Thursday 9 November: Farah Kodeih (IESEG)

Building collective resilience in times of rising authoritarianism: Civil society organizations in Orbán’s Hungary About the Research Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with significant repercussions on civil society. An emerging scholarship has started...

Thursday 12 October: Ilze Kivleniece (INSEAD)

Leviathan as a client: Public vs private contracting of desalination technologies to address water scarcity About the Research Focusing on water provision as a societal grand challenge, we examine the comparative role of public versus private actors in promoting...

Tuesday 30 May: Elisabeth Clemens (U. of Chicago)

STORM & The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Center Proudly Present:   Beyond efficiency and capacity: Federal contracting as a political project, 1979­–2018   About the Research (with Yuhao Zhuang)   Contracting reconstitutes boundaries of...

Thursday 4 May: Emanuele Bettinazzi (USI Lugano)

How do categories influence target selection in corporate acquisitions? About the Research In the M&A market, the risk of adverse selection is an essential concern for prospective acquirers when they perceive a potential target to display high levels of...

Thursday 13 April: Elisa Operti (ESSEC)

Taking on the Mob: How Multinational Enterprises Navigate Institutional Uncertainty in Organized Crime Hotspots (2000-2015) About the Research Government actions against organized crime may improve institutional quality or further damage an already weak institutional...