4th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance

Conference Programme

The conference has now closed. The final programme is given below.

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Wednesday 26 November
18:30	Blackhorse House Pre-conference registration and welcome drink (until 1930)
Thursday 27 November
09:00	Registration and coffee
10:00	Room: Seminar Room 1 Opening Meeting: Welcome from the conference chair Malcolm Berry
10:15	Keynote address: Who’s doing the right thing in management, leadership and governance? Professor Roger Steare, Cass Business School, London, UK
11:10	Conference splits into streams
	Room: Seminar Room 2 Stream A - Leadership and Management Styles Chair – Michael Hitson	Room: Meeting Room Stream B - Mini track on Corporate Governance Development Chair - Dimitrios Koufopoulos
11:15	Gender and Leadership Style in Greek Enterprises Stafyla Amalia and Alexander Tei, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece	Underpricing and Board Structures: An Investigation of Malaysian Initial Public Offerings Yatim Puan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
11:45	Assessing the Managerial Styles in the Pakistan Context Iqbal Adnan, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia	State-inspired Private Investment: A Russian Success Story Vanteeva Nadia, Queen's University Belfast, UK
12:15	KNOW-IT: Methodology and Software for Driving Innovation Processes in Small and Medium Enterprises Gawrysiak Piotr, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland	Corporate Governance and the Mission Statement in the Greek Health Sector Karamitrou Angeliki, Ioannis Gkliatis, Dimitrios Koufopoulos and Maria Argyropoulou, Brunel University, UK
12:45	*Lunch in the Blue Room*	*Lunch in the Blue Room*
	Room: Seminar Room 2 Stream A - Corporate Responsibility Chair – Roger Mason	Room: Meeting Room Stream B - Mini track on Corporate Governance Development Chair - Dimitrios Koufopoulos
14:00	Factors of Career Success, Work Motivation and employees’ life quality Kowal Jolanta and Ewa Pańka, The College of Management EDUKACJA Wrocław, Poland.	The UK Code of Corporate Governance: Link Between Compliance and Firm's Performance Shabbir Amama, Cranfield University and Carol Padgett, ICMA Centre, University of Reading, UK
14:30	Agency Theory, Disclosure-Transparency: The Nemesis of Enterprise and Corporate Governance Systems Lazarides Themistokles, TEI of West Macedonia, Maria Argyropoulou, Brunel University, London, UK, Evaggelos Drimpetas, Democritus University of Thrace and Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Brunel Business School, UK	Corporate Governance - Between Classicism and Modernism Niculae Feleaga, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
15:00	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*
	Room: Seminar Room 2 Stream A - IT Leadership Chair -	Room: Meetin Room Stream B - Case Studies Chair – Amama Shabbir
15:30	Resources, Activities and Competitive Advantage: Application to Outsourcing Wiesmann Anton and Tatiana Zalan, University of South Australia	Leadership Capabilities in Situation of External Uncertainty and Internal Instability. Carbonara Gabriele and Rosa Caiazza, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
16:00	New role of CIO as IT Leader and the Power Game Hooshmand Arash, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden	The Application of Work Study Methodologies: Towards the Development of an Efficiency Reporting System for a Tap Manufacturing Organization Sookdeo Barnes, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
16:30	Room: Seminar Room 2: Knowledge Cafe on the topic of What are the key research topics that can be addressed to help integrate this eclectic field of study and what methodological frameworks are most appropriate? Led by Professor Dan Remenyi, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
18:00	Close of conference day
18:30	Bus leaves for the Conference Dinner at The Great House in Sonning
21:30	Bus returns to Blackhorse House

Friday 28 November
	Room: Seminar Room 2 Stream A - Mini Track on Leadership for Sustainability Chair – Paul Aitken and Scott Lichtenstein	Room: Meeting Room Stream B - Mini Track on Leadership and Entrepreneurship Chair – John Politis
09:30	How Strategic Leaders’ Values Shape Value Creation Lichtenstein Scott, Henley Business Schook and Pat Dade, CDSM Ltd., UK	Team flow – The Magic of Collaboration Makowski Michael, Hogeschool Utrecht (Utrecht Business School), The Netherlands
10:00	Champions Change Deary John, Higher Colleges of Technology and Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain	The Relationship Between Self-Management Leadership: Transformational and Transactional Leadership and Entrepreneurial Orientation Politis John, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Men’s College, United Arab Emirates and Nicholas Harkiolakis, Hellenic American University, Greece
10:30	An Investigation into the Relationship between Leadership Style Applied and Job Satisfaction Levels of Virtual Team Members Hitson Michael, Verizon Telecommunications, Noblesville, USA	Trust in Leadership Towards a Two-Factor Approach Zeffane Rachid, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
11:00	*Refreshments*	*Refreshments*
11:30	Room: Seminar Room 1 Panel Discussion led by Malcolm Berry In the light of the current economic climate, will corporate governance become a more important issue, or will it be seen as simply another overhead Panelists: Professor Bernard Taylor, Henley Business School, Professor Kent Grant, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
12:30	*Lunch in the Blue Room*	*Lunch in the Blue Room*
	Room: Seminar Room 2 Stream A - Mini Track on Leadership for Sustainability Chair – Paul Aitken and Scott Lichtenstein	Room: Meeting Room Stream B - Case Studies Chair -
13:30	Follow Me, I’m Right Behind You: Leading From a Complexity Viewpoint Mason Roger, University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK and Duban University of technology, South Africa	The Dynamics of Organisational Change in Four Private-Sector Organisations in the East Midlands Mendy John, University of Lincoln, UK
14:00	Innovation Leadership: The Development of Social Equality and Sustainability Bartlett Dean, London Metropolitan Business School, UK
14:30	Which Coach Will Lead me to Change (and Change me to Lead)? Collins Claire, University of Warwick, UK
15:00	Summary of issues raised during the conference Led by Ken Grant
16:00	*Close of Conference*

Last updated 28 November 2008