The Annual Divison Conference of the German Communication Association PR and Organizational Communication took place November 3-5th 2011, in Fribourg, Switzerland. I presented the results of my latest study, comparing the reception of strategy communication in Europe, East Asia and South Asia: “Organizational Communication in Europe and Asia: enhancing commitment to the strategy with culturally appropriate knowledge visualization”.Continue reading “DGPuK Organizational Communication 2011 Fribourg”
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Network and career
Working hard is not enough. We might all have had the feeling that networking can help in career development. But how? Who should you network with? Is networking equally effective for men and for women? Prof. Carnabuci gave a very interesting seminar on the topic, organized by the Equal Opportunities service of the University ofContinue reading “Network and career”
Green timeline
The Guardian has created a nice interactive timeline of green movements. It portraits the major events of WWF, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth in the occasion of their 50° and 40° anniversary, respectively. Click on the image to see the interactive version. (Re-posted from Rahel’s blog Kosmos 9)
Brescia Dialect. Or rather, Lombard language.
A series of lectures on “Dialetto Bresciano” (Dialect of Brescia) is taking place in Lonato del Garda every Friday of October. I appreciate and support this cultural initiative, aimed at saving the cultural heritage of this land, without linking itself to secessionists parties. Indeed dialect is often and erroneously associated with the will to differentiate and divide the various Italian regions. The lectures, titledContinue reading “Brescia Dialect. Or rather, Lombard language.”
Management Atlas book
Management Atlas is a new interesting book on knowledge visualization for management by Martin J. Eppler and Jeanne Mengis (in German). The idea of the book is to make management methods, strategies and tools more easily accessible to practitioners by representing them through visual metaphors. The 37 colourful metaphors are grouped together in three continents: methodsContinue reading “Management Atlas book”
Vargas Llosa @ Uni St. Gallen
Mario Vargas Llosa, literature nobel prize laureate 2010, gave a public lecture at the University of St. Gallen on Sept 21st, organized by prof. Yvette Sanchez. The Peruvian ambassador (see the picture below) opened the talk with provocative statements, citing the very first lines of the author’s book “Conversation in the Cathedral”, explaining how Vargas Llosa’s writings influenced his perception of PeruContinue reading “Vargas Llosa @ Uni St. Gallen”
ICIG symposium – IE Segovia
The 14th ICIG Symposium took place on September 14th to 16th organized by John Balmer and Laura Illia. It was an honor to be invited to this prestigious event, and a pleasure to meet and listen to very well-known researchers of corporate identity field. I presented my work on the changing visual identity of start-up companies. Thank you Laura forContinue reading “ICIG symposium – IE Segovia”
Global competencies @ AoM
I dedicate an entire post to my favourite session of the conference: “Global Competencies: East and West, The Pursuit of the Complementarities” organized by Rosana Silveira Reis and chaired by Sherlan Leonardo Cretoiu, (Fundacao Dom Cabral, Brasil). Prof. Yoshitaka Yamazaki (picture below) from Japan presented is study about important competencies of Japanese managers operating in Asia and in the West, respectively. He outlined that there are commonContinue reading “Global competencies @ AoM”
Social Entrepreneurship @ AoM
Social entrepreneurship is attracting a large and growing interest at the Academy, reflecting its increasing popularity. A number of PDW and Symposia were organized on the topic, and most of them were fully booked including “Social Entrepreneurship and Broader Theories: Shedding New Light on the Bigger Picture” organized by Susan Mueller. Johanna Mair, a well known researcher in this area, presentedContinue reading “Social Entrepreneurship @ AoM”
Academy of Management 2011
“The 2011 Annual Meeting program has over 1600 total activities involving more than 8000 people from 78 countries. ” (Souce: Aom meeting website)Program: http://program.aomonline.org/2011/subMenu.asp?mode=setmenu&menuid=14 The biggest and most prestigiuos management conference in the world is taking place in San Antonio Texas. As an organizational communication researcher, I was more than happy to see the Distinguished Service Award given to LindaContinue reading “Academy of Management 2011”
Sabrina Bresciani, Ph.D. 