UNISINOS
Graduate School of Business Adminstration

July 05-08, 2005

SUNDAY, JUNE 05, 2005

3:00 - 5:00pm Registration and welcome
5:00 - 5:45pm Mass
6:00 - 7:30pm Opening Forum Session, Prof. Dr. Roberto Horta, President of IAJBS
  Welcome Greeting, Prof. Dr. Aloysio Bohnen, SJ, President of UNISINOS
  Video Message - Dr. Enrique Iglesias, President of BID
  Opening Lecture - Prof. Dr. Luis Ugalde, SJ, President of AUSJAL and President of the Catholic University Andrés Bello
8:00 - 9:30pm UNISINOS Orchestra Concert. Location: Pe. Werner Amphitheater
9:30pm Dinner at Cantina Cândido Valduga

MONDAY, JUNE 06, 2005

9:00 - 10:00am First Plenary Session: "From knowledge to wisdom: strategic challenges of global business education" – Milan Zeleny, Fordham University, USA
10:00 - 10:45am Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30am Workshop 1The strategic role of knowledge
  a) El Conocimiento como Agente de Cambio Organizativo y Estratégico, RODRIGUEZ-CARRASCO, J. M.; BILBAO-CALABUI, G. P. Facultad de Ciencias Ecomimicas y Empresariales (ICADE), Comillas.
  b) Los Contenidos en la Ecomimicas de la Informacion, HERNANDEZ, Bernardo. Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales (ICADE), Comillas.
12:30 - 1:00pm Round table: Best practices in knowledge sharing (cases)
  a) BUFFE, Anarita; BORBA, Gustavo. Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil
  b) Red ESTE-UD / IKEI / AUSJAL. IGLESIA, Fernando. Universidad de Deusto, Spain
1:00 - 1:15pm IAJBS website presentation. Gregory Ulferts, University of Detroit Mercy, USA.
1:15 - 1:45pm Lunch at UNISINOS
2:00 - 7:00pm Tour to Gramado and visit to a chocolate factory
7:00 - 10:30pm Dinner

TUESDAY, JUNE 07, 2005

9:00 - 10:00am Second Plenary Session: The Japanese approach to knowledge creation, Dr. Pierre Fayard, Université de Poitiers, France
10:00 - 10:45am Special Session: Sodexho Experience in Knowledge Sharing, FOWLER, Holly. Sodexho, EUA.
10:45 - 12:30am Coffee break
12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch at UNISINOS
1:45 - 2:30pm Business meeting
2:45 - 7:30pm Tour to Porto Alegre (to participants) and visit to a mall (free time for shopping)
3:00 - 7:00pm Meeting of the Deans
8:00 - 10:30pm Typical dinner and Gaucho Musical Show

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 08, 2005

9:00 - 10:00am Third Plenary Session: The knowledge society - an ethical approach, Dr. Sandra Waddock, Boston College, USA. Location: Library Auditorium.
10:00 - 10:30am Coffee break
10:30 - 1:15pm Concurrent Sessions:
  Workshop 2Knowledge, technology and organizational designs
  a) Extraccion de conocimiento de bases de datos, aplicacion para la calidad en centros universitarios, MERELO, Jesus Duarte; RAMIRES SOBRINO, Jesus. Facultad de C. Econimicas y Empresariales (ETEA) Cordoba
  b) Customer Knowledge Management: a Comparison Between Industrial and Service Firms in Brazil, SILVEIRA, Teniza. Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil
  c) Organizational Design for Knowledge Promotion, SAUQUET, Alfons. ESADE
  d) Getting Theory and Practice Closer in Organizational Learning, SOUZA, Yeda Swirski, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil
  Workshop 3Research and teaching: the necessary link 
  a) Knowledge Management and Internationally Based Organizations: The Case of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, GRAY, Allen; VELTRI, Anthony. Loyola Marimount University
  b) La condicion estudiante-trabajador: impactos en la evaluacion de la formacion y en la circulacion de conocimientos universidad-empresa, GONZALEZ RAMAGLI, Alberto. Universidad Catalica del Uruguay
  c) Antwerp + 8 – How are we doing?, MCNAMEE, Catherine. Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile.
  d) Estan Nuestras Universidades Diseidas para Promover la Creacion del Conocimientos" Reflexiones desde la Perspectiva de la Formacion de los Estudiantes, RIVERA, Javier Sanchez Diaz, Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla
1:15 - 2:15pm Lunch at UNISINOS
2:30 - 4:00pm Forth Plenary Session: The knowledge-based society - trends and implications, Dr. Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino, SJ, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil
4:00 - 4:30pm Closing session
4:30 - 5:00pm Cofee break
5:00 - 6:00pm Mass
6:00 - 6:30pm Cultural presentation