Apologizes for cross-posting, however, the following call might interest
some you.
Regards
Ingo Winkler
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VIII Chemnitz East Forum
“Cooperation between East and West:
Westernization of the East or Easternization of the West?”
13 – 15 September 2007
Call for Papers
The VIII Chemnitz East Forum provides a platform for the exchange of
results of the latest research on processes of societal transformation
in Central and East European countries and its impact on states and
organizations of the Western hemisphere. Wewould like to invite research
papers dealing with all aspects of organizational change and cooperation
between organizations in CEE countries and organizations in Western
Europe, North America and Japan.
We prefer theory-based empirical studies, but also welcome papers of
theoretical or conceptual nature or with focus on methodological issues
in this context.
The conference topics include (but are not limited to):
- Spread of management practices in CEE countries compared to the West.
- Transfer of HRM practices and organizational structures from West to
East and
vice versa.
- Leadership in international cooperations, East-West joint ventures, or CEE
companies with Western owners.
- Internationalization strategies of CEE firms.
- Governance and board structures of CEE firms or East-West joint ventures.
- Emerging organizational forms in East-West business cooperations.
- Ethical issues of East-West cooperations.
We would like to invite you to participate in the VIII Chemnitz East
Forum and at this point particularly encourage young researchers and PhD
students to send us their papers. Young scholars will be offered a
number of grants for participation (sponsored by several scientific or
industrial organizations).
Please send an extended abstract (1,500 words) to the organization
committee via email as file (doc, rtf) or via post. Abstracts should
contain the author(s) name(s), title and position, institution, address,
phone number, fax number and e-mail address as well as the topic the
paper is referring to. Submissions should be received by 28 February
2007. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts
by 30 April 2007. In case your paper will be chosen for presentation you
should be prepared to submit a full paper before the conference.
For further information please visit our conference homepage
www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/bwl5/ostforum/cof8/index.php
The conference fee is 125 Euro. If possible, participants from Eastern
European countries will get the conference fee and their travel and
accommodation expenses refunded. Further details will be sent together
with the invitation.
Please submit your abstract by post or email to:
Dr. Ingo Winkler
Chemnitz University of Technology
Department of Economics and Business Administration
Chair of Organisation Studies – BWL V
Reichenhainer Str. 39/612
09126 Chemnitz
Germany
Phone +49 / 371 / 531-3 41 59
Fax +49 / 371 / 531-2 62 29
Email:
ingo.winkler@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
Homepage: www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/bwl5/