13th IACCM Annual Conference
BETWEEN CULTURES AND PARADIGMS
Intercultural Competence & Managerial Intelligence
and
6th CEMS/IACCM Doctoral Workshop
26-28 June 2014
University of Warwick, UK
The persistent signs of social, economic and political crises, ranging from policy blockages between powerful political parties to often violent demonstrations in the streets and outright civil war, too, are bearing new challenges for cultural theories. Even if 'national cultures' might be relatively stable, as a response to the persistent crises paradigm wars are emerging about the 'only true way' to renewed happiness. While numerous new political parties are emerging with promises of 'a new political paradigm', other paradigms are persistently and often powerfully advocated in a 'more of the same' style, and yet other paradigms are in demise, as e.g. the communist or social anarchist paradigms after the collapse of communist power around 1990.
As a consequence of persistent social, economic and political crises across major economic regions, new cultural crossings are not confined to national cultures and paradigm wars within numerous societies or to international business and cross-border acquisitions. The level of refugee streams seeking survival in perceived prosperous countries, where unemployment and poverty are significantly on the rise, too, and income driven worker mobility e.g. within the European Union or to the USA continuously are carrying new cultural crossings into the 'established' nation states and into the organisations embedded into 'a national culture', what is raising new challenges for managerial intelligence, too. In this context, new understandings of intercultural competence are urgently needed.
The conference will not necessarily exclude papers that deal with the more standard subject matter of cross-cultural management, but preference will be given to contributions which address the following themes:
Framing, Negotiating, and Modifying Organizational and Political Paradigms.
Political Intelligence and Communication: Shaping the Political Discourse.
Drives for Cultural Change: Political, Economic and Social Consequences.
Political Paradigm Change, Social Exclusion and Inclusion.
Scientific, Political and Organizational Paradigms - the Issue of Publication Bias.
Managerial Intelligence, Power and Loyalty in Organizations.
Shaping the Leadership Paradigm: From Human Relations to Human Resource Management.
Intercultural Competence - Conceptualization and Application.
Intercultural Competence - Academic Education and Research Output.
Intercultural Competence - Mindsets and Patterns of Behaviour.
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FOR CONFERENCE & DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
March 15, 2014
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