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Welcoming words
Dear EURAM participants
It is a great honour hosting the 14 th annual conference of
EURAM in Valencia. In the name of all the members of the
Local Organising Committee, let me express our most sincere
welcome to all of you to the fascinating city of Valencia. We
have worked really hard to create the appropriate space to
host a fresh, constructive and positive discussion about the
challenges, antecedents and consequences of developing the
necessary strategic leadership able to balance the search of
the highest levels of competitiveness with the, every day more
important, attention to ethics, sustainability and long term
orientation.
We really hope that the waves and winds of the Mediterranean
Sea will accompany you during the next days and will
contribute to a positive exchange of ideas and blend of
perspectives. We are convinced that the Valencia breezes will
blow lots of feedback and altruistic contributions among our
participants in order to develop the existing knowledge on the
field of organisations management in general, and on the link
between strategic leadership and sustainable competitiveness
in particular.
Organising this conference during the last two years has been a
great experience. As in any other large project, the process has
not been exempt of difficulties, unexpected events and stressful
situations. However, we have learned the actual meaning of the
EURAM mission statement: EURAM is a professional community
of engaged management scholars, open, inclusive, international
and cross-cultural. We are extremely grateful to all the people
that in one way or another have contributed to make of EURAM
2014 a successful, positive, constructive, and fun experience for
everybody.
First, we thank all the authors who submitted their work to
EURAM 2014 for considering this conference as the place to
discuss, get feedback, improve your work, and enhance your
networks. We received a total of 1361 submissions, which made
us understand the importance and magnitude of our work
and encouraged us, even more, to make our best to create a
satisfactory experience for every type of participant. We also
sincerely appreciate the voluntary and altruistic work of 1343
active reviewers who dedicated their time to provide timely and
constructive feedback to authors. This year we opened a call
for reviewers in order to build a stable database including their
expertise profile. This call was answered by 870 reviewers who
provided information about their research interests, preferred
theories and methods.
We want to express too our gratitude to all the proponents of
the 64 Topics, Symposia and Development Working Groups
that responded to our call, for offering their expertise,
Alejandro Escribá-Esteve
Conference Chair
EURAM 2014 Valencia
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