Mini Track Chair:
The consensus among studies is that AI will significantly impact the global economy. However, forecasts vary widely, with some estimating a doubling of growth in GDP and others predicting more modest increases driven by increased productivity, automation, and innovation. This positive outlook on AI’s economic impact has led to a surge in investment in AI technologies. Nevertheless, despite significant investments, the economic returns on AI have been yet limited, and effective ways to turn these investments into profit are still being explored. Moreover, AI’s economic impact varies across regions and it might be less pronounced in developing countries, potentially widening the global inequality gap. Given the macroeconomic challenges of AI, appropriate responses are still needed, including addressing global inequality, productivity gains, labor market disruptions, and changes in international trade.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:
George-Laurențiu Șerban-Oprescu is a faculty professor habil. at the Department of Economic Doctrines and Communication and vice-dean in charge with research and internationalization at the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics. With over two decades of experience, he has designed and taught courses in economic doctrines, epistemology, and communication networks. His research interests lie at the intersection of economic doctrines and epistemology, with a particular emphasis on quality of life, education for sustainable development, migration patterns, and the digitalization of society. Over the past twenty years, he has authored numerous scholarly articles and contributed significantly to various books and collective studies.
Silvia Elena Iacob holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where she is a professor habilitated within the Department of Economic Doctrines and Communication and a doctoral supervisor at the Economics I Doctoral School. With over 15 years of academic experience, she has developed and delivered courses in economic doctrines and financial communication. Her research interests focus on the intersection of economics and business communication, with a special emphasis on education, technological innovation, and environmental policy. In the last decade, she has authored numerous scholarly articles and made substantial contributions to collective research studies.
Isabel Novo-Corti is a professor of Economics at the University of A Coruña (UDC). Member of the inter-university research group ECOBAS and director of the University Institute of Maritime Studies, coordinator of the Research Group on Economic Development and Social Sustainability (EDaSS) at the UDC and collaborating member of the SET-LASE research group on socio-economics of labour, at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She has been director of the Department of Economic Analysis and Business Administration, among other management positions. Her research is framed in socio-economics, technology and sustainability, in particular, labour market, poverty, inequality, social exclusion, ICT and gender. She also works in the field of maritime studies. She has numerous scientific publications in international journals indexed in WoS and SJR, as well as contributions in books and book chapters in the most prestigious international publishers. She has received several international research awards. She has participated in national and international research projects: Currently Principal Researcher for the UDC of the European INSEAI project on informality in the labour market; Researcher for the Galician Government in the Project for the analysis of the ethics of the impact of the AI implantation. She is a regular contributor to the Mercados supplement of the newspaper La Voz de Galicia and member of the Galician Economic Forum.
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)
The last 8 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 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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