14:00-17:00 Council meeting at Augustinus Fonden's meeting room at Solbjerg Plads.
17:00-19:00 Registration at the centre square at Solbjerg Plads.
19:00 The Kiln Hall: Welcome address by President Finn Junge-Jensen
A buffet and drinks will be served afterwards.

The Kiln is the new and modern building on the CBS Campus, a two minutes' walk from the main building, Solbjerg Plads, which is where registration and the sessions will take place.

Carlsberg will host a reception in their historic buildings in Copenhagen. At the reception Dr. Teresa da Silva Lopes, Queen Mary University of London, will give a speech, and Chairman of the Board of Carlsberg, Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, will comment on it and give a brief presentation of the Carlsberg history.

The conference ends with a gala dinner at the Kiln Hall. Furthermore, the evening will entail the prize ceremony for the PhD competition; the winner will be awarded € 500.

The three keynote speakers at the conference are Neil Fligstein, Richard Whittington and Mary O'Sullivan. Below you will find a short presentation of them:

Neil Fligstein is Professor of Sociology and Class of 1939 Chancellor´s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of “The Transformation of Corporate Control” (1990) and “The Architecture of Markets” (2001). In these important books Neil has been able to combine sociological theories with historical issues such as the development of corporate governance systems and the creation and changes of modern capitalism. His main research interests lie in the fields of economic sociology, organisational theory, political sociology, and the sociology of work. He has been interested in developing and using a sociological view of how new social institutions emerge, remain stable, and are transformed to study a wide variety of seemingly disparate phenomena including the history of the large American corporation and the construction of a European legal and political system. He has extensively studied how American corporations reorganised themselves during the 1980s and 1990s in order to maximise shareholder value.

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management, at the Saïd Business School in Oxford. His current main research interest is building a ‘practice’ perspective on strategy and organisation. In the book “The European Corporation, Strategy, Structure and Social Science” (Oxford University Press, 2000) Richard Whittington and Michael Mayer analysed the strategic and structural development of the 100 largest corporations in Great Britain, Germany and France in 1983 and 1993. Richard is on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the British Journal of Management, the European Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Organisation Studies and Strategic Organisation. He is also co-editor of the Sage Strategy Series and is on the Council of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. Among his seven books are the prize-winning “What is Strategy - and Does it Matter?” and the biggest selling strategy textbook in Europe, “Exploring Corporate Strategy”. His research has featured regularly in the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times and People Management.

Mary A. O´Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Management at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. In the late 1980s she worked at Mckinsey & Co. in London and then at Harvard Business School were she graduated from the MBA programme in 1992. O´Sullivan subsequently joined the PhD programme in Business Economics at Harvard University. Having completed that degree in 1996 she spent six months as a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. She then became Associate professor at INSEAD before the appointment at Wharton.
Her broad research interests include political economy, the history of economic thought, and economic history. In April 2000 she published a book entitled Contests for Corporate Control with Oxford University Press. In this impressive book she compares and analyses in a historical perspective the corporate governance systems and economic performance of United States and Germany. O'Sullivan is now leading a major programme of research on the relationship between financial institutions and the corporate economy across countries and over time. Results will form the basis for a book, tentatively titled Money In, Money Out: Financial Systems and Economic Change across Nations, Industries and Companies.