14.00  -14.15

Opening

Carla Millar, Stephen Chen, Lee Waller

14.15 - 15.45

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Opening Panel of Experts

People and process challenges in the knowledge intensive nexus

      Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris

      Richard Cleverly, Global Head of Talent, Financial & Risk, Thomson Reuters

      Philip Sadler, Tomorrow’s Company and former CEO, Ashridge

      David Young, Head of Leadership Development BT Group at BT

Chair: Professor Kai Peters, CEO Ashridge Business School

15.45 - 16.30

Tea, Wyatt Room

16.30 - 18.30

Conference Session I:

I .1The Nexus of    Knowledge

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I .2 Leadership in    KIOs

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Trust and knowledge sharing 

Tatiana Khvatova, St Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia

Madeleine Block, St Petersburg State University, Russia                              

           Exploring the role of task-related trust in intra-organisational knowledge sharing

Roger Fullwood                , Manchester Metropolitan University, UK                      

            Factors affecting knowledge sharing amongst UK academics

Bindu Gupta, Ajay Singh, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India               

           Selected HR practices:  The moderating role of organizational cultural values

Session Chair: Martin Lockett, Ashridge Business School

Personality and creativity

Piia Uusi-Kakkuri, University of Vaasa, Finland                                                  

           Creative leaders:

           The relationship between creativity and a leader’s personality and gender

Lulu Zhou, Southeast University, China; 

Shuming Zhao, Nanjing University, China;

Feng (Karen) Tian, University of Newcastle, Australia;  

Xufan Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, China;

Huifei Ge, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

           Visionary leadership and employee creativity:

           Evidence from knowledge intensive organizations in China

Sandor Löwik, University of Twente, the Netherlands

          Wanted: A transformational leader or Machiavellist as CEO:

          How personality traits explain individual managerial ambidexterity

Session Chair: Angela Muir, Ashridge Business School

  19.00- 20.30

Dinner, Main Dining Hall

08.45 – 10.00

II .1  The Nexus of Knowledge

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II .2  Leadership in KIOs

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Conference Session II 

Managing knowledge

Chris Mabey, Middlesex University, UK

           Effective management of knowledge exchange:

          A conceptual investigation of five leadership paradoxes

Alastair McCapra, Chartered Institute of Public Relations, UK

          From KI to AI:

          Professional bodies and knowledge management in the age of the robot

Session Chair: Martin Lockett, Ashridge Business School

Self-Leadership for change and transformation

Terry Porter, University of Maine, USA

          Living the mission:

          A case study of a self-transforming UK civil society organization linking              

          knowledge management, social sustainability, complex systems

 Maria Nathan, Lynchburg College, USA

         The knowledge worker as CEO of self                 

Session Chair: Caryn Vanstone, Ashridge Business School

10.00–  10.30

Coffee, Wyatt Room

10.30 – 12.45

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12.45 – 14.00

Keynote Addresses I

Talent and knowledge cultivation in knowledge intensive firms

Philip Sadler, Senior Fellow, Tomorrow’s Company and former CEO Ashridge

          The talent intensive organisation, the 1993 starting blocks

Juani Swart, Professor of Human Capital, School of Management, University

           of Bath

          HR policies and processes to manage knowledge professionals in

          contemporary contexts

Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris

           Innovation, education and HR strategy in professional service firms 

Chair: Professor Stephen Chen, University of Newcastle, AUS; Chair AIRC4

Lunch, Main Dining Hall

14.00 – 16.00

III.1 The Nexus of    Knowledge

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III .2 Leadership in    KIOs

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Conference Session III

Ethics and trust

Barbara Wang, Ashridge Business School, UK

                Truth and trust: The IP challenge in the partnership of Chinese and   

              Western companies

Richard McGowan, Boston College, USA

                The tale of two weeds: tobacco, marijuana and the ethics of disgust

Katrina Hogan, Sandeep Gopalan, University of Newcastle, Australia

Leveraging codes of ethics through law to minimize agency costs

Session Chair:  John Mahon, University  of Maine, USA

Management styles

Nawtej Dosanjh, Hult International Business School, USA

          Top management influence and ambidexterity in managerial practice

Hemangi Bhalerao, Satishchandra Kumar, KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, India

          Impact of conflict management styles of leaders on the commitment

          level of subordinates in India

Kai Wing (Alex) Chu, CCC Heep Who College, Hong Kong, China

          Leading knowledge management in a school

Session Chair: Vicki Culpin, Ashridge Business School

 16.00 – 16.30  

Tea, Wyatt Room

16.30 – 18.30

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“The Ashridge Experience”

Caryn Vanstone,  Ashridge Business School and Lacerta Consulting

          Leading for innovation in KIOs:

          Rethinking knowledge, people, risk and the role of improvisation

18.30 – 19.30

A walk in the grounds or Tour of the Mansion and/or Publishing Clinic

19.30 – 20.00

Publishers’ Reception on the Loggia

20.00 – 22.00

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Conference Dinner in the Old Library

with

After dinner speech “Risk and leaders” by the ‘Priest of Sin’

08.45 – 10.15

IV. The Nexus of  Knowledge

 +    Leadership in    KIOs

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Conference Session IV

Leadership, teams and performance

Christina  Swart-Opperman,  Kurt April, University of Cape Town, S. Africa

Understanding innovation and emotive outlook of knowledge     

Teams in Namibia

Tomohiko Tanikawa, Meiji University Business School, Japan

Yuhee Jung, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

                The effect of TMT diversity in knowledge industry:

The interactive role of TMT diversity, the CEO power and past performance

Caroline Rowland, Roger Hall, University of Chester, UK

           Leadership in turbulent times:

           Realities of a white-water world

Session Chair: Kerrie Fleming, Ashridge Business School

10.15 – 10.45

Coffee, Wyatt Room

10.45– 12.45

Keynote Addresses II

Leading and developing people in knowledge intensive firms

Dame Fiona Woolf, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna and the 686th Lord

           Mayor of London (2013-2014)

          Talent development in the City

John Mahon, Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and

           Professor of Management, University of Maine, USA

          Knowledge acculturation, retention and corruption in knowledge

           intensive organizations

Vlatka Hlupic, Professor of Business and Management, Dept. of Leadership

          and Professional Development, Westminster Business School

         The management shift in knowledge intensive organisations  

Chair: Vicki Culpin,

Dean of Faculty and Director of Research, Ashridge Business School 

12.45 – 13.00

Concluding Practice                                                            Lee Waller, Chair AIRC4

Concluding Academe and Closing of conference        Carla Millar, Chair AIRC4

13.00 – 14.00

End-of-Conference Lunch, Main Dining Hall