The main topic of the seminar will be climate change and insurance. Any papers dealing with the law and economic aspects of climate change and insurance are invited. Papers could inter alia deal with the following issues: - The challenges brought by climate change for both P&C and life insurers...

The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is pleased to announce that a Doctoral Workshop will be held on December 19, 2013 following the SMS Special Conference in India. The SMS India 2013 Doctoral Workshop provides a great opportunity for doctoral students in strategic management to develop their...

The workshop invites both conceptual and empirical papers in the areas of International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management. We are particularly interested in papers that may help us to enhance the dialogue between and integration of these areas.

Topics: - HRM in Times of Global Crisis - International HRM - HR Governance - Recruitment and Selection - Performance and Potential Review - Compensation and Benefits - Training and Development - HR in Network Organizations - Sustainable Human Resource Policies

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...

This workshop aims to make appraisals work for you if you want to or have to do them. It would address issues relating to performance planning, evaluation, feedback and counseling and how top use it as a developmental tool to build culture.

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Some of the specific issues to be considered are: - What are the forces driving urbanization and how do they differ from one region to another? - What are the economic and environmental costs and benefits of urban agglomerations? - What is the link between urban infrastructure and poverty...

Event Highlights: - Improve your company's forecasting accuracy, as well as the value and effectiveness of your forecasting and planning team - Learn how to use forecasts to avoid stock-outs - Reduce on-hand inventory, improve customer service, decrease procurement and logistic costs, and more -...

For the Regional Science, some of the topics are: 1) Regional Development Strategy 2) Natural Resources and Regional Development 3) Agglomeration and Technology Policy 4) Spatial Statistics and Econometrics.