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Volume X - Issue I - January 2008

Calls for Papers

 

2nd Call for Papers - 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, Italy
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Project and program managers, experts and practitioners around the world are invited to submit abstracts for paper presentations at the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management, ROMA 2008 – Project Management to Run scheduled for November 9-11, 2008 in Rome, Italy.

Main streams for the congress include the following:

  • Time dimension in project management

  • Project management in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East

  • Project management for large infrastructures and industrial plants

  • Project management in public sectors and projects financed by international institutions

  • Project management in main public events

  • Project management in new fields

  • New trends in project management

  • Management by projects in industry

  • Project portfolio and business process management

  • Project management in history

  • Soft skills: education and certification benefits

  • Complex project managers

Paper abstracts should be focused on one of the above streams. The following guidelines have been provided for prospective authors and presenters:

  • The official language of the congress is English

  • Papers and presentations should be free of commercial sales content

  • Papers and presentations should focus on the subject of the title, and preferably provide new contributions to the topic

  • The length of the abstract should be between 150 and 200 words

  • Abstracts shall be typed in 12pt Times New Roman font in the MS Office Word format, 2000 or 2003 versions

  • Each abstract must have a lead author who will serve as the primary contact for all correspondence.

  • Length of the final paper should be between 1000 to 2000 words in length.

Additional information to be supplied by lead author together with abstract

  • Title of the paper

  • Name of lead author and other author(s)

  • Up to 5 bullet points summarizing the content (aim, scope, main issues, conclusions)

  • Author(s) affiliations and a short biography

  • Lead author's postal address, phone, fax and email address

  • Company/Institution's name and address

Abstract and Paper production milestones are as follows:

January 31, 2008 - Abstract submissions due
April 30, 2008 - Notification of acceptance of abstracts
July 31, 2008 - Final papers due from authors
September 15, 2008 - Final announcement of accepted papers

The local host organizations for the ROMA 2008 World Congress in Rome, Italy are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Mr. Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is Vittorio Cariati. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it. For additional information on the paper submission process, contact papers@ipmaroma2008.it.


Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve the specific development needs of each country in its national language. IPMA provides an umbrella organization to represent them at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level Project Management Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents project management awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2007-2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch

 

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Slovenia to host 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference - Call for Papers

Reported by Miles Shepherd in London, UK

The European Academy of Management (EURAM) has announced their 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference. This event is the most prestigious of all the management conferences in Europe and regularly attracts all the key management thinkers in Europe and USA. The 2008 event will be held in Slovenia and hosted by the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and the IEDC-Bled School of Management and co-organised with CEEMAN, the Central and East European Management Development Association.


Lake Bled
one of the two conference sites

Contributions are expected from more than 1.000 management researchers, scholars and practitioners from all over the world. The conference theme is Managing Diversity: European Destiny and Hope.

The Conference programme is structured around 46 tracks, which were selected from 75 track proposals, including 8 generic EURAM tracks. They cover a whole spectrum of most interesting and exciting management research areas, including those that address key issues related to the transition processes and change phenomena in general. In previous conferences, there has been a very strong Project Management track and many European researchers are expected to participate in 2008. The PM Track Organising Team of 12 academics from 8 countries includes the editors of IPMA’s International Journal of Project Management and PMI’s Project Management Journal.


University of Ljubljana

This year’s track theme concerns the diversity of management approaches to projects and programmes to satisfy a diversity of aims and interests. In exploring this theme, we wish to encourage empirical and theoretical papers within the following sub-themes:

  • How do projects and programmes act as processes for restructuring and social transformation?

  • How are programmes and projects manifested as diverse forms of organisation and management processes?

  • How are organisational resources, leadership capabilities, systems and processes configured?

  • How are issues of alignment encompassing broader social and environmental interests and concerning managing diverse internal and external stakeholder interests managed?

Papers should be constructively critical concerning current norms of project management practice, and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Particular attention should be paid to the theoretical roots of the arguments presented. It is intended that the best papers from this track will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Project Management, edited by the co-chairs.

Abstracts are required to be submitted on line by 18 January 2008 at http://www.euram2008.org/CallForPapers.asp The conference itself will be held in Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia, during 14-17 May 2008.
Conference participants will also have a unique opportunity to discuss with world famous thinkers in management and associated fields:

  • Ichak Adizes, one of the world’s leading authorities on change management

  • Jean-Pierre Lehmann, IMD-Lausanne, Founding Director of the EVIAN Group

  • Slavoj Zizek, world famous Slovenian sociologist, post-modern philosopher and cultural critic

  • Janez Potoènik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, will open the conference with a speech on European research policies to foster diversity and European competitiveness.

It now has become a tradition for EURAM to organise a DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM before the Annual Conference. This year, the colloquium organised jointly by EURAM, EDAMBA and EIASM will be held on 14th May 2008 and hosted by the IEDC, Bled School of Management. Please submit your abstract (500 words), your CV, a short letter of motivation and a letter of recommendation by 15th February 2008. All this must be submitted electronically through the website (http://forms.eiasm.org/r/default.asp?iId=MDIKJ).

Last but not least, for the second year in a row, the Imagination Lab Foundation will offer the “Imagination Lab Award for Innovative Scholarship”. More details as well as application and nomination forms can be found on the website (http://www.euram2008.org/ImaginationLab.asp).

For full information on EURAM 2008, please visit www.euram2008.org and/or contact Ms Katarzyna Slezak, katarzyna.slezak@iedc.si.

 

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Making Projects Critical - 4th Workshop -
Announcement & Call for Papers

Reported by Miles Shepherd in London, UK

The 4th in the series of workshops which takes a critical view of projects is to be held at the KTH – the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 31 March - 1 April 2008. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to Monday 7 January with full papers due by 14 March. Conference leaders are:

  • Professor Peter Case Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol,

  • UKAssociate Professor Dan Kärreman (Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden

This workshop is the fourth in a series intended to provide a forum for research from a wide range of critical perspectives relating to all aspects of projects, including project management, project based organising and the 'projectification' of society. Such critical work would include work drawing upon any of a number of critical theorists, including Marx, Bourdieu, Foucault, Latour, Habermas, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Butler, Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Gramsci, and Braverman, Bauman, Beck, Bataille, and Zizek, and work inspired by Labour Process Theory, Critical Theory, Actor Network Theory, Environmentalism, Feminism, Post-Modernism and other traditions broadly related to Critical Management Studies.


KTH Campus

Through the workshop, the organizers hope to both highlight and break down the theoretical and methodological limitations of traditional conceptions of projects and project management. In particular, the intention is to draw upon wider intellectual resources than the instrumental rationality, quantitative and positivist methodologies and technicist solutions which have been traditionally brought to bear in attempts to understand and control the project form of organising.

Full details are available from the Conference Website:
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=544

 

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Preliminary Invitation to Authors for May 2008
International Earned Value Management Conference in Florida


The College of Performance Management (CPM) of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (www.pmi-cpm.org) is interested in locating applications of Earned Value Management (EVM) in non-government, non-aerospace/defense industries. The use of EVM in non-traditional areas will be a focus area of the CPM's EVM World 2008 conference to be held in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA in May 2008. Speakers from these organizations or projects may be invited to speak about their use and deployment of EVM. For example, new product development, internal IT projects, construction, public infrastructure, etc. A formal call for papers will be forthcoming and will be sent to interested potential speakers. Formal papers will not be required.Interested companies and individuals may register their interest or request additional information via e-mail at evmspeaker@mgmt-technologies.com.


The International EVM Conference sponsored by PMI’s CPM will be held May 14-16, 2008 in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort, 400 Mandalay Avenue, Clearwater Beach, Florida 33767 USA (Tel: +1-727-461-3222). For more information about the May EVM conference, visit
http://www.pmi-cpm.org/pages/events/EVM08/index.html.

 

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