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Programme

The programme for the conference is given below.

Wednesday 18 April 2007

18:30-19:30

University of Winchester
Welcome Drink and pre-conference registration

Thursday 19 April 2007

09:00

Registration and Coffee

10:00

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre
Opening Meeting
Welcome from the Conference Chair:
Professor Christopher Turner, University of Winchester, UK

10:15

Keynote address: Management, Leadership and Governance in the Sustainable World
Malcolm Berry, University of Reading, UK

11:10

Conference splits into streams

 

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre
Stream A - Leadership
Chair –
Paul Aitken

Room: Stripe Studio 2
Mini track -
IS Management, Leadership and Governance
Chair –
Roger Mason

11:15

The Relationship Between Self-Leadership Behavioural-Focused Strategies, Job Satisfaction and Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Politis John, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Men’s College, United Arab Emirates

Leadership in the Ranks: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Middle and Line Managers under an Enterprise Systems Implementation Context

Dong Linying, Ken Grant, Ryerson University, Toronto, Derrick Neufeld and Chris Higgins, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

11:45

A Working Leadership Model for Rapid Response in Organizations Facing Complex, Dynamical, Discontinuous Change
Davidson Phillip, University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies, Dallas, USA

Filling the Gap Between IT Governance and IT Project Management

Lundin Jette, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark

12:15

Effective Decision Making – Dream or Reality?

Tyrrell Patrick, Ponsanooth, Cornwall, UK

A Holistic Approach to Information Management: Theory and Practice

Manwani Sharm, Henley Management College, Mike Fishwick and Gerry Rankin, Yell, UK

12:45

Lunch

Lunch

 

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre
Stream A -
Leadership
Chair – John Politis

Room: Stripe Studio 2
Mini track -
IS Management, Leadership and Governance
Chair –
Sharm Manwani

14:00

Searching for Richness in African Traditional Leadership to Complement Business Leadership
Khumalo Reinford, University Of South Africa, South Africa

Facilitating IS Capability – Towards a New Perspective on Governance
Welch Christine and Peter M Bednar, University of Portsmouth, UK

14:30

Board Characteristics and Involvement in Strategic Decision Making: The Nigerian Perspective

Ogbechie Chris, Lagos Business School, Pan African University, Nigeria and Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Brunel Business School, UK

The Impact of Offshoring on the Evolution of the IT Workforce in the UK

Gray Wallace, Student Loan Company, Glasgow and Thomas Connolly, University of Paisley, UK

15:00

Wisdom and Leadership: Linking the Past, Present and Future

Lloyd Bruce, London South Bank University, UK

 

 

Refreshments

Refreshments

16:00

Socratic Dialogue
Facilitated by: Nigel Laurie, Founding editor "Philosophy in Management".

18:00

Close of Conference day

19:00

Walk from the University to the Winchester Guildhall  for the Conference dinner (Commencing at 19:00)

Dinner will end by approximately 21:30

Friday 20 April 2007

 

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre
Stream A -
Governance
Chair – Bruce Lloyd

Room: Stripe Studio 2
Stream B - Corporate Social Responsibility
Chair – Pat Tyrell

09:30

Compliance vs Alignment 

Lazarides Themistokles, Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece

Executive’s Personal Values Diversity:  A Critical Interface between the Board and the Senior Executive Team Affecting Personal Approaches to Business Value Creation

Aitkin Paul and Scott Lichtenstein, Henley Management College, UK

10:00

Business-IT Alignment: Translating Theory into Practice

Jonsson Narcisa, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Selection of Causes According to Socio Demographic Status in South Africa

Corbishley Karen and Roger Mason, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

10:30

IT Government and Facilities Management of Online Customers Expectations (With Respect to UK Customers’ Perceptions Towards Hotel Websites)

Ariwa Ezendu and Sarah Oloya, London Metropolitan University, Business School, UK

Relationships Between Management, Attitudes to Change and Perceptions of the External Environment: A Complexity Theory Approach

Mason Roger, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

11:00

Refreshments

Refreshments

11:30

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre
Panel Discussion led by Malcolm Berry

Current Issues in Management, Leadership and Governance

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

 

Room: Stripe Lecture Theatre

Stream A – SME’s
Chair – Ezendu Ariwa

Room: Stripe Studio 2
Stream B - Corporate Social Responsibility
Chair –
Scott Lichtenstein

13:30

Strategic Planning in the Greek SMEs

Koufopoulos Dimitrios, Brunel Business School, UK, Vasilios Zoumbos, Hellenic Pedagogical Institute and Athanasios Oikonomou, TEI Epirus, Greece

The Challenge in Corporate Social Responsibility:  Getting things done

Griffiths Paul, The Birchman Group and Luis Perera, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Santiago, Chile

14:00

A Framework for Measuring the Impact of ERP Implementation at Greek SMEs

Argyropoulou Maria, George Ioannou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Brunel Business School, London UK

Emotional Intelligence and Change: A New Approach Through Self Directed Learning and Incorporation of Imagined Interactions

Fragouli Evaggelia, Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece

14:30

 

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace: An Approach to the Central Issues That Confront the Emotional Intelligence Paradigm
Fragouli Evaggelia, Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece and Kontos Fragouli, National University of Athens, Department of Economics, Athens, Greece

15:00

Summary of issues raised during the conference
Led by: Mike Hart, University of Winchester, UK

15:30

Close of Conference

  

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