Dear colleague,
We are writing to inform you that the Congress 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 Congress. 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 Congress 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 Congress, "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 Congress.
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 Congress 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 Congress 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 Congress. 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 Congress. 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 Congress 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 Congresses 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 Congress.
The deadline for submitting papers is 31st December, 2009. The
Congress 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