| Wednesday 4 November | 
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| 18:00-19:00 | Pre-conference registration and welcome meeting |
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| Thursday 5 November |
| 9:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 10:00 | Room:
Welcome from the conference chair: Maria Saridaki, ATExcelixi SA, Athens, Greece |
| 10:15 | Keynote address: Aim high, feel great.
Stelios Stavridis, Piscines Ideales S.A |
| 11:10 | Conference splits into streams | | |
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Stream A: Mini track on Developing strategic leadership capabilities
Chair: Nada Kakabadse | Room
Stream B: Human Resources Issues
Chair: Themis Lazarides | Room
Stream C: Project Management
Chair: |
| 11:15 | An Analysis Of Leadership Development Gaps For Arts Executives In The Not-For-Profit Sector
Royal Carol, University of New South Wales, Australia | The Gender Perceptions Of Salespersons By Buyers In South America
Caldarola Richard, Troy University, Atlanta, USA | The Temporal Nature Of Project Leadership: An Empirical Investigation
Skulmoski Gregory J., Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Francis Hartman, University of Calgary,Canada |
| 11:45 | Creation Of A Curriculum Map For Executives In The Not-For-Profit Arts Sector
O'Donnell Loretta, University of New South Wales, Australia | Training Gen Xers For Hotel Management. What Works?
Thompson Robert, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada | The Role Of Project Leadership In Achieving Effective Project Management
Ong Vincent, Diane Richardson, Yanqing Duan, Qile He and Brian Johnson, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK |
| 12:15 | Developing Strategic Learning Capabilities under Entrepreneurial Leadership: Lessons from a Knowledge-Intensive, Growth Oriented Small Firm
Theodorakopoulos Nicholas, Leicester Business School, Andrew Kakabadse, Cranfield University, Nada Kakabadse, Northampton University and Katerina Figueira, Cranfield University, UK | Gender Versus Women’s Management Competencies On The Example Of Poland (A Research Results Survey)
Kowal Jolanta, Ewa Panka, Aleksandra Kwiatkowska and Krystyna Węgłowsk-Rzepa, University of Wroclaw, Poland | Strategy As Discursive Construction In The Finnish Defence Forces
Westling Jouni, Marko Laaksonen and Aki Huhtinen, National Defence University, Helsinki, Finland |
| 12:45 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
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Stream A: Mini track on Developing strategic leadership capabilities
Chair: Nada Kakabadse | Room
Stream B: Regional experiences
Chair: Gregory Skulmoski | Room
Stream C: Mini track on Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Chair: John Politis |
| 14:00 | Organisational Politics: The Shadow Side Of Leadership
Sheard Geoff, Flaktwoods Colchester, Andreas Kakabadse, Cranfield School of Management and Nada Kakabadse, Northampton Business School, UK | Power Concentration And Corporate Governance In Greece
Lazarides Themistokles, Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece | Characteristics Of Greek SMEs: Motivation For Business Ownership, Success Factors And Problems
Kourounakis Nicos, Hellenic American University, Athens and Katsioloudes Marios, Greece |
| 14:30 | TLeadership Capabilities In The Context Of International Joint Ventures
Petrovic Jelena, University of Wolverhampton Business School, Telford, UK | Corporate Governance in Romania. A Fragile Start
Olimid Lavinia, Mihaela Ionascu, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Luminita Popescu and Virgil Daniel Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania | A Prescriptive Hybrid Model Of Leadership: Complexity Leadership Theory And Authentic Leadership Theory
Livingston David and Jenna Lusin, The George Washington University, USA |
| 15:00 | I Understand "You": Leadership Preferences Within The Different Generations
Kodatt Stephanie, Northern State University and Our Lady of the Lake University, USA | Exploring Organisational and Board Relationships on the Athens Stock Exchange
Gkliatis Ioannis, Wafi Al-Karaghouli, May Seitanidi, Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Brunel University, UK, Dimitrios Georgakakis and Vasilios Zoumbos, Gnosis Management Consultants, Greece | The Relationship Of Main Stream Leadership Styles To Entrepreneurial Orientation
Politis John, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates and Denis Politis, Imperial College London, UK |
| 15:30 | How Critical is Leading Through Strategic Change?
Mostovicz Isaac, Janus Thinking, Jerusalem, Israel, Nada Kakabadse, Northampton Business School and Andrew Kakabadse, Cranfield School of Mangagement, UK | The Application Of An Organic Model For Strategic Management To FOSS Migration Within The South African Public Sector
Ngeleza Bangani, Peter Mkhize and Sam Lubbe, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa | |
| 16:00 | Refreshments | Refreshments | Refreshments |
| 16:30 | Round Table facilited by John Politis, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The role of leadership and entrepreneurship during turbulent financial times |
| 17:30 | Close of conference day. |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday 6 November |
| 9:30 | Keynote address:CSR & Ethics in the workplace. The key to high performance
Professor Nancy Papalexandris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece |
| 10:30 | Refreshments | Refreshments | |
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Stream A: Governance
Chair: Carol Royal | Room
Stream B: Public service leadership
Chair: Richard Caldarola | Room
Stream C:
Chair: Udo Dierk |
| 11:00 | Corporate Governance Codes: Are They Fresh Or Trite?
Feleaga Niculae, Voicu Dan Dragomir and Liliana Feleaga, Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania | Leadership And Decision-Making Between Local Authority And Health Board During De-Institutionalisation
Parlalis Stavros, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus | Leader Fairness, Social Contract And Corporate Sustainability Performance
Hadders Henk, University of Groningen and Joost Miedema, Hanze University, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 11:30 | Corporate Social Responsibility and Reformed Global Governance - Solutions to the Financial Crisis?
Afrasine Laura and Ana-Maria Petrache, Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania | Co-Creating Public Service Leadership Development In A New Era Of Collaboration.
Worrall Rob, National School of Government and Anglia Ruskin University, UK | Top Executive Compensation In Less Developed Capital Markets
Pereira Ivo and Jose Esperança, ISCTE – Business School, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 12:00 | Decision-Making Models And University Governance: Experience From Tunisian Public Higher Education Establishments
Khefacha Islem and Lotfi Belkacem, Institute of Higher Studies in Management, Sousse, Tunisia | Developing Managers For Leading Public And Nonprofit Organizations
Montana Patrick and Francis Petit, Fordham University, Graduate School of Business Administration, USA | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
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Stream A: Information systems and Communication systems
Chair: Vincent Ong | Room
Stream B: Innovation
Chair: Loretta O'Donnell | |
| 13:30 | EA And IT Governance - A Systemic Approach
Korhonen Janne J., Kari Hiekkanen and Jouni Lähteenmäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland | Relationship Between Innovation And Risk Capital.An Emirical Survey
Pisano Paola and Marco Pironti and Bernardo Bertoldi, Turin University, Italy | |
| 14:30 | Systems of Communication and Management in the Construction Industry
Quashie Samuel, Dubai Mens College, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates | Sustaining Innovation In The Global Corporation: The Role Of Managers, Entrepreneurs And Leaders
Dover Phil, Babson College, USA and Udo Dierk, Mel-Institute, Germany | |
| 15:00 | Review of the topics covered in the conference
Led by John Politis |
| 15:30 | Close of Conference |
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