Call for Track Chairs

The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the

9^th Annual Conference

September 14^th-16^th, 2016

EMRBI Presidents

Prof. Demetris Vrontis                          Prof. Yaakov Weber

Executive Dean and Director                               Dept. of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

University of Nicosia                                             School of Business

Nicosia, Cyprus                                                      College of Management, Israel

Conference Chair and Organizing Committee:

Conference Chairs - Katarzyna  Śledziewska and Renata Gabryelczyk

Conference Manager: Tinatin Akhvlediani

Organizing Committee:

Agnieszka Pugacewicz

Renata Włoch

Justyna Pokojska

Kristof Gyodi

Organized and Hosted by: University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Digital Economy Lab

The 9th annual edition will take place in Poland and will be the first EMRBI annual conference in the Eastern Europe. Due to the academic excellence with the particular focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, the 9th Annual Conferenceof the EMRBI  will be dedicated to the 200^th anniversary of establishment of the University of Warsaw.

CALL FOR TRACK CHAIRS

The EuroMed Research Business Institute solicits proposals for hosting specific tracks at the 9^th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business. Please note that all papers and abstracts accepted will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number) which is included in Conference Proceedings Citation Index — an integrated index within Web of Science. This prestigious distinction is given only to the most significant, in terms of academic excellence, conferences-conventions worldwide.

Prospective track chairs should submit a short description of subjects that will be included in their track. The proposed track should not be too general, but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also encouraged and welcome.

Track proposals covering all areas of business and management studies are strongly encouraged.

In addition, proposals specifically related to the 2016 general conference theme – “INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS” – are encouraged.

All track proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Organizing Committee with respect to the above criteria. The committee reserves the right to either: (1) accept the proposal as it is submitted, (2) recommend merging of considerably overlapping proposals, or (3) reject the proposal. Upon acceptance, the track chairs will be notified of the timetable and related responsibilities. The deadline for track proposal submissions is 24^th of December, 2015.

All proposals should be submitted electronically (in Microsoft Word format) to Dr. Evangelos Tsoukatos ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask])

The acceptance of track proposals will be announced on the 5th of January 2016.

We expect all Track Chairs to start the review process at the beginning of April and submit decision letters on late April 2016. The specific dates will be given later. Upon receiving all reviews, the track chairs are responsible to send them timely to the Director of Scientific Committee together with their recommendation on whether the paper should be accepted or rejected.

Track chairs will get a specific schedule for accomplishing of the review process. They will be responsible, among other things, for:

-          Preparing a list of reviewers.

-          distributing papers/abstracts to reviewers with guidelines and evaluation forms (these will be provided by the EuroMed Academy of Business)

-          making sure that the review forms are returned back to them on time

-          following the reviews, the track chairs are required to provide for each paper/abstract their own accept/reject recommendation

-          submitting all recommendations by late April, 2016

 In the framework of the conference, participants will have a chance to attend Digital Camp, study visits in the lab campus of the University of Warsaw especially designed for experiments, as well as an exhibition of the most recent innovative products.

Professor Yaakov Weber

1.       Director, Research Unit

            School of Business Administration

            College of Management, Israel

2.       President, EMRBI

            EuroMed Research Business Institute