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Welcoming words
Dear EURAM Friends and Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to participate to
one of the largest conference on management in Europe of
the decade: EURAM Conference 2014 in Valencia, Spain. This
ground-breaking, landmark event will be the gathering place for
an anticipated 1,500 attendees from across Europe and, also,
from other continents.
Participants will include scholars and academics from different
management disciplines, as well as practitioners, government
officials, management associations, and corporate executives.
The aim is to develop a virtuous cycle of relationships in order
to foster the engagement of EURAM members. We all share
one thing in common—a commitment to improve organisations’
lives as well as those of our communities.
When we met in 2013 in Istanbul, we defined a future path
for EURAM. While much progress has been made, there is
still a long way to go. This conference will be an opportunity
to strategise about the way to 2015 and beyond,
highlighting success stories and ongoing challenges to
improve the health and well-being of our community of
engaged scholars.
Our sessions and exhibit halls will be hubs of discussion, with
opportunities to network with hundreds of delegates from
around Europe and showcase new approaches and innovative
streams of thoughts. This is a unique opportunity to present the
great work you do in a forum that will be highly attended by
participants in the beautiful convention centre in the heart of
Valencia.
I hope that you will enjoy your experience in this unique and
game-changing international conference.
As I already said, I’d like to personally welcome each of you
to the 2014 EURAM Annual Conference. It’s an exciting time
for EURAM as we continue to grow and adapt, remaining
always adaptable, motivated and responsive European
engaged scholars. Our association is confronting a time of
many changes and we are meeting these changes during a
time of larger nation-wide and global change. The world of
management is an exciting area in which to work/study/play,
and we’ll continue to meet and bring inspired people together
in forums like this, to ensure our association remains at the
cutting edge.
I’d like to give you an idea of what you can expect and what we
hope to achieve over the next few days. The EURAM Strategic
Interest Groups (SIGs) have programmed interesting panels
and keynotes as pre-conference activities. Many distinguished
researchers and practitioners will participate as speakers in
these sessions. At the same time, during the preconference
Luca Gnan
EURAM President Elect
8 EURAM 2014 • WAVES AND WINDS OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS