Letter of the President
Dear EURAM colleagues and friends,
I hope that the new year started well and that everything is fine with you and your families!
The 24th EURAM Annual Conference ‘Fostering innovation to address grand challenges’ – organised by the University of Bath – School of Management (25-28 June 2024) – attracted one of the highest number of submissions ever: 1993! The SIG and track chairs are coordinating the review process so to assure timely and developmental feedbacks. I invite every submitter to generously contribute to the review process as its success depends on reciprocity and mutual support. I thank SIG chairs, track chairs and all reviewers for what they did!
The Doctoral Colloquium (DC) attracted the largest number of applications ever: 125! After a careful process, the DC chairs selected 85 PhD students that will attend the EURAM Doctoral Colloquium held the 24-25th of June 2024. I thank the DC chairs and mentors and wish them a very successful DC!
I remind you that the EURAM conference will also host four interesting Labs – i.e., concerning ‘Collaborative Management Research to Address Grand Challenges’, ‘Managing in the Face of Regulatory and Environmental Challenges’, ‘AI and the Future of Work’, ‘The Role of Innovation Intermediaries and Grand Challenges’ –on the 25th of June. This is a nice opportunity to interact with expert colleagues around hot and interesting topics.
The conference program looks very rich and interesting. We will have two keynotes: i.e., Nicolai Foss, Professor of Strategy at Copenhagen Business School, and Leanne Allen, Data Science & AI capability Lead at KPMG UK. The program includes also a panel event titled ‘The Future of Management Research: Updating the Agenda’ with three speakers: Andrew Crane, Professor at the University of Bath School of Management and Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society ; Peter McKiernan, Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Dean of the EURAM College of Fellow; and Katy Mason (TBC), Professor of Markets, Marketing and Management at Lancaster University and President of the British Academy of Management.
Beyond the annual conference, EURAM is organizing several events that you may consider to attend.
- Joanna Szulc and Ryan Armstrong will organize the 15th edition of the EURAM Early Career Community (EECC), that will be held the 11-13th of March at the University of Barcelona.
- David Versailles will organize an event with practitioners at the Paris School of Business on “The new health challenges: patients’ experience, innovation targeted to patients, pluridisciplinarity,” the 26th of March.
- Panos Desyllas will organize a webinar with Bart Vanneste on “Using machine learning in management research” the 22nd of April at 15.00 CEST.
As you can see, our Society is actively involved in updating and creating new services to its members. I thank the Board and the Executive Committee, the SIG and the country representatives, the staff and all EURAM members that generously commit time and competences to make it happen.
I am looking forward to meeting you all at the 24th EURAM Annual Conference in Bath.
All the best,
Alessandro Zattoni
EURAM President
Speaker: Bart Vanneste, Associate Professor in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship group of the UCL School of Management
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