Call for Papers/ IACCM Annual International Conference Poznan 2008 with 3xIN 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) <st1:city><st1:place>
Poznan</st1:place></st1:city>
, <st1:date month="6" day="25" year="2008">
June 25-26, 2008</st1:date>
and 3 x 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 Zarządzania i Biznesu) <st1:city><st1:place>
Poznan</st1:place></st1:city>
, <st1:date month="6" day="27" year="2008">
June 27, 2008</st1:date>
Accompanied by "<st1:country-region><st1:place>
Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>
2008", the annual Poznan International Theatre Festival (<st1:date month="6" day="23" year="2008">
June 23-28, 2008</st1:date>
) 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 x 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 x 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 comparative 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 <st1:place>
Europe</st1:place>
. 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 <st1:city><st1:place>
Vienna</st1:place></st1:city>
until <st1:date month="3" day="15" year="2008">
March 15, 2008</st1:date>
as e-mail attachments. If accepted, full papers (8.000 words max) should be submitted before <st1:date month="4" day="30" year="2008">
April 30, 2008</st1:date>
also to Ms Wernisch and also as e-mail attachments. Paper abstracts (300 words max) for "3 x IN" conference should be submitted to Dr Peter Odrakiewicz (3inconf@pwsbijo.pl) in <st1:city><st1:place>
Poznan</st1:place></st1:city>
, until <st1:date month="3" day="15" year="2008">
March 15, 2008</st1:date>
as e-mail attachments. If accepted, full papers ((8.000 words max) should be submitted before <st1:date month="4" day="30" year="2008">
April 30, 2008</st1:date>
, 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 250,- € for regular participants, 200,-€ for members of IACCM and 100,- € for Ph.D. students and master program students. The fee entitles participants to the opening cocktail reception on June 24, the conference dinner on June 25, the visual arts presentation on June 26, to the theatre performance on June 27 and to reduced price tickets to the <st1:country-region><st1:place>
Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>
festival performances (www.malta-festival.pl). Details of the registration will appear at the website of the conference: http://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, United Kingdom, Terence Jackson, Middlesex University Business School, London, United Kingdom, 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, United Kingdom, Krzysztof Podemski, UAM Poznan University, Poland, Tojo Thatchenkery, George Mason University, Fairfax. <st1:country-region><st1:place>
USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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Registration and payment details: Details of the registration and payment for both conferences will appear at the website of the conference: http://www.3inconf.pwsbijo.pl. The deadline for both registration and payment of the registration fee is <st1:date month="4" day="30" year="2008">
April 30, 2008</st1:date>
. 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 250,- € for regular participants, 200,-€ for members of IACCM and 100,- € for Ph.D. and master program students. This registration fee entitles participants to the opening cocktail reception on June 24, the conference dinner on June 25, the visual arts presentation on June 26, to the theatre performance on June 27 and to reduced price tickets to the <st1:country-region><st1:place>
Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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: <st1:place><st1:placename>
Poznan</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>
University</st1:placetype>
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College</st1:placetype></st1:place>
of Business and foreign Languages (Poznanska Wyzsza Szkola biznesu I Jezykow Obcych - PWSBiJO) Re: conference fee June 2007 –plus your name and address
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Univ.-Prof. Dkfm. Dr. Gerhard Fink
Jean Monnet Professor
EuropaInstitut
(Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence)
Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
Althanstrasse 39-45
A- 1090 Wien
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/europainstitut Tel.: (+43 1) 31336-4137
Fax.: (+43 1) 31336-758
E-Mail:
gerhard.fink@wu-wien.ac.at and
Director of Doctoral Studies
E-mail:
pd_doktorat@wu-wien.ac.at GUIDELINES:
http://fgr.wu-wien.ac.at/institut/ef/AoM_gui06.pdf The Role of the Presenter
How to Prepare for a Visual Presentation / an Oral Presentation / an Interactive Presentation
The Role of the Discussant / of the Reviewer
With thanks to the Academy of Management
http://meetings.aomonline.org/2006/ http://www.aomonline.org/