Ljubljana Doctoral Summer School

9 – 13 July 2018 | 16 - 20 July 2018

Jörg Henseler, PhD, is Professor of Product-Market Relations and head of the Department of Design, Production & Management at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a visiting professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research interests encompass structural equation modeling (SEM) and the interface of marketing and design. Prof. Henseler is a leading expert on partial least squares (PLS) path modeling, a variance-based SEM technique that is particularly useful in studies focused on the success factors for businesses. He has published in scholarly journals including International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Supply Chain Management, MIS Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods, and he has edited two handbooks on PLS. He chairs the scientific advisory board of ADANCO, a new software for variance-based SEM. A popular guest speaker, Prof. Henseler has been invited by universities around the world to teach SEM to students, faculty, and professionals. On a regular basis, Prof. Henseler provides seminars on PLS path modeling at the PLS School, through which hundreds of scholars and practitioners have been trained in SEM.

Rok Spruk obtained a PhD in quantative economic history in 2016 from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is a research fellow at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business and is a joined member of Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics, American Economic Association, German Law and Economics Association and European Economic Association. In 2010, he started working at the European Enterprise Institute in Brussels and published two reports. In 2012, he enrolled in a Master program on international economics specializing in the globalization and development track at Utrecht School of Economics and graduated in the same year with a thesis on the augmented Solow growth model with institutions. In the same year, he was employed to prepare the proposal for the PhD in economic and social history under the supervision of prof. dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden. In 2013, he obtained the PhD position at the Department of Economic and Social History in a research project on institutions, growth and long-run development which resulted in this thesis. In 2015, he won Young Scholar Prize at the International Law and Economics conference in Ankara, Turkey for the paper on electoral law enforcement, political institutions and Latin America’s long-run development. His research interests encompass economic growth and development, new institutional economics, applied econometrics, causal inference methods, intellectual property and economic history. At the moment, he has published six high-ranked SSCI publications. His work has been accepted for presentation at several high-profile conferences.

Dr. Philipp E. Otto is specialized in Experimental Economics and Behavioral Game Theory. In 2007 he received his PhD from the University College London (UCL). He supported the LESSAC research team at ESC Dijon on experiments in consumer behavior as well as giving classes in statistics and organization management. Currently he is working for the DFG (German Science Foundation) on a project on threshold public goods at the Microeconomics Department of the Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Research interests include, among others, matching markets and price bargaining, social motives and learning, cognitive heuristics and strategy selection. Publications of his appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Socio-Economics, the Journal of Experimental Economics, the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Economica, and Kyklos.

Ulrike Schneider holds a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Vienna, a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Habilitation in Statistics from the Vienna University of Technology. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at the Vienna University of Technology where she teaches courses in econometrics such as panel data methods and microeconometrics. Her research interests involve model selection methods with a focus on Lasso-type estimators. She is interested in statistical theory as well as applications of these methods to economic questions, including finding determinants of economic growth and determinants of retirement decisions.

Martin Wagner is Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Faculty of Statistics of the Technical University Dortmund since October 2012. He was educated in Vienna, at the Technical University and the Institute for Advanced Studies, obtaining Diplomas in Mathematics (1995) and Economics (1998), as well as his Doctorate (2000). He obtained his Habilitation in Economics in 2007 at the University of Bern. Martin Wagner has worked at the Technical University of Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Bern and has been Professor of Econometrics and Empirical Economics at the University of Graz before his arrival in Dortmund. Visiting positions have brought him to Princeton University and the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests are econometrics, quantitative economics, transition economics and environmental economics.

Professor Arun Rai is Regents’ Professor and Harkins Chair in Information Systems at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He has also held visiting appointments at universities in Germany, France, Hong Kong, and Australia. His expertise is in IT-enabled innovation and business value, and IT-enabled governance of inter-organisational relationships. He co-founded the Robinson College of Business’ Center for Process Innovation to promote industry-university research partnerships. He was appointed Regents’ Professor in 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia for outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service, and he was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2010 for outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service to the Information Systems discipline.

Professor Rui Sousa has received his PhD from the London Business School. His doctoral work – based on case research - has been awarded the 2000/2001 EFQM PhD Thesis Award, an international award given by the European Foundation for Quality Management for the best thesis in Quality Management, recognizing an outstanding contribution to the development of the field and degree of innovation of the findings. His research has won several awards and has been published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Operations & Production Management and the Journal of Service Research. Rui serves on a number of Editorial Review Boards (e.g., JOM, IJOPM) and has served for six years in the Board of the European Operations Management Association. Rui has extensive experience in conducting case-based research and in teaching the case study methodology to PhD students. He has taught courses and seminars on the case study method internationally, including at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EDEN Doctoral Seminar in Research Methodology, EIASM, Brussels), Haskayne School of Business (University of Calgary, Canada), University of Exeter (UK), Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and the Decision Sciences institute Annual Meeting (US). He has taught at the London Business School, London School of Economics and in the major Portuguese Business Schools. His present research interests include service operations, digital economy and operations strategy.

Luisa Helena Pinto is a professor of international human resources management and organizational behavior at the FEP-UP, School of Economics at University of Porto. She studied work psychology (Bsc), completed an MBA from ISEE-UP at University of Porto and completed her PhD in Business Administration at University of Minho. Prior to joining FEP-UP, she was affiliated with the Aveiro University/Portugal, where she taught human resources management. She has also an extensive experience as consultant and human resources manager. She has served as global human resources manager at the biggest Portuguese conglomerate, coordinating HR activities across several countries in Europe, Africa and Brazil. Her international professional experience lead for her research interests in international human resources management, expatriation and cross-cultural management.

William Lazonick is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is president and co-founder of The Academic-Industry Research Network, a non-profit research organization. His most recent research has been funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Ford Foundation, European Commission, and Korea Economic Research Institute. Currently he occupies visiting positions at the University of Ljubljana, Telecom School of Management in Paris, and the University of London.

Professor Lazonick is the author of six books, including Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2009), which was awarded the 2010 Schumpeter Prize by the International Schumpeter Society. He has also edited eight books and published about 150 articles. In September 2014, his article “Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off” appeared in the Big Idea section of Harvard Business Review, and subsequently received the HBR McKinsey Award for outstanding article in the magazine in 2014. Lazonick is currently writing a book, The Theory of Innovative Enterprise, to be published by Oxford University Press.