Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd December 2005
Vienna, Austria

Call for Papers

In the wake of Industrialisation, the worlds of business, industry and commerce have increasingly become dependent on technology. Technologies used in design and production have been complemented by modern information structures that are heavily utilised in planning, distribution, communication advertising, administration and people management. Alongside this has been the awareness of Globalisation as a significant phenomenon with organisations often seeing both their employees and markets as a worldwide possibility.

This two-sided development, Technology and Globalisation, has created many Multinational Enterprises (e.g. Wal-Mart) whose scale individually is so large they dwarf most countries as financial institutions. Such huge global enterprises have created a need for diverse and complex organisational systems and plans that will attempt to maximise either the efficacy or efficiency of their productive output. Contrapuntally many organisations have identified problems in the mass scale itself and begun to agree with Schumacher that ‘Small is Beautiful’.

This research conference addresses the multifarious issues surrounding modern Global Technology Management issues within Multinational Enterprises, including nation states. The project should appeal to academics involved in these and cross-related subjects, as well as professionals facing and wrestling with these problems on a daily basis.

Whilst an indicative generic list of potential topics is given below, it is anticipated that participants will be the best determinants of what are the contemporary issues suited at the GTM’2005 umbrella. The indicative list of topics to be addressed are:

• The role of innovation
• Case studies of imaginative practice
• Sustainability in Action
• Ethics of GTM
• Measurement of Success
• Global planning
• Small Vs Large
• Waste and Environmental Implications
• Cross cultural issues in GTM
• Financing global organisations
• Latest and nascent technology and its potential GTM

These are indicative themes. Papers are welcome on these and related themes. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 30th September 2005. Full draft papers should be submitted by Friday 18th November 2005.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.

Dr David Seth Preston
BRG
92 Colney Hatch Lane
London N10 1EA
Email: david-preston@blueyonder.co.uk

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Learning Solutions, and BRG as part of the ‘Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/gtm/gtm.htm

For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/gtm/gtm1/cfp05.htm