7th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance

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

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.

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

§ Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies	§ Core competencies for employees, especially graduates in relation to gender, occupation and industry
§ Interferences of communication in enterprises, institutions and social organisations	§ Perspectives and directions for professional development against the background of the economic situation in the local market and the world
§ The relationship between leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship	§ The role of leadership and entrepreneurship during times of economic crisis
§ Leadership challenges faced by the 21st century entrepreneurs	§ The relationship between leadership and Enterprise Systems (ES)
§ Gender and Leadership	§ IT Leadership
§ Work-Life balance	§ Management and bureaucracy
§ Public Service leadership	§ The role of the board of directors and the strategic dimension of ES
§ The power and influence of management versus leadership	§ Disclosure, transparency and the use of ES
§ Asymmetry of information and the exploitation of ES	§ Business finance
§ e-Business integration	§ Leadership for sustainability
§ From the CIO to the CKO and/or CTO roles in the organization	§ Boards and Decisions Making
§ Sales-Marketing balance	§ Corporate governance in different countries
§ Marketing	§ Development in corporate governance codes
§ Leadership and operations management	§ Corporate governance and firm value for IPOs
§ Project management	§ Legal aspects of corporate governance
§ Corporate performance	§ Business transformation
§ Leadership and management styles	§ Differences between leadership and management
§ Emotional intelligence	§ HR management and strategies
§ Strategic thinking	§ Education and human development in management
§ Organisation culture	§ Marketing in management
§ Legal regulations and their influence on changes of companies strategies	§ Finance systems and their influence on companies strategies
§ The labour market, qualifications, structure of work resources and cultural conditions of companies strategies	§ Foundations of creating, modifying and changing strategies of companies development
§ Analysis of market centres management	§ Corporate governance development and responsibility
§ Regional experiences in management	§ Regional policy versus companies development
§ International relationships in management	§ Information and communications systems in management
§ Logistics systems in management	§ Timetabling in management
§ Change management	§ Social communications in management
§ Competitions in marketing	§ Market oriented corporate governance
§ Social Capital	§ The nature of IS governance
§ Developing strategic leadership capabilities	§ Sustainable IS leadership
§ Interfacing IS governance with corporate governance	§ Corporate politics in and around the IS function
§ Types of IS leadership and governance	§ Critical success factors for a CIO
§ The relationship between the CIO and the CEO	§ Creating sustainable IS leadership
§ Measuring the performance of the CIO	§ Career development for IS leadership
§ Corporate Social Responsibility	§ Bridging the stove pipe mind-set
§ Sustaining leadership in the changing world of IS	§ Impact of non-IS executives on IT effectiveness
§ IS technological leadership	§ External market pressures on the CIO
§ How the intensity of IS usage effects the CIO role	§ Justifying IT Investments at Boardroom level
§ Best practices in IS technological leadership	§ The influence of non-IS executive use of IT on a firm’s performance
§ Effect of the board of directors and shareholders on IT policy	§ Outsourcing the CIO
§ Influence of mergers and acquisitions on IT	§ Corporate Governance practices and the role of chief Information Office
§ Ethical dilemmas and IS	§ Ethics in the workplace, loyalty and new values in marketing
§ Can parallels be drawn between the leadership and entrepreneurship fields?	§ Are main stream leadership styles prerequisites of entrepreneurial behaviour?
§ Can leadership enhance entrepreneurial activity during times of financial turbulence?	§ Can the life cycle stages of leadership be extrapolated to the entrepreneurship construct or domain?
§ What are the leadership challenges faced by the 21st century entrepreneurs?	§ Can we integrate leadership and entrepreneurship studies?
§ What relationships exist between different leadership styles and the dimensions of innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness (entrepreneurship constructs)?	§ Is the underlying concept of entrepreneurship adequately captured by the main stream dimensions of innovativeness, taking, and proactiveness?
§ What is the link between the leadership qualities of entrepreneurs and sustained competitive advantage of their enterprises?	§ Knowledge management, competitions and motivation systems versus companies development
§ Science and technology, innovation, industrial policy and creation of business versus strategies of company development	§ The conflicts occurring in enterprises, institutions and social organizations – and their solutions

In addition to the main topics, submissions are welcomed to five mini tracks on: Leadership and Governance of Enterprise 2.0, chaired by Charles Despres, SKEMA Business School, France; Managing Intellectual Assets, chaired by Gordon Hunter, University of Lethbridge, Canada; Happiness and Well-being at Work – its link to Leadership and Productivity, co-chaired by Philip Merry, Global Leadership Academy, Singapore and Florian Sala, SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis, France; Online Leadership, chaired by John Politis, Neapolis University, Cyprus and Conventional, Robotic and e-Academic Leadership, chaired by Chaudhary Imran Sarwar, University of Punjab, Pakistan.

Academic Paper submissions
Papers should address the conference topics listed above and can describe a wide range of research including empirical or theoretical studies. In addition, philosophical papers presenting an argument and papers presenting a process that has been developed and is now ready for wider use are welcome. In all cases concepts and underlying principles should be emphasised, with enough background information to orient any reader who is not a specialist in the particular subject area original. The work should not have been published elsewhere and should not be intended to be published elsewhere during the review period. See the submission details below.

Work in Progress/Posters
Researchers are invited to submit current projects which are either at the proposal stage or are work in progress. In the first instance you should submit an abstract describing the project. If your abstract is selected you will be given the choice of producing a short paper with poster or abstract only with poster. If you opt for a paper, this should be a maximum of 2000 words including abstract, keywords and references. The paper will be double-blind peer reviewed and if accepted will be published in the conference proceedings. Presentation of the work at the conference will take the form of a Poster. Posters will be on display for the duration of the conference and there will be a timetabled slot for contributors to stand by their posters so that participants can come and discuss the research. 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.

PhD Research Colloquium
Doctoral Candidates are invited to submit papers describing their research. To be eligible, it is necessary for the paper to be produced to a publishable academic standard and papers will be subject to the same criteria and processes as research papers. However the final results of the research may not have been fully completed and interpreted. PhD papers will be organised into a colloquium and there will be a chair person and a discussant to provide constructive feedback on the work. A prize will be awarded to the best PhD paper presented at the conference.

Case Study Submissions
Case study submissions should be written to publishable standards. Case studies will be subject to the same criteria and the processes as research papers.

Non-Academic Contributions
The conference committee welcomes contributions from individuals and organisations working in the field. These contributions can take the form of a presentation or a demonstration. In the first instance an abstract should be submitted describing the work to be presented. If the abstract is selected you will be asked whether you wish to produce a paper or just give a presentation. You will need to register for the conference to have a confirmed timetabled slot.

Round Table Proposals
The Programme Committee invites topical subjects to be proposed for discussion. In the first instance an abstract describing the proposed topic should be submitted. If selected the convener will be given a timetabled slot for the round table and will be expected to register to attend the conference.

Product Demonstrations and Exhibitor Opportunities
If you are contributing to the conference in any of the above categories you can also request the opportunity to give a product demonstration. If you would like to exhibit and/or demonstrate a product at the conference we suggest that you apply for one of our exhibitor packages.

Submission details

Abstracts:	All submission types require an abstract in the first instance. Abstracts should be a minimum of 300 and no more than 500 words including up to five keywords and keyphrases to be received by 17 March 2011. Please read the online guidelines.
Submission:	Submissions should be made via the online form. Please ensure that all required fields are completed. Abstracts must include the proposed title for the paper, the full names (first name and surname, not initials); postal addresses and email addresses of all authors and a telephone number for at least one contact author. Please indicate clearly if the contact author is not the lead author and select the appropriate submission track.
Full paper:	Only required for academic submissions to main conference streams once the abstract has been selected and not to be more than 5,000 words including abstract, keywords and references (the Harvard referencing rules need to be followed). Submission date will be no later than 5 May 2011. Papers should be submitted as .doc or .rtf file attachments by email to the Conference Manager, Carol Sheasby with the paper submission checklist and copyright form.

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.

Read the author guidelines

Download the main call for papers in .pdf format

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 only allows an author to present one paper. Therefore if multiple papers are accepted for presentation different co-authors need to present each paper. Author registration must be completed by 1 September 2011.

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline:	~~17 March 2011~~	Now Closed
Notification of abstract acceptance:	~~24 March 2011~~	Completed
Full paper due for review:	~~5 May 2011~~	Review process underway
Notification of paper acceptance (with any changes):	14 July 2011
Earlybird registration closes:	28 July 2011
Final paper due (with any changes):	11 August 2011
Final author registration and payment date:	1 September 2011

Last updated 13 May 2011