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AIRC4

Ashridge International Research Conference 2015

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Leadership, Management, Innovation in Professional &

Knowledge Intensive Organisations: 

People and process challenges in the global knowledge economy

 

Conference tracks:

1. Specificities and challenges of knowledge intensive firms/organisations
2. KIS in the global environment
3. Leading and Leadership
4. Knowledge strategy / transfer / management
5. Value creation, creativity and innovation
6. (International) HRM challenges
7. Herding Cats: organizing people,
8. Talent / career / performance management
9. Management values, processes, functions and governance

 

For full CfP, conference details and registration please see our website www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4

 

  Call for Papers  SUMMARY

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 10^th 2015

Information on acceptance for conference papers by May 1^st  2015

Early Bird Fee: payment to be received by May 21^st 2015

 

Journal Special Issues

Linked to the conference topic, we will be Guest Editing a Special Issue of

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

The Journal of Knowledge Management

The Journal of Academic Ethics

The Journal of Public Affairs

And we have a Partnership Agreement with Creativity and Innovation Management.

 

    Conference Chairs:

Professor Carla Millar, Fellow, Ashridge & Professor International Management, Univ of Twente, NL

Professor Stephen Chen, Professor of International Business, University of Newcastle, Australia

Lee Waller, Director, Ashridge Centre for Research in Executive Development, UK

 

Keynote Speakers

Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris, France on

Innovation, Education and HR Strategy in Professional Service Firms

Professor Juani Swart, University of Bath, UK, on

HR Policies and Processes to Manage Knowledge Professionals

Professor John Mahon, University of Maine, USA on Knowledge Corruption in KIOs

Professor Giovanni Schiuma, University of the Arts, London, UK and Universitá della

Basilicata, Italy on Value Creation in Knowledge Intensive Organisations

 

 

Changes in technological, social and economic environments pose significant challenges for leadership and management of organisations, departments and administrations in knowledge-intensive, creative or professional industries, activities and services (in short, “KI” services / organisations). In knowledge intensive activities and services people are the organisation’s primary assets. Increasingly, people’s knowledge, experience and creativity form the backbone of the organisation’s success and leading and managing them to achieve their potential is of key importance, as is the retention of developed knowledge professionals over time.

 

Growth of KI organisations (KIOs) also depends crucially on management's ability to give leadership in a way that supports knowledge-intensive teamwork. The global nature of much knowledge and of knowledge networks and the ambitions of KI firms to expand globally add to the leadership challenge, bringing into focus both cultural differences and other international business issues such as the protection of intellectual property rights and retaining your best talent. The leadership and management challenges of knowledge asset value creation are also mirrored in public sector organisations, creative industries and R&D organisations.

 

In this conference we will address the challenges of leading and managing knowledge intensive services and organisations, departments and administrations and building effective leadership and management skills. We aim to frame this in the context of the strategic importance of value creation leadership in KIOs, both traditional and innovative ones, both locally and internationally, and to lay the groundwork for the development of theory, as well as for tangible practical approaches.

 

AIRC4 offers dialogue among colleagues and timely feedback and peer review on your papers before the submission deadlines for the individual Journal Special Issues, submission deadlines for which will be in November and December 2015. See individual CfPs.

 

We welcome the submission of original full papers, advanced work in progress, policy papers, or case studies, as well as research or practice based proposals for specially themed sessions or for panels on the conference theme.

 

Deadlines and review process

·                Deadline for the submission of full policy papers, advanced work in progress,     10^th  April 2015

·                Decision on acceptance for the conference                               1^st  May 2015

·                Deadline Early Bird fee: payment to be received by                    21^st May 2015

·                    Deadline submission revised papers for Conference Proceedings   1^st June 2015

·    Deadline for submission for Journal SIs [see SI websites]            1 Nov, 15 Nov, 1 Dec 2015

 

·   Please submit to [log in to unmask]  [AIRC4 in the email heading]

 

Conference Details

For full CfP, conference details and registration please see our website www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4

 

The conference will feature an Opening Panel of Experts, Keynote Speakers, and interactive presentation sessions and dialogue between academics and practitioners.

 

AIRC4: 4^th Ashridge International Research Conference

12-14 June 2015, Ashridge Business School, Berkhamsted (by London), UK

 

Carla Millar

Prof. Carla C.J.M. Millar PhD

Chair AIRC4 on Knowledge Intensive Institutions

 

See www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4

 

AIRC4 Chairs et al. will Guest Edit  Special Issues of:

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Focus:  leadership, international  HRM and organisational challenges in KIS

The Journal of Knowledge Management

Focus:  leading and managing KIS through formal knowledge strategies

The Journal of Academic Ethics

Focus: values, processes, functions and governance in KIS

The Journal of Public Affairs

Focus:  Value creation and innovation in KIS,

and have a partnership agreement with the Creativity and Innovation Management journal

to recommend  relevant  AIRC4 papers for fast track publication in CIM.

 

Fellow, Ashridge Business School, Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 1NS, UK, 0044 1442 84 1175, 0044 20 7402 4700,

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Professor, International Marketing & Management, University of Twente, School of Management & Governance.

   PO Box 217, 7500 AE  Enschede, The Netherlands, 0031 53 489 5355, 0031 33 462 7343; [log in to unmask]