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Research Seminar Series 2012-2013
"Ranking Mutual Funds Performance based on financial and non-financial criteria"
Professor Blanca Perez-Gladish
University of Oviedo, Spain
Wednesday 30 January 2013, 3:45pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
Abstract: Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is broadly defined as an investment process that integrates not only financial but also social, environmental, and ethical (SEE) considerations into investment decision making. SRI has grown rapidly around the world in the last decades. In the last years, given the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, ethical, social, environmental and governance concerns have became even more relevant investment decision criteria. However, while a diverse set of models have been developed to support investment decision-making based on financial criteria, models including also socially responsible and/or environmental responsibility criteria are rather scarce. The aim of this paper, in which we focus on the environmental dimension, is to assist individual investors in their investment decisions providing them with a synthetic indicator of mutual funds' environmental responsibility, which is by nature a multicriteria concept and therefore multicriteria techniques are to be used to measure it. The proposed approach is based on the double (reservation-aspiration) reference point method. This scheme is applied to each of a set of US equity mutual funds randomly selected, in order to determine, on the basis of a given set of indicators, a pair of synthetic indicators that measure the weak and the strong environmental responsibility degree of each mutual fund relying on the particular preferences of the Decision Maker.
Invited by Financial Institutions and Markets Group
"ESG criteria: Financial Impact and Critical Analysis"
Professor Bouchra M'Zali
University of Quebec at Montreal
Thursday 1 November 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Bouchra M'Zali's presentation pdf
Invited by Financial Institutions and Markets Group
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
Title TBA, on CSR
Professor Alan Gregory
University of Exeter
Date: TBA
Location: TBC
more: Alan Gregory's webpage
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
General Information
These School of Management seminars host well respected scholars presenting cutting edge research. All scholars are invited by one of our research groups. Our seminar audience comprises staff and students from our school, peers from other schools within the University and colleagues from nearby institutions. The seminars usually begin Wednesdays at 3.15pm (with coffee served from 2.45pm) and last until 5pm. At the start of each seminar, a discussant introduces the speaker and highlights the relevance of his/her presentation for the school in general and the inviting research group in particular. Subsequently the speaker gives a 30-50 minute presentation which is followed by a 10-15 minute talk by the discussant. The remaining seminar time is reserved for questions, comments and discussion with the audience. After the seminar, we invite the speaker and the audience to a little wine reception. Often this reception is followed by a dinner in one of Britain's best restaurants.
Contact Dr Andreas Hoepner for more.
School of Management staff wishing to arrange a Research Seminar, please find instructions at Research Seminar Series and the Role of Thematic Groups - Seminar series information (updated April 2012) doc.
Research Seminar Series 2011-2012
"Information Demand and Stock Market Volatility"
Dr Nikos Vlastakis
Cranfield University
Thursday 25 August 2011, 3.15pm
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
more: The paper (authors: Vlastakis N. and Markellos R.N.) is forthcoming in Journal of Banking and Finance.
Invited by Financial Institutions and Markets Group
"Knowing, Evidence and Policy: Exploring the Inter-linkages"
Professor Huw Davies, University of St Andrews
Professor Jan Bebbington, University of St Andrews
Professor Carlos Larrinaga, University of Burgos
The following two papers will be presented and discussed with the themes and issues emerging from them being a focal point of the conversation:
- Accounting for sustainable development: (re)constructing the agenda, and
- What do we talk about when we talk about QOF? Research shapes policy in subtle and surprising ways.
Wednesday 14 September 2011, 3:00-5:30pm
Location: Seminar Room 6, The Gateway
Organised by the Knowledge and Practice thematic group and the Ethics, Sustainability and Accountability thematic group
"Struggling for Sustainability: Evaluating the value of carbon in Latin America"
Dr Steffen Boehm, Essex Business School
Dr Maria Ceci Misoczky, School of Administration, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Wednesday 12 October 2011, 2:30pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Steffen Boehm's webpage; Abstract (Misoczky and Boehm) pdf
Invited by Ethics, Sustainability and Accountability Group
Discussant: Professor Jan Bebbington
"Drugs Trading in The Wire: An ethological investigation of the flexibility of organisational adaptation"
Dr Mike Zundel
University of Liverpool
Wednesday 19 October 2011, 3.15pm
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
more: Abstract (Zundel) pdf
Invited by Knowledge and Practice Group
"Measuring and Organising: The Construction of the Organisation as a Countable Entity in Employee Surveys"
Dr Peter Svensson
Department of Business Administration
Lund University
Wednesday 16 November 2011, 3.15pm
Location: Seminar Room 6, The Gateway
more: Peter Svensson's webpage
Invited by Organisations and Society Group
"The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance "
(paper by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim)
Dr Ioannis Ioannou
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
London Business School
Tuesday 29 November 2011, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Ioannis Ioannou's webpage
Invited by Financial Institutions and Markets Group
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
"CSR and the Open Society"
Professor William Rees
Professor of Financial Analysis
University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 28 February 2012, 12.30pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: CSR and the Open Society on SSRN; Bill Rees's webpage
Invited by Ethics, Sustainability and Accountability Group
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
"On the concept of practice in the study of organisation"
Professor Davide Nicolini
Professor of Organization Studies
University of Warwick
Thursday 1 March 2012, 1.15pm (2.45pm finish)
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
more: Davide Nicolini's webpage
Invited by Knowledge and Practice Group
Discussant: Dr Gail Greig
"Pension Plan Funding and the Cost of Equity Capital"
Dr Ronan Gallagher
Queens University Belfast
Wednesday 14 March 2012, 4.00pm
Location: Seminar Room 6, The Gateway
more: Overheads (Gallagher) pdf
Invited by Financial Markets and Institutions Group/ Professor John Wilson
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
"We are all critical now: but critical of what, for whom?"
Professor Mike Saren
School of Management
University of Leicester
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Mike Saren's webpage
Invited by Organisations and Society Group
"Where is the Warm Glow? Donated Labour in the Health and Social Work Industries"
Dr Alasdair Rutherford
School of Management
University of Stirling
Wednesday 2 May 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Alasdair Rutherford's webpage; Abstract (Rutherford) pdf
Invited by Organisations and Society Group
"The Challenges of Crafting Qualitative Research"
Professor Ann L Cunliffe
University of New Mexico
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 2pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Abstract (Cunliffe) doc
Invited by Knowledge and Practice Group
"Embodying Management"
Dr Ben Hardy
Open University Business School
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Ben Hardy's webpage; Abstract (Hardy) doc
Invited by Knowledge and Practice Group
"Sensemaking and Storytelling"
Dr Thomas Basbøll
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Management
Monday 21 May 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
Invited by Organisations and Society Group
Discussant: Nick Butler
Professor Bert Scholtens
University of Gronigen
Thursday 24 May 2012, 2.00pm
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
Invited by Financial Markets and Institutions Group
"Collusion, Experts and Incentives: Can reputation of experts and opinions outside firms serve as checks and balances?"
Professor Sanjay Banerji
University of Nottingham
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11.00am
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
more: Sanjay Banerji's webpage
Invited by Financial Markets and Institutions Group
"How Do International Bankers Vote in Developing Country Elections?"
Professor Paul Vaaler
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 3.15pm
Location: Boardroom, The Gateway
more: Paul Vaaler's webpage; Working Paper (Vaaler) pdf
Invited by Financial Markets and Institutions Group
Discussant: Dr Andreas Hoepner
"Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh: A Study of Competing Logics and their Implications for Accounting and Accountability Systems"
Farzana Tanima
Victoria University
"Accounting for the Other by the Other: Exploring Online Social Movement Counter-Accounting Practices"
Sendirella George
Victoria University
Monday 16 July 2012, 2pm
Location: Lecture Room 2, The Gateway
more: Farzana Tanima web link, Sendirella George web link, Abstracts (Tanima and George) docx
Invited by Ethics, Sustainability and Accountability Group