08:45 - 09:15
Registration and morning coffee/tea
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Professor Andre Spicer (Dean, Bayes Business School) and Professor Caroline Wiertz (Symposium Co-Organiser, Bayes Business School)
09:30 - 11:00
Session I: Precarity
Discussant: Professor Eileen Fischer (Schulich School of Business, York University)
“Renegotiating Ownership in Precarity: A Study of Generation Rent”
Speakers: Professor Fleura Bardhi and Dr Aleksandrina Atanasova (Bayes Business School)
Co-author: Greta Vignali
“The Precarious Ethics of Performance Enhancement: Consumers’ Preferences for Biological vs. Mechanical Doping”
Speaker: Professor Peeter Verlegh (VU Amsterdam)
Co-authors: Jay Zenkic, Florian Buehler, Kobe Millet
“Buyer Dependency in Micro-Enterprises: The Interplay of Age and Gender”
Speaker: Dr Magda Hassan (Alliance Manchester Business School)
Co-authors: Jaideep Prabhu, Rajesh Chandy, Om Narasimhan, Soniya Gupta
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-13:00
Session II: Sustainability
Discussant: Professor Amitav Chakravarti (LSE)
“Is More Always Better? Beliefs about Money and Happiness Shape Support for Funding Environmental Initiatives”
Speaker: Dr Shilpa Madan (Singapore Management University)
Co-authors: Krishna Savani, Steve Su, Michael Morris
“The Role of AI in Waste Management”
Speaker: Dr Wanqing Zhang (Bayes Business School)
Co-authors: Ruhan Liu, Pradeep Chintagunta, Liqiang Huang
“The Enrichment Economy: Market Dynamics and Ethics”
Speaker: Professor Delphine Dion (ESSEC Business School)
Co-authors: Roman Pavlyuchenko, Sonja Prokopec
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Session III: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Discussant: Professor Zeynep Gurhan-Canli (Koc University)
“Gender Disparity in Online Reputation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Platform”
Speaker: Professor Anja Lambrecht (London Business School)
Co-authors: Xu Zhang, Mimansa Bairathi
“When Discrimination Outlasts Stigma: An Examination of Persistent Discrimination Dynamics”
Speaker: Dr Lez Trujillo-Torres (University of Illinois Chicago)
Co-authors: Laetitia Mimoun, Eileen Fischer
“Consumers Reward Brands for Including Models with Disabilities in Their Advertisements”
Speaker: Professor Zachary Estes (Bayes Business School)
Co-authors: Martina Cossu, Joachim Vosgerau
15:30-16:00
Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 - 16:45
Panel Discussion: What Research is Needed?
With practitioners working to address sustainability, precarity, and diversity, equity, and inclusion; moderated by Professor Anirban Mukhopadhyay (Bayes Business School)
- Mr Michael Brown (Head of Insight & Research UK & EMEA, UM)
- Mr Jez Groom (Founder & CEO, Cowry Consulting)
- Dr Sarah Fullick (Head of Impact and Evidence, The Trussell Trust)
16:45 - 17:00
Closing Remarks
From 17:15
For those who want to join: Drinks at a nearby pub