Seminar List 2014

January, 2014

January 20, 2014
Prof Andrew Delios, National University of Singapore
What You Can Learn about the Publishing Process by Taking an Editor's Perspective? (PhD Workshop)

January 21, 2014
Prof Andrew Delios, National University of Singapore
Unbundling the Effects of Institutions on Firm Resources: The Contingent Value of Being Local in Emerging Economy Private Equity

February, 2014

February 7, 2014
Prof Shige Makino, CUHK
Skew and Heavy Tails in Firm Performance: Some Preliminary Thoughts

February 18, 2014
Prof Gilad Chen, University of Maryland
Influence From Within: When Members' Proactivity Impacts Team Effectiveness

February 20, 2014
Prof Gilad Chen, University of Maryland
Publish or perish? A guide for the publication process (PhD Workshop)

February 28, 2014
Prof Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School
The Throne vs. the Kingdom: The Founder�s Resource-Dependence Challenge

March, 2014

March 6, 2014
Prof Phanish Puranam, INSEAD
Studying novelty in organizing (PhD workshop)

March 7, 2014
Prof Phanish Puranam, INSEAD
The role of integrators in organizational adaptation to interdependence shocks: Evidence from fertility clinics

March 21, 2014
Prof Kevin Zhou, The University of Hong Kong
State Ownership and Product Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Efficiency and Legitimacy

April, 2014

April 11, 2014
Prof Yaping Gong, HKUST
How and When Does Intrinsic Motivation Enhance Incremental and Radical Creativity? A Moderated Mediation Model

April 25, 2014
Prof Adam Tatarynowicz, University of Tilburg
Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms

April 28, 2014
Mr Gilad Fieldman, HKUST
Cognition and Consequences of the Belief in Free Will (PhD Thesis Defense)

April 29, 2014
Prof Ying-Yi Hong, Nanyang Technological University
The Impact of High versus Low Residential Mobility on Bribe Giving in a Chinese context

May, 2014

May 9, 2014
Prof Joon Nak Choi, HKUST
Dissuaded or emboldened? The contingent effects of network structure upon risk-taking and performacne outcomes

June, 2014

June 6, 2014
Ms Yijun (Kim) Wu, HKUST
Toward a forwar-looking prespective of the firm: Antecedents and outcomes of mangerial foresight (PhD Thesis Defense)

June 13, 2014
Prof Eric Tsang, The University of Texas at Dallas
Why should business researchers study logic (and philosophy)?

June 16, 2014
Prof Forrest Briscoe, The Pennsylvania State Universy 
CEO Ideology as an Element of the Corporate Opportunity Structure for Social Activists

June 23, 2014
Mr Tianyu Gong, HKUST
Can Government Help Firm Innovation? The Effects of Government Policy on Firm's Innovation (MPhil Thesis Defense)

June 24, 2014
Ms Lingling Zhang, HKUST
The Relational and Collectivistic Processes of Relational Demography (PhD Thesis Defense)

June 25, 2014
Ms Xinyi Yang, HKUST
Organizational Mindfulness and Innovation (MPhil Thesis Defense)

June 26, 2014
Ms Jiping Li, HKUST
The asymmetrical influence of status dissimilarity on group identification: the mediation effects of emotions (MPhil Thesis Defense)

June 27, 2014
Prof David Mayer, University of Michigan
Do We Want Business Leaders to Be Ethical?

June 30, 2014
Ms Mingyun Huai, HKUST
Supervisor Abuse as Retaliation against Employee Porduction Deviance: The Moderating Role of Supervisor Power Distance Orientation (MPhil Thesis Defense)

July, 2014

July 7, 2014
Mr Prasad Chandrashker, HKUST
A Multi-Path Model of Co-worker Influence on Employee Abusive Supervision and Workplace Deviance: An Information Processing Perspective (MPhil Thesis Defense)

July 14, 2014
Mr Cronin Wang, HKUST
Firm IT capability and CEO compensation: From an information processing and agency perspective (MPhil Thesis Defense)

August, 2014

August 29, 2014
Prof Sam Garg & Prof Qiang (John) , HKUST
Prestige Discount: Director Exit and Firm Performance in Newly Public Ventures

September, 2014

September 12, 2014
Prof Jaeyong Song, Seoul National University
Technological Catch-up of Laggards from Emerging Economies
Knowledge Sourcing and Innovation of Multinational Corporations (PhD Workshop)

October, 2014

October 6, 2014
Prof Huiwen Lian, HKUST
Supervisors mistreat due to ego-threat: The interplay of subordinate organizational deviance, supervisor status and supervisor power

October 9, 2014
Prof Gerry George, Imperial College London
Entrepreneurship and Poverty: The Influence of Wealth Loss, Gender and Social Structure on Entrepreneuship

October 17, 2014
Prof Marshall Meyer, University of Pennsylvania
Making Ownership Matter: Prospects for China's Mixed Ownership Economy

October 20, 2014
Mr Rama Devaraknoda, Purdue University
Founders' Credentials and Cooperative Commercialization Agreements of Early Stage Startups

October 24, 2014
Prof Heli Wang, Singapore Management University
Earning Pressure and Corporate Philanthropy: The Roles of Security Analyst and Foreign Exposure

November, 2014

November 14, 2014
Mr Pavel Zhelyazkov, Harvard University
The Presence of the Tie or the Content of the Tie: Venture Capital Syndication Networks and Limited Partner Investment Decisions

November 17, 2014
Ms Elina Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
Knowledge Sharing in Online Knowledge Communities: Weakening of Categorical and Strengthening of Expertise Similarity with Experience

November 21, 2014
Mr Jackie Yan, National University of Singapore
Boon or bane? The contingent effects of political strategies on firm performance

November 24, 2014
Mr Kim Claes, INSEAD
Media as semantic networks: Inferring similarity among producers and establishing preferences

November 28, 2014
Mr Wooseok Jung, Northwestern University
A Behavioral Theory of Institutional Logics: Dual Performance Feedback and Elite Law Firm Mergers

December, 2014

December 1, 2014
Prof Ying-Yi Hong, Nanyang Technological University
A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture
*Joint seminar with Division of Social Science

December 8, 2014
Mr Yonghoon Lee, INSEAD
Divide et Impera (Divide and Conquer): Brokerage Dynamics and Dependence Asymmetry

December 11, 2014
Dr Anindya Ghosh, IESE Business School
Moving beyond the dyad: Addressing network endogeneity in strategic alliance formation using exponential random graph models (ERGM)