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4 FORUM May 2006 Euro launch promotes Cranfield Research The European Commission has launched its Year of Workers' Mobility with a conference in Brussels attracting more than 450 participants. Dr Michael Dickmann was one of only a handful of academics invited to present to the conference, where attendees included representatives from public authorities, businesses, European Commission partners and the media. Dr Dickmann presented at a workshop entitled 'Geographical mobility, a tool for competitiveness and job creation' drawing on results from the School's ongoing Geodesy research project with PricewaterhouseCoopers which is investigating Research Fellow Dr Arnoud Franken (right) is running a one-day workshop at the Management of Organisational Change in Aerospace conference. His workshop is day two of the Royal Aeronautical Society event in London on May 24 and 25. Arnoud is also giving a speech on day one of the conference entitled ‘Aerospace and Defence firms for the Future’. Professor Simon Knox (left) and Stan Maklan (a visiting fellow and former PhD student) have had their competitive paper accepted for the 35th Annual European Marketing Academy Conference in Athens this month. Their paper, ‘How Effectively do FTSE4GooD Companies engage with Stakeholders in developing their Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes?’ continues a series of studies linking CSR with corporate brand and reputation management. Simon has had a second competitive paper accepted at the same conference with Colin Gruar, the Head of Marketing at the British Heart foundation and a DBA student. Their paper, ‘Stakeholder Saliency in Not-for- Profit Organisations: Setting the Co-ordinates for Marketing Strategy Development’ focuses on the British Heart Foundation as the organisation shifts its strategy in the light of research successes which has lead to a reduction in the incidence of coronary heart disease. Simon also gave a keynote speech ‘Creating Shareholder Value through Successful Corporate Branding in the Service Sector’ at Building the Bank Brands Conference in London. It was attended by more than 60 middle and senior bank managers from the UK, Scandinavia and central Europe. Professor Kim Turnbull James (right) has had a paper entitled ‘Inside Out. Is insider trading the high crime that we have been led to believe?’ published in the Business Strategy Review, Spring 2006. It is co-authored with Nada Kakabadse and A.Kaspurz. She has also made the following presentations: • ‘Wise leadership; a framework for learning how emotions in organizations can unconsciously impact how you take up a leadership role’ at the Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies seminar series issues and trends affecting the international mobility market. The latest Geodesy research, 'Understanding and avoiding barriers to International Mobility', found major differences in 10 key areas between companies and their employees when it comes to overseas assignments. The EC's Year of Workers' Mobility aims to raise awareness across the EU about the rights, costs and opportunities available to citizens. A system of accessing job vacancies across the EU has also been launched giving European citizens access around 1 million job opportunities at any one time. • ‘Learning for sector change: the development of a knowledge sharing and learning network’ with Dr David Denyer at the Organisation Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities Conference conference at Warwick • Professor James also ran a PhD writing workshop at the Warwick conference, with Professor Bente Elkjaer who is Head of Doctoral School of Organisational Learning at the Danish University of Education and an editor-in-chief of Management Learning. Dr Ruth Bender has had her paper ‘Executive Pay: Onwards and Upwards?’ published by KPMG in its Remuneration Committee Journal. Professor Peter Allen was a keynote speaker at the 2nd International Non-liner Science Conference held in Heraklion, Crete. His talk was entitled ‘Complexity: the Challenge of a Co-Evolving Epistemology and Ontology’. Professor David Parker (right) has been appointed as an advisor to the new Competition Commission for India in association with the World Bank and the Department for International Development. He is also advising the Hungarian Government on regulation sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has been selected to sit on the Association of Business Schools panel which is revising the Quality Guidelines for business and management courses, including MBAs, on behalf of the Government’s Quality Assurance Agency. David has also had the following papers and book chapters published, or accepted for publication: • ‘The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis’ in World Development • ‘Strategic group theory: review, examination and application in the UK pharmaceutical industry’ (with Graham Leask) in The Journal of Management Development • ‘Private investment in infrastructure in Asia: the impact of regulation’ in The Singapore Economic Review • ‘Creating the conditions for international business expansion: the impact of regulation on economic growth in developing countries’ and ‘A comparative analysis of the performance of public and private water utilities in Africa’ in Regulating Development: Evidence from Africa and Latin America by Edward Elgar and edited by Edmund Amann of the University of Manchester Papers, Publications • and ‘UK competition policy and shareholder value: the impact of merger inquiries’ in the British Journal of Management and ‘Methods and Trends of Performance Benchmarking in UK Utility Regulation’ in the American journal Utilities Policy. Both of these papers are co-authored with doctoral student Malcolm Arnold. Professor David Buchanan has had the following refereed journal articles published: • ‘No going back: a review of the literature on sustaining organizational change’ in the International Journal of Management Reviews (with Diane Ketley, Rose Gollop, Jane Louise Jones, Sharon Saint Lamont, Annette Neath, and Elaine Whitby) • ‘Let’s be PALS: user-driven organizational change in healthcare’in the British Journal of Management (with Stephen Abbott, Jane Bentley, Anne Lanceley, and Julienne Meyer) • and ‘Feature films in management education: beyond illustration and entertainment’ in the Journal of Organizational Behaviour Education (with Andrzej Huczynski). Dr Chee Yew Wong, a new research fellow of the Demand Chain community, had his paper ‘Making JIT Retail a success: the Coordination journey’ published in the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. Patrick McLaughlin, who successfully passed his DBA viva in March, has had a paper accepted by the International Journal of Technology Management. ‘Developing an organizational culture to facilitate radical innovation’ is co-authored by Professor John Bessant and Dr Palie Smart. Lunchtime seminars online and open to all The School of Management is the first university in the UK to offer its lunchtime seminars online to the general public. Anyone can now log on and view the lectures remotely, as well as joining the debate by typing a question to be put to the presenter during the question and answer session at the end of each seminar. The development has been made possible by the Breeze software technology which is also used to broadcast the School's bi-monthly doctoral colloquium. Those who want to view the seminars remotely must register beforehand, and there is an archive of online seminars which can be viewed after an event. For more information, and a list of forthcoming seminars, see www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research/seminars.asp The next seminars are: Monday 15 May, Dr Nicos Nicolaou, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, LR11 Monday 22 May, Anton Fishman, Director, Corporate Insights Ltd, LR11 Our exposure to market forces ensures that consultancy led research always outstrips business school led research in its value to clients Monday 5 June, Professor Richard Boyatzis, Case Western Reserve University , LR16 (CMDC). Starts at the earlier time of 12.30 Resonant leadership: Inspiring us and developing others to be our best Tuesday 6 June, Dr Jill Kent, Cranfield University, LR11 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Friday 14 July, Professor Brian Murphy, Massey University, New Zealand, LR6
and research News FORUM May 2006 5 PhD student Andreas Birnik (left) presented a paper entitled ‘Practical Drift as a Response to Strategic Integration: An Exploratory Study of MNC Subsidiary Management’ as part of the Singapore Inter-Island Strategy Seminar Series. The paper was co-authored by Professor Cliff Bowman and Dr Véronique Ambrosini. The seminar series is a collaboration between the strategy faculties at the National University of Singapore, INSEAD’s Singapore campus, Singapore Management University and Nanyang Business School. Andreas will be presenting two papers at the Academy of International Business in Beijing in June: ‘Unbundling Strategic Integration in the Multinational Corporation’, with Cliff Bowman and ‘Causes and Consequences of Practical Drift in the Multinational Subsidiary’, with Cliff Bowman and Véronique Ambrosini. He has had three papers accepted for the Academy of Management in Atlanta in August: • ‘Challenges to Cross-Border Integration: An Exploratory Study of MNC Subsidiary Management’, with Cliff Bowman and Véronique Ambrosini • ‘Marketing Mix Standardisation in Multinational Corporations: A Review of the Evidence’, with Cliff Bowman • and ‘Conceptualising the Multinational Corporation: Where Are the Micro Models’, to be presented at a pre-conference paper development workshop. He has also had two papers accepted for the British Academy of Management: ‘The Causes, Consequences and Mediating Effect of Practical Drift in the Multinational Subsidary’ co-authored by Cliff Bowman and Véronique Ambrosini and ‘Towards a Micro Model of the Multinational Corporation’ co-authored by Cliff Bowman. Véronique Ambrosini, Cliff Bowman and Sarah Burton- Taylor have had their paper entitled ‘Inter-team coordination activities as a source of customer satisfaction’ accepted for publication in Human Relations, a 4* journal. DBA student Thoranna Jonsdottir and Dr Val Singh (right) have had their paper ‘Hurdles for women? Exploring the non-executive director recruitment process: An Icelandic case study’, accepted for the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference in Oslo this month. Val’s paper ‘Ethnic and international diversity in FTSE 100 boards’ has also been accepted for the EURAM Conference. • As part of the International Women’s Day celebrations Val gave a keynote presentation on ‘Women in SET as Change Agents: Adding Value to the Board’ at the Gender and Leadership Conference for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, held at the British Library in London. Val also took part in two panel sessions and a workshop presentation on ‘The challenges for women in SET careers’. • Val has had her paper ‘The representations of Gender and Ethnicity in diversity discourses on European company websites’ accepted by the Journal of Business Ethics, which is an FT-ranked journal. This is co-authored with Dr Sebastien Point. • Val and Professor Susan Vinnicombe have contributed their paper ‘Women on boards of directors: United Kingdom stakeholder collaboration strategies’, as part of a symposium on Women on Boards of Directors: Intervention Strategies and Global Action for Gender Equity at Board Level. This Showcase Symposium will be held at the US Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta in August. • Susan Vinnicombe led the symposium proposal ‘Women above the Glass Ceiling: Collusion, Voice and Exit’ including papers by Deirdre Anderson, Val Singh, Halla Tomasdottir, Dr Savita Kumra and colleagues from Case Western, which has also been accepted for the same conference. Dr Veronica Martinez (right) is organising a conference track called Performance Management at the EURAM Conference in Oslo this month. She has also had a paper accepted for the Academy of Management confrence at Atlanta in August. The paper is about the effects of performance reviews. Veronica has also secured a shared symposium accepted at the conference entitled ‘Multiple perspectives of performance measurement and management systems’. It is supported by the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division and the Operations Management (OM) division. The conference theme is Knowledge, Action and Public Concern. Dr Ashley Braganza and Executive Doctoral student John Holmes co-authored and presented a paper entitled ‘Achieving sustained Infusion in Enterprise Resource Planning systems projects’ at the UKAIS 2006 Doctorial Colloquium, held at the University of Gloucestershire. The doctoral track theme was titled ‘Where Theory Meets Practice’ and offered both practitioners and the academic community the opportunity to share the latest ideas in the application of Information Systems practice. Professor Joe Peppard is one of the founding members of the newly established Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce IT Forum, which recently held its inaugural meeting. He is one of a panel of IT experts who have joined forces to consider the future of IT in Milton Keynes and generate ideas for making Milton Keynes a major IT hub in the United Kingdom. More than 60 delegates from local companies and organisations attended the first forum and Professor Peppard, Director of the Information Systems Research Centre, highlighted the Centre's interest in engaging with local businesses. He announced that the Centre will be exploring areas of possible research into the information systems issues of the SME sector. Research Fellow Akin Soetan also attended the meeting. Speaking after the event panel chairman Fredi Nonyelu said: “It was inspiring to have so many people Research to study NHS Reforms Professor David Buchanan is part of a team of academics from four universities who are to study the way the NHS is organised, and is being reorganised, and how it makes and implements its decisions for health care. The three-year study will track the impact of the great variety of new governing arrangements which are now emerging in the NHS, including Foundation Trust Hospitals, New Independent Sector Treatment Centres, choice, challenge, competition and other market mechanisms in health services. This detailed study will assess how health service managers and staff react to and adapt these changes. It will also track the performance outcomes - including most centrally the outcomes for patients. The study, which is being led by Professor John Storey of the Open University Business School, will cover England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Professor Buchanan will be looking at management and organisational structures in acute, primary care and foundation trusts. The research is being funded by the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development Programme. The other researchers involved are from University College Hospitals, London, and the University of Bath. School is member of MK IT Forum with so much vision together in one room. We learnt an enormous amount about the IT sector in Milton Keynes and the message that was repeated again and again is that there is a lack of joined-up working. We heard that the city is to a great extent already a hotspot for innovation - but the news simply isn't getting out. As result people are working in isolation. There was overall agreement that to succeed business must take the lead. We must work together more and to do that we must communicate more effectively between ourselves, with other organisations and further afield.” Professor Peppard is pictured (second left) with panel members Dr Peter Scott of the Knowledge Media Institute, Brian White of MKTV, Gavin Wonnacott representing the Central Innovation Network, Barry Mowbray from BT Local Business, Nicholas Mann of Interdirec, Neil Westerby of Optima Business Solutions and Fredi Nonyelu of Briteyellow.
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