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Is this what your end of year looks like? Drawing to an end, and feeling that 2015 is already at your doorstep perhaps sooner than you thought? As the countdown has started and we are endeavoring to complete all our activities before the holidays, EURAM is also looking ahead and planning for all of our activities to come.

First I would like to remind you about some imminent deadlines:

To register as a reviewer for the Annual Conference, please go to http://2015.euramfullpaper.org/callfor.asp

It will take you 2-3 minutes to fill out your profile. With this information, chairs will be able to match papers with your expertise.

We take this opportunity to also draw your attention to the submission deadlines:

The Paper Submission Deadline is set for 13 January 2015 at 2:00 pm Belgian time check the time difference here). Submissions are done online on http://2015.euramfullpaper.org/login.asp

The conference will be held 17-20 June 2015 in Warsaw and additional information about the programme tracks and submission guidelines, go to http://euram-online.org/conference/2015/programme.php?page=Call-for-papers.

The Submission Deadline for the Doctoral Colloquium is set for 27 January 2015 at 2:00 pm Belgian time (check the time difference here) Submissions are done on line on http://colloquium.euramfullpaper.org/

As author or reviewer, you will see that we have made new efforts to embody our values of “Engaged European management scholars” in our process: EURAM endeavors to facilitate research and publications that matter for business and society. So we tried to give more importance to this dimension in our evaluation criteria and while insisting, as usual, on rigour and quality, we also introduced in our evaluation template originality and creativity as well as the “most influential paper award”

Then let me take a step back and look at some activities which took place in the last quarter of the year, especially the EURAM Strategic Forum held 30-31 October in Tor Vergata University in Rome which was organised and chaired by Lucrezia Songini (SIG Entrepreneurship) and Alessandro Hinna (SIG Organisational Behaviour).

30 EURAM members of which National Representatives and SIG Officers convened to share their ideas as to how to shape EURAM’s future. Time was spent listening to presentations from our SIGs and in participating in workshops to build the future strategic focus of the association.

Workshop 1 concentrated on Values, Strategy and Positioning and was facilitated by Wojciech Czakon and Sibel Yamak, Workshop 2 reflected on governance issues and shaped a proposal for a new governance structure under the leadership of Silke Machold while Workshop 3 looked at Organisational and Operational aspects of the Academy and was facilitated by Corinne Vercher and Rémi Jardat.

A comprehensive summary of the outcome of each working group will be circulated to all members separately so you can read about them in detail. All of these ideas will require close follow-up and the involvement of the Executive Committee Members, National Representatives and SIG Officers.

Shortly after the Strategic Forum, the Executive Committee met to prioritise the actions and activities derived from the workshops. I would like to share a few of those which you will hear about in the coming year:

Julienne Brabet, Vice President for membership, is launching a project around a European Code of Good Practices for Field Research signed by companies and academics representatives. She will involve National Representatives and all members to understand how scholars collaborate with the industry to conduct research and the constraints regarding confidentiality clauses that should be addressed.
Wojciech Czakon, Vice President for Strategic Interest Groups, will be working on developing professional standards for SIGs, introducing a performance management system and developing standards for creating, merging and dissolving SIGs.
Hans Lundberg, Vice President for the Doctoral Colloquium (DC), is planning an attractive programme for the next DC to be held 17-18 June 2015 in Warsaw. Among other things, he will be developing a mentoring guidelines document and connecting to other institutions such as EIASM who organises EDEN Doctoral programmes and the European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration association (EDAMBA) to work more closely with them.
Anne-Katrien Neyer, Vice President EECC is busy organizing the 6^th edition of the event in Krakow to be held 11-13 February 2015 and has worked with SIG officers to propose a workshop with the more junior community to be held at the conference. Anne-Katrin and Hans are also working together on how to bridge the gap between those two communities and integrate the PhD students of the DC into the EECC as swiftly as possible to facilitate their academic career.
Silke Machold, Vice President Governance, will be setting up a task force to work on a new governance structure by 2016 and she will also organise and facilitate a working group focusing on funding and sponsorship.
Corinne Vercher, Vice President for Operations will be working on mapping the key processes and decision-making processes. She will also build an on-line calendar which will help members understand all the deadlines around each of our core activities.
Sibel Yamak, Vice President Conferences, is looking at starting an award for the most inspirational paper of the conference and increasing placement presence and services at the conference.

After nearly one year of editorship of EURAM’s Journal European Management Review, Mustafa Ozbilgin continues to build and develop his editorial and review boards in order to better embody EURAM core values. Next year, EMR will publish more than 4 articles per issue: it will also be sending an open Call for Proposals for Special Issues and accept for the first time submission in many European language.

For EURAM 2015, I am also working closely with Dorota Dobjia and her team to offer an attractive programme for the conference. Thanks to her efforts, we are delighted to have Lech Walesa accepting to act as a keynote speaker at Kozminski University next year.

For now do not forget the submission deadline of 13 January 2015 and if you are a PhD student, consider taking part in the DC for which the submission deadline is 27 January 2015.

More information about all other EURAM events can be found in the section “NEWS FROM BRUSSELS, @Headquarters and beyond” which Luisa Jaffé, Executive Officer has prepared for you.

I would like to thank each one of you for their contribution to the Academy’s growth. Many of you contribute in multiple ways as author, reviewer, topic or track chair, mentor in the Doctoral Colloquium, participant or speaker in one of our development programmes or in our conference. As an organisation of volunteers, all of our activities and their quality standard are highly dependent on your good will and professional expertise!

My best wishes to you for the Holiday Season. I hope you will have a wonderful time with your family and friends in these last few days of December.

Luca Gnan, President

NEWS FROM BRUSSELS, @Headquarters and beyond

Supporting a Community of European Engaged Management Scholars

European Management Review

Special Issue on “Firms & Corruption”

The next issue of EMR will feature four articles selected for publication on Firms and Corruption. It is currently in production and will accessible to members on-line very shortly.

Professional Development

EURAM/EFMD Programme for Directors of Research

The dates for this cycle are:

11-12 December 2014

3-4 February 2015

16-17 April 2015

EURAM Early Career Community (EECC)

The 6^th Edition of the EECC will be hosted by the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 11-13 February 2015. For more information go to http://www.euram-online.org/development.php?page=EURAM-Early-Career-Colloquiums

Registration Deadline: 30 December 2014

EURAM 2015 Doctoral Colloquium

The Doctoral Colloquium will be held 15-16 June 2015 in Warsaw just before the EURAM Annual conference. For additional information and submission guidelines, go to http://euram-online.org/conference/2015/programme.php?page=Doctoral-Colloquium

Submission Deadline: 27 January 2015, 14:00 Brussels time

EURAM 2015 Annual Conference

The conference will take place in Warsaw from 17-20 June 2015 at the University of Kozminski. For full information about the conference, the tracks and topics, go to www.euram2015.org

Paper Submission Deadline: 13 January 2015, 14:00 Brussels time

Joint events and SIG conferences

Public Management SIG Conference

A conference focusing on Corporate Governance, Accounting and Accountability of State-Owned Enterprises and Agencies: Taking Stock and Next Steps in Theory and Practice will be held at the Leipzig University, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Germany on 19-20 February 2015. Additional information as well as the conference programme can be found on http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/publicmanagement/news.html

Thematic Conference:
Innovation & Strategic Management SIGs
Management Innovation: New Boarders for a new concept

The conference will be held 9-10 July 2015 at the Montpellier Business School, France.
For full information about the conference and to download the flyer, go to http://www.euram-online.org/development.php?page=Thematic-Conference:-Management-Innovation

Abstract Submission deadline: 20 February 2015

EURAM@Headquarters will give EURAM members short news about programmes and initiatives organised or followed up in our headquarters in Brussels.

For any questions or to send your news for the next newsletter, contact Executive Officer luisa@eiasm.be & Communications Officer , Stefano Armenia, armenia@dis.uniroma1.it

2015 EIASM Calendar of activities For additional information about EIASM Events, www.eiasm.org
January 19-20	1^st International Competitiveness Management Conference. “ Competicon” (NEW)Copenhagen, Denmark
January 26-29	4th EDAMBA-EIASM Consortium on Doctoral Supervision and the New Global Research LandscapeBarcelona, Spain
March 16-19	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Organizational DesignAarhus, Denmark
March 23-26	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Meta-Analysis for Management and Economics ResearchBrussels, Belgium
March 23-27	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on International Mergers and AcquisitionsBrussels, Belgium
March 26-27	6^th Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business StrategyAntwerp, Belgium
April 9-10	30^th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource ManagementBrussels, Belgium
May 4-8	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Innovation Management: Theories, Methods, Empirical Evidence and Policy ChallengesBrussels, Belgium
May 18-21	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Qualitative Business ResearchBrussels, Belgium
May 28-30	11^th Workshop on Family Firm Management ResearchLyon, France
June 8-12	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Methods and Methodology in Cross –Cultural Research Vaasa, Finland
June 8-12	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Social Network Analysis (SNA): Theory and MethodsSantorini, Greece
June 11-12	10^th Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third SectorEdinburgh, U.K.
June 14-16	22^nd IPDMC - Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (new title)Copenhagen, Denmark
June 13-14	8^th Doctoral Workshop on Innovation and Product Development ManagementCopenhagen, Denmark
June 1-2	5^th Workshop on Asian Management and Entrepreneurship Shanghai, China
June	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Doctoral Dissertation Writings and PublishingVilnius, Lithuania
May 18-22	EDEN Doctoral Seminar on CSR and PoliticsHelsinki, Finland

SIGs NEWS

European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Public Management Strategic Interest Group Conference

Corporate Governance, Accounting and Accountability of
State-Owned Enterprises and Agencies: Taking Stock and
Next Steps in Theory and Practice

Leipzig University, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Germany

February 19^th/20^th 2015

Confirmed Speakers from 3 continents and 11 countries

Scientific Committee:	Key Notes / Round Table
Ulf Papenfuß (Leipzig University)	Riccardo Mussari (Siena University)
Giuseppe Grossi (Kristianstad University)Denita Cepiku (University of Rome Tor Vergata)	Marie-Soleil Tremblay (École Nationale D'administration Publique Canada)
	Sandra van Thiel (University Nijmegen)
	Reto Steiner (University Bern)
	Michèle Morner (University Speyer)
	Klaus Ahrend (Board Chairman HEAG Holding AG)

Further Information about the Program, the Motivation of the Conference/Research Field and Information about Leipzig: http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/publicmanagement/news.html

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for participation in our survey about publication practices and performance measurement practices in science

As part of the FAceS project (www.faces.wi.tum.de/), the Chair for Strategy and Organization (Prof. Isabell M. Welpe) at the Technische Universität München, Germany, is currently conducting a survey about publication practices and performance measurement in science.

To attain representative knowledge about publication practices and performance measurement across different countries and disciplines (e.g., business), we are particularly interested in your assessment and specifications on this topic.

Participation in this survey will take approximately 20 minutes. Participants will be offered the chance to participate in the raffle for an iPad mini. Upon request, we will be happy to send you a summary of the results of the survey.

Please click on the following link (or copy the link into your browser) to access the survey: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/OA/ , participate in our survey and contribute to the success of this study.

Should you have any questions or comments or should you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail (performance-management.lso.wi@tum.de).

Technische Universität München

TUM School of Management

Chair for Strategy and Organization

Prof. Dr. Isabell M. Welpe

Call for papers for the first in-between event sponsored by the Innovation SIG EURAM

Topic: Innovation Theory and the (re)foundations of Management

Dates: 30 & 31 March, 2015

Location: MINES ParisTech, Paris, France

Selected papers presented at the conference will be considered for revision and publication for a special issue of European Management Review (EMR) dedicated to Innovation Theory and the (re)foundations of management. The call for papers will be available at the event.
Download call: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33162193/Call_EURAM_SIG_workshop.pdf

Deadline for paper submission 31 Jan 2015

Notification of acceptance as of 15 February 2015

Authors’ late registration 15 March 2015

Call for papers - for a special issue on the strategic management of dynamic growth

Guest editors:

Arturo Capasso, University of Sannio at Benevento - E-mail: capasso@unisannio.it

Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Catania – E-mail: dagnino@unict.it

David King, Iowa State University – E-mail: drking@iastate.edu

Janne Tienari, Aalto University –E-mail: janne.tienari@aalto.fi

Firm growth is a classic theme in strategic management research and practice that dates back to Edith Penrose’s 1959 celebrated book. A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has been done on this topic, but there is growing concern among researchers and practitioners about its usefulness.

Major changes in the business environment during recent decades have made it important for strategy researchers to rethink established theories of growth. How is growth sustained in the face of blurring boundaries among markets and technologies, increased competition and intense competitive dynamics, and the rising importance of intangibles and knowledge?

Mainstream theories of firm growth assume that internal growth is characteristic of high-growth emergent industries and external growth is typical of mature industries. Stable markets make it more convenient to acquire existing production capacity and market share rather than making risky commitments to new capacity and market development. However, the pace of change today makes it critical for firms to reconsider their growth strategies. In this changing business environment, traditional strategic options may not achieve desired levels of growth. For this reason, combinations of growth strategies such as organic growth, acquisitions, joint ventures, or alliances have become a means to accelerate growth in both established firms and small hi-tech firms and innovative startup initiatives.

We may need to take a new look at long-standing strategy issues related to planning and implementing growth and develop a new understanding of how firms, networks, ecosystems and platforms achieve longer term growth. The goal of this special issue is to provide strategy scholarship with new perspectives that consider contemporary environmental dynamism in the analysis of growth. In order to achieve this aim, the LRP special issue welcomes theory-driven, theory-building, and empirical papers investigating the strategic management of firm growth for a range of industries and firms. We are particularly interested in papers addressing topics related to:

Planning and implementing acquisitions in high-growth and technology industries;
Outlining the relationship between growth by acquisition or internal investment;
Typology of alliance forms and internal growth options;
Network effects, or strategic alliances as formalized interorganizational relationships to manage growth;
Capabilities needed to manage growth in firms for different growth modes (acquisition, internal investment, or hybrid options);
Small business growth dynamics that drive external growth and/or make small businesses acquisition targets;
Start up or new venture strategic trade-offs between internal and external growth;
Differences and commonalities between start-up and restart strategies;
Managing dynamic growth in and between established firms;
How competitive dynamics affects the choice between internal and external growth strategies;
How coopetition among firms can influence the choice between internal and external growth.

The topical list reported above should be seen as illustrative more than prescriptive, and scholars may wish to complement the proposed list with other topics related to industry and firm growth strategies.

We aim to attract robust submissions and offer a well balanced mix of papers using various relevant methodologies (both quantitative and qualitative), as well as strong conceptual papers. We would particularly welcome research work applied to samples and cases from emerging countries and hitech settings as well work on more traditional geographic spaces and industries that reveal new insights on growth. We would also welcome papers that study the strategic management of dynamic growth in-depth by comparing different industries and/or geographical spaces.

Our ultimate goal is to craft a special issue of LRP presenting an excellent combination of high quality papers that make a relevant contribution to advance investigation of strategies for dynamic growth.

Special Issue Workshop

Subsequent to the first round of reviews, it is our intention to organize a paper development workshop for the authors of the papers that have passed the first round of reviews. The invitation of authors to the workshop will not guarantee publication in LRP. The special issue workshop will be hosted in Southern Italy, at the University of Catania or at the University of Sannio-Benevento, in the Summer of 2015.

Submission guidelines and deadline

Papers for the special issue should be prepared according to LRP’s guidelines for authors. All papers will undergone the usual double blind review process of LRP. Submit full manuscripts to the online submission system of LRP by the special issue submission deadline of 31 December, 2014: http://ees.elsevier.com/lrp/default.asp

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the GEMRev Global Economics and Management Review

Innovations in public and private partnerships Paper submission deadline: February 1st, 2015

Guest Editor: Laurie Paarlberg, Texas A&M University (l.paarlberg@tamu.edu)

Global Economics and Management Review (GEMRev) is seeking high quality papers for inclusion in a special edition that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in public and partnerships. Over the last thirty years, there has been a global trend for governments at all levels to increasingly transfer responsibility for both th e delivery and financing of “public services” to local nongovernmental agencies. As a result, in the 21st century, nongovernmental organizations are at the forefront of many public policy and management innovations that shape local service delivery systems. Nongovernmental organizations are playing new roles in the public policy arena and adopting new management tools, new models of social sector financing, and new collaborative service delivery systems that continue to transform governance and blur the distinction between public and private, and non-profit and for-profit organizations. For this special edition, GEMRev will accept timely and transformative articles that will promote dialogue about innovations in local governance and their implications for the roles of nongovernmental organizations and their management. This is in line with the emphasis GEMRev puts in systematic, multi-disciplinary research that attempts to bridge sectoral and disciplinary divides. Submissions can include both theoretical and empirical papers that introduce new models or revisit existing ones, or evidence-based studies or replication studies, for instance. Studies should be at the person, organization, or industry level (or any combination of these levels). While far from exhaustive, the following list outlines potential topics that are receiving growing interest but remain under theorized and under-researched, and can be included in this Special Issue: social impact bonds and other new forms of social sector funding; pay for performance; collective impact and other collaborative partnership forms; novel uses of social media to organize and raise funds, such as crowdsourcing and virtual organization; and growing interest in increased public participation through community based philanthropy, giving circles, participatory budgeting and other forms of deliberative democracy.

Manuscript Submission and Review Process

Papers submitted must be original, should not have been previously published nor be simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions must conform to journal’s style requirements and will be subject to a blind, peer review process. Submit papers to GEMRev via: http://ees.elsevier.com/gemrev/default.asp?pg=login.asp. GEMRev is indexed in Scopus.

Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2015 Publication: 2015

Please feel free to contact the editor of this Special Issue to answer any questions regarding the special issue; or the managing editor of GEMRev for any formal or technical issues.

About: Global Economics and Management Review

The GEMRev provides a locus for creating dialogs between disciplines and for a cross-fertilization to happen in the form of journal space guided by editorial norms committed to methodological pluralism. GEMRev aims to become a targeted and desired destination for substantively interesting conversations that break rigid methodological boundaries and abandon subfield-specific jargon to become truly multi- and inter-disciplinary research. GEMRev also welcomes research that challenges scientific orthodoxy, questions longstanding assumptions, and proposes constructive alternatives to widespread beliefs and interpretations. The journal specifically invites empirical studies that fail to support existing theories and replication studies in general. GEMRev is dedicated to quality and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Hence, while encouraging innovation and norm-breaking research, the editors expect scientific rigor, intellectual honesty and integrity from authors.

Please visit GEMRev at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-economics-and-management-review/

Call for Papers to be submitted to a Special Issue in CGIR on “Research Methodology in Governance Studies: Challenges and Opportunities”

Guest Editors: Brian Boyd, Renée Adams, and Steve Gove

Research methodology is important for any academic topic, but arguably even more so for corporate governance. Most constructs in governance research are unobservable, raising questions regarding the suitability of proxy indicators. Additionally, the pattern of relationships among variables is often complex, requiring sophisticated designs ranging from mediation to multiplex networks, among others. Thus, it is not surprising that it is often difficult to identify causal effects in corporate governance research.

The goal of this special issue is to advance knowledge regarding the design and implementation of the methodological component of governance research. Sample topics might include, but are not limited to the following:

The correspondence between statistical methods, measurement, and theory
Evolution of measurement and statistical methodologies in governance research
Corporate governance constructs, construct clarity, validity, and reliability
Methodological advances and innovations applicable to corporate governance research from outside the field
Qualitative and mixed method approaches to corporate governance research
The role of governance data and limitations of that data in research methods (e.g., limited databases, course-grained proxies, etc.)
Content and text analysis
Dealing with endogeneity: natural experiments, difference-in-difference estimators, regression discontinuity design, instrumental variable analysis, etc.
Measuring and analyzing networks
Contingency modelling
Survey design
Event studies
Sample selection

Proposals should be submitted via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cgir and selecting “Special Issue: Research Methods” as the paper type. Papers should follow CGIR style guidelines. Papers will undergo the usual double-blind, developmental review, and the final acceptance of papers will be contingent on incorporating reviewers’ feedback to the satisfaction of the editors. Submissions will be evaluated with respect to the following criteria:

(a) Relevance. The proposed manuscript should make a contribution towards improving our understanding of methodological issues in the context of corporate governance.

(b) Viability. The paper should represent an achievable project within the tight time constraints required. If the scope of a manuscript revision falls outside the timetable of the special issue, we may recommend to the Editors in Chief that the final paper be published in a subsequent issue of CGIR.

(c) Organization and Coherence. The paper should follow a logical structure, read clearly, and thoroughly represent the available research.

(d) Insight for Future Work. The proposal should convey important implications for future management scholars regarding methodological rigor.

Additionally, authors should carefully consider the following questions when planning their articles:

Is there a problem? If so, how salient is it? The premise of most methods papers is that the authors have a ‘better mousetrap’ – i.e., a better way of addressing or framing a particular question. Implicit in this premise is the notion that existing approaches are flawed or limited in some way. As such, a critical first step is to document both the extent and salience of this issue. Careful reviews of the literature, and a positive tone in any critique of prior work is invaluable in this step.
What benefits does the new approach provide? Authors should be able to provide strong evidence that approach offers new insights – e.g., by challenging the conclusions of prior work, integrating disparate and inconsistent findings, or by the ability to frame new questions. There are two components to answering this question:
An empirical demonstration. Generally, manuscripts which only describe a new approach will be perceived as a weaker contribution than manuscripts which both describe and test.
Comparisons are powerful evidence of the benefits to a new approach. For example, a manuscript which develops a new measure of a governance construct will be seen as a weaker contribution than one which compares the efficacy of the new measure against existing measures.
Is this methodological advance readily available to governance scholars? What steps could an author take to facilitate adoption of this innovation? This could include appendices or online supplements that include software tutorials, sample code,etc.

The Guest Editors for this Special Issue are Brian Boyd, City University of Hong Kong (bkboyd@cityu.edu.hk), Renée Adams, University of New South Wales (renee.adams@unsw.edu.au), and Steve Gove, University of Vermont (sgove@bsad.uvm.edu). We welcome any questions or queries about possible submissions.

We will begin accepting submissions on February 1, 2015. All papers must be submitted by March 13, 2015. Please note that due to the strict timetable associated with a special issue, we will not be able to accept late submissions. Also, for authors invited to submit revised manuscripts, it will be essential to handle these changes in a timely manner.

Call for Papers - Special Issue: Middle managers in the strategy process

Editors:

Dr. Marko Reimer, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Dr. Mariano L. M. Heyden, Newcastle Business School, Australia

Dr. Sebastiaan van Doorn, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom

Middle managers are seen as important “linking pins” bridging the top level and the operational level of an organization. As they are shaping and coordinating activities across the hierarchy, they have significant upward and downward influences on strategy formulation and implementation (Floyd & Lane, 2000). While strategy scholars highlight the importance of the middle management based on a substantial and steadily growing amount of research (Wooldridge, Schmid & Floyd, 2008), management accounting and control literature is relatively silent on this topic. Management control-related research on strategy has primarily adopted a contingency perspective on what characteristics of a management control system might be appropriate given a particular strategy, and the focus has been mainly on top managers (e.g., Langfield-Smith, 1997). How middle managers embrace and use management control systems to form or implement strategy remains largely unexplored. Therefore, we call for research papers that investigate the role of middle managers in the strategy process from a management control perspective. We are particularly interested in multi-level applications of managerial involvement, e.g., the top management and middle management interface (Raes, Heijltjes, Glunk & Roe, 2011).

With this special issue of the Journal of Management Control we aim to stimulate and integrate management control and strategy research and invite submissions that are empirical, conceptual, or methodological in nature. The focus of the papers may include but is not limited to:

Types and use of management controls: What types of control systems do middle managers use to assist in formulating, implementing, and monitoring strategy? How do middle managers use different control systems in different stages of the strategy process?
Impact of management controls on middle managers’ strategy involvement: Under which management control conditions do top managers include middle managers in the strategy process? How does the use of different control systems shape middle managers perception of their strategic role in the organization? When and how do middle managers act as gatekeeper for bottom-up innovation and strategic renewal?
Consequences of management controls on the strategy process: How do control systems influence characteristics of the strategy process (e.g., decision comprehensiveness, implementation speed)? How do control systems influence the relationship (e.g., trust, conflict) between upper echelons, middle managers, and line managers in the strategy process? How does the interplay of upper echelons and middle managers translate into quality of strategic decisions, subsequent implementation, and finally, firm performance?

Journal of Management Control (JoMaC) is an international journal concerned with the formal, information-based routines and procedures managers use to maintain or alter patterns in organizational activities. Particular emphasis is placed on operational and strategic planning and control systems and their processes and techniques.

JoMaC was founded in Germany as the “Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung” in 1990 and has a strong reputation as a dedicated academic journal open to high-quality research on all aspects of management control. JoMaC is available via Springer Press at more than 7,000 institutions worldwide. The journal has a high download usage and short review and production cycles. Accepted papers are published online first 20 to 25 days after acceptance.

We kindly invite authors to submit their papers for a double-blind review process using our electronic review system Editorial Manager.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.

Language: English
Review: Double-blind review process

Deadline: February 28, 2015

Length: 8,000 words excluding abstract, footnotes and references, 1.5-spaced

Application: via Editorial Manager JoMaC web site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jmac/

Call for Papers: International Journal of Human Resource Management

Deadline Extended!

New deadline 30 March 2015

Please consider submitting a paper to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. "Muslim Diaspora in the West: Whither Internationl HRM"

https://www.academia.edu/7322462/Call_for_papers_IJHRMs_Special_Issue_on_Muslim_diaspora_in_the_West_whither_international_HRM

This SI seeks to enhance awareness of the complexity of the Muslim diaspora at work in the West in order to crumble and tease out the dissonance that exists in organizations with reference to Muslims. Specifically, the SI revolves around the following question: “What are the positive and challenging international HRM issues facing the Muslim diaspora and organizations in the West?” The aim is to present and synthesize research on international HRM (IHRM)-related issues pertaining to Muslim workers in Western countries (e.g., UK and other parts of Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and may include the cultural and organizational contexts, sourcing HR for competitive global markets, training and development, career management, Muslim perspectives on performance management, and approaches to staffing.
Submissions for this SI may involve qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies, include innovative theoretical and empirical insights, case studies and examples of conducting IHRM research on and with the Muslim diaspora in one or more Western societies including within-country and cross-country studies. The SI editors will be pleased to discuss ideas for manuscripts via email, and such inquires may be directed to BOTH editors at j.syed@hud.ac.uk and edwina.pio@aut.ac.nz

Schedule:

Paper submission due: 30 March 2015

Final decision: Sep 2015

Publication: 2016

Syed, J. and Pio, E. (2014). Special Issue on Muslim diaspora in the West: whither international HRM?

The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.925254

Jawad Syed (Professor of OB & Diversity Management, University of Huddersfield, UK) and Edwina Pio (Professor of Diversity, AUT, New Zealand)

1st Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation

Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France

Deadline for submission of abstracts or papers: 31^st January 2015

28-29th May 2015

Conveners:

Akram Al Ariss, PhD - Toulouse Business School

Sophie d’Armagnac, PhD - Toulouse Business School

Liisa Mäkelä, PhD - University of Vaasa, Department of Management

Vesa Suutari, PhD - University of Vaasa, Department of Management

Topic and objectives of conference

The topic of this conference is self-initiated expatriation (SIE), i.e., international mobility of individuals by way of their own agency rather than being assigned by an organization. SIE represents an increasingly complex phenomenon resulting from globalized business, the needs of multinationals for global talent, and progress in international treaties which grant freedom of movement across borders, among other factors. Research focusing on self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) has been increasing during recent years and this topic has been widely expanding with publications in leading journals including more specialized ones, such as Career Development International and the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and more general, such as the Academy of Management Journal, the European Management Review, and the British Journal of Management. The impact of SIE on business and management are still to be clarified, and theories further developed. This conference contributes to the exchange of viewpoints among scholars.

At the individual level, international mobility affords many choices and opportunities and these individuals subsequently go on to benefit from a positive career experience. Management studies have described the career capital of SIEs in terms of education, professional experience, and networks of contacts, focusing on the more privileged SIEs. It is, therefore, necessary to also consider the lesser privileged individuals with respect to skills, physical (dis)ability, ethnicity, and gender, from among the population of internationally mobile individuals.

At the organisational level, SIEs are likely to possess a keen understanding of both local and global markets; have knowledge of foreign languages and cultures; and are likely to be more cost-effective than traditional expatriates, given the travel and living expenses, salaries, and taxation with regard to financial issues incurred by corporate expatriates. Thus it is of great importance that companies have a clear sense of the nature of SIEs and how best to manage them.

At the international and institutional level, SIE concerns the relationships between countries and the evolution of law, in particular employment legislations. Scholars aiming at understanding global careers have to consider the contextual nature of talent management of the expatriate workforce within their respective historical, geographical, institutional, and organizational settings.

Academic support of the conference

The journal Career Development International will support this conference. http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=CDI

Submission - registration

Researchers interested in participating in the 1st Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation must submit their contribution extended abstract (maximum 2 pages) or full paper to selfexpat@tbs-education.fr by 31^st January 2015. Authors will be notified of acceptance by the end of February 2015. Registration will be opened in February 2015.

For formatting full papers, authors should follow the guidelines of the journal Career Development International.

Management Studies Paper Development Workshop

An International Workshop Sponsored by the Journal of Management Studies, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, Germany).

Date: May, 27-29, 2015

Journal of Management Studies is partnering with WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, Germany) in organizing a paper development workshop. This workshop is primarily directed at junior faculty and later stage doctoral students. It is designed to provide hands-on training and feedback on promising working papers to enhance the ability to publish these papers in top tier journals, such as the Journal of Management Studies. In addition to feedback on the submitted papers, the workshop will also focus on the challenges and typical pitfalls in the editorial process and the editorial team members will share their experiences on this topic.

Participation in this workshop will be limited to twenty authors. Stipends of up to 350 euro will be awarded to selected junior scholars. The mentors for this workshop amongst others will be the Journal of Management Studies Editors: Garry Bruton (Texas Christian University) and Dries Faems (University of Groningen). In addition, mentorship will be provided by the local organizers Sabine Rau (WHU), and Franz Kellermanns (UNC – Charlotte and WHU). The keynote will be given by Garry Bruton (Texas Christian University).

For selection, please provide a current CV, an abstract of the paper that is being submitted to the conference (no more than 5 double-spaced pages including references).

The participants may submit papers that reflect the entire scope of the topic areas published in the Journal of Management Studies, including research on organization theory and behavior, strategy, human resource management, international business, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The workshop will start with a reception on May 27, and includes 1.5 days of program, concluding on May 29 at midday. There will not be a conference fee. Meals will be provided. Multiple inexpensive hotel options are available close to the conference location in Vallendar (Germany), which can be easily accessed via train (connecting from airports like Frankfurt, Cologne or Düsseldorf).

Call for Abstracts

For selection, please provide a current CV, an abstract of the paper that is being submitted to the conference (no more than 5 double-spaced pages including references).
Please submit applications to Marko Reimer at Marko.Reimer@whu.edu no later than December 30, 2014. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by January 31, 2015.

Full papers to be submitted for circulation by April 30, 2015

Authors of papers presented at the workshop are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in the Journal of Management Studies.

Conference organizing committee

Professor Dries Faems, Professor Franz Kellermanns, Professor Sabine Rau, Assistant Professor Marko Reimer, and the editorial office of the Journal of Management Studies.

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