Just a reminder to all Strategic Leadership & Governance scholars.
Deadline for proposals to be reviewed for the 2015 Strategic Management Society Conference is February 26, 2015.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REQUIREMENTS:
Proposals (5-7 pages, for paper and panel sessions).
Only original, unpublished work is sought.
Deadline for Submission of Proposals: February 26, 2015
To learn more about the SMS 35th Annual International Conference in Denver and the submission process, please go to:
denver.strategicmanagement.net
The Denver conference theme is: Strategy Expanding: Making Sense of Shifting Field and Firm Boundaries.
Strategic leadership and governance have experienced shifting boundaries since recognition as fields. Leadership is necessary for firms to recognize and act on broader responsibilities to society. Are there leadership or governance structures where this recognition is more likely? Or is it truly about individual leaders? What about leadership and governance is associated with a firm's choosing to invest (or pull back from investing) in broader societal issues? Further, leadership and governance has long investigated alternative organizational forms, but new forms are constantly emerging. For example, research on public-private partnerships is lagging current practice. Additionally, new forms of funding early-stage enterprises (angel funding, crowd funding) will inevitably lead to leadership and governance challenges. Finally, leadership and governance entities are critical to initiating organizational change. Alternately, when leaders or governance entities desire transformation, what facilitates or blocks change? What role does the unit of analysis play in change-industry/competitors, firm, board of directors, individual directors, or the CEO? All of these emerging questions challenge the boundaries of the strategic leadership and governance fields.
However, the Strategic Leadership & Governance IG also seeks high-quality submissions on all Strategic Leadership and Governance topics.
See you in Denver!
Vince
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Vincent L. Barker III (Vince)
Professor of Strategic Management
Carl A. Scupin Faculty Fellow
Director of Management Area
School of Business
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7585
ph. 785.864.7512 fax: 785.864.5328
e-mail:
vbarker@ku.edu
Who was Carl A. Scupin? Carl Scupin (1901-1972) was President of United
Utilities in Kansas, which would later transform into the Sprint Corporation.
His family's generous gift to the University of Kansas has funded leading-edge
business research and teaching for over a quarter of a century.
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