Contemporary issues in business and law conference

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Time: 8.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Room 26, Kingston Business School, Kingston Hill campus, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB
Price: free

This year the annual Faculty of Business and Law conference will be a two-day event to include the research students' annual conference.

The aim of the conference is to showcase research taking place in the Faculty. It is also a great opportunity for all academic staff and research students to come together, present their research, and exchange ideas for future research, research collaborations and publications.

Monday programme

Session 1 – Chair: Sunitha Naredran

• The effect of product conspicuousness in vertical downscale extensions: a replication (Francesca Dall'Olmo Riley & Chris Hand)
• SME Access to Bank Finance: A comparative study of self-confidence in finance (Bernard Owens Imarhiagbe & George Saridakis)
• Owner-managers' rent-seeking in innovation commercialisation: New insights into a small business typology (Hang Do, Tim Mazzarol, Thierry Volery & Geoff Soutar)

Session 2 – Chair : Francesca Dall'Olmo Riley

• Quality Assuring Adults' Social Work in London (Angela Jenkinson & John Chamberlain)
• How is Disability Conceptualised in the Labour Market? (Laura Williams)
• Understanding the impact of internal strategic fit on business performance in service organisations (Alex Hill)

Session 3 – Chair: George Alexandrou

• What are the barriers to, and opportunities for, academic research within a profession-based discipline? A case study within Publishing Studies (Alison Baverstock & Jackie Steinitz)
• An investigation into the possible causes of the BME attainment gap at Kingston University (Kenisha Linton & Nona McDuff)
• Share repurchases (George Alexandrou, Anastasios Kottas & Hardy Thomas)

Tuesday programme

Session 1 – Chair: George Saridakis

• Industrial policy and employment in the UK-The Pfizer Astrazeneca takeover saga (Enda Hannon)
• Who benefits from the new career deal? An exploration of the links between boundaryless and protean career attitudes and individual and organizational outcomes (Ricardo Rodrigues, David Guest & Teresa Oliveira)
• Simple Economic Fictions in Richard Cantillon and Daniel Defoe (Richard Vandenberg)

Session 2 – Chair: Stephen Gourlay

• Project Management in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises: The case of the Netherlands (Rodney Turner)
• Managing health information system transformation process from an innovation network perspective (Liang Liang, Dr Zhang Miao)
• The Discourse of Diversity Strategy in the Police Service - A context-based approach (Kenisha Linton, Fiona Moore & Mark Exworthy)

Session 3 – Chair: Richard Vandenberg

• The Impact of the Recent Recession on British Employers and Employees (Yanqing Lai, George Saridakis & Robert Blackburn)
• Self-Determination in Turmoil : Crimea, International Law and Implications for Somaliland's Claim for Statehood (Eric Jeanpierre)
• Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data (Andrew Clarke, Conchita D'Ambrosio & Simone Ghislandi)
• Social Commerce, Information Security, and Privacy from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Open Research Questions (Hemamali Tennakoon)

For further information about this event:

Contact: Dr George Alexandrou
Email: g.alexandrou@kingston.ac.uk