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