Letter of the President
Dear EURAM members, friends and colleagues,
I have great memories of the EURAM 2023 Doctoral Colloquium and Conference organized by the Trinity Business School. It was a great conference both for the record number of attendees, and for the high interactions and engagement during the sessi17ons. While we are still collecting and analyzing your feedback to fine tune the organization of the next annual conference, I take the opportunity to warmly thank the Trinity Business School team, the SIG Teams, the VPs and staff, the guest speakers and panelists, the sessions chairs and discussants, the reviewers and submitters, and – last but not least – our partner DEKON.
The next conference will be hosted by the University of Bath. As usual, this will be the great annual event for all current and new EURAM members. Our SIGs and tracks chairs are already engaged to solicit your interest and to encourage submissions. We will launch the first Call for Papers the 26th of September, and now we are looking forward to receive a large number of submissions. As last year, the conference will include 12 SIGs plus the general conference one. For more information, please visit the conference website here.
However, we can anticipate since now that there has been already a great interest as signaled by the record number of proposals for tracks (67) and symposia (48) received! This number indicates that the next conference will be well attended and successful! I am looking forward to meeting all of you in Bath, 25-28 June 2024!
After we publish the call for papers for the 2024 EURAM conference on 26 September, we are close to launching the next doctoral colloquium. This event will be held just before the conference, i.e., 23-24 June 2024.
We have also started to design the call for paper for the 15th EURAM Early Career Colloquium (EECC), that will be held in March 2024. The workshop will be organized in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. More information will be published soon!
These two events are at the core of EURAM’s mission, that includes also to help PhD students and untenured colleagues to strengthen their research skills and professional network. I am sure all colleagues that will attend these events will receive a boost of their professional career.
Before we will meet in one of the next EURAM events (i.e., EECC, DC, or annual conference) that will be held in 2024, you may have the opportunity to attend one or both webinars that will be held in the fall:
- “Addressing problems arising from endogeneity in management research” with Professor Marco Giarratana, Vice-Rector of Research and Coordination (IE University), that will be held 25 September 2023, from 15:00 to 16:00 CEST;
- “Applying for Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC)” with Professor Adriana Cristoiu, ERC Office – Panel Co-ordinator SH1 panels (Economics, Finance, Management), that will be held 23 October 2023, 15:00-16:00 CEST
You may find more information and register for attendance at this link: https://euram.academy/euram?service=euramEvents
European Management Review is also very active and attracts an increasing number of submissions and readers. Beyond regular submissions, EMR also launched two new special issues on:
- Purpose-Driven Strategies, Deadline 31 March 2024.
Click here for additional information. - Digital Transformation and Organizational Value Creation, Deadline 31 March 2024. Click here for additional information.
Finally, I would like to thank the outgoing VPs for the excellent contribution provided to the society: Dorota Dobija, VP for finance and governance; Pierre Dussauge, VP for EECC; Stefan Gueldenberg, VPs for practice; Rémi Jardat, VP for SIGs; Maria Rentetzi, VP for Science Diplomacy. You may find a short profile of the incoming VPs later in the newsletter. I warmly thank all of them for taking this challenge with passion. I like to only underline that there will be a new VP for Inclusion, Diversity and sustainability as these topics have a growing importance for all organizations. So, we need to take a position and develop practices to address them appropriately.
I am looking forward to meeting you all soon!
All the best,
Alessandro Zattoni
EURAM President
Francesca Cuomo is Associate Professor in Corporate Governance at Norwich Business School (NBS, University of East Anglia, UK), where she heads the Responsible Business Regulation Group and is a member of the NBS Ethics Committee. Francesca is also a member of the editorial board of Corporate Governance: An International Review. She was the Chair of the EURAM Corporate Governance Special Interest Group during EURAM 2023. Her main research interest is corporate governance, with a focus on corporate governance codes, board of directors, board independence, board diversity, ownership structure, separation between ownership and control, institutional investors activism and corporate social responsibility. Her publications on a number of corporate governance issues include empirical and review articles in leading international academic journals, book chapters, and commissioned reports. She has been successful in carrying out funded research projects of various sizes with both national and international teams of academics. Recently, with other UK academics, she has been conducting two research projects for the Financial Reporting Council on the Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies.
Isabel Díez-Vial is currently a full professor of Strategic Management at UNIR Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, where she is Vice-Chancellor for Economic and Social Impact Development. She heads the Center for Research, Transfer and Innovation (CITEI) and she is the director of the doctoral program in Economics and Business at UNIR. Isabel holds a national accreditation as a full professor and has been awarded positive evaluation as a high-productivity researcher by the National Evaluation Commission of Research (in Spain). Formerly, she has been Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs and co-director of the research group Growth Strategies at Complutense University of Madrid. Isabel has been the national representative of Spain in Euram (2018-2021). Her research interests are inter-organizational networks between companies, clusters and territory, to explain the innovative activity, business internationalization, and regional development.
Audrey Rouzies is currently a full professor of Strategic Management at Toulouse School of Management (TSM) – Toulouse Capitole University, where she is Associate Dean for Quality Assurance and Accreditations. She is also the Director of the doctoral program at TSM. Her research focuses on the management of mergers and acquisitions, more specifically on the organisational and human issues involved in the implementation of these operations. Audrey Rouzies uses qualitative and mixed methods, preferably longitudinal, to understand the research areas she studies. Audrey Rouzies is also a co-founder of the European M&A Institute (eM&Ai). Audrey Rouzies has been the national representative for France in Euram (20XX-20XX), SIG Chair for the Strategic Management SIG (2018-2020) and is track chair since 2008 of the track “M&A and Divestitures”.
Joanna Szulc is an Assistant Professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Leeds (UK). Her research interests are based on managing neurodiversity and creating inclusive organizations with a focus on employee well-being and effective interpersonal relationships. She is the author of scientific papers published in international journals and the recipient of prestigious academic grants and awards. She participates in the work of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) as a Vice President for Early Career Community and as a Doctoral Colloquium Chair. Joanna works closely with the businesses and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Atypica – Foundation for Neuroculture.
David W. Versailles is currently a full professor of Strategic Management at Paris School of Business where he co-heads the “new Practices for Innovation and Creativity” (newPIC) chair with Valérie Mérindol, and a visiting full professor at Luxembourg School of Business. David holds a Doctorate and the Habilitation to supervise research in economics (at University Aix Marseille 3 and University of Nice respectively). David is also the chair of the Strategic Interest Group (SIG) on Innovation for the European Academy of Management (EURAM) for the 2022–2025 term. David is also the founder and managing director of the consulting firm ISK Consulting SA in Luxembourg. David’s research elaborates on the combination of economics, strategic management (including business modelling), innovation management, and strategic management of knowledge.
PhD Carmen Padilla Lozano, research professor at the ECOTEC University (Ecuador) and PhD Pablo Collazzo senior professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication (Vienna) won the prize for the best research called “Competitiveness Review Prize” awarded by Harvard Business School (United States) in the 20th anniversary of the Global Network on Competitiveness for their research entitled “How Unicorns Conquered the Red Queen: Perspectives on Competitive Dynamics, Innovation and Imitation” research that focused on Asian companies. Given the requirements in the Research Day only 3 investigations were presented, all its members from more than 60 countries voted at the end of the day and 65% gave the present investigation as the winner.
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