Call for Papers – Conference on the Constructed Environment

Vancouver, Canada, 25-26 October 2012

On behalf of the International Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Third International Conference on the Constructed Environment and the Call for Submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of the Constructed Environment.

 http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference/

 The Constructed Environment Conference will be held 25-26 October 2012 at the University of British Columbia Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada. This interdisciplinary conference is for scholars, teachers, and practitioners from any professional discipline who share an interest in the forms and functions of the constructed environment. The aim of the conference is to discuss the past character and future shape of the built environment from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. Proposals are invited that contribute to the conference discourse from any of the following thematic areas:

 a) Designing and Constructing, including all aspects of design and modeling technologies, materials and environmental sciences, planning and project management processes, construction innovations, and sustainable building practices;

 b) Configuring and Understanding Spaces across home, business, civic and natural habitats and including research and planning, design and creation, form and function of spaces;

 c) Movement and Infrastructure related to construction processes and flows, reconfiguring energy, transportation, water, and waste for current and future needs, as well as planning for natural and catastrophic events;

 d) Organizing and Governing and the roles of government, regulatory bodies, and citizens in the planning, decision-making, and use of the built environment, in addition to issues of inclusivity (rights to access), social impact, and ethical practice.

Proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters/exhibits, or colloquia are invited. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 22 March 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference/.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Constructed Environment. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, allowing you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the journal.

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube playlist. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. We also invite you to subscribe to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference/.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Vancouver this October.

International Association for Chinese Management Research Call for Papers; Submission Deadline October 15, 2011

This is a reminder that the IACMR 2012 Hong Kong Conference will be accepting paper and symposia submissions during September 15-October 15, 2011. Please visit http://www.iacmr.org/Conferences/Conf2012/ for Call for Submissions and details of the submission process.

Conference theme: “Building Ethical and Sustainable Organizations in China”
June 20-24, 2012, Hong Kong
We welcome research questions that are important, interesting, and focused on the theme of building and leading socially responsible organizations in the Chinese context, including:

1.  The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in today’s business world in China – How compatible or conflicting is CSR with other objectives of business organizations such as the financial bottom-line? Do organizations lose legitimacy as a result of unethical acts, and how do they recover?

2.  Ethical decisions and corporate strategies in Chinese organizations – What ethical dilemmas do Chinese managers and employees face? How do companies integrate ethical decisions with their corporate strategies?

3.  Ethical and unethical leadership – What constitutes ethical and unethical leadership behavior in Chinese organizations? What are the antecedents and consequences of such leadership behaviors?

4.  Ethics and related organizational behavior concepts – How do well-established organizational behavior concepts such as leadership, organizational justice, trust, and creativity relate to ethical perception, decision making, and behavior? What types of workplace deviance exist in Chinese organizations, and what factors facilitate or inhibit such deviance?

5.  Building ethical and sustainable organizations –How is corporate governance linked with organizational ethics and sustainability? What management processes and tools (e.g., leadership, organizational culture, HR practices, and corporate ethical guidelines) are effective or ineffective?

Apart from exploring the above themes and questions, papers submitted to the conference may also include any topic related to organization and management in the Chinese context (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.) or to Chinese organizations operating globally. We welcome papers and symposia in the disciplinary areas of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, as well as International and Cross-Cultural Management.

Submissions will be electronic to the submission website at http://www.iacmr.org/Conferences/Conf2012/ , which will open on September 15, 2011. All papers must be received by midnight October 15, 2011, US Eastern Standard Time and all Professional Development Workshop and Caucus proposals by November 15, 2011. Notification of acceptances or rejections will be made by January 20, 2012.

We wish you best of luck in your preparation and look forward to a great increase of submissions in both number and quality. For any questions about submissions to the conference, please contact the Program Chair Jiing-Lih (Larry) Farh at mnlfarh@ust.hk

13th Interntional Winelands Conference 2012 Call for Papers; Submission Deadline October 15, 2011

13th International Winelands Conference 2012
April 2-4, 2012
 

Conference themes:
Integrity and governance: What is wrong? What is good? What is next?
Theme 1: What’s wrong?  Corruption in Governance
Theme 2: What’s good? Good Governance in the public and non-profit sector.
Theme 3: What’s next? Innovations in Governance and Research.
 
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.winelands2012.co.za/
 
The School of Public Leadership (SPL) of Stellenbosch University, South Africa in collaboration with  the Anti-corruption Education and Research Centre (ACCERUS) Stellenbosch, South Africa and the Zijlstra Center for Public Control and Governance, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands is pleased to announce the 13th International Winelands Conference – “Integrity and governance: What is wrong? What is good? What is next?” and to invite the submission of papers for this prestigious event which will be held over three days beginning on Monday, 2 April 2012.
 
This 13th biennial Conference, now in its twenty-fourth year, will once again be held in historic Stellenbosch, the university town with scenic oak-lined streets, elegant old architecture, a wonderful climate, magnificent tourist destinations and, of course, the world-famous wine estates, from which the Conference takes its name.
 
The Winelands conference, with its essentially public leadership and governance focus, is held every second year in Stellenbosch in South Africa’s Western Cape province. The Conference always attracts an accomplished range of international participants – not least because of its stimulating and collegiate ambiance.
 
The 13th Winelands Conference proposes to address the contribution of various research disciplines towards solving particular social and administrative problems. To this end the Conference will focus on three inter-related themes.
 
The first theme : “What’s wrong?  Corruption in Governance” wishes to explore the pervasive nature of corruption and the problematic administrative and social effects it has regarding state organisations around the world. Why are countries individually and collectively failing to deal effectively with the problem? Is it that we have yet to accumulate sufficient knowledge on the causes of corruption and on approaches that would most effectively combat it?  What new perspectives, ideas and concepts might there be – both theoretical and practical – that attempt to address these questions?
 
The second theme “What’s good? Good Governance in the public and non-profit sector” concerns the new concepts of governance now found in many countries around the world. “Network governance”, “publicness” and “civilness” are but some of the new terms being used to describe steering mechanisms and structures which concern both the public and private sectors. These all tend to have a perplexing degree of complexity and ambiguity. How should we properly understand and utilise these approaches to modern governance? Which of these have the potential to significantly improve levels of good governance – and have been seen to be effective? And what should be the role of government in exploring, promoting and applying these new concepts?
 
The third and final theme “What’s next? Innovations in governance and research” which concerns innovation in governance, seeks to take a more in-depth look at the international research community’s response to social problems. How do we go about obtaining deeper and more comprehensive understandings of new challenges in the public sector? What new perspectives might we pursue in order to deal with these powerful and resilient problem areas? And relatedly there is also the issue of new research approaches: what focus and methods of research might best contribute to the answers we seek? Are there possibilities for action research, trans-disciplinary projects – or are there perhaps altogether new research methodologies that might be useful?
 
We invite you to submit your abstract by 15 October 2011 and take part in this exciting congress!
 
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.winelands2012.co.za/
 
We look forward to welcome you in Stellenbosch.
 
KOBUS MULLER
Conference Chairperson
School of Public Leadership (SPL)

Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Los Angeles, January 20-22, 2012; Call for Papers Submission Deadline July 7, 2011

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the international Advisory Board, I would like to inform you of the:

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
20-22 January 2012
http://DesignPrinciplesandPractices.com/Conference

We are pleased to host the Design Conference this year at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.  Los Angeles is a world center of entertainment, arts, design and media. Its cultural and economic diversity, and landmarks of expansion and development over the last century make Los Angeles an ideal place to discuss the dimensions of design theory and practice.

The Design Conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a dialogue that encompasses an expansive array of disciplinary perspectives and practices. The highly inclusive format provides conference delegates with significant opportunities to connect with people from shared fields and disciplines and with those from vastly different specializations. The resulting conversations provide ample occasions for mutual learning, weaving between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, and market pragmatics and social idealism.

As well as an international line-up of plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed ‘Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal’. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the journal.

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the Design Conference YouTube Playlist. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details.  We also invite you to subscribe to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://DesignPrinciplesandPractices.com/.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 7 July 2011. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date.  Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the conference website – http://DesignPrinciplesandPractices.com/Conference/.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Los Angeles in 2012.

Yours Sincerely,

Lorenzo Imbesi DottArch PhD
School of Industrial Design
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada