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Call for Track Chairs

The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the7^th Annual EuroMed Conference

September 18^th-19^th, 2014

Organized and Hosted by: University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

The EuroMed Research Business Institute solicits proposals for hosting specific tracks at the 7^th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business. Please note that all papers and abstracts accepted will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number) which is included in Conference Proceedings Citation Index - an integrated index within Web of Science. This prestigious distinction is given only to the most significant, in terms of academic excellence, conferences-conventions worldwide.

Prospective track chairs should submit a short description of subjects that will be included in their track. The proposed track should not be too general, but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also encouraged and welcomed.

Track proposals covering all areas of management studies are strongly encouraged. And, in addition, proposals specifically related to the 2014 general conference theme – "the Future of Entrepreneurship" - are especially welcome.

All track proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Organizing Committee with respect to the above criteria. The committee reserves the right to: (1) accept the proposal as it is, (2) recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable overlap, or (3) reject the proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be notified of the timetable and related responsibilities. The deadline for track proposal submission is 17^th of November, 2013.

We expect all Track Chairs to start the review process at the beginning of April and submit decision letter late April 2013. The specific dates will be given later. Upon receiving all reviews, the track chairs are responsible to send them timely to the Director of Scientific Committee together with their recommendation on whether the paper should be accepted or rejected.

Track chairs will get a specific schedule for accomplishment of the review process. They will be responsible, among other things, for:

• Preparation of list of reviewers.
• distributing papers/abstracts to reviewers with guidelines and evaluation forms (these will be provided by the EuroMed Academy of Business)
• make sure that the review forms are returned back to them on time
• following the reviews, the track chairs are required to provide for each paper/abstract their own accept/reject recommendation
• submitting all recommendations by late April, 2013

All proposals should be submitted electronically (in Microsoft Word format) to Dr. Evangelos Tsoukatos (tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr and tsoukat1@otenet.gr)

The acceptance of track proposals will be announced on the 27^th of November 2013.

Full information is provided here (http://www.emrbi.com/photos/uploads/call%20for%20track%20chairs-7th%20annual%20emab%20conference%20new.pdf)

Prof. Yaakov Weber

1. Director, Research Unit

School of Business Administration

College of Management

Rishon Lezion

Israel

2. President, EMRBI

EuroMed Research Business Institute

www.emrbi.com