21 – 23 March 2024
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
Mini Track Chair:
The ongoing macroeconomic challenges are manifold, such as: changes in monetary and fiscal policies, migrationary phenomena, labor market disequilibria, war and acute the geopolitical tensions, (early) signs of recession, persisting inflation, energy crisis and a redesign of energy polices and interdependencies, technological pressure and digitalization in a metaverse era. All these challenges affect the business environment and the ease of doing business, and entrepreneurs need to find the best solutions as to how remain competitive and survive in an everchanging environment where predictability is an issue. This topic is meant to attract the work of researchers, doctoral students, policy makers, academics and practitioners in the fields of Business Studies, Macroeconomics, World Economics, but not only. The minitrack will benefit from the experience of Economics professors, on the one hand, and from the international perspective, on the other hand.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:

Mina Fanea-Ivanovici is a Professor and a doctoral supervisor within the Department of Economics and Economic Policies at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. She has a PhD in Economics and a Master’s Degree in Finance and Management Control from the University of Orléans. Mina has 18 years’ experience in teaching and research, and has authored academic textbooks, articles, conference papers, books and book chapters in the field of Economics. Her main research interests revolve around crowdfunding, cultural & creative industries, digital literacy and digitalization. At the same time, she is a reviewer of several prominent WoS and Scopus indexed journals. In 2016 she worked as an independent expert for the Ministry of Culture and was a member of the team in charge of revising Romania’s Strategy for Culture and National Heritage.

Publication Opportunities:
The conference is organized by Society for Business Excellence and Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages on the 21-23 of March 2024 at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ) in partnership with the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Economics (EAM) and the Faculty of International Economic Relations (REI).
The papers accepted at ICBE 2024 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
The last 7 editions of the Proceedings of the ICBE volumes have been indexed in ISI Web of Science.
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 ICBE2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19886-1
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).
A selection of the submitted papers will be published, subject to review, in the Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting (https://ipe.ro/rjef.htm).
Submission Details
Submission of full paper due for review | January 15th 2024 |
Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) | February 15th 2024 |
Final paper due (with changes implemented) | March 1st 2024 |
Final Author registration date | March 5th 2024 |
Registration and payment*
EARLY BIRD – by December 1st 2023 | ||
Academics | 220 euro | 1100 lei |
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 175 euro | 875 lei |
REGULAR – by February 1st 2024 | ||
Academics | 250 euro | 1250 lei |
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 200 euro | 1000 lei |
LATER – by March 10th 2024 | ||
Academics | 400 euro | 2000 lei |
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 350 euro | 1750 lei |
- SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER = 150 euro / 750 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).
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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Do not hesitate to contact us!