November 26 and 27, 2010
Méditerranean University Center – Nice
For the first time, the reflection on intercultural management will focus on the specificity, or not, in the Mediterranean. Today, companies or institutions are facing the management of people whose cultural behaviors impact the achievement of entrepreneurial objectives.
The goal of this conference is to demonstrate how the modes of management practice, necessarily multiple and diverse around the Mediterranean basin, can provide answers to the questions posed by globalization and the internationalization of goods and skills.
Of note is the exceptional presence of Pape Diouf, co-President of the European Institute of Journalism and former President of Olympique de Marseille, who will share his experience of social interculturality through sport on Friday, November 26 at 4:30 PM.
The conference will be followed by the “Business Game,” a corporate game that has become a preferred tool for teachers over many years. The participating countries are: Algeria, Greece, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, and SKEMA from Nice. At the end of the game, the winning team will receive their prize in Nice in May 2011.
This conference, the result of a partnership between the City of Nice, the Mediterranean University Center, and the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence, aims to bring together researchers, experts, business leaders, educators, and students around these issues.
THE CHALLENGES OF THE CONFERENCE
While intercultural management has been the subject of numerous conferences and publications and has captured the attention of economic leaders for several decades, this event poses for the first time the hypothesis of specific management methods for intercultural relations in Mediterranean basin companies.
Can we then speak of intercultural management specific to the Mediterranean area?
Are there values, practices, experiences within this area that allow for the identification of a geographical, historical, or conceptual specificity in the management of people and organizations?
Or are there stakes to be constructed, and if so, which ones? In relation to which partners, Northern Europe and/or the Middle and Far East?
The result of a partnership between the City of Nice, the Mediterranean University Center, and the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence, this conference aims to bring together researchers, experts, business leaders, educators, and students around these issues.
The objective of this meeting is to show how the modes of management practice, necessarily diverse around the Mediterranean basin, can provide responses to the questions posed by globalization and internationalization of goods and skills.
It seeks to highlight the original managerial practices implemented by companies around the Mediterranean basin, at the intersection of Africa, Asia, and Europe, to try to enrich the theories and practices of intercultural management and the reflection on the training of students and business leaders in this field.
The themes addressed in the conference are as follows:
Heritage and foundations of Euro-Mediterranean identity
Challenges and values of a Mediterranean intercultural management?
Geopolitical and economic issues in the Mediterranean
Practices of intercultural management in Mediterranean basin countries
What training in intercultural management?
Conference on Intercultural Management – A daily subject
in partnership with the CUM and Sciences Po Aix (with the exceptional presence of Pape DIOUF) Co-President of the European Institute of Journalism, Marseille, Former President of Olympique de Marseille
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010
9 AM Welcome
9:30 AM Address by Authorities
10 AM – Can we talk about Mediterranean intercultural management?
Nelke GALEMA, International Expert in Intercultural Coaching, Netherlands – USA – France
Philippe d’IRIBARNE, Engineer of Mines, Research Director at CNRS, Creator and animator of Management & Society
Alain CABRAS, Associate Lecturer at Sciences Po Aix, in charge of “Euro-Mediterranean Dynamics” teaching
12 PM Debate
2:30 PM – Euro-Mediterranean identity: foundations and heritage
Emmanuel MOURAIRE, Agrégé Professor of history, Lecturer at SciencesPo, Menton
Samia EL MECHAT, Professor of contemporary history at the University of Nice and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Present Time History (CNRS, Paris)
3:30 PM Debate
4:30 PM – An experience of social interculturality
Pape DIOUF, Co-President of the European Institute of Journalism, Marseille, Former President of Olympique de Marseille
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2010
9:30 AM – Mediterranean challenges
Jean-François MATTEI, Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
10:30 AM – Practices of intercultural management: company experiences
Roundtable bringing together international business leaders from the Mediterranean basin who will share their experiences of managing multicultural human resources.
12 PM Debate
2:30 PM – What training in intercultural management?
Nehmé AZOURY, Dean of the Faculty of Management and Commercial Sciences, Saint Esprit de Kaslik University, Lebanon
Zeineb BENAMMAR, Professor, ESSEC Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Gamal HAIKAL, Professor, Arab Institute for Trade and Commodity Exchanges, Alexandria, Egypt
Joëlle LE VOURC’H, General Director, Algerian Business School, Algiers, Algeria
Albert MAROUANI, President of University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Dhafer SAIDANE, Professor, SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis
Hassan SAYARH, General Director, High Studies in Management, Casablanca, Morocco
Eric Klas SODERQUIST, Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
4 PM Debate and conclusion
4:30 PM Presentation of the MEDISIM device and Business Game
Raymond GAMBINI, Professor at University of Aix-Marseille II, Director of BE SOFT
5 PM End of the conference
Mediterranean University Center
65, Promenade des Anglais – Nice
