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:
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.” – Murray N. Rothbard
Capital is the most important production factor. Without the existence of capital, other resources such as labour or raw materials are difficult to be mixed in a complex endeavour that is business. The creation of genuine capital is directly connected to the saving behaviour, the opposite of consumption. Capital is directly connected to the time preference of individuals and it has a specific cost – interest rate, a fundamental price of economic system. International capital plays a very important role for emerging markets, facing with a limited capacity to save and limited opportunities to invest such savings. Romania today, as the most countries from this region, has clear difficulties to be strongly and directly connected to international financial markets, with negative influence on the economic growth and development.The Society for Business Excellence jointly with The UNESCO Department for Business Administration, encourage participants as academic researchers, practitioners from the business sector, PhD students, people working in public administration (central bank, controlling authorities) and in the non-governmental sector, etc. to submit papers on the topic of international business finance.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:

Cristian PAUN is Professor at Bucharest University of Economic Studies, International Business and Economics department, vice-dean of the Faculty of International Business and Economics from 2016. He is teaching international finance since 2009 to this faculty. He has a Ph.D. with a thesis on risk management of international portfolio investments. He is Executive Director of Romanian Society of Economics from 2009. He was Executive Director of Research Centre in International Business and Economics between 2012 and 2016. He is author of more than 60 research papers published in Romanian and foreign academic journals, most of them focused on the field of international finance. He was involved in various research projects focused on the problem of crisis contagion, investors’ risk aversion, financial management, international financing etc. He is a successful blogger on economic issues.
Research Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paun_Cristian
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OH0Z1JgAAAAJ

Carmen DOROBĂŢ is a PhD economist and Senior Lecturer in strategic management at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her areas of interest include strategic management and entrepreneurship, the history of economic though and monetary and trade theory and policy. She have worked with higher education institutions and think tanks in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Eastern Europe.
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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