Nepalese Academy of Management (NAM)
in association with
Strategic Management Society (SMS)
Organizes
Paper Development Workshop to Faculties and Researchers
At
Kathmandu, Nepal
21st - 24th May, 2015
Nepalese Academy of Management in association with the Strategic
Management Society (USA) is providing opportunities for Paper development
workshop to faculties and research scholars. The objective of this program is to strengthen
academicians and research scholars providing in-depth knowledge on research and
internationally publication. Many scholars who are visiting hope this leads to
long term efforts to help you improve your research.
This
workshop is designed to meet and interact with a panel of internationally
recognized professors and outstanding researchers in the area of most of
aspects of Management. A panel of international experts will lively interact in
the workshop with the participants (see the short bio of international
experts). In this program, approximately 24 research scholars will be selected
to participate with their developed research paper or work in progress research
paper. Doctoral students, research scholars, faculties can submit their papers
for participation. The preference area of paper but not limited to:
Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, International Business,
Small Business Management, Technology and Innovation Management, Strategic
Integration and Performance, Business Dynamics, Human Capital, Corporate Social
Responsibility, Knowledge
Management, Foreign Direct Investment, Free
Trade Area and Regional Integration, Poverty Alleviation, Micro Credit,
Remittance,… and almost all the areas of Management.
Applicants
should send the research paper, fully developed or work in progress, by April 10, 2015.
Your file should be named name.doc, where name is your full name and send to: [log in to unmask] For further information, please contact the
coordinator of the PDW workshop:
Dhruba
Kumar Gautam (Ph. D.)
Associate
Professor and Founding Secretary,
Nepalese
Academy of Management
P. O.
Box: 12719, Kathmandu, Nepal
Interact with World Renounced Professors and Researchers
Sharon Alvarez is the Walter Koch Endowed Chair
in Entrepreneurship at the Daniels College of Business, University of
Denver. She previously served as an
Associate Professor of entrepreneurship and management, and the Academic Director
of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Max M. Fisher College of Business,
The Ohio State University. Professor Alvarez is the Past Chair of the
Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and has been a
Representative at Large for the SMS Entrepreneurship Interest Group. She was a Max Planck Scholar at the Max
Planck Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Systems Research, a visiting
professor at Sun-Yet-Sen University in China, and is currently a visiting
professor at University of Alberta. Her current research includes
entrepreneurship theory of opportunities, firm, and market emergence. Professor Alvarez is a Co-editor for
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and she has published in Academy of
Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,
Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of
Management, and Human Resource Management Journal.
Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre
Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He
previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for
Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The
Ohio State University. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy
firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He is an
associate editor for the Journal of Management and senior editor for Organization
Science and has been published in numerous leading publications. In
addition to his teaching and research, he presents executive training programs
throughout the US and Europe. His consulting work focuses on large-scale
organizational change and strategic analysis. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as
well as a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has received honorary
doctorate degrees from the University of Lund, the Copenhagen Business School,
and Universidad PontificiaComillas (Madrid), and has honorary visiting
professor positions in New Zealand and China.
Garry D. Bruton is a professor at Texas Christian University. His research focuses on the intersection
of entrepreneurship, strategy and international business. He has
published or has forthcoming over 75 academic articles in leading journals such
as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal,
Journal of Business Venturing, Journal
of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In addition, Garry has co-authored three text books –small business
management (McGraw-Hill), technology and innovation management (Cengage), and
international management (Cengage). In 2005 Professor Bruton was the first
holder of the Hall Chair in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets offered by the
Fulbright Foundation. He is past
president of the Asia Academy of Management and former editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Garry
in addition serves on the editorial board of five other academic journals and
is associate editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Dr. Bruton has been selected by Sun Yat Sen University in
Guangzhou, China as Honorary Visiting Professor, Nankai University as an
Honorary Guest Professor, and previously the co-director of Institute for
Global Innovation and Chinese Entrepreneurship, Tonji University in Shanghai,
China.
Farok J. Contractor holds
the title of ‘Distinguished Professor’ at Rutgers University’s Management and
Global Business department. His research treats Foreign Direct Investment,
Emerging Markets, Offshoring and Outsourcing, as well as the negotiated, inter-firm
aspects of business such as Joint Ventures, Alliances and Licensing –
particularly focusing on the technology transfer process, financing, and
calculating a price or value for knowledge and intangible assets. He has
published over one hundred scholarly articles, and nine authored and edited
books. A Fellow of the Academy of International Business, he has served on the
Executive Boards of the Academy of International Business, Academy of
Management (International Management Division) and is on the editorial boards
of eight scholarly journals. Previously he was with the Tata Group, a
multinational conglomerate based in India.
Devi Ram Gnyawali (Ph.D. in strategic
management, University of Pittsburgh), is R. B. Pamplin Professor of Management
and Director of Graduate Programs at the Department of Management, Pamplin
College of Business, Virginia Tech (also known as Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University). His current research interests focus on topics
that are at the interface of strategic management and management of technology
and innovation. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Management and
also serves on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review. His
research has been published in various journals, including Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Information Systems
Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and
Research Policy. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a government
officer in Nepal and as an international consultant in various countries,
including Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Germany, and Malawi.
Geoff Kistruck is an Associate Professor and Ron
Binns Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York
University in Canada. His primary research interests involve social
entrepreneurship and innovation on the part of for-profit and nonprofit
organizations, principally within the context of poverty alleviation efforts in
base-of-the-pyramid markets. Geoff’s research projects are often
action-oriented in nature in that they involve the design and field testing of
theoretically-based solutions to current challenges faced by social enterprises.
Geoff has published articles in top management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of
Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of
Management Studies, & the Journal
of Management. Prior to entering academe, Geoff served in a number of
managerial positions within the venture capital and financial services
industry.
Will Mitchell studies business dynamics in developed and emerging markets,
investigating how businesses change as their competitive environments
change and, in turn, how the business changes contribute to ongoing corporate
and social performance. He teaches courses in business dynamics, emerging
market strategy, corporate strategy, health sector management,
entrepreneurship, and pharmaceutical strategy. Will holds the John
deButts Professorship of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua
School of Business and the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and
Commercialization at the University of Toronto. Will is a faculty associate of
Duke’s Global Health Initiative and Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
as well as a faculty associate at Rotman’s Center for Health Sector Strategy.
Will is a co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal, co-editor for
online media for the Strategic Management Society journals, and a board
member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd. (Hyderabad).
Brian C. Pinkham
is an Assistant Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School
(Western University). His principal research and teaching interests are in the
areas of global strategy, the legal environment of the multinational
enterprise, and entry mode decision making. Brian’s research appears in Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice,
Journal of International Business Studies,
and Organizational Dynamics. Leading
up to his PhD in International Management Studies at the University of Texas at
Dallas, Brian received his BA in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, a
Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland, and a LLM from Stockholm
University.
Jasjit
Singh has been an INSEAD
professor since 2004. His teaching and research interests include Business
Strategy, Innovation, Emerging Market Strategy, Inclusive Business, Social
Impact, Corporate Social Engagement, Knowledge Management and Diffusion, and
Economic Geography. Jasjit obtained his Ph.D. in Business Economics at
Harvard Business School. He also holds an M.A. in Economics from
Harvard, M.S. in Management and Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and B.Tech.in
Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi. He also serves as an
Associate Editor for Management Science and an Editorial Review Board
member for Strategic Management Journal and
Organization Science. He has also taught in custom programmes for
government organizations (Abu Dhabi, EDB Singapore, IE Singapore, Indian
Railways and WDA Singapore) as well as companies (Adidas, Aditya Birla,
Alcatel-Lucent, Alstom, Ascendas, Datacraft, Ernst & Young, Google, HSBC,
IBM, KPMG, Lexmark, LG, Orica, PernodRicard, PT Astra, RHB Bank, Siemens,
Sonepar, Swire, Syngenta, Thomson Reuters and Toshiba). He has also been a part
of social impact initiatives like INSEAD’s “Leading the Business of
Sustainability” and “Social Entrepreneurship” programmes, UN Women’s “Project
Inspire” for inclusive business, Aidha’s “Venture Club” for inclusive
entrepreneurship and HUB Singapore’s “Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp”. Prior
to joining academia, Jasjit worked as a management consultant with Accenture.
Earlier, he also interned as a computer engineer with Intel, AT&T and Cadence
Design Systems. He is an Indian citizen, and lives in Singapore.
Margaret A. White,
Ph.D. is the Fleming Cos. Professor of Technology Management at Oklahoma State
University. She has a Ph.D. with a major
in management and a minor in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.B.A. and B.S. in mathematics are from Sam
Houston State University. Professor White is the author/coauthor of over 90
articles and papers. Her research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of
Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship: Theory and
Practice, and Organizational Studies.
She co-authored The Management of
Technology and Innovation: A Strategic Process Approach with Garry D.
Bruton. She has had leadership roles in
several professional organizations—most recently, leadership as Vice Chair
(2014) and Chair (2015) of the Research Methods Initiative of the Strategic
Management Society. Her research
interests include M&A, processes in developing economies and management of
technology.
Mike Wright is Professor of Entrepreneurship
and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College
Business School, Director of the Centre for Management Buyout Research and
Associate Director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre. Mike has received
Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Ghent and Derby and is an
Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been an editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Technology Transfer and is
currently co-editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has
published over 50 books and more than 400 articles in leading international
journals such as Academy of Management
Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of
Management Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Entrepreneurship Theory
and Practice, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business
Venturing, Journal of Management, Research Policy, Organization Studies,
etc. His research focuses on academic entrepreneurship, returnee entrepreneurs,
habitual entrepreneurs, technology transfer, family firms, venture capital,
private equity, emerging economies, and related topics. He has been ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic
entrepreneurship and in entrepreneurship.
