Thursday, March 26, 2015

Deadline EXTENSION Annual Conference VERONA Italy September 2015

Due to many (!) requests for submissions and the coming holidays we EXTEND the DEADLINE for submissions to April 27, 2015.

 

 

Call for Papers

The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the

8th Annual Conference

Verona, Italy

September 16th-18th, 2015

Visit the conference site 

INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT

The full table of all the conference tracks can be found at the end of the attached Call for Papers

 

EMRBI Presidents

Prof. Demetris Vrontis                         Prof. Yaakov Weber

Executive Dean and Director                               Director, Research Unit

University of Nicosia                                           College of Management, Israel

Nicosia, Cyprus                                                    

ABOUT EMRBI MEMBERS

 

 

Conference Chair and Organizing Committee:

Diego Begalli (Chair), Antonio Borghesi, Federico Brunetti, Bettina Campedelli, Emanuele Carluccio, Stefano Pozzoli, Matteo Rossi, Salvatore Russo

 

Organized and Hosted by:

University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Department of Business Administration

 


 

  

Author Guidelines 

Submission Deadline*: April 27, 2015

 

 

Please submit your paper or abstract to admin@emrbi.org and to submissions@emrbi.org by strictly adhering to the Author Guidelines and by using the Manuscript Template found on the conference website (www.euromed2015.com).

All manuscripts (including abstracts) will be double blind reviewed.

Please indicate, on the first page of the manuscript, the track number for submission. All conference tracks are included at the end of this call (brief track descriptions can be found at the conference website). Should you feel that your submission does not exactly fit in any of the tracks please indicate General Track. Alternatively, you may indicate the general area that you would like to have your manuscript reviewed under (eg Marketing, HRM, Strategic Management, Finance etc).

The maximum number of submitted papers or abstracts accepted per author (either single or co-author) is three.

Important Dates

Early-bird registration

Until July 18th, 2015

Late registration

After July 18th, 2015

Deadline for inclusion in Book of Proceedings **

August 31st, 2015

**Only papers or abstracts of participants registered until August 31st, 2015 will be included in the Book of Proceedings that will be distributed at the conference. Papers and/or abstracts of participants who will register after the above date will be included in the final book of proceedings that will be distributed after the conference.

 

Publication Opportunities

All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number) which is approved for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index — an integrated index within Web of Science. This distinction is given only to the most significant papers, in terms of academic excellence, conferences-conventions worldwide.

A selection of the best conference papers will also be considered for publication in about 30 journals (for more details see full call for papers attached and at our website), most of which are internationally ranked or/and ISI/Scopus approved. Some of these journals will devote and publish a special issue based on conference papers.

For more information please see publication opportunities on the conference website.

 

 OTHER CONFERENCE AND PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

 

Research Project Workshop

Authors' Networking and Collaboration Workshop

Meet the Editors Session

Doctoral Seminars

 

AWARDS

Conference Best and Highly Commended Paper Awards

The best papers presented during the 8th annual conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business will be presented with an award. These papers will also be considered for publication in the EuroMed Journal of Business.

Conference Best and Highly Commended Student Paper Awards

The best papers presented by doctoral students during the 8th annual conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business will be presented with an award. These papers will also be considered for publication in the EuroMed Journal of Business.

Conference Best Track Chair and Commended Track Chair Awards

Best Track Chair Awards will be presented to Chairs who will best manage their track and review process.

Conference Best Reviewer Awards

As part of the EMRBI's goals and dedication to high quality reviewing process, "Best Reviewer" awards will be presented to a number of reviewers, whose reviews were of high quality, represented a clear contribution, as well as offered positive recommendations for paper and research improvements for authors.

EuroMed Journal of Business Best and Highly Commended Paper Awards

Sponsored by the EuroMed Journal of Business, published by Emerald. A "Best Paper" and three "Highly Commended Paper" awards will be presented at the conference and be accepted for publication in the EuroMed Journal of Business. Only full paper submissions will be considered for the awards.

Emerald/EMRBI Award for Emerging Researchers

Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the EuroMed Research Business Institute seek to promote excellence and innovation in business research by sponsoring the 2015 Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers.

The Award-winning entry will receive a cash prize of €1,500, a certificate, a winner's logo to attach to correspondence, and publication in the EuroMed Journal of Business as a full paper. Runners-up will also be considered for publication in the EuroMed Research Business Institute.

 

Conference Venue – University of Verona, Verona, Italy

The 8th EuroMed Conference will take place on the 16th to 18th of September 2015, at the University of Verona in Verona, Italy.

The present city of Verona derives from the roman city founded in the 1st century B.C. The roman origin of the city is testified by its architecture, urban planning, and by many historical buildings. Verona offers also many interesting places date back to Middle Ages. Verona was named in 2000 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Verona is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy. It has two main emblems: the Arena and the William Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet. The Arena is an ancient roman amphitheater built in AD 30. It is the 3rd roman amphitheater in Italy with respect to the size. During summer, inside the Arena the famous festival of opera and many concerts are given. Verona is also the location chosen by William Shakespeare for his story about the love between Romeo and Juliet. 

The city and its province offer many interesting activities and places to tourists: churches, museums, amazing natural sites, famous wine regions, and attractive night life. It is also very near to attractive destinations like Venice, Dolomites, Milano (Expo 2015), and famous lakes.

For more information you can visit the following websites:

http://www.turismoverona.eu/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=35298&lang=en

http://www.tourism.verona.it/en

Conference Hotels

Attractive hotel rates for conference participants have been secured in some of the nicest hotels in Verona.

Details on accommodation options, pricing and booking instructions are available at http://www.euromed2015.com

Organized Excursions

A selection of attractive tours has been arranged for conference participants.

Day tours - Saturday 19th of September 2015:

  1. Garda lake tour
  2. Historical Verona guided tour
  3. Valpolicella tour with wine tasting experience

Please note that all tours have limited capacity are expected to be filled fast, hence, it is recommended to book your tour as soon as possible.  

More details on tours will be available at http://www.euromed2015.com


Programme Tracks and Track Chairs:

For a detailed description of the conference tracks please visit the conference website http://www.euromed2015.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Monday, March 23, 2015

Only 4 days left for Abstract Submission Deadline: 26th March 2015

 

EDULEARN15: Connecting technology with education

International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies

6-8 JULY, 2015
BARCELONA (SPAIN)
7th ANNUAL EDITION

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW »
Deadline: 26th of March, 2015

JOIN US!

Dear colleague,

You are invited to join EDULEARN15 and contribute with your education experiences. EDULEARN15 provides the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences on Education and new Teaching/Learning Technologies in a truly international atmosphere.
Every year, EDULEARN brings together more than 700 delegates from 80 different countries.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in EDULEARN15. You can present your contributions in two modalities:

- In person: oral and poster presentations.
- Virtually: if you can not attend in person.


You can find the conference topics here.
The deadline for abstracts submission is 26th of March, 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

Two ISBN publications will be produced with all the accepted abstracts and papers. They will be included in Google Scholar and IATED Digital Library to form part of our database of innovative projects in Education and Technology.

EDULEARN15 Publications will be sent to be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Previous editions were already included in ISI CPCI.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

FW: ATLAS list ATLAS annual conference 2015 - Special Tracks +abstract submission

 

 

From: list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org [mailto:list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org] On Behalf Of ATLAS List
Sent: mercredi 18 mars 2015 11:24
To: 'ATLAS discussion list'
Subject: ATLAS list ATLAS annual conference 2015 - Special Tracks +abstract submission

 

 

 

Risk in Travel and Tourism: geographies, behaviours and strategies

October 20 - 23, 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Submitting abstracts before April 1st 2015

 

 

We are happy to announce 1 special track which will be part of the ATLAS annual conference:

Special track 1: ATLAS Latin America

Special track 2: Risky Gastronomies and Foodscapes

 

The conference organizers still do invite more proposals for organizing special tracks during the conference and encourage ATLAS Special Interest Groups to plan meetings and workshops within or next to the conference program. Please contact admin@atlas-euro.org before 1 March 2015 if you have any plans to organize a special track or SIG meeting during this conference.

 

The ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM is active on the conference website. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 1st 2015.

 

For more information please visit the conference website at

http://www.atlas-euro.org/event_2015_lisbon/tabid/239/language/en-US/Default.aspx

 

 

 

Leontine Onderwater

Jantien Veldman

 

ATLAS

POBox 109

6800 AC Arnhem

The Netherlands

 

Tel: +31-20-8932166

Fax: +31-26-8700143

 

ATLAS online bookshop at

http://shop.atlas-euro.org

 

___________________________________________________

ATLAS Event SIG meeting

Creating and bidding for events

Lecce, Italy

14-15 May, 2015

 

___________________________________________________

ATLAS Africa Conference 2015

Tourism and Inclusive Growth in Developing Economies

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

3-5 June, 2015

 

___________________________________________________

ATLAS Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage SIG meeting

Religion Spirituality Culture and Tourism

Girona, Spain

10-13 June,2015

 

___________________________________________________

ATLAS Independent Travel Research Group Interest Group

Independent Travel and Sustainability

Parimaribo, Suriname

19-21 June, 2015

 

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ATLAS PhD seminar 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

20 October, 2015

 

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ATLAS annual conference 2015

Risk in travel and tourism: Geographies, behaviors and strategies

Lisbon, Portugal

21-23 October, 2015

 

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ATLAS Annual Conference 2016

Tourism, Lifestyles and Locations

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Fall 2016

 

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

FW: call for paper - animals and leisure

 

 

From: list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org [mailto:list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org] On Behalf Of Neil Carr
Sent: jeudi 12 mars 2015 09:28
To: leisurenet-group@griffith.edu.au; cals@uwaterloo.ca; list@atlas-euro.org; trinet-l@lists.hawaii.edu; SPORT-CULTURE-SOCIETY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK; ALSnet@listserv.uga.edu
Subject: ATLAS list call for paper - animals and leisure

 

 

Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies Biennial Conference, 9 – 11th December 2015. Adelaide, Australia

 

Themed Session Call for Papers

Animals and leisure: Rights and Wellbeing

Chairs: Dr Janette Young (University of South Australia) & Associate Professor Neil Carr (University of Otago)

 

Animals form an integral component of the leisure experience as objects, tools, and sentient beings; from the dog playing at the beach with its human companion, to the horse being used by police to aid crowd control, to the elephant being hunted so that its head may be displayed on the wall of the hunter’s home as a tourist souvenir, to the kangaroo sitting on the table at a restaurant waiting to be consumed as cuisine. Many of these animals and the roles they play in human leisure can enhance the physical and mental health and general wellbeing of humans and provide the latter with valuable social capital. While some work has begun to examine these benefits, especially in relation to dogs, far more work is needed and the conceptual foundations that leisure studies is built on arguably need to be brought to bear to aid such work. In addition, more work is needed to examine how such benefits can be actualised; a call that recognises that leisure does not exist in isolation from life. If animals are seen as more than mere objects then all of this work needs to be situated within the context of animal rights and welfare (or wellbeing if you prefer). While debate continues to rage about the rights and sentience of animals such discussion has been limited within leisure studies and where it has occurred has mainly been confined to the exotic other rather than the more mundane, everyday animals, and narrowly focused within tourism studies.

 

Any research agenda for animals and leisure that speaks only of the position of animals in human leisure is arguably guilty of missing the idea that as sentient beings animals may also have and/or desire leisure; a leisure that may coincide with but is distinct from human leisure. This suggests leisure is not only a right of humans but also of non-human animals. Do all animals desire leisure, do they desire it in the same way as humans, what rights to leisure should they have, who should be responsible for ensuring those rights, and what happens when these rights conflict with human moral values and/or perceived needs. All of these are questions that need addressing within the sphere of a leisure studies field that is willing to look beyond merely the human.

 

Consequently, this session aims to provide a forum for the discussion of the position of animals (encompassing wild, semi-domesticated and domesticated animals, and pets) in leisure studies and leisure experiences, the potential benefits and drawbacks of the positioning of them in leisure environments, and the right to leisure of animals. Potential themes for presentations include, but are not limited to:

·         Demand for access with pets to leisure spaces

·         Health and wellbeing benefits of human-animal interactions in leisure

·         Leisure, animals, and individual and communal social capital

·         Animal rights and wellbeing in human cuisine

·         Right to leisure of animals

·         Do animals ‘need’ and/or have leisure?

·         Animal abuse in leisure

·         Animals in leisure and human identity construction

·         Ethics of hunting

·         Zoos and aquaria as morally contested spaces

·         What is a circus and what makes them morally repugnant

·         Fashion, leisure, and animals

·         How to understand non-human animals’ leisure

·         Volunteerism and animal protection as leisure

 

Abstracts should be 250-350 words clearly indicating the following information:

·         Author name(s) indicating position and affiliation as well as full details of correspondence author.

·         Full paper title as it will appear in the conference programme.

·         Abstract including Background (outline of the context/literature informing the study or issue), Approach/methodology (indication of the broad theoretical orientation and/or methodological approach) and Significance/Key learnings (description/application of findings or key learnings).

·         Full references for any research cited in the abstract (no tables, figures or footnotes).

 

Abstracts using Word format are to be submitted to Dr Janette Young (janette.young@unisa.edu.au)

Deadline for abstracts is Friday 29th May 2015

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Fwd: 2015 Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers


Subject: 2015 Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015 Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers

 

Promoting excellence and innovation in business research

 

Call for Papers-Closing date 1st July 2015

 

Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMRBI - http://emrbi.org) in their aim to promote excellence and innovation in business research sponsor the 2015 Emerald/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers.

 

The Award-winning entry will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or currency equivalent), a certificate, a winner's logo to attach to correspondence, and publication in the EuroMed Journal of Business as a full paper. Runners-up will also be considered for publication.

 

In addition, authors of the winning entry and those of up to ten highly commended papers will receive a certificate at the Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business in Verona, Italy http://euromed2015.com 

 

Eligibility

 

To be eligible for the Award, the research must address the environmental opportunities and threats, or marketplace developments and trends, in the European-Mediterranean region. In an effort to promote and reward research from new researchers, the Award is open to any researcher who has undertaken a doctoral degree program in the past 5 years. The paper may be co-authored with a senior faculty member.

 

Submission requirements

 

Submissions must be made online at submissions@emrbi.org and admin@emrbi.org:

 

The following documents will be required:     

 

-          a covering letter containing full contact details of all contributors

 

-          the full paper in line with the EuroMed Journal of Business submission requirements (www.emeraldinsight.com/emjb.htm)

 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 July 2015.

 

Judging criteria

 

The judging panel will include the Editor in Chief and at least one Editorial Advisory Board member of the EuroMed Journal of Business as well as EMRBI Senior Fellow members.

 

Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

 

-          Significance/implications for theory and practice

 

-          Originality and innovation

 

-          Appropriateness and application of the methodology

 

-          Analysis and presentation of the data (if applicable)

 

-          Quality of the literature review.

 

Note: Short-listed applicants may be required to answer questions from the judging panel with regard to the research paper submitted. The Editor in Chief reserves the right not to select a winning paper if, in his judgment, none of the entries is considered satisfactory.

 

Key dates

 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 July 2015

 

Short-listing and further contact will take place during July/August 2015

 

Winners will be announced at the 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business in Verona, Italy during 16-18th of September 2015.

 

Contact details

 

For further information please contact:

 

Prof. Demetris Vrontis

President, EMRBI

Editor in Chief, EuroMed Journal of Business

E-mail: admin@emrbi.org

 

Dr Evangelos Tsoukatos

Vice President for Operation and Development

Associate Editor, EuroMed Journal of Business

E-mail: submissions@emrbi.org

 

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Professor Demetris Vrontis, FCIM, SF EMAB

PhD, MBA, PGCE (HE), BSc (Hons)

Certified Chartered Marketer and Chartered Business Consultant

 

Executive Dean, Distance Learning

Director, Unit of Graduate Studies in Business

University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

President, EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMBRI)-

http://emrbi.org/

 

Editor-in-Chief, EuroMed Journal of Business (EMJB)-

www.emeraldinsight.com/emjb.htm

 

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Tel: +357 22 841615
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