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Charles, could you kindly post the following!

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With Apologies for Cross-postings!

We invite you to submit your paper to the EURAM 2014 Gender & Diversity in Organization Strategic Interests Groups (SIGs) Track. Please, pay attention to the submissions guidelines below. For further information please visit the EURAM 2014 website here.

These are the topics that Gender, Race & Diversity SIG is sponsoring for the 2014 Conference:

Gender, Race & Diversity in Organisations

SIG chair: Beverly Metcalfe (Manchester Business School, UK) metcalfebd@yahoo.co.uk
Programme chair: Jawad Syed (Kent Business School, UK) j.syed@kent.ac.uk

Programme co-chair: Edwin Pio (AUT UNIVERSITY School of Business & Law, New Zealand) edwina.pio@aut.ac.nz

Programme co-chair: Hamid Kazeroony(Inver Hills Community College,USA) hkazero@inverhills.edu

Topics Sponsored (click HERE for more information): Gender, race & diversity in organisations (General Track)

Important Deadlines

Deadline for paper submission 6 Jan 2014 2:00 pm GMT +1
Notification of acceptance as of 28 March 2014
Early bird/authors registration 25 April 2014

Submission guidelines

Please, follow these guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare and submit your paper.

RULE OF 3: Please note that you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers.

Please read the instructions carefully prior to submitting:

1. Each paper can only be submitted to ONE topic or track.
2. Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2014 Conference.
3. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED).
4. The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
5. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references).
6. Number all of the pages of the paper.
7. No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.
8. Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus-free.
9. Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2014 website from December 1^st 2013 to January 16^th 2014.
10. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
11. In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.
12. In case of acceptance, each author can present only one paper at the conference.
13. The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide

For more information, please visit the conference website www.euram2014.org

About EURAM 2014

The next EURAM conference will take place in Valencia (Spain) between the 4^th and the 7^th of June 2014. The conference will be held at the Valencia Conference Centre and the Faculty of Economics of University of Valencia. The theme of the conference, Waves and Winds of Strategic Leadership for Sustainable Competitiveness, is aimed to open an interesting and fruitful dialogue about how management research and education can contribute to the enhancement of new waves and winds of strategic leadership that will stimulate a balanced and sustainable view of competitiveness in our societies.

While firms are currently compelled to achieve and sustain very high levels of competitiveness, the recent financial crisis and scandals, and the increasing attention of our societies and institutions to the attainment of higher ethical standards and to the sustainability of our economic models, constitute a paradox that entails important challenges to scholars, practitioners, politicians and regulators.

Knowing more about this highly stimulating, and yet particularly complex challenge requires us, as management scholars to put into question the existing paradigms and commonly accepted practices, bridge the gaps with other sciences interested in the same challenge, and open our debates to other key stakeholders.

We are firmly convinced that Valencia is a fantastic location to engage in such an interesting debate and to explore the ways to multiply the best managerial practices, as well as it social and institutional recognition. Valencia is a fascinating and open minded city, culturally enriched by all the influences that arrived to us with the pleasant waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea.

Best wishes,

On behalf of the Gender & Diversity SIG