Dear EURAM member and friend,
We hope you will join us, from 25-28 June 2024 in the University of Bath School of Management.
The EURAM conference theme is “Fostering Innovation to Address Grand Challenges”.
Technological innovation has always been a significant enabler of value creation, improved competitiveness, and economic growth. It has also contributed to the taming of the impact of long-standing Grand Challenges, most notably, the ageing society, the environmentally unsustainable economic growth and the health impacts of climate change. These are important challenges as they have been blamed for causing economic inequality, social injustice and jeopardising the quality of life.
Although technological innovation has helped tackle several aspects of these long-standing challenges, the development and adoption of new and emerging technologies – such as big data, artificial intelligence, and vehicle autonomy – have created new challenges, many of which are of an ethical nature. For example, the advent of these advances poses dilemmas about the ownership and use of data; privacy concerns relating to face recognition; concerns about the devaluation of existing skills and infrastructure; and risks of spreading misinformation and threatening security.
The high opportunity cost of not addressing these long-standing and new challenges begs the question: how can innovation help solve major challenges without creating new ones? To answer this question, business organisations, their key stakeholders, governments, and the academic community can collaborate to develop new solutions and ensure that innovation is responsible and ethical. This may require moving beyond “traditional” forms of innovation to include organizational, business models, and social innovation. Thus, there are fruitful opportunities for management scholars to deliver impactful research on the managerial, organisational, and policy challenges inherent in developing the requisite innovations.
We welcome scholars to submit their research to the 2024 EURAM Conference, which focuses on fostering innovation to address long-standing and new Grand Challenges.
To submit your full paper to EURAM 2024
- Explore the tracks sponsored by one of the 13 EURAM Strategic Interest Groups (SIGs) or by the Local Organising Committee and choose the topic and community that correspond best to your research.
- Respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 11 January 2024 – 2 pm Belgian time.
- 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 13 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:
5. Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations
11. Public & Non-Profit Management
12. Research Methods and Research Practice
14. Conference Theme: Transforming Business for Good
GT01_00 – Business for Society General Track
ST01_01/ST02_01 – Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law & Purpose (B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST01_02 – Performance measurement and management for sustainability
ST01_03 – Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability
T01_04 – Sustainability and the Black Box of the Firm (2nd meeting)
T01_05 – Philosophy for business ethics
T01_06 – Spirituality and Practical Wisdom: Navigating change to address the grand challenges
T01_07 – Disrupting Management Education: Innovative approaches to address grand challenges
T01_08 – Arts & Philosophy for Business and Society
T01_09 – From AI to digital transformation in the Human+ Era: what are the effects on business and society?
T01_10 – Rethinking the future of food and food business models: sustainability, wellbeing, innovation and technology
T01_11 – Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Value Co-Creation
T01_12 – Collective Action to Face Grand Challenges: joint power behind sustainable business and projects
T01_13 – Transition to Circular Economy Business Model supported by innovation and Industry 4.0
GT02_00 – Corporate Governance General Track
ST01_01/ST02_01 – Rethinking the Responsible Corporation: Bridging Management, Law & Purpose (B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST02_02 – Board of Directors and Top Management Teams
ST02_03 – Corporate Governance and Diversity
T02_04 – Corporate Governance, Sustainability and The Purpose of Corporations
GT03_00 – Entrepreneurship General Track
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
ST03_02 – Entrepreneurship Processes: Leveraging innovation to start up
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Behaviour
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
ST03_06 – Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
ST03_07 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs
T03_08 – Migrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship for inclusion: exploring the bright, the dark and the in-between
T03_09 – Life Design, Entrepreneurial Life Design, Design Y/our Future
T03_10 – Circularity and entrepreneurship
T03_11 – Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education and Educators
T03_12 – The platform economy for Venturing and Collaborating: Entrepreneurs, Stakeholders, Technologies, and Ecosystems
T03_13 – Saudi Arabia Matters: Cases from a Transforming Knowledge Economy
T03_14 – Academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer processes
T03_15 – Female entrepreneurship
T03_16 / T06_09 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems
T03_17 – Everyday Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
T03_18 – The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
T03_19 – Entrepreneurship for transformations of and through the creative industries
T03_20 – Theoretical building and new frontiers in entrepreneurship
GT04_00 – Family Business Research General Track
ST04_01 – Behavior, Performance, and Sustainability in Family Firms
ST04_02 – Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies
GT05_00 – Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations General Track
ST05_01 Women & Gender in Work, Organisation & Beyond
ST05_02 – Diversity issues in cultural context
T05_03 – Intersectionality of Diversity at Work
T05_04 – Culture and Innovation for Sustainability
T05_05 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Sustainability-Exploring the link
T05_06 – Role of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Careers and Leadership
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_04 – Inter-organizational networks and innovation
ST06_05 – Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech
ST06_06 – Managing Service Innovation
ST06_07 – Open Innovation
ST06_08 – Managing Creativity for Innovation: Design, Collaborative Spaces, and People
T03_16 / T06_09 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems
T06_10 – Innovation intermediaries and intermediation practices for interorganizational and cross-domain collaboration
T06_11 – From Science Management to Innovation Management: Science – Industry Relations and New Forms of Knowledge Transfer
T06_13 – Innovation Management in Healthcare: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for Value Creation
GT07_00 International Management General Track
ST07_01 – Global Mobility
ST07_02 – Management and cultures: Qualitative organizational research
T07_03 – Managing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Goals in International Business Contexts
T07_04 – International Competitiveness
GT09_00 – Organisational Behaviour General Track
ST09_01 – Human Resource Management
ST09_02 – Team Performance Management
ST09_03 – Leadership
T09_04 – Sustainable HRM and New Ways of Working
T09_05 – Delving into the interplay of organizational design, structures, and behaviors: aligning the stars
T09_06 – Beyond good and evil: unravelling the bright and the dark sides of organizational power
T09_07 – Big Data, Analytics, and Emerging Tech in Organisational Behaviour and HRM
T09_08 – Advancing Inclusivity: Empowering People with Disabilities in the workplace
GT10_00 – Project Organising General Track
ST10_01 – Multi-level Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects
ST10_02 -Project and Society: Sustainability, Stakeholders, and the Dark Side
T10_03 – The Transformative Power of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Project Management In The Digital Work Environment
T10_04 – Human Resource Challenges of Leading Sustainable Projects With Diversity and Inclusion During Turbulent Times
T10_05 – Projecting for Sustainability Transitions
T10_06 – Unveiling the Perspectives of Project Risk Management: Delivering Success and Navigating Contextual Risks
T10_07 – Digital, Agile, Resilient, and Adaptive Transformation from the Project perspective
T10_08 – Innovating Project Leadership
T10_09 – Behavioral aspect of project management (in managing grand challenges)
GT11_00 – Public and Non-Profit Management General Track
ST11_01 – Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability in Public and Hybrid Organizations
ST11_02 – Healthcare Management Research
ST11_03 – Management and governance of culture, heritage and tourism
T11_04 – Public Value Co-creation and Innovation: the interplay among subjects, objectives and processes
T11_05 – Value Creation and Sustainable Solutions: Integrating Stakeholder Resources for Enduring Grand Challenges
T11_06 – Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
T11_07 – Public trust, participatory governance, and resilient democracy as a new open government agenda?
GT12_00 – Research Methods and Research Practice General Track
ST12_01 – Coevolutionary and Ecosystem Perspectives
ST12_02 – Research Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems
T12_03 – Tourism research and practice: trends, transitions, and tractions
T12_04 – Historical Research in Management Studies
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_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 & Strategic Ambidexterity
ST13_08 – Ecosystems and Platforms Research in the Digital Economy
T13_09 – Artificial Intelligence for strategic management and ESG Development
T13_10 – Supply chain strategies for a sustainable business
T13_11 – Challenges and solutions for sport in future
GT14_00 General Track – Fostering Innovation to Address Grand Challenges
T14_01 – Societal inequalities and its organizational implications: Moving research and practice forward
T14_02 – Planetary Boundaries, Interconnected Ecologies, and the Grand Challenge of Environmental Sustainability
T14_03 – Business and Management Education to prepare students for Grand Challenges
T14_04 – Managing well-being and the good life: comprehensive approaches to industrial transformations
T14_05 – What management can and cannot do against Corruption? Managerial technologies in anti-corruption policies
II. Deadline
Please respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 11 January 2024 – 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 2024, 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 978-2-9602195-6-2.
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):
- Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track.
- Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before the EURAM 2024 Conference.
- To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information (names, affiliations..), 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).
- The abstract should not exceed 400 words and should be included both in the PDF and the submission form.
- Include 3 keywords in the submission form. A maximum of 6 keywords is allowed.
- The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE anonymised document created in PDF format.
- The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The minimum length of the paper is 10 pages.
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.
- Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
- Number all the pages of the paper.
- No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, track and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.
- 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 2024 submission system (platform opens on 1st of December).
- Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
- 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.
- If you submit a paper, you agree to review at least two papers for EURAM 2024 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,
Steve Brammer, EURAM 2024 Co-Chair, Dean of the School of Management Bath
Panos Desyllas, EURAM 2024 Co-Chair, Associate Professor
It is my great pleasure to invite you all to the University of Bath School of Management for EURAM 2024. This event marks an exciting opportunity for scholars, experts, and industry professionals from all around the world to come together and exchange knowledge and ideas on some of the most pressing issues in the field of management.
Our School of Management is renowned for its commitment to excellence and innovation, and we are delighted to be hosting this conference in our new state-of-the-art facilities. The theme of the conference, “Fostering Innovation to Address Grand Challenges” reflects the growing challenges faced by organizations and managers in light of the climate crisis, growing social and political inequality, polarization, and alienation, and global uncertainty. Our aim is to foster a rich and stimulating debate that will inspire new ways of thinking and lead to actionable insights for managers, policymakers, and researchers alike.
The program features keynote speeches, panel discussions, and paper presentations, as well as ample opportunities for networking and informal conversations. We hope that the conference will be a catalyst for further collaborations, and that it will contribute to advancing the field of management.
Once again, we are thrilled to invite you all to join us for EURAM 2024 here in Bath, and we look forward to an exciting and productive conference.
Steve Brammer – Conference Chair
Professor & Dean School of Management
