Governance

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Governance in the postmodern society
• The boards in the postmodern organizations
• Role of stakeholders in corporate governance processes
• Employee participation and ownership
• Cooperatives and self-management models
• Responsible corporate governance, value creation and risk management
• Gender issues in corporate governance
• Governance in interfirm collaborations (alliances, networks, open innovation)
  Power and trust in corporate governance
• Governance of the state-owned companies
• Corporate governance and stewardship theory
• Corporate governance: a resource dependence perspective
• Trade unions and corporate governance

Management & Leadership

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Leadership in the postmodern society
• Evidence-based management in the postmodern society
• Economic inequality and new leadership
• Management and leadership in cooperative organization
• Gender, race, and diversity in postmodern organisations
• Identity and sense making in postmodern organizations
• Social networks in organizations
• Servant leadership
• New leadership and participative management
• Narratives, myths and symbols in postmodern organizations
• Critical approaches to management and strategic management
• Governance and management towards social responsibility

Entrepreneurship

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Paradoxes of entrepreneurship in the postmodern society
• Creativity and Innovation
• Intrapreneurship issues
• Social entrepreneurship
• Sustainable development, regional development and entrepreneurship
• Stakeholding and entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship and crowdfunding
• Entrepreneurship and microfinance
• Social responsible investing (SRI)
• Strategies, business models, processes and practices for innovation and responsible entrepreneurship
• Policy frameworks and measures for innovation and entrepreneurship
• Resource mobilization in new ventures and social responsibility

Communication

Topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Communication in the postmodern society
• Communication crisis
• Leadership, governance and communication
• Modernism, postmodernism and communication
• Gender, race, and diversity in communication studies
• Mass media communication
• Narratives, communication and shaping organizational image
• Communication and organisation identity
• Organizational communication tools & techniques
• Strategic communication issues