Joint Conference of the
15th Annual International Conference on Advances in Management (http://ICAM1990.COM) &
1st Annual International Conference on Social Intelligence
(http://ICSI2007.COM)

July 16–19, 2008

Conference location:	Submission Deadline:
Hyatt Harborside Hotel 101 Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128, USA Reservation phones: 1–617–568–1234, 1–800–233–1234 www.harborside.hyatt.com	Papers must be RECEIVED by March 1st, 2008

Writers' Workshop (July 13–15, 2008)

There will be a 3–day Writers' Workshop to help faculty write papers for publication in scholarly journals and in the ICAM Series—Current Topics in Management.

1. Phase 1 (July 13): Formulation of hypotheses and creative ways to develop psychometrically sound measures that are free from method variance and social desirability responding--Preparing data for Exploratory Factor Analysis with SPSS.

2. Phase 2 (July 14): Pearson correlations, Cronbach alpha, Regression Analysis, Hierarchical Regression Analysis, estimating and plotting interaction effects, ANOVA, and Analysis of Covariance.

3. Phase 3 (July 15): Elementary and intermediate data analysis and interpretation with LISREL-- Advanced data analysis and interpretation with LISREL

 
If you want to attend this workshop, you will be required to pre-register for it and bring your laptop with SPSS and LISREL and the data file and questionnaires that you receive from us. (There will be no walk-in registration for the Workshop & is limited to 25 professionals) We will use PowerPoint presentations to show step-by-step analysis of data and results. We will also show you how to report results in your paper that you want to submit to a scholarly journal for review.
Although this Workshop is for doctoral students, new faculty, and consultants, this will be very useful for senior scholars.

 There will be separate registration for the Writers’ Workshop
Registration Fee: Professionals, $850, Faculty, $650, Students, $450

ICSI PROGRAM THEME
Advances in the theory, research, and practise in multiple intelligences.

ICSI PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
1. To encourage scholars to share their theory, research, and experience on multiple intelligences.
2. To provide effective responses to leadership challenges of the 21st century.
3. To provide a forum for exchange of information between scholars and practitioners on the relationships of intelligence to management and leadership.

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE TRACK AND CHAIRS

Track 1:	Smart Leader & Intelligence
	Dr. Silvia Fernandes sfernan@ualg.pt University of Algarve, Portugal
Track 2:	Emotional Intelligence
	Dr. Ahmed Amin Mohamed ahmed.aminmohamed@guc.edu.eg German University in Cairo, Egypt
Track 3:	Social Intelligence
	Dr. Afzal Rahim SmartLeader@aol.com Western Kentucky University
Track 4:	Multiple Intelligence
	J. Krist Schell krist.schell@wku.edu Western Kentucky University

PRESIDENT, ICAM & ICSI
Dr. Afzal Rahim, icam2000@aol.com
Center for Advanced Studies in Management
Phone & Fax: 270–782–2601

ICAM TRACKS AND CHAIRS 

 

Track 1:	Strategic Management, Organization Theory, and Knowledge Management Dr.Sajjad M. Jasimuddin smj@aber.ac.uk University of Wales Aberystwyth, U.K. Dr. Gudio Krickx gak1@stmarys-ca.edu Saint Mary's College of California
Track 2:	Management in the Public Sector & Non-Governmental Organizations Dr. Mark L. McConkie mmcconki@mail.uccs.edu University of Colorado Dr. Sae-Yoon Oh syoh@honam.ac.kr Honam University, South Korea
Track 3:	Organizational Behavior, OD, & Spirituality in Organizations Dr. Maria Nathan nathan@lynchburg.edu Lynchburg College Dr. Panagiotis Polychroniou panpol@upatras.gr University of Patras, Greece
Track 4:	Human Resource Management Dr. AAhad Osman-Gani aahad@ntu.edu.sg Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Track 5:	Information Technology, Innovation, & Product Development Dr. William H. Money wmoney@gwu.edu George Washington University Dr. Narongsak Thongpapanl nthongpa@brocku.ca Brock University, Canada
Track 6:	Entrepreneurship and Small Business Strategy Dr. Jose Filipe jose.filipe@iscte.pt ISCTE, Portugal Dr. Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira manuel.ferreira@iscte.pt ISCTE, Portugal
Track 7:	Business and Society Dr. Gilbert Tan gilberttan@smu.edu.sg Singapore Management University Dr. Dieter Bögenhold dboegenhold@unibz.it Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Track 8:	Healthcare Administration Dr. David M. Rea d.m.rea@swansea.ac.uk Swansea University, U.K Dr. Zaid Al-Hamdan  zaid_hamdan@hotmail.com De Montford University, U.K

Publication Co-sponsored by the ICAM

Current Topics in Management
This annual series presents basic research on the theory and practice of management and administration. It includes both invited contributions and revised versions of papers presented at the annual International Conference on Advances in Management. Current Topics in Management exemplifies ICAM’s comparative orientation, in its broad scope of management and administration perspectives, in its diverse locations of research as well as its application, and in its comparisons of findings, methodologies, and operational definitions.

Some of the distinguished scholars who contributed to the series are:
1. Robert A. Baron, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2. Robert T. Golembiewski, University of Georgia
3. John F. Grant, Colorado State University
4. William R. King, University of Pittsburgh
5. Edwin A. Locke, University of Maryland
6. Craig C. Lundberg, Cornell University
7. Kenneth D. Mackenzie, University of Kansas
8. Ian I. Mitroff, University of Southern California
9. Edgar Schein, MIT
10. Duane Windsor, Rice University


2007 Current Topics in Management (Vol. 12)
We conceived the Series—Current Topics in Management—about twelve years ago; we are now in 2007 and have completed the 12th volume; and the challenge has now shifted from keeping the Series going to improving the quality of the content of each succeeding volume. How does this volume attempt to meet our resolve to do better as we move deeper into the Series? Overall, Volume 12 contains 11 contributions divided into four sections, which are identified below and also constitute the basic structure of this Introduction. The editor attempts to frame the volume with Chapter 1. The other chapters were the survivors of competitive reviews of 124 submissions to the thirteenth annual International Conference on Advances in Management held at Lisbon, Portugal during July 2006. Competitive papers were evaluated through a double-blind review process, and several invited papers also were reviewed. During this review process, each chapter was revised two to three times to improve quality.
     To accommodate to the desiderate of linkage, the chapters below are sorted into four major sections: (1) Managing Evolution and Transformation, (2) Managing Inappropriateness, (3) Issues in Strategic Management, and (4) Entrepreneurship and Behavior in Organizations. A brief review of each chapter is provided to help orient the readers.
     This 1st section contains three chapters that deal with organizational transformation through reengineering for improving business processes, an organizing framework for the emergence of new organizational forms, and concepts and forms of bricolage in organizations which involves creative use of resources to deal with a problem.
     The 2nd section contains two chapters that deal with some unusual situations: managing global imbalances that require cooperation and commitment from all countries and one of the most important contemporary phenomena—misrepresentation or radical distortion of reality. 
     The 3rd section contains three chapters that deal with the relationships of board of directors' attributes, conflict, and shared mental models to board effectiveness, controlling CEO compensation through an independent board of directors, and ecologically responsive behavior of corporate actors. 
     The 4th section contains three chapters that deal with opportunity based approach to the theory and research in entrepreneurial discovery research; a study of the moderating effects of goal commitment, task feedback, and reward for competence on the relationship between work overload and creativity; and guidelines to managers for the diagnosis of the spiritual health and intervention to enhance spirituality at work.
     The series will be of particular interest to management and administration practitioners; students and scholars in organization science, organizational psychology, communication, and sociology; economists; and labor studies specialists.

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