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2008 New Faculty Consortium

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2008 BPS Officers & Committees
NEWS FROM BPS GLOBAL REPRESENTATIVES

OCEANIA
Delwyn Clark, University of Waikato

“Managing Our Intellectual and Social Capital” is the theme for the 21st Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM, to be held at Sydney, Australia, from 4-7 December 2007.  Hosted by the University of Western Sydney, the keynote speakers for this conference will include Professor John Bessant (Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London), Professor Dorothy Leonard (Harvard Business School, Boston), and an Industry-Academia Plenary Panel. Further details are available at the conference website: http://www.promaco.com.au/2007/anzam/ or by email from: promaco@promaco.com.au

The 9th International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, IFSAM, World Congress will be held in Shanghai, China, from 26-28 July 2008. Hosted by Fudan University, the theme of this conference is “The Fusion and Development of East and West Management”. The deadline for papers is 31 January 2008. Further information is available on the conference website http://www.ifsam.org.cn or by email from: ifsam@fudan.edu.cn

The 22nd annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM, will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2-5 December 2008.  Hosted by the University of Auckland Business School, the theme of this conference is “Managing in the Pacific Century”. Keynote speakers will include Professor Anne Tsui (Arizona State University and Peking University) and Professor Kulwant Singh (National University of Singapore Business School). The deadline for papers is 20 June 2008. Further details on academic matters are available from Professor Marie Wilson (m.wilson@auckland.ac.nz); direct all other queries to: promaco@promaco.com.au


SOUTHEAST ASIA
Danchi Tan, National Cheng-Chi University

2007 AIB Southeast Asia Regional Conference, organizing by the Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, Lingnan University, will be held during December 6-8, 2007 in Hangzhou, China. The theme of the conference is "Taking Up the New Challenges of Global Business." For further information, please refer to the website: www.ln.edu.hk/hkibs/Aib/2007/aib2007/index.htm

International Colloquium on Business & Management will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 19 to 22, 2007. For further information, please visit http://www.icbmbangkok.com.

The International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) will hold its third biennial meeting in Guangzhou China from June 19 to 22 in 2008, and has announced the call for papers. The theme of the conference is ‘The Olympic Spirit in Chinese Management Research.’ The deadline for the submission is October 15, 2007. Further details are available at the IACMR website at www.iacmr.org.

The Chinese Committee of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) will hold the Ninth World Congress of IFSAM at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, from July 26 to 28, 2008. The theme of this congress is “The Fusion and Development of East and West Management”. Paper submission deadline is January 31, 2008. Please go to the congress website (www.ifsam.org.cn) for details.

The Asia Academy of Management will hold the sixth conference at Taipei in December 2008. The theme of the conference is “The New Faces of Asian Management.” The deadline for submission is May 31, 2008. For further information, visit http://www.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/asia%2Daom/index.html


EUROPE
Andrea Ordanini, Bocconi University

The 3rd annual Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management. December 11-12, 2007, Copenhagen Business School. More information at  www.cbs.dk/forskning_viden/konferencer/ccsm2007

Euram 2008 annual conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-17 May 2008.  More information at www.euram2008.org/ConferenceAnouncement.asp.

24th EGOS Colloquium, July 10-12, 2008, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo24/colloquium_2008

Call for Papers:  Journal of Management Studies, Offshoring & Outsourcing: The Organizational and Geographical Relocation of High-Value Company Functions www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/callforpapers_offshoring_outsourcing.pdf

Information Systems Research, Digital systems and competition http://www.informs.org/site/ISR/


BPS GLOBAL REPRESENTATIVES 2007-2009

Latin America:  Sergio Giovanetti Lazzarini
Ibmec São Paulo
SergioGL1@isp.edu.br

SE Asia:  Danchi Tan
National Cheng Chi University
dctan@nccu.edu.tw

Oceania:  Delwyn Clark
Univ Of Waikato-Mgmt School
DNCLARK@waikato.ac.nz

Africa:  Tunji Adegbesan
Lagos Business School, Pan-African U.
tAdegbesan@lbs.edu.ng

Europe:  Andrea Ordanini
Bocconi University
Andrea.ordanini@uni-bocconi.it

North America:  Hari Bapuji
University of Manitoba
bapuji@cc.umanitoba.ca


Anaheim 2008REMINDER:  2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management,
Anaheim, California
August 8-13, 2008
The Questions We Ask





The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will be held August 8-13, 2008 in Anaheim, California. The meeting theme, The Questions We Ask, will explore what we do not know about the world of organization and management – and what questions we might dare to ask. Let's take stock of our questions. After all, our answers can only be as good as our questions. www.aomonline.org