EBMC 2015 - The European Business and Management Conference

EBMC 2015 - The European Business and Management Conference 9th to 12th July 2015 Brighton, United Kingdom Join IAFOR in the seaside city of Brighton, UK, from July 9-12, for the European Business and Management Conference 2015. Explore the conference theme of "Power" in an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary setting. Enquiries: ebmc@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/ebmc2015/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum EBMC2015 Conference Chairs and Featured Speakers Sir Kenneth Calman EBMC2015 Keynote Speaker Chancellor of the University of Glasgow Chairman of the National Trust for Scotland Former UK Chief Medical Officer Former President of the British Medical Association Former Chairman of the World Health Organisation Sir Kenneth Calman is Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He graduated in medicine in Glasgow and became Professor of Oncology in 1974. He remained in that post for 10 years. In 1984 he became Dean of Postgraduate Medicine and Professor of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Glasgow and Consultant Physician with an interest in palliative care at Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. In 1989 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer at the Scottish Home and Health Department and in September 1991 he became Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health in London. He was a member of the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation, and its Chairman from 1998-9. He was Vice Chancellor and Warden of the University of Durham from 1998 until 2007. He was a Member of the Statistics Commission from 1999 until 2007. He is President of the Institute of medical Ethics and Deputy Chair of the Board of the British Library. He chaired the Commission on Scottish Devolution 2008-9, and was President of the British Medical Association 2008. He was awarded a KCB in 1996. He became Chairman of the National Trust for Scotland in September 2010. His most recent books are "A study of storytelling, humour and learning in medicine" and "Medical Education: Past present and future" He has recently completed research for an M.Litt on Scottish Literature and Medicine and will be publishing a book on this subject in July 2014 entitled "A Doctor's Line. Poems and Prescriptions in Health and Healing." Professor Stuart D. B. Picken EBMC2015 Conference Chair: Chair, Japan Society of Scotland Chair, IAFOR IAB Professor Picken is the Chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining and Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines.In 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan. Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham. He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children. Conference Theme and Streams The conference theme is "Power" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Business and Management Studies, to be submitted under the following JEL code streams: A - General Economics and Teaching B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods D - Microeconomics E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics F - International Economics G - Financial Economics H - Public Economics I - Health, Education, and Welfare J - Labor and Demographic Economics K - Law and Economics L - Industrial Organization M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting N - Economic History O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth P - Economic Systems Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics Y - Miscellaneous Categories Z - Other Special Topics To submit your abstract, please create an account with our online submission system. Once you have done so, you will be able to login and submit your abstract. http://iafor.org/cfp