2025 CBC PRO

1. Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Professor, York University, Canada.
   Title: Climate Beliefs and Attitudes and Corporate Tax Savings.
2. Benjamin Gidron, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
   Maya Finger, Assistant Professor, The College of Management Academic Studies, Israel.
   Kfir Bar, Lecturer, Reichman University, Israel.
   Title: Characterizing Impact Tech Startups’ Investors: A Multivariate Analysis.
3. Abbas Al-Refaie, Professor, University of Jordan, Jordan.
   Title: Effects of Satisfaction with PV Systems, Advertising, and Competition on Energy Security Using System Dynamics.
4. Anastasios Elemes, Associate Professor, ESSEC Business School, France.
   Title: Navigating the Changing Tax Landscape: The Importance of Cross-border Advisory Alliances in Multinational Tax Planning.
5. Timothy Congdon, Chair, Institute of International Monetary Research, UK.
   Title: Money and Inflation in the 2020s: What was the Cause of the Inflation Flare-up of 2021 and 2022?

1. Stefan Hall, Chair and Professor, Department of Game Design / Director of Communication Fellows, High Point University, USA.
   Title: Reading “Japan-ness”: Teaching Japanese Media and Popular Culture in a Global Context.
2. Marc Spooner, Professor, University of Regina, Canada.
   Title: Democracy Needs Its Universities-Now More Than Ever.
3. Fernando Romero, Lecturer, University of Minho, Portugal.
   Title: Social Network Perspectives of the Relations between University and Society.
4. Deric Shannon, Professor, Oxford College, Emory University, USA.
   Title: Short-term Global Travel Courses as Entrypoint for Global Studies: Prospects and Limits.

1. Matthias Huehn, Mary S. Carey Chair of Ethics and CST, Saint Vincent College, USA.
   Title: Respect and Sympathy or Power and Empathy? Psychology’s Harmful Effect on Leadership Theory.
2. Bo Zheng, Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
   Title: Digital Age: Human Disembedding from Temporal-Spatial Contexts.
3. Frederic Berard, Associate, Gattuso Bouchard Mazzone & Professor, University of Montreal, Canada.
   Title: The Protection of Collective Aboriginal Interest as Opposed to Individual Rights.
4. Tyler Smith, Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Beyond the Holocaust: The Business of Genocide and Slave Labor.

1. Chary Rangacharyulu, Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
   Title: Science as an Enterprise of Quasi-Empiricism: Astronomy as a Case Study.
2. Reinhard Reitzenstein, Professor, Director of Sculpture Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
   Title: Allegorical Minimalism.
3. Gohar Marikyan, Full Professor, SUNY Empire State University, USA.
   Title: Mathematics and Society.
4. Gennadiy Chernov, Associate Professor, University of Regina, Canada.
   Title: Need for Orientation and Its Place in the Motivational Framework of Needs and Goals.

1. Gil Greenstein, Head of M.Sc. Program – Technology Management, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel.
   Title: Handling Issues of Uncertainty while Designing DSS during the AI Era.
2. Abdullah Salamai, Associate Professor, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
   Title: Risk Management for Smart Healthcare System: A Hybrid MCDM Framework.
3. Dragana Dabic, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Serbia.
   Title: Between Regulation and Identity-Building: Anthropocentric Technological Sovereignty as the European Response to the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
4. Gift Mheta, Associate Professor & Manager, Writing Centre, Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
   Title: Tutoring in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Reflections of Selected Tutors at the Durban University of Technology Writing Centre.

1. Sarath Murugan, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Sathya Harini K P, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Santhosh Murugan, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Title: Factors Influencing Indian Consumers: Preference for Foreign Brands over Local Alternatives.
2. Anugraha Rajalekshmi Nair, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Rabekah Jayanthy Thomas, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Title: The Shift from Homemakers to Businesswomen: Exploring Influential Factors in Entrepreneurship.
3. Sneha Roy, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Anjana Kodapurath, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Rishika Singh, MBA Student, Alliance University, Bangalore, India.
   Title: Motivational Factors Driving Gig Workers’ Participation Despite Challenges.

Summary

The university’s biggest threats are not only occurring in fascist and authoritarian countries, but also in traditionally regarded as liberal democracies. Among a variety of developments of concern, our current moment features the outright banning of entire areas of study, the abolishment of tenure, and the curtailment of academic freedom, as well as a near ubiquitous push toward performance-based funding (Spooner, 2024). It also features chronic underfunding, international student quotas, and anti-woke sentiment with pushback against equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives meant to permit greater participation in increasingly conservative and authoritarian interventionist states. Canada, with its highly unionised higher education workforce, is uniquely positioned to resist as faculty associations fight to uphold the aspirational ideals of the university.

1. Nathalie Homlong, Professor, Volda University College, Norway.
   Elisabeth Springler, Study Program Director, University of Applied Sciences, BFI Vienna, Austria.
   Title: Daily Realities of Life in Indian Slums – A Case Study.
2. Zushe Yuan, Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
   Title: Public Value Crisis and the Aspiration for a Good Life: The Anthropological Logic in Contemporary Practical Sociology.
3. Yaffa Moskovich, Head, Organizational Sociology Department, Zefat Academic College, Israel.
   Title: Clan-Culture Attributes in a Privatized Kibbutz Industry: An Israeli Case Study.
4. Xiaozhen Li, Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
   Zushe Yuan, Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China.
   Title: The Survival Dilemma of the “Technological Society” and the Transcendent Logic of Digital Ecological Civilization.
5. Marek Kociuba, Assistant Professor, Military University of Land Forces, Poland.
   Title: Relationship between Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Sports Achievements.

1. Hong Zhao, Associate Professor, NEOMA Business School, France.
   Ran Tao, Associate Professor, NEOMA Business School, France.
   Title: Environmental and Social Incidents and Firm Responses: Evidence from a Multinational Study.
2. Volga Kurbanzade, Lecturer, Istanbul Okan University, Türkiye.
   Title: Framing of the Annan Plan in Print Media: A Comparative Analysis.
3. Ludovico Iorio, PhD Candidate, University of Parma, Italy.
   Title: Transparency Warranties for Algorithmic Decisions in Administrative Procedures Among EU Law and the Italian Legal System.
4. Apostolos Xanthopoulos, Assistant Professor, Lewis University, USA.
   Title: The Ranking of the Greek Retirement System based on Human and Economic Freedom.

1. Mahmut Kubilay Akman, Professor, Usak University, Türkiye.
   Title: Feminine Diffractions and Biopolitics in Contemporary Arts.
2. Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad, Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
   Title: Youth, Politics, and the Digital Sphere: The Contradictory Impact of Social Media in South Korea.
3. Artur Bartoszewicz, Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
   Robert Dygas, Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
   Paweł Lesiak, Associate Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
   Title: Self-proclaimed Germany’s Leadership and Its Effect on EU Socio-Economic Development.
4. Sunguralp Solpan, Lecturer, Yeditepe University, Türkiye.
   Title: National Populist Discourse as a Lack of Content: Critical Discourse Analysis on Osman’s Story and Newspapers in two Different Occasions.
5. Elina Vroblevska, Researcher/Lecturer, Riga Stradins University, Latvia.
   Beate Livdanska, Researcher/Lecturer, Riga Stradins University, Latvia.
   Title: The Ideological Arms Race: A Comparative Analysis of Russia’s Idea of “Civilizational Uniqueness” and Latvian and Lithuanian Counter-Strategies.
6. Alexia Georgakopoulos, Professor, Nova South University, USA.
   Title: Conflict Transformation and Sustainable Peace Programs in Global Conflict and Crisis: Ukraine Training Project.