Economics, International Business

This track includes papers addressing the economic Latin-American environment, macroeconomic challenges, economic and public policies, competitiveness and country competitive advantage generation, regulation and other Economic topics. It also includes papers regarding international commerce, financial exchanges between countries, multinational companies, international business, and other international interest topics.

People Manegement and Leadership

This track includes papers addressing management of people within organizations, and themes related to the classic Human Resource functions (recruitment, selection, compensations, development, etc.). Also included in this track are papers that address more general topics such as Organizational Change and Development, Organizational Behaviour and factors that affect Leadership and Goal Achievement and Competitive Advantage through People.

Marketing

In this section, all papers related to marketing and market exchanges can be included. Sample topics to be submitted to this track are: Consumer behaviour, market research methods and techniques, segmentation, qualitative research methods (ethnographies, participant observation, content analysis), advertising management and integrated marketing communications, branding, customer equity, pricing, channels management, retailing, and new product development.

Operations and Logistics

This track includes all manuscripts addressing production, transformation and value chain management processes within the firm, and between the firm and suppliers, and physical distribution and logistics of products. In particular, the following topics : process optimization, operations programming, physical distribution of products, supply chain management and logistics, process reengineering, practical cases on process reorganization, application of quantitative models, etc.

Strategic Management

This track addresses the general competitive challenges firms and top management have to face in order to achieve success or survive. This track includes papers addressing both strategy content and strategy process issues. Topics to be included are: search and maintenance of competitive advantages, successful competitive strategies, analytic techniques for strategic management, technological and competitive transformation of firms, role of CEOs, corporate governance and board performance, strategy-finance interface, strategy and marketing, corporate strategies, etc.

Accounting and Control

This track includes mansucripts that cover aacounting issues, and management control. Papers addressing new accounting techniques or principles, revisions of existing accounting criteria, the impact of accounting and financial information on economic prices, valuation of tangible and intangible assets, and papers addressing new management control systems and techniques, and its impact on financial performance.

Finance

This track includes all papers related to finance, investment, and financial markets. Topics to be covered here are: Corporate Finance (valuation, capital cost, etc), Investments, Finance Theory, Financial Management, Corporate Valuation, Simulation and Prediction Models, Banking, Risk Management, Project Valuation, Derivatives and Financial Products, International Finance, Capital Markets, etc.

Information Technologies and Electronic Commerce

This track includes all topics associated with information technologies and electronic business, and how it has changed the way firms and markets behave or compete. Specific themes to be covered here are: e-business, integral IT management, It and strategy, organizational change and IT introduction, technological options and its role on marketing and new product development, etc.

Services Management 

This track gathers all articles, studies and cases related to the management of services in general. Themes associated with this track can address different services fields such as: tourism, hotels, health services, public services, state departments or organisms, educational services (colleges, schools, etc.). Additionally, papers can take different functional perspectives: marketing, finance, operations, new services development, etc.

The role of justice as a factor for developement and integration

It is a question of being interested in the correct operation of the legal institution as a referee, regulator and vouching for competition and a factor of social progress and economic development. It doesn’t deal with the legislations nor law but with independence, authority and respect of the legal authorities vs. State, economic actors and the individuals. The communications will treat the independence of justice, predictability of its decisions, transparency of its procedures and guarantee of execution for the decisions of court. The impact of the dysfunction of justice on the economic and social development, its role in the economic activity like vouching for freedom, equity and social peace, essential with the blooming of the social actors, will be generally examined in this section (concrete examples if possible).

Sustainable developement  

The topic retained here for communications is related to the sustainable development, environment, environmental policies, etc. The sustainable development is understood here as economic development seeking to reconcile economic and social progress and the safeguarding of the environment, regarding this last as an inheritance to be transmitted to the future generations.

Social Responsability

This field will more particularly deal with the ways that the private sector has to be concerned with the urgent economic, social and environmental requirements, the creation of innovative and proactive solutions to the social and environmental challenges, etc. The awaited communications will thus find their way through this type of concerns.