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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Slovenia to host 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference - Call for Papers
Reported by Miles Shepherd in London, UK.
The European Academy of Management (EURAM) has announced their 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference. This event is the most prestigious of all the management conferences in Europe and regularly attracts all the key management thinkers in Europe and USA. The 2008 event will be held in Slovenia and hosted by the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and the IEDC-Bled School of Management and co-organised with CEEMAN, the Central and East European Management Development Association.
Lake Bled, one of
the 2 conference sitesContributions are expected from more than 1.000 management researchers, scholars and practitioners from all over the world. The conference theme is Managing Diversity: European Destiny and Hope.
The Conference programme is structured around 46 tracks, which were selected from 75 track proposals, including 8 generic EURAM tracks. They cover a whole spectrum of most interesting and exciting management research areas, including those that address key issues related to the transition processes and change phenomena in general. In previous conferences, there has been a very strong Project Management track and many European researchers are expected to participate in 2008. The PM Track Organising Team of 12 academics from 8 countries includes the editors of IPMA’s International Journal of Project Management and PMI’s Project Management Journal.
University of LjubljanaThis year’s track theme concerns the diversity of management approaches to projects and programmes to satisfy a diversity of aims and interests. In exploring this theme, we wish to encourage empirical and theoretical papers within the following sub-themes:
Papers should be constructively critical concerning current norms of project management practice, and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Particular attention should be paid to the theoretical roots of the arguments presented. It is intended that the best papers from this track will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Project Management, edited by the co-chairs.
Abstracts are required to be submitted on line by 18 January 2008 at http://www.euram2008.org/CallForPapers.asp The conference itself will be held in Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia, during 14-17 May 2008.
Conference participants will also have a unique opportunity to discuss with world famous thinkers in management and associated fields:
Janez Potoènik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, will open the conference with a speech on European research policies to foster diversity and European competitiveness.
It now has become a tradition for EURAM to organise a DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM before the Annual Conference. This year, the colloquium organised jointly by EURAM, EDAMBA and EIASM will be held on 14th May 2008 and hosted by the IEDC, Bled School of Management. Please submit your abstract (500 words), your CV, a short letter of motivation and a letter of recommendation by 15th February 2008. All this must be submitted electronically through the website (http://forms.eiasm.org/r/default.asp?iId=MDIKJ).
Last but not least, for the second year in a row, the Imagination Lab Foundation will offer the “Imagination Lab Award for Innovative Scholarship”. More details as well as application and nomination forms can be found on the website (http://www.euram2008.org/ImaginationLab.asp).
For full information on EURAM 2008, please visit www.euram2008.org and/or contact Ms Katarzyna Slezak, katarzyna.slezak@iedc.si.
The European Academy of Management (EURAM) has announced their 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference. This event is the most prestigious of all the management conferences in Europe and regularly attracts all the key management thinkers in Europe and USA. The 2008 event will be held in Slovenia and hosted by the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and the IEDC-Bled School of Management and co-organised with CEEMAN, the Central and East European Management Development Association.
Lake Bled, one of the 2 conference sites
The Conference programme is structured around 46 tracks, which were selected from 75 track proposals, including 8 generic EURAM tracks. They cover a whole spectrum of most interesting and exciting management research areas, including those that address key issues related to the transition processes and change phenomena in general. In previous conferences, there has been a very strong Project Management track and many European researchers are expected to participate in 2008. The PM Track Organising Team of 12 academics from 8 countries includes the editors of IPMA’s International Journal of Project Management and PMI’s Project Management Journal.
University of Ljubljana- How do projects and programmes act as processes for restructuring and social transformation?
- How are programmes and projects manifested as diverse forms of organisation and management processes?
- How are organisational resources, leadership capabilities, systems and processes configured?
- How are issues of alignment encompassing broader social and environmental interests and concerning managing diverse internal and external stakeholder interests managed?
Papers should be constructively critical concerning current norms of project management practice, and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Particular attention should be paid to the theoretical roots of the arguments presented. It is intended that the best papers from this track will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Project Management, edited by the co-chairs.
Abstracts are required to be submitted on line by 18 January 2008 at http://www.euram2008.org/CallForPapers.asp The conference itself will be held in Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia, during 14-17 May 2008.
Conference participants will also have a unique opportunity to discuss with world famous thinkers in management and associated fields:
- Ichak Adizes, one of the world’s leading authorities on change management
- Jean-Pierre Lehmann, IMD-Lausanne, Founding Director of the EVIAN Group
- Slavoj Zizek, world famous Slovenian sociologist, post-modern philosopher and cultural critic
Janez Potoènik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, will open the conference with a speech on European research policies to foster diversity and European competitiveness.
It now has become a tradition for EURAM to organise a DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM before the Annual Conference. This year, the colloquium organised jointly by EURAM, EDAMBA and EIASM will be held on 14th May 2008 and hosted by the IEDC, Bled School of Management. Please submit your abstract (500 words), your CV, a short letter of motivation and a letter of recommendation by 15th February 2008. All this must be submitted electronically through the website (http://forms.eiasm.org/r/default.asp?iId=MDIKJ).
Last but not least, for the second year in a row, the Imagination Lab Foundation will offer the “Imagination Lab Award for Innovative Scholarship”. More details as well as application and nomination forms can be found on the website (http://www.euram2008.org/ImaginationLab.asp).
For full information on EURAM 2008, please visit www.euram2008.org and/or contact Ms Katarzyna Slezak, katarzyna.slezak@iedc.si.
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