Kalendarium

Technological Turbulence and Competition Intensity as Drivers of Business Model Innovation in Family SMEs: The Role of Strategic Innovation Readiness

Mercedes Gracia Laborda (presenter)

(co-authored with Carolina Lopez Nicolas and Angel Luis Meroño Cerdan)

(Mercedes is a visiting PhD candidate from the University of Murcia)

February 3, 12:00-13:00 CEST

B6046 and Zoom

Zoom link: http://cefeo.se/zoom

ABSTRACT: Drawing on the Resource-Based View and the Socioemotional Wealth approach, this study proposes and tests a model that extends the knowledge of BMI’s external drivers, competition intensity and technological turbulence. More precisely, we provide new insights to the relationship between these drivers and BMI novelty and scope, being mediated by strategic innovation readiness. We test the contingent effect of family firm on this model. To assess the relationships proposed, data were obtained from a European Commission international project. 417 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results indicate that competition intensity positively affects BMI novelty through the full mediation of strategic innovation readiness. In addition, strategic innovation readiness acts as a partial complementary mediator in the relationship between competition intensity and BMI scope as well as technological turbulence and BMI types. Furthermore, a multigroup analysis reveals that the impact of competition intensity on BMI is greater for non-family than for family SMEs. An important implication relates to the paramount role of strategic innovation readiness both for family and non-family SMEs to thrive in a turbulent technological environment. When developing the firm culture and strategic orientation, managers should embed strategic innovation readiness into their business processes and activities to enable a rapid response to external changes through BMI.

Dear colleagues, 

You are welcome to join us for the
“Brown Bag Seminar in Economics and Finance”
presented by

Kateryna Zabarina

University of Warsaw

Title: Application of hybrid Gibbs processes to firm location modelling

Date: Monday, February 3
Time: 12:10-13:10
Host: Aleks Petreski/Johannes Hagen

This presentation will be given on campus.

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MMTC working group focused on Digital business and innovation

Welcome to listen to a number of exciting project pitches for possible future research projects in cooperation.

The deadline for registration has passed. For more information contact (monica.bartels@ju.se).

MMTC working group focused on Media

Jason is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School. His research uses computational and experimental methods to study human behavior in the context of a digital society, as well as agent-based simulations.

In the seminar, Jason will talk about experiments designed to evaluate content-curating algorithms, as used by social media and other digital platforms. For example, he will discuss how modifications of these algorithms affect people's beliefs. Jason will also share his experiences with the pre-registration of experiments, ethical approval, and recruitment of participants.

It can sometimes feel difficult to make contact with new people. Then maybe the Meeting Place is the thing for you? Hopefully, you will get to know new people based on your preferences, interests and the way you interact with others. You are welcome to join us for some fika, play games or just have a chat! The event will take place i House K every other Wednesday between 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm!

To enter, please call: Tel. 036-101169 or 036-101065.

Job-hunting and general information about how to approach the Swedish labour market.  

Thursday February 6th 12.15-1 pm 
B1033, Jönköping International Business School 

Lunch is offered for pre-registered students. 

Registration at https://ju.jobteaser.com 

Dear colleagues, 

You are welcome to join us for the
“Brown Bag Seminar in Economics and Finance”
presented by

Lena Dräger

Leibniz University Hannover,
Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Title: Inflation Expectations and Economic Preferences

Date: Monday, February 10
Time: 12:10-13:10
Host: Marcel Garz/Benjamin Larin

This presentation will be given on campus.

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Information about CV & Cover letters, do´s and don´ts!  

Tuesday February 11th 12.15-1 pm 
B1033, Jönköping International Business School  

Lunch is offered for pre-registered students that register before Feb 4th

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Dear colleagues, 

You are welcome to join us for the
"Brown Bag Seminar in Economics and Finance"
presented by

Christian Thomann

KTH

Title: Carbon Pricing and Investment

Date: Monday, February 17
Time: 12:10-13:10
Host: Anna Nordén

This presentation will be given on campus.

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Information about common interview questions and how you should prepare yourself to land your dream position.
Monday Feb 17th 12.15-1 pm

B1033, Jönköping International Business School 

Registered participants will be offered a free lunch. Please sign up before  Feb 4 to be guaranteed lunch.

Register at https://ju.jobteaser.com

Mindfulness is about consciously and deliberately directing our attention, in the moment and without judging what we are experiencing. The aim of this course is to learn to live in the here and now, focus more on what is going on in the moment and not dwell on what happened in the past or worry about the future. When practicing mindfulness, you will increase your attention span and your ability to concentrate on what is important to you. It will also help you cope with stress in a more helpful way. When participating in this course you will practice formal and informal mindfulness exercises both in class and between classes. You will develop new skills and cherish the tools you learn from this course your whole life.

The course will start on 20 February 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. Two more sessions on 27 February and 6 March 4:00-5:30 pm. You need to bee able to attend all three sessions.

Register by sending us an e-mail: studenthealthcare@ju.se

Victoria Wendel, counsellor and CBT-therapist is the instructor for this course.

MMTC resarch Seminar presented by Gonzalo Luna-Cortes

Håkan Fleischer – Ph.D. in education. Håkan has a long background in education and he also makes a podcast called Studieteknikpodden.

Come and learn how to get the most out of your studies and how you can be more effective with home studies.

Wednesday, February 19th, at 13.00-16.00, room Kurt Johansson, Gb306, School of Health and Welfare

BIO:  Kerstin Ramfelt, MS, PhD Candidate works as a development manager in the section for co-creation with partners and residents at Qulturum, Region Jönköping's development unit. Her main task is to support the quality registers belonging to the Register Centre South East (RCSO). Since April 2023 Kerstin is enrolled as a PhD student at Jönköping Academy (JA), School of Health and Welfare. The research project is about creating and evaluating the effects of forums for knowledge and support for people with newly diagnosed MS in the Southeastern Health Care Region together with patients, relatives, healthcare professionals, patient associations and researchers.
Kerstins graduated in dietetics in Gothenburg in 1992 and has worked clinically as a dietitian, mainly in paediatric diabetes, until 2019.

She holds a Master of Science in Quality Improvement and Leadership in Health and Welfare. After the master's degree, the improvement work that formed the basis of the thesis was researched and a development of the project was also researched.

JA is part of Co-Lab, a seminar series on co-production led by the Dartmouth Institute with an international audience. The network organizes seminars every month and these are open to anyone who is curious about the subject. Welcome to the seminar where JA's PhD student Kerstin Ramfelt presents her work.

The seminar is in English. Please use this link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/94788601699?pwd=MDBKdVlTOTkwWG1RcU0yTzkramQxZz09
No notification is needed.

It can sometimes feel difficult to make contact with new people. Then maybe the Meeting Place is the thing for you? Hopefully, you will get to know new people based on your preferences, interests and the way you interact with others. You are welcome to join us for some fika, play games or just have a chat! The event will take place i House K every other Wednesday between 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm!

To enter, please call: Tel. 036-101169 or 036-101065.

MMTC information meeting and AW

Inspirational seminar for students

Arranged by NextStep JSA contact: NextStep.JSA@js.ju.se

The week prior to the Career Fair we organize Prestep, where a known lecturer talks about everything regarding leadership, entrepreneurship and career.

Nextstep website

The official ceremony during which Mattias Sandgren literally nails his doctoral thesis in Business Administration to the wall takes place on Friday, 21st of February at 11:15 am, on the second floor in the entrance hall of JIBS.
The title of Mattias’ thesis is  “Financial and non-financial disclosure in a family business context”

Mattias Sandgren will defend his doctoral thesis in Business Administration at a public defence on Friday, 14th of March 2025 at 12 Noon in B1014 at JIBS.
 

Anna-Maria Petisme will defend her doctoral thesis in Business Administration at a public defence on Friday, 21st of February 2025 at 1 pm in M404, Sandgärdet, Borås University.
The title of Anna-Maria’s thesis is “Conformity and Contradictions: Exploring Return Management and Sustainability in Fashion E-Retail through Institutional Theory”

The defence will be in Swedish.

Faculty examiner/opponent: Professor Johan Hagberg, Göteborg University

Members of the Examining Committee: Professor Maria Norbäck, Göteborg University, Associate Professor Daniel Tolstoy, Stockholm School of Economics, and Associate Professor Kajsa Haag, JIBS

Chairperson at the defence: Associate Professor Mart Ots, JIBS

Principal supervisor: Professor Tomas Müllern, JIBS
Deputy supervisors: Associate Professor Firouze Pourmand-Hilmersson, Borås University, and Professor Regina Frei, University of the Arts London

Killing me softly: How the aesthetic experience of audiences determines family ownership

Peter Trümmel

February 24, 12:00-13:00 CST

B7030 and Zoom

Zoom link: http://cefeo.se/zoom

ABSTRACT: Why do we recognize some family firms as such, yet not others? Family ownership is a defining feature of family firms, yet research has predominantly focused on the family and their owned enterprises, neglecting the role of external audiences’ perceptions in shaping a family’s ownership. This study examines how ownership manifests in the aesthetics of a family firm’s activities and outcomes, and how external audiences recognize and judge these expressions. Using a qualitative single case study of a family firm and its organizational artifacts, this research aims to develop a construct to capture external audiences’ reactions to family ownership. Hoping to develop a construct that complements psychological ownership, I want highlight the reciprocal relationship between family firms and their environments on a human-centered basis that emphasizes our bodily condition.

Dear colleagues, 

You are welcome to join us for the
“Brown Bag Seminar in Economics and Finance”
presented by

Dan-Olof Rooth

Stockholm University

Title: Work from Home and the Employment of Individuals with a Disability

Date: Monday, February 24
Time: 12:10-13:10
Host: Johannes Hagen

This presentation will be given on campus

Join the seminar in room B5002 or on Zoom

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/61375630943?pwd=k6sb3jIHgrem8aT8hoJaDEAfSrGy5x.1  
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You can find this term’s seminar program on our webpage. 

Here you can read about what happened last year during this event 2024

More info about NextStep can be found here

Joshua Maine will defend his doctoral thesis in Business Administration at a public defence on Friday, 28th of February 2025 at 1.15 pm in B1014 at JIBS.
The title of Joshua’s thesis is  “Control in Hybrid Organisations: A Study of Board and Management Practices”

Faculty examiner/opponent: Professor Enrico Bracci, University of Ferrara, Italy  

Members of the Examining Committee: Professor Anatoli Bourmistrov, Nord University, Norway, Professor Sara Brorström, Gothenburg University, and Associate Professor Anna Thomasson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Chairperson at the defence: Professor Leona Achtenhagen, JIBS

Principal supervisor: Professor Timur Uman, JIBS
Deputy supervisors: Assistant Professor Emilia Samuelsson, JIBS, and Professor Ruth Aguilera, Northeastern University, USA

Are you having a hard time dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions? Trouble concentrating on your studies and maintaining healthy relationships? Then this popular course might be something for you! As a participant in this course, you will be provided with a variety of practical tools and strategies. You will learn skills that will help you pivot towards a richer and more meaningful life!

Starts on 11 March, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The course will run for six Tuesday afternoons: 11 March, 18 March, 25 March, 1 April, 8 April and 15 April.

For more information: Do what matters

Counsellor/CBT-therapist: Victoria Wendel.

Comments from former participants: 

"It is an amazing course! You learn so many great techniques to help you deal with stress and better manage life." “Fun and intense. Challenging as well as motivating.”