9th INTED conference - Madrid (Spain)

 

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TWO conferences: Paris Call for Papers and Verona Call for Track Chairs

Subject: TWO conferences: Paris Call for Papers and Verona Call for Track Chairs

HR PRACTICES, STRATEGIC AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CHALLENGES: Academic and practitioners Views   Call for Papers, Abstracts and Round Tables Conference in Paris   Conference Dates: May 21-22, 2015     KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Guenter Stahl INSEAD and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business   Olivier Leclerc, Director Open Innovation & Intrapreneurship ALCATEL-LUCENT   Karen Nicholson, Manager HR department, NESTLE  EMRBI Presidents: Prof. Yaakov Weber and Prof. Demetris Vrontis   Conference Chair: Prof. Hela CHEBBI  Hosted by:  E D C PARIS BUSINESS SCHOOL     Nature and Scope of the conference  Globalization and other environmental changes make organizations reconsider various concepts and arrangements for improved performance. For example, executives have to consider HR practices not only for operation but also as strategic important tools for decision-makers and global companies. Thus, environmental dynamic brings various challenges such as cross-cultural management, implementation of various strategies including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, talent and executive management, leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, and more. For example, considering the high failure rate of various strategic and entrepreneurial activities, scholars and executives called for inclusion of HR practices in strategic consideration and executive decisions. The overall aim is to improve organizational performance (Stahl et al., 2010; Weber, 2013; Weber and Fried, 2011; Weber and Tarba, 2010).  This conference aims to explore the various ways in which HR practices and strategic management may contribute to various organizational challenges in both international and domestic organizations. Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following issues:   ·         HRM, innovation and entrepreneurship in domestic and international environments; ·         HR practices (training, communication, reward system, performance appraisal, etc.) and organizational performance; ·         Organizational leadership and strategic decision; ·         Strategic talent management in cross-cultural collaborations ·         National/corporate culture, global partnership and HR practices in the emerging markets; ·          International/comparative studies and measurements; ·          Social interactions and social learning in international contexts; ·         Training and career development in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions; ·         Managing diversity at top management teams; ·         Information system and HR practices; ·         HRM and marketing; ·         Consulting and Practitioners views.  Related activities:  In addition to the presentations, academic and executive round table discussions will take place. Top 15-20 papers will be selected for publication in a book on HRM, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. Negotiation and application with leading publisher is currently taking place.    Author Guidelines  Please submit your paper(s), abstract(s) OR roundtable proposal(s) to both Euromedac@gmail.com and to Dr. Evangelos Tsoukatos at tsoukat@staff.teicrete.grby strictly adhering to Author Guidelines (please visit www.emrbi.org). All manuscripts (including abstracts) will be double blind reviewed. All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number). For round table proposal, please indicate the subject/title, short description of the subject(s) for the discussion, and at least two executives and their company/organization that are interested and agreed to participate in the round table.   Submission Deadlines *Submission deadline: December 15, 2014 * Notification to authors (for the early submissions, up to Nov. 20, by December 20, 2014) *Notification to others, January 20, 2015 *Registration early  bird: March 10, 2015     Social Event A cocktail on the Seine River will be organized at the end of the first day of the conference         Organizing committee   v  Arnaud BANOUN, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School v  Hela CHEBBI, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School v  Delphine DAGNON, Assistant to the Research Center, EDC Paris Business School v  Kathleen RANDERSON, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School v  Mohamed SELLAMI, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School v  Dorra YAHIAOUI, Assistant professor, Kedge Business School, Marseille. v  Inju YANG, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School    References  Chebbi, H., Yahiaoui, D., Thrassou, A., & Vrontis, D. 2014. Building Multi-Unit Ambidextrous Organizations - A Transformative Framework. Human Resource Management, Forthcoming.  Stahl, Günter, Maznevski, M., Voigt, A., Jonsen, K. 2010. Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) (41): 690-709  Stahl, Günter, Javidan, M., Brodbeck, F., Wilderom, C. 2005. Cross-border transfer of knowledge: Cultural lessons from project GLOBE. Academy of Management Executive, 19 59-76  Yahiaoui D. (Forthcoming), “Hybridization: striking the balance between the adoption and adaptation of Human resource management practices within French MNCs and their Tunisian subsidiaries”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management.   Weber, Y. and Tarba, S.Y. (2014) Strategic Agility: A state of the Art. California Management Review, Vol. 56.. No. 3,  Spring, 5-12.   Weber, Y. and Tarba, S. (2010) "Human Resource Practices and Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions" Human Resource Management Review, 20, 203-211.   Weber, Y. and Fried Y. (2011) "The Role of HR Practices in Managing Culture Clash during Post Merger Integration process" Human Resource Management, Vol. 50 (5), 565-569   Weber, Y. Handbook for Research on M&A, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK. 2013.   Weber, Y. A comprehensive Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Management: Integration and Implementation. Financial Times Press, New York, NY. 2014.       Professor Yaakov Weber 1.       Director, Research Unit             School of Business Administration             College of Management, Israel 2.       President, EMRBI             EuroMed Research Business Institute             www.emrbi.com

Call for Track Chairs The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the 8th Annual EuroMed Conference September 16th-18th, 2015   EMRBI Presidents Prof. Demetris Vrontis         Prof. Yaakov Weber Executive Dean and Director            Dept. of Strategy and Entrepreneurship University of Nicosia                        School of Business Nicosia, Cyprus                                 College of Management, Israel   Conference Chair and Organizing Committee: Diego Begalli (Chair), Antonio Borghesi, Federico Brunetti, Bettina Campedelli, Emanuele Carluccio, Stefano Pozzoli, Matteo Rossi, Salvatore Russo                 Organized and Hosted by:    University of Verona, Verona, Italy Department of Business Administration     CALL FOR TRACK CHAIRS The EuroMed Research Business Institute solicits proposals for hosting specific tracks at the 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business. Please note that all papers and abstracts accepted will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number) which is included in Conference Proceedings Citation Index — an integrated index within Web of Science. This prestigious distinction is given only to the most significant, in terms of academic excellence, conferences-conventions worldwide. Prospective track chairs should submit a short description of subjects that will be included in their track. The proposed track should not be too general, but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also encouraged and welcomed. Track proposals covering all areas of management studies are strongly encouraged. And, in addition, proposals specifically related to the 2015 general conference theme – “INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAIN IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT” - are especially welcome. All track proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Organizing Committee with respect to the above criteria. The committee reserves the right to: (1) accept the proposal as it is, (2) recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable overlap, or (3) reject the proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be notified of the timetable and related responsibilities. The deadline for track proposal submission is 19th of December, 2014. All proposals should be submitted electronically (in Microsoft Word format) to Dr. Evangelos Tsoukatos (tsoukat@staff.teicrete.grand tsoukat1@otenet.gr) The acceptance of track proposals will be announced on the 24th of December 2014. We expect all Track Chairs to start the review process at the beginning of April and submit decision letter late April 2015. The specific dates will be given later. Upon receiving all reviews, the track chairs are responsible to send them timely to the Director of Scientific Committee together with their recommendation on whether the paper should be accepted or rejected. Track chairs will get a specific schedule for accomplishment of the review process. They will be responsible, among other things, for: -          Preparation of list of reviewers. -          distributing papers/abstracts to reviewers with guidelines and evaluation forms (these will be provided by the EuroMed Academy of Business) -          make sure that the review forms are returned back to them on time -          following the reviews, the track chairs are required to provide for each paper/abstract their own accept/reject recommendation -          submitting all recommendations by late April, 2015

 

 

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FW: ATLAS list International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

 

 

From: list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org [mailto:list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org] On Behalf Of KEVIN GRIFFIN
Sent: mardi 18 novembre 2014 01:37
To: list@atlas-euro.org
Subject: ATLAS list International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

 

 

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

 

Dear Friends & Colleagues in ATLAS,

We take this opportunity to share some interesting announcements with you:

1)
We're delighted to announce that our Second Issue, which is also our FIRST "Special Edition" of our 

- Free, 

- Online, 

- Peer-Reviewed, 

- Open Access, 

- International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 

is now live at : http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/

This is an interesting and challenging set of papers on Tourism and Terror, edited by Maximiliano e. Korstanje

2)
We will shortly be publishing our Third issue (Volume 2(ii)), which will be a 'standard' volume of papers - academic, research and industry focused, with book reviews and conference announcements.

3)
The FIRST Issue of the Journal continues to be an incredible success. Some time in the last week we Surpassed 5000 downloads of individual articles, with three of the articles being downloaded more than 600 times each since publication in February.

Again, we welcome any comments or ideas for the Journal, and are always open to new suggestions.

4)
Plans are progressing for our 7th Annual Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage conference, which takes place next year in Girona (10-13 June). We will post updates / reminders on that in the near future.

Kindest Regards

Kevin Griffin & Razaq Raj

 

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School of Hospitality Management and Tourism
College of Arts and Tourism
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

A selection of my research outputs is published on the DIT institutional repository - ARROW - see http://tinyurl.com/ohx94u8

I also encourage you to check out the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/

 

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FW: ATLAS list European Region of Gastronomy

 

 

From: list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org [mailto:list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org] On Behalf Of Greg Richards
Sent: lundi 17 novembre 2014 09:04
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ATLAS members with an interest in Gastronomy, Events or Cultural and Creative Tourism may be interested in the newly-launched website of the European Region of Gastronomy:

 

www.europeanregionofgastronomy.org

 

This programme will offically launch in March 2015, with the first regions running events from 2016 onwards. This project is being coordinated by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT), which recently organised a joint meeting with ATLAS on Innovation and Tradition in Gastronomy in the Alto Minho, Portugal. Plans are now being made for a further expert meeting to be held at the ATLAS 2015 Annual Conference in Lisbon.

 

Regards,

 

 

Greg Richards

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KNIME Meetup - ZURICH january 20, 2015 - Text Analytics review mining for the Swiss Tourism Agency

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News Flash, November 2014 It's the time of year when people start thinking about travel.  See below for a list of upcoming KNIME related events: Switzerland's largest city Zurich is the venue for a KNIME Meetup on Text Analytics on 20 January 2015. Jérôme Treboux from HES-SO is one of the speakers and will be talking about his experiences with image review mining for the Swiss Tourism Agency. Join us in Berlin ‒ registration is now open for KNIME's 8th User Group Meeting and Workshops, featuring Germany's cult capital as the venue for the first time.  The registration page just went live. Peruse the preliminary agenda and register here. The KNIME Team. Copyright © 2014 KNIME.com AG, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: KNIME.com AG Technoparkstrasse 1 8005 Zurich, Switzerland

Conference PARIS May 21-22 2015 EMRBI papers abstracts round tables HR Strategy and Entrepreneurship

 

 

Call for Papers, Abstracts and Round Tables

 

Paris, France

 

Conference Dates: May 21-22, 2015

 

The EuroMed Academy of Business announces a specialized conference in:

 

 

HR PRACTICES, STRATEGIC AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CHALLENGES:

Academic and practitioners Views

 

 EMRBI Presidents:

Prof. Yaakov Weber and Prof. Demetris Vrontis

 

Conference Chair:

Prof. Hela CHEBBI

 

Hosted by:

 

E D C

PARIS

BUSINESS SCHOOL

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

 

Professor Guenter Stahl

INSEAD and WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

 

Olivier Leclerc, Director

Open Innovation & Intrapreneurship

ALCATEL-LUCENT

 

Karen Nicholson, Manager

HR department,

NESTLE

 

 

Nature and Scope of the conference

 

 

Globalization and other environmental changes make organizations reconsider various concepts and arrangements for improved performance. For example, executives have to consider HR practices not only for operation but also as strategic important tools for decision-makers and global companies. Thus, environmental dynamic brings various challenges such as cross-cultural management, implementation of various strategies including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, talent and executive management, leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, and more. For example, considering the high failure rate of various strategic and entrepreneurial activities, scholars and executives called for inclusion of HR practices in strategic consideration and executive decisions. The overall aim is to improve organizational performance (Stahl et al., 2010; Weber, 2013; Weber and Fried, 2011; Weber and Tarba, 2010).

 

This conference aims to explore the various ways in which HR practices and strategic management may contribute to various organizational challenges in both international and domestic organizations. Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following issues:

 

·         HRM, innovation and entrepreneurship in domestic and international environments;

·         HR practices (training, communication, reward system, performance appraisal, etc.) and organizational performance;

·         Organizational leadership and strategic decision;

·         Strategic talent management in cross-cultural collaborations

·         National/corporate culture, global partnership and HR practices in the emerging markets;

·          International/comparative studies and measurements;

·          Social interactions and social learning in international contexts;

·         Training and career development in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions;

·         Managing diversity at top management teams;

·         Information system and HR practices;

·         HRM and marketing;

·         Consulting and Practitioners views.

 

Related activities:

·  In addition to the presentations, academic and executive round table discussions will take place.

·  Top 15-20 papers will be selected for publication in a book on HRM, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. Negotiation and application with leading publisher is currently taking place.

 

 

Author Guidelines

 

 

 

Please submit your paper(s), abstract(s) OR roundtable proposal(s) to both Euromedac@gmail.com and to Dr. Evangelos Tsoukatos at tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr by strictly adhering to Author Guidelines (please visit www.emrbi.org).

All manuscripts (including abstracts) will be double blind reviewed. All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number).

For round table proposal, please indicate the subject/title, short description of the subject(s) for the discussion, and at least two executives and their company/organization that are interested and agreed to participate in the round table.

 

Submission Deadlines

 

*Submission deadline: December 15, 2014 * Notification to authors (for the early submissions, up to Nov. 20, by December 20, 2014) *Notification to others, January 20, 2015 *Registration early  bird: March 10, 2015       Publication Opportunities   A selection of the best conference papers will also be considered for publication in the following journals (presented in alphabetic order), most of them are internationally ranked or/and ISI/Scopus approved.   1.      EuroMed Journal of Business - EMRBI's official Journal 2.      International Studies of Management and Organization 3.      The International Journal of Human Resource Management 4.      Human Resource Management Review

Organizing committee

 

v  Arnaud BANOUN, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School

v  Hela CHEBBI, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School

v  Delphine DAGNON, Assistant to the Research Center, EDC Paris Business School

v  Kathleen RANDERSON, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School

v  Mohamed SELLAMI, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School

v  Dorra YAHIAOUI, Assistant professor, Kedge Business School, Marseille.

v  Inju YANG, Associate professor, EDC Paris Business School

 

 

Social Event

A cocktail on the Seine River will be organized at the end of the first day of the conference

 

 

 

 

 

For any question, please contact Prof. Yaakov Weber at yweber@bezeqint.net

 

References

 

Chebbi, H., Yahiaoui, D., Thrassou, A., & Vrontis, D. 2014. Building Multi-Unit Ambidextrous Organizations - A Transformative Framework. Human Resource Management, Forthcoming.

 

Stahl, Günter, Maznevski, M., Voigt, A., Jonsen, K. 2010. Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) (41): 690-709

 

Stahl, Günter, Javidan, M., Brodbeck, F., Wilderom, C. 2005. Cross-border transfer of knowledge: Cultural lessons from project GLOBE. Academy of Management Executive, 19 59-76

 

Yahiaoui D. (Forthcoming), "Hybridization: striking the balance between the adoption and adaptation of Human resource management practices within French MNCs and their Tunisian subsidiaries", The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

 

Weber, Y. and Tarba, S.Y. (2014) Strategic Agility: A state of the Art. California Management Review, Vol. 56.. No. 3,  Spring, 5-12.

 

Weber, Y. and Tarba, S. (2010) "Human Resource Practices and Performance of Mergers and Acquisitions" Human Resource Management Review, 20, 203-211.

 

Weber, Y. and Fried Y. (2011) "The Role of HR Practices in Managing Culture Clash during Post Merger Integration process" Human Resource Management, Vol. 50 (5), 565-569

 

Weber, Y. Handbook for Research on M&A, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK. 2013.

 

Weber, Y. A comprehensive Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Management: Integration and Implementation.Financial Times Press, New York, NY. 2014.

 

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