1999

15 February: Conference on accreditation in Stockholm (Lars Engwall, chair and Tina Hedmo, presentation).

29 September: Presentation on accreditation at a seminar on the globalisation of higher education arranged by the Swedish Minister of Education (Lars Engwall).

18 October: Introduction and chair at the conference “The Future Strategy for Co-operation between Business and Academia”, Södertörn University College, Stockholm (Lars Engwall).

2000

30 March: The CEMP Project presented in the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

26 April: Presentation of the CEMP Programme to managers and middle-managers at Den Norske Bank, Oslo (Rolv Petter Amdam).

20 June: Workshop on “Consultants in the European Aerospace Industry” and round table discussion between consultants, company managers and academics on the relationship between consultants and their clients, Toulouse (Matthias Kipping).

22 September: Presentation of the CEMP Programme to faculty members of the Fudan University, Shanghai.

25 October: Presentation of “The Diffusion of Principles of Management and Organization. The Interaction of Academic Institutions with Consultants, Media and Companies” for the Area Group on the Knowledge Society within the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Lars Engwall).

3 November: Presentation of research on consultancies at a meeting in Milan attended by 350 Italian consultants (Matthias Kipping and Cristina Crucini).

17 November: Presentation of work on consultancy web-sites at a workshop on management consulting at the Stockholm School of Economics attended by about 100 representatives from research, education and practice (Jonas Bäcklund and Andreas Werr).

1 December: Panel with practitioners on the theme “Publishers as Decision Makers” at the workshop “The Role of Media in the Diffusion of European Management Practices” in Barcelona (co-ordinator José Luis Alvarez).

2001

24 January: Presentation of CEMP results for the Sub-Committee on Education and Research of the Swedish Parliament (Lars Engwall).

5 April: Presentation on “Looking Beyond Growth: Continuity and Change in Management Consulting” to practitioners and academics at a meeting of the German Society for Business History in Frankfurt (Matthias Kipping).

3 May: Seminar for practitioners on the topic “Consulting Markets in Transition”, Molde, Norway (Lars Engwall, Hallgeir Gammelsæter and Matthias Kipping).

7 October: Interview given to Spain’s largest newspaper, El Pais, on the use of the business concept of network to other activities, such as politics, entertainment, terrorism etc. (José Luis Alvarez).

8 November: Presentation of the CEMP Program to the alumni meeting at the Norwegian School of management – BI (Rolv Petter Amdam).