Seminars
The Department of Management runs a number of seminars throughout the year. Details of current seminars hosted by the Department, including seminars run by specific research groups, can be found on this page.
Research Seminar Programme 2011-12
All research seminars are held in the Department of Management at King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH. Please note different venues and starting times.
Winter/Spring 2012
January 25, 5 - 6.30pm
Seminar room 1.13
Professor Tony Edwards (King's College London) and Professor Paul Marginson (Warwick)
'Multinational Companies in Cross-National Context: Integration, Differentiation, and the Interactions between MNCs and Nation States'
February 1, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.50
Professor Donald McKenzie (Edinburgh)
'Place and Path-Dependence in the Emergence of Automated Trading'
February 8, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.94
Professor Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen)
'Uncovering the HIdden Costs of Offshoring: The Interplay of Complexity, Organisational Design, and Experience'
February 29, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.50
Professor Janet Newman (Open University)
'Working the spaces of power: activism, neoliberalism, and gendered labour'
March 14, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.94
Professor Paul Edwards (Birmingham)
'Experimental economics and workplace behaviour: bridges over troubled methodologial waters?'
Date to be confirmed
Professor Ron Dore
'Japan - still a distinctive form of capitalism'
Autumn 2011
October 12, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.94
Professor Marc Goergen (Cardiff), Professor Noel O'Sullivan (Loughborough) and Professor Geoff Wood (Sheffield)
'Private Equity Takeovers and Employment in the UK: Some Empirical Evidence'
October 17, 6 - 7.30pm
Main Lecture Theatre
Martin Wolf,
Financial Times and member of the Independent Commission on Banking
'The Causes and Consequences of the Financial Crisis'
Please note that this is organised as part of the MSc external seminar series
October 26, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.50
Professor Sudi Sudarsanam (Cranfield)
'Cross-border acquisitions, earnout, and shareholder value impact'
November 9, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room 1.13
Professor Huw Morris, University of Salford
'Business and management research in the UK - changing context and construction'
November 23, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.94
Professor Tony Travers, London School of Economics
'What does the current "age of austerity" imply for the future of public spending and taxation in Britain?'
December 7, 4.30 - 6pm
Seminar room G.94
Lord John Monks, House of Lords
'Austerity, workers, and Europe'
Accounting, Accountability & Financial Management
December 14, 12pm (G.50)
Gunnar Rimmel, Goteborg University (Sweden)
Biodiversity Accounting and Valuation in Swedish companies
February 1, 3pm (1.16)
Professor Christopher Napier
TBC
HRM Research Group
April 25, 11 - 12.30pm (G.94)
Dorien Kooij
HRM and the ageing workforce
May 23, 11 - 1pm (G.94)
Ellen Kossek
Work-life balance
International Business, Comparative Management & Marketing
October 12, 11 - 12pm (G.94)
Fatima Wang
'Competitor Identification and Firm Performance: The Moderating Impact of Managerial Time-Horizons'
November 23, 11 - 12pm (G.50)
Dirk vom Lehn
'Commensurating vision: the practical accomplishment of the distance vision test'
Public Services Management Research Group
October 20, 12-1pm (G94)
Evagelos Pafilis, KCL
'Reputation and Ownership of Public Goods'
November 10, 12-1pm (G94)
Zack Cooper, LSE
'Competition, New Private Market Entry and Their Effect On Public Hospitals' Productivity'
December 15, 12-1pm (G94)
Eivor Oborn, Royal Holloway
'Reconfiguring Boundary Relations: Robotic Innovations in Pharmacy Work'
January 19, 12.15-1.15pm (G94)
Sonia Goncalves, KCL
'The effects of participatory budgeting on municipal expenditures and infant mortality in Brazil'
February 1, 4.30-5.30pm (G94)
Rosemary Deem, Royal Holloway
'The re-assembling of the public university: higher education organisations and autonomy'
March 8, 12.15-1.15pm (G94)
Alison Wolf, KCL
'Why are government departments so unrealistic about the costs and likely longevity of their initiatives?'
March 29, 12.15-1.15pm (G94)
Farasat Bokhari, KCL (Public Health)
'Specifications in demand systems for drugs: logits v. aids?'
Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group