2010 INBAM Conference Annual Meeting-indexed journals
Dear colleague,
Because of the year end holidays in many countries, the INBAM submission
portal will remain open until 28 February.
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 events
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 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 (two are closed currently), one for each journal resulting in
sessions on innovation and creativity in relation to small and medium-sized
enterprises (for the ISBJ, it is closed), entrepreneurship (for SBE, it is
closed), human resource management (for HRM), organizational change (for the
JOCM), services (for the SIJ), the influence of managers and employees
characteristics on creativity and innovation (for the IJM), 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 Scientific 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.
With the best wishes,
INBAM (www.inbam.net)