Monday June 4, 2012

Morning 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Registration and Speaker Orientation

“Welcoming Message"
Prof. Dr. Matthias Tomenendal, MBA, Director Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Martina Eberl, Faculty of Business and Economics, Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany (DOWNLOAD PDF)

Keynote Speaker
“International Investment Rules”===    Prof. Ludmila Sterbova, Academic Director of the International Business Program, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“The Impact of Leadership on Innovation Management” ===    Dr. Léo F. C. Bruno, Professor of Leadership, Dom Cabral Foundation, Nova Lima, Brazil (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Filial Piety and Good Leadership” === Dr. Patrick Kim Cheng Low, Chartered Marketer, Certified MBTI Administrator, & Certified Behavioral Consultant and Ang Sik-Liong, University Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Entrepreneurial Learning: The Three Dimensions of Business Model Iteration” ===   Prof. Dr. Sven Ripsas, Faculty of Business and Economics, Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin, Germany (DOWNLOAD PDF)

Lunch:  12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon:  1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Session Chair:  Dr. Viktorie Klimova, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“The Use of E-Textbooks in Higher Education: A Case Study” ===  Dr. Torsten Doering, Luiz Pereira and Linda Kuechler, Business Department, Daemen College,  Amherst, New York, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Data Validation as a Main Function of Business Intelligence”=== Dr. Thomas H. Lenhard, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Zweibruecken, Germany (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Performance Assessment of Domestic and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions”===   Daojuan Wang, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark; and Dr. Hamid Moini, Department of Finance and Business Law, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Celebrating Euromosaic vs Language Policies: the Case of the Czech Language”===  Prof. Bozena Bednarikova, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (DOWNLOAD PDF)

"Leaders and Languages of Power" ====== Dr. Ivana Mrozkova, Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Regional Innovation System in the South Moravian Region”===   Dr. Viktorie Klimova and Dr. Vladimir Zitek, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (DOWNLOAD PDF)

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Tuesday June 5, 2012
Morning 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Session Chair:  Prof. Dr. Martina Eberl, Faculty of Business and Economics, Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin, Germany

“Participative Leadership – Tomorrow’s Challenge”===   Dr. Kirpal Singh, Director Wee Kim Wee Center, Associate Professor, English Literature, School of Social Science, Singapore Management University, Singapore

“Subjectivity and Leadership”===  Dr. Laurent Lapierre, Pierre-Peladeau Chair in Leadership, HEC Montreal, Canada (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“The Obesity Culture – Leadership for a Weighty Program”===  Dr. Kee Yuan Ngiam, General Surgeon, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“The Body in Illness: A Personal Reflection”===  Susan Sapsed, Senior Teaching Fellow, Health Social Science and David Mathew, Learning Technologist, University of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, UK  (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Reinvent and Reorganize the Work in Times of Crisis”===  Ms. Paola DeVecchi Galbiati, Management Consultant, Biella, Italy (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Social Media and e-learning: Linking usage habits of Social Media tools and the Effectiveness of E-Learning in China and Germany”===  Andreas Scheel, PhD Candidate and Prof. Dr. Martina Eberl, Faculty of Business and Economics, Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin, Germany (DOWNLOAD PDF)

Lunch 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Session Chair: Dr. Penelope D. Keough, National University, School of Special Education, Costa Mesa, California, USA

“Dragons and Phoenixes: The Changing Face of China”===     Dr. Christine M. Merritt, Assistant Director of Strategic Alliances at TAPCO, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Good Leadership and Getting on Top of Office Politics”===  Dr. Patrick Kim Cheng Low, University Drunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“The Influence of Talent Management of the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of SMEs”===     Dr. Wael H. Ramadan, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Business Ethics in Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic”===  Petr Pirozek and Alena Safrova Drasilova, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Excellence in Global Leadership at Institutions of Higher Learning”===  Dr. Penelope D. Keough, National University, School of Special Education, Costa Mesa, California, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

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Wednesday June 6, 2012
Morning 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Session Chair:   Dr. Arif Altun, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

“State of the Art on Traffic Telematics”===   Mr. Michael Sandrock, President CEO, TelematicsPro, Berlin, Germany (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Online Project Based Learning in International Business Education: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice”===  Dr. Basil J. Janavaras, Department Marketing and International Business, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Internationalization: A Challenge for Meritorious Autonomous University”===  Prof. Emma Rosa Cruz Sosa, Laura Gatica Barrientos, and Particia Eugenia Garcia Castro, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Luxury Today – Key Factors for Success”=== Ms. Cristina deAzevedo Rosa, Economist, Master in Management and PhD candidate, the Strategic Management program at ISCTE - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Trust Scale Development in Turkey”===  Guler Islamoglu, Melek Birsel and Prof. Deniz Boru, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Developing Tasks for Screening Dyscalculia Tendencies”===  Dr. Sinan Olkun, Dr. Bulbin Sucuoglu, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey; Dr. Arif Altun, Dr. Banu Cangoz, Dr. Selahattin Gerbal, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (DOWNLOAD PDF)

Lunch 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Session Chair : Susan Sapsed, Senior Teaching Fellow, Health Social Science and David Mathew, Learning Technologist, University of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, UK 

“Project Management Literature: Gaps and Opportunities” ===  Dr. Wael H. Ramadan, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Preparing Students as Socially Responsible Global Citizens: Insights from Fashion Industry”== Dr. Jin Su, Dr. Mary Swinker, Dr. Eun Jin Hwang, and Dr. Janet Blood, Department of Human Development and Environmental Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Ethical Issues in Public Health Education”===  Susan Sapsed, Senior Teaching Fellow, Health Social Science and David Mathew, Learning Technologist, University of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, UK  (DOWNLOAD PDF)

“Case Studies in Systems and Database Courses”===  Dr. Donald Hsu, Associate Professor, Division of Business Administration, Dominican College of Blauvelt, Orangeburg, New York, USA

“E-Leader Singapore, January 2-4, 2013”===  Dr. Donald Hsu, President, Chinese American Scholars Association Inc, New York, New York, USA