Call for Papers, Posters, Round Table Proposals, Practitioner Contributions and Product Demonstrations

(conference venue is the Coral Beach Hotel & Resort.)

The Conference offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners interested in the issues related to Management, Leadership, and Governance to share their thinking and research findings. These fields of study are broadly described as including issues related to the management of the organisations’ resources, the interface between senior management and the formal governance of the organisation. This Conference provides a forum for discussion, collaboration and intellectual exchange for all those interested in any of these fields of research or practice.

The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited. You can find full details in the submission types document (.pdf format).

Publication Opportunity
Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration.  You can see details of the proceedings accreditations by clicking on the star to the right.

In addition to the main conference topics below, submissions are invited to three mini tracks: Entrepreneurial Leadership – “Even a Giant Can Learn to Run", chaired by Professor Philip Dover of Babson College, USA; Corporate Governance and Accounting, chaired by Prof. Dr. Niculae Felegea of the Academy of Economic Studies, Romania; Corporate Governance Impacts on Business Performance – Inside the “Black Box”, chaired by Dr James Lockhart of the College of Business, Massey University, New Zealand; Ethical, Servant, Spiritual and Authentic Leadership, chaired by Associate Professor John Politis of Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus and Human Resource Management: Challenges and Science-based Practices, chaired by Assistant Professor Monica Zaharie of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Submission details are given below. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-

Read the submission guidelines

Download the main call for papers in .pdf format

Mini Track Call for Papers: Entrepreneurial Leadership – “Even a Giant Can Learn to Run”

Track Chair: Professor Philip Dover, Babson College, USA

Much of the study of business innovation focuses on start-ups and entrepreneurs. Consequently, it is often assumed that little start-ups are creative and big firms are slow and bureaucratic. But this is a gross oversimplification as we can argue that today’s economy often favours big companies over small ones. For example, economic growth is driven increasingly by huge ecosystems such as the ones clustering around Apple’s iPhone or Google’s Android operating system. Similarly, globalization puts a greater premium on size than ever before. How then can we assess the large (or at least high growth) companies on the dimension of entrepreneurial proclivity? Tushman notes that “great leaders navigate the tensions between new innovations and core products from the C-suite – they don’t leave the battle to their middle managers.” We would welcome papers that provide conceptual or pragmatic frameworks on why innovative leaders succeed in fast growth/fast changing environments while other senior executives slip into bureaucratic stagnation. We would also be interested to learn of research methodologies that help measure the DNA of such entrepreneurial leaders. Examples from both the for-profit and non-profit areas would be considered as would ideas from practitioners and applied academics.

Topics invited for consideration include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Facilitating entrepreneurship in the larger organization
• Leadership role in stimulating/managing innovation
• Can entrepreneurship be learned – nature vs. nurture?
• What are the traits/capabilities of an entrepreneurial leader?
• Measures for assessing entrepreneurial proclivity in a leader and his/her company
• Case studies of successful/unsuccessful entrepreneurial/innovative leadership

Philip Dover

Mini Track Call for Papers: Corporate Governance and Accounting

Track Chair: Professor Dr. Niculae Feleaga, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

This mini-track aims to attract researchers looking at how corporate governance interacts with financial accounting. Empirical and theoretical contributions on the connection between accounting and corporate governance are welcome from a wide range of perspectives, including organizational theory, economics, sociology, behavioural sciences and historical investigation.

Papers are encouraged from academics, students and practitioners interested or involved in aspects of governance and accounting.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The role of accounting as an efficient mechanism of corporate governance
• The connection between accounting and corporate governance inside the enterprise
• The interaction between the financial reporting system and the choices made by directors regarding the governance system
• How do the directors and officers use accounting information in the decision-making process?
• The impact of international accounting convergence on systems of corporate governance
• The impact of environmental and social reporting on the improvement of corporate governance

Niculae Feleaga

Mini Track Call for Papers: Corporate Governance Impacts on Business Performance – Inside the ‘Black Box’

Track Chair: Dr James Lockhart, College of Business, Massey University, New Zealand

The relationship between corporate governance – the board - and subsequent business performance has yet to be consistently established.  Examinations of the relationship between structural attributes of boards and performance using large data sets have produced mixed results.  The emergence of ‘black box’ research, whereby empirical examinations of board behaviour are conducted in the board room, is beginning to shed light on such causality.  This mini track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners focusing on governance performance causation to contribute to that learning.

Over the last two years ECMLG has attracted a group of researchers exploring governance-performance causation.  Both empirical and theoretical contributions focusing on the ‘Black Box’ are invited, as are the results of longitudinal or multiple case research.  Preferred topics include, but are not limited to:

• Empirical studies and observations of boards
• Theoretical explanations of boardroom decision making
• Examinations of board failures
• Methodological contributions to ‘Black Box’ research
• Examinations of board-performance relationships and causality
• Overcoming the omnipresent access problem

James Lockhart

Mini Track Call for Papers: Ethical, Servant, Spiritual and Authentic Leadership

Track Chair: Associate Professor John Politis, Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus

Unethical practice seems to be acceptable and even legitimate as evidenced by top executives from organisations such as Enron, Global Grossing, Siemens, Qwest, Scandia, Tyco International, and WorldCom, who have been found to be involved in unethical activities (Carson, 2003, Flanagan, 2003). Thus, the interest in ethical leadership and the influence of leader values and integrity have been growing rapidly and several theories describing ethical leadership have emerged. These theories include servant leadership, spiritual leadership, authentic leadership as well as ethical leadership.

To increase knowledge in the contemporary leadership field, scholarly and practical context papers aimed at debating the following suggested (but not limited to) questions are invited to this mini track:

• Which of the ethical leadership theories determines and explains effective leadership?
• What leader’s actions encourage ethical behaviour and discourage unethical behaviour?
• Why is it so difficult to evaluate ethics and morality for individual leaders?
• Can unethical behaviour occur for leaders who possess proper values and integrity?
• Can leaders’ ethical behaviour increase or hinder organisational performance?
• What is the impact of leaders’ unethical behaviour in the environment and the society at large?
• What are the benefits/costs of ethical, servant, spiritual and authentic leadership?
• Does ethical/unethical leadership create an organisational competitive advantage?
• Other related topics.

John Politis

Mini Track Call for Papers: Human Resource Management: Challenges and Science Based Practices

Track Chair: Assistant Professor Monica Zaharie, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

A growing emphasis is put on HRM in organizations. Both academic staff and practitioners are interested in identifying strategies which enhance the value of the human capital in organizations. Notwithstanding existing practices such as more efficient recruitment methods, competency based selection procedures, training programs, performance management practices, or motivational strategies, organizations are constantly searching for innovative but scientifically demonstrated ideas which can increase labor productivity. There is also still a great need for scientific based research results which either support or counter argue the common sense assumptions regarding human resources practices. This mini-track creates an opportunity for academics and researchers to present their findings and, at the same time, share evidence based HR practices.

Topics to be debated include, but are not limited to:

•     Competency based employee recruitment and selection

•     Developing human capital: fostering talent in organizations

•     How to increase employees’ motivation and job satisfaction? 

•     Performance management: challenges and evidence based solutions

•     Best practices or MythBusters in HR?

•     Reaching peak organizational performance: metrics to measure HR contribution

Monica Zaharie

Participants will be asked to vote for the best poster and a prize will be given for the poster receiving the highest number of votes. Additionally a prize will be awarded to the best PhD paper presented at the conference.

Submission details

A prize will be awarded to the best PhD paper and best Poster

Important information

• The selection panel of the conference committee will consider all abstracts received by the submission deadline to ensure that the proposed paper is relevant to the Conference.
• The authors of abstracts that describe a relevant paper will receive a notification of abstract acceptance.
• All full papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the conference committee to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of their abstract has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced.
• For authors whose first language is not English we request that you have your work proof read prior to submission by a native English speaker (or at least a fluent English speaker). Papers can be rejected due to a poor standard of English.
• Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author registers and presents the work at the Conference (see the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration).
• Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee the committee prefers that an author presents only one paper. However, if multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee. Author registration and payment must be completed by 5 October 2012.

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