FINAL REMINDER
10th Annual Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference
Call for Papers
Academic Sponsors
Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology's Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
Pre-Conference PhD Student Workshop Sponsor
The National Science Foundation
Dates
May 21-23, 2013 (Noon Tuesday to Noon Thursday)
Conference Hotel
InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta
Co-Sponsors
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City
Herman J. Russell Sr. International Center for Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University
Corporate Sponsor
Beckmill Research
Program Chair & Organizer
Bill Bogner, Georgia State University
Conference Organizing Committee
Pam Barr, Bill Bogner, Irene Duhaime, and Rajiv Nag
Georgia State University
Annamaria Conti, J. Jay Lee, and Henry Sauermann
Georgia Institute of Technology
ACAC Founder
Rich Makadok, Emory University
Conference Mission and Paper Focus
The "big picture" strategy questions...
Where do competitive and distinctive advantages come from, and how are they sustained?
Why do some companies and new ventures consistently outperform their competitors?
Why do some businesses succeed in the same industry environments where others fail?
And what, if anything, can managers and entrepreneurs actually do about it?
What are the unique challenges of building and sustaining competitive advantage in special
contexts like new ventures and international business?
The aim of this annual conference is to improve our ability to answer these "big picture" questions
and other related questions of corporate strategy, entrepreneurial strategy, and international
strategy, by bringing together some of the world's top researchers on competitive advantage for
three days each year in Atlanta.
We will:
Share cutting-edge research, ideas and theories.
Foster collaborative research efforts.
Build a worldwide association and network of researchers who are dedicated to advancing the
state of knowledge about competitive advantage.
Details and Submission Information:
Conference registration fee will be reduced to $100 for up to two authors of all accepted
papers and access to deeply discounted hotel rates.
Registration fee for all others is $290. ACAC registration fee will cover all lunches, the
evening receptions on Tuesday and Wednesday, conference refreshment breaks, and the Tuesday
evening Georgia Tech dinner at the Buckhead Club.
Submitted papers will undergo a selection process, NOT a formal review process -- so we will
not provide reviews or other feedback on any submitted manuscript.
Submitting a paper represents a commitment that at least one of the authors will attend and
participate in whatever session the paper gets scheduled for, whenever during the conference that
session is scheduled. Authors who commit to attend and participate but then fail to do so, for any
reason other than an immediate genuine emergency, may be excluded from participation in future
ACAC meetings.
In addition to regular paper-presentation sessions, authors may also choose to allow their
submitted papers to be considered for a high-profile visual presentation session, similar to an
"SMS-style" poster session held during the Wednesday reception.
Papers must be submitted via the ACAC 2013 submission system »
Papers must be submitted either in Microsoft Word or in PDF format.
<< Submission Deadline: February 18, 2013 >>