Call for Abstracts B.S. Lab

3rd B.S.Lab International Symposium: “Advances in Business Management. Towards Systemic Approach”

The scientific non-profit organization Business Systems Laboratory (www.bslaboratory.net) is glad to announce the Call for Papers of the 3rd B.S.Lab. International Symposium: “Advances in Business Management. Towards Systemic Approach” that will be held in Perugia (Italy) at the University for Foreigners on January 21-23, 2015.

The topics include but are not limited to: Systems Thinking, Business Management, Marketing, Managerial Cybernetics, Project Management, Strategic Management, Organizational and Business Ethnography, Change Management, E-Marketing, Big Data, Policy Strategy, Systems Dynamics, Viable Systems perspectives, Business Systems Design, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Finance, Economics, Leisure Marketing, Digital culture, Knowledge Management, Soft systems theory, Social systems, Sustainability.

The webpage of the event is available at: http://bslab-symposium.net/

The B.S.Lab Symposia aim to be an arena of constructive confrontation among scholars, researchers and practitioners from different research fields and from all over the world, with more than 50 countries involved in the past edition 2014.
The Business Systems Laboratory is a young, friendly and approachable scientific society that aims to create a wide, cross-disciplinary and effective global network of researchers and practitioners in the business systems fields.
The Third Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium focuses on the epistemological, theoretical, methodological, technical and practical contributions that can represent advancements in the theory and practice ofBusiness Management.

The Symposium aims to address the global economic and social challenges of our times by a systemic perspective, shedding the light to the several interactions between natural social and economic systems. Being aware of these interactions provides a better understanding of the principles that can help to solve some of today’s most pressing social and economic issues.

The criticalities and the opportunities of our times are faced according to the cutting edge research and practice in social science. This multidisciplinary perspective includes: management, economics, engineering and sociology.
While focusing on the Systemic perspective, the Symposium includes all the scientific approaches in order to foster constructive debates and confrontations to create new perspective of research and practice in the business systems field.
With the above-mentioned scopes the Symposium 2015 calls for submissions in 19 proposed tracks and in the poster session.

The proposed tracks are listed at the following link: http://bslab-symposium.net/3rd-international-symposium-perugia-2015/tracks/

The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts (between 500 and 2000 words) is September 10, 2014
All accepted extended abstracts will be published online before the conference on a special issue of the open access Journal Business Systems Review (http://www.business-systems-review.org).

Moreover, after the Symposium, a paperback book of Proceedings will be published on a special volume of the book series “Business Systems” (http://www.bslaboratory.net/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131&Itemid=90&lang=en)
and available for purchase at all the Amazon online stores worldwide.

Moreover the B.S.Lab International Symposium 2015 is thought and developed to create publishing opportunities with 34 international journals involved (most of which are Scopus and ISI-SSCI listed) and 18 planned post conference special issues.

The publishing opportunities for selected presentations are listed at the following link:
http://bslab-symposium.net/3rd-international-symposium-perugia-2015/publishing-opportunities/

The two plenary sessions will have 8 outstanding keynote speakers:
http://bslab-symposium.net/3rd-international-symposium-perugia-2015/keynote-speakers/

We look forward to your contribution to the event and we wish to meet you in Perugia next winter. For further information please do not hesitate to contact the Scientific Director: Dr. Gandolfo Dominici (mailto:gandolfo.dominici@bslaboratory.net)