Modern Management Research in Europe

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Seskeviciute, G. (2007), "Modern Management Research in Europe", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 2 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2007.29502aac.001

Modern Management Research in Europe

The Conference “Modern Management Research Context European Research Area” took place on 15-17th September 2006 at ISM University of Management and Economics, Kaunas, Lithuania. The Conference was organised jointly by ISM University of Management and Economics (ISM), Baltic Management Development Association (BMDA) and Baltic Journal of Management (BJM). It attracted 85 participants from 11 countries – Norway, USA, France, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, UK, Georgia, Germany, Austria, and Lithuania.

The aim of the International conference for young researchers was to activate management research and to share the experience on management research in Central and Eastern countries and Europe. The main objectives of the conference were: identifying the bottlenecks in management research in Europe and especially in Central and Eastern countries; identifying the challenges in developing new generation of management researchers; sharing interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and other management research results; discussing over applied vs fundamental and Eastern vs Western traditions in management research; pointing out guidelines for future management research development.

The first day was devoted to answer the question – “What is the true way of management research and doctoral studies in modern world?” – seven keynote speakers – Prof. Dr Rolv Petter Amdam (BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway); Prof. Dr Tiit Elenurm (Estonian Business School Group, Estonia); Prof. Dr oec. Tatjana Volkova (Banking Institution of Higher Education, Latvia); Prof. Dr Eamonn Judge (Leeds Business School, UK); Prof. Dr Rainhart Lang (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Assoc. Prof. Dr Alfredas Chmieliauskas (ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania) and Ms Lee Nordgre (Lithuanian Christian College, Lithuania) developed the topic. The second day was devoted to present the research results on four major topics: human resource management and organisational learning; finance and economics; strategy and higher education; culture and project management. 28 research works were presented during the second day of the conference.

During the conference two Emerald Awards “Award for the Best Research Idea” were presented to Nerijus Maciulis, Vaiva Lazauskaite and Elias Bengtsso for the abstract “Evaluating performance of Nordic and Baltic stock exchanges” and to Sami Basly for the abstract “The internationalisation of family SME: an organisational learning and knowledge development perspective”. The authors were awarded with a one-year free subscription to the Baltic Journal of Management in 2007.

Goda SeskeviciuteISM University of Management and Economics, Kaunas, Lithuania