Leeds University Business School Doctoral Research Conference 2025

The Leeds University Business School Doctoral Research Conference will bring together Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) from all departments, providing a platform to present frontier research.

About the Conference

Location: Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds LS1 2HA

The LUBS Doctoral Conference will bring together Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) from all departments providing them with a platform to present excellent and frontier research.

Our aim is to foster strong research connections among PGRs, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), supervisors, and colleagues in the Business School. PGRs will have the opportunity to develop research presentation and communication skills, receive constructive feedback, and inspire researchers across centres and departments in the School.
 
The includes a mix of plenary, panel and breakout sessions. The breakout sessions will follow a Pecha Kucha, short presentation, methodology to allow for as many people in our community to participate as possible, and to provide plenty of space for discussion and dialogue.
 
The Business School has research strengths across many fields and disciplines, with theoretical, methodological and empirical depth that can offer insights and solutions to the most challenging and pressing of issues, be they corporate, policy-related or more societal. 

Programme overview

9:00-9:15	Arrival & refreshments	Merchants Hall
9:15-9:30	Welcome	Herringbone
9:40-10:45	Parallel sessions 1 - 5	(see below)
10:45-11:15	Break & poster session	Herringbone
11:15-12:40	Publishing session	Herringbone
12:40-13:40	Lunch	Merchants Hall
13:40-14:45	Parallel sessions 6-11	(see below)
14:45-15:00	Break	Merchants Hall
15:00-16:05	Parallel sessions 12-16	(see below)
16:05-16:20	Break	Merchants Hall
16:20-17:35	Wellbeing Session	Herringbone
17:35-late	Drinks reception & awards	Merchants Hall

Room Guide

1st Floor: Herringbone Suite; Cotton, Tailors, Bobbin

2nd Floor: Tweed, Denim, Wool, Seamstress

Full programme

Arrival & Refreshments: 09:00-09:15

Merchants Hall

Welcome from Mark Stuart: 09:15-09:30

Herringbone, 1st floor

Parallel Sessions 1-5: 09:40-10:45

Parallel Session 1, Management & Organisations

09:40-10:45, Tweed, 2nd floor 

09:40-10:00	Exploring the Relationships Between Ethical Leadership, Illegitimate Tasks, and Employee Well-being: The Moderating Roles of Justice Sensitivity and Psychological Entitlement	Norah Alsalhi
10:00-10:20	Intra-Individual Goal Conflict: A Self-Regulatory Model	Ellie Lucas
10:20-10:40	Servant leadership, PSM and Organisational Citizen Behaviours in the Nigerian Public Sector: Exploring Religion as a Moderator	Abioye Dada

Session Chair:  Mark Robinson

Discussants:  Selorm Agbleze, Anna Viragos, Peikai Li

Parallel Session 2, Accounting & Finance

09:40-10:45, Denim, 2nd floor

09:40-10:00	The digital trail of the main street and stock price synchronicity	Aygyro Angeli
10:00-10:20	Public Scrutiny and Supply Chain Decarbonization	Fangqi Guo
10:20-10:40	What Fees do Investors Really Pay for Private Capital Funds?	Oliver Bell

Session Chair: Kevin Keasey

Discussant:  Moshfique Uddin, Vladimír Pažitka, Costas Lambrinoudakis

Parallel Session 3, International Business

09:40-10:45, Wool, 2nd floor 

09:40-10:00	Unpacking the impact of the innovation ecosystem on EMNEs’ innovation performance in international business	Qian Cheng
10:00-10:20	Firm- Level International Experience Puzzle Revisited: Unpacking the consequences of experience on MNEs’ foreign market entry and exit strategies	Zhuo Wang
10:20-10:40	Multinational Enterprises’ Environmental Outcomes after Green Foreign Direct Investment (GFDI)	Xiaoyin Na

Session Chair:  Maria Ilieva

Discussants:  Xinran Wang, Christos Antoniou, Cyntia Vilasboas Calixto Casnici

Parallel Session 4, Marketing 

09:40-10:45, Cotton, 1st floor 

09:40-10:00	Economic Inequality and Pricing for Premium Products	Ming Cheng
10:00-10:20	Seeing Mind in Machines: How Similarity Perceptions Drives AI Receptivity Among Collectivists	Maren Doemer
10:20-10:40	OPTIMIZING PROMOTIONAL COMPETITIONS: THE IMPACT OF SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE CONTEST ENTRY TYPES	Ying Jin

Session Chair:  Martin Heinberg

Discussant:  Sourindra Banerjee

Parallel Session 5, Economics

09:40-10:45, Seamstress, 2nd floor 

09:40-10:00	Time and Consumption Poverty in India	Hritic Gautam
10:00-10:20	Multiple Structural Breaks in Heterogeneous Spatial Panels with Latent Common Factors	Yi Pang
10:20-10:40	The Role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Female Employment	Belyse Umwali

Session Chair:  Kausik Chaudhuri

Discussant:   Peter Phelps

Refreshment Break and Poster Session – 10:45-11:15

Herringbone, 1st floor

1.	What role do network-based ecosystems play as organisations build and deploy endowments of resilience during crises? Heather Midgley (People, Work & Employment)
2.	Discovering Degrowth Practices: A Search For Sustainable Work in Not-for-profit Worker Cooperatives Luke Nolan (People, Work & Employment)
3.	Creative Work and Artificial Intelligence Yunus Emre Oztas (People, Work & Employment)
4.	How does the policy mix affect firm financial performance? The mediating roles of green innovation and firm environmental performance Yiming Qian (Economics)
5.	Does Corporate Social Responsibility Enhance Financial Returns in High-Corruption Environments? Evidence from Emerging Markets Minyi Ren (Economics)
6.	Is Your Co-Worker Human Enough to Trust? Yagiz Talay (Management & Organisations)
7.	Sustaining attention to positive while early vigilance for negative environmental information: Evidence from eye movements Jie Tang (Management & Organisations)
8.	Sipping the Change: The Effect of Self-benefit Appeals on Customer Participation in Bringing Their Own Cups Sena Toprakci Masir (Marketing)
9.	Navigating Uncertainty: TMT Gender Diversity, Risk, and Digital Transformation Yue Wu (International Business)
10.	(Forced) Labour Supply Chain: Pathways making Migrants vulnerable to Forced Labourers in the UK Ying Zhang (Analytics, Technology & Operations)

Publishing Session – 11:15-12:40

Herringbone, 1st floor

This session is split into 2 parts, a panel session and a practical ‘How to’ talk.

Panel session

In the first part you will hear from a panel of current and ex-LUBS PGRs at different stages of their publishing journey.  They will talk about the path towards publication and share their personal experiences.  There will be plenty of time to ask your questions to the panel members.

Panel members:

• Miguel Dindial, International Business

Miguel is an academic in LUBS and has had papers published from his PhD and subsequent research

• Alexandra Seehaus

Alexandra is a recent PGR and now LUBS academic and she is in the process of getting her papers published

• Zhuo Wang

Zhuo is a current PGR, recent recipient of a Scholarship for Publication and has just begun her publishing journey

Turning chapters into publications

In the second part of the publishing session Professor Costas Katsikeas will share some practical insights and guidelines on how to turn thesis chapters into publications.  There will also be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

Chair:

Effie Kesidou, Head of the Graduate School 

Lunch: 12:40-13:40

Merchants Hall

Parallel Sessions 6-11: 13.40-14:45

Parallel Session 6, Management and Organisations

13:40-14:45, Tweed, 2nd floor

13:40-14:00	Advancing Sustainable Management of Household Food Waste in the UK: An application of the Behaviour Change Wheel	Chuyao Kuang
14:00-14:20	Understanding Refrigerator Management Behaviours: A COM-B Model Informed Qualitative Study	Can Cheng
14:20-14:40	Tensions in Corporate Sustainability	Zhuoran Ma

Session Chair:  Deema Refai

Discussants:   Anna Viragos, Peikai Li, Deirdre Coveney

Parallel Session 7, Accounting & Finance

13:40-14:45, Denim, 2nd floor

13:40-14:00	Where People Bank, Credit Expands: Migration-Driven Deposits and Credit Supply	Andrea Charalambous
14:00-14:20	Financial Technology Adoption by Banks and Its Impact on Bank Stability	Bipasha Barua
14:20-14:40	SASB Standards Adoption, ESG Disagreement, and Stock Returns	Mohammed Quotb

Session Chair:  Kevin Keasey

Discussants:   Alessio Bongiovanni, Valeriya Dinger, Lu Qiao

Parallel Session 8, International Business

13:40-14:45, Wool, 2nd floor

13:40-14:00	Negotiated trust culture: Boundaries of cultural expectations in international strategic alliances	Alireza Kamali
14:00-14:20	Intra- Africa trade and the Regional Economic Integration as International Business Policy	Roland Maposa
14:20-14:40	Centrality in Syndication Networks: the Importance of Local and International Firms for Venture Capital Performance	Yuanyuan Quan

Session Chair:  Christos Antoniou

Discussants:  Dimitrios Georgakakis, Skylar Wan, Maria Ilieva

Parallel Session 9, People, Work & Employment

13:40-14:45, Cotton, 1st floor

13:40-14:00	The effectiveness of Trade Unions as a mechanism of Voice for Employees in the Nigerian banking sector	Gogo Anyanwu
14:00-14:20	Competition and Collaboration among Indian Independent Musicians in the Platform Economy	Aditya Lal
14:20-14:40	Structural Intersectionality and Patriarchal Notion: Unpacking Women's Labour Market Segregation in Bangladesh	Alvy Riasat Malik

Session Chair:  Charles Umney

Discussant:   Abbie Winton

Parallel Session 10, Analytics, Technology & Operations

13:40-14:45, Seamstress, 2nd floor

13:40-14:00	Contradictions across Information Management Activities: A Study of Power, Culture, and Mechanisms	Mustafa Kamel Mohammadi
14:20-14:40	Dynamic Flows of Algorithmic Power in Digital Platforms	Yushan Yang

Session Chair: Xingjie Wei

Discussants:  Joshua Weller, Chee Yew Wong

Parallel Session 11, Economics

13:40-14:45, Tailors, 1st floor

13:40-14:00	Environmental Spillovers from Emerging-Market Mncs into their Home Country	Shuang Wang
14:00-14:20	China’s Policy Uncertainty: Some Political Economy Insights	Ning Yang
14:20-14:40	Spillover of Conventional and Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy on Saudi Arabia: A Local Projections Analysis	Nouf Bin Muqbel

Session Chair:  Effie Kesidou

Discussant:   Leila Gautham

Refreshment Break – 14:45-15:00

Merchants Hall, Ground floor

Parallel sessions 12-16: 15:00 – 16:05

Parallel Session 12, Management & Organisations

15:00-16:05, Tweed, 2nd floor

15:00-15:20	Thailand Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Institution Effects on Process and Strategy of Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurs	Salilporn Soubsawwong
15:20-15:40	Implicit attitudes towards imperfect fresh produce: reduce the intuition “Ugly = Bad” by using implied motion	Chenyi Zhu
15:40-16:00	Forging complementary and escape paths: Entrepreneurial network agency to navigate corruption in Zimbabwe	Charles Zhuwau

Session Chair:  Matt Davis

Discussants:   Deirdre Coveney, Selorm Agbleze, Anna Viragos

Parallel Session 13, Accounting & Finance

15:00-16:05, Denim, 2nd floor

15:00-15:20	Director Reelection Pressure and Employee Mistreatment: Evidence from Wage Theft	Wenqi Guo
15:20-15:40	Cross-border VCs and Social Connectedness	Zicen Zhao

Session Chair:  Kevin Keasey

Discussants:    Jiayi Yuan, Kostas Bozos

Parallel Session 14, Analytics, Technology & Operations

15:00-16:05, Wool, 2nd floor

15:00-15:20	The process of aligning technology frames in digital archival projects	Bashaer Alrukaibani
15:20-15:40	From Past Floods to Future Resilience: Learning and Adapting Interdependency in Healthcare Systems	Mawaddah Ghazali
15:40-16:00	Interoperability in Humanitarian Sector	Anas Khitou

Session Chair:  Chee Yew Wong

Discussant:   Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Xingjie Wei, Joshua Weller

Parallel Session 15, People, Work & Employment

15:00-16:05, Cotton, 1st floor

15:00-15:20	DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN THE BENGALURU GARMENT CLUSTER	Tim Marsh
15:20-15:40	Job Quality in Small and Medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa	Kayaga Matovu

Session Chair:  Abbie Winton

Discussant:   Charles Umney

Parallel Session 16, Marketing

15:00-16:05, Seamstress, 2nd floor

15:00-15:20	Strategic AI emphasis: measurement and consequences	Ali Obaidan
15:20-15:40	Can Joint (vs. Separate) Evaluate Donation Appeals Impact Moral Emotions?	Minghao Xu
15:40-16:00	Artificial Intelligence adoption in Marketing and its Influence on Firm Performance	Qi Zhang

Session Chair:  Martin Heinberg

Discussant:  Zhaleh Najafi Tavani

Refreshment Break – 16:05-16:20

Merchants Hall, Ground floor

PGR Wellbeing Session: 16:20 – 17:35     

Herringbone, 1st floor

Madeleine Robinson and Michelle Shortland from the Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Team will lead this interactive session that will highlight common areas of stress that PGRs often encounter.  The session will include:

• Why is wellbeing important
• Group activity to share PGR thoughts on wellbeing and managing stress
• Strategies for managing your wellbeing
• Why PGR communities are important
• Group activity to share ideas for group community building events
• Signposting to University wellbeing resources

There will be plenty of time for you to ask the panel any questions you may have.

Chair: Ghasem Zaefarian, Deputy Head of the Graduate School

Drinks Reception and Awards Presentation by the Dean: 17:35 onwards      

Merchants Hall

LUBS Doctoral Research Conference 2025 ABSTRACTS

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