3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
NEPALESE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
On

Transforming Management System for Innovation,
Development and GovernanceMarch 27-29, 2015

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Conference Chair
Prof. Dev Raj Adhikari, Tribhuvan University, Dean of the Faculty of Management
and Founding President of Nepalese Academy of Management

Co- ChairProf. Geoffrey Wood, University of Warwick, Associate Dean of Warwick Business
School

Key note Speakers
Prof. Chris Brewster, University of Reading, Henley Business School.
Prof. Garry Bruton, Texas Christian University, Neeley School of Business.
Prof. Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers Business School, Management and Global
Business Department.
Prof. TojoThatchenkery, George Mason University, School of Public Policy.
Prof. Igor Filatotchev, City University, Associate Dean at Cass Business School.

Nepalese Academy of Management (NAM)
Nepalese Academy of Management (NAM) is an independent, not for profit associationof academicians and professionals, established to create and disseminate knowledge
required for managing organizations regionally as well as globally. The Academy organizes
international conference biennially with international/national university/business school
collaboration aiming to bring together academics and practitioners from diverse
backgrounds and interests to meet, discuss and debate issues that will affect the future
direction of research and practice.

Such innovativeand integrated
approach often
needtransformation
on system withcombination oftechnology,social, cultural,andorganizational
efforts.

The 1stÊinternational conference (March 2011) attracted almost 200 participants from33 countries with 61 research papers, three workshops, three plenary sessions, and 16
technical sessions. The 2ndÊinternational conference (March 2013) had 300 participants,
101 research papers from 30 countries. The conference is characterized by a strong
developmental focus, providing participants with a supportive and collegial platform to
discuss and develop ideas, and helping authors enhance their papers for publication.
It provides opportunities to interact and network with academic scholars, businesspractitioners and peers from around the world and helps to publish works in leadinginternational journals. There will be a special issue of the best papers and conference
proceedings are issued.
The 3rd international conference of Nepalese Academy of Management (NAM) will beheld at the heart of Kathmandu cityÊonÊMarch 27-29, 2015. We invite faculty, researchscholars, doctoral students as well as business practitioners to submit papers and panels
addressing all areas of management, development, and economics relating to the theme:
Transforming Management system for Innovations, Development and Governance.
The theme of the conference opens an interesting and fruitful dialogue on all the issuesof management and economics and stimulates a sustainable view of competitivenessin our institutions. In order to accept the dynamics of changes in developed and developing
countries, it is the right time to address the management system transformation innovatingnovel ideas by developing corporate culture to nurture the competencies and good
governance for sustainable development. Such innovative and integrated approach often
need transformation on system with combination of technology, social, cultural, andorganizational efforts. Thus, it aims to stimulate scholars to question existing paradigms
and accepted practices and bridges the gaps in innovating ideas, developing new models
for institutions and suggesting new competencies.
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Full Paper Submission deadline
Blind Review comments
Re-submission deadline after comments
Registration deadline
Conference Dates: September 20, 2014
: Returned by October 05, 2014
: December 10, 2014
: January 31, 2015
: March 27-29, 2015

PapersAll papers must be submitted with word file (doc file) attachment o nnepaleseacademy@nam.org.np with cc to nepaleseacademy@gmail.com by September 20,
2014. Submissions in the following tracks and plenary sessions are welcomed although
papers that do not fit precisely into these tracks may also be submitted:

Innovations
Topics related to standardization and innovation, business model innovation; organizing
creativity for innovation; multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practices oninnovations; methods, tools, barriers, competencies, and measurements; rethinking
the design paradigm in management; theories, activities, and organizations; grounded
in institutional theory, and innovation related to developed and emerging economies,
evolutionary approaches in business and management research; novel approaches
to organizational project, research, and cultural management; entrepreneurship andinnovation in family firms.

Institutions and Corporate Culture
Topics related to national institutional configurations and firm level practice; compositionof boards of directors; top management teams and business ethics; women directors
on corporate boards; gender and succession in family business, entrepreneurshipeducation: bridging the gap between theory and practices, balancing entrepreneurial
spirit and management in family firms along generations, entrepreneurship andsocietal changes, accounting and controlling for sustainability; finance, economy andsociety; explorations of the nature and characteristics of business ecosystems;

All papers mustbe submittedwith word file(doc file)attachment on
nepaleseacade
my@nam.org.
np with cc tonepaleseacade
my@gmail.com
by September
20, 2014.

transforming social networks to value chains through business model innovation;
strategic processes, practices and implementation; competitive dynamics- thechanging fabrics of competition between firms and industrial clusters, corporate
strategy; management of M&A, alliance and divestitures; crisis, emergency
management and recovery; comparative capitalism and institutional comparisonsacross countries.

Competencies
Topics related to expatriate management; work motivation in public and nonprofit
sector; raising future leaders, training and development; institutions and change,
leadership for organizational change and resistance, towards a responsible
management or cultural diversity; realizing competitiveness and sustainability throughhuman factor and human resource management, rewards, employee relations,diversity management, team management, global talent management, performance
management and HR development, community-based and market-based HRM
approaches;, organizational behaviour, organizational learning & knowledge
management; strategic management; managing finance and financial institutes;
healthcare & hospital management; manufacturing & service, production & operations,project, product, service, supply chain, transportation, and consumer behaviour.

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Good Governance
Topics related to: behavioural perspectives on corporate governance, family businessgovernance, governance of public and nonprofit organizations; management andgovernance of culture and heritage; transparency and accountability, management
information system, workforce diversity, dynamics, and employee commitment, civilsociety pressure, anti- corruption efforts, complaint mechanism, the role of social
movements and local community for effectiveness and accountability.

Sustainable Development:
Topics related to corporate social responsibility and sustainability, social responsibility
and sustainability in public and nonprofit organizations, responsible management for
global value chain, corporate governance; competitiveness and strategic advantages,
globalization and sustainability, strategies to increase sustainable competitiveness;accounting and control for sustainability, finance, economy & society; institutions andchange, organizational change and resistance; performance management, competitive
advantages and national competitiveness.

Submission Requirement

Each submitted
paper must
include an
abstract andmust conform to
the following
format: First
Page: title,
authors, mailingaddress, phone,
fax, e-mailaddress, andabstract.
Second andsubsequentpages of thepaper should be
limited to 2500
to 5000 words.

Papers should follow the style recommended by the American Psychological Association(APA) Publication Manual. The language of the conference and related publications is English.
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference and be accompanied by paid
registration. Each submitted paper must include an abstract and must conform to the following
format: First Page: title, authors, mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail address, and abstract.
Second and subsequent pages of the paper should be limited to 2500 to 5000 words.
All papers must be submitted with word file (doc file) attachment
onnepaleseacademy@nam.org.np with cc to nepaleseacademy@gmail.com by September
20, 2014
Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and, if under review,must NOT appear in print before the NAM 2015 international Conference.
The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must
be in ONE document created in word (doc) format.
Each manuscript in English should be accompanied by an abstract, not to exceed
250-300 words
When accepted after blind review and resubmission, the authors or one of the coauthor must register and be available to present the paper at the conference.
One author can submit only one paper in any one track and selected papers will bescheduled in different tracks and plenary sessions.

Participants of the Conference
Presenters: authors of papers accepted for presentation after double blind peer
reviewed and registered can attend the Conference. Each presenter will receive a Certificate
of Presentation and will automatically become a member of the Academy for two years.
Faculty at undergraduate/or post graduate level, research scholars, senior students, consultants,
practitioners, executives, entrepreneurs, self employed professionals, civil servants engaged
in research are the prospective delegates for presenters.
Non-presenters: interested academician, professional and researchers, managers,
and all those who are interested in academic and research field can attend in the Conference
as an observer to listen to the presentations of papers without presenting a paper of theirown, if they have paid the registration fee. Each presenter will receive a Certificate ofParticipation and will automatically become a member of the Academy for two years.
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Family Friendly Conference
Kathmandu offers fabulous attractions including many world heritage sites, Darbar squares,
Pashupatinath, Boudhha, Lumbani-the birth place of Lord Buddha, Mountain Flights, paragliding,boating/white water rafting, bungi jumping… So making it a great place bringing your family.
To make the conference more enjoyable for all, NAM will offer excursions for family members
during the conference. These excursions will be offered at net cost and require advanceregistration.

Publication Opportunities
All manuscript submissions will be subject to a blind review process by NAM executives,
advisors and other members. Evaluated is based on relevance to the theme, analytical andconceptualÊrigor, quantitative and qualitative methods (if applicable), innovativeness, andsignificance of conclusions. The editorial board will make the final determination as to whether
the accepted papers are published in the NAM international conference proceedings 2015.
Besides proceedings the editors of the following journals will select best papers; authors of
selected papers will be invited to submit their work for consideration for publication in thefollowing journals:
The International Journal of the Nepalese Academy of Management
British Journal of Management
South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management(SAGE Publication)
Emerging Market Case Study Series (Emerald)
Journal of Shinawatra University (Shinawatra University)
Journal of Management ( Tribhuvan University)
SIU Journal of Management
South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases (SAGE Publication).

Key note speakers

The editorial
board will makethe final
determination
as to whether
the accepted
papers are
published in the
NAM
international
conference
proceedings
2015.

Prof. Chris Brewster
Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource
Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He
gained substantial experience in trade unions, Government, specialist
journals, personnel management in construction and air transport,
and consultancy, before becoming an academic twenty years ago.
He is a frequent speaker at Universities around the world. He has
acted as editor of several special editions of journals, and is a reviewer
to many of the leading journals in the field including International
Journal of HRM, HRM Policy and Practices, Journal of Professional HRM , Journal of World
Business. He is the author or joint author of some 20 books; has contributed chapters toaround 30 others and has had over 100 articles published.
Amongst practitioners, Prof. Brewster is a Board Member of the Association of Human
Resource Managers in International Organizations and an Associate Director of the Center
for Research into the Management of Expatriates. In 2002 Chris he was awarded the Georges
Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel
Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international
human resource management. In 2005, a University of Chicago survey found he was oneof the most published authors in the international business journals, one of only a handfulof non-US authors and a handful of human resource management specialists in the list. In
2006 Chris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa in Finland.

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Prof. Garry Bruton
Garry Bruton is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Neeley Schoolof Business at Texas Christian University where he helped to start
the entrepreneurship program. Garry’s research focuses onentrepreneurship in emerging economies and he has published or
has forthcoming academic articles in leading journals such as the
Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal,
and Journal of Business Venturing. In addition, Garry has co-authored
three text books –small business management (McGraw-Hill), technology
and innovation management (Cengage), and international management (Cengage). Garyis Co-director - Institute for Global Innovation and Chinese Entrepreneurship at Tongji
University (China), Honorary Professor - Department of Business, Administration at Sun Yatsen Business School (China), honorary professor at South China University of Technology(China), and serves on the international advisory board of the Entrepreneurship Center
Nankai University (China). Garry is also the past president of the Asia Academy of Management
and past editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Professor Bruton is currently
an associate editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and serves on four other editorial
boards.

Prof. Farok J. Contractor

All manuscript
submissions will
be subject to ablind review
process by
NAM
executives,
advisors andother members.

Professor in the Management and Global Business department at
Rutgers Business School, Prof. Farok has also taught at the Wharton
School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Lubin School of Business,
Theseus, EDHEC and conducted executive seminars in the US, Europe,
Latin America and Asia. He has served Rutgers University in many
capacities such as Department Chair for the International Business,
Research Director of Center for International Business Education and Research, Coordinatorof the Ph.D. program in International Business, the Dean’s Leadership Council, and several
other key school and university initiatives. He is a graduate of the Wharton School, Universityof Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. and MBA, and the University of Michigan,
where he received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Contractor has written well over ahundred scholarly papers and has among the highest citation counts amongst scholars in
the field of International Management (Academy of International Business (AIB), or Academyof Management (AOM)) counting Google Scholar citations. Dr. Contractor has chaired or
been on the supervisory committees of 14 doctoral dissertations, and served on the facultyof several Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortiums organized by AOM, AIB, and CIBERs,
has served on the Executive Board of the AOB’s International Management Division, was
Chair of the division and Program Chair at the AOM, was elected a permanent Fellow of theAIB, and has also held other term fellowships such as the Fulbright Fellowship and Unilever
Fellowship.

Prof. Tojo Thatchenkery
Tojo Thatchenkery (Ph.D. Weatherhead School of Management, Case
Western Reserve University) is Professor and Director of M. S. in
Organization Development and Knowledge Management at the Schoolof Public Policy. He is also a member of the NTL Institute of Applied
Behavioral Science and the Taos Institute. He has over twenty five
years of experience in teaching at various Public Policy, MBA,
Organization Development, and executive development programsin the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, and

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Asia. His recent books includeÊOrganizational Transformation: Change Management
PerspectivesÊ(2014),ÊStrategic Initiatives for Competitive Advantage in the Knowledge
SocietyÊ(2014),ÊReframing Human Capital for Organizational ExcellenceÊ(2013),ÊCapability
Building for Organizational TransformationÊ(2013),ÊPositive Initiatives for Organizational
ChangeÊ(2012),Building Competencies for Sustainability and Organizational
Excellence(2012),ÊMaking the Invisible Visible: Understanding Leadership Contributions ofAsian Minorities in the WorkplaceÊ(2011),ÊPositive Design and Appreciative Construction:
From Sustainable Development to Sustainable ValueÊ(2010), Leveraging Global Competivenessfor Organizational ExcellenceÊ(2010),Enhancing Organizational Performance through Strategic
InitiativesÊ(2009),Handbook on Management CasesÊ(2008),ÊAppreciative Inquiry andKnowledge ManagementÊ(2007), andÊAppreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in
the AcornÊ(2006). He has also researched contemporary themes such as technologicalculture and globalization which resulted in another book, Information Communication
Technology and Economic Development: Learning from the Indian Experience (2006).
Thatchenkery is on the editorial board of theÊJournal of Applied Behavioral SciencesÊand
theÊJournal of Organizational Change ManagementÊand is the past Program Chair of the
Research Methods Division of theÊAcademy of Management.

Prof. Igor Filatotchev
Igor Filatotchev is an Associate Dean for Research and Enterpriseand Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Cass Business
School, City University London. He is also a Visiting Professor at
Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Before joining
Cass he held various academic positions at Nottingham University
Business School, Bradford University School of Management, King’s
College and Birkbeck College (University of London). He received
his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Moscow’s Institute ofPhysics and Technology followed by a PhD in Economics from theInstitute of World Economy and International Relations (Moscow). His research examines
corporate governance, entrepreneurship and strategic decisions. He has published morethan 100 articles in leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic
Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management and Journal ofInternational Business Studies. He is an Associate Editor of Corporate Governance: An
International Review and Journal of Management and Governance.

Chair of the ConferenceProf. Dev Raj Adhikari, Dean Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management
and Founding Secretary, Nepalese Academy of Management

Paper
Development
Workshop will
be held during
the conference
involving the
Editors of the
British JournalofManagement,...

Prof. Dr. Dev Raj Adhikari is a Dean of Faculty of Management at
Tribhuvan University. He is the Founding President of Nepalese
Academy of Management, Chairman of Nepal Bank Limited (the oldest
bank of Nepal), Chairman of National Insurance Corporation andadvisors of many business colleges of Nepal and abroad. He has been
involved in various researches on human resource management,
institutional development, knowledge management, strategic
Management and organizational behavior for the last 20 years. He
received post doctoral degree (1999-2000) from the Department of
Human Resource Management, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He
worked as Visiting Professor at Michael G. DeGroote School of Business Administration,
McMaster University, Canada, in 2001 and worked as visiting Researcher (July 2004- March
2005), at Japan Institute of Labour Policy and Training, Tokyo, Japan. He is an official
representative of Cranet- Network to Nepal. Recipient of North-South-Dialogue FellowshipAustria, 1989, Research fellowship from European Academy- Bolzano and Institute of Public
Sector Management, 1999, Mahendra Bidhaya Bhushan 'Ka' from His Majesty King Birendra,
1993, and “outstanding performance” award in the auspicious occasion of 49th anniversaryof Tribhuvan University, 2008, Professor Adhikari published many research articles in Nationaland International journals.

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Co- Chair of the ConferenceProf. Geoffrey Wood, Associate Dean of Warwick Business School,

University of Warwick.
Geoffrey Wood is Professor of International Business at Warwick
Business School, University of Warwick. Previously, he was Professor
in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield, andAssociate Dean of the School, and before that Professor and Directorof Research at Middlesex University Business School, and previously
taught at Rhodes University, South Africa (where he attained the rankof Associate Professor). He has also held visiting fellowships at Cranfield
University, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and theAmerican University in Cairo, Cornell University and Rhodes University. He currently is
Honorary Professor of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Visiting Professor at Nelson
Mandela University, both in South Africa, and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Australia.
Geoffrey Wood has served as Commissioned Researcher for the South African Truth andReconciliation Commission. He has authored/co-authored/edited seven books, and over one
hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals (including journals such as Work and Occupations,
Work Employment and Society, Organization Studies, Human Relations, British Journal ofIndustrial Relations, Human Resource Management (US), etc.). He has had numerous
research grants from funding councils (e.g. ESRC), government departments (e.g. US
Department of Labour), charities (e.g. Nuffield Foundation) and the labour movement (e.g.
the ITF).

Workshops
During the conference days, workshops in different issues will be organized with the support ofworld renounced Professors and Institutions for the benefit to the participants.

During theconferencedays,
workshops indifferent issues
will beorganized withthe support ofworld
renounced
Professors andInstitutions forthe benefit to
the participants.

A Case Writing Workshop will be held during the conference. Gopal P. Mahapatra, SeniorDirector, HR- organization and talent development at Oracle, India; Prof. Pavithra Kailasapathyof University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Prof. Katsuhiko Hirasawa of Nihon University, Japan andProf. G. D. Sardana of Birala Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) will be on the panel.
Prof. John Walsh of Shinwatra University, Thailand will lead the session along with others. In thisworkshop, selected cases will be evaluated, and provided one on one feedback, declared bestcases and encouraged to submit in different journal of case studies with the expertise ideas ofthese resources.
John Walsh is Director of the SIU Research Centre at Shinawatra University in Thailand andeditor of the SIU Journal of Management and the Journal of Shinawatra
University. He is Regional Editor (Southeast Asia) for Emerald's Emerging
Market Case Study Series. He has lived and worked in Sudan, Greece,
Korea, Australia, Abu Dhabi and his native UK. These days he research
focuses on the social and economic development of the Mekong Region
and his most recently published book is The Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Prof. Walsh will lead this workshop along with other reputed professorsof different universities.
Paper Development Workshop will be held during the conference involving the Editors of the
British Journal of Management, South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management, Journalof Shinawatra University and others. Prof. Marc Goergen of Cardiff Business School and ECGI,
UK; Prof.

Romie F. Littrell of AUT Business School, Center for Cross Cultural

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Comparison, New Zealand; Prof. Tony Fang of Stockholm University, School of Business,
Sweden; Prof. Yutaka Takakubo of Nihon University, Japan and other eminent professors
will be the panel for the workshop. Director of theÊÊ(EMIRG), The University of Sydney
Business School, Prof. Vikas Kumar will lead the workshop. Scholars who have papers thatare not fully developed are encouraged to participate. Authors will be given detailed feedback
in how to develop the paper to bring it to a publishable quality. The workshop will also focus
on how to utilize the “emerging market context” as a distinctive aspect in developing papers.
Vikas is Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy
in the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney
Business School. His previous appointments were at Bocconi University(2004-09), and as Visiting Scholars at Stanford University (2008-09)
and University of Reading (2012-13). He has been elected as theRepresentative-at-large (2013-14) for the Global Strategy Interest
Group in the Strategic Management Society. He obtained his doctoral
degree in International Business in 2004 from Saint Louis University.
Vikas's research interests include Internationalization, Emerging Market
Firms, Emerging Markets, Business Groups, and Outsourcing/Offshoring. He has been coguest editor of the special issues in Journal of Management Studies (2010), Journal ofInternational Management (2013), Management International Review (2014). Vikas serveson the Editorial Review Board of JMS, MIR, TIBR and the Global Strategy Journal (GSJ).

Conference Coordinator
Dr. Dhruba Kumar Gautam
Contact Details:
00977 9813 304401
00977 9841 367451
Founding Secretary
Nepalese Academy of Management
www.nam.org.np
nepaleseacademy@nam.org.np
nepaleseacademy@gmail.com
gautamdhruba@yahoo.com
P. O. Box 12719, Kathmandu, Nepal

Dr. Dhruba Kumar Gautam, Associate Professor of Management at Tribhuvan University (TU),
did Ph. D. in Strategic HRM, obtained dual degree in Master’s Level-MBA and MPA, and diploma
in Changing Perspectives on Culture from Stockholm University, School of Business, Sweden.
He has been teaching to MBA, M. Phil students supervising their dissertations along with Ph. D.
scholars. Recipient of research scholar from TU, University Grants Commission (UGC), he involved
on cross cultural research with Neeley School of Business (USA), Society for the Advancementof Management Studies (UK), has published few text books in management and some articles
in peer reviewed International Journals, and in national journals. Dr. Gautam- founding secretarycum executive director of Nepalese Academy of Management (NAM) coordinated 1st and 2ndinternational conference of NAM and is coordinating 3rd international conference. He is serving
being a Managing Editor of International Journal of Nepalese Academy of Management, editorial
board member of an International Journal – Asian Journal of Business and Management Science;and Advisory Editorial Board Member SIU Journal of Management. He actively participated andpresented some papers in International conferences including ILO, APROS, ISLE, IAM, ICBC,ICMC, IFSAM, AIB, IHRM and much interested to involve in international research / cross culturalresearch in collaboration with international researchers and associations. He served as a budget
expert, expert member of revenue advisory committee, and member expert of economic policy
advisory committee of Government of Nepal (2010-14).

There areseveral prizes
awarded attheconference

Conference Prizes
There are several prizes awarded at the conference:
Nepalese Academy of Management Prize for the best empirical research paper.
The British College prize for the best paper in international business perspectives.
Asian Institute of Technology and Management prize for new or under-researched topic
which contributes to the society.
School of Business, Tribhuvan University Doctoral Prize for the best paper by a doctoral
scholar.
DAV Business School Prize for Young Academic Excellence8