ABSTRACT. PDW focuses on global innovation in Human Centered Management necessary to foster continuous improvement and sustainability in Executive Education and develop leaders who can meet the challenges of governance in all kinds of organizations, across cultures and worldwide in the “Internet Era”. PDW is based on book that integrates 17 research studies and proposals developed by 32 scholars from developed and developing countries in 4 Continents. The forward looking analyses shows unique assessments of the challenges and opportunities that Executive Education providers need to address to meet demands of business organizations (from entrepreneurship to corporations) and public sector institutions responsible for strengthening the productive sector worldwide. The PDW facilitates interaction between presenters and participants on the ongoing discussion of critical issues pressing organizations to advance from the process oriented Taylor’s Scientific Management to the Human Centered Management HCM paradigm. PDW is intended to bridge research gap in leadership training and Executive Education that contrasts highly with increasing global awareness that HCM is important at all organizational levels but it is critical at the executive level. The PDW explains the rapid expansion of Executive Education (EE) in the last decades, its globalization blueprint and addresses the challenges EE providers face.

ABSTRACT. In spite that entrepreneurship has been an ancient trade in world history, its formal study, pioneered by Schumpeter and Drucker is fairly recent. So there is still a great deal to learn. And particularly about women’s participation in entrepreneurship and economic activity, which has intensified drastically in the last decades with increasing prospects to contribute to foster change and economic development at global scale. A global research study conducted by McKinsey shows that women’s participation in economic activity will be one of the key element to foster productivity and growth in the future. Based on this analysis and a surmounting need to information and knowledge, the authors of this PDW are undertaking the challenge to assess the past, present and future of women entrepreneurs and their prospect as agents for positive change required to increase welfare for themselves and their families and foster progress in their communities and in markets worldwide with a special focus in Latin America.

ABSTRACT. Este workshop de desenvolvimento profissional (PDW) se propõe a discutir, a partir de experiências de diferentes escolas de negócios, a formação de profissionais com uma orientação para o empreendedorismo social. Este PDW tem como objetivo a construção de um material que possa contribuir com a formação de empreendedores sociais. Para tanto, identificaram-se cinco tópicos que demonstram como as escolas de negócios têm trabalhado esse tema na formação de seus alunos. Cada tópico constituirá um subgrupo de trabalho, que terá um facilitador, que deverá motivar sua equipe para a construção de um material que será apresentado no dia do workshop. Durante o workshop, cada facilitador apresentará o documento, com o objetivo de obter subsídios do grupo maior. Essas ideias serão registradas pelos outros membros do subgrupo para possível incorporação. Após as apresentações, os grupos irão discutir seus papers e tomar decisões sobre a continuidade do seu trabalho. Estas informações serão entregues ao líder do PDW que deverá fazer a consolidação do trabalho final.

ABSTRACT. This workshop is specifically designed for researchers and practitioners interested in issues regarding legitimacy of individuals, organizations, industries, or activities. We will explore in depth the practical, theoretical, and methodological challenges in dealing with legitimacy. Using the specific context of a small number of widely covered cases ( e.g Douglas Thompkins, Chile, Petrobras, Brazil, or GM crops, Argentina), we will discuss the fundamental aspects that contribute to a better understanding and management of legitimacy.

We will start this workshop with the analysis of the present state of legitimacy of the respective cases and then split up in groups to discuss different aspects of the conditions and processes that encourage or inhibit legitimation. We then consolidate the findings and review them through an expert panel led discussion that will lead to developments in theoretical understanding, and guidelines for organization and management practice. We will finish with the definition of an agenda for further research.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a lively forum, where people and ideas from separate but related fields, such as strategy, entrepreneurship, organizational theory, or public administration, can meet to address the nature of legitimacy and consolidate an international network with a well-structured research agenda.

ABSTRACT. This workshop provide introductory coverage of confirmatory latent variable techniques, including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation methods, (b) discussion of special issues related to the application of these techniques in organizational and psychological research, and (c) a comparison of these techniques with traditional analytical approaches.