Parallel Track Sessions I

Track 1 - Business & Society General Track (1)

Chairman: Julienne Brabet (Université Paris Est Créteil)
Discussant: Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University)

Competitive session

• Dark Side Of Business: Criminal Firms And External Control Of Resources In The Public Sector Domain
  Ernesto De Nito, Paolo Canonico, Stefano Consiglio, Gianluigi Mangia
• International Framework Agreements And Transnational Social Regulation - A Case Study In The French Context
  Corinne Vercher, Amelie Seignour
• Polanyi Reloaded - A Historical Perspective On The Relationship Between Corporate Responsibility And The Welfare-State
  Anselm Schneider

Track 5 - Corporate Governance General Track (1)

Chairman: Alessandro Zattoni (Bocconi University)
Discussant: Roland Koenigsgruber (Graz University)

Competitive session

• Best paper nominee: Diffusion Of Corporate Governance Practices: The Dutch Response To Pressures For Shareholder Value
  Pieter-Jan Bezemer, Edward Zajac, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, Henk Volberda
• Best paper nominee: Are Private Equity Investors Governance Champions Or Simply Stock Picking Specialists?
  Marc Steffen Rapp, Matthias Kroker, Michael Wolff
• Corporate Governance, Environmental Sustainability And National Institutional Dimensions
  Natalia Ortiz-De-Mandojana, Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, Francisco López-Martínez
• Does Corporate Governance Matter After All? An Investigation On Its Relationship With The Value Of Canadian Firms
  Eloisa Perez-De-Toledo

Track 6 - Behavioural perspectives on boards of directors (1)

Chairman: Michael Ruess (Jacobs University)
Discussant: Karolien Hendrikx (Hasselt University)

Competitive session

• A Tale Of Two Stakeholder Factions At The Upper Echelon: Exploring The Relationship Between Factional Groups, Conflict Management, And Board Effectiveness
  Niels Hermes, Dennis Veltrop, Theo Postma, Jakob De Haan
• The Taming Of The Shrew? German Supervisory Board Chairpersons’ Casting Vote And Its Transformation Through Practice
  Thomas Steger
• Toward A Behavioral Theory Of Boards: Identifying And Assessing The Severity Of Directors’ Conflict Of Interests
  Emiliano Di Carlo, Silvia Testarmata
• Is There A Dark Side Of Disclosure? - A Panel Data Network Analysis Of German Director Compensation
  Maximilian Sarry, Jana Oehmichen, Michael Wolff

Track 9 - Governance in public and non profit organizations: systems, mechanisms and roles (1)

Chairman: Alessandro Hinna & Luca Gnan (University Of Rome Tor Vergata)
Discussant: Fabio Monteduro (University Of Rome Tor Vergata)

Competitive session

• The Role Of Boards Of Directors In The Innovation Of State-Owned Companies
  Andrea Calabrò, Mariateresa Torchia, Marina Brogi
• From Incentive Regulation To Incentive Channeling - The Case Of Energy Markets
  Klaus Heine

Track 11 - Gender Equality And Diversity In Management General Track (1)

Chairman: Beverly Metcalfe (University Of Manchester)
Discussant: Jawad Syed (University Of Kent)

Competitive session

• Developing And Globalizing Women’s Union Leadership Via A Cross-National Exchange Programme
  Gill Kirton, Geraldine Healy, Sally Alvarez, Mary Gatta, Risa Lieberwitz, Heather Mckay
• An Exploratory Study Of Sexual Harassment In Pakistani Organisations
  Faiza Ali, Robin Kramar
• Same Choices, Same Sacrifice? Examining The Limits To Gender Equality In ‘high Status’ Professional Careers
  Louise Ashley
• Diversity Among Women Entrepreneurs: From Strategic Planner To Bricoleur
  Andrea Buehrmann, Katrin Hansen

Track 13 - Innovation General Track (2)

Chairman: José Angel Zúñiga-Vicente (Madrid Rey Juan Carlos University)

Competitive session

• The Role Of Training To Innovate In SMEs
  Petra De Saa-Perez, Nieves Díaz-Díaz, José Luis Ballesteros
• Participation Of Catalan SMEs To Free Libre Open Source Software Communities
  Michail Batikas, Miquel Oliver, Esteve Almirall
• The Role Of Emotions In The Organizational Innovation Process
  Fabiano Mauri, Fatima Cristina Bacellar
• Exploration Orientation Within And Across Intra-Organizational Domains And Its Reaction To Firm-Level Failure
  Peiran Su, Peter Mc Namara

Track 13 - Innovation General Track (1)

Chairman: José Angel Zúñiga-Vicente (Madrid Rey Juan Carlos University)

Competitive session

• Innovation Contests: A Review, Critique And Future Research Directions
  Sabrina Adamczyk, Angelika C. Bullinger, Kathrin Moeslein
• Innovation Through Online Communities: A Conceptual Model To Assess The Effects Of Reward Size On Motivation And Contributions
  Oguz Ali Acar, Jan Van Den Ende
• Has The Opportunity Been Seized? Analysing The Level Of Entrepreneurship, Innovativeness And Performance
  Wojciech Dyduch, Mariusz Bratnicki, Kozlowska Izabella
• Mechanisms For Leveraging, Appropriating And Creating Value From Innovation: A Meta-Analytic Mediational Model
  Jose Manuel Hurtado Gonzalez, Angel Salazar, Duysters Geert

Track 17 - Innovation in Chinese firms (1)

Chairman: Dimitri Assimakopoulos (Grenoble Ecole De Management, Linc Lab)
Discussant: Y. Li (Technical University Of Denmark)

Competitive session

• Knowledge, Status And Performance: A Study Of Young Chinese Firms
  James Robins, Yi Jia Low
• High-Tech Ventures’ Innovation In China: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective On Institutional Voids
  Yipeng Liu

Track 22 - International Management General Track (1)

Chairman: Rian Drogendijk (Uppsala University)
Discussant: Jasmin Mahadevan (Pforzheim University)

Competitive session

• Culture In The 21st Century: Four Propositions
  Tony Fang
• Culture, Language And Miscommunication: A Cross-Cultural Study
  Markus G Kittler
• The Intercultural Adjustment U-Curve Model: An Exploratory Analysis
  Heidi Wechtler, Olivier Wurtz
• Organizations As Multilingual Communities: a Micro-Level Study 0f Language Influences on Parallel Processes of Task Coordination and Social Relations
  Chi-Yun Chavi Chen, Paul Jackson

Track 23 - International human resource management in 21st century organisations (1)

Chairman: Emma Parry (Cranfield School Of Management)
Discussant: Mila Lazarova (Simon Fraser University)

Competitive session

• Aligning Business, Knowledge Management, and HRM Strategies: A Knowledge-Based View
  Fida Afiouni
• ICT And Knowledge Sharing In MNCs: The Role Of Media Richness, Uncertainty Avoidance, And Common Language Use
  Anders Klitmøller
• Impact Of Leadership On Innovation Orientation
  Lis Strenger, Malte Brettel
• An Examination Of How Individual Conflict Handling Style And Confucianism Affect The Tendency Of Acquiescent Response In Trainer Evaluation
  Hsien Chun Chen, I-Heng Chen, Yi-Chieh Chen, Anyi Chung, Ying-Tzu Lin, Amber Yun-Ping Lee

Track 24 - Expatriate Management: New Domains, New Insights (1)

Chairman: Jan Selmer (Aarhus University)
Discussant: Jan Selmer (Aarhus University)

Competitive session

• An Analysis Of Potential Contributions Of The Host Country National Local Liaison Role In Global Knowledge Management
  Torben Andersen, Charles Vance, Vlad Vaiman, Jeffrey Gale
• Divergence From The Normative Foreign Subsidiary Staffing
  Naoki Ando
• Expatriate Accompanying Partners: The Males Speak
  Nina Cole
• Business Expatriates Adjusting to France vs. Germany
  Jan Selmer, Jakob Lauring

Track 25 - Mergers and acquisitions – Modern melting pots of cultures? (1)

Chairman: Susan Cartwright (University Of Lancaster)
Discussant: Audrey Rouzies (University Of Toulouse)

Competitive session

• The Process Matters From Beginning To End A Process And Actor Perspective To M&As
  Mélanie Raukko
• Acquisitions In Knowledge-Intensive Industries: Exploring The Distinguishing Characteristics Of The Effective Acquirer
  Angelo Riviezzo
• Bridging Troubled Waters? A Comparative Analysis of The Project and M&A Literatures
  Satu Teerikangas, Joana Geraldi

Track 26 - Knowledge & Learning Management General Track (1)

Chairman: Allan Macpherson (De Montfort University)
Discussant: Ricardo Chiva (Castello Jaume 1 University)

Competitive session

• Organizing For Knowing And Learning In The Flesh
  Christian Gärtner
• Dialogue And The Poetics Of Pedagogical Space
  Andrew Armitage
• Borregaaard-Working Through Paradoxes In Times Of Change-The Roles Of Middle Mananers And Sensemaking
  Carsten Syvertsen, Johan Olaisen

Track 27 - Dynamic Capabilities: Theoretical Approaches And Practical Applications (1)

Chairman: Ralf Wilden (Sydney University Of Technology)
Discussant: Ralf Wilden (Sydney University Of Technology)

Competitive session

• Knowledge Acquisition As A Dynamic Capability For Managing Exploratory Innovation From External Or Internal Knowledge Sources
  Alexander Alexiev, Henk Volberda, Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
• Knowledge Strategic Movements Under Environmental Dynamism Conditions: A Conceptual Framework And An Empirical Test
  Evangelia Siachou, Anthony Ioannidis
• From Capability Development To Dynamic Capability
  Taina Eriksson, Mari Ketolainen

Track 28 - Organizational Ambidexterity: Extending Theory With Qualitative Approaches (1)

Chairman: Stefan Konlechner (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Competitive session

• The relationship between structural and contextual ambidexterity at industrial SBUs
  Silja Korhonen-Sande
• Adapting The Fit To Survive: On The Role Of HRM Systems In Managing Ambidextrous Organizations
  Hubert Lackner, Christian Garaus, Wolfgang H. Güttel, Nina Katrin Hansen, Stefan W. Konlechner, Barbara Müller

Track 30 - Project Organizing General Track (1)

Chairman: Miia Martinsuo (Tampere University Of Technology)
Discussant: Hans Georg Gemünden (TU Berlin)

Competitive session

• Maximising Strategic Value From Megaprojects: The Influence Of Information-Feed On Decision-Making By The Project Manager
  Rodney Turner, John Eweje, Ralf Müller
• Assessing The Product-Architecture Decision About Product Features—a Real-Options Approach
  Marc Wouters, Mark Workum, Paul Hissel
• Investment Project As An Internal Corporate Venture
  Elisa Vuori, Karlos Artto, Liisa Sallinen
• The Application Of Value Improving Practices: Team Integration Pays Off!
  Marian Bosch-Rekveldt, Jeroen Smith, Herman Mooi, Hans Bakker, Alexander Verbraeck

Track 37 - Research Methods & Research Practice General Track (1)

Chairman: Edoardo Mollona (Università Degli Studi Di Bologna)

Competitive session

• Improving Management And Tools For Project Performance In Software Development: A System Dynamics Approach
  Stefano Armenia, Massimilianoi Schiraldi, Diego Falsini, Daniele Canini
• How do System Dynamic Models (SD) Capture Path Dependent and Complex Evolutionary Behaviour in Social Science Analysis?
  Edoardo Mollona
• Simulation With System Dynamics: Insights And Potentialities
  Giulia Solinas

Track 38 - Sport As A Business General Track (1)

Chairman: Harald Dolles & Sten Söderman (University Of Gothenburg & Stockholm University)
Discussant: Harald Dolles & Sten Söderman (University Of Gothenburg & Stockholm University)

Competitive session

• Flower That Withered Before Blooming: A Case Study Of Indian Cricket League (icl)
  C Lakshman, Manzoom Akhter
• "We do the Football, you do the Rest": Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Through Partnerships in Sport
  Christos Anagnostopoulos, Geoff Walters
• The Need to Re-Label and Re-Examine the CSR and Sport Relationship
  Roger Levermore

Track 39 - Strategic Management General Track (2)

Chairman: Shahzad Ansari (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Discussant: Henk Volberda (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)

Competitive session

• Measurements And Performance Consequences Of Managerial Innovation
  Fariborz Damanpour, Deepa Aravind
• Management Innovation And Strategic Competitiveness
  Elham Metwally
• Understanding The Relationship Between Managment Innovation And Financial Performance And Reputation
  Patrick Reinmoeller, Jan Van Dalen, Boudewijn Elsenburg
• TMT Processes as Antecedents of Management Innovation: the Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity
  Oli Mihalache, Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, Henk Volberda

Track 39 - Strategic Management General Track (1)

Chairman: Thomas Keil (Aalto University)
Discussant: Niels Noorderhaven (Tilburg University)

• Implementing Acquirers’ Synergistic Intent: Cost Reduction, Revenue Enhancement And Bilateral Interactions With The Target
  Xavier Castañer, Samina Karim
• The Combined Effect Of Internal And External Alliance Capabilities On Portfolio Peformance: Complements Or Substitutes?
  Brian Tjemkes, Dennis J.B. Van Eerden, Paul W.L. Vlaar
• Alliance Network The Creation Of Recombination Rents: External And Internal Fit Of The Network - Sub-Track A
  Massimiliano Pellegrini

Track 40 - Cross Cultural Leadership Research: Contrasting Worldly And Global Perspectives (1)

Chairman: Doris Jepson (Bristol Business School)
Discussant: Gareth Edwards (Bristol Business School)

Competitive session

• Leadership, Identity And Sense-Making Within The Iron Cage Of Cultural Complexity
  Ken Parry, Nezar Faris
• Worldliness And Cross Cultural Leadership Theory And Research: The Importance Of History And The Relative Unimportance Of Geography
  Gareth Edwards
• From Cross-Cultural To Intercultural Leadership Studies
  Doris Jepson

Track 44 - Organizational Behavior: New Frontiers In The 21st Century (1)

Chairman: Fernando Olivera (Ivey Business School)
Discussant: Alessandro Hinna (University Of Rome Tor Vergata)

Competitive session

• Organizational Commitment: A Profile Analysis
  Zoe Dimitriades
• Art As Status Behavior In And Of Organisations
  Claudia Schnugg, Johannes Lehner

Track 44 - Organizational Behavior: New Frontiers In The 21st Century (2)

Chairman: Pieter Grobler
Discussant: Shainaz Firfiray (IE Business School)

Competitive session

• Getting Off The Rat Race - Career Transition, Downshifting And Work-Life Balance
  Pia Heilmann
• Why Come Into Work Ill? Individual And Organizational Factors Underlying Presenteeism
  Alison Collins, Susan Cartwright
• Antecedents Of Wor-Life Involvement In Work-Life Issues: Institutional Pressures, Efficiency Gains Or Both?
  Susana Pasamar, Ramón Valle
• Exploring Flexibility: Dynamics And Organizational Choices From Italian Case
  Danila Scarozza, Marta Trotta, Alessandro Hinna, Maurizio Decastri