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Keynote Speakers                  Dr. Laurent Choain, Mazars

                                                Professor Olaf Groth, Hult

                                                Professor Mtchell Koza, Rutgers

                                                Professor John Mahon, Maine

                                                Professor Johan Roos, Hult

                                                Professor JC Spender, Kozminski

Date and place:                   3-5 July 2016, 2pm-2pm,

Ashridge House, Berkhamsted byLondon, UK

Conference Chairs              Professor Carla Millar

                                                Professor Kai Peters

                                                Lee Waller

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT AIRC??                                                                                      

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH  WITH REAL WORLD IMPACT

SUPPORTIVE ATMOSPHERE

FAMOUS ASHRIDGE MANSION AND GARDENS

SPECIAL ISSUES OF PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Global Disruption and Organisational Innovation 

AIRC5 is the fifth in a successful series of Ashridge international research conferences that bring to the research and discussion table top of mind CEO, leadership and management challenges, in a multidisciplinary global setting where HR, IB, policy, marketing, innovation and strategy scholars present and debate their research in interaction with keynote speakers and practitioners

In our last 4 conferences, we have seen a dynamic evolution of the topic and research foci, covering "Global Leadership, Global Ethics", the "Challenges to bring the sustainability agenda from strategy to implementation"," The multigenerational organization - from Gen Y to working beyond 65" - and last year's "Challenges to managing HR in knowledge intensive institutions".

AIRC conferences are linked to Special Issues of reputable peer reviewed international journals; to date the following have been / are being guest-edited:  IJHRM, JMP, JOCM [2x], JMD, JBE, JKM, JAET, JPA [2x] TFSC.

 For the 5^th conference we focus on how to innovate, re-shape and strategically manage our sometimes stagnating, increasingly easily disrupted organisations, taking global and multi-disciplinary perspectives. 

Many firms are experiencing the disruptive impact of the financial crises and the recession, of the digital era, of disruptive technology, of the diverse generational demands, of integration and narrowing of the global world, its increasingly knowledge-intensive nature, the growing importance of integrity and acting responsibly, changes in consumption patterns, the large scale migration, and attention to global warming and the environment.  

Earlier in 2015 Hult/Ashridge Business School conducted research about what was top of mind amongst C-suite respondents in the G7. While the multigenerational workforce and the longevity of the western consumers were perceived as both an opportunity and a threat, for the greater majority of respondents the most important issues were the need for creativity and innovation, managing knowledge workers, sustainable business [ethics and responsibility requirements as well as changes in consumer demands], and the effects of digital disruption [e.g. disaggregation of industry, retail supply and value chains; internet; mobile phone based markets and payment system growth].  Overwhelmingly Board members saw 'speeding up innovation', 'creating a service culture' and 'achieving organisational integration' as top strategic priorities for their organization, and pronounced 'communication and team work', and 'managing complexity' as indispensable skills.

The AIRC5 conference welcomes submissions that discuss the organisational and strategic answers to the dilemmas of these and other organisational disruptions. Probing and evaluating  these answers, we strive to challenge the literature and address e.g. effects of lack of integrity, specificities of knowledge intensive firms, ICT challenges, multigenerational issues, and other demands of the current experiences: what new models can be posited, as the old rules and systems no longer seem to work.

All disruptions affect the firm, its people, its leadership, its global strategies and policy, entrepreneurship, models and effectiveness. There is a need for specific innovations and instruments to leverage, even profit from them, in- and externally.

The complex patterns of disruption that are occurring globally have given rise to the term "VUCA environment" (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), and demand re-examination, reinterpretation or replacement of traditional thinking, opening it up to new concepts, new solutions. They may be multidisciplinary, multicultural, and must be dynamic, creative, forward looking, tolerant and inclusive.

We welcome the submission of Extended Structured Abstracts of original full papers, both conceptual papers that combine different and novel theoretical perspectives and empirical papers contextualizing the topics above, including advanced WIP, policy papers and research based proposals for panels.

To AIRC5 we welcome (interdisciplinary) scholars and practitioners in the various research areas that are affected by organisational disruption such as (but not limited to) People Management (HRM), International Business and Marketing, Organisational Change Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Sustainability, Ethics, IC and Knowledge Management, Talent Management, Technology Management, and Leadership.

For AIRC5 we are envisaging three tracks with research topics including but not limited to:

   A1. Global Industry Innovation: 

   A2. Global disruption driven innovation 

      B    Creating the VUCA cadre & management: Education, techniques, challenges

   B1. University sector Innovation: 

   B2. Personal development

   B3. Organisational Knowledge Management

 Living the VUCA experience: responses to disruption

  C1. Organisational Creativity and Innovation 1.

  C2. Board and Governance

  C3 Industry innovation:

For further topic areas, please see the website  http://www.ashridge.org.uk/AIRC5/

AIRC5 offers dialogue among scholars and research minded practitioners and timely feedback and peer review on their papers before the submission deadlines for the journal Special Issues that will be linked to the conference..

Deadlines and review process

   Deadline for submission of the Full Paper                               20 April 2016

   Acceptance notification to authors                                        04 May 2016

   Deadline delivery of full papers for AIRC5 Proceedings              30 May 2016 

All full papers by registered participants will be included in the

AIRC5 Conference Proceedings with ISBN number

Papers not received by 30 May 2016 will not be published in the Proceedings

Submission

All Full paper manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed.

Papers are submitted with the understanding

that they are original, unpublished works 

that they are not being submitted elsewhere and

that [one of] the author[s] will attend the conference and present the paper

Submit your papers for review as email attachment  in Word (.doc or .docx)  to AIRC5@ashridge.hult.edu  with AIRC5 paper in the Heading, cc c.millar@utwente.nl

Send finalised full paper for the Conference Proceedings by 30 May 2016 to AIRC5@ashridge.hult.edu  headed 'AIRC5 Paper'

Submission details: please see http://www.ashridge.org.uk/AIRC5/

Details:

• First page: manuscript title and name of author[s], institutional affiliation, and contact information for each of the authors

• Second page: manuscript title and author[s] biographical details (max. 100 words pp)

• Third page: manuscript title and structured abstract (maximum 250 words)

• Fourth page and following: manuscript title followed by the text of paper

• Your paper should be written in English, and be between 4000 and 5000 words long

• Manuscripts should use Harvard referencing guidelines

• Note: the author[s] names should not appear or be referenced after page three of the manuscript

REGISTRATION

Registration for AIRC5, and all further information can be found on the website,  http://www.ashridge.org.uk/AIRC5/

Conference Details

For conference details and registration please see our website

www.ashridge.org.uk/aircs