The EAI hopes that the participants will be able to share their thoughts on various areas including, but not limited to, international politics, security, economics, business management, and science as well as to ponder their roles in this ever changing world. We expect that participants will develop their academic knowledge and writing quality throughout the process of expressing ideas and learn about different views.
Theme
Followership: A New Approach to Understanding Leadership
Followers and leaders have co-existed in every aspect of human societies, across time and across space. Despite the co-existing relationship and mutual interactions between the two constituents of social structures, there has been a relative lack of scholarly attention and study on the role of followers and how followership complements leadership. The onset of the 21st century characterized by the information revolution, democratization and globalization, however, casts new-fangled light on followership and the role of followers in initiating or responding to various social changes and challenges.
Followers can sustain, complement, or challenge existing leadership. Without followership and the acceptance of the existing leadership, the legitimacy of leaders can be significantly diminished in governments, companies, and many other social institutions. In a reciprocal way, followership cannot exist or be maintained without leadership. Therefore, followership and leadership can be characterized as a coherent whole. With this in mind, how should we conceptualize followership of the 21st century? How can we best understand the role of followership in its relation to leadership?
2014 EPIK Young Leaders Conference invites bright young scholars from around the world in various academic disciplines to ponder upon the role of followership in its interaction with leadership and suggest the outlook of followership in the 21st century, exploring various historical and contemporary issues. You may write your essay employing any academic field of your choice.
Eligibility for Participation
The competition is open to domestic/overseas undergraduate and master’s degree students (including the recent graduates who completed the program within the previous 2 years), who were in the age group of 18-35. The participants must submit an attested copy of their student Identity Card (or Degree Certificate for graduates) along with required documents.
Deadlines and Requirements
1. First Round
● Deadline: March 28, 2014
● Result Announcement: April 18, 2014
● Required Documents:
1) Application - Abstract should not exceed 400 words. [Download]
2) Resume
3) Copy of a student Identity Card or Degree Certificate for graduates
2. Second Round
● Deadline: June 13, 2014
● Result Announcement: July 4, 2014
● Required Document: First draft
- Essays should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding abstract, keywords, and references).
- Essays must be submitted and formatted in Microsoft Word
- Use Times New Roman, 11-points, 1.5 interlinear spacing. Text should be justified.
3. Final Draft Submission
● Due July 25, 2014: Final draft after consultation with the reviewers
● Due August 1, 2014: PowerPoint (or other types of visual aids) for presentation
4. Essay Presentation and Award Ceremony
● Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1PM
● Venue: Hotel PJ, Seoul, Republic of Korea
● Finalists will attend the conference to present their papers and participate in discussion with other discussants.
Awards
One first-place winner and one second-place winner will be selected and announced at the conference on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. The finalists’ papers will be published online as a series of EPIK Journals Online on EAI website.
1st-place winner: 2,000,000 KRW
2nd-place winner: 1,000,000 KRW
*Travel expenses will not be covered by EAI.
Importance
1. All requirements must be submitted by each deadline only electronically to epik2014@eai.or.kr.
2. Papers that poorly address the theme with irrelevant ideas and/or not meeting all requirements will be disqualified from the contest.
3. About plagiarism policy, refer to www.plagiarism.org.
4. Essays must be written by one person. Co-authored essays are not accepted.
5. Only original and unpublished essays will be considered for the competition.
6. Essays must be submitted in MS word format.
ALL REQUIREMENTS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
Email: epik2014@eai.or.kr
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