Cross Cultural Conference 2007

Crosscultural Life of Social Values

(international conference organized by International Association of Cross-CulturalCompetence & Management, Vienna and Rotterdam School of Management, ErasmusUniversity Rotterdam)

Rotterdam, May 18-19, 2007

Values lead a very busy social life, avoiding attempts to organize and manage them inideologies, theories, norms, explanations and justifications. Socially managed gardens ofour culture, with carefully fenced off domains of arts, sciences, moralities and religionsare being subverted, undermined and corrupted everyday. Under schools, dimensions,themes and fashions there are secret tunnels, cunning passages, clandestine networks.Through these underground mazes a busy traffic makes our cultures go round,clashing, merging and cross-breeding hybrid cultural forms.

Conference fee is 150,- € for regular participants, 100,-€ for members and 50,- € for PhD. students and master program students. Details of the registration will appear at the website.

Friday, May 18:
Morning session (9.00 – 12.30): Canons; cross-cultural studies with Hofstede

1. 1. (9.00 – 9.30) Geert Hofstede – Hofstede after Hofstede: what should be done with mydimensions
2. 2. (9.30 – 10.00) Mark Peterson – Hofstede after his canon (Aarhus masterclass reader)
3. 3. (10.00 – 10.30) Terence Jackson – Hofstede after Eurocentric correction: does he work in Africa?
4. 4. (10.30 – 11.00) Mansour Javidan – Hofstede after revisionism of the Globe project
5. 5. (11.00 – 11.30) Mikael Søndergaard – Hofstede’s canon after peer criticism; robust orbust?
6. 6. Discussion chaired by Gerhard Fink (11.30 – 12.30)

Lunch (12.30 – 13.30)
Afternoon session (13.30 – 16.30); Parallel workshops; Cross-cultural studies afterHofstede

1. Parallel focus group A. OUT OF FOCUS. Immigrant ideas, subversive translationsand Hofstede as an ideologue of cross-cultural transfer of bureaucratic knowledge(Slawomir Magala)
2. Parallel focus group B. Corporate microstorias and methodological resistance tomanagerialism (Bachtin’s dialogicity and mobilizing for change) (David Boje)
3. Parallel focus group D. Hofstede and studies of communication – informationprocessing and communication styles (Marinel Gerritsen)
4. Parallel focus group E. Hofstede as a designer of self-regulating processes or resocializationin adaptative systems (Maurice Yolles)
5. (16.30 – 17.30) Plenary summing up of focus group presentations (chaired byWolfgang Mayrhofer)

Reception (17.30 – 18.30)

Dinner (20.00)

Saturday, May 19:

Morning session (9.00-12.30): Shifts: cross-cultural studies around Hofstede

1. (9.00-9.30) David Boje – The dialogic shift in cross-cultural studies
2. (9.30-10.00) Yiannis Gabriel – The Narrative shift in organizational studies
3. (10.00-10.30) Marinel Gerritsen – The Linguistic shift in cross-cultural studies
4. (10.30-11.00) Hugh Willmott and Thorsten Jelinek – The political shift in crossculturalstudies (social theory of hegemony)
5. (11.00-11.30) Louk de la Rive Box – The Pragmatic Shift in cross-cultural transfer ofknowledge
6. (11.30-12.30) Discussion chaired by Nigel Holden

Lunch (12.30-13.30)
Afternoon session (13.30 – 15.30) Parallel focus groups

1. Parallel focus group A: Cross-cultural studies and knowledge management (chairedby Mats Alvesson and Nigel Holden)
2. Parallel focus group B: Cross-cultural studies and human resource management(chaired by Gerhard Fink and Terence Jackson)
3. Parallel focus group C: OUT OF FOCUS. Cross-cultural studies and the return of thehumanities in socio-economic studies (chaired by Eelke de Jong and SlawomirMagala)
4. Parallel focus group D: Narratives, discourses and critical management studies(chaired by David Boje and Hugh Willmott)