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1 Festival of Ideas Wednesday 28 February 2018 Revised programme: 23/02/2018

2 Defining the City of the Future Opening Plenary Opening Plenary The Great Hall 08:00 09:00 Registration 09:15 09:30 09:30 10:00 10:00 10:15 10:15 10:40 10:40 10:45 Lisa Roberts (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation) Timothy Devinney (Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, ) Welcome Tom Bridges (Director, Cities Advisory at Arup) Keynote: The "smart city" challenge in an era of global change Gary Dymski (Chair of Cities Theme) Using Themes and Platforms at the University of Leeds to unlock the "system of systems" logics of future sustainability Panel Discussion: How do we make our cities a better place to live and work? Panel members, as above, plus: Louise Ellis (Director of Sustainability, University of Leeds) Martin Farrington (Director of City Development, Leeds City Council) Prew Lumley (Chair of Leeds BID) Timothy Devinney Close of session

3 Morning Parallel Sessions University House Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Emerging Markets 11:00 11:15 Costas Leonidou How personal value systems explain sustainable attitudes and behaviour Surender Munjal Internationalisation of emerging country multinationals, with focus on India 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:45 Timothy Devinney Ethical Vanities: Why we are not as good as we say Kausik Chaudhuri Broadband Adoption and Firm Performance: Evidence from Informal Sector Firms in India Yingqi (Annie) Wei Economic Diplomacy at Work: The Role of Friendship City in Chinese Firms OFDI Location Choice 11:45 12:00 Effie Kesidou Regulatory complexity and self-regulation: Environmental Management Systems in the UK Muhammad Moshfique Uddin Mobile banking and social inclusion in rural Bangladesh 12:00 12:30 Theme Discussion Juggling the many aspects of ethical business: what are the imperatives? Panel Chair: Thomas Cooper (Sustainability Service) What are the interconnections between Britain and emerging markets in a post-brexit world? Panel Chair: Timothy Jarvis (Squire Patton Boggs)

4 Networking Lunch and Postgraduate Poster Session The Great Hall Name Poster Title Sam Appleton Family business research David Larkin The categorization of an emergent digital technology: the Internet of Things (IoT) Afolakemi Ogunnubi Marketing strategy improvisation: antecedent and moderator 12:30 13:30 Fathiro H R Putra Resource reconfiguration in an emerging industry: a case study of Ericsson in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) Meenakshi Sarkar In a CAGE, in[taxi]cated: the reflexive researcher Tabish Zaman Implementation and adoption of innovation: a National Health Service (NHS) case study

5 Afternoon Parallel Sessions University House 13:45 14:00 14:00 14:15 14:15 14:30 Technology and Innovation Krsto Pandza Managing in the Age of Disruption Hakan Ozalp Competition in platform-based ecosystems: Design choices and consequences Tyrone Pitsis Design Thinking: the social impact of innovation Entrepreneurship Angela Carradus Starting a business with your partner: a balancing act between work and home life Nick Williams Examining diaspora entrepreneurs investment in their homeland Elizabeth Rose International Entrepreneurship 14:30 14:45 14:45 15:15 Theme Discussion Murod Aliyev Distant knowledge search, institutions and their impact on firm performance What are the grand challenges for the technology game? Panel Chair: Tyrone Pitsis (Pro-Dean: International) Alex Kevill Affective Foundations of Capability Development: An Exploration in an SME Context Is entrepreneurship (or intrapreneurship) the missing ingredient in the recipe for business success? Panel Chair: Carly Gulliver (Squire Patton Boggs)

6 Building a Sustainable Supply Chain Closing Plenary Closing Plenary The Great Hall 15:30 15:40 15:40 16:00 16:00 16:20 16:20 16:50 Peter Moizer (Executive Dean, ) Welcome Mike Barry (Director of Sustainability: Plan A, Marks & Spencer) Keynote Building a Sustainable Supply Chain Tomas Hult (Michigan State University) Panel Discussion Can the UK lead the way on sustainable and ethical supply chains? Panel members: Chee Yew Wong (Director of the Centre for Operations and Supply Chain Research) Jon Bumstead (Director, Nisomar) Simon Garbett, Squire Patton Boggs 16:50 17:00 Peter Moizer Close of session

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