Activities

CERALE – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Amérique Latine Europe (ESCP Europe), en collaboration avec l’Institut des Amériques et la Fondation EU-LAC a organisé les 30 et 31 mai 2016 le colloque international « Management interculturel et affinités électives, Europe – Amérique latine et Caraïbe, pour contribuer à un développement durable ».

Avec l’appui du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international ce colloque s’est tenu dans la salle Médicis du Palais du Luxembourg et dans l’Amphithéâtre Vital Roux de ESCP Europe, dans le cadre de la semaine de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes en France.

Introduites par la Conférence inaugurale du Président émérite de l’INCAE Business School, Brizio Biondi-Morra, ces deux journées d’études ont permis à de nombreux chercheurs, professeurs et responsables des secteurs public et privé d’enrichir et d’examiner les théories et pratiques de management de chaque côté de l’Atlantique, par de nombreuses conférences et tables rondes.

Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir recueillir les interventions de Michel Vauzelle, député français, Vice-président de la commission Affaires étrangères, et de Leonel Fernández, Président de la Fondation EU-LAC et ancien Président de la République Dominicaine.

Lors de la deuxième journée qui s’est tenue à ESCP Europe, des ateliers de travail se sont déroulés sous forme de huit sessions thématiques, réunissant plus d’une cinquantaine d’intervenants en lien avec les grands axes de travail de ce colloque :

• Management des politiques publiques
• Dynamiques d’internationalisation des entreprises
• Management interculturel
• Born global firms et PME à l’international
• Comportement du consommateur
• Responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise
• Les relations de production dans les chaînes mondiales de valeur
• Le management de l’énergie

Retrouvez ici le programme plus détaillé des sessions thématiques

Avec plus de 130 participants – venant tous d’horizons variés, de la recherche académique au monde de l’entreprise, de représentants d’organisations internationales à des professeurs d’université – les organisateurs ont souhaité mobiliser un double regard sur le management interculturel, autant universitaire qu’entrepreneurial.

Ce panel varié d’acteurs concernés par ce sujet a permis de partager les différentes expériences ainsi que de confronter les différentes approches en vigueur dans le domaine du management dans l’espace euro-latino-américain. Toutes ces réflexions élaborées visent, notamment, à renforcer la relation stratégique bi-régionale UE-CELAC, dans le rapprochement entre ces deux espaces que suggère le terme d’« affinités électives ».

Enfin, dans la logique impulsée par la COP21 et par la préparation face au défi incontournable  du changement climatique, le colloque a aussi invité les entreprises et les Etats d’Europe et d’Amérique Latine à penser leurs activités et leurs politiques de façon durable, en respectant l’équilibre de l’environnement et en contribuant au développement social des populations concernées.

Pour voir le compte rendu : compte-rendu-conference

 Article sur la conférence inaugurale : Vent de Patagonie au Senat JMS

PRESENTATION OF THE SYMPOSIUM

CAPITALISING ON MANAGERIAL AND CULTURAL TIES BETWEEN EUROPE – LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

As part of its strategic partnership with the European Union – Latin America and Caribbean Foundation (EU-LAC), the Institute of the Americas (IdA) organizes every year during the Latin American and Caribbean Week in France, with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, a conference to valorize and strengthen the bi-regional association. The 2016 Conference is organized jointly with the CERALE – Center for Studies and Research Latin America Europe of ESCP Europe, member of the IdA.

 
It will be a high visibility event that will bring together researchers, public decision maker and representatives of international organisations and private sector, in order to exchange experiences from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean about intercultural and sustainable management.

Gathering management researchers from Europe and Latin America and Caribbean, the primary goal of the 2016 IdA-EULAC-CERALE Conference is to review existing theories and approaches, evaluate their importance and share some epistemological options that make it possible to comprehend the challenges faced by companies which operate in more than a single geopolitical area and are thus torn between two competing demands: standardizing their business practices and dealing with the cultural specificities of the markets in which they operate worldwide.

The Americas – the English-speaking area of North America as well as the Latin American and Caribbean countries – undoubtedly share a cultural heritage and a system of values with Europe. The two Americas have been interwoven ever since the U.S. model imposed itself in western countries over the 20^th century, both in academic circles and in business practices. The geopolitical changeovers at work since the beginning of the new millennium combined with the increased momentum of “emerging” economies – that engender specific economic and social problems – have challenged the validity of the U.S. model and lent crucial importance to the following question: could we be witnessing at the same time the erosion of monolithic managerial thinking patterned on the Anglo-Saxon capitalistic model and the emergence of alternative managerial thinking – not only in America but also in Europe?

The 2016 IdA-EULAC-CERALE Conference will endeavor to provide answers to all of these questions by attracting management researchers from the two sides of the Atlantic. To this end, instead of focusing on management disciplines, the conference will foster interaction between managerial issues.

To achieve that purpose the conference will attempt to rely on the culture-area concept given that social and cultural contexts cannot be avoided if we aim at successfully bridging the gap between two levels of reality: on the one hand global thinking and practices, on the other hand local influences and constraints. Various academic initiatives testify to the relevance of this concept: the International Conference on Mediterranean Studies has already organized seven academic conventions; the 12^th conference of the Institute of the Americas (2014) addressed the topics of culture areas; scientific interest groups geared to cultural areas (e.g. Asia, Africa, the Muslim world) have emerged in France. In our specific field of interest, the Premières Assises du Management des pays d’expression latine, a conference that was jointly organized by the FNEGE in Lisbon in 2012, is also a case in point.

The theme of the 2016 IdA-EULAC-CERALE Conference is “Capitalizing on managerial and cultural ties between Europe and Latin America to promote sustainable development”. In the French-language presentation, the phrase “elective affinities”, which is borrowed from the title of Goethe’s eponymous novel, refers to the forces of attraction that bring individuals together while freeing them from existing rules and preconceived opinions. Elective affinities also influence business relations and international management: collaborations cannot be imposed on individuals; high-performing teams do not solely result from the rational organization of their work environment: they prove that effective organizations essentially depend on individuals and interpersonal affinities.

At the same time, both in Europe and Latin America, enterprises must meet the inescapable challenge of planning their operations in a sustainable manner, by respecting the natural balance of our ecosystems and contributing to the social development of the populations concerned. Such missions are all the more crucial since socially responsible investment is one of the most strategically important components of the mutual relations between CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) countries and the European countries.

Elective affinities and sustainable development will thus be the cross-disciplinary themes of the forthcoming conference. They will be the common thread running through the discussions in each working group and interaction will be fostered through roundtables and joint sessions.

THEMES

The following issues will be addressed:

1. Public policy management
2.  Enterprises internationalization dynamics
3. Turning culture clashes into culture flashes: challenges and solutions to intercultural management issues
4. ‘Born global Firms’ and international SMEs in a bi-regional environment
5. Consumer behaviour: shifting from materialistic consumption to the quest for specific experiences
6. Corporate social responsibility
7. Production relations in the global value chains
8. Bi-regional Energy collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities
9. Management of occupational and technological risks

A selection of presented papers will be submitted for a special issue published by a ranked journal. A collective book on the theme of the conference will also be edited. The papers presented for track 1 will be submitted, after a double-blind evaluation process, to Politiques et Management public and papers presented for track 8 can be submitted to a specialized journal.

DATE AND VENUE

May 30 to June 1, 2016 in Paris, France.

WORKING LANGUAGES

Written communications and oral presentations will be made in Spanish, French, Portuguese or English.

TIMELINE

July 16, 2015 : publication of the call for papers

Novembre 12, 2015 : deadline for the submission of abstracts

Novembre 30, 2015 : formal acceptance of abstracts

January 31, 2016 : deadline for the submission of final contributions

March 31, 2016 : dispatch of final evaluations

Summaries will be sent both in English and in the original language directly to the responsible of each theme. They will feature the following content:

• Communication title, author(s), institution(s) of affiliation, e-mail addresses
• Abstracts of 200 to 300 words presenting the issue/topic addressed, the methodology used as well as main results.

For further information : More information

Call for papers : Flyer IdA-EULAC-CERALE 2016 Conference

Appel à communications :  Flyer Colloque IdA-EULAC-CERALE 2016 FR

Llamado a comunicaciones :  Flyer Coloquio IdA-EULAC-CERALE 2016 ES