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Minutes Council meeting IFSAM, Berlin, Germany
(Held on 26 & 27 September 2006)
Attendents
Klaus Macharzina(VHB), Rolf Lundin (SAM), Joan van Aken (NOBEM), Ed Vosselman (NOBEM), Prof. Denise Rousseau (AOM), Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim (KOREA), Prof.Dr. Georgina Nevzorova (RABE), Prof. Dr. Sergey Stazhkov (RABE), Nic Terblanche (SAIMS), Maurine Fischer (SAIMS), Ronél Rensburg (SAIMS), Albert Mills (ASAC), Zhicheng Chen(CAMS), Yvon Pesqueux (FNEGE), Eric Simon (FNEGE), Keiji Natsume (JSBA), Prof. Shunji Kobayashi (JSBA),Chie Iguchi (JSBA), Peter Dowling (ANZAM), Sue Bruning (ASAC), Ursula Hansen (VHB), Georg Schreyögg (VHB), Pieter Terlouw (NOBEM), Wolfgang Weber (VHB), Miriam Iliohan (NOBEM-minutes)
By Wolfgang Weber
Wolfgang Weber opens the Council meeting by welcoming everyone to Berlin. He gives the floor immediately to Georg Schreyögg who gave a short presentation about VHB.
a. |
Welcome and introduction of VHB |
By Georg Schreyögg (See presentation in Appendix)
Welcome to Berlin!
Georg Schreyögg gives a short presentation about VHB including the history and structure. The mission of VHB is to foster research and teaching of business studies, reinforce the standing of business studies as an academic discipline and sharing knowledge. VHB is among the biggest scholarly associations in Germany. VHB’s figures are not prominent enough in public discourse and the traditional core field is accounting.
The president of IFSAM, Wolfgang Weber, especially welcomes RABE (Russian Association of Business Education), to this council meeting. RABE is represented today by Prof.Dr. Georgina Nevzorova and Prof. Dr. Sergey Stazhkov. Another special welcome is given to Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim from EWHA Woman’s University of Korea. Korea would like to join IFSAM and is going to apply at the beginning of next year. Wolfgang also takes a moment to announce another new member of IFSAM, IAM (Irish Academy of Management), who unfortunately is not present.
A short introduction of all present council members follows.
Alan Burlaud of FNEGE
3. |
Business arising from the minutes NOT elsewhere included in this agenda. |
Denise Rousseau: Would like to see the Mission statement added to the meeting documents.
Wolfgang states that the last update of the mission statement as it was decided in the last meeting in Bloemfontein, South Africa, will be added to these minutes. (See Appendix 3)
4. |
Introduction and confirmation of the agenda |
No new items are mentioned for the agenda, it is confirmed.
Wolfgang states that the order of the agenda will be changed as we are waiting on a few members to join us from the Chinese delegation and Ursula Hansen will be presenting with her colleague Dirk Moosmeyer on the second day of the council meeting.
5. |
Report on (the last minute) of the Berlin conference |
By Georg Schreyögg (See presentation in Appendix)
Georg gives an update on the structure of the program, that 233 papers have been accepted of the 320 submissions. The number of registered participants at this moment is 424. The distribution of participants per country is found very interesting with the Top 5: Germany 168, China 37, Japan 34, Spain 19 and Switzerland 17.
a. |
Rolf Lundin: Notes that he would like to see more PhD students at the conference, but would at the same time like to congratulate the organization with the great results. |
b. |
DeniseRousseau: Offers the idea that to have a great reduction rate for the PhD students, maybe this may help in the next conference. |
c. |
Peter Dowling: Agrees with Denise. If we pay more attention to the PhD students during the conference and make funds available, it could increase the number of PhD participants. This may be a long term project. |
d. |
Zhicheng Chen: In the past and again for this conference there is a big problem with getting visas. The biggest problem is the number of days mentioned on the invitation from the conference organization is too short. It takes a lot of time and money to come to these conferences, invitations should be sent far in advance with a program of a minimum of 10 days. Prof. Su also has had a lot of problems. Visa problems may have reduced the number of Chinese participants this year. |
e. |
Joan van Aken: This is not the first time that this is a problem. The organization needs to learn that in an early phase you need to contact the embassy. |
f. |
Peter Dowling: The program including sightseeing needs to be done by the organization and not the secretariat in the Netherlands, because this also creates confusion. |
g. |
Nic Terblanche: In South Africa it is also very difficult process, they ask everything from your business to finances to your personal life. |
h. |
Ronél Rensburg: The letters need to be written to the individual and need also to be sent earlier than in the past! |
6. |
Confirmation of the minutes of the IFSAM 2005 council meeting in Bloemfontein, South Africa, September 24-25, 2005 |
Keiji Natsume: On page 8 the last sentence under the title “Limited participation” should read: “The council decides that as the invitation is worldwide, the conference will be open for anyone in the world, without restriction.”
By Wolfgang Weber
Wolfgang Weber gives an overview of the activities of IFSAM in the past year:
a. |
New or potential new members of IFSAM |
In the past IFSAM council meetings possible new members were discussed, below an overview is given of the progress that has been made with those associations:
RABE One success is that the Russian Association of Business Education is now a member of IFSAM and are present at this council meeting, this was the work of Rolf Lundin.
IAM Another new member is the Irish Academy of Management, as stated early unfortunately they are not represented at this council meeting.
AABS Wolfgang has been concentrating on east Africa, more specifically the Association of African Business Schools (AABS), they are schools south of the Sahara. We would like them to become a member and Wolfgang is working hard to achieve this. The contact person is a colleague of Ronél Rensburg, Wolfgang will speak to Ronél during the break. We would like to see more African members.
KOM The development with KOM (Korea), Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim is present so this is a good sign.
Seong-Kook Kim: KOM has a strong bond with Academy of Mangement, each year 100’s of professors attend different AOM meetings. It is very important that Korean Professors join the IFSAM conference. Korea is just 2 hours flying from Osaka, so Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim will encourage his colleagues to join us there.
Wolfgang states that on January 2nd, when Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim is president of KOM, they can apply to IFSAM and we will have a vote.
The Council members are given the opportunity to give feedback, suggestions and information for new members. A short overview is given below.
AIMS Joan van Aken: Advises the executive to try to travel to the Association of Indian Management Schools to get better contacts.
GEORGIA Albert Mills: Georgian Academy of Management will be founded. Albert can support us in getting contacts their.
MALAYSIA Klaus Macharzina: Malaysia, Prof. Hazman will be at the conference, Klaus will help Wolfgang get in touch with them.
SLOVENIA Ronél Rensburg: Has two contacts available in Slovenia.
EURAM Yvon Pesqueux: Reopens the discussion that we invite EURAM into IFSAM. EURAM 2007 is in Paris this will be an opportunity to get into contact.
Wolfgang Weber takes a motion to pass, everyone agrees that we invite EURAM to join IFSAM. Yvon Pesqueux will take action and try to get EURAM to join IFSAM. EFMD is not an academy of Management, so not this association.
AIDEA Wolfgang states it is a pity that the Italians do not attend the Council meetings?
Ursula Hansen: suggest that we should visit the president.
b. |
Mission Statement concluded in Bloemfontein, South Africa (see appendix) |
The executive is looking into the different possibilities in Germany, The Netherlands and Canada.
d. |
The Budget of IFSAM in the next years |
Report will follow in agenda point 13.
The report has been given by Georg Schreyögg in agenda point 5.
Elections will take place in agenda point 14.
g. |
Communication & The website |
The website is not satisfactory. The motion is passed that the website will now be moved to the secretariat of IFSAM in the beginning of the New Year.
Report will follow in agenda point 12.
i. |
Conference 2008 & 2010 |
Report will follow in agenda point 10.
By Pieter Terlouw
The IFSAM secretariat is having problems with keeping up to date with all member organizations. Communication with some member associations is difficult. A form is passed-out to ensure that the IFSAM secretariat has the correct contact information. We urge members to use the secretariat of IFSAM more for information and postings of their conferences. Pieter also notices that invitations for conferences need to be sent further in advance and need to have a detailed program for 10 days mentioned so members have the opportunity to go sightseeing.
Rolf Lundin: Maybe we need to remind the associations what IFSAM stands for so they keep interested
By Eric Simon (see appendix)
As you can see since 2003 our cash is decreasing every year. The amount of money going out exceeds the incoming members’ fees. With the situation as it is now, in 8 years we will not have any reserves left.
The possible solutions are to decrease expenses in travel, meetings, secretariat and bank charges and to increase the membership fees.
Eric goes on to show three different scenarios that he has constructed.
a. |
Secretary € 6000, meetings 50% cut off, travel expenses + 4% per year and other expenses +2% per year |
b. |
Secretary € 0, meetings 50% cut off, travel expenses + 4% per year and other expenses +2% per year |
c. |
Secretary no change, meetings 50% cut off, travel expenses + 4% per year and other expenses +2% per year |
i. |
Denise Rousseau: Can we look at a variable rate for the size of the organizations? Have we ever changed the rate? |
ii. |
Joan van Aken: We have had the same rate for years. |
Wolfgang Weber states that we continue this discussion at point 13.
10. |
Location of the IFSAM conference in 2010 |
By Peter Dowling (see presentation in appendix)
The intentional decision is made to have the tenth IFSAM conference in 2010 in New Zealand. We will make the final decision in 2007 in Osaka, Japan. ANZAM is very flexible about the date. ANZAM would like to look at the agenda’s from the rest of the Council, the time of year and other conferences. Peter asks for comments on that.
Peter has been asked about themes, but is not convinced that they are useful, points of view where we put emphasis on is something they are looking into. The mission of IFSAM will help form the conference.
The Council members are given the opportunity to give feedback, suggestions and comments for ANZAM and the 2010 conference. A short overview is given below.
a. |
Sue Bruning: It may be a possibility to hold it during the conference of ANZAM, this has given ASAC a great number of extra members by doing this together. |
b. |
Albert Mills: If you not hold it together with ANZAM, what is the possibility that ANZAM people will join the same conference theme twice? |
c. |
Peter Dowling: We have several conferences running. |
d. |
Klaus Macharzina: We went to ANZAM in July 2002, witch was not connected to ANZAM. We had a fairly poor turn up of national members. |
e. |
Peter Dowling: I would like to hold this together, but it also depends on the preference of the participants. |
f. |
Sue Bruning: We have had a discussion about this before and the conclusion was that you should hold the conference when it is best for your association and we shall adjust. There are too many opinions about the date. |
g. |
Rolf Lundin: New Zealand is for most people is a once in a life time experience, make it somewhere where people want to go. It should be up to you! |
h. |
Joan van Aken: December may be nice and people can take a longer holiday and for teaching is between the holidays an interesting time. |
i. |
Sue Bruning: It is very informative to have presentations about countries we do not know much about, about countries that need a guiding hand. |
j. |
Ronél Rensburg: Having a comparison of the different countries is also interesting. |
Peter Dowling takes a moment to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions.
11. |
The self elected jail of A- and B- publications |
Joan van Aken introduced the topic,Rolf Lundin led the discussion. (See presentation in appendix)
There is a strong tendency in the world that management scholars must more and more focus on producing scientific papers (preferably of the highest level: A and B journals), which tends to strongly neglect our task for business and community in order to produce research that can and will be applied in practice and therefore also produce papers for practice. This can be called the self elected jail of the business schools. The Challenge is: how to “Scientize” the field without losing the solution-orientation?
Rolf Lundin: Thank you Joan van Aken. It should have 3 things. Research, teaching and service to society. As a dean in Sweden we need to spend more time on service to society to receive funding for the research where we now have less time for.
Do we see any similarities or differences at your Universities?
a. |
Sue Bruning: We practice more diversity than what I see presented here. All of the topics we are researching have relevance in business. A few examples are: Workplace aggression, reviews of literature to find relationships and health and safety practices in adoption. Still everyone is publishing in top journals, so I think that it can go hand in hand. I think this presentation may be too restrictive, although I do see the problem arising. |
b. |
Albert Mills: I have mixed reactions. Who are we serving and why? I want to encourage practice. |
c. |
 Joan van Aken: We need interesting solutions. We need put more resources on evidence based solutions
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d. |
Yvon Pesqueux: Institutional vision of the Organization, we need to have a frame work which INFRA and SUPRA ways of organizing research. Companies are often not as efficient as they seem. At different views you have different solutions. |
e. |
Joan van Aken: You need to choose your position in your research! |
f. |
Klaus Macharzina: We are glad that we, as members, are supporting the PhD students to help them get into A and B journals. We now look not only at German journals, but also American journals. In the past we did not use these active means to really get into these journals. Looking at Sue Bruning, we do not have this; we have people that remind us that you must have a stake in our service to society. |
g. |
Rolf Lundin: Should all academics have the same roles? |
h. |
Seong-Kook Kim: The difference between researcher and practitioner should be recognizing that they have different journals, and publish in these journals. |
i. |
Denise Rousseau: Design is a collaboration process a communication between the three different communities. Evidence based management. |
j. |
Ronél Rensburg : In South-Africa you need to be all three in one. They do not let you out until you come up with a solution. You need to solve the problems of the world. The focus areas in Africa are Ethics, Crime, Corruption, and AIDS. Our community is more involved than many others. We are sent out to do community Service. |
k. |
Ed Vosselman: I am in the area of Management Accounting. This is now career driven and all top journals are American. I feel that the other fields get less chance because you get less points when you publish in other journals. In the Netherlands we are almost driven away from other types of research. |
l. |
Ronél Rensburg: Our environment puts pressure on the University for research. |
m. |
Rolf lundin : In Sweden we have a central planning system. |
n. |
Ed Vosselman: In the Netherlands we have almost the same: a SMART system. |
o. |
Shunji Kobayashi: In Japan we have over 200 management programs. The government makes academic work closer to reality. |
p. |
Georgina Nevzorova: .The Soviet Union was one company and we were not asked to think. Since we are no longer one company we are looking at other companies for solutions to keep the many businesses running. Balance between theory and practice needs to be a cycle. Practitioners need to have academic knowledge. |
Rolf Lundin takes a moment to thank everyone for their comments and input.
12. |
Location and the date of the IFSAM council meeting in 2007 |
By Keiji Natsume
Motion is passed that we hold the IFSAM Council meeting in Osaka Japan September 4-5, 2007. This will be adjacent to the annual conference of JSBA which is held 6-8 September, 2007. The organizing academy will offer a reception for the IFSAM council members together with the local organizers of the local conference and/or with the board of the local academy. The first day of the conference there will be an English stream and a track in English where we can submit English papers.
Several Council members will be approached to provide a contribution to the first day of the local conference.
13. |
The budget of IFSAM in the next years |
Eric Simon to report and Sue Bruning as the president-Elect led the discussion (see appendix)
The surplus in 2003 is due to Montreal and the $2.000 membership fee in the past.
Problem if we continue this way we will go bankrupt in due time.
i. |
Yvon Pesqueux: We have not changed the fees in years, why not change the fee to $1500 or $2000. |
ii. |
Wolfgang Weber: $2000 is too much, but the question is what the fee could be? |
iii. |
Joan van Aken: Maybe we can look at the strength of the associations and how many members they have. IFSAM already has an added value by having all these people sitting around the table and sharing ideas. |
iv. |
Peter Dowling: If we have a standard and large membership. Having a pricing structure would be a good possibility. |
v. |
Ursula Hansen: We need to keep looking at the benefits of IFSAM. We need to do a little research as to what do people expect from IFSAM? What are the services of IFSAM? How can we show people what we do and what are the benefits for the member associations? |
vi. |
Denise Rousseau : For each member associations there are different things that are valuable. What is a value of IFSAM and that can be capitalitize upon. There is more value to IFSAM than just a meeting. What are the values for possible sponsors? |
vii. |
Ronél Rensburg: SAIMS had a meeting and the question was asked what is the added value? We invited all publishers to sponsor events. With this money we also sponsor our PhD’s. |
viii. |
Albert Mills: I would like to see the different fees for the different member associations, so that associations as Georgia can also have an opportunity to join. Sponsorship for the conference is also a possibility. |
ix. |
Peter Dowling: An added value of IFSAM can be to assist certain companies with problems that they have that we ask sponsoring for this. |
Wolfgang Weber gives the conclusion that the executive needs to make a proposal about the fees and having special fees for starting associations, cost reduction and sponsoring
x. |
Sue Bruning: I would like to see concrete decisions made during this council meeting. I would like a small working group that comes up with a suggestion for tomorrow. I would also like to see what the council thinks about having the member association pay for ½ of the costs for executives instead of having the IFSAM pay for all the costs. |
Wolfgang Weber states that we will come back to this tomorrow after the working group (president, president-elect, past president, treasure and secretary) have established a recommendation.
Peter Dowling ,as President-Elect.
Pieter Terlouw, as Secretary.
Eric Simon, as Treasure.
All members and their partners are invited for the IFSAM Council dinner following a cocktail in the bar.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 2nd day of the IFSAM Council meeting:
Attendants
Juan J. Duran Herrera (ACEDE) Klaus Macharzina(VHB), Rolf Lundin (SAM), Joan van Aken (NOBEM), Ed Vosselman (NOBEM), Prof. Dr. Seong-Kook Kim, Peter Dowling (ANZAM), Nic Terblanche (SAIMS), Maurine Fischer (SAIMS), Ronél Rensburg (SAIMS), Albert Mills (ASAC), Zhicheng Chen (CAMS), Prof. Dongshui Su (CNEMA), Prof. Yang Zhang (CNEMA), Prof. Zheng Haihang (CAMS), Yvon Pesqueux (FNEGE), Eric Simon (FNEGE), Keiji Natsume (JSBA), Prof. Shunji Kobayashi (JSBA),Chie Iguchi (JSBA),Sue Bruning (ASAC), Ursula Hansen (VHB), Dirk Moosmeyer(VHB), Pieter Terlouw (NOBEM), Wolfgang Weber (VHB), Miriam Iliohan (NOBEM-minutes), later arrived Prof. Denise Rousseau (AOM).
Welcome
By Wolfgang Weber
We start the day off with a special welcome to Juan J. Duran Herrera, our member from the Spanish association ACEDE. Juan J. Duran Herrera takes a few moments to introduce himself and ACEDE.
Wolfgang Weber now asks the Chinese delegation to come forward with their presentation of the 2008 conference to be held in Shanghai, China.
15. |
Report on the progress towards the 9th world congress in 2008 to be held in Shanghai |
By Prof. Yang Zhang, Prof. Dongshui Su, Prof. Zhicheng Chen and Prof. Zheng Haihang (see presentation appendix)
The handout concerning the IFSAM 9th World Congress is passed to all of the Council members. Here we find information about the progress report, call for papers, proposal for scientific committee, conference website construction, the plan of conference preparation, organization of conference preparation, conference venue, conference hotels, and tours.
a. |
The Congress is planned to be held from July 26-28 in the International Convention Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China. With a local sponsor Fudan University and hosted by Oriental Mangement Research Center of Fudan University with assistance of Business School of Hohai University and Shanghai Donghua International Talent Institute. |
b. |
The theme of the congress is “The Fusion and Development of East and West Management” |
c. |
The Conference will provide three levels of academic activities: |
i. |
The Theme Forum – distinguished scholars and entrepreneurs will give lectures. |
ii. |
Core Academic Symposium – scholars and guest speakers present papers and exchange ideas. |
iii. |
Special Academic Symposium – A PhD student symposium, a MBA student symposium and an enterprise symposium. |
d. |
English is the primary language for the congress. Papers and discussions will be in English and most of the key-note speeches will be in English with a few exceptions. However, English translation will be provided for the non-English presentations. In addition the congress will have some non-English symposiums. |
e. |
Prof. Su Dongshui is recommended to be the conference Chairman, Prof. Sun Qianzhang the Co-Chairman and Prof. Zhang Yang the Secretary. |
The Council members are given the opportunity to give feedback, suggestions and comments for the 9th World Congress. A short overview is given below.
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Sue Bruning, chair of the scientific committee, will also be in China in December to join a committee meeting. |
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Prof. Chen would like to see younger people from Beijing and Shanghai join in the organization. |
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We need to have tracks and the general theme closer to the theme of the conference and IFSAM. |
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We would highly recommend asking for full papers and using international colleagues in the review process. |
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We would also like to recommend that Sue Bruning and Peter Dowling, instead of Wolfgang Weber, join the scientific committee. |
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We will ask the program chair to organize the symposium. |
16. |
The budget of IFSAM recommendations |
By Wolfgang Weber and Sue Bruning (see presentation in appendix)
Revenue:
a. |
Membership fee $1250, with the possibility to negotiate a reduction, or on a voluntary basis more to have the possibility to reduce fees for associations form emerging economics. |
b. |
The organizer of the IFSAM conference will share the surplus with IFSAM: 1/3 instead of 20% goes to IFSAM |
c. |
New member development |
d. |
Travel cost split for executive members (½ for IFSAM and ½ for member association) |
e. |
Meeting cost reduction |
f. |
We try to get sponsorship (companies, universities, government funding); a group (Sue, Peter and a Japanese member) will work on it |
Cost reduction:
a. |
Executive members are encouraged to reduce their travel expenses. |
i. |
Klaus Macharzina: I would like to see an example of the standard and large contribution or a voluntary extra fee. |
ii. |
Albert Mills: I would like to see the continuity in voluntary paying role. |
iii. |
Yang Zhang: I would like to see a standard fee given to IFSAM, instead of a percentage of the surplus. |
iv. |
Nic Terblanche: It is the standard practice for using the IFSAM name for the conference. |
v. |
Sue Bruning: IFSAM only receives a percentage of the surplus if there is a surplus. |
vi. |
Keiji Natsume: I would like to see the sponsorship group to change every year. |
CONCLUSION: The recommendations are accepted, New Zealand will pay 33% of the surplus of the conference in 2010 and the decision about the sharing surpluses of the conference in 2008 in Shanghai is still open for discussion.
Peter Dowling: I would also like to take the time to thank the VHB for not only waving the conference fees for the executive, but also for the track chairs… this is wonderful.
17. |
The current IFSAM project and a new IFSAM project? |
By Ursula Hansen reported and Peter Dowling started the discussion on future projects. (see presentation in appendix)
First of all Ursula states her appreciation for all your feed-back she received in Bloemfontien, South Africa it was very useful. They used a lot the ideas that they received from you.
The feedback from the participants of the survey was very scattered, from excellent keep up the good work, to we think it is terrible and also a few that mentioned they would not participate.
Relevance problem
The testing of the theoretical model has been done, but not been worked out. This presentation shows first results.
The budget largely depends on the labor costs, at this moment it is 70,000 euros, which was not enough. The results will be presented at the conference. IFSAM could build up global teams that can start a research project and look for funds. This is our chance to build up a systematical way to conduct management research.
a. |
Joan van Aken: The research of cultural differences is already being done by many groups. Maybe IFSAM can be as a broker to get the associations working together with us. |
b. |
Sue Bruning: The international funding groups would like to see more field work instead of just research. One of the rolls IFSAM could play as putting these young researchers together. Another method may be to look at agency funding, and what they are interested in and see if we are interested in these points. |
c. |
Wolfgang Weber: What could be the specific nature of IFSAM? Let’s bring the world together at IFSAM. |
d. |
Ursula Hansen: I would like to see research on Culture free and culture bound science. |
e. |
Ronél Rensburg : We have research going on various functions of management around the world. |
f. |
Peter Dowling: I was wondering if Japan can organize a meeting with the agencies that can give us some comments or advice about our research and explain to us what they do. |
g. |
Keiji Natsume: This is possible. |
By Pieter Terlouw (see presentation in appendix)
The questions that arise are:
a. |
The continuation of the yearbook |
b. |
How to market such a yearbook. |
c. |
How to pay for the yearbook |
i. |
Yvon Pesqueux: Add in the yearbook in the yearly contribution. We can ask a publisher to edit this book as sponsoring. |
ii. |
Ronél Rensburg: Online publication could save a lot of costs. |
iii. |
Klaus Macharzina: Another possible avenue would be is to ask companies in the represented counties to contribute to the publication. |
iv. |
Peter Dowling: We have interest in the diverse member organizations. If each member associations turn in 20 pages written by the Association about management research and issues in their associations to be circulated among the member associations this may be a better idea. |
v. |
General discussion took place which raised questions about whether there is currently a “champion” to take the publication concept forward. No one expressed the interest at this time. |
CONCULSION: We are not going to actively work on the yearbook at this time.
19. |
Recent developments in member associations (will be mailed separately to individuals for adjustments) |
VHB
By Klaus Macharzina
We are concentrating on 4 major points in our association:
a. |
Implementation of the 2 stage system of higher education because of the deadline made. |
b. |
Structures in the PhD programs |
c. |
Encouraging young academics to publish in the A and B journals and in American journals. |
d. |
Due to alteration of educational legislation at the federal level, introduction of the junior professors. This is not yet widely accepted in Germany. |
ACEDE
By Juan J. Duran Herrera
At this moment we are near 800 members, yearly we organize an annual conference with high standards
SAM
By Rolf Lundin (see presentation in appendix12
a. |
The name has been changed to Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) |
b. |
The association is reorganized in terms of a board and a secretariat. The secretariat has been moved from Denmark to Finland. |
c. |
The first winter conference was successfully held in Umeå Sweden in 2006, with 63 participants from 12 countries. The conference had as a goal to gather researchers and PhD students from NFF’s member institutions to a workshop every other year. |
NOBEM
By Ed Vosselman
To the information given in the meeting documents on page 39, I would like to add the following:
a. |
The member associations of NOBEM at this moment are 11 of the 15 Universities in the Netherlands. |
b. |
Every year we have a dissertation of the year prize, voted by a committee. |
c. |
Annually we also organize a methodology day with as goal that young and old methodology educators can exchange ideas. |
d. |
PREBEM (Phd Researchers in Business Economics & Management) is a conference we help organize with a team of PhD students for international PhD students. |
SAIMS
By Nic Terblanche
b. |
Workshop on equation modeling |
c. |
Make a census of where we are in the academic world and where we are short. |
ASAC
By Albert Mills
a. |
Since the IFSAM conference we have added about 200 members to ASAC. |
b. |
Our annual conference is in English and in French, with our 50th anniversary to be celebrated in 2007. The conference will be in Ottowa. See www.asac.ca for more information. |
c. |
Four Publishers are being considered as publishers of our journal. |
d. |
A plaque goes to the dean with the most accepted papers. |
CNEMA
By Yang Zang
a. |
This year will be the 10th annual meeting and will be hosted by Fudan University. December 9-10, everyone is invited to join. |
CAMS
By Chen Zhicheng
b. |
Annual conference in Beijing, how to improve management practice. |
FNEGE
By Yvon Pesqueux
a. |
Think about the application of management education to societal issues. |
b. |
Trying to unite with the other academy of management Science. |
JSBA
By Keiji Natsume
See page 35 of the meeting documents
ANZAM
By Peter Dowling
a. |
Membership has been going up. |
b. |
We are good at getting Management schools involved. |
c. |
Having a network lunch is working well for our association. |
d. |
Sold our journal to a publisher, now we have Journal of Management Organization. |
e. |
New Zealand will observer at the EU. |
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