Mini Tracks – Calls for Papers

Management, Leadership and Governance in relation to Information Systems
Developing Strategic Leadership Capabilities
Corporate Governance Convergence or Isomorphism: Problem or Goal
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Mini track on Management, Leadership and Governance in Relation to Information Systems

The conference committee invites both academic and practitioners to submit papers to this mini track in a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and research in progress are welcomed approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini track on Developing Stategic Leadership Capabilities
Track chair: Professor Nada Kakabadse, University of Northampton, Business School UK

In today’s challenging economic conditions, leading through strategic change is critical facet of top managers’ skills portfolio in private, public and third sectors. The skills of organisational re-design, aligning the vision at a time of division at senior levels and creating a culture of collaborative and transparent teamwork and decision-making are critical for organisational success. Additionally, once a clear strategy is meaningfully generated, the leader’s skill in communicating that strategy under pressure is fundamental to winning the hearts and minds of internal and external stakeholders. Strategic leadership requires an integration of hard business and structural competencies with the soft persuasion capabilities so necessary for motivating people to achieve. This track intends to attract contributions on how strategic skill development can be realised amongst aspiring and present day leaders. The contributions to the track will explore different philosophical approaches to leadership development as well as survey and case examples of development through in-house and open programme initiatives.

The conference committee invites both academic and practitioners to submit papers to this mini track in a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and research in progress are welcomed approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.

Nada Kakabadse

Mini track on Corporate Governance Convergence or Isomorphism: Problem or Goal
Track chair: Dr Themistokles Lazarides, Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Greece

The problem of corporate governance in Continental Europe countries is the establishment of balance between major and minor shareholders’ goals and interests and not the interception of improper managerial behavior. The ethical issues are different as well.  In agency theory moral hazard, adverse selection and asymmetric information are the key ethical issues, whereas in Continental Europe countries the problem is the abuse of power and control by the controlling shareholders. In Anglo-Saxon countries the agency problem is the main concern of corporate governance. Crisis has raised again the question of corporate governance system. Financial, capital market growth and regulation initiatives in both sides of the Atlantic were the facts on which the basis of convergence was constructed.

The conference committee invites both academic and practitioners to submit papers to this mini track in a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Action research, case studies and research in progress are welcomed approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

For mini track submission details, see the call for papers page

Themis Lazarides

Mini track on Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Track chair: Dr John Politis, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Numerous studies have investigated leadership styles, employee attitudes, perceptions and organisational outcomes over the past 50 years. The most notable are the classical Ohio Studies of initiating structure and consideration (Stogdill, 1974; Stogdill and Coons, 1957); task-orientation and relationship-orientation leadership (Blake and Mouton, 1964); participative leadership (Vroom and Yetton, 1973); transformational and transactional leadership (Bass, 1985), and self-management leadership (Manz, 1992; Manz and Sims, 1987, 1989). However, these studies lack a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying the leadership process of business founders in an entrepreneurial context.

To increase knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship and identify what is critical to an entrepreneur’s success during times of financial turbulence, scholarly and practical context papers are invited to this mini track aimed at debating, but not limited to, the following questions:

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John Politis