Workshop Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Workshop Institutions and Culture in Economic Contexts
Venue: Birkbeck University of London, UK
Date: 20 June 2019
Organisers: The Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (Birkbeck University of London), The Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (University College London), and The Institute for International Management (Loughborough University London)
Keynote speakers
Geoffrey Hodgson, Professor of Management, Institute for International Management of Loughborough University, UK. Chief Editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics
Anneli Kaasa, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia
Convenors and Queries
For any queries, please contact any of the workshop convenors: Dr Luca Andriani (luca.andriani@bbk.ac.uk), Dr Randolph L Bruno (Randolph.bruno@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Elodie Douarin (e.douarin@ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Gerhard Schnyder (G.Schnyder@lboro.ac.uk)
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome, Breakfast and Registration
9.30 – 10.45 Papers Session
9.30 – 9.55 - Disentangling Distance in Merger Selection —Industrial, Geographic, Cultural and National - Magdalena Langosch (Loughborough University London) – Discussant Luca Uberti (UCL)
9.55- 10.20 - Historical Industrialisation, Institutions and Contemporary Culture: The Lasting Imprint of Economic Heritage on Local Communities – Robert Huggins (Cardiff University) – Discussant Tomas Cvrcek (UCL)
10.20 – 10.45 - Courage to Seek; Habits to Find; Assurance of Reaping the Benefits: Cultural Values Conducive to Entrepreneurship - Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston University) – Discussant Anna Grosman, (Loughborough University London)
10.45 – 11.00 – Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 – Keynote Speakers Session
Culture and Institutions: What do they mean? - Geoffrey Hodgson (Loughborough University London)
Culture in Economic Contexts – Anneli Kaasa (University of Tartu)
12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.45 – Papers Session
13.30 – 13.55 – National Efficiency in SSA and MENA Countries: The Role of Legal Origins - Ioannis Bournakis (Middlesex University) – Discussant Gerhard Schnyder (Loughborough University London)
13.55 – 14.20 – The Political Economy of Palestine’s Shekelisation - Serena Merrino (UCL) – Discussant Anne Irfan (LSE)
14.20 – 14.45 - A conceptual framework for understanding culture’s role in institutional change – Julia Talbot-Jones (Victoria University of Wellington) – Discussant Elodie Douarin (UCL)
14.45 – 15.30 – Keynote Speaker Session
Revisiting Weber’s ‘The Religion of China’- Is Confucianism still a hindrance for capitalism in China? Is it a useful corrective? Or has it become irrelevant? – Klaus Nielsen (Birkbeck University of London)
15.30 – 15.45 – Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.35 – Papers Session
15.45 – 16.10 - Institutions and agency in the sustainability of day-to-day consumption – Tiia-Lotta Pekkanen (Lappeenranta University of Technology) – Discussant Olivier Sibai (Birkbeck University of London)
16.10 – 16.35 - Formality And Informality In Global Norm-Making In Multinationals – Philipp Kern (Loughborough University London) – Discussant Amini Chiara (UCL)
16.35 – 17.00 – Wrapping Up (Organisers)
17.00 – Aperitive
Contact name: Luca Andriani
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