| Organizer: Cordula Barzantny; Groupe ESC Toulouse Business School;
Facilitator: Mary Yoko Brannen; U. of Victoria/ INSEAD;
Facilitator: Nicholas Athanassiou; Northeastern U.;
Facilitator: Allan Bird; Northeastern U.;
Facilitator: Nikos Passas, Northeastern U., School of Criminology and Criminal Justice;
Distinguished Speaker: Rick DeLauriers, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Boston Division; Distinguished Speaker: Frank Piantidosi, former CEO, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services Distinguished Speaker: Bill Bachman, Chief Operating Officer, Bingham McCutchen. One of the new competitive advantages of corporations with global reach lies in their ability to shape the minds and actions of their employees to ensure successful performance wherever they are. In a more and more interconnected world the formal aspects of organizations may be transcended by informal ones in order to settle instant problems and challenges in a prompt manner. This may be also induced by performance considerations because of the high velocity environment. Aiming at a fruitful dialogue of management practitioners with academics, this session offers a forum of strategic exchange of those worlds that are often not talking directly to each other. More dialogue of this kind is high on the Academy of Management agenda since they bring together managers and professors for critical and constructive reflection leading towards enhanced action. With a panel of scholars and executives, this symposium wants to find answers, for example, to the following questions: How do firms in a formal economy engage the informal sector? How do organization and management practices vary by setting? The learning experience and added value shall particularly stem from joint reflection and discussion on the possible future ways of collaboration of managers with the academic world. Furthermore, the session aims at stimulating scholars to cooperate more with the wide field of organizations. This session offers a forum to advance international management research and practice towards more collaborative efforts, interaction and innovation on the issues of international management, global competencies, the informal economy and more. This session involving several Executives, active in the greater Boston area, is held on the premises of Northeastern University.
Northeastern University, 70 Dodge Hall (case room), Dodge Hall is on 360 Huntington Avenue between the Boston YMCA and Northeastern's "Green" (walking West on Huntington Avenue away from hotels). Pre-registration is required for this workshop. To register online, please visit https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register online is August 1, 2012. | Search Terms: | Practitioner-Scholar interactions , international management , global competencies | |