45th ANPAD Annual Meeting
EnANPAD 2021

Theme of keynote presentation: Leading inclusive organizations and societies

Quinetta Roberson - the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Management and Psychology at Michigan State University. Prior to her current position, Professor Roberson was an endowed chair at Villanova University and a tenured professor at Cornell University. She has also been a visiting scholar at universities worldwide and served as Program Director of the Science of Organizations at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She currently serves as President of the Academy of Management (AOM) (2020-2021). 

A diversity, inclusion and recruitment strategy consultant, she has more than 15 years of experience in the Human Resources field at a leading energy company in North America. A diversity and inclusion professional for over six years, Rose has led a number of initiatives aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion at her company, both in Canada and the United States. She currently manages the University Recruitment program aimed at the minority, including women, indigenous people, black people, people with disabilities, and immigrants. Rose also developed and implemented the company's Inclusion Learning program, with online and face-to-face courses for employees and leaders. Prior to that, Rose spent more than 8 years as a development learning consultant at Enbridge, responsible for the Corporate University, managing the organization's leadership and business faculties.

Professor in public management at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where she coordinates the PhD program track in Public Management & Governance. Her main research interests are in the areas of collaborative governance (networks and coproduction), cutback management, and strategic performance management. In 2017 she has edited the Routledge Handbook of Global public policy and administration. She has been board member of the IRSPM (2011-2017) and chair of the EURAM SIG on Public Management (since 2009). She is member of the editorial committees of the Public Management Review and the International Journal on Public Sector Performance Management.

Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation, Founding Director of the Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) and Co-Director of Research at the School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK. Professor Dwivedi is also currently leading the International Journal of Information Management as its Editor-in-Chief. His research interests are at the interface of Information Systems (IS) and Marketing, focusing on issues related to consumer adoption and diffusion of emerging digital innovations, digital government, and digital and social media marketing particularly in the context of emerging markets. 

Theme of keynote presentation: How the Circular Economy is changing the supply chains of the future.

Professor of Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, and also a co-leader of the Sustainable Production and Consumption research cluster at the Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University, UK. Over the last ten years he has focused his overarching research area on Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management, in particular, the exploration of the Circular Economy principles in manufacturing and supply chains. He has a vested interest in ensuring the achievement of the triple sustainability objectives: ‘doing good for people, planet and profit’.

Theme of keynote presentation: Opening Opportunities at Work: An Evidence Based Approach to Fighting Systemic Bias

Alexandra Kalev received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University.Kalev’s research examines the ways organizational, legal, economic and cultural dynamics shape gender, racial and ethnic diversity at work. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly and Law and Social Inquiry, among others. She was the 2010 recipient of the Richard W. Scott outstanding contribution to scholarship award from the Organizations, Occupations and Work section of the American Sociological Association.

Theme of keynote presentation: Predictive assessment and model selection in PLS-SEM and SmartPLS 3

Chaired Professor of Management and the Director of the Institute of Human Resource Management and Organizations at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Adjunct Professor of the Waikato Management School, New Zealand. His research addresses human resource management, organization, marketing, strategic management, and quantitative methods for business and market research. Ringle’s contributions in these fields have been published in leading journals and since 2018, he has been included in the Clarivate Analytics' Highly Researchers list. Ringle is co-developer of SmartPLS, which has become the leading statistical software for partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).

Theme of keynote presentation: Firm Resources and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: 30 years after

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and the Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. He currently holds the Editor-in-Chief position at the Academy of Management Review. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He has served as an officer of both the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and has served as an associate editor at the Journal of Management, senior editor for Organization Science, and co-editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Theme of keynote presentation: COVID-19 and the Credit Cycle

Edward I. Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the NYU Stern School of Business and Director of the Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center. He has an international reputation as an expert on Corporate Bankruptcy, High Yield Bonds, Distressed Debt and Credit Analysis. He created the well known Altman Z-Score model in 1968 and was named Laureat 1984 by the Hautes Etudes Commerciales Foundation in 1985 for his accumulated works on bankruptcy prediction and techniques for financial rehabilitation of distressed firms. Professor Altman was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance by the Treasury and Risk Management magazine in 2005. He was one of the Founding editors of the Journal of Banking Finance in 1977 and has published more than two dozen books and over 160 articles in scholarly and professional journals. His latest book is “Corporate Financial Distress, Restructuring and Bankruptcy, 4^th Edition (J. Wiley, 2019, co-authored with E. Hotchkiss and W. Wang).

Full Professor at Toulouse Business School. Prior, he was Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School, France and Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems & Technology, Wollongong University, Australia. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. He is the Coordinator of the newly created Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics Cluster of Toulouse Business School, France. The research themes of Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba are: Big Data and Analytics, Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce, ERP, Supply Chain Management, Innovation management, Digital transformation, and Artificial intelligence.

Theme of keynote presentation: A not trivial encounter: the history of matching between job providers and job seekers in Brazil

Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo in the Sociology Department. Was invited to universities in Brazil and abroad to act as Visiting Professor and in committees and research groups. Her main subjects of research are related to the job market, such as economic changes; company restructuring and workers trajectories; gender and race inequality in the job market and workplaces; unemployment, job search and job intermediation mechanisms; new work relations and its theorization challenges; care and female caregivers.

Prof. Solheim is an engaged academic and communicator. She is Associate Professor and Head of the Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research, UiS Business School (Norway) and a public speaker on diversity and innovation. Solheim carries out research on diversity and innovation, combining insights from organizational theory, innovation studies and economic geography. She has been involved in several national and international research and consultancy projects as lead, member and as expert advisor. Solheim is Regional Studies Association (RSA) Ambassador to Norway, member of the prestigious Academy of Young Researchers in Norway. She is on the steering committee of Smart Cities at the University of Stavanger.

Theme of keynote presentation: Globalization of marketing and the Rule of Three

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He is globally known for his scholarly contributions in consumer behavior, relationship marketing, competitive strategy, and geopolitical analysis. Over 50 years of experience in teaching and research at University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory. 

Panelist on Panel with Editors

Sherry M. B. Thatcher is the J. Henry Fellers Professor of Business Administration and serves as the Chair of the Management Department at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Prof. Thatcher is currently an associate editor at the Academy of Management Review and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management and Small Group Research. Her Ph.D. is in organizational behavior from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (2000).

Panelist on Panel with Editors

Prof. Susan Miller is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART). Her work is in the areas of public administration and policy and her research explores the consequences of institutional and program design for policy implementation and outcomes. Previously, she taught political science at the University of South Carolina, and acted as was an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University and at Ohio State University, having received her doctorate from the University of Missouri.

Panelist on Panel with Editors

Renate is Professor and Chair of Organization Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is also Part Time Professor in Institutional Theory Copenhagen Business School. She is Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies, Division Chair (2021) of the OMT Division of the Academy of Management, and ex-officio member of the EGOS Board. Renate’s current research interests include the institutionalisation of new management ideas, translation, institutional renewal, the analysis of institutions as multimodal accomplishments, novel organisational forms, collective action in crises, as well as governance structures and governance gaps mostly in urban contexts.

Moderator of Panel with Editors

Gazi Islam is Professor of Business Administration at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. He completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Tulane University, where his research focused on organizational identity, voice, and power relations. He is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Ethics and serves as a member of the Editorial Board at nine other journals. His work been published in journals such as Organization Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Organization, Human Relations, The American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Business Ethics, and American Psychologist.

Theme of keynote presentation: Emerald’s Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection: A guide to case writing and publication

Sponsored by Emerald Publishing.

Virginia Bodolica - Professor at the American University of Sharjah, before joining AUS, Professor Bodoloica taught in the areas of strategic human resources, compensation management, and corporate governance. She has consulted for private and public organizations and delivered customized executive programs for several companies in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Her research interests are executive compensation, board of directors’ dynamics, behavioral governance and innovation, and knowledge management.

Panel theme: Building Impactful research: The case of SEED Network

Professor in the Management Department at HEC Montréal in Canada and Director and co-founder of the IDEOS hub. Currently his research is focused on the institutionalization process of socially oriented organizational forms, social impact of different organizational forms, performance of socially oriented organizations and the impact and Social Entrepreneurship.

Panel theme: Building Impactful research: The case of SEED Network

Professor and the John & Becky Surma Dean's Research Fellow, Management and Organization at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. She earned her doctorate at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Charlene focuses on contexts involving significant, large-scale change. She studies institutional work, institutional change processes, social and sustainable entrepreneurship and social emotions usually in the context of social and ecological issues and social movements. Charlene is also leading an international research project focusing on managing entrepreneurial firms through rapid growth. 

Panel theme: Building Impactful research: The case of SEED Network

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta. Her research interests broadly focus on the role of business in addressing grand challenges, predominantly occurring at the intersection of entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation. Her current research explores institutional, cultural and cognitive barriers to entrepreneurial activities and workplace motivation in contexts of resource scarcity. Her methodological approach relies heavily on experimental design (in both a lab and field setting) complemented by qualitative data, often in partnership with organizations.

Panel theme: Building Impactful research: The case of SEED Network

PhD student in the Alberta School of Business’ Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Department at the University of Alberta. Prior to this, Kylie completed her MBA at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where she interned at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She also co-founded a fintech firm during this time. Kylie’s vision for contributing to a better future globally is to explain why entrepreneurs in contexts of poverty struggle to scale, and how these entrepreneurs can overcome this growth challenge to move themselves, and their communities, out of poverty. To support this vision, Kylie is currently exploring the role of social norms related to innovation and entrepreneurship in Haiti and Tunisia.