly professionalized contexts, such as the healthcare. This symposium will showcase empirical studies from different professional contexts to derive insights, interactively with the audience, about the contextualization of some of the dominant career themes and constructs.
Contact: Silvia Dello Russo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ISCTE-IUL
Proponents: Silvia Dello Russo, ISCTE-IUL; Daniele Mascia, University of Bologna; Irene Gabutti, Catholic University of Sacred Heart
S09.02 - Organizational Design and Agility: implications for society, business and environment
SIG 09 - OB - Organizational Behaviour
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
Previous management research generated tremendous insights about how to structure, plan, create, organize, maintain and improve processes, procedures, and routines. But we know very little when it comes to de-organize, create simpler from complex structures, isolate and debunk unnecessary routines, reduce bureaucracy to functional levels, for example. However, today's organizations are required to move toward more agile, flexible and adaptive forms. Hence this symposium focuses on agile organizations and the outcomes of agility for society at large. Particularly relevant to this topic are the consequences arising from organizational change in response to economic, social and environmental issues.
Contact: Fabian Homberg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. LUISS University
Proponents: Fabian Homberg, LUISS University ; Dinuka Herath, University of Huddersfield; Sharam Alijani, NEOMA Business School; Christopher Worley, Pepperdine University
S11.01 - Transparency, sustainability, anticorruption and fraud screening: best practices and misbehaviors
SIG 11 - PM&NPM - Public and Non-Profit Management
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
This symposium explores the managerial and economic consequences of transparency, sustainability and the screening on frauds, corruption and organized crime. More in general, researches on both best practices and corporate misbehaviors are welcome. Although prior research has established a positive association between best practices and financial performances and a negative association between misbehaviors and economic growth there is the need to better understand what are the potential channels through which good and bad practices affect managerial design and economic outcomes, both at the firm level and at the country level.
Contact: Giacomo Boesso This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Padova
Proponents: Giacomo Boesso, University of Padova; Michele Fabrizi, University of Padova
S13.01 - Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Penrose's 1959 seminal book 'A theory of the growth of the firm'
SIG 13 - SM - Strategic Management
SIG 07 - IM - International Management
Penrose's 1959 book is probably the 1st book on corporate strategy and development and perhaps the most seminal one. It challenges the then dominant view that her fellow economists had of a static optimal firm size and scope, and introduces a continuous growing firm based on managerial learning and perceptions of the fungible services that its resources can render to serve productive opportunities. It is appropriate that for the 2019 EURAM conference exploring the future of management, we celebrate its 60 years, take stock of what we have learned since and explore the future challenges of corporate development.
Contact: Xavier Castaner This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Lausanne
Proponents: Xavier Castaner, University of Lausanne; Jay Anand, Ohio State University; Jay Barney, University of Utah, Pierre Dussauge, HEC Paris; Samina Karim, Northeastern University; Christos Pitelis, Brunel University
S13.02 - Ecosystems in Management Research – Current and Future research
SIG 13 - SM - Strategic Management
SIG 06 - INNO - Innovation
Policymakers, businesses and individuals are actively searching for ways to increase innovation at all levels of society including individuals, firms, industries, nations, and regions. It is where various ecosystem concepts of ‘business-’, ‘knowledge-’, ’innovation-’ and ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ come into play. Despite the increasing research interest, many scholars still find the theoretical foundations of ecosystems unclear. That is why this session will be highly interactive with panelists and participants working together in small roundtable groups to develop a preliminary research agenda that combines individual members’ research interests with the aim of forming a global research network for follow up collaboration.
Contact: Agnieszka Radziwon, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Aarhus University
Proponents: Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey; Marcel Bogers, University of Copenhagen; Yongjiang Shi, University of Cambridge; Ke Rong, Tsinghua University; Agnieszka Radziwon, Aarhus University; Laurent Scaringella, Rennes Business School; Marcin Baron, University of Economics in Katowice
S14.01 - Conducting abductive studies: Moving from data to interpretation to theory
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
SIG 12 - RM&RP - Research Methods and Research Practice
There has been a surge of interest in abduction as a method in management research in recent years, yet many scholars are unfamiliar with abduction as it is not part of the standard instruction at Ph.D. programs. The aim of the symposium is to de-mystify how abduction differs from induction and deduction and to demonstrate how this approach can be used to enrich theorizing. Panelists will engage in a lively discussion of how abduction has been used in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies, and stimulate audience members to think about how abduction might be relevant for their own research.
Contact: Ralitza Nikolaeva This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nazarbayev University
Proponents: Ralitza Nikolaeva, Nazarbayev University; Marlys Christianson, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Peter Bamberger, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University
S14.02 - Employer and Regional Readiness for Refugees’ Labour Market Integration
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
SIG 06 - INNO - Innovation
Current research on refugees’ labour market integration gives emphasis to aspects that relate to the individual level while neglecting the organizational and the regional level. Given that, this symposium focuses on employer readiness and regional readiness. It builds on thematically relevant outcomes of the EU-funded project RIAC – Regional Integration Accelerators and illuminates good practices from regions in Germany, Italy and Turkey. The underlying question is: Which are the driving forces for an accelerated labour market integration on organizational and regional level? Scholars outline their research findings in tandems with practitioners who give insights into their challenging integration projects.
Contact: Uta Wilkens This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Proponents: Uta Wilkens, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum; Ruth Orenstrat, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Vanessa Vaughn, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Amira Bieber, Pro Arbeit Kreis Offenbach; Dr. Luciara Nardon, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University; Betina Szkudlarek, The University of Sydney
S14.05 - Putting a price on trust and distrust
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
SIG 01 - B4S - Business for Society
In an uncertain world, where trust in institutions, nations, and organisations is under severe pressure, the individual in our society seems to find hold in more tangible things that it can attribute a constant value to, i.e. monetary price. A price can function as the assurance of the reliability and quality of the individual’s choice. This symposium intends to address research from various disciplines on the question how and in what ways trust and money correlate. Our objective is to discuss the mechanisms behind this correlation and how money influences trust-based decision-making processes of individuals, groups and organisations.
Contact: Kristina von Gehlen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Muenster
Proponents: Kristina von Gehlen, University of Muenster; Shay Tzafrir, University of Haifa; Laliv Egozi, University of Haifa
S14.06 - Resilience; Facts, Fashion and Fado in Organisational Research
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
SIG 10 - PO - Project Organizing
Resilience is necessary to face the increasing trend of stressors/shocks impacting organizational performance. The objectives are to explore: (i) what are the perspectives of resilience across the individual, team, organizational, and project levels? (ii) can the key lessons learned about resilience from other disciplines (psychological, ecology, engineering) be applied in organizational studies? and (iii) what areas of resilience require further research in organizational theory? This symposium addresses these questions through an expert elucidation method, encouraging a panel of experts and the audience to share their knowledge on resilience to derive a holistic understanding of interdisciplinary formulations of the resilience concept.
Contact: Nader Naderpajouh This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. RMIT University
Proponents: Nader Naderpajouh, RMIT University; Christina Scott-Young, RMIT University; Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University; Igor Linkov, Carnegie Mellon University/US Army Engineer Research and Development Center; Michelle Turner, RMIT University; Naomi Borg, Montlaur Project Services; Lynn Keeys, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Young Hoon Kwak, George Washington University; Tracy Hatton, Resilient Organisations Ltd
