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4<br />
FORUM May 2006<br />
Euro launch promotes <strong>Cranfield</strong> Research<br />
The European Commission has<br />
launched its Year <strong>of</strong> Workers'<br />
Mobility with a conference in<br />
Brussels attracting more than 450<br />
participants.<br />
Dr Michael Dickmann was one <strong>of</strong><br />
only a handful <strong>of</strong> academics invited<br />
to present to the conference, where<br />
attendees included representatives<br />
<strong>from</strong> public authorities, businesses,<br />
European Commission partners<br />
and the media.<br />
Dr Dickmann presented at a<br />
workshop entitled 'Geographical<br />
mobility, a tool for competitiveness<br />
and job creation' drawing on results<br />
<strong>from</strong> the <strong>School</strong>'s ongoing Geodesy research project<br />
with PricewaterhouseCoopers which is investigating<br />
Research Fellow Dr Arnoud<br />
Franken (right) is running a one-day<br />
workshop at the <strong>Management</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Organisational Change in Aerospace<br />
conference. His workshop is day two<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Royal Aeronautical Society<br />
event in London on May 24 and 25.<br />
Arnoud is also giving a speech on<br />
day one <strong>of</strong> the conference entitled<br />
‘Aerospace and Defence firms for the Future’.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Simon Knox (left) and<br />
Stan Maklan (a visiting fellow and<br />
former PhD student) have had their<br />
competitive paper accepted for the<br />
35th Annual European Marketing<br />
Academy Conference in Athens this<br />
month. Their paper, ‘How Effectively<br />
do FTSE4GooD Companies engage<br />
with Stakeholders in developing their<br />
Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes?’ continues<br />
a series <strong>of</strong> studies linking CSR with corporate brand and<br />
reputation management.<br />
Simon has had a second competitive paper accepted at<br />
the same conference with Colin Gruar, the Head <strong>of</strong><br />
Marketing at the British Heart foundation and a DBA<br />
student. Their paper, ‘Stakeholder Saliency in Not-for-<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>it Organisations: Setting the Co-ordinates for<br />
Marketing Strategy Development’ focuses on the British<br />
Heart Foundation as the organisation shifts its strategy in<br />
the light <strong>of</strong> research successes which has lead to a<br />
reduction in the incidence <strong>of</strong> coronary heart disease.<br />
Simon also gave a keynote speech ‘Creating<br />
Shareholder Value through Successful Corporate<br />
Branding in the Service Sector’ at Building the Bank<br />
Brands Conference in London. It was attended by more<br />
than 60 middle and senior bank managers <strong>from</strong> the UK,<br />
Scandinavia and central Europe.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Kim Turnbull James (right) has had a paper<br />
entitled ‘Inside Out. Is insider trading<br />
the high crime that we have been led<br />
to believe?’ published in the Business<br />
Strategy Review, Spring 2006. It is<br />
co-authored with Nada Kakabadse<br />
and A.Kaspurz.<br />
She has also made the following<br />
presentations:<br />
• ‘Wise leadership; a framework for<br />
learning how emotions in organizations can<br />
unconsciously impact how you take up a leadership<br />
role’ at the Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies<br />
seminar series<br />
issues and trends affecting the<br />
international mobility market.<br />
The latest Geodesy research,<br />
'Understanding and avoiding barriers<br />
to International Mobility', found major<br />
differences in 10 key areas between<br />
companies and their employees<br />
when it comes to overseas<br />
assignments.<br />
The EC's Year <strong>of</strong> Workers' Mobility<br />
aims to raise awareness across the<br />
EU about the rights, costs and<br />
opportunities available to citizens.<br />
A system <strong>of</strong> accessing job<br />
vacancies across the EU has also<br />
been launched giving European<br />
citizens access around 1 million job opportunities at<br />
any one time.<br />
• ‘Learning for sector change: the development <strong>of</strong> a<br />
knowledge sharing and learning network’ with Dr<br />
David Denyer at the Organisation Knowledge,<br />
Learning and Capabilities Conference conference at<br />
Warwick<br />
• Pr<strong>of</strong>essor James also ran a PhD writing workshop at<br />
the Warwick conference, with Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Bente Elkjaer<br />
who is Head <strong>of</strong> Doctoral <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Organisational<br />
Learning at the Danish University <strong>of</strong> Education and an<br />
editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Learning.<br />
Dr Ruth Bender has had her paper ‘Executive Pay:<br />
Onwards and Upwards?’ published by KPMG in its<br />
Remuneration Committee Journal.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Allen was a keynote speaker at the<br />
2nd International Non-liner Science Conference held in<br />
Heraklion, Crete. His talk was entitled ‘Complexity: the<br />
Challenge <strong>of</strong> a Co-Evolving Epistemology and Ontology’.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor David Parker (right) has been appointed as<br />
an advisor to the new Competition<br />
Commission for India in association<br />
with the World Bank and the<br />
Department for International<br />
Development. He is also advising the<br />
Hungarian Government on regulation<br />
sponsored by the Foreign and<br />
Commonwealth Office and has been<br />
selected to sit on the Association <strong>of</strong><br />
Business <strong>School</strong>s panel which is revising the Quality<br />
Guidelines for business and management courses,<br />
including MBAs, on behalf <strong>of</strong> the Government’s Quality<br />
Assurance Agency.<br />
David has also had the following papers and book<br />
chapters published, or accepted for publication:<br />
• ‘The Impact <strong>of</strong> Regulation on Economic Growth in<br />
Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis’ in<br />
World Development<br />
• ‘Strategic group theory: review, examination and<br />
application in the UK pharmaceutical industry’ (with<br />
Graham Leask) in The Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
Development<br />
• ‘Private investment in infrastructure in Asia: the<br />
impact <strong>of</strong> regulation’ in The Singapore Economic<br />
Review<br />
• ‘Creating the conditions for international business<br />
expansion: the impact <strong>of</strong> regulation on economic<br />
growth in developing countries’ and ‘A comparative<br />
analysis <strong>of</strong> the performance <strong>of</strong> public and private<br />
water utilities in Africa’ in Regulating Development:<br />
Evidence <strong>from</strong> Africa and Latin America by Edward<br />
Elgar and edited by Edmund Amann <strong>of</strong> the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Manchester<br />
Papers, Publications<br />
• and ‘UK competition policy and shareholder value: the<br />
impact <strong>of</strong> merger inquiries’ in the British Journal <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Management</strong> and ‘Methods and Trends <strong>of</strong><br />
Performance Benchmarking in UK Utility Regulation’<br />
in the American journal Utilities Policy. Both <strong>of</strong> these<br />
papers are co-authored with doctoral student<br />
Malcolm Arnold.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor David Buchanan has had the following<br />
refereed journal articles published:<br />
• ‘No going back: a review <strong>of</strong> the literature on<br />
sustaining organizational change’ in the International<br />
Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Reviews (with Diane Ketley,<br />
Rose Gollop, Jane Louise Jones, Sharon Saint<br />
Lamont, Annette Neath, and Elaine Whitby)<br />
• ‘Let’s be PALS: user-driven organizational change in<br />
healthcare’in the British Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Management</strong> (with<br />
Stephen Abbott, Jane Bentley, Anne Lanceley, and<br />
Julienne Meyer)<br />
• and ‘Feature films in management education: beyond<br />
illustration and entertainment’ in the Journal <strong>of</strong><br />
Organizational Behaviour Education (with Andrzej<br />
Huczynski).<br />
Dr Chee Yew Wong, a new research fellow <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Demand Chain community, had his paper ‘Making JIT<br />
Retail a success: the Coordination journey’ published in<br />
the International Journal <strong>of</strong> Physical Distribution &<br />
Logistics <strong>Management</strong>.<br />
Patrick McLaughlin, who successfully passed his DBA<br />
viva in March, has had a paper accepted by the<br />
International Journal <strong>of</strong> Technology <strong>Management</strong>.<br />
‘Developing an organizational culture to facilitate radical<br />
innovation’ is co-authored by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John Bessant<br />
and Dr Palie Smart.<br />
Lunchtime seminars<br />
online and open to all<br />
The <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Management</strong> is the first university in the UK to<br />
<strong>of</strong>fer its lunchtime seminars online to the general public.<br />
Anyone can now log on and view the lectures remotely, as<br />
well as joining the debate by typing a question to be put to the<br />
presenter during the question and answer session at the end <strong>of</strong><br />
each seminar.<br />
The development has been made possible by the Breeze<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tware technology which is also used to broadcast the<br />
<strong>School</strong>'s bi-monthly doctoral colloquium.<br />
Those who want to view the seminars remotely must register<br />
beforehand, and there is an archive <strong>of</strong> online seminars which<br />
can be viewed after an event.<br />
For more information, and a list <strong>of</strong> forthcoming seminars,<br />
see www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/seminars.asp<br />
The next seminars are:<br />
Monday 15 May, Dr Nicos Nicolaou, Tanaka Business <strong>School</strong>,<br />
Imperial College, LR11<br />
Monday 22 May, Anton Fishman, <strong>Director</strong>, Corporate Insights<br />
Ltd, LR11<br />
Our exposure to market forces ensures that consultancy led<br />
research always outstrips business school led research in its<br />
value to clients<br />
Monday 5 June, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Richard Boyatzis, Case Western<br />
Reserve University , LR16 (CMDC). Starts at the earlier time <strong>of</strong><br />
12.30<br />
Resonant leadership: Inspiring us and developing others to be<br />
our best<br />
Tuesday 6 June, Dr Jill Kent, <strong>Cranfield</strong> University, LR11<br />
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships<br />
Friday 14 July, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Brian Murphy, Massey University,<br />
New Zealand, LR6