Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
17-19 March, 2005

Programme

16 March - Reception for PhD Workshop (5pm)

17 March - PhD Workshop (9am-4pm)

17 March - Reception for Main Conference (5pm)

18-19 March - Main Conference (9am-6pm)

Main topics

• Managing organizational knowledge and competence
• Knowledge creation and innovation, e.g., in R & D
• Knowledge sharing within and across organizations and cultures e.g., in off-shoring arrangements
• Micro, meso and macro institutional factors affecting knowledge and learning
• The relationship between knowledge and power
• Communities of practice, knowledge networks and networking
• Practice-based perspectives on knowledge and learning
• Dynamic capabilities
• Intangible assets and social, intellectual and cultural capital
• The relationship between individual, team and organizational learning
• Leadership and Human Resource Management in knowledge-based organizations
• The nature of knowledge work and knowledge workers
• The role of information technology in knowledge management and collaboration
• The importance of knowledge management in IT design, implementation and use
• Knowledge and learning issues in the context of global, virtual teams
• Public service sector approaches to Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning and comparisons with the private sector

Organizing committee

• Sue Newell, Bentley College (Conference Chair), USA
• Mats Alvesson, Lund University, Sweden
• Rafael Andreu, IESE, Spain
• Eduard Bonet, ESADE, Spain
• Paul Carlile, MIT, USA
• Bob DeFillipi, Suffolk University, USA
• Kevin Desouza, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Thomas Durand, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
• Mark Easterby-Smith, Lancaster University, UK
• Ellen Enkel, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Robert D. Galliers, Bentley College, USA
• Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
• Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Boston University, USA
• Jean Hartley, University of Warwick, UK
• Hans Hinterhuber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Jimmy Huang, Nottingham University, UK
• Seija Kulkki, Helsinki School of Economics and Business, Finland
• Gabriele Lakomski, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Lynne Markus, Bentley College, USA
• Kurt Matzler, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Mette Mønsted, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Nicos Mylonopoulos, ALBA, Greece
• Larry Prusak, Babson College, USA
• Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Birgit Renzl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Maxine Robertson, University of Warwick, UK
• Harry Scarbrough, University of Warwick, UK
• Georg Schreyögg, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Sandra Sieber, IESE, Spain
• Jacky Swan, University of Warwick, UK
• Gabriel Szulanski, INSEAD, France
• Haridimos Tsoukas, ALBA, Greece and University of Warwick, UK
• Georg von Krogh, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

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