guest lectures

“You need eyes in the back of your head”: the challenges of scale, uncertainty and complexity in internationalizing a successful venture

by Chris Mould

Founder and CEO, Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion

Profiled by Guardian Newspapers as one of the UK’s top social entrepreneurs, Chris Mould is an innovative leader, widely experienced in both the public and the voluntary sector. Chris has launched more than 20 organisations. He is the founder and CEO of the award-winning Foundation for Social Change and Inclusion, a Bulgarian organisation working to break the cycle of poverty which he has been internationalizing across the Balkans and Southeast Europe since 2015.

In this public guest lecture that is part of the MSc in Internatioal Business programme, Chris will discuss the particular challenges of scale, uncertainty and complexity that face anyone seeking to internationalize a successful venture. Drawing on his personal experience, Chris will highlight a number of issues that warrant attention and suggest strategies that will help entrepreneurs navigate the territory.

Time

09:15 - 10:15; Thursday, October 5, 2023

Venue

1.001 (Seminar), Pontoppidanstræde 101 (Pon101), Aalborg

“VUCA on steroids: A world gone mad!” What happens then to good intentions?

By Chris Mould

A conversation about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on poverty, inequality, access to quality education, and the Non-governmental sector’s role in promoting resilience and capturing value. Learn more about Chris Mould and his lecture here.

Time

12:30 - 13:30; Friday, 4 November 2022

Venue

003 (Seminar), Fibigerstræde 11 (Fib11), Aalborg

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know? The Role of the Business School in the Production of High Impact Entrepreneurs

By Chris Mould

Time

13:30 - 15:30, March 19, 2020

Venue

Room 21, Fibigerstraede 2, Aalborg, 9220, Denmark

Learn more about Chris Mould and his lecture here.

The creation and legitimation of new industries

By Romeo V. Turcan.

This phenomenon - creation and legitimation of new industries - has received scant attention in academic research and has been misinterpreted and inefficiently practiced by policy makers and development organizations. The lecture will proceed by exploring the identified above gap, grounding the discussion in a typology of legitimation. Then the emergent process model of new industry creation and legitimation is presented and discussed. A reflection on phenomenon under investigation and its impact on policy will conclude the lecture.

This Book a Researcher lecture is part of the Festival of Research that takes place between April 25 and May 1.

Venue

More info about the lecture and the Book a Researcher initiative you may find here.

"Legitimation of radical innovation: Silicon Valley experience"

Norman M. Fraser

Norman M. Fraser is Founder and Executive Chairman of SoftIron, a company that is disrupting the $40B data storage market with product and business model innovation. Issues and challenges of legitimating such radical innovation are discussed by Norman drawiing on his recent experience from Silicon Valley. 

Venue

Fib 4.15, Aalborg University.

Time/Date

14.00-15.30, March 21, 2017

Flyer

Could be accessed here.

Vertical take-off: Participant reflections on creating high growth businesses 

By Norman M. Fraser

Drawing on a host of illustrative anecdotes and participant observations, Fraser examines the life cycle of each of the different business types, highlighting key threats and critical success factors for each. He analyses the tension between the need to innovate to differentiate versus the challenge of legitimizing newness. He sheds light on strategies to break out of stalled growth plateaus and progress up the value chain. And he explores the pros and cons of pivoting a business to address new realities.

Venue

Fib 15.B, Aalborg University.

Time/Date

14.30-16.00, October 20, 2015

Flyer

Could be accessed here.

Series of invited lectures by Romeo V. Turcan at the International Scientific Conference for Young Researchers on 'Social Transformation in Contemporary Society' on: 

• Theorizing and theory building employing typologies

• Discovering one's own voice in cross-domain research

• Discovering your research phenomenon (workshop)

Venue

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius

Date

June 4-5, 2015 

Theorizing and theory building employing typologies

By Romeo V. Turcan

Topics discussed: Why theory building - How to construct typologies - Theory driven typologies - Data driven typologies - Within case analysis (incl., coding) - Cross case analysis (incl., coding) - Building typologies (examples) - Evaluation criteria - Toward a higher level  of theorizing.

Venue

11am to 12.30pm, Room 301, College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island

Date

6 Nov 2014

Re-defining International Entrepreneurship: In search for its domain 

By Romeo V. Turcan

What is the domain of research of International Entrepreneurship? How is International Entrepreneurship defined? How much do we actually borrow from International Business to inform International Entrepreneurship? Are there any other/more disciplines to borrow from? Shall we revisit the intersection?

These and other questions Romeo V. Turcan addressed in his presentation at the mini conference on "The New Research Themes in International Entrepreneurship" hosted by the International Business & Entrepreneurship Unit at University of Southern Denmark on May 22-23, 2014. Romeo's presentation is available here.

Venue

University of Southern Denmark

Date

22 May 2014

How to do a PhD in a conventional university setting using the grounded theory research methodology

By Andy Lowe

Some key issues in this lecture that Dr. Lowe will address relate to: Indicators of a productive PhD researcher/PhD supervisor relationship;  The decision and consequences of doing a “monograph” PhD or “publish as you go” PhD;  How the university regulations will impinge on your PhD;  How to work within the university regulations;  Managing your PhD committee; Getting published.

Venue

Room 0-08, Fibigerstraede 10, Aalborg University

Date

15 May 2013

The process of theory building: Issues, challenges and contributions 

By Romeo V. Turcan

How do we advance our research fields? Via theory building as one way of many would be the answer. But how do we actually do it? How do we conduct research in an emerging field, in a field that is at the intersection of multiple theoretical frameworks, or on a phenomenon that is not convenient to research? How do we go from pure description where most of research actually stops in a qualitative enquiry to develop propositions, advance middle range theories, and go beyond a substantive theory? 

Venue

Oulu University, Oulu, Finland

Date

15 May 2012

Theory building: issues, challenges and contributions

By Romeo V. Turcan

How do we advance our research fields? Via theory building as one way of many would be the answer. But how do we actually do it? How do we conduct research in an emerging field, in a field that is at the intersection of multiple theoretical frameworks, or on a phenomenon that is not convenient to research? How do we go from pure description where most of research actually stops in a qualitative enquiry to develop propositions, advance middle range theories, and go beyond a substantive theory?

Venue

Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde

Date

29 Mar 2012