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11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE JUNE 15 - 17, 2017 • KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY • PROGRAM 1 ARRANGED BY: 2 HOSTED BY: UNIVERSITY OF AGDER 3 SPONSORS PLATINIUM SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS OTHER 4 5 CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Sponsors 5 OPENING HOURS OF CONFERENCE INFORMATION DESK/OFFICE Contents 6 Location: School Of Business And Law, General Information 7 Kunnskapsparken, Room 9i 2 38 Words Of Welcome From The Thursday: 12:00–19:00 Executive Board 8 Friday: 08:00–18:00 Program Committee 12 Saturday: 08:00–12:30 Keynote Speakers Bio 14 Phone: +4748010541 Conference Tracks And Chairs 16 Program Overview 18 The event is open to registered delegates only. Thursday, June 15Th 19 All attendees are required to wear their conference badges at all times. Distinguished Book Authors And COMPANIONS Editors Panel 21 Partners are welcome to participate in the social program. Please Social Program Thursday 21 register them as accompanying persons through our registration th Friday, June 16 22 system. Parallel Session #1 22 Parallel Session #2 23 FIRST AID ASSISTANCE Parallel Session #3 24 If first aid is required, please inform a member of the staff Sightseeing With M/S Maarten 26 immediately. Gala Diner At Scandic Kristiansand Email: [email protected] Phone: 0047 480 10 541 Bystranda Hotel 26 LOST & FOUND Awards 27 The lost and found is located at the conference office in Saturday, June 17th 28 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND LAW, Kunnskapsparken, Room 9i 2 38 Parallel Session #4 29 Parallel Session #5 30 TRANSPORTATION IN KRISTIANSAND Chair And Panel Guidelines 32 BUS Overview University Of Agder 34 Time table at http://akt.no/ Network Access 35 Departure from City Hall (Rådhuset) in the City Centre - 12 min, Bus M1, M2 and M3 (Bus map in the Conference bag) * = Presenting paper TAXI Agder Taxi: +47 380 02 000 Taxi Sør: +47 380 28 000 6 WIFI: Log on to UiA Guest 7 Username: gftnu • Password: VDQU WORDS OF WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Dear Presenters, Participants and Guests, economics, political science, history, sociology and other relevant and approximately 1100 faculty and staff members. The academic on Dec 19, 2016, to normalize relations after six years of freeze. The China goes Global (CGG) Conferences have roots in a 2005 disciplines. We welcome the delegates, presenters, and guests activities are organized into seven faculties including the UiA School Norway’s Foreign Minister Borge Brende talked with China Daily’s Mo Rollins College conference and a subsequent foundation grant to the 11th annual conference of CGG to the University of Agder, of Business and Law. The UiA School of Business and Law is a Jingxi about his expectations for bilateral ties earlier this year (13 from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung for a trans-Atlantic joint Kristiansand, Norway. comprehensive, academic institution with over 2 200 students and January 2017). His main points: research project with Rollins College, Georgia Tech, Harvard University 100 faculty and staff members. The school offers programs on all and Jacobs University on China’s outward investment. Ever since the Kristiansand is the fifth largest city in Norway with nearly 90,000 academic levels and provides future professionals and executives • China and Norway have complementary economies, and first conference in 2005, which was held at Rollins College in Florida, inhabitants, located on the southern tip of the country. The area has with a strong foundation in wide range of relevant subjects. both countries will benefit greatly from enhanced economic the China goes Global™ conference has benefited and thrived from a temperate climate with warm summers and cool winters and the www.uia.no/en/about-uia/faculties/school-of-business-and-law. cooperation. Norway has solid expertise and experience in the enthusiasm, motivation and dedication of the members of the climate is warmer than most other places at the same latitude with Research is the cornerstone of the academic mission of the UiA sectors such as environmental technology, maritime, offshore oil Chinese Globalization Association (CGA). 18.6 °C (65.5 °F) as an average temperature in mid-June. The city School of Business and Law. The research based education fosters and gas exploration and fish farming which can benefit China. has a compact city center and the University of Agder is located in the interaction between research and teaching with dedicated The rise of China as a global economic power and the increasing its immediate vicinity. Kristiansand has historically been part of researchers in all business disciplines. For the faculty, this means • Norway has an open economy that welcomes foreign direct awareness of its impact on international trading regimes have an international oriented region with close ties to Great Britain and publishing in top ABS-rated journals as well as being able to investment. This includes investments from China, as has engendered a new dialogue about intercontinental business continental Europe. As a consequence, most citizens speak excellent communicate new insight in student teaching. The research from the also been the case over the past years. As an advanced, matters. We founded the Chinese Globalization Association in 2012 English and several other languages are also well represented among Business School is published in leading scholarly journals as well knowledgebased economy, Norway is an attractive destination to support and encourage academic research on the phenomenon the 150 nationalities living in the city. In Norway, Kristiansand is best as in books published by top rated international publishing houses. for Chinese investment. of the contemporary globalization of China, not only as an exchange known as a summer destination, while the rest of the world knows UiA School of Business and Law is by many seen as the leading of knowledge between academic and business institutions but it as a world class center for innovations in oil-services and offshore European center for research in the field of international business • Norway is already an active member of the AIIB, and we hope also to advance public awareness of the issues. Each year, more drilling technology. Large international companies such as NOV, Aker and emerging markets. that the bank will prove to be an important vehicle for Norwegian than 100 scholars attend the China goes Global™ conference. Maritime and Schlumberger have for many years, been present in the investments in Asia. Their contributions not only add to the growth of knowledge about city employing engineers in thousands. The Nordic countries were among the first to establish diplomatic China’s modern political and economic development, global crises relations with the People’s Republic of China, and since then have • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is currently the world’s largest of and changes in business and people interaction but also ensure a The University of Agder is a new and modern university located at enjoyed longstanding and friendly relations. While each Nordic its kind, and has already made substantial investments in China. realistic perspective on the changes we face in the world market. the southern tip of Norway. Being a driving force for societal and country values its own bilateral relationship with China, there are The Chinese Globalization Association (CGA), Inc., a non-profit regional development, the University of Agder pays close contact some areas where there may be room for further coordination. • Norway has the ambition to be a knowledge hub for polar issues organization, was formed exclusively for charitable, scientific, and with industry, organizations and cultural institutions. It is an People’s Republic of China – Norway relations date back to the and research. We have a large portion of our population living educational purposes. Its mission is to assist, promote, and advance internationally oriented university in a region exposed to strong 1950s with official establishment of diplomatic missions on 5 above the Arctic Circle in a region that generates wealth for the the development of the emerging field of study and research on international competition. www.uia.no/en. The university offers a October 1954. However, on 8 October 2010, after the announcement entire country. We have had a longstanding and mutually Chinese globalization, emphasizing multidisciplinary approaches, variety of PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s programs covering most of the next recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (Liu Xiaobo), the relations beneficial cooperation with China on Arctic issues. China has 8 including fields of knowledge such as international business, academic disciplines. There are currently 12,000 students enrolled between the two countries deteriorated. China and Norway decided established a research facility on the island of Svalbard. 9 • Research in the Arctic is pivotal to understanding climate change and how it affects our environment, and the changes • Norway, with its superior environment of innovation, strong are happening faster in the Arctic than anywhere else. Norway research capability, and outstanding resource power, as well as also welcomed China’s participation as an observer in the Arctic unique advantages and characters in shipping, fishing, energy, Council in 2013. environmental protection and oil and gas exploration, has expanded its business ties with China from trade to investment • Norway is pleased with the rapid increase in Chinese tourists cooperation, technology transfer, engineering projects and other to Norway, and looks forward to welcoming more tourists sectors. from China in the years ahead. Norway has taken steps to facilitate swift processing of visas for Chinese nationals, and is • By December 2016, Norway has had 495 investment projects continuously looking at ways to further enhance services in this in China with investment totaling 620 million USD, while China’s regard. investment in Norway has amounted to 3.55 billion USD. • Norwegian educational and research institutions have also • Business delegates from both sides also held seminars on shown great interest in broadening the cooperation with their China-Norway oil and natural gas collaboration, green smart city Chinese counterparts.