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Professor Ruth ALAS, Estonian Business School, Estonia

Professor Vincent EDWARDS, formerly Buckinghamshire New University, UK
and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana

Professor Christopher J. REES, University of Manchester, UK
and Beijing University of Technology

Faculty of Administration and Business,
University of Bucharest,
185 Calea Vacaresti, Sector 4,
Bucharest,
Romania

http://www.faa.ro 

Tel: 0040 0213314930

Professor Christopher J. REES, University of Manchester and Beijing University of Technology

presents "Power, Politics and People: Deconstructing Organisational Change and Development Theory and Practice"

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The conference seeks to bring together international scholars and practitioners with a view to exploring perspectives and insights into the theory and practice of organizational change and development (OCD). OCD is emerging as a major focus of attention among management theorists and practitioners throughout the world. Global issues and trends such as privatization, public sector reform, mergers and acquisitions, the influence of MNCs, population migration, poverty, and advances in ICT, present major challenges to those charged with equipping people and organizations to adapt and flourish in these turbulent times. This multi-dimensional complexity of OCD is highlighted by the reports of relatively high failure rates associated with organizational change interventions.

It is notable that in recent years the scope of organizational change literature has rapidly expanded, reflecting the clear existent need to push back the parameters of knowledge and understanding surrounding OCD theory and practice. Yet these advances in the body of knowledge on OCD have also unearthed numerous contradictions surrounding issues such as: the aims of OCD; power and the ownership of change interventions; the ethics of organizational change; value clashes across national cultures; the transfer of OCD theories and practices across national boundaries; the role of internal and external change management consultants; and the evaluation of OCD interventions from multi-stakeholder perspectives. The conference will explore advances, challenges and contradictions in the field of OCD from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The conference is open to contributors from diverse geographical, sectoral, and disciplinary backgrounds with the aim of sharing and obtaining fresh insights into a wide range of OCD issues. We invite contributions from both academics and practitioners. As a guide only, we anticipate that papers are likely to focus on some of the following topics:

• the impact of globalization on organizational change theory and practice
• challenges facing OCD theory and practice in developed countries
• organizational change practice in developing/transitional countries
• national culture and organizational change
• the State and organizational change
• international organizations (including MNCs) as organizational change agents
• organizational change and not-for-profit organizations
• organizational change and public sector reform
• the diffusion of organizational change theory and practice
• the role and activities of HRM/D functions in organizational change interventions
• learning and organizational change
• organizational change failures
• ICT and organizational change
• developments in the theory and/or practice of Organization Development (OD)
• consultants as agents of organizational change
• values and organizational change
• resistance to organizational change
  

We will publish a special edition of the Baltic Journal of Management devoted to the workshop topic "Organisational change and development" based on selected papers presented at our workshop.
This great opportunity should be a clear incentive to submit papers of outstanding quality.

For more information on the journal please see: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/bjm.htm

Therefore, we suggest that all authors, who wish their workshop submission to be considered for publication in special issue of the Baltic Journal of Management, closely follow the formatting guidelines provided on the Journal webpage http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=bjm or contact BJM@ism.lt.

 Baltic Journal of Management has been accepted into Thomson Reuters (ISI) ranking.

Abstract Submission is now closed

Author Notification: Wednesday, 9th of July 2008

Full Paper Deadline: Sunday, 31st of  August 2008

Registration Deadline: Monday, 8th of September 2008

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit abstracts electronically via the workshop website. Please ensure that your abstract specifies a) the main aim/s of the paper and b) the relevance of the paper to OCD theory and/or practice.

- The abstract must not exceed 250 words and must be inputted single-spaced with no double spacing between paragraphs.
- Submissions must be made in MS Word and Times New Roman 12pt.
- Author names must not appear anywhere on the abstract page.
- Do not include any institutional graphics or logos.
- Documents must be tidy and not show any history of track changes.
- Do not send documents in 'read only' format (as papers need to be anonymized for the review process).

The cover page should include the title of the proposal and each author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax and email.

**All Abstracts will be blind-reviewed**


FULL PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The full paper should be approximately 5000 words in length.
It should be written in English.
Please use font size 12 for the main text of the paper.
Please use 1.5 line spacing and set page margins (that is, top, bottom, left, right) to 2.54cm.

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135 Euro/night/double room
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The subway map of Bucharest can be found at www.pmb.ro/metrou.htm

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FEES

The fees include participation to the :

• workshop/conference/seminar
• tutorial documents
• lunches
• the workshop/conference/seminar dinner
• morning and afternoon refreshments

Cancellations made before September 17, 2008 will be reimbursed minus 20% of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after that date.

Payments should be made by :

• The following credit cards: Visa or Eurocard/Mastercard/Access

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