Dear Friends,
I am sending you hereby the call for papers of the next
III AIDEA-Giovani International Conference titled:
"Managing Across Borders: Cross-cultural Issues in Managerial Studies"
to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, next June 4-6th, 1998.
The deadline for the abstract in next January 31st.
Can you post it througout your depts?
Thank you.
I hope that this time you will get a readable message.
Giambattista Dagnino
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Conference
MANAGING ACROSS BORDERS
CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES IN MANAGERIAL STUDIES
June 4-6, 1998 - Lugano (Switzerland), Università della Svizzera Italiana
AIDEA Giovani, the Junior Faculty Network of the Italian Academy of
Management, announces its Third International Conference in Lugano, in the
campus of Università della Svizzera Italiana. The topic for this year is
Managing across Borders: Cross-cultural Issues in Managerial Studies.
The aim of the Conference is to provide a forum for discussing the managerial
implications of the multiplicity of cultures within and outside organisations.
The importance of addressing cultural differences in managing organisations
has been widely acknowledged by both scholars and managers in the last decade.
However, research in this area has mainly focused on the influence of
different national cultures on the policies and operations of multinational
organisations. In doing so, these interpretive frameworks have considered
culture as something different from both organisations and individuals. The
acknowledgment of the multi-faceted nature of cultures as social artefacts
implies a need for new approaches in addressing such an issue. The
reconceptualisation of conventional distinctions seems to be a promising
reasearch agenda.
Submissions are therefore welcome on issues including, but in no way limited to:
¨ influences of different cultural paradigms and institutional contexts in
managing organisations;
¨ the role of management in coping with conflicts generated by cultural and
institutional differences;
¨ institutional and individual carriers/modifiers of organisational and
national cultures;
¨ managerial aspects of discrimination in the workplace;
¨ the impact on management practices of trans-national agreements and
supra-national regulatory bodies (e.g. accounting regulations);
¨ organisational impact of co-existing trends towards globalisation and
regionalisation of production policies and consumer behaviour;
¨ opportunities and constraints entailed by the cross-fertilisation of
management styles and techniques (e.g. transferability of local
organisational knowledge).
SUBMISSIONS. Different types of papers are suited for this complex issue
(e.g., empirical and field studies, historical analyses, theoretical pieces,
quantitative and qualitative research). Comparative approaches will be
especially appreciated.
You are invited to submit a detailed abstract highlighting the methodology to
be adopted and the expected scientific contribution of your paper.
On the title page of the abstract please include the names, full addresses,
relevant phone and fax numbers and E-mail addresses for all authors. On the
first page of the abstract place only the title at the top of the page - no
authors names or affiliations - and then begin the abstract.
The Conference is mainly targeted to assistant professors and Ph.D.
candidates, but senior faculty members are welcome to submit their proposals
as well.
All abstracts should be received by January 31, 1998 latest at the
following address:
Professor Albino Zgraggen
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Via Ospedale 13
6900 - Lugano (Switzerland)
fax (+41-91) 912-4647
E-mail
albino.zgraggen@lu.usi.ti-edu.ch
Fax and E-mail submissions will be accepted. They will undergo a double-blind
review, and acceptance or non-acceptance will be notified in writing by March
15, 1998. Authors of selected submissions are expected to provide a full paper
by May 15, 1998.
Please check the December 1997 issue of The Academy of Management News and the
AIDEA Giovani web page (http://www.dial.it/aideag) for updates about the Third
AIDEA Giovani International Conference. For further information you can contact:
Dr. Paolo Quattrone
Istituto di Scienze Economico-aziendali
University of Palermo
Via delle Scienze - Parco dOrléans
90128 - Palermo (Italy)
phone (+39-91) 6626-262
fax (+39-91) 485-418
E-mail
bigfour@mbox.vol.it
Dr. Luca Brusati
Istituto di Economia Aziendale
Bocconi University
Via Bocconi 8
20136 - Milano (Italy)
phone (+39-2) 5836-6221
fax (+39-2) 5836-6832
E-mail
luca.brusati@uni-bocconi.it
THE ORGANIZATION. AIDEA Giovani, the Junior Faculty Network of the Italian
Academy of Management, is a six-year old association consisting of junior
faculty members and Ph.D. candidates who are interested in advancing academic
research and teaching in the area of management studies. AIDEA Giovani has
been created under the auspices of AIDEA (Accademia Italiana di Economia
Aziendale - The Italian Academy of Management), a member of IFSAM (The
International Federation of Scholarly Associations in Management).
AIDEA Giovani has about 300 members, coming from all sizes of public and
private Italian universities. AIDEA Giovani arranges one national and one
international conference (in English) every year, as well as a number of
specialized workshops and seminars.
THE 1997 LOCATION. The Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) was
established in 1995 in order to endow the Italian-speaking community of
Switzerland with its own higher education institution.
The School of Management started operations in 1996 in Lugano (Canton Ticino).
The Faculty, as well as the student body, draw from a number of differenent
national backgrounds, in keeping with the multi-cultural character of
Switzerland. The emphasis on internationalization is further highlighted by
the number of cooperation agreements with foreign academic institutions which
USI has already managed to establish.
Lugano is located on the beautiful lake bearing the same name, and can be
easily reached by plane, by train or by car either from Switzerland (Zürich
airport) or from Italy (Milano-Linate or Milano-Malpensa airports).