Diary

Citation

(2006), "Diary", Strategic Direction, Vol. 22 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/sd.2006.05622iac.001

Diary

Tehran, Iran, September 4-5, 2006

Conference Objectives:

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  developing and promoting marketing management knowledge;

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  developing and promoting skills of marketing managers and experts; and

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  creating and developing a network of marketing experts and consultants.

Topics:

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  strategic marketing and marketing strategies;

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  business and industrial marketing;

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  services marketing;

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  international marketing and export management;

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  marketing research;

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  new trends and phenomena in marketing;

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  sales management and negotiation techniques;

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  consumer behavior;

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  customer relationship management;

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  brand management;

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  codes of ethics and social responsibilities in marketing; and

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  pathology of marketing in Iran.

Invited Speakers:

Abbas J. Ali, PhD, is Professor of Management and Director, School of International Management, Eberly college of Business, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His current research interests include global business leadership, strategy, foreign policy, comparative management, competitiveness issues, organizational politics, and international management. He published more than one hundred-twenty scholarly journal articles. In addition, he delivered more than 350 presentations at professional and academic meetings. He serves as editor of the International Journal of Commerce and Management, Advances in Competitiveness Research, Competitiveness Review and Journal of Global Competitiveness. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of several academic journals.

Contact: info@irmmc.com website: www.irmmc.com/

 

British Academy of Management

Belfast, Ireland, September 12-14, 2006

The theme of the event will focus on “Building International Communities through Collaboration” looking at the way in which “management” as a field of study adds to our knowledge and understanding of how individuals, groups and organizations can work together in a way that promotes enhanced performance.

Track summary:

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  corporate governance, accountability and corporate social responsibility;

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  cultural and creative industries;

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  e-business and e-government;

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  entrepreneurship and innovation;

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  foresight and organizational becoming;

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  gender in management;

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  human resource management;

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  identity;

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  interorganizational relations;

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  international business;

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  knowledge and learning;

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  leadership;

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  management and business history;

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  management consultancy;

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  organizational psychology;

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  organizational studies;

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  performance management;

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  public management and governance track;

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  research methodology;

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  retail and marketing;

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  strategic management; and

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  strategy as practice.

Contact: Clare Saunders at: csaunders@bam.ac.uk website: www.bam.ac.uk

 

IFSAM VIIIth World Congress 2006, hosted by VHB

Berlin, Germany, September 28-30, 2006

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).

Firms are nowadays embedded in an increasingly globalized environment characterized by compression of time and space. In this ubiquity of global competition an 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 honored 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; furthermore we have invited the scholars listed below to co-chair the conference tracks.

Contact: ifsam@ctw-congress.de website: www.ctw-congress.de/ifsam/default.html