The 15th International Conference on Business Excellence
Digital Economy and New Value Creation
Digital Economy and New Value Creation
18-19 March 2021, Bucharest, Romania
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
Mini Track Chair:
- Mihaela-Cornelia DAN, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
The Society for Business Excellence jointly with The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, encourage participants as academic researchers, PhD students, specialists from the business service sector, NGO’s or professional associations, etc. to submit papers on the topic of Sustainability in Tertiary Sector.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:
Service economy and management – new approaches
Sustainable development and business models in services sector
Strategic management for services
Quality management for sustainability
Green business
Competitiveness in services sector
Project management in services sector
Tourism and climate change
Sustainable management for tourism destinations
Tourism and communities

Univ. Prof. Mihaela-Cornelia DAN, Ph.D. – member of the UNESCO Department for Business Administration is currently teaching European Business Environment and International Business. Her professional interests and experience focus on issues in management and marketing, European business environment, the role of universities in the regional development process. She has been a member or a director of several research projects financed with European and national funds, with focus on the link between regional development and entrepreneurship, the impact of entrepreneurship on less developed regions in Romania, the behavior of Romanian young entrepreneurs in an emergent economy, challenges of young start-ups. Prof. Dan has published more than 40 scientific articles and conference papers. The most cited articles regard the topics of clusters, regional and urban development. Since 2015 Prof. Dan is the coordinator of the business incubator of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and develops support programs for students interested in an entrepreneurial career. The main goal is to strengthen the infrastructure of the business incubator and to attract established entrepreneurs and business angels for an ongoing support and cooperation.
Publication Opportunities:
The conference is organized by Society for Business Excellence and UNESCO Department for Business Administration on the 18-19 of March 2021 at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ) in partnership with the Romanian Academy, the University of Bucharest and the Sapienza University from Rome, Italy. The papers accepted at ICBE 2021 will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration, payment and presentation. The papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings volume under the German Publishing House De Gruyter and they will be indexed in EBSCO, Proquest, ExLibris, OCLC, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, CELDES, CNPIE, Naviga, and will be submitted to Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (WOS) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/picbe/picbe-overview.xml
In addition, the best three Papers (Best paper Award Management&Marketing) will be published in the international journal Management & Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society by De Gruyter Open, indexed in Web of Science- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Proquest, Cabell’s Directory and more than 20 other international databases (www.degruyter.com/view/j/mmcks).
At the final ceremony, based on a selection of the international committee, there will be granted three Best Paper Awards Management&Marketing (https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/mmcks/mmcks-overview.xml, indexed in Web of Science) and two Excellence Awards.
Submission Details
Submission of full paper due for review | 5 February 2021 |
Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) | 19 February 2021 |
Final paper due (with changes implemented) | 1 March 2021 |
Final Author registration date | 1 March 2021 |
Registration and payment*
EARLY BIRD – by February 19th 2021 | |
Academics | 150 euro |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 75 euro |
REGULAR – By March 10th 2021 | |
Academics | 200 euro |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 150 euro |
LATER – After March 10th 2021 | |
Academics | 250 euro |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 150 euro |
Supplementary paper | 75 euro |
- The conference fee includes one conference attendance, publication, conference folder and acces to the online events during the conference.
- All confirmed SBE members (who have paid their membership fee for 2021) benefit from a 30% fee discount.
*Please be aware that a late payment involves the possibility not to be present in the printed version of the materials (agenda, booklet).
Should you have any questions please email us at icbe@fabiz.ase.ro
Details about the payment and the SBE bank account are available at www.bizexcellence.ro.
Information about the conference could be found also on the website www.fabiz.ase.ro.
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