Lunchtime Seminars

Welcome to the Lunchtime Research Seminars at Cranfield School of Management. The seminars provide an opportunity for you to listen to leading academics from around the world.

Past Events

2012

• 15 May
  Professor Ernst Verwaal, Queen's University, Belfast
  Strategic flexibility speed and variety in dynamic and complex environments
  
  
• 16 April
  Professor Mats Alvesson, Lund University
  Metaphors we lead by. On images for leadership
  
  
• 13 March 
  Prof Daniel Steenstra, Royal Academy of Engineering’s Visiting Professor in Medical Innovation at Cranfield University
  InterQB-it® - a practical approach to managing complexity
  
  
• 5 March
  Dr Paresh Wankhade, Liverpool Hope & Professor David Weir, University Campus Suffolk
  Performance management and perverse incentives in public service organisations
  
  
• 27 February
  Dr Lisa Goh, Lecturer in Accounting, London School of Economics
  Executive Pensions: Complements or Substitutes?
  
  
• 9 February
  Mark W. Johnston, Alan and Sandra Gerry Professor of Marketing and Ethics, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Florida
  The transformation of selling and sales organisations: The future of personal selling in business

2011

• 5 December
  Professor Andrew Kakabadse, Cranfield School of Management
  The Unpredictable Nature of Boards
  


• 23 November
  Prof. Luca Mari, LIUC, Italy
  A pragmatic perspective on measurement
  


• 15 November
  Dr Johannes Meuer, Erasmus University
  Revisiting system theories in strategic human resource management: A set-theoretic analysis of high performing firms in the UK
  
  
• 31 October
  Prof. Emeritus Peter Lawrence, Loughborough University
  Enterprise in Action: Tales of Fast Track Companies
  
  
• 20 September
  Dr Shahzad Ansari, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
  Incumbent Performance in the Face of Radical Innovation
  
  
• 9 May
  Professor Ian Wilkinson, Unversity of Sydney Business School & Professor Louise Young, University of Western Sydney
  Engineering Cooperation
  
  
• 11 April
  Dr Ruth Bender
  The Platonic Remuneration Committee
  
  
• 21 March
  Emeritus Professor Roger Schmenner, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
  Thoughts on Productivity


• 31 January
  Gianvito Lanzolla, Reader in Strategy, Cass Business School
  The Institutional Construction of First Mover Advantages
  
  
• 17 January
  Professor Vlatka Hlupic, Westminster Business School
  Improving performance through emergent leadership
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2010