Theme 1: Management Education
On learning to lead in organizations oriented to the future. Articles publish into Management Education: An International Journal.
- New types of organization: what do you need to learn today?
- Towards leadership: management education and training
- Vision, strategy and leadership: measuring the effects
- Training and human resource development
- Blurring the boundaries: informal learning, training and education
- New economy: what is appropriate education for the new work order?
- Learning for the ‘new economy’
- What is knowledge? What is the role of learning?
- ‘Wisdom’ in the knowledge economy
- Mentoring: where leadership means knowledge transfer
- Collaboration as a personal capacity and organizational resource
- The making of a ‘knowledge worker’
- Educational institutions as knowledge managers
Keywords: Management, Organizations, Learning Organizations, Human Resource Development, Informal Learning, Mentoring, Management Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
Theme 2: Change Management
On negotiating organizational change, and organizational responses to social, stakeholder and market change. Articles publish into Change Management: An International Journal.
- Organizations in change: what makes for success
- Organizations responding to change: markets, clients, stakeholders and community expectations
- Technologies and organizational change
Keywords: Management, Organizations, Technologies, Data, Information, Communications, Intellectual Capital
Theme 3: Knowledge Management
On knowledge as a factor of production. Articles publish into Knowledge Management: An International Journal.
- Managing intangibles for tangible outcomes
- Knowledge and culture as factors of production
- Reconceptualizing ‘economy’ in a knowledge society
- Putting a tangible value on intangibles
- New performance indicators for new economies
- The conditions of innovation
- The business case for knowledge management
- Building intellectual capital and maintaining intellectual property
- Transforming personal knowledge into common knowledge
- Data, information and their electronic means of creation, storage, access and communication
- Beyond competition: creating efficiencies through supply chain relationships
- Addressing the divides: digital, development, social
- Virtual enterprises in a networked world
- The dynamics of adult learning
- Lifelong learning
Keywords: Management, Organizations, Intangibles, Knowledge Economy, Performance Indicators, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Customers, Vision, Strategy, Competitiveness
Theme 4: Organizational Cultures
On the cultures of responsive, productive and respected organizations. Articles publish into Organizational Cultures: An International Journal.
- What is organizational culture? ‘Organic’, ‘community’, ‘complexity’ and other metaphors
- Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity
- Networks, clusters, alliances
- Building collaborative organizational cultures
- Decision-making and leadership
- Building a culture of innovation
- Teams and the dynamics of collaboration
- Productive diversity: capitalizing on human differences
- Women at work and women in management: what are the different ways of working?
- Gay-friendly workplaces
- Family friendly workplaces
- Developing sustainable organizational cultures: government, community and NGOs
- Capacity development: building knowledge locally
- Globalization, internationalization and organizational change
- Customization: recognizing market and customer differences
- Navigating complexity: the dynamics of organizational change
- Business ethics
Keywords: Management, Organizations, Organizational Culture, Networks, Collaboration, Leadership, Productive Diversity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Family, Sustainable Organizations, Capacity Development, Globalization, Customization, Ethics
Presentations at the conference, as well as the journals and books created in this knowledge community, are grouped around the themes listed here. Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Keywords are only indicative - please add your own keywords as you think necessary. The range of ideas listed in each thematic grouping and associated keywords is continually reviewed and revised by the participants in this knowledge community. Please suggest additions and changes.