CFP - 12 International Research Conference on FINANCE Perspectives
Theme: Finance, Accounting, Risk, Treasury and Management in times of VUCA,
including Islamic Banking and Finance chapter.
July 2nd - 4th in Steyr, Austria. ( see preliminary schedule here)
Steyr lies almost in the middle between Vienna and Salzburg, both are within 1 1/2 hours driving distance.
Read the Call for Papers - full paper submission due: May 30th, 2012 (poster presentation w/o paper also possible, submit abstract)
We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines and corresponding research methodologies. We also encourage PhD. students to submit a paper for presentation. Please submit your one-page abstracts to finconf@acrn.eu for peer-review, you will be notified within two weeks of submission! All Conference papers can be published in the Finance Perspectives Conference Proceedings (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) with ISBN and ISSN number and are indexed and searchable.
In addition, some selected final papers will be eligible for publication in the special issue (Q1/ 2013) of the quarterly, academic peer-reviewed ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives (JoFRP), or the Routledge Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (ISSN 2043-0795), and are indexed in the SSRN with an ISSN.
VUCA, an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity has its origins in military operations. Influential speakers such as Alan Webber, former editor of Harvard Business Magazine and Fast Company, apply VUCA to describe today’s environment after the several crises that hit the markets during the last decade. Volatility has since risen enormously, traditional planning and forecasting tools proved erroneous, complexity caused fatal and unforeseen impacts, risk once again became uncertainty, and ambiguity invalidated formerly reliable deterministic models on the micro and macro level. In order to cope with this changing environment, business leaders are forced to adopt their planning and decision models. We therefore invite scholars from a multitude of disciplines to contribute and (re)build theory of Finance, Risk and Treasury in times of VUCA.
Topics may come from a broad variety, for example from one of the following fields:
- Corporate Finance
- Economics and Global Finance
- Behavioural Finance
- Treasury and Liquidity
- Financial- and Enterprise Risk Management
- Accounting
- Mathematical & Computational Finance
- Investments & Portfolio Management
- Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Finance
- Banking and the Finance Industry Sector
Inspiring keynote speakers amongst from the London School of Economics, workshops on publishing and research as well as a great social side program will make this annual conference a rewarding journey to Austria!
Dr. Othmar Lehner, Dr. Heimo Losbichler
Responsible Editors
Keynote: Wim A. Van der Stede, LSE - London School of Economics, University of London, UK
“Opportunities and challenges for management accounting and control research in the wake of the crisis”
including the following Panels and PDWs:
KPMG Panel on Risk Reporting; Evening excursion to a big vehicle manufacturing plant, PDW on Islamic Banking and Finance Perspectives for the World, PhD students Panel, Panel on Sustainable Finance and Investment.
Academic Sponsors:
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- CUNY, City University New York, US
- Brno International Business School, Czech Republic
- ACRN research network
- London School of Economics, UK
- University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
- University of Linz, Austria
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- City University New York, US
ACRN, academic collaboration and research network – Austria is an extra-university research institution in the field of social and managerial sciences. We are a social enterprise furthering academic collaboration and research in various fields through partnering with leading universities from all over Europe, contributing to the European Union framework on cooperation in further education. All excess profit is used for grants and scholarships.