IACCM 2025 – Detailed Sessions and Operations

• Cross-Cultural Aspects in Empirical Data Collection
• Room: Lecture Hall C.IX.

• Cultural Factors
• Room: Lecture Hall C.IX.

• Greetings:
  • Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest
  • Marie-Thérèse Claes, President of IACCM
  • Miklós Stocker, Henriett Primecz, Conference Chairs
• Room: C.XI. Auditorium

• Keynote I. – Prof. Mária Csutora
• Reducing the carbon footprint: From shifting responsibility to taking responsibility
• Room: C.XI. Auditorium

• Room: Lecture Hall C.IX

• Session 1
  • Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development (7)
  • Room: J 501
  • Session Chair: Sára Csillag
  • The Perceived Justice of Performance Management in Family Firms – A Case Study Research
  • Éva Vajda; Attila Wieszt; Amitabh Anand
  • Human Resource Practices Across Borders: Insights from European Micro and Small Enterprises
  • Sára Csillag; Péter Csizmadia
  • From Critical Self-Reflection to Employability: Exploring Gaps in Student Self-Perceptions through Cultural Lenses
  • Rita Koris
  • Employee Engagement in the Hungarian IT Sector
  • Pajor, Beáta
• Session 2
  • Global Mobility – New Forms of Expatriation (8)
  • Room: J 505
  • Session Chair: David Guttormsen
  • Cross-cultural Management in Professional Football: Cultural Differences and Global Mobility
  • Zsolt Havran; Diána Fűrész; Ákos Jarjabka
  • Intra-MNE Talent Management and Global Mobility Impeded: The Role of Competition
  • David S. A. Guttormsen
  • Beyond Lifestyle Migration: Commercial, Social, and Health Infrastructures in International Retirement Migration to Hua Hin, Thailand
  • Selin Aksoy; Dzeneta Karabegovic; Kyoko Shinozaki

• Session 3
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, A (4)
  • Room: J 301
  • Session Chair: Henriett Primecz & Anna Hidegh
  • Discussant:
  • Compromise–Adaptation (Com-Ad) Theory for Multicultural Workplace Communication Inclusion: An Introduction
  • Rehna Sotto
  • Carrers of Women Managers in Illiberal Context of Hungary and Poland: a Qualitative Research
  • Henriett Primecz; Alexandra Bristow; Anna M. Górska; Irina Cheresheva; Anna Hidegh; Marton Rácz; Martyna Śliwa
  • The concept of ingroups and outgroups put into practice at the example of visible religion in the workplace
  • Christiane Erten; Anett Hermann

• Session 4
  • Digitalization, AI in Multicultural Work, A (5)
  • Room: J 304
  • Session Chair: Robert Marciniak
  • Discussant:
  • Ethical Digital Leadership with Intercultural AI: The AICOSMO Ubuntu Model
  • Papa Balla Ndong
  • Cross-Cultural Issues of AI: Systematic Literature Review and Agenda for Further Research
  • György Drótos
  • Agentic AI In Business Services Sector: Systematic Literature Review Of Opportunities, Challenges, And Implications
  • Róbert Marciniak

• Session 5
  • Cultural Competences, A (1)
  • Room:  J 302
  • Session Chair: Bice Della Piana & Andrea Toarniczky
  • Discussant:
  • Modelling Intercultural Online Meetings – Interactants and Roles
  • Henri de Jongste; Lisa Ahshoff; Denise Lemke; Sina Wieschhörster; M’hamed Chabouh; Andrea Merker
  • Cultural Influences on the Project Management Leadership Styles
  • Bálint Blaskovics; Viktória Csibi
  • Mapping entrepreneurship education in Italian University: a teaching-model analysis
  • Rosangela Feola; Bice Della Piana; Chiara Crudele; Bianca Barone

• Session 6
  • Universities as Multicultural and Multilingual Organisations: Cultural, Governance, and Leadership Challenges (9)
  • Room: J 303
  • Session Chair: Gergely Kováts and Katerina Machovcova 
  • Looking Back to Look Forward: From a Passport to the World to Empowering Changemakers for a Better Society. A Personal View from the Field After 30+ Years of Internationalisation in a New Era of Sustainability and Inclusion
  • Grant Douglas
  • Resilience in Academic Middle Management: Comparing Crisis Responses in Israel and the Czech Republic
  • Katerina Machovcova; Emanuel Tamir
  • The Role of University Senates in Hungarian Model Changing Insitutions
  • Gergely Kováts
  • Reflections on Pedagogical Tutoring in Graduate Studies: An Ethnographic Study in a Private Higher Education Institution in the City of São Paulo
  • Verônica Barreto

• If Nation-Based Models of Culture are Inadequate, Where Next?
• Learning from Intercultural Pragmatics
• Room: M101 Auditorium

• Session Chair: Henriett Primecz
• Hofstede matters
• Christiane Erten, Marie-Thérèse Claes, Senem Yazici, & Atila Karabag
• Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management
• Natalie Wilmot & Claudine Gaibrois
• Room: K709 Rooftop Café          

• Session 7
  • Role of Language in International Business (10)
  • Room: J 501
  • Session Chair: Natalie Wilmot
  • Multilingual communication in teams and organizations; opportunities and challenges for HE education
  • Kokkonen, Lotta; Natri, Teija
  • A Diachronic Analysis of Representations of Migrant Workers in Japan’s EPA Program: Focusing on Language
  • Otomo, Ruriko
  • Női menedzserek and Kobiety Menedżerki: Translanguaging as a Methodology for Researching Women’s Careers in the Semi-Periphery
  • Irina Cheresheva; Márton Rácz; Alexandra Bristow; Anna Górska; Anna Laura Hidegh; Henriett Primecz; Martyna Śliwa

• Session 8
  • Constructive Cross-Cultural Management, A (11)
  • Room: J 505
  • Session Chair: Sina Grosskopf
  • Constructivist Theory into Organizational Practice: Using a Small Language Model AI to interpret Intercultural Viability
  • Milton Bennett; David Trickey
  • Going beyond difference-based conceptions of multicultural teams to foster transcultural understanding within organisations: from research to practice
  • Alexander Frame; Andrea Cnyrim; Tobias Grünfelder Campoverde; Julika Baumann Montecinos; Naiara Arnaez Ortega
  • Multicultural Individuals as Creative Change Agents: How Migrants Disrupt Organizational Routines
  • Sina Grosskopf

• Session 9
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, B (4)
  • Room: J 301
  • Session Chair: Henriett Primecz & Anna Hidegh
  • Is There a Space for Diversity in the Italian Welfare System? The Case of DEI in Organ Donation/Transplantation and Minority Communities.
  • Ida Castiglioni
  • A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to the Sustainable Labour Market Integration of Low- and Middle-Skilled Refugees
  • Brandstetter, Johannes; Bešić, Almina

• Session 10
  • Digitalization, AI in Multicultural Work, B (5)
  • Room: J 304
  • Session Chair: Senem Yazici
  • Ethical Digital Leadership with Intercultural AI: The AICOSMO Ubuntu Model
  • Papa Balla Ndong
  • Bridging the Skills Gap: Redefining Information Technology Proficiency of Auditors in the Digital Age
  • Fekadu Agmas Wassie; László Péter Lakatos
  • Breaking Barriers: Digitalisation, AI, and Entrepreneurs with disabilities in a Global Context
  • Sára Csillag; Carmen Svastics; Zsuzsanna Győri

• Session 11
  • Geopolitical Turbulences and Cross-Cultural Management (12)
  • Room:  J 302
  • Session Chair: Liu Xiaomeng
  • Geopolitical turbulences and flows of human capital: the global mobility of football players
  • Zsolt Havran; Diána Fűrész; Ákos Jarjabka
  • Resilient Giants: Evidence on Crisis Stability and Institutional Embeddedness in the World’s Largest Cooperatives
  • Adrian Josef Amon

• Session 12
  • Open Track, A (16)
  • Room: J 303
  • Session Chair: Marie-Thérèse Claes & Chiara Cannavale       
  • Bold Roots: How Ubuntu Inspires Risk-Taking in African Entrepreneurship
  • Forster Ampadu; Bice Della Piana; Sara Carbone
  • Individual culture and cosumer behaviour
  • Chiara Cannavale; Lorenza Claudio
  • Exploring the Impact of Individual Cultural Distance on Value Co-Creation Mechanisms in International Innovation Teams
  • Nohaila Kartti; Chiara Cannavale                    

• Panel Chair: Prof. Marie-Thérèse Claes
• Panelists: Prof. Chiara Cannavale; Prof. Henriett Primecz; Prof. Bice Della Piana; Dr. Christiane Erten; Dr. Lorenza Claudio; Dr. Atila Karabag; Dr. Senem Yazici; Dr. Sina Grosskopf
• Room: M101 Auditorium

• Keynote 3 – Dr. Christof Miska
• Focusing on Purpose as Opportunity for Intercultural Research
• Room: M101 Auditorium

• Session 13
  • Sustainability, A (2) & Dynamics of Knowledge Sharing (12)
  • Room: J 501
  • Session Chair: Lorenza Claudio
  • Behind the hype – Can automotive companies really drive circular economy efforts?
  • Noémi Szilvia Lőrincz; Gergely Balázs; Márta Kiss
  • Why Circular Economy Transitions Are Harder for Oil-Exporting Countries: Structural and Cultural Barriers
  • Erjan Akhmedov
  • Running offside and losing pace: A knowledge absorption perspective on progressive regulation and frozen strategies for ESG-driven organizational changes
  • Zavarkó, Máté

• Session 14
  • Constructive Cross-Cultural Management, B (11)
  • Room: J 505
  • Session Chair: Éva Révész
  • Collaboration of Hungarian and Indian IT Engineers – Insights from the Hungarian Perspective
  • Anda Nóra Milassin; Gábor Kovács
  • Artificial Intelligence and Intercultural Unknowns: Towards a Future Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
  • David S. A. Guttormsen; Jon Hovland Honerud; Erik Lankut; Jakob Lauring; Cathrine Seierstad; Nina K. Prebensen; Kristin Bentsen; Marius Rohde Johannessen
  • From Homo Deus to Homo Curator – A Philosophical- negative Theological Turn in Cross-Cultural Management for the positive Anthropocene
  • Helene Cristini

• Session 15
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, C (4)
  • Room: J 301
  • Session Chair: Henriett Primecz
  • Assigned places, chosen futures: Gendered leadership pathways in a conservative welfare state – the case of Austria
  • Lisa-Marie Stauffer
  • Abstract: The common good created under the name of social innovation
  • Noémi Krátki
  • Succession in Hungarian Family Firms as Gendered Organizations
  • Gábor Rónaföldi-Széll; Anna Laura Hidegh; Attila Wieszt

• Session 16
  • Culture and Leadership (15)
  • Room: J 304
  • Session Chair: Wendelin Küpers
  • Simulating Leadership Across Cultures: Exploring the Role of Sustainable and Transformational Leadership Styles in Decision-Making
  • Gavkhar Turaeva; Zoltan Buzady
  • Relationship between Coach-Athlete Relationship and Resilience among Junior Players of State-Accredited Ice Hockey Academies in Hungary
  • Kiss, Csaba; Tóth, Renátó; Nagy, Attila; Benczenleitner, Ottó; Tóth, László
  • Trust Matters: Mediation Effects in the Relationship between Family Firm Culture Professionalization and Business Performance
  • Borbála Szüle; Zoltán Soma Kárpáti
  • Workplace Power Abuse Viewed Through A Cross-Cultural Lens – An Exploratory Study From The Visegrad Countries
  • Julianna Czifra; Csilla Csukonyi

• Session 17
  • Cultural Competences, B (1)
  • Room: J 302
  • Session Chair: Bice Della Piana & Andrea Toarniczky         
  • The Culture Simulator: an interpretive intercultural training tool
  • Arnold Enklaar
  • AI as a Catalyst for Innovation in Advertising: Preliminary Insights in terms of Cultural Adaptations
  • Micaela Tempesta; Forster Ampadu; Bice Della Piana; Sara Carbone
  • Embracing uncertainty: Is there a link between openness to cultural learning and adoption of generative AI technology?
  • Robert Johnson

• Keynote 4 – Prof. Vlad Vaiman
• Beyond Borders and Bias: AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent
• Room: M101 Auditorium  

• Session 18
  • Sustainability, B (2)
  • Room: J 501
  • Session Chair: Köves Alexandra
  • Cross-cultural influences on climate communication: Understanding how young adults in internationalized educational environments in Hungary perceive and respond to sustainability messaging
  • Tamara Rita Csordás
  • Plastic-Pickers and the Cost of Sustainability as Negative Externality: A Forgotten Stakeholder-Group in Sustainability Discourses?
  • David S. A. Guttormsen; Lailani L. Alcantara; Lucy Zhou Korvald
  • Western and Eastern Interpretations of Sustainability
  • Gábor Kovács

• Session 19
  • Global Virtual Teams (6) & Intercultural Communication (3)
  • Room: J 505
  • Session Chair: Katul Yousef
  • Privilege Dynamics: Expatriates’ Perceived Privilege During Crisis
  • Judit Vegh; Marie Therese Claes; Joyce Jenkins; Andrea Dúll; Lan Anh Luu Nguyen
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence and its Impact on Teamwork: A Comparative Study of Face-to-Face and Virtual Classroom Teams
  • Yousef, Katul; Szüle, Borbála
  • Crisis Communications: an intercultural Mediation process based on collective Intelligence
  • Gaskell, Vivienne

• Session 20
  • Cultural Competences
  • Room: J 301
  • Session Chair:  Bice Della Piana & Andrea Toarniczky
  • The Role of Cultural Intelligence in Multinational Team Performance
  • Judit Hidasi; Katinka Antal
  • Organizational Intercultural Competence: A Multilevel and Dynamic Perspective
  • Janaína Maria Bueno; Adriana Roseli Wunsch Takahashi; Zorana Jerinic Ivic
  • Reimagining Foundation Education through Intercultural Competence: A Learning Needs Perspective
  • Kyriaki Koukouraki
  • Fostering Internationalization and Inclusion through Peer-to-Peer Intercultural Support in Public Universities: The Case of Unisa Buddy System
  • Bice Della Piana; Sara Carbone; Sofia Galderisi; Serena Fariello

• Session 21
  • Open Track; B (16)
  • Room: J 304
  • Session Chair: Marie-Thérèse Claes & Chiara Cannavale
  • An interactive Journey into open Dialogue with the UNESCO Story Circle Approach
  • Vincent Merk
  • Reproducing Inequality Through Privileged Mobilities: A Case Study of International Retirement Migration to Hua Hin, Thailand
  • Selin Aksoy; Dzeneta Karabegovic; Kyoko Shinozaki
  • The Role of Message Explicitness in Brand Activism: A Cross-National Study of Instagram Engagement
  • Maria Ferraro; Francesca Avallone; Riccardo Resciniti                

• Journal of Business Ethics
• International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management
• Journal of Global Mobility
• Budapest Management Review (Vezetéstudomány)
• European Journal of Cross-cultural Management
• Room: K709 Rooftop Café