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Special Session on Management Geography
SIEM will conduct a Special Session on Management Geography at the 2012 Annual Meeting in New York. The paper session entitled Management Geography (2165) is scheduled on Saturday, 25. Feb. 2012, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Liberty 3, at the 3rd Floor of the Sheraton Hotel. The organizer is Prof. Dr. Rolf Dieter Schlunze (Faculty of International Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University, Japan). Professor Dr. Atsushi Taira from Kagawa University will introduce the authors and the schedule as follows.
8:03 AM Robyn Mayes, Dr - Curtin University
Barbara Pini, Professor - Curtin University, Title: Corporate social responsibility: configuring community and place in resource-affected rural Australia.
8:18 AM Remi Alapo, Dr. - University of Phoenix, Arizona, Title: The Role of culture on the leadership styles of Generation X women in Nigeria.
8:33 AM Weiwei Ji - Ritsumeikan University, Title: Locational Preferences and Network Behavior of Cross-Border Managers in China: An Actor Centered Approach.
8:48 AM Rolf Dieter Schlunze - Ritsumeikan University, Title: Intercultural management success in the global cities - An actor-centered approach
From 9:03 AM Andrew Jones - Birkbeck, University Of London and Patrik Ström - University of Gothenburg, Sweden, will discuss the presentations introducing a new avenuees of geographical research.
SIEM Cross-Cultural Management Research Meeting
You are invited to our upcoming research meeting on Friday, 13th Jan. 2012 at Ritsumeikan University, Biwako Kusatsu Campus, Epoch21, Room K306. We will start the SIEM meeting at 16:00 with a cup of coffee introducing our conference book published with Palgrave MacMillan.
See URL:
http://us.macmillan.com/spacesofinternationaleconomyandmanagement/RolfDSchlunze
Presenter No. 1 will be Ms. Ming (Lily) LI, Ph.D. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Organization of ESC Rennes School of Business in France. She speaks about "The Development of Cultural Intelligence in Global Leaders” which is so much needed in the current economy.
The second presenter is Mr. Weiwei JI (Kichi), a PhD student of our Faculty of Business Administration at RU. He is one of the leading promoters of SIEM's management appraisal and will speak about “Business Networks and Local Adjustment: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Evidence”.
Finally, we would like you to join our O-nabe party at the International Exchange Room of Epoch21. The cost is only 1,500 Yen. Please register by Jan. 5th, 2012.
For further information please send email to the SIEM team
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Nathaniel Agola Wins Best Paper Award
Nathaniel Agola won the Palgrave Macmillan and EAMSA Best Paper Award for 2009 at the EAMSA (Euro-Asia Management Studies Association) conference held at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) from Oct. 22nd to 24th, 2009. Mr. Agola received his award for his research presentation on “Technology and knowledge transfer in Japanese corporate groups: Insights on growth and innovation.”
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