Call for papers

Citation

(2008), "Call for papers", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 21 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jocm.2008.02321aaa.002

Call for papers

Call for papers/IACCM Annual International Conference Poznan 2008 with 3 × IN International Conference

''Management of Meaning in Organizations''

(International Conference Organized by International Association of Cross-Cultural Competence & Management, in partnership with Rotterdam School of Management RSM/EUR and Poznan University College of Business and Foreign Languages PWSBiJO)

Poznan, 25-26 June 2008

and

3 × IN = Inventing + Innovating + Interpreting

(International Conference Organized by the Poznan University College of Business and Foreign Languages (PWSBiJO) in partnership with the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM/EUR) with additional sponsorship provided by the Fund for Citizen's Education (Fundacja na Rzecz Edukacji Obywatelskiej) and the Management and Business Institute (Instytut ZarzeÎdzania i Biznesu)), Poznan, 27 June 2008

Accompanied by

''Malta 2008'' the Annual Poznan International Theatre Festival

(23-28 June 2008)

The management of meaning in organizations

Contemporary flows of immigrants, tourists and professional expats contribute to the emergence of multiculturally patterned interaction chains and to the emergence of a multilayered and negotiable concept of culture as a resource and playground rather than a ready-made software to be installed in individual minds during partially enforced socialization. Some of these patterned interactions will evolve into rituals and institutions, but not all of them, and most will require a continuous investment in maintenance and reengineering of relations and interaction processes.

Most of the professionals expedited by their companies and agencies to far away places are forced to dive into a cultural shock and re-adjustment. They develop their own cultural competence. In order to understand what they are doing and how they cope, we have to start with the study of re-tooling of cultures and subcultures (including the so-called national ones managed by state bureaucracies, including ours) and of the consequences of individualization and hybridization of the ongoing process of identity formation, reformation and counterreformation. Studying the revolutionary consequences of reshaping of national cultures under the pressure of accelerated globalization and increase of unmanageable inequalities are at the core of our scientific programme.

3×IN (inventing – innovating–intrepreting)

Breeding, facilitating and sustaining entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial initiatives requires approaching management as if it was a gerund rather than a noun. Innovating means seeing realities as flows and processes, streams and currents rather than bricks or blocks of organizational structures neatly displayed in solid organi-grams. Non-hierarchic, network- oriented and self-managed-teams-based matrixes of future forms of organizing call for research attention of academic and non-academic communities of practice. Dealing with manageable inequalities, minding and mining diversities or breaking with bureaucratic routines without getting rid of traceable responsibilities – those are the new skills and insights which call for inventions, innovations and continuous self-reflexive interpretations (and re-interpretations, and re-re-interpretations and more). 3£IN focuses on breeding cross-cultural competence and on evolving. Competent scanning of organizational windows of opportunities and practical adjustment of managerial narratives and academic discourses to changing realities of postglobalized, de-communized and post-Chindianized interactions are among challenges ahead. Let us start tackling them.

A group of researchers spanning cross-cultural studies, critical management studies and sciences of organization invite you to discuss theoretical landscape of comparatiove studies in cultures and organizations. Selected papers submitted to both conferences will appear in European Journal of International Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence & Management and International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management. The mission of IACCM members is to promote scholarly work of young scholars in Europe.

Academic matters

Paper abstracts (300 words max) for ''Management of Meaning'' conference should be submitted to Ms Diana Wernisch (Diana.wernisch@wu-wien.ac.at) in Vienna until 15 March 2008 as e-mail attachments. If accepted, full papers (8,000 words max) should be submitted before 30 April 2008 also to Ms Wernisch and also as e-mail attachments.

Paper abstracts (300 words max) for ''3×IN'' conference should be submitted to Dr Peter Odrakiewicz (3inconf@pwsbijo.pl) in Poznan, until 15 March 2008 as e-mail attachments. If accepted, full papers (8,000 words max) should be submitted before 30 April 2008, also to Dr Odrakiewicz and also as e-mail attachments.

Organizational matters

The venue for both conferences will be the Poznan University College of Business and Foreign Languages (PWSBiJO), located at 18 Niedzialkowskiego Street, 61-579 Poznan, Poland.

Conference fee is e250, for regular participants, e200, for members of IACCM and e100, for PhD students and master program students. The fee entitles participants to the opening cocktail reception on 24 June, the conference dinner on 25 June, the visual arts presentation on 26 June, to the theatre performance on 27 June and to reduced price tickets to the Malta festival performances (www.malta-festival.pl). Details of the registration will appear at the web site of the conference: www.3inconf.pwsbijo.pl, Please follow the instructions by filling in the registration form and paying the conference fee. Remember that due to the international fair and theatre festival you should reserve one of the suggested hotels relatively early.

The organizing committee includes Slawomir Magala (smagala@rsm.nl), Gerhard Fink (gerhard.fink@wu-wien.ac.at), Nigel Holden (nigel.holden@uclan.ac.ak), Magdalena Wyrwicka (m.wyrwicka@pwsbijo.pl), Peter Odrakiewicz (p.odrakiewicz@pwsbijo.pl) and Tomasz Sworowski (t.sworowski@pwsbijo.pl)

The advisory board includes David Boje, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA, Simon Dolan, ESADE Barcelona, Spain, Kostas Gouliamos, Cyprus College, Nicosia, Cyprus, Heather Hopfl, Essex University, Colchester, UK, Terence Jackson, Middlesex University Business School, London, UK, Hugo Letiche, The University of Humanities, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Vienna Economic University, Austria, Hans Oppeland, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Cliff Oswick, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Krzysztof Podemski, UAM Poznan University, Poland, Tojo Thatchenkery, George Mason University, Fairfax. USA.

Registration and payment details

Details of the registration and payment for both conferences will appear at the web site of the conference: www.3inconf.pwsbijo.pl. The deadline for both registration and payment of the registration fee is 30 April 2008. Please follow the instructions by downloading the registration form, filling it in, and sending it as an attachment. Remember that due to the international fair and theatre festival you should reserve one of the suggested hotels relatively early.

The fee for both conferences is e250, for regular participants, e200, for members of IACCM and e100, for PhD and master program students. This registration fee entitles participants to the opening cocktail reception on 24 June, the conference dinner on 25 June, the visual arts presentation on 26 June, to the theatre performance on 27 June and to reduced price tickets to the Malta festival performances (www.malta-festival.pl). Please pay the conference fee to the following Euro account:

ING Bank Slaski S.A. ul. Piekary 7, Poznan, POLAND

BIC (Swift) INGBPLPW

Account number (for EUR payments), 76 1050 1520 1000 0023 1820 4654

Account owner: Poznan University College of Business and foreign Languages (Poznanska Wyzsza Szkola biznesu I Jezykow Obcych – PWSBiJO)

Re: conference fee June 2007 – plus your name and address