IAREP's 30th Annual Conference
Prague - September 21 - 24, 2005
Absurdity in the Economy

The 30th Annual Conference on Economic Psychology will be held in Prague. The conference will include the second annual Kahneman lecture, and we are proud to announce that this will be delivered by Professor Bruno Frey. Submissions for the conference are now invited. Both single papers and symposium sessions may be submitted. Abstracts for all papers must reach the National Organizer by 1st May 2005.

Papers may be on any subject within Economic Psychology. However, the conference has a number of declared themes and topics for symposia, and these will be used to structure the programme. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that are relevant to one of these themes, which are as follows:

1. Macroeconomics
   Unemployment - Taxes - Pensions - Environment - EU economics - Alternative Macroeconomics: (Islamic and Buddhist approaches) - Cross-cultural economics
2. Microeconomics
   Entrepreneurship - Households - Profitability - Bankruptcy - Work - Innovation
   "How to make the right mistakes fast?"
3. Decision making and Problem Solving
   Experimental economics and Risk taking - Strangeness and paradoxes - Rationality and irrationality - Transition economics - Modelling of individual and group economic behaviour - Information sciences and decision making processes - ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and the economic behaviour of individuals and groups.
4. Money
   Adaptation to the Euro - Banking - Investing and saving - Electronic money - Currency - Misuse of money - Insurance
5. Trade and the Market
   Marketing and advertising - Supply and demand - Prosperity - Consumption
6. Business Ethics
   Corporate social responsibility - Giving and altruism - Taking and egoism - Needs and values
7. Pathology in Economics
   Gambling - The black economy - Prisons - Hospitals - Schools
8. Growth and Development
   Children's socialization and adaptation - Welfare and poverty - Ageing - Quality of life - Global companies - Alternative economies - Income inequalities
9. Economic psychology and related disciplines

Several symposia are already planned. If you wish to contribute to one of these, please contact the organizer listed here, though note that abstracts must still be submitted to the conference organizer in the usual way:

A. The History of Economic Psychology, organised by Vera Ferrera (veritafe@terra.com.br)
B. Adaptation processes to the Euro, organised by Erich Kirchler (erich.kirchler@univie.ac.at) and Fred van Raaij
C. Children's economic socialization, organised by Paul Webley (p.webley@exeter.ac.uk) and Brian Young
D. Firms and consumers facing E-Commerce, organised by Salvatore Zappalà (szappala@scform.unibo.it) and Marco Mariani
E. Happiness, economics, and interpersonal relationships, organised by Luigi Mittone (luigi.mittone@economia.unitn.it)
F. Household economic decisions: Earning, sharing, spending and investing money, organised by Ellen K. Nyhus (ellen.k.nyhus@hia.no)
G. Irrationality: Decision making and problem solving in transition economics, organised by Karel Riegel (karel.riegel@volny.cz)

All abstracts must be sent by e-mail to cappo@centrum.cz as Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format documents (.doc or .rtf). Please note that submissions by fax will not be accepted. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and the Advisory Committee. The criteria for review are: practical and theoretical impact, empirical and theoretical basis, and clarity of ideas and structure. Original work that has not been published or accepted for presentation elsewhere is preferred. Please indicate which of the themes above your paper is related to. Authors will be notified by 15th June, 2005 whether their paper has been accepted.

Full texts of accepted papers will be included in a CD to be distributed to participants, so long as they are received, and full registration fees have been paid, by 25th June 2005. A Registration form is included with this Newsletter.

For further information, and regular updates about the conference arrangements, please see the conference website at http://iarep2005.unas.cz/  We look forward to your participation in the 30th Annual Conference of IAREP.

Call for Papers
4th International Conference on Public and Non Profit Marketing
Universidad Pontificia de Comillas
Madrid, España
April 14-15, 2005

We are pleased to draw your attention to the 4th AIMPN International Conference on Public and Non Profit Marketing, to be held in April 14-15, 2005 at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid (Spain). In addition to invited presentations from practitioners, papers are invited from academics and doctoral students on any Public or Non Profit Marketing areas topic. The conference is promised to be a great event that will meet and even exceed the high standards set by previous editions.

Authors may submit paper up to 15 pages, Arial 11 cpi, including bibliography and annexes All submissions should include a cover sheet that contains the title of the paper, author or authors’ name and postal address, institution affiliation, email address, phone and fax number. Authors are requested to avoid revealing the identity of themselves or their affiliations in the body of the paper. All papers will undergo formal double blind review.

Please send submissions, preferably by e-mail to: Dr. C. Ballesteros (ballesteros@cee.upco.es). Alternatively you can send a hard copy of papers to Dr. C. Ballesteros, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Alberto Aguilera 23, 28015 – Madrid (Spain), with the reference “IV Jornadas AIMPN” in the envelope.

Closing date for submissions: 20th January 2005.

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper for the 4th European Marketing Trends Congress which will take place in Paris (France) on the 21st and 22nd of January 2005.

The deadlines are indicated hereunder:
- October 29th 2004: submission of papers to,  andreani@escp-eap.net
- November 30th 2004: paper acceptance
- December 19th 2004: final papers to Jean-Claude ANDREANI,   andreani@escp-eap.net

The papers can be written English or in your native language (German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch…). Simultaneous translation will be organised.

All information are available on our website at www.escp-eap.net/conferences/marketing (Call For Papers, Registration Form, Papers of the previous congresses). Should you need any additional  information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at andreani@escp-eap.net, tel +33.1.49.23.22.49.

Best regards,                                               

Pr. Jean-Claude ANDREANI
ESCP-EAP Paris               

Prof. Umberto COLLESEI
Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia

The Paris 2005 congress is the 4rd edition of the European Marketing Trends Congress. The previous sessions were held in Venice (Nov 2000), Paris (Jan 2002) and Venice (Nov 2003).

This Congress will gather colleagues from a number of European countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Tunisia, UK... It will enable an exchange of managerial and academic experiences in many fields including marketing strategy, brand management, consumer behaviour, international marketing, e-marketing, retail, advertising...

Call for Papers
SAARLAND UNIVERSITY, SAARBRUECKEN, GERMANY, invites you to:

The 4th ICORIA - International Conference on Research in Advertising

FULL INFORMATION at the conference website: http://www.ikv.uni-sb.de/icoria2005.htm

IMPORTANT DATES:
Conference Period: June 2-4, 2005
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2005

PAPERS: 5 pages (for detailed guidelines for submissions see conference website).
All submissions will undergo a blind, peer review by two expert reviewers (for the board of reviewers see conference website).
Please send all papers to: r.terlutter@ikv.uni-sb.de or s.diehl@ikv.uni-sb.de

PUBLICATIONS:

• Conference Proceedings: All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
• Book: A selection of extended papers (15 pages) will be published in a book.
• Publisher’s Pick: A selection of accepted authors will have the possibility to publish their extended papers in a special issue on advertising, in a leading German marketing journal.

 RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

• Advertising and branding
• Advertising and creativity
• Advertising and emotions
• Advertising and ethics
• Advertising and integrated marketing communications
• Advertising and media/ new media
• Advertising and relationship building
• Advertising content
• Advertising effects
• Advertising for non-profit organisations
• Advertising for special target groups or special industries
• Advertising models and measurement
• Cross-cultural issues in advertising
• Media and consumer behaviour
• Media Management
• Public relations
• Sales promotion
• Sponsoring, product placement, events
• The role of values, personality and lifestyle

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

Peter Weinberg, Professor of Marketing (ikv@ikv.uni-sb.de)

Sandra Diehl, Assistant Professor of Marketing (s.diehl@ikv.uni-sb.de)

Ralf Terlutter, Assistant Professor of Marketing (r.terlutter@ikv.uni-sb.de)

Marketing Department, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

Critical Issues in Brand Management
A Feeder Colloquium for A Special Edition of

JOURNAL OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Brands and Integrated Brand Communication SIG
11th April 2005, at The Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

Brand Management is becoming far more sophisticated and is attracting interest on a cross disciplinary basis as well as in sectors other than the classical fast moving consumer goods. Nations, places and organisations of different sizes, and diverse markets are also branding themselves and their offerings. With these innovative changes in mind, the Brands and Integrated Brand Communication SIG of the Academy of Marketing invites paper submissions for its 1st Annual Colloquium on Critical Issues in Brand Management, which will be held on April 11, 2005. Scholarly, conceptual and empirical papers that address the theme of the colloquium are welcome for the event. The issues to consider could include (but are not necessarily limited to): 

• The management of brand intangible assets
• Reputation and corporate branding
• The importance of psychological factors to businesses and markets
• Brand equity monitors and the Internet
• Internal branding
• The importance of culture in brand building
• How the changing communications landscape impacts brands
• Social construction and changing consumption patterns in branding
• Symbols, consumption, and luxury branding
• Brand appeal to broad stakeholder rather than just consumers
• The challenges of increasing distributive power
• SME, and Non-Profit and political branding
• Service branding
• Nations and place branding
• The role of branding in the newly enlarged EU
• Issues and opportunities from China and other emerging markets
• The role and impact of branding in creating market access for agricultural goods
• Global branding and corporate social responsibility

Full papers will be subjected to a double-blind peer review process. The Abstracts of submitted papers will be published in the Colloquium proceeding and will be considered for publication in a special edition of Journal of Marketing Management.

The one-day colloquium will put together a panel of scholarly experts in the area of branding and brand management to share their knowledge and experiences with fellow academics and marketing practitioners. Professor Leslie de Chernatony and Dr Temi Abimbola (the SIG Coordinator) will host this event at the prestigious new premises of the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Abstract Deadline: November 30th, 2004, Deadline for submission of full papers: 31st January 2005

Further details will be available at: http://www.academyofmarketing.info/sigebrand.cfm
To reserve a place or to submit abstracts and papers, please contact: Dr. Temi Abimbola, SIG Coordinator, UCE Business School, Birmingham B42 2SU
Email: temi.abimbola@uce.ac.uk   Tel:  0121 331 5246

2004 INFORMS SOCIETY FOR MARKETING SCIENCE PRACTICE PRIZE PRESENTATIONS

DVDs of the four finalist presentations made at the 2nd INFORMS Marketing Society Practice Prize competition, which took place at the recent Marketing Science Conference in Rotterdam are now available! For details on how to obtain copies of these outstanding
presentations see http://www.informs.org/Edu/MarketingScience.

Presentations Include: A. Item #04.01- ZS Associates, "Sales Territory Design: 30 Years of Modeling and Implementation" B. Item #04.02 -Campbell's Soup, "Attribute Drivers: A Factor Analytic Choice Map Approach for Modeling Choices Among SKUs" C. Item #04.03 -Pepsico, "CHAN4CAST: A Multi-Channel Multi-Region Forecasting Model and Decision Support System for Consumer Package Goods" D. Item #04.04 - Futuredontics, "Modeling the Effects of Direct Television Advertising"
Price: US $59.95 for one DVD, US $100 for any two DVDs (consumer's choice), US $175 for any four DVDs (consumer's choice), US $15 within US/US $25 outside U.S handling and shipping

********Announcing********

Call for Submissions... 3rd ISMS Practice Prize Competition

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science solicits entries for its 3rd Practice Prize Competition, the culmination of which will take place at the 2005 Marketing Science Conference at Emory University in Atlanta, 16-18 June 2005.

The winner will be honored at the conference and we expect the winning research to be featured in Marketing Science.

To enter, you must:

1. Submit an abstract of the work, through the normal abstract submission process for the conference.
2. Indicate that you wish to have the work considered for the Competition on that submission; and in addition.
3. Submit an Impact Statement, a supplementary summary of what was accomplished and its organizational impact in enough detail (one to two pages should suffice) to judge the appropriateness of the work for the competition. That impact statement should be sent to mktgscienceprize@informs.org.

Up to four competition finalists will be selected from amongst the entries. (Non finalists will be handled as normal conference paper submissions).

Timetable:

1. Submissions due 1 February 2004
2. Finalists notified 1 March 2004
3. Finalist Papers due 15 May 2004
4. Presentations 17 June 2004

Details: Finalists must agree to submit a paper of Marketing Science quality. That paper will go through a Marketing Science review process with Gary Lilien acting as Prize Competition Area Editor. (The first round of that process will have been completed in advance of the competition and will be input into the judging.)

Finalists will present their work at a special session at the conference on 17 June and the judging will take place immediately thereafter. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Conference. The formal delivery of the award will be contingent upon the entry’s' satisfying the requirements for the competition, via preliminary review by the Prize Committee, appears likely to meet the publication standards of Marketing Science. The final decision about publishability as a refereed article in Marketing Science will be made after a formal Marketing Science review; papers whose technical material has been published previously or that fail to meet Marketing Science standards will be published as (non-refereed) reports in Marketing Science.)

Eligibility: The Practice Prize is awarded for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods. The methods used must be innovative, sound and appropriate to the problem and organization, and the work should have had significant, verifiable and, preferably quantitative impact on the performance of the client organization. Any work completed or published within the past five years is eligible; prior publication of the work does not disqualify it. Anyone is eligible to enter except members of the judging committee.

Prize Committee: The ISMS Practice Activities Committee will serve as the judging panel and may add up to four additional judges as needed, depending on the range of entries to the competition. The Editor in Chief of Marketing Science will be an ex officio member of the committee as will the President of ISMS, the Practice Prize Editor and at least one other member of the Marketing Science Editorial Board, to be designated by the Marketing Science Editor.

Questions about the process or eligibility should be directed to Gary Lilien (GLilien@psu.edu), Chairman of the 2005 ISMS Practice Prize Committee.

Marketing: Where science meets practice
10-12 October 2004, Warsaw

The joint EMAC-ESOMAR Conference, entitled “Marketing - where science meets practice” will be held at The Westin Hotel, Warsaw, Poland. The foundation idea for the joint conference builds on EMAC’s mission to facilitate the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and research results and that of ESOMAR to promote the use of opinion and market research for improving decision making in business and society worldwide.

The joint conference seeks to bring together professional marketers, practitioners and academics alike to establish an exchange on new thinking for methods, techniques and their application, to widen perspectives on marketing practice and to ensure business relevance. Participants from both the practitioner and academic spheres within and outside Europe will contribute to intensive discussions of a broad range of marketing topics including: managing brands in global markets, the impacts of social, cultural and economic change, new product development models and understanding consumers.

The prospects of bridging the gap between marketing scientists and practitioners are appealing for individuals involved or interested in advancing marketing theory and research of relevance to practice, on the one hand, and those keen to apply marketing theory and research for business improvement on the other. For EMAC members, this event is consistent with one of the academy’s aims, which is to serve as the core of a communication network for disseminating information and promoting international exchange in the field of marketing.

Full details of the event can be obtained at: http://www.esomar.org/index.php?a=3&p=1161

Alternatively, for further information, please contact the EMAC-ESOMAR conference programme manager Victoria Steven, e-mail: v.steven@esomar.org

Marketing of Human Resource : Worldwide

Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, India

January 12-14, 2005

Sponsored by: Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
Endorsed by: PHDCCI, World Marketing Association, Marketing Association of Thailand, Japan Marketing Association, Indian Merchants’ Chamber
Official National Carrier: Indian Airlines

Theme

The global scene today is marked by shortage in one or the other form of manpower. Several countries, from developed ones like Canada to least developed ones like Botswana, have a shortage of one or the other form of manpower from highly skilled surgeons to semi-skilled farm workers. There is a need to address this gap in demand & supply. This Congress will provide a forum so that modalities of marketing of HR could be worked out. India, with her second largest trained manpower whose prowess has been globally recognized, has the potential to solve the problem of shortage of manpower to a certain extent. India’s manpower has become her strength & both developed and developing countries are sourcing their manpower requirement. Besides, outsourcing has emerged as an answer to imbalances in HR skills & costs between various regions of the world. Imparting of skills through training & formal education is another way of overcoming shortage of skilled and semi-skilled manpower.

Participants’ Profile

Senior Government officials; Diplomats; Officials from International Agencies, Industry bodies, Chambers of Commerce; Industrialists; Recruitment Consultants; Professionals; NGOs & the Concerned Citizens.

Thrust Areas for Deliberation

• Marketing of Skilled Manpower
• Marketing of Semi-skilled Manpower
• Role of Government Agencies
• Role of NGOs and Academic Institutions
• Regionwise and Countrywise Opportunities
• Outsourcing Opportunities
• Imparting of Skills

Steering Committee

Chairman
- Mr. Balmiki Prasad Singh, former Executive Director, World Bank, representing India, Bhutan, Bangladesh & SriLanka
Co-Chairman
- Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice-Chairman, UGC
Convenor
- Prof. Jagjit Singh, Executive President, IMM
Members
- Mr. Y.P. Kumar, Advisor & Head (International Cooperation), Ministry of Science & Technology
- Dr. B.G. Naresh Kumar, Adviser-II, (FD), AICTE
- Prof. Rajesh Kochhar, Director, NISTADS
- Dr. A.K. Balyan, Director (HR), ONGC
- Dr. S.M. Ovais, Head of Technical Section, Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization
- Ambassador M.P.M. Menon (Retd)
- Dr. Arvind Pandalai, CMD, STC
- Mr. V.S. Ailawadi, IAS (Retd.), TATA Tele Services
- Mr. Sudripto Roy, IAS, Pr. Res. Comm., H.P.
- Shri Sudhir Chandra, Director of Income Tax (E), GoI
- Mr. S.B. Budhiraja, Sr. UN Advisor
- Dr. B.P. Dhaka, Secy Gen., PHDCCI
- Mr. J.C. Srivastava, Reg. Adv., IMC
- Mr. V.K. Sethi, Sr. V.P., Birla Management Corporation
- Dr. B.C. Mallik, D.G., India-CIS Chamber of Comm. & Ind.
- Prof. S.K. Kacker, Former Director, AIIMS
- Mr. O.P. Verma, Bureau Chief, Deccan Herald
- Mr. D.R. Ahuja, Senior Journalist
- Vice Admiral I.J.S. Khurana PVSM, (Retd.)
- Mr. Ramesh C. Shukla, Intl. Mgmt. Advisor
- Prof. K.M. Upadhyay (Mgmt.), Jamia Milia Islamia
- Prof. B.D. Singh, (HRM), MDI
- Mr. P.P. Bagchi, Management Consultant
- Mr. S.P. Ghosh, Former DGM, PNB

For further information and registration, visit the website of the Institute of Marketing & Management: www.immindia.com

or contact:

Prof. Gaganjit Singh, Secretary General
INSTITUTE OF MARKETING & MANAGEMENT (IMM)
Marketing Tower, B-11
Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi-110 016 (India)
Phones : 26520892-6, 26520900, 2696 0535, 0752, 2226
Fax : 91-11-26520897 & 26520903
E-mail : wmc@immindia.com ; info@immindia.com ; immnd@nda.vsnl.net.in

EAERCD 2005
Call for Papers

The European Association of Education and Research in Commercial Distribution (EAERCD) invites you to the 13th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden
29th of June – 1st of July 2005.

We are happy to invite submissions to the 13th EAERCD research conference and welcome papers on the different aspects of retailing and distribution.

The purpose of the EAERCD international research conference is to stimulate and contribute to an international exchange of ideas, research results and practical experiences among researchers and practitioners within the distributive trades. Research projects, results and experiences covering all major areas of the distributive trades will be discussed at the conference.

Papers that concern all major issues related to the distribution of products and services are welcome. Special tracks and topics will be announced later. Electronic submissions of papers sent to eaercd@fek.lu.se are welcome. Submission deadline: January 31 2005.

Updated information about the conference will be presented at http://www.lri.lu.se/eaercd

SEEMAR 04
South East European Marketing Research Conference

Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro,
May 24–26, 2004

You are cordially invited to participate in The First South East European Conference on Marketing Research (SEEMAR). The conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, from May 24th to May 26th, 2004, at the Sava Center conference venue.

It will be an opportunity for the South Eastern community to exchange ideas and develop a common vision for the future of marketing research industry.

Support to the Conference is provided by ESOMAR and by national research associations.

The fundamental purpose of the Conference is to tailor the services of the research industry to best fit the actual needs of the local economies, to enrich know-how and research techniques, and to establish regional cooperation institutions.

Detailed information about the Conference, registration form and abstract submission form you can now find on the Conference web site:

www.seemar.org.yu or www.seemar.uuti.org.yu

FORMS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFERENCE

You are cordially invited:

• As audience, to participate in the Conference in order to gain an overview of the marketing practice today and to establish business contacts, or...
• As an exhibitor, to present your company/products in an exhibit booth and/or...
• As a sponsor, to support the development of marketing practice and make yourself known to the target audience as well as the population at large.

The official languages at the Conference are English and Serbian. Papers may be presented in either of the two languages. Simultaneous translation and headsets will be provided.

REGISTRATION

Registration form you can find in the conference web site: www.seemar.org.yu or www.seemar.uuti.org.yu

Fee:

• by April 15th: 175 € (1st participant) - 125 € (additional participant)
• by May 15th: 215 € (1st participant) - 165 € (additional participant)
• after May 15th: 245 € (1st participant) - 195 € (additional participant)

The registration fee covers participation in Conference proceedings, Conference materials (ID card, bill of proceedings, abstracts booklet, CD-Rom with collected papers, folder, etc.) coffee during breaks and closing cocktail.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

General topics

• An overview of the situation in the marketing research industry in the countries of South-East Europe – How far is European Union?
• New trends in the cooperation between company researchers and agency researchers
• The profile of a contemporary marketing agency
• The role of marketing research in the development of the national economy
• Global vs. local brands

Marketing research at the service of business decision-making

• The path from research to a business decision
• Research at the service of business forecasts
• Marketing investment profitability analysis
• Market potential study
• Market segmentation as a priority
• Development of new brands on local markets

The enigma called consumer

• Insight into the consumer - at the heart of brand planning
• The satisfied consumer as a goal: Customer satisfaction study
• Consumer behavior studies
• Attitude studies
• Motivational studies
• New methods and techniques in consumer research

Research for the purposes of advertising and media studies

• Research for the purposes of communicational strategy
• Ad concept testing and ad testing
• Communicational effect evaluation
• Media studies

Opinion research

• Research on social phenomena of countries in transition
• The problems of researching the public opinion on politics in a politically shifting environment

CONTACT

For any additional information please contact:

SEEMAR 04 Conference Secretariat:
Kordunaska 37, 11080 Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Phone/Fax: +381 11 316 70 80, 316 70 81, 316 70 82, 316 70 83
E-mail: office@seemar.org.yu or office@uuti.org.yu

Call for Papers
EMERGING FINANCIAL MARKETS & SERVICES
ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE 2004
27–28 May 2004, Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel, Sydney, Australia

The conference will include a stream on Financial Services Marketing in the Asia Pacific Region in conjunction with the Journal of Financial Services Marketing. Papers in this stream will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal to be published in November 2004. Authors wishing their papers to be considered for the special issue must clearly indicate this in their submission. Such papers will undergo the review process of the journal. The guest editors of the special issue will be Professor Tony Naughton, RMIT, Melbourne, and Professor Rae Weston, Macquarie University, Sydney. The conference is sponsored by Macquarie University, the University of Western Sydney and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The conference will include a wide range of streams dealing with financial markets and financial services. Details are updated on the following website: http://www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/clb/odclb/college/clabnews/clabnewsevents/finservconference

Deadline for submission of abstracts and full papers: 28th February 2004
Deadline for final version of accepted papers and registration: 15th April 2004

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts (500 words maximum) or full papers can be submitted at any time up to 28th February 2004.
Preference will be given to full papers. Full papers should not exceed 30 pages, single-sided, double- spaced, 12-point font. Decisions on abstracts will generally be made within 14 days of receipt. Decisions on full papers will generally be made within 28 days of receipt. For approved abstracts, full papers will also be required by 28th February 2004.
Abstracts and full papers will be double-blind refereed to comply with Australian DEST requirements. Papers submitted for the special issue of the Journal of Financial Services Marketing will be refereed in accordance with the procedures operated by the editorial board.
Final acceptance of full papers will be contingent on the conference organisers receiving by 15th April 2004: (i) final
versions of approved abstract and accepted full paper, and (ii) conference registration.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be published in the conference programme. Accepted full papers will be published on the conference website and selected papers on financial services marketing in the Asia Pacific will be published in the Journal of Financial Services Marketing.

POSTGRADUATE THESIS FORUMS
For each of the streams, abstracts and full papers will be accepted for a specific forum for postgraduate candidates whose thesis is not yet under examination. Prizes will be awarded for the best presentation.

Each submission should be in Microsoft Word and include a separate title page containing:
1. Title of the submission
2. Two or three keywords that describe the submission
3. Name/s of the author(s)
4. Department(s) and affiliation(s)
5. Mailing address(es)
6. E-mail address(es)
7. Phone number(s) and Fax number(s)
9. Corresponding author if different to lead author.

Submissions should be sent to:
E-mail: financeconf@uws.edu.au
Fax: +61 (0) 2 9850 9975
Telephone queries to the Conference Project Manager, Miriam D’Souza (+61 (0) 2 9850 6008)

Conference Co-Chairs
Dr Samanthala Hettihewa, University of Western Sydney
Professor Rae Weston, MGSM, Macquarie University

ICORIA
The 3rd International Conference on Research in Advertising
Oslo, Norway
June 6-8, 2004

The Organizing Committee of the ICORIA Conference asks you to consider joining us in Oslo next June.

Our goal is to bring together innovative researchers from around the world to advance the cooperation between academics and practitioners.

The Norwegian School of Management (BI) will be the host of this coming year's conference (http://www.bi.no).

If you have any questions, or wish additional information, you can contact:

June C. Edvenson
ICORIA Conference Coordinator
Asker, Norway
uconsult@online.no

Frankfurt Summer School on Digital Pricing
September 06-10, 2004
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and its Research Group on Internet Economics are pleased to announce this year's "Frankfurt Summer School on Digital Pricing". The Summer School takes place September 06-10, 2004. The aim of the Summer School is to give participants a comprehensive immersion in the subject of Digital Pricing and to help postgraduate
researchers in positioning their ideas. Participants are given the opportunity to discuss their latest research results with researchers and
faculty engaged in similar subjects.

The Course Session consists of 4 days of lectures and of participants' paper presentations on the last day. Topics covered include Auction Theory, Market Design, Pricing and Competition, Nonlinear Pricing, Reverse Pricing, Price Differentiation, and Price Promotions.

Lecturers include:

Karen Gedenk (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)
Thomas Kittsteiner (University of Bonn)
Martin Spann (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)
Bernd Skiera (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)
Uwe Walz (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)

Applicants are required to submit a CV, a Ph.D. thesis / research project proposal, and a proposal for the potential paper to be presented (max. 450 words). Admission decisions are based on submitted materials. Applicants are invited to send their applications via e-mail to:

uwe.walz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de

Deadline for Applications is June 18, 2004

The participation fee is ?150 and includes tuition, class materials, and meals. Costs of accommodation and travel expenses are not covered by the participation fee.

For further information, please contact:
Eric Jahn
e.jahn@econ.uni-frankfurt.de

4th INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON
NONPROFIT, SOCIAL AND ARTS MARKETING

London Metropolitan University and Henley Management College are pleased to announce that their fourth joint research symposium will be held at London Metropolitan University on Wednesday, 15th September 2004. The event has been designed to provide an interface between academics and reflective practitioners wanting to draw on the very latest in theoretical and empirical non-profit research. Papers are invited on any aspect of non-profit marketing. Both academic and practitioner papers are welcome and potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Fundraising
• Arts Marketing
• Social Marketing
• Marketing of Healthcare Organisations
• Advertising and Promotion for Non-profit Organisations
• Branding and Positioning for Non-profit Organisations
• Cause Related Marketing
• Campaigning and Lobbying
• Database Marketing
• Retailing and Merchandising Operations for Non-profit Organisations
• Corporate Philanthropy
• Social Entrepreneurship

Authors may submit either a full paper or an abstract of their intended paper. Abstracts of papers will be made available at the event but papers will not be published in formal conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will however be encouraged to revise their work, consequent to the feedback they receive at the Colloquium, for submission to a special issue of the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.

All submissions should include a cover sheet that contains a contact name and address, title, institution affiliation, email address, phone
number and fax number. Authors are requested to avoid revealing the identity of themselves or their affiliations in the body of the paper. All papers will undergo formal double blind review.

Please send submissions to: Dr R. Bennett, Department of Business and Service Sector Management, London Metropolitan University, 84 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SQ. Email: r.bennett@londonmet.ac.uk.

Closing date for submissions: 18th June 2004.

Although the registration fee has yet to be determined it will not exceed £95 Sterling, including lunch and all refreshments.

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Dr R.Bennett
Professor of Marketing
Department of Business and Service Sector Management
London Metropolitan University
84 Moorgate
London EC2M 6SQ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 320 1577
Fax: +44 (0) 207 320 1465
Website: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/bro/research/mkt.htm

3rd Nordic Workshop on Relationship Dissolution (NoRD2004)
September 17-19 2004, Kukkolaforsen, Sweden

The theme of the workshop is the ending of buyer-seller relationships, including both business-to-consumer and business-to-business relationships. The main purpose of the workshop is to give business and consumer researchers and doctoral students interested in the field of relationship dissolution an opportunity to present and discuss their research in informal workshop sessions. The 3rd workshop will thus strive to attain the same open discussion climate as the 1st and 2nd workshops.

There are mainly three contributions coming from the workshop. It is first of all a new and emerging research area, and NoRD is the first workshop specialising in this particular field. Secondly, it provides researchers with an opportunity to discuss the emerging knowledge in the two domains of research, namely customer relationship ending in consumer relationships and business relationship ending in business-to-business research. Thirdly, the workshop aims to continue to gather and disseminate knowledge about ways of accessing ending relationships and methods for collecting and analysing empirical data.

The workshop is this year hosted by Karlstad University and will be held at Kukkolaforsen Turist och Konferens, 15 km north of Haparanda on the border between Sweden and Finland. For more information on the venue, visit www.kukkolaforsen.se. Please visit the NoRD2004 homepage www.ctf.kau.se/Nord/index.htm for more detailed information related to the workshop.

Deadlines
Friday, June 4: Abstract, 1 page
Thursday, June 24: Notification of acceptance
Friday, August 13: Final registration
Friday, August 27: Final paper submission

Please address questions regarding the conference arrangements or the workshop to: helena.akerlund@hanken.fi

Workshop fee
The work shop fee is not decided yet, but the organisers aim to keep the fee as low as possible for researchers from the Nordic countries. Other participants are required to cover their own travel and full workshop expenses. The number of participants is restricted to appr. 25 persons.

Workshop arrangements
Helena Åkerlund, Doctoral Candidate, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki: helena.akerlund@hanken.fi, phone +46 70 634 43 24
Ingrid Hansson, Senior Executive Officer, Karlstad University: ingrid.hansson@kau.se

Workshop organisers
Prof. Bo Edvardsson, CTF, Karlstad University, Sweden
Associate prof. Anders Gustafsson, CTF, Karlstad University, Sweden
Dr. Virpi Havila, Head of the Department, Uppsala University, Sweden
Assistant Prof. Maria Holmlund-Rytkönen, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
Prof. Tore Strandvik, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
Acting Prof. Jaana Tähtinen, University of Oulu, Finland
Prof. Kjell Grønhaug, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway

7th Retail Strategy and Consumer Decision Research Seminar
of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA)
St. Pete Beach, FL, November 2-3, 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS

A two-day special topics in retailing seminar will be held prior to the Society for Marketing Advances Annual Meeting to held November 2-3, 2004 at the Tradewinds Island Resorts, St. Pete Beach, FL (see http://mkt.cba.cmich.edu/sma for more details).

Research papers relating to one of these two tracks are solicited:
- Retail strategy and management
- Consumer decision process related to the choice of retail organizations

The key characteristics of the seminar are:
- Limited number of participants (fewer than 30)
- Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Business Research
- High caliber papers
- Informal setting with an emphasis on interchange w/ audience
- Registration to the entire SMA Annual Meeting
- Highly reputed keynote speakers
- Potential Best Paper Award(s)

LOCATION AND PROGRAM

The seminar will be held in St. Pete Beach, FL. Papers and other keynote presentations will highlight the second day of the seminar program. Special sessions on retailing outside North America will be organized by outstanding retailing experts.

TOPICS

1. Strategy Formulation and Implementation in Retail/Service Organizations.
   Papers related to strategy formulation and/or implementation are invited. Submissions dealing with competitive positioning, industry consolidation, information systems, negotiation strategies, third-party collaboration, category management and profitability analysis are strongly sought. Other topics of interest include non-store retailing, pricing strategies, retail/service control, electronic commerce and global retailing strategies and prospects.
2. Consumer decision making: here is a non-exhaustive list of possible topics
   What are the retail cues to which consumers respond?
   What are the decision processes elaborated by consumers outside the store and inside the store? What is the contribution of the store atmospherics to the retention of consumers? Plus, many more.

Deadline for Paper Submissions -->June 20, 2004

Special Sessions and Workshops
Robert A. Robicheaux
Bruno Prof. of Retail Marketing
University of Alabama
PO Box 870225
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0225, USA
Telephone (205) 348-8919
Fax (205) 348-6695
Rrobiche@cba.ua.edu

Consumer Decision Track
Jean-Charles Chebat
Omer DeSerres Chair Prof. of Retailing
HEC Montréal
3000, Côte Sainte-Catherine
Montreal (Qc) H3T 2A7, Canada
Telephone (514) 340-6846 or 340-6431
Fax (514) 340-6432
jean-charles.chebat@hec.ca

Retail Strategy and Management Track
Barry Babin
University of Southern Mississippi
College of Administration
Hattiesburg MS 39406, USA
Telephone (601) 266-4629
Fax (601) 266-4630
barry.babin@usm.edu

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Submit manuscripts to one of the two respective track chairs.

2. Submit electronically to appropriate chairperson on or before June 20, 2004

3. Manuscripts must follow the style guidelines of the Journal of Business Research.

4. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 double spaced pages total or 7,000 words (whichever is longer).

5. Please submit a 3x5 index card with the name(s) of the author(s) and the address and telephone number of the contact person.

6. Manuscripts will be double blind reviewed. Please do not identify yourself on any page other than the title page.

7. Contact the Track Chairs if you have any questions or are uncertain of the appropriate track for the paper.

AIEST Congress 2004
from 19-23 September 2004 in Petra/Jordan

Topic: "The future of SME's in Tourism"

All informations about the AIEST Congress 2004: www.aiest.org