INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT IN EMERGING MARKETS

The public and private sector globally is facing major environmental and social challenges. Sustainability is a great opportunity and a key to success for new business in emerging markets. This impacts how organizations are managed. The fast technological changes, transformation of institutions through continuous policy reforms and rapidly changing industry boundaries, have necessitated for both academics and practitioners alike, the need to better understand the emerging insights that come along with these changes.

The overall objective of this conference is to provide a platform for stimulating discussion and explore collectively the various issues affecting management of business both in public and private sector that are related to emerging markets. Key issues to be addressed will be associated with UN Sustainability Goals (SDG) .  The conference takes a holistic view on issues that are of relevant for emerging markets by specifically considering the business environment of the 21st century.

We invite authors to submit empirical, conceptual papers, case-studies and structured abstracts in areas related to the conference theme. The following are the topic details and indicative, but not limited to the following areas: 

• Marketing Management,
• Entrepreneurship,
• Supply chain management
• Finance and investment Management
• Alternative financing (Microfinance, Crowdfunding, Blockchain)
• Franchising
• Governance and Policy,
• Corporate social responsibility
• Sustainability and contemporary Management
• Happiness and wellbeing

The conference will be at Campanile Hotel, Venlo-Netherlands

Applied knowledge in leveraging the potential of Emerging Markets