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 1-5 1/6 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 1-5 12.15 – 13.15 Lunch 13.15 – 14.30 Parallel sessions 1-5 End of program 2/6 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. 3/6 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. 4/6 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. 5/6 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. 6/6