SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs)
From Henk Volberda, EURAM Vice President Research, hvolberda@rsm.nl
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the EURAM annual conference organizing committee, I am pleased to announce the list of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the 10th Annual meeting of EURAM to be held in Rome, Italy, in May 2010.
13 May 2009 the EURAM meeting on the formation of Special Interest Groups took place. On basis of the fruitful discussion we had, we created the provisional 12 SIGs representing the broad areas in Management. These SIGs will have the responsibility for the creation of the conference program (tracks), we would review papers and also proposals for tracks. This could alleviate the conference chair and enhance the quality of the academic program.
A brief description of the EURAM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) is to be found below. Click on the SIG of your choice to reach the description:
Business & Society
Corporate Governance
Gender Equality and Diversity in Management
Innovation
International Management
Knowledge and Learning
Project Organising
Public Management
Research Methods and Research Practice
Sport as a Business: Internationalisation, Professionalisation, Commercialisation
Strategic Management
SIG: Business & Society
The creation of this Strategic Interest Group is the result of a joint effort by two networks of European scholars specialized in the study of interdependence between business firms and the broader society. One is the European Academy of Business In Society (EABIS) and the other is Reseau International de Recherche sur les Organizations et le Development Durable (RIODD). We list the names of a small minority of their members, those with official roles in the associations or who have been the most active members in their development. The total membership potential of this SIG, on the basis of these institutions alone, is estimated to be more than 300 academics, most of them in Europe but also in Asia, South and North America, Africa and Australia.
Chair: Julienne Brabet, brabet@univ-paris12.fr, University of Paris
Vice Chairs: David Bevan, EABIS
Michel Capron, Univeristy of Paris
Jean-Claude Dupuis, Université Catholique de Lyon
Gilbert Lenssen, EABIS
Nigel Roome, Tias Nimbas
André Sobczack, Membre du bureau
Maurizio Zollo, Bocconi University
SIG: Corporate Governance
The corporate governance SIG welcomes studies exploring various aspects of boards of directors and corporate governance - antecedents and consequences. Contributions adopting a wide set of theoretical lenses and research methods are strongly encouraged as well as studies analyzing different types of enterprises and different contexts including different countries and regional cultures.
Chair:
- Morten Huse, morten.huse@bi.no, BI Norwegian School of Management
Vice Chairs:
- Joan Enric Ricart i Costa, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
- Alessandro Zattoni, SDA Bocconi School of Management
- Sibel Yamak, Galatasaray University (program chair Rome 2010)
- Silke Machold, University of Wolverhampton Business School
- Hans van Ees, University of Groningen (chair awards)
Other officers:
- Andrea Calabrò, Tor Vergata University (secretary)
- Amedeo Pugliese, University of Naples (accountant)
The corporate governance track has regularly been organized at EURAM since 2002 with the ambition to explore corporate governance and boards of directors from a management perspective. Since 2005 it has been developed in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Group (ECGG) whose main aim is to support and develop a European management related corporate governance community. Our pre-conference activities and social dinner have been successfully carried out since 2003. In recent years we have publishing the best papers in the track in a book format.
In Rome 2010 we offer the following tracks and subtracks (see www.euram2010.og):
- Corporate governance, the general track on boards and governance also including the following subtracks:
- Family business governance
- Corporate governance codes
- Top management teams and business elites
- Corporate governance and society
- Corporate governance and national institutions
- New drivers of banking management in a changing financial world
- Corporate governance and the crisis of financialization
- Governance in public and non-profit organizations
- Structure of corporate governance
- Back to the future of M&A studies
- Downsizing, financialization and regulation
In Rome 2010 the Corporate SIG also offers:
- Best paper and best reviewers awards
- A SIG plenary on "governance of crises or crisis of governance"
- A social event
- A preconference focusing professional development and joint research and publishing activities
Last update: 9 December 2009
SIG: Gender Equality and Diversity in Management
The aim of the track is to advance contemporary thinking in the discipline of equality and diversity management by bringing international scholars with an interest in disadvantaged groups in employment in a European and international setting. We are interested in papers on equality and diversity management from all areas of the world, but especially in papers highlighting the European case. We encourage contributions from scholars from a broad range of disciplines: economics, management, human resource management, psychology, womens’s/ mens’s/ gender studies, sociology, and development. We welcome studies of single countries and comparative research.
Chair: Dr. Carol Woodhams, c.woodhams@exeter.ac.uk, University of Exeter
Vice Chairs: Dr. Sandra Fielden, University of Manchester
Prof. Beverly Metcalfe, Liverpool Hope University
SIG: Innovation
Descripiton to be added shortly.
Chair: John Bessant, j.bessant@exeter.ac.uk, Exeter University
Vice Chairs: Bettina von Stamm, Innovation Leadership Forum
Kathrin M. Möslein, University of Erlangen
Innovation in the 21st century is pretty hard to ignore. It is a word on everyone’s lips and fills strategy statements, websites and press releases from businesses as diverse as high technology to hairdressing! It is as much a public sector as a private sector concern as politicians and civil servants seek for radically new ways to meet big challenges like health care, ageing populations, climate change and sustainability. The problem is not the presence or importance of innovation but how we might approach its organization and management? For this reason it is a theme of central interest to the EURAM community – and one which cuts across the many disciplinary interests of that community. Our understanding of what works and the underlying theory draws on a wide spread of fields including economics, psychology, statistics, sociology, engineering and systems theory to name but a few. It has been a long-standing issue explored in EURAM conferences, workshops and in the pages of our journals and the purpose of the SIG is to provide a focus for further development. In particular we hope to bring together the diverse community of interest and to share our knowledge, experience insights and research questions in a more focused fashion.
Amongst questions which we hope the SIG will address are:
- How can we use and apply the large body of knowledge around innovation that has been accumulated over time?
- What additional insights and knowledge are required to accelerate and progress the innovation journey?
- What are means and mechanisms to balance the need for change and innovation with the need for stability and operational excellence?
- In the ever increasing see of knowledge, how to find knowledge that is relevant and pertinent to a particular challenge we are facing?
- What new kinds of skills, roles and functions are required to drive the innovation agenda forwards and leverage the knowledge that exists?
- What are emerging tools, practices and frameworks in the field of innovation and its management?
- Which related fields ought to be considered to advance the field of innovation, e.g. entrepreneurship, decision making & game theory, design, creativity, neuroscience, complexity and chaos theories?
SIG: International Management
The Strategic Interest Group in International Management covers ALL subfields of International Management (e.g., strategy and structure of multinational corporations; cross-border activities of firms; the international business environment). Accepted submissions to this general call for papers will be grouped into sessions of related papers. Apart from these competitive paper sessions, the SIG IM will organize a symposium session (with invited contributions) under the theme “When in Rome, do as the Romans do – But where is Rome?”. The SIG in International Management is coordinated by Niels Noorderhaven, Donatella Depperu, Rian Drogendijk, Markus Kittler and Florian Becker-Ritterspach.
Chair: Niels Noorderhaven, n.g.noorderhaven@uvt.nl, Tilburg Univerisity
Vice Chairs: Donatella Depperu, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Rian Drogendijk, Uppsala University
Markus Kittler, University of Stirling
SIG: Knowledge and Learning
Descripiton to be added shortly.
Chair: Wolfgang H. Güttel, wolfgang.guettel@jku.at, University of Linz
Vice Chairs: Elena Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool
Roberto Philipini, University of Padua
Stefhan Kaiser, WHL Lahr
Allan Macpherson, University of Liverpool
Gordon Müller-Seitz, Free University Berlin
The scope of knowledge and organizational learning research has developed significantly in the last 20 years. A preoccupation with ways to use knowledge-based advantages is evident in the resource-based view, core competences and knowledge-based perspectives on organization, amongst others. Knowledge, as both an asset and activity, and learning, as a process, are considered to be of strategic importance to organizations and essential to develop and sustain competitive advantage and innovation. As such, we welcome contributions that engage with established and emerging trends in knowledge and learning research.
This SIG has a broad intellectual perspective on the subject and the challenge for SIG members is to provide a significant contribution to this maturing field in order that we can maintain it as a vibrant area of management research. Contributions may:
- engage with established debates (for example, unlearning, memory, knowledge systems, creativity, absorptive capacity, communities of practice, identity), or
- explore emerging and new areas (for example, replication, socio materiality, artefacts, and new technology),
- examine the subject from a particular theoretical perspective (for example, actor network theory, activity theory, practice-based theory), and
- use a variety of methodological approaches (for example, network analysis, ethnography, statistical analysis, case studies),and
- have a particular focus on sectors (for example, management education, manufacturing, healthcare business services, professional service firms).
Thus, this the knowledge and learning SIG is intended to provide an overview of contemporary work in the field that is building on established and enduring challenges, tensions and puzzles. Contributors are expected to bring new perspectives and insights to extend our understanding of knowledge and learning in organizations. There will also be opportunities to engage with specialist subjects through subject-specific tracks and general development workshops (GDWs) at the EURAM Conference, where specific topics are given dedicated space to explore contemporary issues and debates.
SIG: Project Organizing
Project Organising is a rapidly growing area of research interest unified by a concern with projects and programmes as temporary organizations with a pre-determined lifecycle. Thus the SIG addresses a distinctive organizational phenomenon while posing important challenges to predominant organization theory and practice.
Chair: Graham Winch, graham.winch@mbs.ac.uk, University of Manchester
Vice Chairs: Karlos Artto, Helsinki University of Technology
Rolf Lundin, Jönköping Univeristy
Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique
Rodney Turner, University of Lemerick
SIG: Public Management
The Public Management Strategic Interest Group aims at providing a wide-ranging, authoritative and internationally-focused forum to discuss major developments and key debates in the field of governance, organization and management of public administrations and public services.
Current themes include, but are not limited to: network management, e-government, human resources management, ethics and trust, performance management, quality improvement, budgeting and accounting, etc.
Chair: Denita Cepiku, cepiku@economia.uniroma2.it, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Vice Chairs: Reto Steiner, University of Bern
Jane Broadbent, Roehampton University
Robert Fouchet, Paul Cezanne University
Marco Meneguzzo, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Riccardo Mussari, University of Siena
SIG: Research Methods and Research Practice
The Research Methods and Research Practice Strategic Interest Group aims to promote discussion around all aspects of research methods and research practice in the business and management disciplines. Its focus includes:
Epistemological foundations of research; quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods of data collection and analysis; and environmental and institutional factors affecting the conduct of research including funding regimes, quality audits, ethical regulation and control over publication outlets.
Chair: Bill Lee, w.j.lee@shef.ac.uk, Univeristy of Sheffield Management School
Vice Chair: Robert Breitenecker, Klagenfurt University
Rainer Harms, University of Twente
Catherine Cassell, Manchester Business School
SIG: Sport as a Business: Internationalisation, Professionalisation, Commercialisation
The “Sport as a Business” SIG is a network of academics, practitioners, athletes and sport officials whose interests revolve around aspects of internationalization, professionalization and commercialization of sports in theory and in practice. The Group will function as a catalyst for building and disseminating new ideas around the business of sports.
Chair: Harald Dolles, Heilbronn Business School
Vice Chair: Sten Soderman, Stockholm University
SIG: Strategic Management
The 2010 European Academy of Management conference in Rome (Italy) will feature for the first time special interest group (SIG) on Strategic Management. Within this SIG we have included 3 sub-tracks, each dealing with very interesting topics.
Sub-track A “ Corporate Strategy – Managing and Governing Acquisition and Divestiture Decisions in Multi-Business Firms” deals with questions related to the drivers, processes, and outcomes of acquisitions and divestitures. Some of the questions posed in this track are:
- How do competitive dynamics (e.g., change in strategic groups) in an industry impact on acquisition and divestiture activity?
- How do firms actually make acquisition and divestiture decisions? What decision-making process characteristics are critical for effective acquisition or divestiture decision-making?
Sub-track B “Strategic Renewal & Organizational Ambidexterity” deals with two complementary perspectives at the core of the strategic management field as a whole. Questions put-forward in this track include:
- How do organizational capabilities interact at various levels of analysis and over time?
- How does ambidexterity play a role at the individual level and how does this differ throughout the hierarchy?
Sub-track C “Strategy Innovation” addresses the growing interest in management innovation, i.e. new processes, practices, and structures, how this complements technological innovation, as well as how this enables a context for strategic renewal. Some of the questions asked in this track include:
- Which theoretical perspectives may contribute to increased understanding of the antecedents of management innovation at the levels of analysis discerned?
- What are the roles of internal and external change agents in management innovation?
Chair: Henk W. Volberda, hvolberda@rsm.nl, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Vice Chairs: Maurizio Zollo, Bocconi University
Fariborz Damanpour?, Rutgers Business School
Charles Baden-Fuller?, Cass Business School
Frans A.J. van den Bosch, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
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