Conference Tracks and Track Chairs1. Corporate social responsibility The economic system is more globalized than other social systems. Track Chair: Dirk Matten, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Cultural differences influence all levels of economic activity. A higher awareness and global managerial responsiveness facilitate coordination, adaptation, and learning in the global context. Intercultural management provides the basis for the integration of different values, meanings, interpretations, and objectives. Track Chair: Paul Gooderham, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway Knowledge management is a dominant area in strategic management. Increasingly, it is adapted to the global context. Knowledge management provides the basis for global managerial responsiveness and is itself subject to managerial initiatives. Track Chair: Jacky Swan, University of Warwick, UK Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are subject to the interests of both Track Chair: James E. Post, Boston University, USA Dynamics in global management are accelerating. This track includes perspectives from international management, organization theory, Track Chair: Jose Luis Alvarez, Instituto de Empressa, Madrid, Spain Carmelo Mazza, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy The global economic geography is changing. Traditional regions change Track Chair: Marina Papanastassiou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Accounting is traditionally subject to diverse national regulations, different levels of inflation, exchange rate fluctuations, and macrooeconomic structures. The consolidation of financial statements, the valuation of assets, currency translation, and transfer pricing are highly sophisticated tasks in MNEs. Track Chair: Sid Gray, University of Sydney, Australia Corporate governance of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is influenced Track Chair: Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Keiji Natsume, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan Human society is embedded in the larger natural environment. The increasing consumption and control of natural resources by social actors Track Chair: Thomas Dyllick, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Local networks such as clusters and industrial districts are sources Track Chair: Jörg Sydow, FU Berlin, Germany Value chains may be identified on industry, firm, or intermediate level. Both the dispersion of value-added activities and their coordination along the value chain are critical to the efficiency and the adaptability of international operations. Track Chair: Zhang Yang, Hohai University, Nanjing, PR China Transnational strategies combine advantages from global integration with advantages from local adaptation. Advances the organization of global activities, in production and process technologies, and in information and communication technologies increasingly allow for a balancing of the central duality in international business. Track Chair: Rolf Lundin, University of Gothenburg (tbc) In this track we seek for conceptual and empirical research in all the domains of international marketing. Research may be related to some of the following issues: international marketing strategy, marketing entry strategies, international standardization and differentiation of price, product and communication, organizational issues in international marketing, cross-cultural negotiations, internationalization of service and retailing companies, internationalization of small and mid-sized companies, entry strategy into specific markets (China, India, Eastern European countries). However this Track Chair: Christian Homburg, University of Mannheim, Germany In this track we seek for conceptual and empirical research in all the domains of international financial management. Research may be related to the following issues: financial planning and controlling authority of subsidiaries, techniques for managing global cash flows, exchange risk strategies, expenditure analysis and capital budgeting, examples of international financial strategies currently used by multinationals. However, the list gives just examples and is by no means exhaustive. Track Chair: Piet Sercu, U.K.L., Leuven, Belgium Internationalization has brought new problems of managing a worldwide workforce, people with different conceptions of the rights and wrongs of organization, and it has led to new theoretical and practical challenges, Track Chair: Hartmut Wächter, University of Trier, Germany Marion Festing, ESCP-EAP Berlin, Germany Gender issues do not only concern the work in given organizational contexts but also costitute and influence these contexts themselves. Gender issues are even more complex in globally dispersed organizations. Diversity management is of particular importance for globally operating organizations as they internalise cultural diversity. Track Chair: Marta Calas, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA Teaching and business education belong to the most globalized areas Track Chair: Karoly Balaton, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary IFSAM values strongly the aspect of diversity in the international academic community of management sciences. One very important issue of IFSAM is the support of learning processes between the scholars of the different member-associations. This track has a very broad scope to give a platform for issues and methods of high local relevance that have not found their way to global management yet due to a limited recognition of the thinking style, but which are interesting to transfer to other national contexts. So feel free to contribute current issues in local and international management. Track Chair: Volker Trommsdorff, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Within the framework of the overall congress theme this track's focus is on papers of a comparative nature based on regional or country studies of all areas of management. Multiple regions/countries studies are encouraged, but single region/country studies are also welcome with a view of comparing them with similar studies in the actual track sessions. Ideally we would aim at attracting papers from as many regions/countries that represent the membership and diversity of IFSAM. Track Chair:
Track Chair: Martin K. Welge, University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |