Mini Track Chair:
One of the main challenges of the modern world is related to access to food and energy. That is why the importance of the supply chain has increased recently, even more so during the recent crisis periods, namely the Covid 19 crisis and military conflicts, to which is added the crisis related to the environment.
In this sense, the development of logistic strategies designed to ensure access to food and energy, under the conditions of ensuring the performance of economic agents, proves to be essential.
In this sense, the financial instruments used to increase the competitiveness of the agri-food sector should aim, in particular, at improving the supply chain.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:
Irina-Elena Petrescu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agri-Food and Environmental Economics, within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where she teaches Rural and Regional Development, Agri-Food Business Logistics, and Agri-Food Logistics Management at both undergraduate and master’s levels. Her academic career began in 2008 as a doctoral teaching assistant. She earned her PhD in 2012 with a thesis on integrating Romania’s agri-food system into the European Union’s agriculture. In 2015, she completed postdoctoral research on improving the financing of Romania’s agri-food sector through effective use of European funds. Over 17 years, she has been involved in 25 research projects (two as director, 23 as a member, including one international project). She has authored many books, book chapters, and ISI-indexed articles. Since 2016, she has also held administrative roles, serving as advisor to the rector and Director of the Rector’s Office.
Mihai Dinu is Associate professor and teaches Strategies and policies for rural development, Agri-food chains and Logistics of agri-food organizations at the Faculty of Agri-food and Environmental Economics, Bucharest University of Economic from Bucharest. He also has experience in regional development and agri-food trade. He participated in several Erasmus mobilities at the Universidad Católica De Valencia San Vicente Mártir, at the Department of Economics, Business and Marketing and at The Institute of Agricultural Economics Belgrad. Mr. Dinu conducted research in projects such as: ” Renewable plants integrated with pumped thermal energy storage for sustainable satisfaction of energy and agricultural needs of African communities”, ”Study on the evaluation of the economic, social and environmental impact of the swine breeding sector in Romania”, ”Joint Master’s Curriculum in Rural Community Development – RuralCOM” and ”TECH.FOOD Solutions and interventions for the technological transfer and the innovation of the agro-food sector in South East regions”.
Ammar Mouaky is thermal systems group leader at the Green Energy Park (GEP) with an Engineering Degree (2014) and PhD (2024) in Energy Engineering. He is actively involved since 2015 in research activities related to concentrated solar energy. He has taken part in several research projects dealing with renewable-decentralized electricity production, medium temperature thermal energy storage and water consumption reduction in concentrated solar power plants. Currently, his main research areas cover the development of solar thermal applications for low/medium temperatures, including non-conventional water production and the hybridization of solar thermal and bioenergy technologies.
Publication Opportunities:
The conference is organized by Society for Business Excellence and Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages on the 20-22 of March 2025 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), the Faculty of International Economic Relations (REI), the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (CSIE), the Faculty of Finance and Banking (FABBV), the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics (ETA), the Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems (CIG).
The papers accepted at ICBE 2025 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)
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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 edition published following ICBE2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-50208-8
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).
Submitted papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). JRFM is ranked B in the 2022 ABDC Journal Quality List and indexed by a number of databases, including Scopus (CiteScore 4.5; CiteScore category rank Q1), EconBiz/ECONIS, EconLit, EconPapers (RePEc), etc. JRFM is now #8 on the list based on the citation index (H5) for finance. In addition, two best paper awards (200 CHF each) will be published in the conference’s special issue “Leading Change in Disruptive Financial Times“. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jrfm/special_issues/YWP8Z55UKH)
Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN: 2559-1347). JFS has been published by the Institute of Financial Studies since 2016. In its pages, works by professional practitioners, but also by authors from the scientific and university world in the country and abroad, as well as young researchers, will be published, concerning issues in the financial field such as: insurance-reinsurance, capital market, private pensions but also in other fields such as the academic field, the business field etc. The journal is indexed in DOAJ, RePEc, CEEOL, ERIHPLUS and Google Scholar (https://revista.isfin.ro/en/).
Submission Details
| Submission of full paper due for review | February 20th 2025 |
| Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) | March 1st 2025 |
| Final paper due (with changes implemented) | March 10th 2025 |
| Final Author registration date | March 10th 2025 |
Registration and payment*
| EARLY BIRD – by December 1st 2024 | ||
| Academics | 250 euro | 1250 lei |
| Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 200 euro | 1000 lei |
| REGULAR – by February 1st 2025 | ||
| Academics | 350 euro | 1750 lei |
| Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 250 euro | 1250 lei |
| LATE – by March 5th 2025 | ||
| Academics | 450 euro | 2250 lei |
| Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) | 350 euro | 1750 lei |
- SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER = 200 euro / 1000 lei
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