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Dear EURAM members and friends,
The next EURAM conference will take place in Warsaw (Poland) between the 17th and the 20th of June 2015. The theme of the conference, Uncertainty is a great opportunity, is aimed to open an interesting and fruitful dialogue about why contemporary management theory and practice do not adequately address the phenomenon of uncertainty, which has come to characterise our daily lives.
The EURAM 2015 conference will explore this concept in an opportunity-seeking framework. Uncertainty can be both a threat and an opportunity for organisations. The positive response to the challenge of opportunity is the most constructive stand that we can take, and one that also may equip us best to deal with further challenges that the future may bring.
The dominant stream of thoughts tells us to safeguard against uncertainty, although on both theoretical and practical grounds we should ask if that is possible. Uncertainty is seen as an unpredictable force that can jeopardise our organising efforts. Uncertainty is supposed to leave us in the dark and not knowing what to expect and when. Moreover, the uncertainty that we are living in today is not limited to financial markets, economic and socio-political macro environments. In the age of hyper connectivity the uncertainty we are facing is evident in virtually all areas of the organisational life.
We will endeavour to respond to the following questions: How and in which ways do the drivers of uncertainty change? What resources do organisations need to develop in order to capture the changes that uncertainty may bring? Which organisational forms and configurations respond better to the challenges of uncertainty? What concept of leadership is most suited to steer organisations through the waves of unexpected and unpredictable storms? How can we better educate people to make them more competent individuals who are confident with uncertainty? How should organisations manage their boundaries in order to be able to absorb changes that uncertainty causes? Are the concepts that we already seem to know well such as innovation, knowledge, intellectual capital, leadership, responsibility, sustainability, diversity assuming new meanings at the time of uncertainty?
Warsaw is the ideal venue for such debates. It is located geographically, culturally and intellectually on the crossroads between East and West, North and South. The tormented history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Poland in particular, provides the most persuasive lessons of transition and of coping with uncertainty. These lessons are encrypted in people’s minds, in management practices, and in the body of research. When confronted with Western management, such a “genius loci” is capable of producing synergistic effects that we, as our community of engaged scholars, are looking for.
Important Deadlines
Deadline for paper submission 13 Jan 2015 2:00 pm GMT +1
Notification of acceptance as of 17 March 2015
Early bird 09 April 2015
Authors late registration 21 April 2015
Topics
EURAM conferences provide an ideal opportunity for scholars and practitioners, as well as doctoral students to share and discuss their most recent high quality work with other experts in their research fields. We invite you to submit your paper to the EURAM’s Strategic Interests Groups (SIGs) or to the Conference General Track. Please, pay attention to the submissions guidelines below. For further information please visit the EURAM 2015 website here.
These are the topics that EURAM SIGs are sponsoring for the 2015 Conference:
01 Business for Society
SIG chair: Rémi Jardat (ISTEC) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Corinne Vercher (Université Paris 13) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Business for Society SIG Portfolio (Business Society - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Business for Society General Track
Standing track:
• Accounting and control for sustainability
• Finance Economy and Society
Topics:
• Developing leadership theories for not-for-profit sector
• Equality and Inclusion in Social Enterprises
• Institutional resistance, war of positions and power maintenance
• Institutions and change
• Race discrimination and the management of ethnic diversity at the workplace
• Responsible innovation
• Sustainable Global Value Chains facing uncertainty
02 Corporate Governance
SIG chair: Pascual Berrone (IESE Business School) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Jonas Gabrielsson (Lund University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Corporate Governance SIG Portfolio (Corporate Governance - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Corporate Governance – General Track
Standing track:
• Top Management Teams & Business Elites
• Women Directors on Corporate Boards
• Boards Effectiveness
03 Entrepreneurship
SIG chair: Lucrezia Songini (Eastern Piedmont University, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..it
Programme chair: Massimiliano M. Pellegrini (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Entrepreneurship SIG Portfolio (Entrepreneurship - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Entrepreneurship General Track
Standing track:
• Entrepreneurship and societal change
Topics:
• The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education
• Academic Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial University
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Entrepreneurship in family firms
• Entrepreneurial passion
• Visionary entrepreneurship in complex worlds: Computer modelling, business games and scenario analysis
04 Family Business Research
SIG chair: Donata Mussolino (University of Naples Federico II) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Reinhard Pruegl (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Family Business Research SIG Portfolio (Family Business Research - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Family Business Research
Standing track:
• Family Business Governance
Topics:
• Family Firms and Stakeholders: CSR, Branding, Image and Reputation
• Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transition Economies
• Family business goals, family dynamics, behavioural processes and innovation in family firms
05 Gender, Race & Diversity in Organisations
SIG chairwoman: Beverly Dawn Metcalfe (Manchester Business School, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Jawad Syed (University of Huddersfield, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
Hamid Kazeroony (Minnesota State Colleges & Uni, USA) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
Edwina Pio (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gender, Race & Diversity in Organisations SIG Portfolio (Gender, race & diversity in organisations for more information):
General Track:
• Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations – GRDO SIG General Track
Topic:
• Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in the Workplace
06 Innovation
SIG chair: Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus School) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Vivek K. Velamuri (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Innovation SIG Portfolio (Innovation - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Innovation – General Track
Standing track:
• Rethinking the Design Paradigm in Management: Theories, Activities, and Organisations
• Business Model Innovation (BMI)
• Standardisation and Innovation
• Open Innovation
• Organizing Creativity for Innovation: Multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practices
• Service Innovation and Servitization
• Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation
• Sustainable HRM and Human Factors for Innovation
Topics:
• Organizing mindfulness across organizations, networks, and clusters
• Innovation in Emerging Countries’ Firms
• Cosmopolitanism, Innovation, and Society
07 International Management
SIG chair: Markus G Kittler (University of Stirling, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Gjalt de Jong (University of Groningen, Netherlands) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
International Management SIG Portfolio (International Management - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• International Management General Track
Standing track:
• Expatriate Management
• SME Internationalisation - Advances and future perspectives
Topics:
• Management, Strategy and Investment in Africa
• From Latin Europe to Latin America - What is new?
• EFQM model as a management, self-assessment, and benchmarking tool
08 Managing Sport
SIG chair: Harald Dolles (Molde University College, Norway & University of Gothenburg, Sweden) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Mathieu Winand (University of Stirling, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Managing Sport SIG Portfolio (Managing Sport - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Managing Sport
Topics:
• Sport Governance
• Event Management
09 Organisational Behaviour
SIG chair: Alessandro Hinna (University of Rome Tor Vergata) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Fabian Homberg (Bournemouth University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organisational Behaviour (Organisational Behaviour - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Organizational Behaviour General Track
Standing track:
• Work motivation in the public sector: Exchanges with the Organizational Behaviour field
Topics:
• Uncertain times call for awkward responses from the academy: An opportunity to explore the dark side of organizational behaviour
• Employee Training, Development, and Evaluation
• Team Performance Management
• Human Resource Management
• Agent-Based Models and Computer Simulation in Organisational Behaviour
• The uncertainty as a challenge for managers – psychodynamic approach
• Critical Approaches to Control and Uncertainty
10 Project Organising
SIG chair: Rodney Turner (SKEMA Business School, Lille) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Brian Hobbs (Université de Quebec a Montreal) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Project Management SIG Portfolio (Project Organising - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Project Organizing
Standing track:
• Organisational Project Management: Adding rungs to the ladder of Novelty between Organizational Project Management and its link to Research Methodology
11 Public and Non-Profit Management
SIG chair: Denita Cepiku (University of Rome Tor Vergata) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Andrea Bonomi Savignon (University of Rome Tor Vergata) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Public Management SIG Portfolio (Public and Non-Profit Management - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Public and Non-Profit Management
Standing tracks:
• Management Research in Healthcare Organizations
• Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organizations
Topics:
• Managing Culture, Creativity, and Heritage
• Accountability, Sustainability, and Ethics in Public and Non-Profit Organizations
12 Research Methods and Research Practice
SIG chair: Bill Lee (University of Sheffield, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Jacqueline Fendt (ESCP Europe, France) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Research Methods and Research Practice SIG Portfolio (Research Methods and Research Practice - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Uncertainty in Research and Researching Uncertainty – Advances in Research Methods and Practices
Standing track:
• Evolutionary and Darwinian Methodological Endeavours in Management Research
13 Strategic Management
SIG chair: Tomi Laamanen (University of St.Gallen) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme Co-chairs: Anabel Fernández (University of Valencia) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Patrick Reinmoeller (Cranfield University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Strategic Management SIG Portfolio (Strategic Management - Topics for more information):
General Track:
• Strategic Management – General Track
Standing tracks:
• Corporate strategy: Dynamics and Micro-foundations of inter-organizational encounters (M&As, alliances, divestitures)
• Nurturing Business Ecosystems to Deal with Uncertainties: Theoretical roots’ exploration and practical implication
• Strategic Processes and Practices
• Competitive Strategy: 3C Dynamics “Competition, collaboration, and coopetition strategies”
• Micro-foundations of Strategy, Dynamic Capabilities, Knowledge, and Ambidexterity
• Strategy and Business Model Innovation
Emerging tracks:
• Behavioural Strategy
• Strategies for Air and Maritime Transportation
14 Conference General Track
Track chair: Dorota Dobija (Kozminski University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chairs: Robert Rządca (Kozminski University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marta Strumińska (Kozminski University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Conference General Track Portfolio (Conference General Track for more information):
General Track:
• Conference General Track – Uncertainty is a great opportunity
Topics:
• Emergency management, Crisis, Recovery and Organisational Resilience
• Uncertainty, Poverty and Responsible Management Education
• Uncertainty, Leadership and Leadership Development in Dynamic Societies
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES – EURAM 2015
RULE OF 3
Note that you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers.
- Each paper can only be submitted to ONE topic or track.
- Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2015 Conference.
- To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED).
- The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.
- The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide.
- Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
- Number all of the pages of the paper.
- No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.
- Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus-free.
- Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2015 website, from December 1st 2014 till January 13th 2015.
- Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
- In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. The author(s) needs to plan to attend the conference for its entire duration. Individual requests to have a presentation scheduled on a specific date or session will not be taken into account.
- Please, note that EURAM will do its best to compose a rational and feasible schedule for all the participants. However, EURAM will not arrange any personal participants’ schedule because of potential overlapping of papers authored by the same person. In the case that you are submitting more than one paper, you should coordinate with your co-authors in order to make it possible that all the papers will be presented, even simultaneously.
We are looking very much forward to meeting you in Warsaw.
Best wishes,
On behalf of the Conference Programme Committee,
Dorota Dobija
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Kozminski University
Conference Chair EURAM 2015