The 17th International Conference on Business Excellence
Rethinking business: Sustainable leadership in a VUCA world
23 – 25 March 2023
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
Mini Track Chair:
Digitization in the era of IoT, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence changes the profile of the consumers, employees and the practice of management and business administration as we know it: new IT software, tools and smart connected devices, through their dynamic evolution, are continuously modifying the way consumers keep themselves informed and make purchasing decision. Within organizations, these new technologies have changed the structure of the organization, the work that is being performed and the skills that are required, as well the way that members communicate with each other. Artificial intelligence and big data have transformed the decision-making process. These transformations and predictions of the future evolution of the digital economy are the subject of the “Business Digitization” mini-track.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for paper are related to:

Professor Florina Pînzaru teaches General Management and Fundamentals of Marketing at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania. She is also Dean of the Faculty of Management of SNSPA since 2011 and Head of The Research Center in Management and Leadership of SNSPA. Florina Pînzaru has more than 10 years of experience as marketer for important Romanian enterprises and multinational corporations in furniture, energy and utilities. Her latest consultancy and research projects are focused on the digital strategies of companies as part of their strategic business approaches. Some of Mrs. Pînzaru’s most important publications are „Marketing Handbook: Classic Principles and Modern Efficient Techniques” (in Romanian: „Manual de marketing: principii clasice și tehnici moderne eficiente”), C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2009 and “Congratulations, You Are a Manager Now!” (in Romanian, “Felicitări, ai fost promovat manager!”), Tritonic, Bucharest, 2013. For detailed information about her scientific interests, please see Florina Pînzaru’s research profile: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florina_Pinzaru.

Cătălina Chinie is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages and an Agile and Design Thinking enthusiast. She teaches Entrepreneurship, Business Models and Product Development and Prototyping. Catalina has over 15 years of professional experience in Finance and IT sectors, where she has acquired knowledge about BI and ERP systems, financial appraisal and management of projects and different project methodologies. She has published papers that discuss the impact that IT technologies have on the economy, mainly with regard to sustainable development. Prof. Chinie is the Program Director of the Master in Digital Business and Innovation at FABIZ, being engaged in growing the professional and academic network of the Faculty of Business Administration through partnerships with leading IT companies and technology universities.
Publication Opportunities:
The conference is organized by Society for Business Excellence and Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages on the 23-25 of March 2023 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 2023 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
Submitted papers will be also considered for publishing under Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, series indexed by Scopus and ISI. Here you can access the last the edition published following ICBE2020: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599713
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).
Selected papers will be published, subject to review, in a Special Issue of Sustainability journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Post-Industrial_Design_Sustainability_Development_Goals).
A selection of the submitted papers will be published, subject to review, in the Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting (https://ipe.ro/rjef.htm).
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 | March 10th 2023 |
Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) | March 15th 2023 |
Final paper due (with changes implemented) | March 18th 2023 |
Final Author registration date | March 20th 2023 |
Registration and payment*
EARLY BIRD – by December 31st 2022 | ||
Academics | 170 euro | 850 lei |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 125 euro | 625 lei |
REGULAR – By February 28th 2023 | ||
Academics | 250 euro | 1250 lei |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 200 euro | 1000 lei |
LATER – After February 28th 2023 | ||
Academics | 350 euro | 1750 lei |
Student (PhD or Post-doc) | 300 euro | 1500 lei |
Supplementary paper | 100 euro | 500 lei |
- The conference fee includes one conference attendance, publication, conference folder and acces to the online events during the conference.
*Please be aware that a late payment involves the possibility not to be present in the printed version of the materials (agenda, booklet).
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