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Call for Papers /Abstracts

4th Academia-Industry Exchange

Symposium on International Business, Innovation & Governance:

Shaping the Futures of Smart Economy

6 & 7 December 2019

Institute of International Business and Governance (IIBG)

Venue: The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Please see below for information on Publication Opportunities

Registration Fee USD 325 FULLY SPONSORED by IIBG

Funded by the Research Grants Council’s Institutional Development Scheme, the Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), established the Institute of International Business and Governance (IIBG) in January 2016. Every year, IIBG organises an ‘academia-industry exchange’ to provide an open platform for academics and practitioners from around the world to share and discuss ideas and issues related to new thinking and research findings in the broad areas of international business, governance and ethics.

Building on the success of the past exchanges, IIBG is organising its 4th Academia-Industry Exchange ‘International Business, Innovation & Governance: Shaping the Futures of Smart Economy’ on 6 & 7 December 2019 at The Open University of Hong Kong. We invite competitive papers and posters which respond to the theme of the symposium. Conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers using qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies are welcome. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:

1.      Big Data

2.      Corporate Governance, Accountability and Ethics

3.      Digital Business

4.      eSports

5.      Fintech

6.      Healthcare

7.      Ideation and Innovation

8.      Innovation for Sustainability

9.      Sustainable Tourism

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Wayne Visser, Professor of Integrated Value and Chair in Sustainable Transformation, Antwerp Management School; Fellow, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge

Submission Guidelines:

1.      The symposium will host both competitive sessions and poster sessions. Competitive sessions are for well-developed research work. Authors are required to submit extended abstracts for oral presentation in the competitive sessions. Once the extended abstracts are accepted for presentation, authors are required to submit their full papers to us before mid-October 2019. Poster sessions are for research work that is at an early stage of development. They allow researchers to engage in constructive discussion with other knowledgeable researchers in the field. Authors are required to submit extended abstracts for presentation in the poster sessions.

2.      Authors are invited to submit their work via https://easychair.org/cfp/iibg2019

3.      The format of abstracts can be found at http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/iibg2019symposium/2019_Abstract_Guide.pdf

4.      The format of extended abstracts and full papers can be found at http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/iibg2019symposium/2019_Full_paper_guide.pdf

 

Selection for Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics:

1.      Studies in the areas of ethics with an Asian focus will be considered for publication in the special issue of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics (AJBE).

2.       For those who would like to have their papers considered for publication in the special issue of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics (AJBE), please indicate “Concurrent Submission to the AJBE” on the cover page.

3.      All submissions will go through separate blind-review processes for the special issue.

 

Important dates:


Submission deadline of extended abstracts:                           31 July 2019

Confirmation of abstract acceptance:                                     27 September 2019

Full paper submission deadline:                                              14 October 2019        

Registration opens:                                                                 27 May 2019

Online registration:                                                                 Closes on 25 November 2019

 

Registration fee:

1.      Early-Bird Registration (by October 7, 2019)

2.      Regular Registration (May 27 to November 25, 2019)

3.      The Registration Fee USD 325 is FULLY SPONSORED by the Institute of International Business and Governance, The Open University of Hong Kong. The meal fees of this symposium are paid by attendees. The detailed meal fees can be found at http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/iibg2019symposium/e-fees.html


Symposium Chair:

Prof. Alan Au

Dean, Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration

Institute of International Business and Governance, The Open University of Hong Kong,

Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

 

Symposium Website:

http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/iibg2019symposium/

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