Trip Introduction and Itinerary

Hey everyone!  I’m setting up a blog to share some updates for an upcoming 3-week international industry academic research tour.  It’s unofficially beginning in Nashville, TN as a chaperon for a group of ambitious SMWC students at the Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference.  Then, the international portion of the tour will kick off in Iceland where I’ll be presenting the first of seven research papers at seven academic conferences across the continent while touring notable industrial facilities at each location.  Here is a recent newspaper article about the trip:

Exploring EU Solutions to Skills Gap: Professor to take economics tour of European hotspots

The itinerary is below and I hope you’ll check out my blog updates from time to time.

Enjoy!  Jim

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1) Location: Reykjavik, Iceland

Conference: Sixth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses

Presentation and Paper Title: “Social Costs of Industrial Growth: Which American states manufacture more efficiently in terms of air pollution?”

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2) Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Conference: 30th EGOS Colloquium- Rotterdam School of Management

Presentation and Paper Title: “Disparities in duality management structure in top industrial multinational organizations in America versus Europe”

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3) Location: Athens, Greece

Conference: 12th Annual Int’l Conference on Management

Presentation and Paper Title: “America’s Staple Exports and the EU’s Favorite Purchases: Seasonal Trends in Global Exporting of Consumer Durables”

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4) Location: Florence, Italy

Conference: Business & Economics Society International

Presentation and Paper Title: “American Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Trends in global industrial origination”

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5) Location: Craiova, Romania

Conference: 10th World Congress: The Human Being as a Species:  Its Nature and Functions

Presentation and Paper Title: “Profiles of CEOs from Top-Performing Multinational Manufacturing versus Financial Organizations: Age, tenure, internal hiring, and gender”

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6) Location: Vienna, Austria

Conference: The Fourteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations

Presentation Title: “Gender Diversity in the Board Room: Organizational Trends by Region”

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7) Location: Azores Islands, Portugal

Conference: The European Scientific Institute’s 2^nd Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference

Presentation and Paper Title: “Post-Cold War State Industrialization as a Means of Economic Growth in East Asia versus Eastern Europe”

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