

Some Upcoming Conferences and alternative Journal outlets in Various Business Disciplines
Updated: December, 2011
Fordham University’s Gabelli Undergraduate Business Research Conference (GUBRC)Where: Fordham's Rose Hill campus in New York City
When: welcome dinner on Friday, April 20, 2012, followed by concurrent research sessions throughout the day on Saturday, April 21.
Students interested in presenting their research at the Gabelli Undergraduate Business Research Conference may submit an abstract on the abstract submission site beginning Monday, December 5, 2011. Abstracts will be accepted until February 10, 2012.
Abstracts must focus on a topic related to business.
Fordham University’s Gabelli Undergraduate Business Research Conference (GUBRC) provides a forum for students to share the new knowledge they are developing through their research with a cross-institutional audience of undergraduate business students. The Gabelli School of Business is excited to offer students from across the country the opportunity to present their intellectual interests, investigative experiences and scholarly achievements. The conference is open to undergraduates currently engaged in research in a business discipline.
The Conference will be held at Fordham's Rose Hill campus in New York City. It will begin with a networking poster session and a welcome dinner on Friday, April 20, 2012, followed by concurrent research sessions throughout the day on Saturday, April 21. The Gabelli Undergraduate Business Research Conference, a competitively reviewed conference, is the first of what will become an annual tradition of rigorous, original research presentations. In addition, accepted papers will be considered for publication in the annual Fordham Business Student Research Journal.
The 12th IAMB CONFERENCE
Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland
April 23-25, 2012
Submission Deadline (early considerations): January 8, 2012 Submit your abstract by January 8, 2012.
IAMB in collaboration with Vistula University is inviting scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts, extended abstracts (3 to 5 pages) or full papers for presentation. Proposals for symposia are welcomed. Topics of interest
Organizational Studies
International Business
Strategic Management
Marketing Studies
Technology & Innovation
Management of Social Issues
Education Management
Human Resource Management
Management Studies
Best Student Paper Award. Students are encouraged to submit their paper for the Best Student Paper competition award. The winner will receive: award certificate, $250, public recognition and a publication in the International Journal of Management and Business, IJMB.
Please visit our web site http://www.iamb.net for guidelines and more details.
IAMB - International Academy of Management and Business
Website: www.IAMB.net
Email: submit@iamb.net
15th Annual CJBE Conference
12th July, 2012 to 14th July, 2012
Loyola Maymount University Los Angeles, California
As Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles begins its second century of existence, it is very pleased to host the 2012 CJBE Conference. The above theme for the conference provides a very inclusive backdrop for Jesuit business school colleagues to reflect on their work and share new ideas for optimizing active engagement at our schools, contributing to the important Ignatian goal of "forming men and women for others."
Much recent work on engaged learning emphasizes increased student involvement and participation in the learning process, whether in or outside of the classroom. There are exciting new approaches involving various forms of field learning, community-based learning, project-based learning, service learning, etc. that can enhance student engagement of the important domains of mind, heart, body, and spirit. Other approaches for the classroom class or elsewhere may focus on greater engagement for deeper learning within any one of these essential domains in the learning of the whole person. Track possibilities for CJBE 2012 include the following:
• Teaching and curriculum for enhanced engagement: Issues, challenges, and valuable practices pertinent to Jesuit educators;
• Institutional development: Helping Jesuit schools of business in developing and implementing their missions and strategic plans through new structures, processes, and people that reflect Jesuit values and result in increased campus-wide engagement;
• Faculty development and career planning: Ideas for faculty renewal and increased vitality; faculty life/career planning;
• Research: Theoretical, empirical, applied, interdisciplinary, and other scholarly contributions related to the above topics and themes, with potential for future publication.Proposal deadline April 2, 2012 for interactive sessions addressing the above track ares of interest (e.g., participative workshops, idea-sharing sessions, best practice panels, recent research, open caucus discussion sessions for assembling participants with similar interests).
Contact CJBE 2012 Conference Chair: Charlie Vance (cvance@lmu.edu)
18th Annual World Forum
International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS)
Technology Environment, Business Entrepneurship and Sustainability
July 22-25, 2012
IQS School of Management
Barcelona, Spain
IQS – School of Management, Universitat Ramon Llull (
www.iqs.edu) is very pleased to host the 18th Annual World International Association of Jesuit Business Schools Forum in Barcelona.In our world, technology and the environment have become key issues. This congress wants to be a place to hold an academic reflection about: the role of technology and environment in management and business schools the relation of these issues with the entrepreneurs’ education
The breadth of fields that this theme embraces makes us expect different works and papers around which we may discuss. These papers should be primarily focused on the following topics:
· Physical limits of the economy: Implications for economy and business
· Sustainability and business
· Technological entrepreneurship within the business schools: pathways for job creation
· Techno-economic cooperation and relationships with developing countries, minorities, and indigenous groups.
Abstracts should be addressed to Dr. Albert Florensa:
iajbs2012barcelona@iqs.eduAbstract Submission – December 23rd, 2011
Notification of Accepted Abstracts – January 27th, 2012
Paper Submission – April 13th, 2012
Notification of Accepted Papers – May 25th, 2012
Final Registration Deadline to Be Registered in the Forum – June 1st, 2012
Conference Dates – July 22nd-25th, 2012
IABE-2012 Key West- Winter Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Key West, Florida, March 9-11, 2012 Pier House Resort and Caribbean Spa, Key West, Florida
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2012.
Early Online
IABE-2012 Venice (Italy):: Summer Conference, June 8-10, 2012:
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2012! View the Call for Papers.
Please visit our website www.iabe.eu for more information on our refereed journals and the conference.
Submit your paper online at www.iabe.eu or email it to: Review@iabe.eu.
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2012! View the Call for Papers.
Please visit our website www.iabe.org for more information on our refereed journals and the conference.
Submit your paper online at www.iabe.org or email it to: Review@iabe.eu.
IJBR-2012 Special Issue on: Business and Developments in European Union.
We invite you to submit a paper for the IJBR-2012 Special Issue June 2012 online at www.iabe.eu by March 15, 2012.
Other refereed and publically available journal publications:
Journal of International Business and Economics (JIBE)
Journal of International Finance Studies (JIFS)
International Journal of Business Strategy (IJBS)
Journal of International Management Studies (JIMS)
European Journal of Management (EJM)
International Journal of Strategic Management (IJSM)
International journal of Finance and Economics (JIFE)
Journal of Academy of Business and Economics (JABE)
We invite you to visit our website www.iabe.eu for more information.
Best wishes,
Detelin Elenkov, Ph.D.(MIT)
IABE-2012 Conference Committee
The Allied Academies 2012 International Conference In New Orleans, LA
The Allied Academies will hold its Spring 2012 international meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city known by some as the ‘birthplace of jazz’. We invite you to consider submitting a paper, for presentation at the conference or through the internet division. Presentation dates will be Wednesday April 4 through Friday April 6, 2012. Conference Paper Submissions and Registration are due by March 5. Base registration, on or before March 5, is $300, late registration after that date will be $350. To provide you with maximum outlets for your research, the Allied Academies will hold joint meetings of all its member academies:
Academy of Marketing Studies (AMS)
Academy of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict (AOCCC)
Academy of Strategic Management (ASM)
Academy of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues (ALERI)
Academy for Studies in International Business (ASIB)
International Academy for Case Studies (IACS)
Academy of Health Care Management (AHCM)
Academy for Studies in Business (ASB)
Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies (AAFS)
Academy of Banking Studies (ABS)
Academy for Economics and Economic Education (AEEE)
Academy of Educational Leadership (AEL)
Academy of Entrepreneurship (AE)
Academy of Information and Management Sciences (AIMS)
All submissions are handled electronically, through our website. Please note that participants may choose their presentation times when they register. Further, participants who cannot attend physically may choose to participate via the Internet Division. This will enable you to participate at your leisure during the two week period surrounding the conference. There is now a 20% discount on Internet Division registration.
All papers accepted for presentation at the Conference will be published in the appropriate Proceedings. All of the articles submitted for journal and award consideration are eligible for the Accelerated Review Process, which is a double blind peer review conducted by members of the appropriate journal Editorial Board. There is a 25% acceptance rate for these manuscripts, and approved papers will appear in the appropriate journal within a year of submission. In addition, the top 25% of the papers submitted for the conference will be recognized with a distinguished research award.
The 10th International Conference on
in the context of The 6th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2012Relationships between Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasing acceleratingly, sometimes in unexpected ways, with original ideas and innovative tools, methodologies and synergies. Accordingly the main purpose of EISTA 2012 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both areas, in order to support the bridging process between education/training and ICT communities.
In order to accomplish this purpose, ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present education/training information systems and software based solutions. Teachers and university professors are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Educational scientists and technologists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in educational systems and training processes and methodologies. Managers of educational organizations and training consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and designs in ICT. All are invited to organize panels or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researchers/practitioners and teachers/professors.
Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference (included those virtually presented) will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
One best paper of each session included in the program will be selected by the respective session’s co-chairs after consulting with the session’s audience. Invited Sessions organizers will select the best paper of the session they organized. If there is a tie in a given session, the paper that will be selected as the best session’s paper will be the one which have had the highest quantitative evaluations average according to its double-blind and non-blind reviews.
The selection process of the best 10%-20% to be also published in the Journal, will be based on the sessions’ best papers and the quantitative evaluation average made by its anonymous and non-anonymous reviewers.
2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012)
19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China.
Submission Deadline is 6 January 2012.
ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to):
Systems
· Control and Automation Systems
· Power and Energy Systems
· Intelligent Systems
· Computer Systems and Applications
Informatics
· Communications and Networking
· Image, Video, and Signal Processing
· Data Engineering and Data Mining
· Software Engineering
The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8). Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal.
Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.
For more information, visit the conference web page:
http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn
If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at ICSAI2012@ytu.edu.cn
Join us at this major event in beautiful Yantai !!!
Organizing Committee
ICSAI2012@ytu.edu.cn
2012 4th International Conference on Communications, Mobility, and Computing (CMC 2012)
Guilin University of Electronic Technology,
Guilin, China21-23 May
2012Call for Papers & Expo
CMC 2012 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in communications, mobility, and computing. We invite you to submit your original papers on the most recent results and technology trends to one of the
5 symposiums: Wireless Communication Networks Symposium, Satellite and Optical Communication Networks Symposium, Vehicular Technology and Telematics Symposium, Computer Networks and Future Internet Symposium, and Computing Symposium.CMC 2012 conference proceedings will be indexed in Ei Compendex and ISTP, as well as included in IEEE Xplore (
CMC 2009, CMC 2010, and CMC 2011 proceedings were already indexed in Ei Compendex and included in IEEE Xplore). Selected high-quality papers (with extension) will be published in a Special Issue of a SCI-indexed journal: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer). There will also be best paper awards for each symposium. CMC 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society.If you have any questions, please email us at cmc2012 <AT> guet.edu.cn .
Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Macau, China June 8th- 10th, 2012
The 5th Annual Conference for the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2012 (AIE2012) will be held in Macau China, on June 8th - 10th. The AIE2012 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It provides an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present research and to stimulate discussions on new developments in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Full paper submission: March 30, 2012
Acceptance notification: April 20, 2012
Registration deadline: May 30, 2012
Conference date: June 8th -10th , 2012
If you have any questions please contact: aie@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
Paper Template(PDF)Before May 10, 2012 U.S.$300
After May 10, 2012 U.S.$350
CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Intellectbase International Consortium Academic Conference
Bangkok – Thailand March15-17, 2012 Submission Deadline: February 11, 2012
San Antonio, TX – USA April 12-14, 2012 Submission Deadline: March 18, 2012
Nashville, TN – USA May 24-26, 2012 Submission Deadline: April 27, 2012
Shanghai – China August 7-9, 2012 Submission Deadline: July 8, 2012
(For extensions, please email extensions@intellectbase.org or text/phone +1 (615) 944-3931). Submissions received after the deadlines will be published in the CD-ROM and NOT in the Hard Copy of the Peer Reviewed Conference Proceeding, if accepted.
Abstracts, Research-in-Progress, Full Papers, Workshops, Case Studies and Posters are invited!!
Researchers are invited to exchange ideas, share experiences on research challenges, research findings and state-of-the-art solutions (discuss with your peers, obtain feedback and have your ideas possibly published in refereed academic journals as well as indexed for citation). All Conceptual and Empirical Papers are very welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following academic disciplines: BUSINESS, EDUCATION, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MULTIMEDIA, ARTS, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, etc.
All submitted papers must be in English and saved as a Microsoft Word compatible file (e.g. .doc, .docx, .rtf). Please attach and email your submission to: reviewers@intellectbase.org.
The first page(s) of ALL submissions must include: Specific Conference to which the paper is being submitted (e.g. Atlanta, 2011), Paper Heading, Title (e.g. Dr. Prof., Mr., Mrs., etc.), Name, Full Affiliation, Address, Phone, E-Mail for all authors, Paper Category (e.g. Abstract, Full Paper, RIP, etc.), Track to which paper is submitted (e.g. Business, Science, Education, etc.), a 200 - 500 word Abstract and a minimum of five (5) Keywords. For paper formatting and category guidelines, please click here.
Text should be formatted for 8.5 x 11 inch paper, 11 point Verdana Narrow font that is single-spaced, with one inch margins and left justified. References should generally follow Harvard or APA style guidelines.
Selected papers have a higher chance of being published in one of the Intellectbase double-blind reviewed Journals. Additional information is available via the Intellectbase International Consortium website: http://www.intellectbase.org/journals.php
For more information concerning Intellectbase International Consortium conferences and Journal publications, please visit the Intellectbase website at http://www.intellectbase.org/journals.php. For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair at chair@intellectbase.org
GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE'S GBDI 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
December 28-30, 2011,Hilo, Hawaii,USA
www.GBDI-Conference.org Review@GBDI-Conference.org
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Submission Deadline for Proposal / Abstract / Paper: November 10, 2011
We invite you to submit your proposals / abstracts / full papers and join us in Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii, December 28-30 , 2011 to enjoy these Benefits:
Get your accepted paper published in Conference Proceedings (on CD) or a refereed GBDI Journal (JGBD or IJGBE) on a competitive basis
Receive one conference proceedings and enjoy breakfast, reception and coffee breaks as you network with your peers from diverse academic disciplines and various campuses.
Relax in Hawaii and rejuvenate. There is no place else in the world that offers the variety, quantity, and quality of entertainment & activities!
The Best Papers in various topics will be announced and formally recognized at the conference. The Best Papers may be published in a refereed Journal (JGBD or IJGBE) if guidelines are fulfilled.
Journal of Global Business Development (JGBD) ISSN: 1938-8195
International Journal of Global Business and Economics (IJGBE) ISSN: 1934-6336
JGBD and IJGBE are listed in Cabell's Directory (11th Edition) of Refereed Publications.
Encourage your colleagues to submit papers/abstracts and they will thank you for thinking of them.
We welcome early submissions of papers/abstracts so that our reviewers can study and deliberate thoroughly. We encourage faculty, students and other professionals to perform research projects. Also, we support them by publishing their papers in refereed GBDI journals on a competitive basis.
For more information including discounts for team registration and student registration, please visit our website: www.GBDI-Conference.org.
We look forward to seeing you in Hawaii.
Sincerely,
Dr. P. Rama Ramalingam, PhD, PE, CPIM , Conference Chair
Submit your Proposal / Abstract to: Victoria at Review@GBDI-Conference.org
*** Submission Deadline for Proposal / Abstract / Paper: November 10, 2011****
(Full Paper need not be submitted at this stage)
Global Business Development Institute | 582 N. Fifth Ave | Upland | CA | 91786 | USA
The Allied Academies Call for the 2012 International Conference In New Orleans, LA
The Allied Academies will hold its Spring 2012 international meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Presentation dates will be Wednesday April 4 through Friday April 6, 2012. Conference Paper Submissions and Registration are due by March 5. Base registration, on or before March 5, is $300, late registration after that date will be $350. To provide you with maximum outlets for your research, the Allied Academies will hold joint meetings of all its member academies:
Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies (AAFS)
Academy of Banking Studies (ABS)
Academy for Economics and Economic Education (AEEE)
Academy of Educational Leadership (AEL)
Academy of Entrepreneurship (AE)
Academy of Information and Management Sciences (AIMS)
Academy of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict (AOCCC)
Academy of Marketing Studies (AMS)
Academy of Strategic Management (ASM)
Academy of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues (ALERI)
Academy for Studies in International Business (ASIB)
International Academy for Case Studies (IACS)
Academy of Health Care Management (AHCM)
Academy for Studies in Business (ASB)
All submissions are handled electronically, through our website. Please note that participants may choose their presentation times when they register. Further, participants who cannot attend physically may choose to participate via the
Internet Division
Please visit our Submission Instructions
HOTEL INFORMATION
We will be holding the conference at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in the heart of New Orleans and walking distance to the French Quarter. We have secured an excellent rate of $119 for our participants. When contacting the conference hotel, be sure to tell them you are with the Allied Academies conference to ensure you get the discounted rate. Our room block will expire on March 1, and rooms may not be available after that date, so make your arraignments early. We look forward to seeing you there.
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Click here to Book Online
The 2012 Meeting of the Western Business & Management Association
January 6-7, 2012
East-West Center: Imin International Conference Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
The WBM 2012 International Research Conference is a key annual event designed to bring together academicians in the the fields of business administration, management, strategy, organizational behavior and human resource management.
The Conference
The conference is designed for academics and students whose goal it is to advance research and discussions on key business and management issues. Students are also encouraged to participate in this conference.
This conference is a very friendly and cordial resulting in safe and constructive discussion on contemporary research.
Topic areas for submisssion
Instructions for authors
Submission key dates
Submission Deadline:
Email a digital copy of your paper t profess2000@yahoo.com
Registration Alert:
Every PAID registered presenter will receive the following:
Copy of proceedings in digital form
Publication in proceedings (if paper is in acceptable form by deadline)
Conference Fees: $250 early registration Pay up to December 15, 2011
$300 late registration Pay after December 15, 2011
$125 Graduate student registration Must provide proof of student status.
2nd and 3rd authors each pay only a $100 conference fee if they attend with the first author (Presenter) who has paid a full registration.
| Co-Hosts | European Marketing Academy Korean Scholars of Marketing Science |
| Theme | Bridging Asia and Europe in Marketing Competitiveness |
| Co-Chairs | Udo Wagner (University of Vienna), udo.wagner@univie.ac.at
Seong-Yeon Park (Ewha Womans University), sypark@ewha.ac.kr |
| Date | May 22-25, 2012 |
| Venue | ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Submission Deadline | December 1, 2012 |
| Submit to | - Authors from European Countries: Professor Udo Wagner (University of Vienna)udo.wagner@univie.ac.at - Authors from countries except Europe: Professor Seong-Yeon Park (Ewha Womans University) sypark@ewha.ac.kr |
| Submission Guidelines / Registration |
EMAC Homepage (http://www.emac2012.org/r/default.asp?iId=FEFGHG) |
| Special Issue | All of the accepted submissions will be considered as candidates for a special issue of the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, formerly Journal of Global Academy of Marketing Science, on Bridging Asia and Europe in Marketing Competitiveness. |
In addition, we will be adding an opportunity for Pearson LearningStudio users to participate in hands-on workshops throughout the conference. Registration for these workshops is an additional non-refundable $50 fee per workshop, on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshop registration is limited to 1 per attendee.
12th IAMB Conference
April 23 - 25, 2012
Venue: Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland
Theme: ”Management in Turbulent Times and Returning Economic Crisis"
What the world should learn from Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) transitional economies
The 12th IAMB Conference in collaboration with Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland provides a platform for professionals, practitioners, academics, educators and researchers in the various fields of management and business to disseminate and share the latest research, knowledge and experiences in the American region and beyond.
IAMB and Vistula University are inviting scholars, practitioners and others to submit papers for presentation. Your submission will be published in the Conference Proceedings on a CD-ROM (ISSN 1949-9094), Online (ISSN 1949-9108) and In-Print (ISSN 1949-912).
The Proceedings are indexed and are listed in various reference search engines. Selected presentations will be published in IJMB, International Journal of Management and Business. You may also attend the conference without making a presentation. Proposals for symposia are also welcomed.
Important Deadline DatesJanuary 8, 2012 - Early consideration of abstracts
January 29, 2012 - Submission of abstracts
February 5, 2012 - full papers Submission (If abstract not previously submitted)
February 5, 2012 - Full manuscripts are due**
February 12, 2012 - Authors' early registration
March 4, 2012 – Submission for Award Competitions
March 11, 2012 - Authors' registration (to include papers in the Proceedings)
March 11, 2012 - Cancellation with refund
March 18, 2012 - Revised manuscripts are due***
March 25, 2012 - Abstract page for the Abstract Booklet
April 15, 2012, 2011 - Registration deadline for non-presenters
4th Georges Doriot Conference on Family Entrepreneurship
The John Molson School of Business at Concordia University & the McGill-HEC Montréal International Business Families Centre are pleased to welcome you to the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), May 11-13, 2012.
Call for Papers
As distinct sub-systems family and business must co-exist in family enterprises, sometimes peacefully but at other times less so. The differences between the family and business systems are fundamental in nature and both can influence behaviors and processes within the family business. The deadline to submit papers for 2012 FERC is January 31, 2012. Read more...
Keynote Speakers
Luiz R. Gomez Mejia, Mays Business School, Texas A & M University
Danny Miller & Isabelle Le-Breton Miller, HEC, Montreal & University of Alberta
Panel Discussions
Leaders of family firm research organizations from around the globe discuss the state of the field, share about their association's development and plans, and comment on future of the field. Read more...
Journal Linkages
The call for papers reflects wide interest in the Academic community and FERC has established links with several leading journal on closely related themes including:
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Co-editors Marylene Gagne and Pramodita Sharma
Awards
FERC Best Poster Awards
1st place $2000, 2nd place $1000, 3rd place $500
12th Annual FOBI Scholar Awards
Four to six grants of $5000 each will be presented by the Grand Valley State University
Separate Call for submissions will follow.
The International Greener Journals (IGJ) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject.
The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance. All articles published in IGJ will be peer-reviewed.
Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript within three weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next available issue. Types of paper
Regular articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.Short Communications: A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
Editors and reviewers
IGJ is seeking qualified researchers to join its editorial team as editors, subeditors or reviewers of one or more of our journal subject areas listed below. Kindly send your resume to editorialteam.igj@gmail.com or editorialteam@gjournals.org
Peter Wilson,
Editorial Assistant
International Greener Journals (IGJ)
E-mail: manuscripts.igj@gmail.com, manuscripts@gjournals.org
Website: www.gjournals.org
Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal
Call for Papers
Managing the Human Resources in the Supply Chain
Submission deadline: January 7, 2012
The supply chain function in organizations has evolved significantly in recent decades as a result of globalization and technological changes and has become very complex. Neither the
Supply Chain literature nor the Human Resource Management literature has kept sufficient pace with these changes. Although recent work in the SCM/HRM overlap has focused on topics such as new job types for the 21st century supply chain, and buyer influence and knowledge transfer in the HR domain to vendors in the supply chain, the literature still needs to go much further in this regard. This special issue focuses on the entire set of HR practices geared specially towards the supply chain to better understand its unique characteristics and the role it plays in broader organizational success and competitive advantage.
The supply chain environment is characterized by a global spread in which communications and interactions are increasingly take place through technology interfaces. It is said that all work in the supply chain function takes place outside the direct vision of any supervisor (Bowersox, Closs, & Cooper, 2000). For that reason, the level of complexity and uncertainty in the supply chain is often higher than in other functions. Effective management of the supply chain therefore demands excellence in managing its human resources. Strategic management of the people that work in the supply chain is important to contribute to the overall performance of the supply chain and therefore the entire organization. It is in this context that we call for papers addressing the entire range of HR and behavioral issues including leadership as they apply to various aspects of the supply chain.
The guest editors invite and encourage you to submit your research to the special issue entitled, "Managing the Human Resources in the Supply Chain" Submissions may address but are not restricted to the following topics:
• The role of the human resources in supply chain success
• Skills, capabilities and other job requirements for employees working in the supply chain
• Talent Management in the supply chain
• HR best practices for the Supply Chain
• Managing change and flexibility in the supply chain
• Supplier development with special focus on Human Resources
• Knowledge sharing on HR practices in the Supply Chain
• HR capability for IT applications in the Supply Chain
• Training systems and practices for better buyer-seller relationships
• HR for Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Workplace management systems for the Supply Chain
• Supply chain behavior / Employee attitudes and their correlates in the Supply Chain
• Job evaluation and performance management in the supply chain
• Leadership in the supply chain
• Managing intra-organizational and/or cross-cultural supply chain teams
We are interested in all types of well designed and rigorously performed academic research, including – conceptual papers, empirical research, quantitative papers and papers based on qualitative research methodologies. – that are research oriented with significant attention to pragmatic issues. We encourage authors to submit their research contributing to theory development based on in-depth case studies.
Publication schedule
The Deadline for submission is January 7, 2012
Final version of papers due June 15, 2012
Notification of final acceptance September 15, 2012
The special issue is expected to appear January 15, 2013
Accepted submissions will be subject to a double blind peer review process. Manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines of the journal which can be found at http://www.supplychain-forum.com/for-authors.cfm
The e-mail address to be used for submissions is scf@bem.edu
Guest editors
Dr. Chandrashekhar Lakshman
BEM Bordeaux Management School, France
c.lakshman@bem.edu
Dr. Björn Claes
Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom
bjorn.claes@cranfield.ac.uk
Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal
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California Management Review CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue: Achieving Strategic Agility in Hypercompetitive Environments
Editor: Prof. David Vogel
Guest Editors:
Prof. Yaakov Weber, Chair, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel
Dr. Shlomo Yedidia, School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel
The competitive landscape has been shifting in recent years more than ever. Globalization, rapid technological changes, codification of knowledge, the Internet, talent and employee mobility, increased rates of knowledge transfer, imitation, changes in customer tastes, the obsolescence of products and business models – have all caused a turbulent environment and accelerated changes and disruptions. These trends are expected to continue in the future, producing ever more rapid and unpredictable changes. Current concepts such as sustained competitive advantage, resource-based view, and strategic planning have been deemed vague, tautological, and inadequate for companies to cope with the rate and complexity of environmental and market changes (e.g., Kraaijenbrink, Spender and Groen, 2010; Lado, Boyd, Wright and Kroll, 2006).
In a chaotic environment in which markets emerge, collide, split, evolve, and die one of the primary determinants of a firm’s success is strategic agility, the ability to remain flexible in facing new developments, to continuously adjust the company’s strategic direction, and to develop innovative ways to create value. There is a tension between formal processes of strategic planning that require strategic commitments for a course of action and opportunistic strategic agility. Strategic planning has been criticized for preparing plans for tomorrow based on yesterday’s actions, concepts, and tools. Although strategic planning can help in specific situations, it usually creates an inertia that prevents fast adaptation when circumstances change or market discontinuities occur. Strategic agility requires inventing new business models and new categories rather than rearranging old products and categories. To cope with growing strategic discontinuities and disruptions, scholars have suggested the creation of strategically agile companies, including new ways for managing business transformation and renewal, developing dynamic capabilities, creating imitation abilities, maintain a high level of organizational flexibility, developing learning and knowledge transfer skills, using adaptive corporate culture, optimizing human resource scalability, and more (e.g., Doz and Kosonen, 2010; Dyer and Ericksen, 2005; Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000; Shenkar, 2010a; Weber, Tarba, and Reichel, 2011; Wilson and Doz, 2011).
The goal of this special issue is to stimulate authors to redefine the spectrum of means and processes available to create and use strategic agility. The issue challenges authors to provide the frameworks that managers can use to integrate, develop, and reconfigure competences and resources required to deal with hypercompetitive markets. Given markets discontinuities and the rapidly increasing pace of change, companies need new and agile paradigms.
We invite papers that focus on strategic agility in both the national and international arenas. We encourage contributions that address but are not limited to the following topics:
§ What are the origins, components, and outcomes of strategic agility?
§ What are the roles of early warning systems, communication, learning, scanning, knowledge transfer, training, managerial rotation, and rewarding in the development of strategically agile companies?
§ What is the relationship between strategic agility on one hand and organizational flexibility, modular organizational forms, conflicts and confrontations, dynamic capabilities (Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000), imitation (Shenkar, 2010b), cultural characteristics (Weber, Tarba, and Reichel, 2011), human resource management (Shafer, Dyer, Kilty, Amos, and Ericksen, 2001) and other existing and emerging concepts?
§ What insights can perspectives from strategy, economics, organizational behavior, international management, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines provide into the nature, antecedents, processes, and effects of strategic agility?
§ Do strategic sensitivity and resource fluidity (Doz and Kosonen, 2008; 2010) create only a temporary advantage or can they improve performance in both short and the long term?
§ What is the role of strategic agility in mergers and acquisitions, given their high failure rate? For example, what is the importance of strategic agility components at the pre-merger planning stage (e.g., due diligence, scanning, and screening), the negotiation stage (Weber, Belkin, and Tarba, 2011), and during post-merger integration? What is the effect of various practices (communication, training) within the context of different national cultures (Weber, Rachman-Moore, and Tarba, 2011), and of integration approaches such as symbiosis (Weber, Tarba, and Rozen Bachar, 2011) and hybrid integration (Schweizer, 2005) on strategic agility?
§ What are the profiles of strategically agile multinational corporations?
§ Do changes in partners' resources and capabilities cause loss of flexibility to joint ventures, resulting in a high rate of failure? When and how should new modular organization forms be applied in the creation of strategic alliances?
§ When should management embrace intuitive, improvisational, and action-oriented forms of decision making for the sake of effectiveness?
Please bear in mind that CMR publishes primarily original articles that are research based and address issues of current concern to managers.
SUBMISSION
To consider your manuscript for publication in this special issue, submit your paper by February 29, 2012 to the official CMR website, indicating the title of the special issue.
All papers should meet the submission requirements of CMR: http://cmr.berkeley.edu/submission_guidelines.html .
The papers will be sent for review following CMR’s standard review process, coordinated by the guest editors. The final decisions about publications will be made by the CMR editor.
Please indicate in your text why and how your paper will appeal not only to scholars but also, and especially, to managers.
For further information, please contact the CMR co-guest editor for this special issue,
Prof. Yaakov Weber yaakovw@colman.ac.il .
Critical perspectives on the globally mobile professional and managerial class
Special issue call for papers from critical perspectives on international business
"Critical perspectives on the globally mobile professional and managerial class"
The postcolonial thinker Edward Said (1978, 1993) noted that migration was the great marker of our time and that with the increasing global movement of people there would be increasing ‘inter-cultural’ contact. When viewed through the ‘lens’ of critical organization and management studies, the processes and types of mobility, movement and migration in today’s ‘globalized’ environment present interesting possibilities for a reformulation and reconsideration of mobility within contemporary global capitalism.
In particular, there seems to be much room for the critical study of managerial and professional mobility and movement in business and organization studies, and specifically the idea of the "transnational capitalist class". Beyond conventional expatriation, there are many new kinds of mobility occurring that involve the transnational capitalist class in the contemporary global business environment. They have yet to be exposed to critical investigation in a sustained fashion. In Western-based multinational companies these include the development of mobile ‘global elites’ and increasing numbers of short-term, commuter and rotational assignments and assignees (Dickmann and Doherty, 2010; McKenna and Richardson, 2007; Suutari, 2003).
The implications of these systems and forms of mobility in the broader context of ‘globalization’ and global capitalism have yet to be significantly explored from a critical perspective. In addition, the so-called self-initiated expatriate (SIE) has recently come under scrutiny. The SIE is an individual who ‘expatriates’ independently of an organizational sponsor. Much of the research on the SIE has been conducted on and with professionals moving from Western countries to other parts of the world (Jokinen, Brewster and Suutari, 2008; Myers and Pringle, 2005; Richardson, 2006; Selmer and Lauring, 2010; Tharenou and Caulfield, 2010). While there has been some more critical work undertaken on the ‘whiteness’ of these SIEs and emigrants in the broader sociological literature (Leonard, 2010), very little has been undertaken from a critical paradigm specific to business and organizations.
In this special issue, then, we seek papers that subject the globally mobile managerial and professional class, particularly in the context of business and organizational studies, to critical investigation.
The list below presents illustrative topics for contributions:
• How can we conceptualize organizational and self-initiated managerial professional global mobility critically?
• To what extent do globally mobile professionals represent a transnational capitalist class operating in the interests of global capital? How do this growing transnational class reflect changes in the global labour process?
• To what extent are those who are globally mobile professionals, both within organizational contexts and SIE’s engaging in ‘Imperial careering’? What are the elements of ‘Imperial careering’ in the contemporary business world and how can we link it to a postcolonial analysis?
• Who are the globally mobile elite and why are they being created by corporations? What purposes do a globally mobile elite perform within multinational corporations that maintain and enhance discourses and structures of multinational power and dominance?
• What is the impact of global mobile professionals on the locations to which they move? How is ‘whiteness’ important in this mobility and in forms of racial hierarchicalization in host locations? How can we conceptualize and empirically research globally mobile professionals from non-metropolitan centres? What are the gendered aspects of professional global mobility?
• What do concepts such as hybridization and mimicry offer a critical analysis of mobility and how has hybridization in particular been appropriated by multinational corporations?
• How do globally mobile professionals impact the host countries from a critical perspective?
• How does the movement of the global professional and managerial class underpin a globalized system of neoliberalism? Do the global professional and managerial class constitute a group from all parts of the world who cross borders in support of global capital?
We welcome theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers that explore and investigate the critical dimensions of the global mobility of professionals and managers as a developing transnational capitalist class.
Submission process:
Submissions should follow the author guidelines for Critical Perspective on International Business which can be found at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/cpoib.htm
The submission deadline is 1st September 2012, with initial reviewing to be completed by 30th November 2012, revisions due by 1st February 2013, final decisions by 1st May 2013, and anticipated publication late 2013 early 2014.
Submissions should be via the Scholar One Manuscripts online submission system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpoib).
Please direct questions to any of the special issue editors at:
smckenna@yorku.ca, M.N.Ravishankar@lboro.ac.uk, D.Weir@UCS.AC.UKAbout the Guest Editors
Dr Steve McKenna is Professor of Human Resource Management at York University, Toronto. His research interests include global mobility, postcolonial approaches to management and organization studies and the processes involved in ‘learning to work’. He co-convened a sub-theme at EGOS in 2007 from which came a special issue of the Journal of Management Development on ‘Managing, managerial control and managerial identity in the post-bureaucratic world’. He has published articles in Organization, Management Learning, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Management International Review. He is regional editor (North America) for Personnel Review.
Dr. M.N. Ravishankar is a Senior Lecturer in International Business & Strategy and a core member of the Centre for Professional Work and Careers in the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK. His research interests span culture and its interface with business strategies, offshore outsourcing of work and IT-enabled transformations in emerging markets. Ravi’s research has appeared in leading international journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Vocational Behaviour and Omega.
Professor David Weir is Dean of the Business School at University Campus Suffolk, UK. He is also Emeritus Professor of the University of Northumbria, Visiting Professor in Management Development at Lancaster University, Visiting Professor Bristol Business School, Professor Affilie, ESC Rennes, France and Distinguished Visiting Professor, ETQM College, Dubai. He is a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management and the author of several books including the best selling "Modern Britain" series. He is currently completing a book on "Management in the Arab world". He was a joint editor of the book Critical Management Studies at Work (2009), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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