Paper submission deadline (based on an accepted abstract): 1 July 2014 An abstract for your paper must first be approved before you will be invited to submit a full paper (see below). Abstracts can be submitted at any time until 1 March; however, space on the conference programme is likely to become limited, as the initial deadline has already passed and many abstracts have already been accepted. Submission of abstracts:
If you would like to present a paper at MOPAN 2014, please email an abstract to MOPAN2014@brookes.ac.uk, putting the words “MOPAN Abstract” as the email subject. Abstracts should be between 300-500 words long and contained in an attachment to your email. The abstract should include a title, 5-7 keywords, and names, affiliation and email addresses of authors.
For more information, see http://www.MOPAN2014.info
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Call for papers for MOPAN 2014 conference at Oxford
Call for papers for MOPAN 2014
"The
Collaborative Economy"
Oxford Brookes University
14-16 July 2014
Partnerships, alliances and networks now proliferate both within and across the business, government and civil society sectors. Customers, too, are increasingly drawn into new patterns of collaboration and consumption. And in a world driven by real-time information provision, a globally interconnected economy, pressure on vulnerable ecosystems, and complex flows of people, ideas and resources, local issues can take on geopolitical dimensions.
The complexity of drivers, processes and
outcomes at any given place and time make for wicked problems and profound
uncertainties. All of this provides compelling rationales for engaging in
multi-actor collaboration and investing in joint knowledge creation, in
interactive sense-making and in the integrative negotiation of interests.
This is the landscape that the 21st Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks will be addressing on 14-16 July 2014 at Oxford Brookes University. Key themes will include:
This is the landscape that the 21st Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks will be addressing on 14-16 July 2014 at Oxford Brookes University. Key themes will include:
· Public sector
collaboration in an era of austerity
· Internationalisation
of networks and alliances
· Collaborative
consumption: new models of purchasing and use
· Digital technology in
support of network forms of organisation
· Collaboration for
business model innovation
· Leadership skills for
networks and collaborations
· University and
industry collaboration: supporting research and innovation
· Systems thinking in
multi-organisational partnerships and networks.
Who Should Attend
Delegates from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that address any of the areas above are welcome, including academics, practitioners and policy-makers. Papers from doctoral and early‑career researchers are especially welcome.
Location
Oxford Brookes University Faculty of Business
Wheatley Campus
Oxford
OX33 1HX
Paper Submission Details
Abstract deadline: 13 January 2014
Abstract deadline: 13 January 2014
Paper submission: 1
July 2014
Submission
of abstracts
If you would like to present
a paper at MOPAN 2014, please email an abstract to MOPAN2014@brookes.ac.uk by
13 January 2014, putting the words “MOPAN Abstract” as the email subject.
Abstracts should be between 300-500 words long and contained in an attachment
to your email. The abstract should include a title, 5-7 keywords, and names,
affiliation and email addresses of authors.
£260: EARLYBIRD Registration (available
until 31 March 2014)
£175: PhD Student Registration
£300: Standard fee
To book your place please go to: http://www.MOPAN2014.info
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Call for papers for MOPAN 2013 at Newcastle University Business School
Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks (MOPAN 2013)
The 20th MOPAN conference is to be held on 15 - 17 July 2013 at Newcastle University Business School
Conference Theme - Innovating Relationships in Partnerships, Alliances and Networks
People who work together within organizations are confronted with all sorts of challenges. They have to divide tasks, set rules, design an organizational structure, mediate conflicts, take decisions, change and innovate, develop a strategy, and so forth.
The current societal, economic and technological developments have raised the stakes in terms of interdependency between organisations and these challenges increasing the interest in the inter-organizational domain.
Societal challenges in sectors like ageing, sustainability and social renewal are technically and organizationally complex issues. Such complexity requires a commitment by companies, government agencies, civic organisations and interest groups improve their collaboration skills, governance and structures.
A variety of partnerships, alliances and networks have developed in response to these challenges both within and across the business, government and civil society sectors.
In a world of increasing interdependencies, driven by real-time information provision, a globally interconnected economy, pressure on vulnerable ecosystems, and complex flows of people, ideas and resources, local problems can take on geopolitical dimensions, and the decisions of multinational corporations can directly affect local populations around the globe.
The complexity of drivers, processes and outcomes at any given place and time makes for wicked problems that confront us with profound uncertainties as to what exactly is happening and where we are heading, and with considerable ambiguity resulting from the broad variety of perspectives brought to bear on these wicked problems.
All of this provides sufficient rationales for engaging in multi-actor collaboration and to invest in joint knowledge creation, in interactive sensemaking, in the integrative negotiation of interests, in adaptive planning etc.
At the same time collaborations can be understood as experiments in social innovation, which are greatly complicated by these uncertain and ambiguous conditions.
While a certain rate of failure is a common and accepted occurrence in developing innovative products or services, for many government-sponsored projects (even pilot projects) official failure is often not an option.
Innovating relationship in Partnerships, Alliances and Networks raises questions like:
- What are key innovations affecting inter-organisational relations?
- How can collaborations recognize and ameliorate problems in relationships?
- What and how can collaborations learn and innovate from success or failure?
- Are there innovative ways approaching the designing/re-designing of organisations and collaborations to support improvements in relationships?
- What are the appropriate scales for innovation and collaboration in responding to the challenges of societal challenges such as social renewal?
- How do actors innovate their relation and relationships in specific contexts, and with what effect?
- What are the role of institutions such as Universities in promoting innovations, brokering partnerships or intervening in relationships in areas as diverse as the co-production of the care of older people to large infrastructure projects such as the Olympics?
Conference contacts:
Conference lead: Dr Robert Wilson, rob.wilson@ncl.ac.uk
Administration support: Ruth Warwick, ruth.warwick@newcastle.ac.uk
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Overview of presentations at MOPAN 2012!
MOPAN 2012 at Wageningen will feature about 90 presentations of contributors from all over the world. An overview of the accepted presentations for the general conference and the thematic tracks is available at http://www.mopan2012.wur.nl/UK/Call+for+Papers/Thematic+tracks/. Click on the tracks and scroll down to see the list of accepted papers.
Last chance for registration at the early bird fee of 295 EUR is on May 6th!
http://www.mopan2012.wur.nl/UK/Registration/
Last chance for registration at the early bird fee of 295 EUR is on May 6th!
http://www.mopan2012.wur.nl/UK/Registration/
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Last call for paper for the MOPAN 2012 Conference
MOPAN 2012 Conference
Last call for papers
(submission deadline extended until February 3)
19th Annual Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships,
Alliances and Networks
Alliances and Networks
“Multi-actor collaboration in an uncertain and ambiguous world”
July 2-4, 2012, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Confirmed keynote speakers
Prof. Barbara Gray, Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Rob van Tulder, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dr. Steve Waddell, NetworkingAction/Bocconi University
Call for papers
The MOPAN conference series focusses on partnerships, alliances and networks between any combination of business actors, civil society actors and governmental actors. We invite papers and other contributions (symposia, workshops, games, videos, …) related to the conference theme or one of the thematic tracks outlined below. Please outline your contribution in an abstract of maximum 500 words and send it to mopan2012@wur.nl, indicating whether you submit it to the general conference or to one of the thematic tracks.
Track 1. Dealing with frame diversity in collaborative water governance
Track 2. Towards Version 2.0 of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: Rethinking business-NGO- government relationships in governing sustainable production of global commodities
Track 3. Power in multi-stakeholder processes for development
Track 4. Facilitating resilience in multi-actor collaboration
Track 5. Innovation networks: self-organization and adaptive management
Track 6. Stakeholder involvement in the United Nations
Track 7. Network dynamics
Track 8. Complexity leadership and sustainable development
Track 9. Multi-actor pilot projects and policy experiments
Track 10. Global Action Networks
Track 11. Still Joining up? Health partnerships, collaborations, networks and integrations
Friday, 14 October 2011
MOPAN 2012 Call for Papers
The MOPAN conference series focusses on partnerships, alliances and networks between any combination of business actors, civil society actors and governmental actors. The Call for Papers for the MOPAN 2012 Conference at Wageningen is now available at www.mopan2012.wur.nl
The 2012 Conference Theme is "Multi-actor collaboration in an uncertain and ambiguous world".
We invite papers and other contributions (symposia, workshops, games, videos, …) related to the conference theme or one of the thematic tracks:
Track 1. Dealing with frame diversity in collaborative water governance
Track 2. Towards Version 2.0 of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: Rethinking business-NGO- government relationships in governing sustainable production of global commodities
Track 3. Power in multi-stakeholder processes for development
Track 4. Facilitating resilience in multi-actor collaboration
Track 5. Innovation networks: self-organization and adaptive management
Track 6. Stakeholder involvement in the United Nations
Track 7. Network Dynamics
Track 8. Complexity leadership and sustainable development
Track 9. Multi-actor pilot projects and policy experiments
Track 10. Global Action Networks
Please outline your contribution in an abstract of maximum 500 words and send it to mopan2012@wur.nl, indicating whether you submit it to the general conference or to one of the thematic tracks.
Important dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15
Notification of acceptance: March 15
Registration open: March 15
Early registration deadline: May 1st
Deadline Full papers: May 15
Final registration deadline: June 15
Monday, 11 July 2011
MOPAN 2012 at Wageningen University
The 19th Annual Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks (MOPAN 2012) will take place from July 2nd – 4th 2012 at Wageningen University (Netherlands). A conference website will be on-line soon at http://www.mopan2012.wur.nl
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