Call for Papers

Dear EURAM member and friend,

We hope you will join us, from 15 to 17 June 2022.

Our conference theme is “Leading the Digital Transformation”.

“Software is eating the world,” wrote Marc Andreessen in his memorable Wall Street Journal essay in 2011. In the wake of this technological upheaval, organisations are being transformed in fundamental ways across a broad spectrum of industries – from manufacturing, education and retailing to finance and health care.

The ongoing shift towards information technology, along with (big) data, algorithms, and smart analytics, affects all sectors (private, public and non-profit) and is changing how organizations create value. Besides a blurring of industry boundaries, modular business architectures and new definitions of business performance are just some of the consequences of this transformation. To succeed, businesses need to be data-driven and digitally optimised, generate vast amounts of data, and analyse it intelligently.

Changes that have happened since the dawn of the information age in the mid-20th century provide clues about what is to come; organisations failing to recognise the signs can quickly be upended. In particular, data has become a valuable new currency to be mined and exploited, bought and sold – by fair means or foul. Even by collecting and judiciously analysing more data from their own activities, companies develop practices to help them make accurate forecasts and derive sound business decisions.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the most recent disruption not only to our private lives but to every organisation on the planet, has further accelerated digital transformation to accommodate changing consumer behaviour. In recent months, consumers have become accustomed to online everything – from shopping and learning to banking and entertainment. At the same time, not all businesses have suffered equally, with some benefiting, for example, from being able to reduce their office space. Since everyone will be keen to take advantage of the “new normal,” many of these technology-driven changes are here to stay.

As leaders of digital transformation, managers must find new sources of competitive advantage in these data-driven markets. This means reassessing core competencies and business strategies. Company-wide change management policies may be required to bring in people with fresh skills, integrating them with existing staff, and redefining how the company engages with its stakeholders – from the supply chain to the customer. For organisations, digital transformation is not a matter of implementing a single project but rather a whole series of different projects across all organisational units. To achieve this, they also need the competence to manage change itself.

When considering these complex issues, we encourage conference participants to adopt an interdisciplinary approach by combining insights and strategies from previously distinct fields. We welcome contributions that transcend the boundaries between disciplines and connect academic work and professional practice. Ideally, proposals will come from scholars from various backgrounds, including strategic management, marketing, organisational behaviour, human resources, entrepreneurship, ICT, education, and other related disciplines.

To submit your full paper to EURAM 2022

I. Explore the tracks sponsored by one of the 14 EURAM Strategic Interest Groups (SIGs) or by the 2022 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: 11 January 2022 – 2 pm Belgian time.

III. Please, comply with the authors’ guidelines.

Submit your full paper

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:

Business for Society- B4S

GT01_00 Business for Society General Track

ST01_01/ST02_01 Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law & Governance (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 Arts for Business and society

T01_05 Approaching sustainable digitalization anew: Benefits and costs of industrial transformation

T01_06 Cultural and organizational challenges in front of FinTech innovation

T01_07 Decision making and errors: the effects of digitalization in the financial sector

T01_08 Philosophy for business ethics

T01_09 Social Innovation, impact culture and the Next Generation Economy

T01_10 Sustainable food innovations: how can emerging trends and technologies shape the food sustainability footprint?

Corporate Governance – COGO

GT02_00 Corporate Governance General Track

ST01_01/ST02_01 Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law & Governance (B4S & CoGo SIGs)

ST02_02 Board of Directors and Top Management Teams

ST02_03 Corporate Governance and Diversity

ST02_04/ST08_02 Sport Governance

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

ST03_10 Entrepreneurial Processes

ST03_13 Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs

T03_14 Circular entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial ventures addressing environmental and societal grand challenges

T03_15 Entrepreneurial education, academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial university

T03_16 Entrepreneurial marketing

T03_17 Female entrepreneurship

T03_18 Firm resilience: the role of entrepreneurs, family and business

T03_19 Informal entrepreneurship

T03_20 Life Design – Integrating Design Thinking, Positive Psychology and Behavioral Economics

T03_21 Migrant Entrepreneurship – Current trends and future outlook

T03_22 Setting the ground for public sector entrepreneurship: current perspectives and avenues for the future

T03_23 Solo Self-Employment: Different aspects and challenges

T03_24 The Sharing Economy: The Transformation of Entrepreneurship, Hierarchy, Ownership, Work and Sustainability

Family Business Research – FABR

GT04_00 Family Business Research General Track

ST04_01 Strategy, Innovation and Internationalization in Family Firms (SIIFF)

ST04_02 Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies

T04_03 Family firms in the digital age

T04_04 Performance, Goals, & Behavior in Family Firms – Focus 2022: Sustainability & Digital Transformation

Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations – GRDO

GT05_00 Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations General Track

ST05_01 Women & Gender in Work, Organisation & Beyond

ST05_02 Diversity Across Cultures

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 Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development

ST06_03 Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Ecosystems, Theories, and Practice

ST06_06 Managing Service Innovation

ST06_07 Open Innovation

ST06_08 Creativity and Design for Innovation: Multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practices

ST06_09 The Design of New Industrial Ecosystems for Innovation

ST06_10 Innovation for Circularity, Green Technologies and Sustainability

ST06_11 Innovation in Management Education : Making a difference through Teaching and Learning

T06_12 Managing people for innovation

International Management – IM

GT07_00 International Management General Track

ST07_01 Global Mobility

ST07_02/ST08_01 Managing Sport Events and Participation

ST07_03 Management and cultures: qualitative organizational research

T07_04 Digital transformation and Innovation, and the future of Islamic Economics and Finance

T07_05 International Competitiveness

T07_06 Sustainable digitalisation by emerging markets organisations (EMOs)

Managing Sport – SPORT

GT08_00 Managing Sport General Track

ST07_02/ST08_01 Managing Sport Events and Participation

ST02_04/ST08_02 Sport Governance

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 Employee Voice in the Digital Era: Challenges to employment relationships and workplace dynamics

T09_07 Positive and Negative Organisational Behaviour: Unfolding mindfulness and meaningfulness at work

Project Organising – PO

GT10_00 Project Organising General Track

ST10_01 Multi-level Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects

ST10_02 Projects, Society, and the Dark Side

T10_03 Exploring project digitalization and project datafication

T10_04 Novel Research Approaches to Conduct Process and Practice Studies in Project Organising

T10_05 Project Stakeholder Management

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 E-government and Public Digital Transformation

Research Methods and Research Practice – RM&RP

GT12_00 Research Methods and Research Practice General Track

ST12_01 Organizational Coevolution and Ecosystems

ST12_03 Research Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems

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 tensions between existing and new processes

ST13_07 Strategic Processes and Practice: Theorizing strategic processes and practices for sustainability

ST13_08 Ecosystems and Platforms Research in the Digital Economy

T13_09 Digital Strategy, Artificial Intelligence and the Platform Economy

T13_10 Network management in tourism and hospitality

T13_11 Strategic Responsiveness and Adaptive Organizations

General Conference Track – GENERAL

GT14_00 General Track – The wider societal and organizational changes underpinning digital transformation

T14_01 Better questions for business and management education at the digital crossroads

T14_02 Digital Transformation and Compliance Leadership

T14_03 Digital technologies and the emergence of new ecosystems and business models

T14_04 Digital Transformation and Hybrid/Virtual Negotiations

T14_05 How digital technologies are reshaping marketing approaches and practices

T14_06 Management History, Theory, and Philosophy

T14_07 The remote work transformation: New actors, new contexts, new implications

II. Deadline

Please respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 11 January 2022 – 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 2022, 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 978-2-9602195-4-8.

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 to select at least one 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 2022 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 2022 submission system (platform opens on 1st of December).

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 2022 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.

Join leading thinkers and practitioners in Winterthur / Zurich, Switzerland, to explore the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation. In addition to a full and varied conference programme addressing multiple aspects of the topic, we offer a doctoral colloquium and a series of “labs” to showcase practical applications across various industries. A programme of visits and social events will provide participants with additional opportunities to network.

Best wishes,

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee,

Conference Chair EURAM 2022 – Professor Reto Steiner

Conference Co-Chair EURAM 2022 – Professor Suzanne Ziegler

ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur-Zurich, Switzerland