Submission Domains
Business Policy and Strategy
Track Chairs: Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, NJIT (sgopalak@njit.edu); Antigoni Papademetriou, Lehigh University (antigoni.papadimitriou1@gmail.com).
Focuses on issues associated with strategic management in a global economy. Particular emphasis will be on strategic, policy and management issues that arise when engaged in international business. This domain also includes a government-business interface.
Corporate Governance
Track Chairs: Dilip Mirchandani, Rowan University (mirchandani@rowan.edu); Milivoj Markovic, RIT - Croatia (milivoj.markovic@croatia.rit.edu).
Focuses on theory and practice of corporate governance. This domain explores roles and responsibilities of primary participants. Primary Participants are owners, supervisory and management board members, and managers of the organization.
Diversity
Track Chair: Orlando Richard, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (orichard@isenberg.umass.edu).
Focuses on how individuals differ and the implications for work and business practices in organizations around the world. The concept of difference is considered broadly to include both surface and deep level aspects (e.g., gender, culture, personality).
Entrepreneurship
Track Chair: Vishal Gupta, Alabama University (vkgupta@cba.ua.edu).
Focuses on issues related to the creation, support, and growth of small businesses and entrepreneurial organizations. This domain includes innovative small business practices and supporting entrepreneurial ventures in developing countries.
Human Resources
Track Chairs: Jeffrey Mello, Hofstra University (Jeffrey.Mello@hofstra.edu); Siham Lekchiri, Western Carolina University (slekchiri@wcu.edu).
Focuses on aspects of human resource management including recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, compensation, socialization, training, and the development of human capital around the globe.
Management Education & Development
Track Chair: Monika Hudson, University of San Francisco (mhudson@usfca.edu).
Focuses on issues of pedagogy and learning across cultures including both distance learning and face-to-face classroom teaching methods that facilitate the acquisition of skills for managing in a global economy.
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Track Chairs: Kathy Lund Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College (lunddean@gustavus.edu); Millie Yun Su, Singapore University of Social Science (milliesy@suss.edu.sg).
Focuses on motivation, leadership, organizational learning, change, and the management of people in organizations across the globe.
Research Methods
Track Chair: Lisa Lambert, Georgia State University (lislambert@gsu.edu).
Focuses on methodologies that advance management research and practice including quantitative and qualitative methods, survey and archival methods, experimental and non-experimental methods, cross-cultural approaches, and statistical modeling approaches.
Social Issues in Management
Track Chair: Sarah Kovoor-Misra, University of Colorado Denver (sarah.kovoor@ucdenver.edu).
Focuses on the ways that organizations operating in a global environment fulfill their social responsibilities, create ethical cultures, and address issues surrounding sustainability.
Technology, Communication, and IS
Track Chairs: Dorothy M. Kirkman, University of Houston at Clear Lake (kirkman@uhcl.edu); Yu-Qian Zhu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (yzhu@mail.ntust.edu.tw).
Focuses on the use of technology and IS to manage and increase efficiency and effectiveness of the firm in a global environment. This domain also explores communication within and across organizations and how technology interacts with human systems.
Idea Incubator
Track Chair: Oluwatoyin Comfort Awoyinka (“Comfort”), Southern New Hampshire University (comfort.olatunji@gmail.com).
Authors are invited to submit drafts of full manuscripts in need of additional work or extended abstract (700-1,000 words) to this track. Authors of accepted papers must agree to review and provide feedback to others in their session and will, in turn, receive feedback about their own paper.
PDW
Track Chairs: Jasmin Lin, Robert Morris University (lin@rmu.edu); Eric Kessler, Pace University, (ekessler@pace.edu).
Professional development workshops (PDWs): Develop a presentation, or hands-on session to share your best professional practices with EAM-I colleagues! Topics vary and have included: research roundtable, research methods, writing strategies, administration, career balance, assessment, service learning, curriculum development, Professors of practice, etc. Topics with international aspects are especially welcomed. PDW submissions are 4-10 pages and include: title, brief abstract with keywords), learning objective(s), and a detailed description of the workshop plan (including the timeline).