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EURAM 2013

 June 26-29, 2013 Istanbul

European Academy of Management 2013 Call for Track Proposals 

Deadline - 19 June 2012

We are kindly inviting you to propose tracks, symposia and development working groups (DWGs) for the 13th EURAM Annual Conference "Democratising Management". The conference will take place in Istanbul between 26-29 June 2013.

Each proposal will be evaluated by the EURAM 2013 Conference Scientific Committee and the EURAM Special Interest Group (SIG) chairs. Decisions will be based on the overall merit of the proposal, the diversity of the track team and the fit with the conference theme.

Your responsibilities as a track chair will be to

·  Propose a track theme likely to attract enough participation

·  Promote the track to ensure that there is an adequate number of submissions

·  Organise a peer review cycle for the papers submitted to your track

·  In agreement with the scientific committee and SIG chairs, select the papers to be included in the conference program and send the acceptance letters to authors

·  Nominate papers for the best paper award

·  Nominate reviewers for the best reviewer award

·  Allocate chairs, discussants and authors to sessions in a way to create an attractive track program

Track proposals are to be submitted to euram2013@gsu.edu.tr quoting Track Proposal, Symposia Proposal or DWG Proposal in the subject line. Each proposal needs to provide the following information:

1. The title

2. The Special Interest Group to which the proposal is submitted, or indicate GENERAL TRACK if the proposal is not connected to any of the existing SIGs.

3. The names, institutions, email addresses, phone numbers and research fields of the organisers

4. A short description of the proposed track/symposium/DWG (maximum 1000 words), and four key words that capture its essence

5. A short bibliography about the proposed topic

6. An indication of the number of sessions and papers (for track proposals), presentations (for symposia proposals) you would hope to attract/involve. For DWGs, please list the names of the speakers and their affiliations. Please refer back to the history of the track if already proposed in previous EURAM conferences

7. A short biography for each co-organiser

8. The name of the corresponding organiser. This is the person who will be responsible for the final acceptance of the papers in your track, the coordination of co-organisers, and for communication with the organising committee as well as with colleagues at EURAM involved in organising the Conference

9. A short description of your previous experiences of organising EURAM tracks/symposia/DWGs

10. If you propose a track indicate a list of 40 people who have committed to act as reviewers for the track, specifying their names, institutions and email addresses

11. Indicate the name of five engaged scholars who can attend the conference in the role of discussants. Specify their names, institutions and email addresses

Important deadlines

We are looking very much forward to meeting you in Istanbul!

Best wishes,

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee 

Sibel Yamak

Galatasaray University 

Conference Chair, EURAM 2013

Democratising Management

Demands for democracy in different parts of the world have recently drawn global attention.  Business as one of the major power centres in modern society may not stay out of the scope of the social demands for democracy. Thus, the new outlook of the world may encourage us to reflect about the notion of democracy in the context of business organisations, and the ways in which it could be introduced or enhanced.  Current debates in management point to the need for reassessment of existing structures, processes, inter and intra organisational relations and management practices for a fair treatment of different stakeholders' interests. As a governance system that focuses on the supreme goal to include diverse opinions and views into the functioning of society, democracy may represent a novel (maybe even revolutionary) way to think about, govern and act in the management of business activities as well.

Scholarly work that draws links between different aspects of business life and democracy is relatively limited in mainstream management research.  There is work on the democratic workplace, but this is only a limited, although valuable, way to apply the notion. A full stakeholder-based view of the firm, for example, based on the notion of an implicit social contract between business and society, is a broader way in which some of the tenets of democracy have been discussed.  And then work on novel corporate governance models, public-private partnerships, responsible management education, the management of diversity, social entrepreneurship and innovation is all related to some key aspects of an ongoing process of democratisation of business life. Multidisciplinary perspectives, encompassing a wide array of knowledge domains, research methods and ideologies may enlighten business communities on a global scale about the logic and the ways of democratising management. There is a need to identify historical factors as well as existing values and implicitly legitimised relationships in the business world that may explain the status quo across firms, sectors and institutional as well as cultural contexts.  There is also the need to identify the factors that might contribute to or limit the processes of democratisation of management across all the diverse dimensions and forms of interest. Ultimately, we need to understand the conditions under which increasing levels of democracy in business firms may contribute to the advancement of society towards sustainable models of socio-economic development.

EURAM 2013 aims to offer a platform to discuss the opportunities, the challenges and the processes related to democratising management across the wide range of topics related to this notion. Advancing along this highly inspirational, and yet particularly complex agenda requires us as management scholars to exit our comfort zone, bridge the gaps with other social sciences interested in similar or related phenomena and, most importantly, engage in meaningful and powerful ways the key stakeholders in our scholarship and educational mission: the businesses, the institutions and civil society.

We believe Istanbul with its unique position that bridges Europe and Asia and with its multicultural history is the ideal place to stimulate different ideas for exploring different ways of democratising management.  Istanbul, as one of the oldest cities in the world has been the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and has hosted many other civilizations, all of which contributed to its culture of diversity, tolerance and harmony. Nowadays, it is transforming into a fast growing world city. The congress will be held at the brand new Istanbul Congress Centre, located in the heart of the modern city.

We are eager to welcome you in Istanbul for a set of fascinating discussions on the frontiers of management thinking!