Dr. Adizes’ opening speech on the 15th Annual CEEMAN Conference

CEEMAN’s 15th Annual Conference will be held on 27-29 September 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey. The host institution is Sabanci University, Faculty of Management, headed by its Dean, Prof. Nakiye Boyacigiller.

Dr. Adizes is looking forward to providing the opening speech for the 15th CEEMAN Conference, titled “Globalization and Its Implications for Management Development".

The conference will focus on leadership development issues and challenges in the context of the globalizing world economy. It will explore what makes the current globalization process different from ones the world has witnessed in the past and sketch the new world that we are heading towards. Whether driving these changes, or responding to them, businesses are facing the need for a new generation of leaders, those who will be capable of leading their companies towards achieving and sustaining global competitiveness, while at the same time acting as agents of social change and transformation on both a local and a global scale. This imposes new challenges for business schools and other management development institutions.

Cross-cultural aspects and the related challenges for business school leadership will be discussed in more detail within the Deans and Directors Meeting, which is an integral part of the conference.

The most important is the question of the leadership capabilities needed for an increasingly competitive yet also increasingly co-operative, inter-related and interdependent multicultural world. The second issue is what business schools could do to enable business to acquire and further develop these leadership capabilities.

According to Dr. Danica Purg of CEEMAN, Mr Muhtar Kent, President and COO of The Coca Cola Company, USA, will speak at the gala dinner, keynote, Prof. Chan Kim (INSEAD), prominent business leader Muhtar Kent, Evgeni Utkin (CEO of Sintronics, Ukraine), Henryka Bochniarz (President of Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiathan), as well as academics including Jean-Pierre Lehmann (Founding Director of the EVIAN Group, IMD Lausanne) and others will additionally contribute to the high level of the event.

The 15th CEEMAN Annual Conference events will include:
• Deans and Directors Meeting (September 27 – Sabanci University)
• 15th CEEMAN Annual Conference (September 27 – Sabanci University, September 28 – Hotel Marmara)
• CEEMAN Annual Meeting (September 29 – Hotel Marmara)
• Seminar on new CEEMAN Accreditation scheme (September 29 – Hotel Marmara)
• CEEMAN 13th Case Writing Competition Award (closing date for case submission is July 22)

Click here for the Preliminary agenda of the CEEMAN Professors and Directors meeting
For more information about the conference contact:
Olga Veligurska, CEEMAN Coordinator / Head of Projects, olga.veligurska@iedc.si
Zeljka Sulc, Head of Marketing and PR, zeljka.sulc@iedc.si