Dear EURAM members and friends,

After moving our 2020 conference from June to December and from onsite to online, it appears that the present circumstances do not allow us to plan for a 2021 onsite event in Montreal due to prolonged sanitary measures and travel restrictions.

In these exceptional circumstances, we are planning to hold the EURAM 2021 Conference online and the Doctoral Colloquium 2021 online while maintaining the original dates: 16-18 June 2021 for the Conference and 14-15 June 2021 for the Doctoral Colloquium.

Our conference theme is “Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world”.

We live in an interconnected world that faces great challenges in shaping its FUTURE. In response, we must find new ways to stimulate sustainable economic growth by creating new jobs and economic opportunities for all, serving society, protecting the environment and strengthen the global response to climate change.  At the same time, we must learn to adjust to the pandemic’s ‘new normal’ and to cope with new threats that may arise in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as economic, financial and health crises, cyber threats, and large-scale humanitarian crises.  To address these challenges, we must initiate a fair dialogue among all stakeholders and groups involved. These include scholars, private and public companies, other organisations, and policymakers at the national and supranational levels. Let’s work together to blur the boundaries between research and practice and find solutions for reshaping capitalism, in a context of pluralism of ideas, multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion. Let these solutions transcend national boundaries and the narrow goals of each interest group.

The dialogue must address, openly and courageously, any dichotomies among the views of these stakeholders in regard to the timing and means for reshaping capitalism. We can learn from one each other, share ideas and engage collectively in the development of new knowledge that concerns, but is not limited to: new, sustainable paths to innovation that combine social innovation, digital innovation, artificial intelligence and human creativity; new entrepreneurial approaches that combine social entrepreneurship and financial entrepreneurship; new corporate governance practices across the world that address the competing demands of the numerous stakeholders of the Boards and the ability of companies to withstand a crisis; new approaches to strategy & corporate finance that help corporations to balance between their global approaches and their markets’ local needs; new, innovative and sustainable HRM practices and leadership styles in different cultural contexts; new business models aimed at creating economic, social and environmental value and sustainable patterns of consumption; new business practices and public policies throughout the world that seek to improve the wellbeing of our society, the health of our people, the future of our planet, and the strengths of our businesses, financial markets and industries.

In order to adopt a transdisciplinary approach that transcends the boundaries between sciences and combines academic work and professional practice, we expect that proposals will come from scholars from various cultural and academic backgrounds – management sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences, health sciences, communication, education, ICT or other related sciences.

To submit your full paper to EURAM 2021: 

I. Explore the tracks sponsored by one of the 14 EURAM Strategic Interest Groups (SIGs) or by the 2021 Local Organising Committee and choose the topic and community that correspond best to your research.

II. Please respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 12 January 2021 – 2 pm Belgian time.

III. Please, comply with the authors’ guidelines.

I. Explore our SIGs and tracks (for more detail click on the SIG title)

For newcomers to our community: our 14 SIGs are the building blocks of EURAM. SIG Chairs and Officers nurture communities of scholars who are engaged in specific research areas. There are three types of Tracks. General Tracks are the overarching tracks of the SIGs. Standing tracks are ongoing conversations that you can join, and which will continue within a SIG for a number of years. Finally, every year there are Tracks that are selected in a competitive submission and review process (they may become standing tracks in the future if they prove to be of continued interest). Each SIG General Track invites contributions from all areas related to the SIG specific research area but which are not explicitly covered by other tracks within the SIG.

SIGs:

1. Business for Society- B4S
2. Corporate Governance – COGO
3. Entrepreneurship – ENT
4. Family Business Research – FABR
5. Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations – GRDO
6. Innovation – INNO
7. International Management – IM
8. Managing Sport – SPORTS
9. Organisational Behaviour – OB
10. Project Organising – PO
11. Public and Non-Profit Management – PM&NPM
12. Research Methods and Research Practice – RM&RP
13. Strategic Management – SM
14. General Conference Track – GENERAL

Business for Society- B4S
GT01_00 – Business for Society General Track
ST01_01/ST02_01 – Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law, Governance & Purpose (co-sponsored by B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST01_02 – Measuring, managing and communicating on performance for sustainability: new trends and innovative tools
ST01_03 – Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability
T01_04 – Advanced technologies and intelligent city ecosystems: moving toward inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable human settlement
T01_05 – Redefining Corporate Responsibility: Establishing the principles of ‘purposeful’ business
T01_06 – Reshaping capitalism around Sustainability, Social innovation, and Frugality
T01_07 – Philosophy for business ethicsT01_08 – Rethinking the capacities of social and collective enterprises for a more sustainable world
T01_09 – Arts for Business and society
T01_10 – Reimagining Capitalism: Exploring Organizational Pathways
T01_11 – Market for Society: A new deal in the post-COVID 10 era?

Corporate Governance – COGO
GT02_00 – Corporate Governance General Track
ST01_01/ST02_01 – Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law, Governance & Purpose (co-sponsored by B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST02_02 – Board of Directors and Top Management Teams
ST02_03 – Corporate Governance and Diversity
ST02_04/ST08_02 – Sport Governance
T02_05 – Rethinking corporate governance: incorporating values, foresight and corporate responsibility into board

Entrepreneurship – ENT
GT03_00 – Entrepreneurship General Track
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Behaviour
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
ST03_06 – Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
T03_07 – P2P Platforms and the Sharing Economy
T03_08 – From Entrepreneur to Manager: The Professionalization Process of SMEs
T03_09 – Solo Self-Employment, aspects and challenges, particularly in the time of Covid-19
ST03_10 – Entrepreneurial Processes
T03_11 – Migrant Entrepreneurship Across Contexts
T03_12 – Female entrepreneurship
ST03_13 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs
T03_4 – Resilience of SMEs and FBs, what can we learn from them in times of crisis?
T03_15 – Entrepreneurial education, academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial university

Family Business Research – FABR
GT04_00 – Family Business Research General Track
ST04_01 – Context and strategy in family business
ST04_02 – Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies
T04_03 –  Critical events and resilience in family businesses
T04_04 – Governance, Goals and Behaviour in Family Firms

Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations – GRDO
GT05_00 – Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations General Track
ST05_01 Women, Gender, & Sexuality in Work, Organisation & Beyond
ST05_03 – Migration / Identity / Power: Integration and Cross Cultural Management Challenges

Innovation – INNO
GT06_00 – Innovation General Track
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
ST06_02 – New Challenges in Business Management: Working from Higher Education
ST06_03 – Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Ecosystems, Theories, and Practice
ST06_04 – Inter-organizational networks and innovation
ST06_06 – Managing for Service Innovation
ST06_07 – Open Innovation
ST06_08 – Organising creativity for innovation: Multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practices
ST06_09 – Design, Innovation and Organizations: Rethinking Theory and Practice
ST06_10 – Innovation for Circularity, Green Technologies and Sustainability
ST06_11 – Innovation, Learning and Creativity in Organizations and the Public Sector
T06_12 – From improvisation to routines: How ecosystems evolve under special circumstances
T06_13 – Managing people for innovation
T06_14 – Virtual Care: The new now normal

International Management – IM
GT07_00 – International Management General Track
ST07_01 – Expatriate Management
ST07_02/ST08_01 – Managing Sport Events and Participation
T07_03 – Time And Space for HRM In Multinational Enterprises
T07_04 – Management and cultures: qualitative organizational research
T07_05 – Emerging Markets Studies
T07_06 – International Competitiveness

Managing Sport – SPORT
GT08_00 – Managing Sport General Track
ST07_02/ST08_01 – Managing Sport Events and Participation
ST02_04/ST08_02 – Sport Governance
T08_03 – Sport and Sustainability

Organisational Behaviour – OB
GT09_00 – Organisational Behaviour General Track
ST09_01 – Human Resource Management
ST09_02 – Team Performance Management
ST09_04 – Leadership
T09_05 – Big Data, Data Analytics and new forms of Work
T09_06 – Meaning and Mindfulness at work in Global crises: The role of PayCap, Work Meaningfulness and Mindfulness at Work

Project Organising – PO
GT10_00 – Project Organising General Track
ST10_01 – Multi-level Perspective on Major and Megaprojects
T10_02 – The faces of the same coin: Social sustainability and the dark side of projects
T10_03 – Projects & Society

Public and Non-Profit Management – PM&NPM
GT11_00 – Public and Non-Profit Management General Track
ST11_01 – Accounting, Accountability and Sustainability in Public and Nonprofit
ST11_02 – Healthcare Management Research
ST11_03 – Management and governance of culture, heritage and tourism
T11_04 – Smart – Sustainable Cities and Disaster Management

Research Methods and Research Practice – RM&RP
GT12_00 – Research Methods and Research Practice General Track
ST12_01 – Organisational coevolution and ecosystems
ST12_03 – Research Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems
T12_04 – Resource Interaction Research and Network Approaches

Strategic Management – SM
GT13_00 – Strategic Management General Track
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
ST13_02 – Behavioral Strategy
ST13_03 – CENA – Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances
ST13_04 – Mergers & Acquisitions and Divestitures: A Glimpse into the Future
ST13_05 – Microfoundations of Strategy: Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Mechanisms
ST13_06  – Strategic Ambidexterity: solving the inherent managerial tensions between exploration and exploitation in innovative firms
ST13_07 – Strategic Processes and Practice: Theorizing Emerging Strategic Processes and Practices
ST13_08 – Ecosystems in Management Research – Current and Future research
T13_09 – Digital Strategy, Artificial Intelligence and the Platform Economy
T13_10 – Strategic foresight for Capitalism 2.0: examining competencies, process and its role in performance

General Conference Track – GENERAL
GT14_00 – Conference General Track
T14_01  – Glocal HRM as a possible path to sustainalism
T14_02  – Management History, Theory, and Philosophy
T14_03  – Pedagogical Innovation and Research in Management Education

II. Deadline
Please respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 12 January 2021 – 2 pm Belgian time.

III. Authors’ Guidelines for Full Papers

To ensure that it is possible to publish your paper in the proceedings it is essential that all authors strictly follow the guidelines and formatting instructions for both preparation and submission of all papers.

For EURAM 2021, the abstracts and full papers will be published in e-format and for the latter, accessible for registered delegates only.

The proceedings will carry the ISSN 2466-7498 and ISBN 978-2-9602195-3-1.

https://conferences.euram.academy/2021conference/authors-guidelines-for-full-papers/

Each paper will be screened to ensure compliance with EURAM’s guidelines. Papers which do not match the EURAM requirements will be desk-rejected and authors will not have the opportunity to submit an updated version.

Please read below instructions carefully prior to submitting and remember that you can select, if you wish, one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals your research addresses (UN SDGs):

1. Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track.
2. Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before the EURAM 2021 Conference.
3. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties (any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED; author information and acknowledgements are to be included in the submission form).
4. The abstract should not exceed 400 words and should be included both in the PDF and the submission form.
5. Include 3 keywords in the submission form. A maximum of 6 keywords is allowed.
6. The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE anonymised document created in PDF format.
7. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The minimum length of the paper is 10 pages. The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide.
   As an overall principle
   • For your abstract you may have up to 400 words.
   • For your paper length, 40 pages maximum prevails over 9,000 words.
8. Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
9. Number all the pages of the paper.
10. No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, track and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.
11. Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus-free. Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2021 submission system (Submission Link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/euram/abstract/index.cfm?ID=iAxRA8X).
12. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
13. In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. A presenting author * can only present one paper at the conference.
14. If you submit a paper, you agree to review at least two papers for EURAM 2021 in the track you have submitted your paper to.

* ONE PRESENTING AUTHOR = ONE PAPER

Each individual is limited to one personal appearance on the programme as a presenting author. This policy precludes acceptance of papers for more than one presentation. In other words, an author can submit and present only one paper. However, a presenter can always be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers.

For more information, we invite you to visit the conference website.

Should you have any hesitation on which track to select for your paper, you may wish to contact a track chair by email to find the best fit for your submission.

For general questions, you may contact info@euram.academy.

Best wishes,

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee,

Komlan T. Sedzro & Camélia Dumitriu
Conference Chair & Conference Co-Chair
ESG-UQAM, Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada