Brown Bag Seminars
Bring your lunch and get some research input at the same time.
The Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences launches The Brown Bag Seminars. Throughout the semester, we will hold weekly research seminars that will take place at the same time and at the same place (again, every week). Everyone, regardless of the faculty belonging, is invited!
Brown Bag Seminar
Spring semester 2026 (Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 at room A-2.135)
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan 2026 | Alex Krumer | Molde University College | Trimming of extreme votes and favoritism: Evidence from the field |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Alessandro Di Mattia | Molde University College | Forfeit or Not Forfeit? The Impact of Round-Robin Format on Effort Provision: Evidence from Beach Volleyball |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Artur Swierczek | Molde University College | Unlocking Relational Performance in Supply Chains through Partitional Ambidexterity |
| 4 Feb 2026 | TBA | ||
| 11 Feb 2026 | No seminar | ||
| 18 Feb 2026 | No seminar | ||
| 25 Feb 2026 | Johan Holmgren | Molde University College | TBA |
| 4 Mar 2026 | No seminar Allmøte | ||
| 11 Mar 2026 | Francesco Maria Esposito | University of Birmingham | Hitting the Slopes and Not the Panic Button: Gender and Performance Following Negative Signals in Alpine Skiing |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Maria Olsson | BI | TBA |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Acar Kutay | Molde University College | TBA |
Fall semester 2025 (Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 at room M-101)
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Sep 2025 | Mariyan Rizov | Molde University College | Fintech and the Financing Gap: Cross-Country Evidence on Alleviating Constraints for Small Businesses |
| 10 Sep 2025 | Stefano Caneppele | University of Lausanne | Sports for the Planet – Analyzing the Sustainability of Major Sports Events |
| 17 Sep 2025 | Luigi Mittone | University of Trento | Social Dynamics in Tax Compliance: The Indirect Echo Effect of Observing Others' Tax |
| 24 Sep 2025 | Edoardo Marcucci | Molde University College | Urban Freight Transport and Storytelling: a stakeholder engagement tool for participatory planning and co-creation |
| 1 Oct 2025 | Ignacio Palacios-Huerta | London School of Economics | “Competitiveness” |
| 8 Oct 2025 | Tassew Tolcha | Molde University College | Evaluating the Dual Dimensions of Airline Performance: Operational Efficiency and Passenger Sentiment |
| 15 Oct 2025 | No seminar Allmøte |
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| 22 Oct 2025 | Jochen Jungeilges | University of Agder | Novel mechanism of noise-induced transitions in a 2D discontinuous asset market model |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Deodat Mwesiumo & Joanna Bardelosa Ervik | Molde University College | Learning to report, reporting to learn: Norwegian firms' experiences with sustainability reporting under new regulations |
| 5 Nov 2025 | Øystein Klakegg | Molde University College | UV-B light stimulates the production of Vitamin D3 in Atlantic salmon |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Harry Arne Solberg | NTNU | Pirate streaming of football: Theft from Football Clubs and Media Companies, or Robin Hood's Helping Hand to the Supporters? |
| 19 Nov 2025 | Eivind Tveter | Molde University College | Diminishing Returns in Transport Infrastructure Investment |
Spring semester 2025 (Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 at room A-2.044)
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2025 | Knut Peder Heen | Molde University College | ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CANCER AND THE USE OF SMOKELESS TOBACCO (SWEDISH SNUS) |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Kjetil Haugen | Molde University College | The guessing game and its implications for sport psychology research |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Heidi Hogset | Molde University College | The Agricultural Productivity Gap: Structural transformation and the food problem |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Daniel Goller | University of Bern | Reaching for Gold! The Impact of a Positive Reputation Shock on Career Choice |
| 12 Feb 2025 | Deodat Edward Mwesiumo | Molde University College | The willingness to adopt AI tools in the procurement function of Norwegian manufacturing firms: Organizational readiness matters |
| 19 Feb 2025 | Alex Krumer | Molde University College | Salience, expectations and loss aversion in contests. Theory and evidence |
| 26 Feb 2025 | No seminar Allmøte | ||
| 5 Mar 2025 (12:45) | Mahyar Eftekhar | Arizona State University | Reducing Food Waste in Production: A Field Experiment in Ghana |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Andrew Musau | Molde University College | 'Don't Know' Responses and Gender in Financial Literacy Surveys |
| 19 Mar 2025 | Arezoo Soltani | Molde University College | The Gamalsot festival: A festival to celebrate local food from the fjords of Norway |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Frédéric Dobruszkes | Université Libre de Bruxelles | The rationale for quantitative approaches in disabled mobility studies: Insights from Brussels, Belgium |
Fall semester 2024
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2024 | Ofer Azar | Ben Gurion University | Relative thinking with differentiated goods: Some experimental evidence |
| 4 Sep 2024 | Andrea Cynthia Duhamel | Le Havre University | More than a decade of work on post-disaster operations |
| 11 Sep 2024 | Joao Ferreira | Molde University College | Unlock the Potential of AI for Health - An Overview of Projects on Image Classification and Generative AI |
| 18 Sep 2024 | Erlend Vik | Molde University College | Differentiation of care – a social system perspective on integration of health services |
| 25 Sep 2024 | Mosi Rosenboim | Ben Gurion University | The Economic Value of Investors’ Moral Judgments about the Unethical Behavior of Firms |
| 2 Oct 2024 | No seminar | Allmøte | |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Arezoo Soltani | Molde University College | A recipe for decreasing soil erosion and agricultural sustainability: a case study from a land of water crises, Iran |
| 16 Oct 2024 | Asgeir Skålholt | NIFU | Effects of business cycle fluctuations on the school-to-work transition for vocational students – the role of general skills |
| 23 Oct 2024 | Mark Pagell | University College Dublin | Researching the operations and supply chains of charities |
| 30 Oct 2024 | Dries Goossens | Ghent University | The incomplete round robin sports tournament: a solution for youth and top professionals? |
| 6 Nov 2024 | Anolan Yamile Milanes Barrientos | Molde University College | Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things |
13 Nov 2024 B-135 from 12:00-14:00 | Gry Henriksen Trond Todalshaug Iversen | SIKT Molde University College | Personal data in research- and student projects Where to store the data? |
20 Nov 2024 A-1.025 | Georgios Nalbantis | University of Tubingen | Intra-League Loans in Football: How Dependency Jeopardizes Competitive Integrity |
Spring semester 2024
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan 2024 | Acar Kutay | Molde University College | Living in a World Reflecting Carl Schmitt’s Theoretical Imaginary: A World Organized by Antagonism and Ruled by Populist Authoritarian Regimes. |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Arezoo Soltani | Molde University College | Anthropogenic changes affecting health insecurity in Bangladeshi highlands |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Knut Peder Heen | Molde University College | A heuristic for finding cheating in chess |
| 31 Jan 2024 | Mathieu Winand | LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports | Towards a converged code of good governance in sport. A new approach to enhance sport federations’ governance practices. |
| 7 Feb 2024 | No seminar | Faculty meeting | |
| 14 Feb 2024 | Alessandro di Mattia | Molde University College | The Effect of a Structural Change in Round-Robin Tournaments with Four Teams: Evidence from Beach Volleyball |
| 21 Feb 2024 | Carla Di Oliveira | Molde University College | Greening the last mile: learnings from Oslo Living Lab |
| 28 Feb 2024 | Christos Anagnostopoulos | Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Molde University College | I feel Qatari today […] I feel disabled today, […] I feel like a migrant worker today…”: On sport, leadership, and moral legitimacy. |
| 6 March 2024 | Jorunn Hoås Rødal | Molde University College | Factors influencing the allocation of long-term nursing home places: An institutional logics perspective |
| 13 March 2024 | David A. Griffith | Texas A&M University | The Effect of Customer-Centric Strategy and Structure Alignment on the Dynamic Capability of New Product Portfolio Innovativeness and Firm Profit |
| 20 March 2024 | No seminar |
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| 3 April 2024 | Deodat Mwesiumo | Molde University College | What Do Higher Education Students in Norway Care About Most? – A Closer Look at Studiebarometeret 2023 |
| 10 April 2024 | Svein Bråthen | Molde University College | Assessment of large public sector investments – and some research derived from it |
| 17 April 2024 | Mariyan Rizov | Molde University College | Political Connections, Financial Constraints and Performance: Firm-level Evidence from Pakistan |
Fall semester 2023
12.15-13.15 in room A-1.058
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct. 2023 | Alex Krumer | Molde University College | On the cost of wearing white shorts in women’s sport |
| 1 Nov. 2023 | Josef Fahlén | Umeå University | The construction of sport integrity officers and the professionalization of ethics work – organizational footprints and systemic implications |
| 8 Nov. 2023 | Lars Klemsdal | University of Oslo | Managing the Work Situation: A Situation-centric Approach to the Study of Management and Organization |
| 15 Nov. 2023 | Carlos Sousa | Molde University College | To Stay or Not to Stay, that is the Question: Navigating Failure and Triumph in Foreign Market Entry |
| 22 Nov. 2023 | Lisa Hansson | Molde University College | Policy Narratives: Contentious Measures in Small Car-Dependent Cities |