Dear colleague,
We are writing to inform you that the Conference of the International
Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM): "Creativity and
Innovation in an International Context," will be held in Valencia (Spain) in
June, 2010. Eight editors of leading journals will participate in this 1st
Conference. It is organized by the Editor Network INBAM and the Departments
of Management from the Universitat de València (Estudi General) and the
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty
of Business Administration of these two institutions from June 1st (Tuesday)
to June 4th (Friday), 2010. The following editors- in-chief have confirmed
their presence and participation: Robert Blackburn (International Small
Business Journal), David Audretsch (Small Business Economics), Theresa
Welbourne (Human Resource Management), Slawek Magala (Journal of
Organizational Change Management), Gary Akehurst (Service Industries
Journal), Adrian Ziderman (International Journal of Manpower), Rick D.
Hackett (Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences), and Linda Canina
(Cornell Hospitality Quarterly).
The overall theme of the Conference, "Creativity and Innovation in an
International Context," will be broken down into subtopics, with a total of
eight sessions, one for each journal resulting in sessions on innovation and
creativity in relation to small and medium-sized enterprises (for the ISBJ),
entrepreneurship (for SBE), human resource management (for HRM),
organizational change (for the JOCM), services (for the SIJ), the
organization of work (for the IJM) or the Virtuous Organization (for the
CJAS), hospitality and tourism (for CHQ). In this way, the various areas can
be adapted to the different streams of research and editorial policies of
each journal and editor participating at the Conference.
The journal editor corresponding to each area will open the session with an
outline of how to publish in that journal. Authors will then go on to
present the papers chosen for each session.
One of the aims of the Conference is to select papers that, depending on the
specialty of the journal and the quality of the papers, will constitute
special issues of each of the eight journals.
The selection and review of articles will be carried out, firstly, by the
INBAM and the Conference Advisory Committee; Those papers that do not reach
the required standards of quality and rigour demanded by these journals, in
terms of theoretical framework and methodology, will not be accepted for
presentation at the Conference. Papers should be highly relevant, with a
clear orientation to the overall theme of the Conference and/or the research
focus favoured by the journals.
A maximum of 15 papers per session will then be selected for presentation at
the Conference. A team of three will be responsible for each of the
subtopics (presented in the sessions or areas) and they will serve as guest
editors for the special issues.
Once the Conference has concluded, the guest editors for each session will
decide which papers are to be recommended for inclusion in the special
issues of the corresponding publications. Depending on the quality of
submissions, up to half of the best papers will be published in the special
issues of these SSCI journals. This will make this and subsequent
Conferences organized by the Editor Network of the International Network of
Business and Management Journals (INBAM) quite unique. The issues will be
published the year following after the Conference.
The deadline for submitting papers is 31st December, 2009. The Conference
webpage is accessible at
www.inbam.net
With the best wishes,
INBAM Department of Management "JJ Renau Piqueras", Universitat de València
(Estudi General) Department of Management, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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Marta Peris Ortiz
Dpto. Organización de Empresas
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
mperis@doe.upv.es
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