Speaker 1:Li Chunxuan (BA-MA-PhD Program graduate 2017, majoring in Business Administration)
Theme: From "Variation-oriented" to "Process-oriented": Understanding the Power of Time.
Abstract: For a long time, the study of management, especially business administration, typically adopts a trait perspective and an variation-oriented approach. By abstracting the characteristics of entities into measurable variables, researchers then study how the intrinsic characteristic variables of individuals, teams, organizations or the environment affect the outcome variables. However, the traditional perspective ignores the impact of the events experienced by the entity, and few studies use the event perspective to explore management problems from the process-oriented point of view. In 2015, Morgeson and other scholars put forward the event system theory, which provides a new research idea for capturing the events experienced by the entity and its follow-up results. How to integrate variation-oriented and process-oriented approaches to provide a more comprehensive and authentic description of organizational phenomena from a dynamic point of view? What are the typical modeling ideas for event research, and how are events measured? The speaker hopes to discuss the application and this theory in this report, and try to find possible answers to the above questions.
Speaker 2: Dong Zhaohui (BA-MA-PhD Program graduate 2018, majoring in Management Science and Engineering)
Theme: New Opportunities for Operations Management Research in Sustainability
Abstract: Operations Management (OM) research has made an important contribution to environmental sustainability over the past two decades. This report summarizes the new opportunities faced by the circular economy movement, which may provide certain reference for academic topic selection and research methods. This report introduces the concept of circular economy and highlights the logic behind it, explaining why this trend contains great opportunities and challenges in the academic topic selection and research. To this end, this report introduces four well-acknowledged classic cases of implementing the circular economy concept, and discusses their operational challenges and the academic problems abstracted from them. By summarizing the current hotspots and challenges of OM research through these four classic cases, this report aims to provide references for academic topic selection and research.
Time: 13:30-15:30 PM, November 29, 2019 (Friday)
Venue: Room 213, School of Management (the 3rd conference room/the former EMBA classroom)
Organizer: Postgraduate affairs office, School of Management
