Program 2015

Venue: Clarion Hotel & Congress Trondheim
Time: 25 – 26 August, 2015
Program
Tuesday August 25th
09.30 – 10.00 Registration for the conference
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome to Trondheim by Dean Espen Gressetvold, Trondheim Business School
10.15 - 11.15
“The travel from the beginning to the end … “
What you should and should not …
Speakers: Professor Barbara Czarniawska, Gothenburg University
& Professor Frode Mellemvik, Handelshøgskolen i Bodø/Universitetet i Nordland
11.15- 11.30
Coffee break
11.30-12.30
«The travel from the beginning to the end ...”
“The importance of networking and how to do it …”
Speakers: Professor Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe NHH
& Professor John Burns, University of Exeter
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30- 15.15
Parallel sessions
1: Strategy and Management
2: Marketing and International Business
3: Management Science
4: Economics/Finance
5: Accounting and Management Control
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee break with refreshments
15.30 – 17.00 Parallel sessions continues
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17.00 – 18.00 Parallel workshops and supervisor meeting:
1. Quantitative research (Associate Professor Tor Georg Jakobsen, TBS)
- Special and innovative focus on applied research using statistics
2. Qualitative research (PhD student Per Christian Ahlgren, TBS
- Innovative data collection strategies in qualitative research: some thoughts on conducting
intensive field studies in PhD-projects.
3. Econometrics (Professor Sjur Westgård, NTNU)
- Quantitative and Empirical Methods in Finance - New Research Topics
18.40
Bus departure from the hotel
19.00 – 19.30 Reception at Trondheim Business School
19.30
Dinner at Trondheim Business School
Wednesday August 26th
09.00 – 10.30 “Academic writing – How to publish?”
Panel debate with three editors of scientific journals:
Scandinavian Journal of management, Editor Hans Hasselbladh, Örebro University
Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Editor John Burns, Exeter
Business School
Journal of Commodity Markets, Editor Sjur Westgård, NTNU
10.30 – 10.40 Coffee break
10.40 – 11.00 Plenary session for PhD students
11.00 – 12.15 Parallel sessions
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12.15 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.30 Parallel sessions
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End of program
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Keynote speakers and workshop leaders
Barbara Czarniawska
Barbara Czarniawska holds an MA in Social and Industrial Psychology
from Warsaw University and a Ph.D.in Economic Sciences from
Warsaw School of Economics. She is Doctor honoris causa at
Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, and
Helsinki School of Economics.
At present, she is Torsten & Ragnar Söderberg Professor of
Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, School of
Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In
her research she applies a constructivist perspective on organizing,
with the focus on action nets. Her methodological interests concern fieldwork techniques and the
narrative approach in social science studies.
Latest publications in English and Swedish: Coping with Excess (ed. with Orvar Löfgren, 2013); Social
Science Research From Field to Desk (Ute på fältet, inne vid skrivbordet, 2014), and A Theory of
Organizing (En teori om organisering, 2014/2015).
Frode Mellemvik
Frode Mellemvik is Director of the High North Center for Business and
Governance and Professor at Bodø Graduate School of Business,
University of Nordland. Mellemvik is Doctor Oecon, and has written
many books and articles associated with the fields of accounting,
management, government, education, research and industry
cooperation, and on topics related High North. He has worked at
academic institutions in Europe and the United States, and is
Honorary Doctor and Honorary Professor at several universities.
Mellemvik has also in practice worked with leadership and
management, and has been rector at Bodø University College
(University of Nordland) for 10 years. He has participated in several
boards and councils. Currently he is for instance in the board of the European Accounting
Association, the board of Comparative International Government Accounting Research, the board of
Center for High North Logistics, the board of Innovation Norway Nordland, chairman of the board of
Helgeland Hospital, chairman of the board of the research programme Petrosam 2 at Norwegian
Research Council, the board of the Norwegian - Ukrainian Camber of Commerce, the Council for the
Norwegian - Russian Camber of Commerce. Mellemvik has also participated in several Ministry
committees, and was a member of the Norwegian Government's expert committee for the High
North, and chairman of the Norwegian Government’s High North Council.
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Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe
Professor Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe at NHH-Norwegian School of
Economics, Bergen holds an MBA and a PhD in marketing from NHH
and a MS in sociology from the University of Bergen, where she was
research assistant at the pioneering Institute for Women Studies in
Norway. Kleppe has extensive international experience from
universities in Canada, USA, Sweden, and Australia. She has also
worked in the World Bank, has been elected member of the Bergen
City Council, and was a prominent member of the activist group
initiating Women’s refugee centers in Norway in the late 1970s. She
has held managing positions at NHH and was for many years leader of the board for The Norwegian
National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO). Kleppe has taken her interdisciplinary and
international experience into her research. Currently she is doing research on public health activism
in Sub-Saharan Africa and pioneering research on the collaborative economy. Kleppe has also
published on gender, family decision making, and international marketing. Kleppe teaches on topics
in social media marketing, the collaborative economy, and qualitative research methods.
John Burns
John Burns joined Exeter Business School in 2010, before which he
has also held academic positions at Dundee University, the University
of Colorado and Manchester University. Broadly, his research
interests include: organisational change, strategic management,
sustainable business practice, new product development and design,
and management accounting. He adopts processual methodology,
uses qualitative research methods, and frequently draws on
institutional or structuration theory to ‘unpack’ and make sense of his
empirical findings. John’s publications have appeared in journals such
as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organization
Studies, Management Accounting Research, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical
Perspectives on Accounting, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, and European
Accounting Review; and he has also published numerous practitioner-oriented works for professional
accountancy bodies such as CIMA and ICAEW. He is also the lead-author of a management
accounting textbook, published by McGraw-Hill. John is co-Editor of Qualitative Research in
Accounting and Management, and ex- Associate Editor for both Management Accounting Research
and Accounting and Business Research. He is the co-founder of the ‘European Network for Research
of Organisational and Accounting Change‘ (ENROAC), a network that has enjoyed 9 international
conferences and 7 doctoral summer schools since its formation in 1998. Finally, John has been a
member of CIMA’s Research Board since 2000, and is a Visiting Professor at Trondheim Business
School.
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Tor Georg Jakobsen
Tor Georg Jakobsen is an Associate Professor at Trondheim Business
School. He received his Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2011. His research interests
include political behavior, peace research, and the study of ethnic
relations. Jakobsen has authored and co-authored articles in, among
others, European Sociological Review, Work, Employment and
Society, and International Journal on Minority and Group Rights.
Per Christian Ahlgren
Per Christian Ahlgren is a PhD Student in management accounting and
control at Trondheim Business School. His research interests are
oriented at understanding accounting in its social and organizational
context. His is now working on a research project concerning the role
of accounting and development of control practices in interorganizational relations across administrative levels of the Norwegian
health sector. His theoretical interests are within economic sociology
and actor-network theory.
Hans Hasselbladh
Hans Hasselbladh, professor in organization at Örebro University,
Sweden. His research interests are institutional change, reforms,
professions and power. Since January 2015 he is the editor-in-chief of
Scandinavian Journal of Management.
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Sjur Westgaard
Sjur Westgaard is MSc and Phd in Industrial Economics from
Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a MSc in
Finance from Norwegian School of Business and Economics. He has
worked as an investment portfolio manager for an insurance
company, a project risk manager for a consultant company and as a
credit analyst for an international bank. His is now a Professor at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology and an Adjunct
Professor at the Norwegian Center of Commodity Market Analysis
UMB Business School. His teaching involves corporate finance, derivatives and real options, empirical
finance and commodity markets. His main research interests are within risk modelling of commodity
markets and he has been a project manager for two energy research projects involving power
companies and the Norwegian Research Council. He has also an own consultancy company running
executive courses and software implementations for energy companies. Part of this work is done
jointly with Montel.
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