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:

  • Alina Mihaela Dima, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

  • Sebastien Point, EM Strasbourg Business School, France

Tough times are critical moments in a leader’s development path, resulting in either greatness or failure. Great leaders emerge whether difficulty stems from conditions or unpredictable changes in direction that challenges them to the limit. The COVID-19 period and the economic and social crisis, that followed are testing today’s leaders and managers in terms of balancing the needs of their organizations, employees and other stakeholders through a variety of innovative economic, social, academic and other type of strategies. During these tough periods leaders need to create a new vision and the trust, in order to transform their people’s fears into excitement. Though leadership is often used as a synonym with management, leadership actually represents the Art of motivating people towards achieving a common objective. To be an effective leader in business, you must develop traits that exceed management tasks.

Tough times call for the adaptability of leaders to delegate and authorize personnel in order to gain more motivation of employees, having compassion, self-control, new visions to inspire followers and a judicious use of power in order to try to develop consent for their ideas rather than forcing their ideas upon others. Participants of this mini-track are invited to present their papers regarding innovative leadership strategies, features and motivation, as well as other topics regarding the main subject Rethinking leadership in challenging times.

The main topics covered by this call for papers are related but not limited to:

  • New Leadership Models for the Digital & Entrepreneurial society

  • Human-centred leadership in artificial intelligence era
  • University leadership in challenging times
  • Business leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. An innovative approach
  • Rethinking leadership models after COVID-19
  • Leadership strategies for sustainable business development
  • Resilience and economic intelligence through innovation & leadership

  • Education for sustainable development and leadership during crises

  • Leadership for the 17SDGs: rethinking the strategy for a better world

  • Leadership in a crisis: resilience and future challenges
  • Talent Management and Leadership: post-crisis scenarios

Alina Mihaela Dima is a full Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages and Vice-Rector with Research, Development, and Innovation since March 2020. In the period 2011-2020, she was the Director of the Department for Business Administration in foreign languages (UNESCO Chair) at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Her main research fields of interest are: International Business, Competition Policy, European Integration, Higher Education. She is one of the founding members and former President of the Association ‘Society for Business Excellence’, Chief-Editor of the international journal ‘Management & Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society’ indexed in more than 20 international databases (Emerging Sources Citation Index (WoS-ESCI), Scopus, Cabell’s, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, EBSCO, RePEc, DOAJ, Ulrich and ProQuest) and published by De Gruyter German Publishing House (Sciendo) and President of the ‘International Conference on Business Excellence’ (indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (WOS) Conference Proceedings Citation Index). She is also the Conference Manager of the ‘International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences’ (ICESS), organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She has presented various papers at international academic and she has published more than 100 articles, books, and papers in prestigious national and international journals. She is the editor of various books published at national and international prestigious publishing houses (Springer, IGI, etc.) and coordinator of some research projects.

Since 2009, Sebastien Point is full professor at EM Strasbourg Business School, Université de Strasbourg (France) where he teaches International Human Resource Management and International Management.

Since 2016, he is heading the research center “HuManiS” at EM Strasbourg Business School. Every year, he teaches in international programs to a wide international audience.
He holds a PhD from Université de Lyon (France) since 2001.

His research is widely spread and discussed in multinational companies where he holds regular trainings and presentations.

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 February 1st 2023
March 1st 2023
March 10th 2023
Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) March 7th 2023
March 15th 2023
Final paper due (with changes implemented) March 10th 2023
March 18th 2023
Final Author registration date March 12th 2023
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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