Dear AIB Colleague
Do not miss the wonderful international research conference on KIS at Ashridge:
Leadership in knowledge intensive organisations, people and processes, knowledge, creativity and innovation, ethics and trust.
Have you omitted to register for the AIRC4 conference on leadership in Knowledge Intensive firms and organisations?
It is still possible to come and join us. See the programme below:
All information and the registration form on www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4<http://www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4>
: AIRC4 ASHRIDGE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE [cid:[log in to unmask]]
Leadership, Management, Innovation in Professional & Knowledge Intensive Organisations:
People and process challenges in the global knowledge economy
AIRC4 Programme PRESENTERS' NAMES IN BOLD
Friday 12th June 2015
14.00 -14.15
Opening
Carla Millar, Stephen Chen, Lee Waller
14.15 - 15.45
LMA
Opening Panel of Experts
People and process challenges in the knowledge intensive nexus
Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris
Richard Cleverly, Global Head of Talent, Financial & Risk, Thomson Reuters
Philip Sadler, Tomorrow's Company and former CEO, Ashridge
David Young, Head of Leadership Development BT Group at BT
Chair: Professor Kai Peters, CEO Ashridge Business School
15.45 - 16.30
Tea, Wyatt Room
16.30 - 18.30
Conference Session I:
I .1The Nexus of Knowledge
LMA
I .2 Leadership in KIOs
Old Lib
Trust and knowledge sharing
Tatiana Khvatova, St Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia
Madeleine Block, St Petersburg State University, Russia
Exploring the role of task-related trust in intra-organisational knowledge sharing
Roger Fullwood , Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Factors affecting knowledge sharing amongst UK academics
Bindu Gupta, Ajay Singh, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India
Selected HR practices: The moderating role of organizational cultural values
Session Chair: Martin Lockett, Ashridge Business School
Personality and creativity
Piia Uusi-Kakkuri, University of Vaasa, Finland
Creative leaders:
The relationship between creativity and a leader's personality and gender
Lulu Zhou, Southeast University, China;
Shuming Zhao, Nanjing University, China;
Feng (Karen) Tian, University of Newcastle, Australia;
Xufan Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, China;
Huifei Ge, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Visionary leadership and employee creativity:
Evidence from knowledge intensive organizations in China
Sandor Löwik, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Wanted: A transformational leader or Machiavellist as CEO:
How personality traits explain individual managerial ambidexterity
Session Chair: Angela Muir, Ashridge Business School
19.00- 20.30
Dinner, Main Dining Hall
Saturday 13th June 2015
08.45 - 10.00
II .1 The Nexus of Knowledge
LMA
II .2 Leadership in KIOs
Old Lib
Conference Session II
Managing knowledge
Chris Mabey, Middlesex University, UK
Effective management of knowledge exchange:
A conceptual investigation of five leadership paradoxes
Alastair McCapra, Chartered Institute of Public Relations, UK
From KI to AI:
Professional bodies and knowledge management in the age of the robot
Session Chair: Martin Lockett, Ashridge Business School
Self-Leadership for change and transformation
Terry Porter, University of Maine, USA
Living the mission:
A case study of a self-transforming UK civil society organization linking
knowledge management, social sustainability, complex systems
Maria Nathan, Lynchburg College, USA
The knowledge worker as CEO of self
Session Chair: Caryn Vanstone, Ashridge Business School
10.00- 10.30
Coffee, Wyatt Room
10.30 - 12.45
LMA
12.45 - 14.00
Keynote Addresses I
Talent and knowledge cultivation in knowledge intensive firms
Philip Sadler, Senior Fellow, Tomorrow's Company and former CEO Ashridge
The talent intensive organisation, the 1993 starting blocks
Juani Swart, Professor of Human Capital, School of Management, University
of Bath
HR policies and processes to manage knowledge professionals in
contemporary contexts
Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris
Innovation, education and HR strategy in professional service firms
Chair: Professor Stephen Chen, University of Newcastle, AUS; Chair AIRC4
Lunch, Main Dining Hall
14.00 - 16.00
III.1 The Nexus of Knowledge
LMA
III .2 Leadership in KIOs
Old Lib
Conference Session III
Ethics and trust
Barbara Wang, Ashridge Business School, UK
Truth and trust: The IP challenge in the partnership of Chinese and
Western companies
Richard McGowan, Boston College, USA
The tale of two weeds: tobacco, marijuana and the ethics of disgust
Katrina Hogan, Sandeep Gopalan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Leveraging codes of ethics through law to minimize agency costs
Session Chair: John Mahon, University of Maine, USA
Management styles
Nawtej Dosanjh, Hult International Business School, USA
Top management influence and ambidexterity in managerial practice
Hemangi Bhalerao, Satishchandra Kumar, KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, India
Impact of conflict management styles of leaders on the commitment
level of subordinates in India
Kai Wing (Alex) Chu, CCC Heep Who College, Hong Kong, China
Leading knowledge management in a school
Session Chair: Vicki Culpin, Ashridge Business School
16.00 - 16.30
Tea, Wyatt Room
16.30 - 18.30
LMA
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"The Ashridge Experience"
Caryn Vanstone, Ashridge Business School and Lacerta Consulting
Leading for innovation in KIOs:
Rethinking knowledge, people, risk and the role of improvisation
18.30 - 19.30
A walk in the grounds or Tour of the Mansion and/or Publishing Clinic
19.30 - 20.00
Publishers' Reception on the Loggia
20.00 - 22.00
Old Lib
Conference Dinner in the Old Library
with
After dinner speech "Risk and leaders" by the 'Priest of Sin'
Sunday 14 June 2015
08.45 - 10.15
IV. The Nexus of Knowledge
+ Leadership in KIOs
LMA
Conference Session IV
Leadership, teams and performance
Christina Swart-Opperman, Kurt April, University of Cape Town, S. Africa
Understanding innovation and emotive outlook of knowledge
Teams in Namibia
Tomohiko Tanikawa, Meiji University Business School, Japan
Yuhee Jung, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
The effect of TMT diversity in knowledge industry:
The interactive role of TMT diversity, the CEO power and past performance
Caroline Rowland, Roger Hall, University of Chester, UK
Leadership in turbulent times:
Realities of a white-water world
Session Chair: Kerrie Fleming, Ashridge Business School
10.15 - 10.45
Coffee, Wyatt Room
10.45- 12.45
Keynote Addresses II
Leading and developing people in knowledge intensive firms
Dame Fiona Woolf, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna and the 686th Lord
Mayor of London (2013-2014)
Talent development in the City
John Mahon, Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and
Professor of Management, University of Maine, USA
Knowledge acculturation, retention and corruption in knowledge
intensive organizations
Vlatka Hlupic, Professor of Business and Management, Dept. of Leadership
and Professional Development, Westminster Business School
The management shift in knowledge intensive organisations
Chair: Vicki Culpin,
Dean of Faculty and Director of Research, Ashridge Business School
12.45 - 13.00
Concluding Practice Lee Waller, Chair AIRC4
Concluding Academe and Closing of conference Carla Millar, Chair AIRC4
13.00 - 14.00
End-of-Conference Lunch, Main Dining Hall
Looking forward to seeing you at Ashrudge!
Carla Millar
Prof. Carla C.J.M. Millar PhD
Chair AIRC4 on Knowledge Intensive Institutions
See www.ashridge.org.uk/airc4<http://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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