VI International Workshop on Human Resource Management

       Call for papers

The Department of Organización de Empresas from Cádiz University and the Department of Dirección de Empresas from the Pablo de Olavide University are pleased to announce that the VI International Workshop on Human Resource Management will be held in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, between 17th and 18th May 2007 in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of Cádiz University.

Leading academics from American and European universities, such as M. Hitt, A. DeNisi, L. Gómez-Mejia, D. Balkin, S. Dolan, S. Jackson, R. Schuller, A. Pettigrew, J. McGee, I. Gutierrez, P. Sparrow, M. Poole, J. Milkovich, S. Tyson, P. Wright, S. Snell, Lazear, P. Gunningle or S.Connella, have joined previous editions of this workshop as keynote speakers.

In this case, we are happy to announce the participation of professors Angelo DeNisi ( Tulane University), D. Lepak (Rutgers University), C. Brewster (Henley M.C.) and P. Gunnigle (Limerick University) who will give interesting conferences about outstanding topics in our field of research. Previous workshops have always attracted the attention of many scholars and sessions normally resulted in really fruitful and interesting discussions.

Topics:

The VI Workshop Committee would like to invite you to submit research papers on all aspects of HRM. The main theme of this edition will be all issues concerning the role played by this function in present management challenges. Therefore, contributions are invited in a broad arrange of HRM areas, including:

•     Current state of the field of HRM
•     Theoretical approaches on HRM research
•     SHRM and performance
•     HRM: changes, tendencies and new technologies
•     International HRM: comparative research
•     Organizational Behaviour, Leadership, Commitment, Motivation, Values
•     HRM and Social Capital
•     Diversity management
•    Contemporary issues in HRM

Papers may be presented in English or Spanish, and simultaneous translation will be provided. The program committee will select one winner for the best paper award (all regular papers are eligible).

Deadlines: October 31st, 2006: Abstract reception. The abstract of the paper will be no longer than 2000 words. It is suggested to include the following data:

•        Purposes of the research
•         Methodology
•         Results
•         Main conclusions

December 5, 2006: communication of accepted/non accepted papers

March 20, 2007: full paper submission. The full paper version must be sent by email to the following email addresses: fernando.martin@uca.es

Papers should meet the following norms of presentation:

•         Font: Times New Roman 14 (title), 12 (text), 10 (foot note)
•         Margins: 3cm
•         Page number: upper central
•         Charts and graphs: inserted in the text
•         Extension: maximum  25 pages
•        Front page: Title of the paper, authors and authors' affiliation

Fees

Regular fees :

¯         Before April 30, 2007: 375€

¯         After April 30, 2007: 475€

Doctoral students : the organization of the Workshop provides ten places for doctoral students with reduced fees:

¯         Before April 30, 2007: 150€

¯         After April 30, 2007: 200€

Shortly we will contact you again to provide further information about accommodation, registration procedure and any other information.

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Academy of International Business (UK Chapter)

34th Annual Conference

King's College London, University of London

April 13th -14th 2007

Corporate Governance and International Business

[www.kcl.ac.uk/management/aib2007/]

Call for Papers           

The theme of the conference - corporate governance and international business - acknowledges the increasing influence that corporate governance theory is having upon research in a wide variety of disciplines. In a broad sense, corporate governance is about how firms should be governed so that they are run effectively and efficiently. Much of the existing literature has focused on large publicly-listed companies and upon the potential conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders, and between different groups of shareholders, and has suggested that mechanisms to mediate these conflicts may have a marked impact upon corporate performance. But (different) governance issues also arise in SMEs, family-owned firms and other forms of business organisation. As yet, there has been little work on how corporate governance factors impact upon firms' strategic decisions, such as the decisions about whether, when, where and how to internationalise, and upon how firms organise and manage their activities across national boundaries. Furthermore, given that corporate governance systems vary across countries, it is likely that these impacts will depend both upon the nationality of the parent company and upon the host country.

As always, theoretical and empirical papers are invited on the whole range of international business issues. Contributions focusing on the following issues would be particularly welcome.

• The effects of corporate governance factors on the internationalisation process.
• The effects of changes in (foreign) ownership on strategic decisions and corporate performance.
• Comparative studies of corporate governance systems.
• Foreign ownership and corporate governance reform.
• Finance strategies and foreign direct investment.
• The management of financial risk exposure by MNEs.
• The governance of global commodity chains.
• Outsourcing and offshoring strategies and implications.
• Cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
• Entry into emerging and transitional markets.
• The international expansion of firms from emerging markets.
• Network strategies
• Human resource management within MNEs.
• SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation.
• E-commerce and international business.
• Social and environmental issues, non-governmental agencies and public policy.

Proposals for specialist panel sessions are also welcomed. One is already planned on corporate governance in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies.

Doctoral Colloquium

A long-standing feature of the AIB(UK) conference has been the Doctoral Colloquium. The purpose of the colloquium is to provide doctoral researchers with the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of distinguished scholars in interactive sessions that are open to all conference delegates. There are two streams. Stream A is for students who are in the very early stages of their doctoral research. Stream B is the competitive stream and is for students who have made progress in the development of their research, or who have recently completed their doctoral thesis. Further details about the colloquium, the submission of papers, and prizes are provided on the conference website.

• The deadline for submissions is Friday February 16 th 2007.

Submission of Papers

All papers will be refereed. Abstracts of all the accepted competitive papers will be published in the CD-Rom of the Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will also be published in an edited volume in the Palgrave-AIB Book Series in International Business.

Detailed guidelines for the submission of papers are available on the website.

• The deadline for submissions is Monday January 15 th 2007.
• All papers should be submitted electronically.

The Conference Venue

The conference will be held in central London, at the Franklin-Wilkins Building on the Waterloo campus of King's College London [www.kcl.ac.uk]. The Franklin-Wilkins Building is located on the South Bank of the River Thames, close to the National Theatre and the Royal Festival Hall, and within walking distance of Waterloo rail, underground and Eurostar stations.

Conference Fees and Registration

The conference fee includes conference participation, lunches, the conference dinner, tea/coffee during breaks, a CD-ROM with full papers, and a copy of the Palgrave book from the 2006 Conference. Accommodation is NOT included, and delegates are invited to make their own arrangements. Details of hotels near the conference venue are provided on the website.

The conference dinner on the Friday evening will be held aboard the P.S. Dixie Queen, a Mississippi Paddle Steamer, which will cruise up the Thames towards Greenwich. A highlight of the cruise will be the raising of Tower Bridge to allow the P.S. Dixie Queen to pass.

Contact Information:

Detailed information about the conference will be posted on the conference website. Please e-mail all queries to aib2007@kcl.ac.uk.

Conference Organiser: Roger Strange
Administrator: Mary Unwin
Organising Committee:
Professor Keith Brouthers, Professor Howard Gospel, Dr. Tony Edwards, Dr. Gregory Jackson, Dr. Teck Yong Eng, Professor Jenifer Piesse, Professor Igor Filatotchev, Dr. Sarika Pruthi.     

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IFSAM VIIIth World Congress, Berlin, Germany

September 28-30, 2006 |

Conference Theme: Enhancing managerial responsiveness to global challenges.

The International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) and the Association of University Professors of Management (VHB) have the pleasure to invite you to the IFSAM/VHB VIIIth World Congress in Berlin, Germany 2006. IFSAM, the umbrella organisation for academics and associations of management and business studies from all over the world, aims at bringing together all scholars who are interested in business research and international exchange. The VIIIth World Congress follows the congresses in Göteborg (2004), the Gold Coast (Australia 2002), Montreal (2000), Alcalá de Henares (Spain 1998), Paris (1996), Dallas (1994), and Tokyo (1992).

Call for Papers; for more information see: http://www.ctw-congress.de/ifsam/default.html

Deadline for all submissions: February 28, 2006

Scholars from all over the world are invited to submit paper or panel proposals.

For submissions (English language) please exclusively use the internet form (will be available soon).

The paper sessions and reviews will be organized in 17 tracks

Panel Submissions

Panels are complete sessions organised as a single submission by the panel chair. Panels may have a variety of formats. Examples include presentations of: work-in-progress papers, roundtables with no formal papers, innovative presentations utilizing software or film.

Firms are nowadays embedded in an increasingly globalized environment characterized by compression of time and space. In this ubiquity of global competitionan increasing number of economic actors are confronted with new challenges. The emerging network competition is characterized by an increasing expansion and density of economic and social interactions. The dynamic interplay of internal and external organizational units becomes critical on a global level. The conference aims at providing the platform for discussing the various perspectives of how globally acting firms can and should cope with global challenges and dynamics. A special focus is on the issue of managerial responsiveness in a global world. The conference will feature a variety of formats including plenary sessions, competitive paper sessions, workshops, and panels. We invite submissions of papers and panel proposals which examine important and interesting phenomena regarding the managerial responsiveness to global challenges, offering new insights and advancing basic theories. We are honoured to welcome as keynote speakers Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Siemens AG; Professor Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (to be confirmed);
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Heribert Meffert, Chairman of the Board, Bertelsmann Foundation; Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. John Dunning, University of Reading, UK….

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British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Conference held at NUI Galway

The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Conference was held at the new J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, NUI Galway from 28-30 June 2006. It was the first time that this prestigious conference has been held outside the UK in many years and it had the full support of the Irish Association of Industrial Relations (who are sponsoring some of the events). The BUIRA Conference attracts many eminent scholars in the broad area of employment relations from all over the world.

This year BUIRA was also the venue for the Countess of Markievicz Lecture which was this year given by Kieran Mulvey of the Irish Labour Court. Other invited speakers at the conference were Professor Bill Roche of University College Dublin (a well-known Irish industrial relations scholar; Ron Oswald General Secretary of the global union federation the IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations). The IUF was the first global union federation to agree an international framework agreement (with Danone) they have been heavily involved in cross border union organising in a number of disputes with multinational corporations; Dr Helen Russell (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin); and Professor Charles Woolfson Marie Curie Chair University of Latvia and Professor of Labour Studies University of Glasgow.

The conference aimed at providing the platform for discussing the various perspectives of how globally acting firms can and should cope with global challenges and dynamics. A special focus is on the issue of managerial responsiveness in a global world. The conference featured a variety of formats including plenary sessions, competitive paper sessions, workshops, and panels. We invited submissions of papers and panel proposals which examine important and interesting phenomena regarding the managerial responsiveness to global challenges, offering new insights and advancing basic theories.

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Council Member list - 2004-2007

Dr. Thomas O'Toole, Chair, WIT School of Business, WIT: totoole@wit.ie
Dr.  Michael Morley, Vice Chair, Kemmy Business School, UL: michael.morley@ul.ie
Dr. Noel Harvey, Treasurer, School of Business, GMIT: noel.harvey@gmit.ie
Dr. Teresa O'Hara, Secretary, RCSI: teresa.ohara@eircom.net
Dr. Alma Mccarthy, Membership, Cairnes School of Business and Public
Policy, NUIG: alma.mccarthy@nuigalway.ie
Dr Mairead Brady, School of Business, TCD: Mairead.brady@tcd.ie
Dr. Edel Conway, DCU Business School, DCU: edel.conway@dcu.ie
Dr. Thomas Cooney, School of Business, DIT: Thomas.Cooney@dit.ie
Dr.  Brian Fynes, Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD: Brian.Fynes@ucd.ie
Prof. Roy Green, Macquarie Business School (Chair for 1st year of new
Council)
Dr. Nola Hewitt-Dundas, School of Business, Queens University Belfast: nm.hewitt@qub.ac.uk
Prof.  Patrick Gunnigle, School of Business, UL: Patrick.gunnigle@ul.ie
Dr. Joe MacDonagh, School of Business, Tallaght,IT: joe.macdonagh@it-tallaght.ie
Dr. Breda McCarthy, School of Business, UCC: b.mccarthy@ucc.ie
Prof. Kathy Monks, DCU School of Business, DCU: kathy.monks@dcu.ie
Dr. James Quinn, School of Business, TCD: james.quinn@tcd.ie

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Useful Links

We are affiliated to both the European Academy of Management
and the British Academy of Management

Other links include:
Academy of Management, USA
Australia/New Zealand Academy of Management
International Federation of Scholarly Assocations of Management

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