Date & Time: 30 January 2026, 12:00 UTC (View Local Time)
Point of Contact: Bin Liu (binliu@xmu.edu.cn)
Host Organizations: Emerging Markets Shared Interest Group, Sustainability Shared Interest Group, and Women in the Academy of International Business
Event Recording Access: Current AIB members will be able to access a recording of this event in the “AIB Video Archive” section of our login portal. New webinar recordings are typically posted within five business days of the original event date.
Event Overview: Inequality is about the state of not being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. It encompasses multiple dimensions such as economic disparities (e.g., income and wealth inequality), social and legal exclusion (e.g., discrimination), and opportunity gaps driven by demographic characteristics (e.g., ethnicity, gender, and religion).
In this webinar, each panelist will provide a brief research update (15 mins each) related to topics about inequalities in race, gender, etc. Topics will reflect panelists’ ongoing research or work with flexibility to highlight key trends, case studies, or regional insights. Panelists will facilitate breakout sessions, centering on their topics.
About this Event Series: This webinar is presented as the first in a series titled “Imagining a Way Forward” organized by AIB’s Emerging Markets Shared Interest Group in collaboration with the Sustainability Shared Interest Group and Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB). This series is being planned as a set of events framed by free-flowing conversations, engaged in imagining how businesses, governments and society should interact to create a truly sustainable, equitable, secure, and safe future. The underlying premise of these conversations is that the way businesses, governments, and society have been interacting is not sufficient to handle the geopolitical and environmental challenges facing them. This series explores how business, government and societies can collaborate and shape a future that is truly sustainable and equitable. Rather than fixed presentations, these webinars are open, adaptive dialogues designed to surface diverse perspectives, bold ideas, and collaborative energy. Set against the dynamic backdrop of emerging markets, each session brings together a global community of practitioners, policy-makers, and academics to challenge assumptions and co-create new pathways forward.
PANELISTS
Lutz Preuss is a Professor in Strategic Management at Kedge Business School. He obtained his doctorate from King’s College London. Prior to joining Kedge, he taught at the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, and at Royal Holloway University London, Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh and the University of Reading. His research focuses on managerial cognition in the context of tensions between economic and non-economic aspects of business, the application of paradox theory to management, international differences in corporate social responsibility, fit in corporate responses to scandals as well as responsible management education. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Journal of Business Ethics. He currently sits on the Board of the International Association for Business in Society (IABS).
Paresha Sinha is an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand. She received her PhD in Management from Victoria University of Wellington and teaches International Management and Strategic Innovation, alongside extensive doctoral supervision in international business, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. Her research is positioned at the intersection of international business, strategy, and entrepreneurship, drawing on institutional, legitimacy, stakeholder, and imprinting theories to examine the micro-foundations of strategic decision-making, legitimacy building, and moral agency in cross-border contexts. Her core areas of expertise include emerging markets, the role of the state, multinational enterprise (MNE) practices, corporate social responsibility (CSR), green innovation, and firm internationalization.
Dr. Sinha has published widely in leading international journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Relations, and Business Strategy and the Environment, and has co-edited several influential books on emerging markets and international management. Her research programme spans three interconnected streams: (1) strategic and international management in MNEs, focusing on adaptation, legitimacy, and practice transfer across institutional contexts; (2) international business and sustainability, examining CSR, eco-innovation, and firms’ contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals under institutional and stakeholder pressures; and (3) international business and entrepreneurship, with a particular emphasis on institutions, SDGs, and developing economies. Her work engages directly with UN SDGs 1, 2, 8, 12, and 16 and is supported by competitive international research funding. Dr. Sinha currently serves as Senior Editor of the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Associate Editor of Corporate Governance and the Journal of Business Research, and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Business.
Sandra Alday is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. Extending her experience in international strategy and organisation development consulting, her scholarly research explores the nature of risk, how it is perceived and communicated, and how it is managed. She also investigates the impact of risk management approaches on equity and sustainability particularly in Southeast Asian contexts. Because pathways to sustainable futures require different ways of thinking and doing, she further examines how learning experiences can transform the way people and organisations think about risk and sustainability.
Sandra is Deputy Director (Partnerships) of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney and Program Director of the Master of Management and Master of Management (CEMS) programs at the University of Sydney Business School. She is Vice President of the Academy of International Business Sustainability Interest Group (AIB SIG), Past President of the Society for Risk Analysis-Australia and New Zealand (SRA-ANZ), and Past Councillor of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Education (JME) and a member of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Oceania Committee. Committed to excellence and innovation in higher education, Sandra is a recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Yingying Zhang Zhang is a Full Professor of Management at the Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan (IUJ), where she also serves as Director of the IUJ Research Institute. Her academic journey includes visiting appointments at leading institutions across the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Latin America, and Asia — notably Harvard University, the University of Göttingen, and Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her research explores knowledge and innovation, people management, and international business, with a particular focus on sustainable development in emerging markets. She is a frequent contributor to management journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Business Review, Management and Organization, and International Marketing Review. In addition to her scholarly articles, she has co-authored several books on management, most recently People-Centric Innovation Ecosystem (Cambridge University Press).
Prof. Zhang-Zhang has served as guest editor for several special issues on emerging economies and sustainable development. She currently holds leadership roles as Chair of the AIB Emerging Markets SIG and Secretary General of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM), where she actively promotes inclusive leadership and global collaboration in the field. In recognition of her contributions to socially impactful research, she was named an AACSB Influential Leader in 2024.
David Yoon is a Full Professor at the University of York and Head of the Marketing, International Business, and Entrepreneurship Group. His research examines how institutions and national culture shape the behavior and strategies of multinational corporations, venture capitalists, start-ups, and entrepreneurs, with a particular emphasis on technological innovation and sustainable development. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in leading journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, and Research Policy, as well as in other respected outlets including the Journal of Business Research, Small Business Economics, International Business Review, and the British Journal of Management. His research recognition includes the Palgrave Macmillan Prize for Best Conference Paper at the 2024 Academy of International Business. He was also a finalist for the International Business Review Best Paper Award in 2021 and the Academy of International Business Best Paper Award in 2022. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, and International Business Review.
Bin Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of MBA Center at Xiamen University. He received a PhD in Management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are international business, corporate governance, and family business with a focus on emerging economies. He is one of the leading pioneers in investigating China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, and the Journal of World Business. He received the Best Paper Award at 2019 Asia Pacific Regional Conference Meeting of Academy of International Business (AIB), Winner of the first runner-up for the Best Phenomenon-based Paper Award at Journal of World Business in 2019, IACMR-GSJ Global Strategy Best Paper Award at the Ninth Biennial International Association for Chinese Management Research Conference, Best Paper Award for Advanced Management Studies in 2021, Best Reviewer Award for Advanced Management Studies in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024. He serves as the Editorial Review Board for Asian Business and Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM), and Advanced Management Studies, reviewing editor for APJM, special issue editor for Management and Organization Review (MOR) and Journal of International Management, senior editor for MOR, and the board member of AIB Emerging Markets Shared Interest Group.