AM2007 Conference Deadline Extension.

In the lead up to the deadline for submitting papers to the AM2007 Conference, which was set for midnight on 19^th February, a number of people were granted extensions for undeniably good reasons. In order to be fair to all paper authors, a decision has been taken to extend the deadline date for ALL contributing authors to midnight (GMT) of Monday the 5th of March, 2007.

Please note that this deadline extension means that you are free to submit a new paper and, if you wish, you may also resubmit a revised version of a paper you have already submitted. As before, we welcome competitive and working papers for both the main conference and the doctoral colloquium, in any of the 23 subject tracks.

You will find that the facilities for the online submission of papers are still available at the conference website: http://business.kingston.ac.uk/am2007

 - just click on the menu option: 'Online Submission', register as an author if you have not already done so, and submit your paper.

If you have any specific enquiries at this stage, please feel free to email us at: am2007@kingston.ac.uk

Details of Conference fees and packages are available on the Conference website – just click on the ‘Registration’ menu option.  Online booking facilities will be available on the Conference website in the next few days.

We do hope that we may have the pleasure of welcoming you to the AM2007 Conference next July.

Francesca Dall’Olmo Riley

Wendy Lomax

Helen Robinson

(Kingston Business School)

II. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION MARKETING
Academy of Marketing
Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, Budapest
4-6. April 2007.

The Academy of Marketing Special Interest Group on the Marketing of Higher Education.  (http://www.academyofmarketing.info/sighigher.cfm) and the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, (the oldest university in Budapest) http://www.elte.hu/en/index.html are organising the second international symposium relating to the issues of marketing tertiary education.  In 2006 it was held in Cyprus.

The aim of this event is to bring together professionals and academics to exchange ideas on issues of current concern on higher education marketing, and in particular its implications on the nature of higher education. The symposium will provide a forum for the practitioners and academics.  The symposium will commence on the evening of 4th April and papers will be presented on the 5th and 6th in 2007.  For practical reasons, the conference attendance will be limited to about 100 participants. 

The second conference retains it general theme of the marketing of higher education within that is especially looking at the  ’marketing ethics and financing of higher education’.  We are fortunate to have to world experts on these subjects to give keynote speeches:

Prof. Nicolas Barr of the London School of Economics
Prof. Pat Murphy of the University of Notre Dame).

Call for Abstracts
We invite you to attend and to submit papers concerned specifically with marketing ethics of higher education and the financing of higher education. The symposium will be organized in two tracks with plenary sessions for the keynotes.
The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2007. (By the feedbacks of the interested persons we have prolonged the deadline).
The “World Journal of Bussiness Management” will be commissioned for papers from the event.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts should be 300 words in length and they should include a title, author names and affiliations as well as an e-mail address. All documents should be in Word formats.

The abstract's filename should include the last name of the lead author followed by the word Markconf.

Please clearly indicate whether you are submitting an abstract for one of the following:

* 40 minute paper presentation (20 minute presentation and 20 minute for discussion)
* 20 minute paper presentation (10 minutes presentation and 10 minutes for discussion)

Lecture information
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• Title: max 40 letters
• Abstract: max. 300 letter
• Please state if you are going to use slides in your talk and in which format you are going to provide a copy
• Duration of your talk
• Resources you need for your talk (Internet, digital projector, overhead projector, presentation computer)

20th EMAC Doctoral Colloquium
Reykjavik, Iceland, May 20-22, 2007

The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) and the European Marketing Academy (EMAC) in collaboration with Reykjavik University (Iceland), are organising the 20th Colloquium for doctoral students in marketing. The colloquium will be held in Reykjavik from Sunday, May 20 until Tuesday, May 22, 2007, immediately prior to the EMAC Conference 2007.

The colloquium provides outstanding doctoral students in marketing who want to pursue a career in academics with an opportunity to discuss their dissertation research with other doctoral students and leading academics in the field of marketing. All topics and methodological approaches within the broad field of marketing will be considered.

The colloquium will mostly proceed in parallel tracks based on the topical and/or methodological angle of participants' work as well as on the stage of the dissertation process. Students will discuss their work with their fellow students and with three track faculty, who are renowned experts in the field.

Doctoral students in different stages of their dissertation process can apply for participation in the doctoral colloquium. There will be:

• Three tracks for students in an intermediate or advanced stage of their dissertation process. Students in these tracks should have a good knowledge of the literature in their domain of study and clear research questions. They should be in the process of starting the data collection or have already finished this. Students in these tracks will have 90 minutes to present and discuss their dissertation work. They can benefit from the colloquium by subjecting the positioning of their research to a critical review, refining their data collection approach, and/or receiving suggestions for translating their work into papers that can be submitted to excellent journals.
• One track for students in an early stage of their dissertation process. Students in this track should have a (tentative) proposal for the topic they want to study, the method they want to use, and the potential contribution. They will have 45 minutes to present and discuss their dissertation work, and will receive suggestions on how to focus and position their work. In addition there will be faculty presentations designed to help students plan and manage their dissertation process.

The doctoral colloquium will be held in a collaborative, open and friendly atmosphere. In respect to this philosophy, participants are required to attend the entire colloquium. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The deadline for submission is January 26, 2007.

Submissions have to be done online, using our web-based application. .

Candidates should submit an abstract of the (planned) doctoral research, outlining the research problem against the existing literature, discussing the methodology and showing some initial empirical results (if applicable).
Abstracts should be no longer than 3 pages (plus figures, tables, and references).
Please note that the name of the candidate and contact details should appear on the abstract.

In the submission process, candidates will also be asked to give some information about their vita, following a specific format (the template to be used can be downloaded here). On this form, students should also indicate whether they apply for an intermediate/advanced or for the beginners’ track based on the stage of their dissertation process. In addition, they should indicate one of the following areas as the focus of their research:

• CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR: includes all work conducted from a consumer perspective, and can be related to theory building, interesting cosumer phenomena and/or functional fields in marketing like on-line marketing, advertising, retailing, health behaviour, etc ...
• MARKETING MANAGEMENT: includes all work conducted from a managerial perspective in any functional field of marketing: international marketing, retailing, product development, B2B, etc ...
• MARKETING MODELLING: includes all work in marketing with an emphasis on formulation and/or empirical tests of marketing models, and related to any functional field in marketing

For more information:
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=498

Contact:
Ms. Marion HEBBELYNCK
EMAC c/o EIASM - Place de Brouckère-plein 31 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Tel: +32 2 226 66 60 - Fax: +32 2 512 19 29
E-mail: emac@eiasm.be

EMAC 36th CONFERENCE
Reykjavik, Iceland, 22-25 MAY 2007

Reykjavik University wants to welcomes you warmly to the 36th EMAC Conference. Located in the heart of the capital of Iceland, ReykjavikUniversity is a vibrant and exceptional venue for the Conference in 2007. Midway between Europe and America, it is a perfect place for a European meeting with an international focus. This time the EMAC Conference will combine scholarly enquiries in all fields of marketing with the diverse Icelandic nature. Adventures entailing marvels such as, volcanic mountains, geysers, hot springs, glaciers, waterfalls and midnight sun await. The greatest challenge facing Conference delegates may just be deciding on which adventure to enjoy.

This website will give you the latest information regarding the Conference such as, paper submission, deadlines, registration, accommodation and practical information. We hope it gives you a flavour of what is in store. Please contact us for further enquiries.

Come and join us this coming May!

For more information:
http://www.ru.is/?pageid=1308

6th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA)
Lisbon, Portugal, June 29th – 30th 2007

The 6th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) will be held in 2007 in Lisbon, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Over 80 papers on topics related to Advertising and Brand Communication will be presented during the two days of the conference: June 29th and 30th 2007. We plan a reception in the Lisbon Castle, followed by a Gala Dinner on Friday evening.

If you are interested in speaking at this conference please submit a five-page summary of your paper to: papers@icoria.org by March 9, 2007. Please note that all submissions will undergo blind peer review, so papers should be laid out in correct academic style and authors should not be identified in text.

Call for Papers: please visit our conference website at www.icoria.org (if this link does not work, please type the URL in your browser).

If you have any questions about paper submission or other matters, please contact Francisco Costa Pereira at fpereira@escs.ipl.pt or Jorge Veríssimo jverissimo@escs.ipl.pt

We look forward to receiving your submission and seeing you in Lisbon in 2007!

Francisco Costa Pereira and Jorge Verissimo

The INFORMS Society on Marketing Science Announces:

The Practice and Impact of Marketing Science 2007
14-15-16 October 2007

....where leading-edge practitioners and practical marketing scientists share developments, insights and perspectives

The objective of the conference is to bring together and align emerging marketing science approaches to real marketing problems with marketing actions in fast-changing competitive landscapes.

Venue: The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA

Conference Co-Chairs: Professors Peter Fader (Wharton) and Gary L. Lilien (Penn State)

Co-Sponsors:

• Marketing Science Institute
• Institute for the Study of Business Markets
• American Marketing Association

Organizing Committee:

• MSI Exec Director
• Eric Bradlow, Wharton
• Leigh McAlister, University of Texas, Austin
• Jerry Wind, Wharton
• John Roberts, London Business School and Australian Graduate School of Management
• Jorge Silva Risso, University of California, Riverside
• Berend Wierenga, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
• Nathaniel Lin, OgilvyOne Worldwide
• Joffre Swait, Advanis Inc.
• Gerald Katz, Applied Marketing Science, Inc.
• Suresh Divakar, Avon Products, Inc.

Attendance: By Invitation Only

The conference is by invitation only and will consist of approximately 50 academics and 50 practitioners, all leaders in their fields.

People attending the conference from industry are those who are

• Responsible for marketing implementation at a senior level
• Charged with translating marketing analysis and insight into action
• Developing or have developed and implemented innovative methodologies, or
• Challenged to find new approaches to applying marketing science to real management problems

Academics attending the conference are those who have

• A keen interest in management practice and marketing science implementation
• Worked or are working on practical marketing problems in industry
• Leadership roles in the development of techniques aimed at addressing real problems, or
• Experience and case studies to share relating to the issues in the conference agenda

Those interested in receiving an invitation, or wishing to discuss the appropriateness of the conference for themselves or their companies should contact one of the conference co-chairs with details.

Given the unique agenda and the quality of professionals who have already committed to attend, we encourage you to contact us right away. We want to keep this event small and highly interactive, so we have no plans to increase the allocation of seats beyond the limited numbers we plan to invite.

Registration Fee (Including all meals and activities):
$650

Hotel
A block of rooms is being held for the conference at the Inn at Penn (http://www.theinnatpenn.com/).

Organization/Administration

Gary L. Lilien, Co-Chair
Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science
Penn State University
glilien@psu.edu
Telephone: +1 814-863-2782

Peter Fader, Co-Chair
Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
faderp@wharton.upenn.edu
Telephone: +1 215-898-1132

Sunday 14 October

11 to 1.00 pm: Registration and snacks

1.00 to 5.00 pm: Parallel “Next Practices “Workshops: with a Workshop Moderator/Coordinator organizing a half day session around leading edge developments, practices and breakthroughs in the domain. Workshops are to be interactive, forward looking and provocative, with a core of workshop leaders sharing insights and guiding discussions. Sessions include…

• Brand Equity Measurement and Management (John Roberts, London Business School, Coordinator)
• Customer Lifetime Value Models and Measurements (Pete Fader, Wharton, Coordinator)
• Community/Network Marketing Issues (Arvind Rangaswami, Penn State, Coordinator)
• Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing (Peter Bell, University of Western Ontario, Coordinator)
• Implementing Marketing Science (Gary Lilien, Penn State, Coordinator)
• Rocket Science Retailing (Marshall Fisher, Wharton, Coordinator)

6.00-7.00 Reception: Inn at Penn

7.00 Dinner: Inn at Penn

Monday 15 October

AM:

Keynote Addresses:

• Glen Urban MIT + Vince Barabba (General Manager, Corporate Strategy & Knowledge Management, General Motors, retired)
• Leigh McAlister, UT Austin + Tom Nightingale (CMO of Con-way, Inc
  David Reibstein, Wharton + Industry Partner

Lunch 8th floor Jon M. Huntsman Hall

PM

Fifth Annual ISMS Practice Prize Competition (3-4 Presentations)

6.00 pm Reception

7.00 pm Gala Dinner University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
Practice Prize Award Announced

Tuesday October 16

AM:

Parallel, Competitive Sessions
Parallel Workshops (continued from Sunday)

Lunch 8th floor Jon M. Huntsman Hall

PM

Parallel, Competitive Sessions
Parallel Workshops

5.00 pm: conference close

Note: Deadline for competitive papers/sessions: 15 June 2007.

ISBM Ph.D. Seminar Series
Spring 2007 Courses

http://www.smeal.psu.edu/isbm/ipss.html

The two seminars being offered in the spring are:

• Sales Management - Bart Weitz, University of Florida
• Social Networks - Christophe Van den Bulte, University of Pennsylvania
  

The application deadline for the IPSS Spring 2007 Courses has been extended to January 10, 2007.

For more information, please click here
To downlad an application form, please click here

Please apply today. Limited space available.

ASAC 2007: Fifty Years of Leadership in Management

CALL FOR PAPERS

MARKETING DIVISION

Ottawa Ontario, Canada
June 2-5, 2007

The Marketing Division of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) invites you to submit a paper or symposium proposal for the 2007 Annual Conference in Ottawa, Ontario.

Papers and proposals for special sessions should be submitted electronically on the conference web site (www.uottawa.ca/asac) to the Marketing Division in Microsoft Word. Papers must not have been published or presented elsewhere. To be in the Proceedings, papers must conform to the ASAC Typing Style Guide and must not exceed fifteen (15) single-spaced pages (use Times New Roman 11), including all author information, the title of the paper, the abstract, all footnotes and endnotes, all tables, figures, and appendices but excluding references. On a separate page, indicate the authors' names, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and email addresses and to whom all communications should be directed [Students should also indicate their status and indicate the school in which they are enrolled].

All contributions must be received no later than 31st January 2007. Please make sure that the paper is complete in all respects since there is very little time to revise once the paper has been accepted
Members interested in assembling a symposium or workshop should prepare a detailed description of its overall purpose and focus and the specific role of each participant and send it electronically by January 31, 2007.

ACADEMIC REVIEWER:
Irene Lu
School of Administrative Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Phone: 1-416-7362100 ext. 22414
Fax: 1-416-736-5963
Email: irenelu@yorku.ca

PROGRAM CHAIR:
Harish Kapoor
Rhodes Hall 115
Fred C. Manning School of Business Administration,
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS, Canada B4P 2R6
Phone: 1-902-585-1326
Email: harish.kapoor@acadiau.ca

Call for Papers

European ACR 2007
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, July 10-14, 2007

The EACR 2007 co-chairs invite reviewers of competitive papers, roundtables, and working papers. Special session reviews will be assigned to the Program
Committee.

If you would like to review for EACR 2007, please go to
www.acrweb.org.

You may also sign up as an author at this time and upload your submissions.

Paper submissions will be accepted until the Dec. 15th deadline.

If you encounter any problems registering, please email Cele Otnes, co-chair, at cotnes@uiuc.edu.

The Call for Papers is located at www.business.uiuc.edu\eacr2007\

The Summit is the joint event of the two major conference series in the field: the International Colloquium on Relationship Marketing (ICRM) and the AMA Relationship Marketing SIG Conference. The Summit is addressed to all researchers concerned with Relationship Marketing (B2C and B2B), Inter-organizational Relationships and Networks.

ICRM program chairs: David Ballantyne, Roderick Brodie, Helge Löbler, Adrian Payne and Michael Saren.
The Colloquium is an ongoing forum for creating new knowledge and circulating viewpoints which challenged established marketing management theory and practices. Networking and dialogue remain essential elements of the Colloquium.

Date: December 13, 14, 15, 2007.
Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deadline: Monday the 9th of April 2007.
Contact us: RMsummit2007@utdt.edu
Web Page: http://rmsummit2007.utdt.edu

SUBMISSION

The Summit will host different types of interaction between participants: traditional paper sessions, panels, workshops and special sessions.

Suggested Topics of the Summit

- Relationships and Services
- Relationships and B2B/B2C
- Relationships and WoM/C2C
- Relationships and Service Dominant Logic
- Relationships and Creating Meaning
- Relationships and Interaction
- Relationships and Networks
- Relationships and Customer Experience Management
- Relationship Theory
- Develop Innovative Methodologies for Researching Relationships
- Types of Relationships
- Value Creation in Relationships
- Customer Metrics
- CRM
- Sales Force Automation
- Sales Force Management and Relationship Marketing
- Key Account Management
...

6^th International Marketing Trends Congress
Paris, France, 26th and 27th of January 2007

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper for the 6th International Marketing Trends Congress which will take place in Paris (France) on the 26th and 27th of January 2007 and is organised by both ESCP-EAP Paris and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia

The deadlines are indicated hereunder:
1. October 5th 2006: submission of papers by e-mail to Jean-Claude ANDREANI andreani@escp-eap.net
2. November 20th 2006: paper acceptance, readers comments back to the authors
3. December 11th 2006: final papers sent to Jean-Claude ANDREANI andreani@escp-eap.net
4. January 26th-27th 2007: Paris Congress

The papers can be written in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish. The Congress will be held in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Simultaneous translation into English will be organised.

Should you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at andreani@escp-eap.net.

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Frank M. Bass Conference
University of Texas at Dallas
March 1-3 2007

Sponsored by:

Frank M. Bass Institute for Marketing Science
INFORMS Society for Marketing Science
Marketing Science Institute
School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas has initiated the Frank M. Bass Institute for Marketing Science as a way of honoring Frank Bass, and of fostering the pursuit of research areas that he has been most interested in. This conference is the first major activity of the Institute.

The umbrella theme of the conference will be empirical generalizations in marketing. Papers that present empirical quantitative research in marketing are sought. Specific topics of interest are modeling buyer choice, diffusion and new product forecasting, and short- and long-term effects of marketing activities. We are especially interested in work done on publicly-available datasets that can be replicated.

The conference will be held at The University of Texas at Dallas beginning with an evening reception on March 1. Presentations will begin the morning of March 2, ending at the end of the afternoon on March 3. The format will be to have detailed presentations of approximately 12 papers, with a discussant for each. Presentation and discussion time for each paper will be set at approximately 1 hr. 15 minutes.

Submission of Papers: Researchers interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit the paper or abstract to brian.ratchford@utdallas.edu by November 1, 2006. Papers to be presented will be selected by the selection committee based on contribution to empirical generalization and relevance to one or more of the following areas: buyer choice, diffusion and new product forecasting, short- and long-term effects of marketing activities. Notification of acceptance of papers will be available on approximately January 1, 2007. Some papers may be directly solicited from the authors. Complete papers to be presented at the meeting should be available by February 1, 2007.

Registration: The registration fee for the conference will be $200, which will cover all meals. The fee will be waived for doctoral students. Details on registration procedures will be forthcoming at a later date, as will information on lodging options.

Information: To access information about the conference, please see the conference web site at: (som.utdallas.edu/bass/index.htm).

Selection Committee:

Frank M. Bass
Dominique Hanssens
Don Lehmann
Brian Ratchford

4th Sprott Annual Doctoral Symposium

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

The Eric Sprott School of Business at Carleton University invites doctoral students, regardless of their area of specialization in business administration, to participate in the 4th Annual Sprott Doctoral Symposium. Building on the success of previous events, the Sprott symposium is today the prime annual gathering for Business Ph.D. students in Canada, and is presently being expanded internationally. The symposium has many features that distinguish it from traditional doctoral colloquia, while providing participants with a collegial and supportive environment beyond the normal conference setting. These include cross-disciplinary and student-led research sessions, a best student paper competition, certificate for paper presentation, certificate for excellent presentation, paper review critique, presentation performance critique, available partial financial assistance (limited, restrictions apply), sessions on academic/industry/government careers by invited speakers, welcome reception, evening banquet reception, and luncheon keynote presentation. The past three events have attracted participants from various many diverse universities and programs (Carleton University, University of Alberta, Queen’s University, University of British Columbia, St. Mary’s University, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, University of Calgary, McMaster University, Université de Sherbrooke, University de Montréal), a broad participation by Sprott Faculty, and keynote presentations by leading Canadian and international thinkers such as Dr. Lyn S. Amine (Professor of International Business, Saint Louis University), Dr. Ivan Fellegi (Chief Statistician of Canada, Statistics Canada), Dr. George H. Haines (Distinguished research Professor, Sprott School of Business), Dr. Louise Heslop (Professor of Marketing, Sprott School of Business), and Dr. Stanley Shapiro (former Dean, Simon Fraser University and McGill University).

Objective and scope

The objective of the doctoral symposium is to engage students in a fruitful exchange of ideas on their ongoing research work, to enable them to be exposed to their colleagues’ research interests, and to critique and reflect on others’ and their own work.

In line with the Sprott doctoral program, which focuses on the study of complex management problems in an interdisciplinary context, the symposium builds its foundation on cross-disciplinary exchanges among participants. The symposium provides an opportunity for participants to interact with other students and established researchers in various areas of specialization.

In addition, since participants are the people who will be educating future generations of business students and contributing to the development, production, and transfer of knowledge,

the Sprott symposium aims to contribute not only by exposing them to the breadth of their peers’ on-going research but also to establish the seeds for research linkages, life-long friendships, enhanced networking in order to strengthen long term cross-disciplinary research, inter-institutional collaborations, and information sharing.

Structure and Timing

(a) The symposium is planned to be a one and a half day to two full days event. There is a luncheon and a banquet scheduled with keynote speakers.
(b) Speakers will be Ph.D. students from universities in Canada and abroad. The talk duration will be approximately 20 minutes and may consist of working papers, research in progress, preliminary results from doctoral research, or completed work from doctoral research.
(c) Students interested in participating are required to complete a registration form (www.sprott.carleton.ca/dsymposium). Participation is possible in three categories: attendance only, presentation with abstract submission only, or presentation with submission of a full paper. To give a presentation, a participant will have to submit an abstract, identify the research question the work is addressing, explain significant problems and current solutions, discuss the proposed approach, and outline the results achieved so far. The submission should not be longer than one page.
(d) Students interested in participating in the best student paper competition will be required to submit a full paper presenting original results (see the format below). If a paper is co-authored with at least one Faculty member, an e-mail indicating the participant is the first author of the paper must be sent by the Faculty to the student paper competition Chair.
(e) A symposium proceedings volume containing accepted refereed research papers will be produced. The inclusion of a paper in the proceedings is optional. However, each paper must be in conformity with the paper format described below and will have to be revised in line with the referee comments. The policy of the Sprott Doctoral Symposium is to transfer copyright to the authors of the papers upon publication of the proceedings (i.e., authors retain the copyright of their papers, but transfer a limited right without fees to allow the inclusion of the paper in the proceedings).

Format and Style for Full Paper Submissions

The first page should be the cover sheet indicating the paper title and the author name(s), address(es) and position(s). The second page should state the title of the paper only (not the author(s)), followed by an abstract and keywords. The body of the paper must not exceed 15 single-spaced pages in total length, including all tables, figures, notes, and references. This length restriction assumes the use of a font no smaller than 12 points, no more than 75 characters per line, and no more than 26 lines per page including headers and footnotes. The paper must be submitted, preferably in MS Word format, to the best student paper competition Chair at dsymposium@sprott.carleton.ca.

Venue

The event will be held at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada. A detailed timetable will be posted at www.sprott.carleton.ca/dsymposium.

Registration Fee

Admission is free. A registration form has to be completed and submitted by the deadline (see important dates below). However, participation is limited to the space allowed by our facilities. Participants with presentations/papers will be guaranteed registration. RSVP is required for each of the following events: welcome reception, the luncheon keynote presentation, and the banquet.

Travel and accommodation

(a) The Sprott School of Business will partially assist financially, towards accommodation or travel expenses, students from universities outside of Ottawa who will be participating in the student best paper competition and agree to have the paper published in the symposium proceedings.

(b) The organizing committee is applying for funding to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada. Availability for funding under this program will be known at the end of January 2007. If this funding is received, full financial assistance may be expected by those who meet the condition (a) above. The Organizing Committee will request each external participant to fill out, sign, and return a one page SSHRC document as part of the application process.

Important Dates

Important notes for students from outside Canada: Below, the October 6 deadline for abstracts was set with the Canadian university calendar in mind. For students from other countries, we have agreed on an extension to October 25. However, meeting the original deadline will be appreciated since it will be helpful in our funding application and increase the chance of a contribution toward an author’s travel expenses.

• June 22, 2006: Registration opens
• October 6, 2006: Abstract submission deadline (abstract or full paper presentation)
• January 26, 2007: Full Paper submission deadline (only if registered for full paper presentation)
• March 30, 2007: Last date for submitting revised paper for proceedings (only if registered for full paper presentation)
• April 13, 2007: Last date for registration (attendance only)
• April 19-20, 2007: Sprott Doctoral Symposium

Organizing Committee

• Aaron L. Nsakanda, Ph.D.Chair, Sprott Doctoral Symposium, Assistant Professor, Sprott School of BusinessCarleton University, Ottawa (ON), Canada
  Email: aaron_nsakanda@carleton.ca
  Phone: (613) – 520 2600 (ext. 2210)
• Irfan Butt, Ph.D. Candidate (Marketing)Co-Chair, Sprott Doctoral Symposium, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa (ON), Canada
  Email: ibutt@connect.carleton.ca
• Uma Kumar, Ph.D.Chair, Student Paper CompetitionProfessor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa (ON), Canada
  Email: uma_kumar@carleton.ca
  Phone: (613) – 520 2600 (ext. 6601)
• George H. Haines, Ph.D.Proceedings Coordinator, Distinguished Research Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa (ON), Canada
  Email: george_haines@carleton.ca
  Phone: (613) – 520 2600

Call for Papers

The 2007 La Londe Conference in Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior
La Londe les Maures (French Riviera), June 5-8, 2007

This is the 34th edition of the International Research Seminar in Marketing organized by the Aix-en-Provence Graduate School of Management. The theme of the 2007 La Londe conference is Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior. Topics of interest are all theoretical or empirical research providing insight for improving the understanding of consumer behavior and management of marketing communications.

Chairpersons:
Søren Askegaard, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Coordinator: Dwight Merunka, Paul Cézanne University in Aix-Marseille

Keynote Speaker: Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of papers: December 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2007

An outcome of the seminar is a special issue of the Journal of Business Research. After the seminar, 8 to 10 papers will be selected by the conference chairs for inclusion in a special issue of the JBR. All papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
A Best Paper Award for a selected outstanding paper from the conference.

Full Information can be found at
http://www.lalondeconference.org

If you have any questions, please contact the administrative officer Rosemary Calazel or the coordinator Dwight Merunka at lalonde@iae-aix.com.

MARKETING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
ACADEMY OF MARKETING CONFERENCE 2007
3rd to 6th JULY 2007

The 2007 Academy of Marketing Conference, hosted by Kingston University Business School will take place from 3-6 July at the Royal Holloway Conference Centre, Egham, Surrey, UK.

The 2007 Academy of Marketing Conference will revolve around the theme of: Marketing Theory into Practice. New "theories" are generated on a regular basis by marketing academics, partially because journal editors and reviewers reward new theories more than the confirmation and consolidation of existing knowledge. Yet rarely are “academic theories” given any consideration by marketing practitioners. Most of the time, the output of academic research is considered as irrelevant to the real world of marketing (Edwards, 2005). In order to gain credibility and relevance among practitioners, research in marketing needs to be based on solid evidence, tested under a variety of conditions. Furthermore, results of academic research need to be communicated to marketing practitioners in a more consistent and pertinent manner.

AM2007 welcomes contributions towards the translation of Marketing Theory into Practice in the following areas:

• Arts and Heritage Marketing
• Branding
• Business-to-business Marketing
• Consumer Behaviour
• E-Marketing
• Empirical Replications and Re-enquiries in Marketing
• Entrepreneurial and Small Business Marketing
• International and Cross Cultural issues in Marketing
• Market Segmentation
• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Education
• Marketing in the Asia Pacific
• Marketing of Higher Education
• Marketing Research and Quantitative Inquiry in Marketing
• Marketing Strategy and NPD
• Political Marketing
• Qualitative Inquiry in Marketing
• Relationship Marketing
• Retailing and Commercial Distribution
• Selling and Sales Management
• Services Marketing
• Social and Non-Profit Marketing – Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Sport Marketing

Submissions must be made via the conference website by: 19th February 2007

Submission Guidelines
All relevant guidelines and details on how to submit papers are shown on the conference website: www.am2007.org

Competitive papers
Must be original and a maximum of 12 pages, single spaced, 12 point Times Roman font, including abstract (approximately 200 words), references and appendices.

Working papers
Should be submitted in long abstract form to a maximum of 4 pages, single spaced, 12 point Times Roman font, including abstract (approximately 200 words), references and appendices.
All papers should include a separate cover page which includes the title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s) and the full contact details of the lead author.
Authors will be advised of the outcome of the review process by the end of April 2007.

Poster Sessions
Posters will be exhibited during the conference. Proposals for posters should be submitted via the conference website: www.am2007.org

Special Sessions
Academy of Marketing Special Interest Groups and Regional Groups will meet during the conference. Applications for special session slots should be made to: f.d.riley@kingston.ac.uk

Doctoral Colloquium
The 2007 Doctoral Colloquium will be held on 2-3 July 2007. The Doctoral Colloquium will provide doctoral students with the opportunity to gain guidance and advice from a team of experienced scholars. Doctoral candidates at any stage of research are encouraged to apply. Papers should be submitted following the guidelines available on the conference website. A limited number of bursaries towards the cost of the Colloquium are usually available.

All submissions should be made by 19th February 2007 via the Conference Website: www.am2007.org

Conference Organisation and Location
The Conference, hosted by the School of Marketing of Kingston Business School, will take place in the new state-of-the-art Royal Holloway Conference Centre in Egham, Surrey. Famous for its Founder's Building, one of the most spectacular Victorian university buildings in the world, Royal Holloway’s spacious 135 acre campus provides an impressive range of modern academic and social facilities in a parkland setting. The on-campus accommodation is of superior quality.

Royal Holloway's location on the A30 between the village of Englefield Green and the town of Egham is just 19 miles from the centre of London, minutes from the M25 and M3, M4 and M40. London Heathrow Airport is just 7 miles away, and trains from Egham to Waterloo (and Eurostar) take just 35 minutes. Tourist attractions in the vicinity include Windsor Castle, Eton and Savill Gardens.

Announcing the 2007 European Conferenceof the
Association for Consumer Research

Host: Università Bocconi, Milan (Italy)

Dates: 10-14 July 2007

Conference website: www.business.uiuc.edu/eacr2007/

Conference Co-chairs:

• Stefania Borghini, Università Bocconi; stefania.borghini@unibocconi.it
• Mary Ann McGrath, Loyola University/Chicago; mmcgrat@luc.edu
• Cele Otnes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; cotnes@uiuc.edu

Film Festival Co-chairs:

• Russell Belk, University of Utah, mktrwb@business.utah.edu
• Robert Kozinets, York University, rkozinets@schulich.yorku.ca
  

Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:

• John Sherry, University of Notre Dame, jsherry@nd.edu
• Stijn van Osselaer, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, sosselaer@rsm.nl
  

The 2007 European Conference of the Association for Consumer Research will be held at Università Bocconi University in Milan, Italy from Tuesday, July 10 through Saturday, July 14th, 2007. A doctoral consortium will commence July 10th and conclude by noon on Wednesday, July 11th. Registration and the opening reception will occur on July 11th, with presentations from Thursday July 12th through early afternoon on Saturday, July 14th. As in past years, the conference will provide a multi-topical forum for scholarly presentations, discussions, and collaborations on consumer behavior. Additional specific information on submissions of special sessions, competitive papers, working papers, and roundtables is provided below.

Program Structure
There will be five main forums for the presenting and discussing research and scholarly thought.

• Special Topic Sessions provide opportunities for focused attention on cutting-edge and important topics. Successful sessions offer a coherent perspective on emerging substantive, theoretical, or methodological issues.
• Competitive Paper Sessions include papers that represent the completed work of their authors. The EACR conference co-chairs will assign accepted papers to sessions that reflect similar scholarly interests.
• Working Paper Track: Participants typically present preliminary findings from the early stages of a research program. Authors distribute their papers and display their findings poster-style in a plenary session.
• Roundtables: Encourage intensive participant discussion of consumer research topics and issues.
• Film Festival: Enables scholars to present their videographies on consumption-related topics at the conference.
  

Submission and Decision Deadlines
Submissions for all of the above forums EXCEPT the film festival must be received no later than Friday December 15, 2006. Submissions for the film festival must be received no later than February 1, 2007 (please see information about the film festival at the end of the document for more information). Non-video submissions will be accepted on a website devoted to EACR from November 15, 2006 to December 15, 2006. Notification of acceptance in these five categories will be made by April 15th, 2007. Early registration will occur from May 15-June 30, 2007.
To allow as many people as possible the opportunity to participate in EACR 2007, please note the requirement that each EACR participant may present in Special Topic and/or Competitive Paper sessions no more than twice during the duration of the conference.

Looking forward to your participation!!

Stefania Borghini
Mary Ann McGrath
Cele Otnes

Call for Papers

Relationship Marketing Summit:
Time to Integrate Perspectives

Relationship Marketing AMA SIG – ICRM Conference
Conference Chair: Prof. Jaqueline Pels
December 13, 14, 15, 2007. Buenos Aires, Argentina

ICRM program chairs: David Ballantyne, Roderick Brodie, Helge Löbler, Adrian Payne and Michael Saren.
The Colloquium is an ongoing forum for creating new knowledge and circulating viewpoints which challenged established marketing management theory and practices. Networking and dialogue remain essential elements of the Colloquium.

AMA RM SIG Conference program chairs: Wesley Johnston, Michael Kleinaltenkamp and Jagdish Sheth.
The conference series is focussing on conceptual appraoches and the generating of knowledge and methods for the understanding and management of customer relationships. It aims on developing new perspectives and enhancing the conceptual foundation as well as the realization of best practices in relationship marketing and CRM.

The Summit is the joint event of the two major conference series in the field: the International Colloquium on Relationship Marketing (ICRM) and the AMA
Relationship Marketing SIG Conference.

The Summit is addressed to all researchers concerned with Relationship Marketing (B2C and B2B), Inter-organizational Relationships and Networks.

KEY INFO
Date: December 13, 14, 15, 2007.
Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deadline: Monday the 9th of April 2007.
Contact us: RMsummit2007@utdt.edu
Info: http://rmsummit2007.utdt.edu

The SUMMIT invites all researchers to this always vibrant and cosmopolitan city. Buenos Aires provides an ideal setting for a conference that fosters a spirit of collaboration and participation. Buenos Aires is an unending labyrinth of elegant residential neighborhoods, beautiful parks and plazas squares and skyscrapers. It looks onto the beautiful waterfront of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is a culturally and socially exciting city; it is modern and traditional, frenetic and fun. Tango, tarot, art and antiques are offered in open air markets along streets. The tours and excursions that show the strong cosmopolitan spirit of Buenos Aires are Caminito, Recoleta, La Boca, the Botanical Garden and the Zoo. Other remarkably interesting places due to their historical value are the "Cabildo" (City Hall), the Cathedral, the City Palace, the Obelisk and the internationally acclaimed Colón Theater, which is known for its symphony, opera, and ballet. At night, "the city that never sleeps" offers concerts, shows, theatres, cinemas, floating casinos, discos, cafés and pubs.

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella The Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) is a private non-profit research organization founded in 1991 by the Fundación Torcuato Di Tella and the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. The mission of the University is to educate new generations of academic, social, political, and business leaders, with the goal of substantially improving public policy, and strengthening democratic institutions in Argentina. The University is organized in schools, centers, and departments, with graduate and undergraduate programs in humanities and social sciences.

There are eight academic units: Economics, Political Science and International Relations, Government, Mathematics and Statistics, Law, Business, History and Architecture. UTDT currently has exchange programs with universities in 21 countries. The UTDT is a highly regarded research university in Latin America and its library, founded in 1958, is the most valuable library devoted to the social sciences in Argentina.


Come Help Solve the RM Puzzle!
Suggested Topics of the Summit

• Relationships and Services
• Relationships and B2B/B2C
• Relationships and WoM/C2C
• Relationships and Service Dominant Marketing Logic
• Relationships and Creating Meaning
• Relationships and Interaction
• Relationships and Networks
• Relationships and Customer Experience Management
• Relationship Theory
• Develop Innovative Methodologies for Researching Relationships
• Types of Relationships
• Value Creation in Relationships
• Customer Metrics
• CRM
• Sales Force Automation
• Sales Force Management and Relationship Marketing
• Key Account Management
  

Submission
The Summit will host different types of interaction between participants: traditional paper sessions, panels, workshops and special sessions.

Papers
Submission of papers should be sent no later than Monday the 9th of April 2007. Acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of the authors must attend the conference and present the paper.
All papers are limited to five pages (including tables and figures), plus the cover/title page, and references in Microsoft Word for Windows (6.00 or
higher). Papers must show a clear indication of the purpose of the research, research method, major results, implications and key references. Authors should also indicate the track in which they would like to present their paper. Papers will be evaluated through a double blind review process and authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by late July.

For further information, please visit:
http://rmsummit2007.utdt.edu

Panels, Workshops and/or Special Sessions
Proposal for panels, workshops and special sessions should be sent no latter than Monday the 9th of April 2007 and must include a rationale, an outline of the issues to be discussed, as well as, names and relevant qualifications of the proposed panel, workshop and session participants.
A minimum of two double-spaced typed pages will be required to provide the necessary information. For the special sessions, paper abstracts must be attached to the session description (see paper submission information). Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by late July.
For further information, please visit:
http://rmsummit2007.utdt.edu

Special Issues
Journal of Business Market Management
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mail: RMsummit2007@utdt.edu
Page: http://rmsummit2007.utdt.edu

Announcing the Launch of IPSS:
ISBM Ph.D. Seminar Series

 
The relative paucity of business marketing faculty in many academic institutions provides a challenge to Ph.D. students who want to pursue a Ph.D. in the area.  The ISBM is launching a Web-Based Ph.D. Seminar Series designed to help overcome this resource constraint, facilitate the pursuit of a Ph.D. in Business-to-Business Markets, and increase the number of students who pursue research in the area. 
 
IPSS offers substantive and methodological courses that are likely to be useful to Ph.D. students with research interests in business markets.  Substantive topics include issues relating to theory development in business markets, sales management, marketing channel management, new product development and marketing among others.  The methodological topics are those specifically useful for B-to-B academics such as qualitative research methods and social network analysis.  These courses will be repeated in a cycle of 2-3 years.
 
In the inaugural year 2006 - 07, four Ph.D. seminars will be offered.
 
Fall 2006 –
 
Prof. Ajay Kohli - Theory Construction
 
Spring 2007 –
 
Prof. Barton Weitz - Sales Management
Prof. Abbie Griffin - Qualitative Methods
Prof. Christophe Van den Bulte - Social Networks
 
Apply now to be a part of the ISBM Ph.D. Seminar Series! www.ipss.isbm.org. 

Academic Director: Rajdeep Grewal - rug2@psu.edu

Administrative Director: Julie Mulhatten – jcm115@psu.edu

T.E.I. of Piraeus and University of Paisley
are co-organizing the:

1st International Scientific Conference
e R A
The Conference for the contribution of
Information Technology
to Science, Economy, Society and Education
(expansion of the international scientific conference in Information Technology and Quality )

Cultural Center of Tripolis
Peloponnese, Greece 16-17 September 2006
250 Thivon Ave. & P.Ralli Ave.
Tel. +3210 5381200

Conference Chair:

• Tseles Dimitrios, Professor T.E.I. of Piraeus
• Dean of Engineering School, T.E.I. of Piraeus
  

Steering Committee:

• Crowe Malcolm, University of Paisley
• Kikilias Panagiotis, T.E.I. of Piraeus
• Tseles Dimitrios, T.E.I. of Piraeus
• Vryzidis Lazaros, T.E.I. of Piraeus
  

Scientific Committee:

• Alafodimos K. • Angelopoulos J.
• Cantzos K. • Dervos D.
• Dilintas G. • Karagiannis S
• Karaiskos C. • Kikilias P.
• Kontesi M. • Kossidas A.
• Kyriazopoulos P. • Papageorgas P.
• Prezerakos G. • Psaromiligkos J.
• Routoulas A. • Spyridakos A.
• Syrcos G. • Tseles D.
• Tsitomeneas S. • Usoro A.
• Vryzidis L. • Yannakopoulos P.
• Yannakopoulos D. • Zavlanos M.
• Zisos A.
  

Organizing Committee:
• Alafodimos C.
• Iliopoulos C.
• Kyriazopoulos P.
• Kokkosis A.
• Sklavounos P.

Venue and Dates of the Conference
The conference will take place on Tripoli, 16/17-09-2006 at Cultural Center of Tripolis.

Update information and full papers of the conference are available at:
http://ikaros.teipir.gr/era

22nd Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference

Opening the network

New perspectives in industrial marketing and purchasing The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group is an informal, international group of scholars concerned with developing concepts and knowledge in the field of business-to-business marketing and purchasing. Earlier work focused on the nature and management of relationships between companies in international markets. More recently, the Group's work has been widened to the study of complex networks within which business communities operate. If you want to know more about the IMP group, visit www.impgroup.org.

The 22nd IMP Conference will take place on 7-9 September 2006 in Milan. This conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context. The style of the IMP conference is always informal. Structured to maximise the amount and level of discussion and interaction among researchers at all stages of their career, the conference urges participants to present their findings in a challenging but supportive atmosphere. Authors are invited to present results from research at any stage of development.

Papers will be selected on the basis of quality, originality and relevance to the development of ideas within the IMP framework.

XVI Spanish Scientific Association of Economy and Business Administration Conference
(XVI Congreso Nacional de ACEDE)
Valencia, 10th-12th September 2006

Venue: University of Valencia

Theme: Firms facing with the challenges of XXI century

From the 10th to the 12th of September 2006, this conference will be held at the University of Valencia (Spain). Web site: www.acede2006.org

Paper submission: Papers and works in progress written in Spanish will be sent electronically. They are accepted by a double-blind reviewing process. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the Conference. Doctoral students in different stages of their dissertation process can apply for the participation in the doctoral colloquium.

Key dates: Deadline 8th may, 2006

Tracks: all the papers and works in progress should be submitted in a specific track. There are 20 different tracks in order to depict the diversity of research themes.

• Corporate and competitive strategies
• Internationalization
• Strategic alliances
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Quality management
• Behavioral and organizational change
• Organizational design
• Human resources
• Corporate governance and social responsibility
• Markets and financial assets
• Corporate finance
• Strategic marketing
• Operational marketing
• Business setting up
• Innovation management
• Logistic and supply channels
• Production
• Information systems and new technologies
• Others

Further information: for further and more detailed information, please visit the website: www.acede2006.org

XVIII SPANISH MARKETING ACADEMIC CONFERENCE (EMARK 2006)
(XVIII Encuentro de Profesores Universitarios de Marketing)
September 20-22, 2006, Spain

From the 20th to the 221nd of September, 2006, the XVIII Spanish Marketing Academic Conference (http://www.emark2006.com) is to be held at the University of Almeria (Spain).

Paper submission
The organizing committee invites electronic submission of.Papers and Works in Progress, being written in spanish. All accepted papers and works in progress will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

Key dates
All submissions must be in electronic form and be assigned to a specific track. Submissions should be sent by the web of the Conference. Papers and Work in Progress are accepted by a double-blind review process. Deadline: May 12th 2006.

Conference tracks
The conference programme is divided into fourteen tracks, which cover all the widely accepted research fields within the marketing discipline. Those interested in submitting a paper are invited to send it to one of following tracks:

• Consumer behaviour
• Retailing, channel management and logistics
• Marketing strategy and relationship marketing
• Innovation and new product development
• Brand management
• Pricing decisions
• Marketing communications
• New technologies & E-marketing
• Services marketing
• International & Cross-cultural marketing
• Marketing research and research methodology
• Tourism marketing
• Agrifood marketing
• Social responsability, ethics and marketing of non-profit organisations

Further information: http://www.emark2006.com

"Web-based data collection methods: Surveys and experiments"
October 2006 in Dubrovnik (Croatia)

The aim of this three-day workshop is to provide the professional with the ability to evaluate Web-based data collection projects and learn how to implement them in a way that combines highest quality with economy. Among other topics, the workshop will cover methodology, techniques, tools, recruitment and sampling issues, dropouts, retention, ethics, multiple submissions and online panels.

Two alternative dates comprising the same topics covered are offered:

Date 1: October 5. - 7., 2006 (Thursday, 2 PM thru Saturday, 12.30 PM),
or
Date 2: October 12. - 14., 2006 (Thursday, 2 PM thru Saturday, 12.30 PM).

The workshop will take place in beautiful UNESCO-awarded Dubrovnik at the Adriatic coast.
The International Center of Croatian Universities (ICCU) will provide the venue in this ideal climate. The ICCU was founded by the University of Zagreb as a public academic institution for international scientific programs and postgraduate studies. It is situated in an old villa within the walking distance of the old town of Dubrovnik and is equipped with up to date technical devices, including wireless high-speed connection to the Internet.

Dr. Michael Bosnjak (University of Mannheim, Germany) and
PD Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips (University of Zurich, Switzerland) are the workshop organizers.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website at:
http://pdw2006.internet-research.info/

Small Group Meeting in Consumer Psychology: Unconscious and Controlled processes
Enschede, the Netherlands, Nov 13 – Nov 14, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTER PROPOSALS

The small group meeting in Consumer Psychology: Unconscious and Controlled Processes will be held from 13 to 14 November at Twente University, Enschede, the Netherlands.

Recent advances in consumer psychology and related disciplines such as social psychology, communication science, health promotion and marketing have shown a surge in interest in unconscious and automatic processes. Work on priming, emotion, inference making, social influence and intuitive processes and their role in shaping consumer behaviour stand testimony to these developments. On the other hand, controlled processes still bear tremendous relevance for the field, as underscored by research on self-regulation (and regulatory failure!), attentional control, and effortful information processing.

The objective of the small group meeting is to strike the balance between these strands of research by bringing together scholars from various backgrounds in order to discuss key issues, possibilities and pitfalls and thus inspire and fuel the young discipline of consumer psychology. Participants are encouraged to submit talks and posters presenting their own research. The meeting will share recent theoretical and methodological developments in studying automatic and controlled consumer processes.

The format will include presentations, posters and, especially, workshops in which active discussion is encouraged. One ambition of the meeting is to discuss potentially fruitful lines of future research and to facilitate active collaboration between European and North American scholars. The number of participants will be limited to about 50. In July, a website will be released including details of registration and payment, a list of participants, final program details, accommodation suggestions, and plans and sightseeing suggestions.
The website will be accessible through the following URL: http://www.gw.utwente.nl/cp2006

Speakers and workshop supervisors include:

• Frank Kardes, University of Cincinnatti
• Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota
• Stijn van Osselaer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Ap Dijksterhuis, University of Amsterdam

Speakers and poster presenters are invited to submit abstracts of their research related to automatic and controlled consumer processes. Please indicate your preference for either a talk or a poster. Talks will be limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion. Each submission, whether a talk or a poster requires the following information:
1. Title.
2. Name, affiliation of all the authors. Please indicate the presenting
author and include contact information (phone, fax and email).
3. An abstract of approximately 300 words, and up to 5 keywords.

Submissions should be sent to b.m.fennis@utwente.nl in MSWord or pdf formats.
The submission deadline is August 15th, 2006.
All poster and paper proposals will be evaluated within 3 weeks after the deadline and authors will be informed about the outcomes. The assessment will be based on criteria such as the fit of the research with the theme of the meeting, originality of ideas, soundness of methodology, and relevance of the results

If you need any additional information about the workshop, submissions or any other relevant issues please write to b.m.fennis@utwente.nl

REGISTRATION
Registration will be open on August 15th 2006. The workshop fee is € 150,-. This covers registration, lunches on both days, dinner on the evening of November 13th and a social program on November 13th.
The registration deadline is October 16th 2006.

Hope to see you in Enschede,

Bob Fennis, PhD
Ad Pruyn, PhD
Marieke Fransen, MA
Organizing Committee

BIGMAC 3: EMAC/ANZMAC Research Symposium

EMAC/ANZMAC Symposium will be held Day 3 ANZMAC06 Conference
Brisbane Australia Wednesday 6 December 2006

The theme draws directly on the conference theme "Advancing Theory, Maintaining Relevance ...The conference theme challenges participants to break new ground and explore concepts in marketing, while demonstrating a strong connection to practice"

As with previous symposiums the sessions will be interactive with the discussions lead by international scholars from EMAC and ANZMAC.

The organisisers are Rod Brodie (ANZMAC) r.brodie@auckland.ac.nz Kris Moller (EMAC) Kristian.Moller@hse.fi

Attendance will be included in the registration for the conference. This year there will not be a separate registration.

The 6th International Marketing Trends Congress
Paris, 26-27 January 2007

Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper for the 6th International Marketing Trends Congress which will take place in Paris (France) on the 26th and 27th of January 2007 and is organised by both ESCP-EAP Paris and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia

The deadlines are indicated hereunder:
1. October 13th 2006: submission of papers by e-mail to Jean-Claude ANDREANI andreani@escp-eap.net
2. November 20th 2006: paper acceptance, readers comments back to the authors
3. December 11th 2006: final papers sent to Jean-Claude ANDREANI andreani@escp-eap.net
4. January 26th-27th 2007: Paris Congress

The papers can be written in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish. The Congress will be held in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Simultaneous translation into English will be organised.

Should you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at andreani@escp-eap.net.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude ANDREANI
andreani@escp-eap.net
www.escp-eap.net/conferences/marketing


NB:

156 papers were presented at the 2006 edition of the congress, which gathered over 260 participants from various European countries. The 2006 congress took place in Venice. The previous sessions were held in Paris (Jan. 2006), Venice (Nov. 2003), Pars (Jan. 2002) and Venice (Nov. 2000).

Like in the 5 previous editions, the 2007 Congress will gather colleagues from a number of European countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, 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...

All detailed information on the congress and papers of the 2007 congress will be available on our website at
http://www.escp-eap.net/conferences/marketing/ .

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARKETING
ATHENS, GREECE, JUNE 28-29, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Marketing Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 5th International Conference in Athens, Greece, June 28-29, 2007.

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Marketing and related disciplines are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.
If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words, via email only (atiner@atiner.gr), before October 23rd, 2006 to: Dr. Cleopatra Veloutsou, Head, Marketing Research Unit, Athens Institute for Education and Research & Senior Lecturer of Marketing, University of Glasgow, U.K.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), Director, ATINER, 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 Fax: + 30 210 363-4209 Email: atiner@atiner.gr.

More information about the Institute and the conference can be found at: http://www.atiner.gr/

Thought Leaders International Conference on Brand Management:
in conjunction with a Special Edition of the
Journal of Business Research

Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, England
24-25th April 2007The

CALL FOR PAPERS

After the hugely successful 2006 brand management conference, involving a large number of papers from academics in the northern and southern hemispheres and paradigm challenging presentations from Vice Presidents of global branding agencies and brand owners, the Centre for Research in Brand Marketing will be hosting the next international conference on brand management. This will take place from Tuesday 24th April to Wednesday 25th April 2007 at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, England and benefits from an international advisory board.

This international conference seeks to engender the advancement of knowledge about brand management amongst scholars by disseminating new research and through encouraging the evolution of new research themes. It also aims to narrow the gap between academics and practitioners by having presentations from internationally renowned practitioners whose significant senior experience is regarded as being at the cutting edge of application.

This thought provoking event will alternate between tracks of double blind refereed papers and then stimulating and challenging think pieces from senior practitioners, and will include a conference dinner. The intention is not only to exchange knowledge about developments in brand management, but also to enable informal exchanges and networking between delegates.

Papers on any aspect of brand management are invited. Information regarding the submission of papers and formatting instructions is available at www.business.bham.ac.uk/crbm. The deadline for papers is 30th November 2006. All papers will be refereed and authors will be notified in January 2007.

Papers presented at the conference could be considered for a Special Edition of the Journal of Business Research. Authors will have the benefit of revising their papers after the conference, building on the feedback they receive and they might like to then submit their paper to a Special Edition of the Journal of Business Research devoted to the best papers from this conference.

An award will be given at the end of the conference for the most thought provoking paper.

Further details are available at http://business.bham.ac.uk/crbm. Questions regarding the conference should be addressed to the Conference Chair, Professor Leslie de Chernatony (please send email to: k.m.duffy@bham.ac.uk).

9th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC 2007)
Valencia, Spain, 8-11 July 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organisers of the 9th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC 2007), to be held in Valencia, Spain, 8-11 July 2007, invite the submission of papers on any aspect of arts and cultural management to be considered for inclusion in the conference.

The International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC) is a network of academics and practitioners interested in the management and marketing of arts and cultural products. AIMAC holds an international meeting every two years and also publishes the International Journal of Arts Management.

This scientific conference will address various sectors of the arts and cultural industries (performing arts and festivals, heritage, museums and visual arts, film production and distribution, book publishing, recording, broadcasting, audiovisual media and multimedia). Papers are welcome on all management approaches, including: marketing, strategic planning, marketing research, human resources, organizational behaviour, accounting and finance, production, or information systems. The Conference will include, among others, the following topics:

• marketing and the arts
• consumption of cultural products
• arts and cultural management
• interaction between Internet and culture
• audience research
• cultural human resources management
• arts financial issues
• arts and business relations
• cultural production and programming
  

All those wishing to present a paper at the conference must submit an abstract of 750-1,500 words. Abstracts may be submitted in English or French and must include: research objective or questions, research methodology and theoretical perspectives and main findings and conclusions.

Deadline for abstracts is 15 October 2006. Authors will be informed of acceptance by early 2007.
Final papers must be submitted by 1 April 2007.

Please submit your abstracts by email to: abstractsaimac2007@polytechnique.fr

For more information: www.adeit.uv.es/aimac2007

Innovating Markets and Organizations Through
Information and Communication Technologies
2 June 2006 - University of Lugano
Via G. Buffi 13, Lugano, Switzerland

Call for papers

The BIT (Business Information Technology) group  (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/bit.xml) invites electronic submission of papers for the conference that will be held in June 2, 2006 in Lugano, Switzerland. This is the academic part of the 2006 BIT annual conference, that will take place in Milan at SDA Bocconi  and at University of Lugano.

The theme of the conference
Digital communication is a powerful change engine. Markets and organizations are increasingly complex, dynamic and networked. Knowledge, creativity and relationships are becoming the new focus of management. How digital communication is related to the formation and evolution of these new forms of markets and organizations?

An academic interdisciplinary discussion around these topics will take place at the conference in Lugano. This event will represent an opportunity for scholars coming from different countries and different fields of research to present their works and ideas about the contribution of ICT to the innovation of market processes and organizations.

This will also be an occasion, for the participants, to get in contact with the research developed within the global BIT research network and to explore opportunities for international research collaboration.

Important dates

•  April 25th, extended abstract submission
• May 15th, notification of acceptance
•  May 25th, registration

Paper submission
Please submit an extended abstract (or full-text paper if available) to antonella.la.rocca@lu.unisi.ch

Paper and abstract format
Electronic files, word format. Please include affiliation and contact information 
Extended abstracts should include bibliography.

Paper acceptance and registration
After the notification of acceptance, it is required the online registration to the conference (no fee), at http://www.bit.unisi.ch/pages/registration.htm.

In collaboration with

SDA Bocconi - School of Management

Politecnico di Torino

2007 Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference
Valencia, Spain, 10-12 September 2007

Call for Papers

2007 Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, under the topic "Destination and Event Marketing: Managing Networks".

Call for papers before 1 February 2007.

The conference will be held 10-12 September 2007 in Valencia (Spain). This conference is jointly coordinated by the University of Valencia (Spain), University of Otago (New Zealand) and Mugla University (Turkey). Outstanding papers will be evaluated for publication in tourism research journals.

For further details: http://www.atmc2007.org

How to compete today in the new world order
Mauritius, 24-25 July 2006

HOW TO COMPETE TODAY- THE NEW MARKETING AND SALES STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

Competitor-proof your company!

A winning competitive strategy is founded on consistently understanding and predicting changing market conditions and customer needs. This two-day seminar will help you acquire the skills and tools to master this “outside-in” approach—and ensure that you beat out the competition. You’ll leave this seminar equipped with the tools to expand your company’s market leadership.

Who Should Attend

CEO’s, Directors, Marketing Managers, Executives and Managers in Finance, Operations, Customer Service, R&D and other departments who interact with colleagues in marketing, Public officials, Professionals and Academics.

How You Will Benefit

• Determine How Marketing Can Impact the Bottom Line and Other Areas of the Company
• Understand the strategic value of sales vs. the strategic value of marketing
• Develop a structured perspective on analyzing direct and indirect competition, and incorporating the same in strategic initiatives
• Screen, select, formulate and develop operational market strategies for products/markets
• Enhance your knowledge of marketing segmentation, life cycle extensions, product positioning, brand building and more
• Determine When to Use Core Media Elements in the Communications Process to Be Effective
• Successfully develop and manage new product and service launches to increase overall market share

What You Will Cover

• Assessing the new Marketing Environment.
  Today’s world is characterized high technology, ecological concerns, and extreme competitiveness
• Improving the Relationship Between Marketing and Sales.
  Marketing and sales often operate in separate domains and compete for the limited resources of the company. Each has valid arguments for more resources. How can their relationship be improved? And how can customer service be either integrated into the flow of activities from Marketing to Sales to service?
• Applying Holistic Marketing.
  Marketing is too often viewed in a narrow tactical sense, often focused on how to sell what the company has already made. As a result, marketing often is at the periphery of a company’s strategic planning rather than as the starting point for its strategic planning. Here we describe how marketing, properly understood, can be driver of strategy at the business and product level.
• Developing A Winning Strategy.
  Each company must carefully choose between five basic marketplace strategies. The choice depends on the company’s history, its marketing competencies, its current position in the market, and other factors. With increasing commoditization, companies have to develop new paths to differentiation and market disruption that will be described.
• Developing New Product Ideas.
  Many companies plan new products and services that simply are variations of their current offerings. The managers are thinking inside the box rather than outside the box. They need to move from vertical marketing to lateral marketing thinking that is more likely to produce breakthrough new products and services.
• Segmenting, Targeting, Positioning, and Brand Building.
  Marketing is a process of breaking down the market into market segments, choosing the market segments to target, positioning the offering, and building the brand.
• Improving Communications.
  The effectiveness of the 30-second TV commercial is slipping. Marketers must find no ways to bring the right messages to the right prospects and customers at the right time in the face of a growing inaccessibility to customers who are increasingly shielding themselves from commercial messages. What are some of the new message and media strategies?
• Moving to High-Tech Marketing.
  Marketers are under pressure to improve their competence in two basic respects. They must become more financially able to account for the results of their marketing expenditures. They must become more technologically adept in using new tools such as predictive modeling, sales automation, marketing automation, and process and performance dashboards, all of which will be described

TRAINING DETAILS

Speaker : Philip Kotler
Venue : Swami Vivekananda Conference Center
Dates : 24 & 25 July, 2006
Fees : £ 2100( Package includes airfare, accommodation, local traveling etc)
Duration : 2 Full days, 9am to 5pm

PACKAGE FOR UK PARTICIPANTS

The package comprises of:

Air Ticket UK-Mauritius-UK in economy class
Seminar participation fee
Transfers Airport to Hotel
Transfers Hotel to Conference Centre
5 Nights, 3 star Hotel accommodation on half-board basis
Two days sight seeing-tour (packed lunch inclusive)

If this is of interest to you, please send your contact details by return email so that you can be sent more information about booking procedures.

Dr Nittin Essoo
Director
Rushmore Business School
4th Floor, Newry Complex
St Jean Road, Quatre Bornes
Mauritius
Tel: (230) 4544991 Fax: (230) 4673801
Website: www.rbs.ac.mu

Workshop

Advances in Marketing Decision Models

May 27, 2006 (Saturday after EMAC)
Athens, Greece

Athens University of Economics and Business

In the workshop, the authors of chapters in the forthcoming Handbook of Marketing Decision Models (Springer Science + Business Media) will present their contributions. The workshop will be also attended by other marketing scholars and by marketing practitioners.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Greek Marketing Academy

Chairpersons

Berend Wierenga
Editor of the Handbook of Marketing Decision Models, and RSM Erasmus University

Dominique Hanssens
Executive Director, Marketing Science Institute (MSI), and UCLA Anderson School of Management

Venue: Hotel Divani Caravel (same as for the EMAC Conference)

Registration
Participation in the Workshop is free and there is a limit of 60 participants. There is a fee for the (optional) dinner ($95 USD, approximately € 80). Participants should register for the Workshop through the MSI website http://www.msi.org/links/meetings.cfm). Any questions may be directed to meetings@msi.org.

The following contributions will be presented:

Morning Program 9.00-12.30

9.00-9.30 “Models for Customer Relationship Management”
Werner Reinartz (INSEAD) and Rajkumar Venkatesan (University of Connecticut)

9.30 -10.00 “Interactive Consumer Decision Aids: Butlers for the Masses”
Gerald Häubl (University of Alberta) and Kyle Murray (University of Western Ontario)

10.00-10.30 “Developments in Conjoint Analysis”
Vithala Rao (Cornell University)

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-11.30 “Advertising Models”
Peter Danaher (University of Auckland)

11.30-12.00 “Sales Promotion Models”
Harald van Heerde (University of Tilburg) and Scott Neslin (Dartmouth College)

12.00-12.30 “Models for Sales Management”
Sönke Albers (University of Kiel) and Murali Mantrala (University of Missouri)

Lunch 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Program 13.30 – 17.00

13.30-14.00 “Time Series Modeling in Marketing”
Marnik Dekimpe (University of Tilburg & Catholic University of Leuven), Philip Hans Franses (Erasmus University),
Dominique Hanssens (Marketing Science Institute & UCLA), and Prasad Naik (UC Davis)

14.00-14.30 “Artificial Neural Nets in Marketing”
Harald Hruschka (University of Regensburg)

14.30-15.00 “Decision Models for the Pharmaceutical Industry”
Venky Shankar (Texas A&M University) and Marc Fischer (University of Kiel)

15.00-15.30 Break

15.30-16.00 “Marketing Performance Effects Models”
Dominique Hanssens (Marketing Science Institute & UCLA) and
Marnik Dekimpe (University of Tilburg & Catholic University of Leuven)

16.00-16.30 “Marketing Engineering: Connecting Models with Practice”
Gary Lilien and Arvind Rangaswamy (Pennsylvania State University)

16.30-17.00 “The Success of Marketing Management Support Systems”
Gerrit van Bruggen and Berend Wierenga (RSM Erasmus University)

Drinks

Dinner

Other contributions to the Handbook of Marketing Decision Models

Not all the authors of the book are able to attend the workshop. In addition to the work that will be presented at the Athens Workshop, the Handbook of Marketing Decision Models will contain the following chapters:

“Models for Electronic Commerce” by Randy Bucklin (UCLA)

“Decision Models for the Motion Picture Industry” by Jehoshua Eliashberg (The Wharton School) and Charles Weinberg (University of British Columbia)

“Competition Models” by Peter Leeflang (University of Groningen)

“Models for Customer Value” by Don Lehmann and Sunil Gupta (Columbia University)

1st Mitteldeutsches Marketing Forum
May 9-10, 2006, Erfurt, Germany

The 1st Mitteldeutsches Marketing Forum will take place in Erfurt on May 9th/10th.
The forum will be organised by the
Institut für angewandte Marketing- und Kommunikationsforschung GmbH
Mainzerhofplatz 14
99084 Erfurt
Germany
Telefon 0361/ 663 90 0
www.imk-erfurt.de

and

Diemar, Jung & Zapfe
Werbeagentur GmbH,
Richard-Breslau-Straße 3,
99094 Erfurt
Germany.

Subject of the forum will be "Efficient Marketing and Communication".

The Future of Distribution Channels Research Conference is to be held at the Jon M. Huntsman Hall of the Wharton School (3730 Walnut Street), May 18—19, 2006.

As the program indicates, the conference brings together established and rising scholars whose research spans a variety of problems and perspectives on channel management as well as accomplished practitioners who have extensive, high-level channel management experiences. We are well on our way to meeting our objectives of (a) broadening the scope of problems addressed by channel research, (b) expanding the methods being used to investigate channel problems, (c) developing an “organic research community” of channel scholars, and (d) integrating pieces of the “channels puzzle.” It promises to be a stimulating event for academic scholars and devoted practitioners alike in a glorious new building for Wharton.

To register for the conference, please fill out the form on the last page and send with check payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
Please mail form and check to:

Overnight accommodations: Please mention the INFORMS conference when making your reservation as we have special rates and a block of rooms.

The Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom St.; Phone # 215-222-0200; rate: $185 (one block away from the conference building).
Sheraton University City Hotel, 3549 Chestnut St.; phone # 215-387-8000; rate: $159 (3 blocks away). These rates and blocks will be honored until April 15th.

Intermediary: The Case of Disguising One’s Product”
Discussant: Ganesh Iyer (University of California, Berkeley)

• Paul Messinger & Keri Kettle (University of Alberta) “Towards a Framework for Channel Evolution: The Structure and Institutions of the Motion Picture Channel”
• Martin Koschat (Time/Warner Retail Sales and Marketing) “Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence from Magazine Retailing”
• Liang Guo (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) & Yunchuan Liu (University of California at Riverside) “A Strategic Analysis of Channel Expansion”

11:15—11:30 Break
11:30—12:30 Sreekumar Bhaskaran & Stephen Gilbert (University of Texas) “Strategic Implications of Intermediaries Upon Leasing and Selling of Durable Goods”
Discussant: Miguel Villas-Boas (University of California, Berkeley)

12:30—1:30 Lunch
1:30—2:30 Eyal Biyalogorsky (University of California, Davis) & Oded Koenigsberg (Columbia University) “Lead Time, Uncertainty, and Channel Decision Making”
Discussant: Anne Coughlan (Northwestern University)

2:30—2:45 Break
2:45—3:45 Yan Dong (University of Minnesota) & Martin Dresner (University of Maryland)& Venky Shankar (Texas A&M University) “Delegation and Consignment in Distribution Channels”
Discussant: S. Chan Choi (Rutgers University)

• Georges Zaccour (GERAD & HEC--Montreal) “On Coordination of Dynamic Marketing Channels and Two-Part Wholesale Tariff”
• Desmond Lo, Mrinal Ghosh & Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan) “Risk, Incentives, and Selection in Salesforce Compensation Contracts”
• Liyuan Wei, Sridhar Moorthy & Mengze Shi (University of Toronto) “Manufacturers’ Choice of Ingredient Supplier: Branded vs. Generic Ingredients”

SEEMAR06
The 3rd International South East European Marketing Research Conference
May 25-26, 2006, Madlenianum, Belgrade

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to join the company of modern, proactive businesspersons oriented towards the future.

Share the knowledge with successful people and take the active part either:

As a PARTICIPANT at the Conference
As an AUTHOR at the Conference
As an EXHIBITOR at SEEMAR 06 Fair
As a SPONSOR of the Conference

SEEMAR 06, an international marketing event, deserves your attention.

For more information visit our internet presentation www.seemar.org.yu or contact us.

Sincerely,

Nikolina Vuèetiæ
Executive director

15th Annual World Business Congress
June 18-21, 2006, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The 15th Annual World Business Congress is to be held at the Sarajevo Graduate School of Business, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 18-21 2006. Papers are invited by April 14.

Full details are available on http://www.imda.cc

Papers relating to the Euro Marketing and Management Track may be sent to:

Professor Stan Paliwoda
Professor of Marketing
Director of Research
Department of Marketing
University of Strathclyde
Stenhouse Building
173 Cathedral Street
Glasgow G4 0RQ
tel: 0141 548 5843
fax:0141 552 2802
Email: stan.paliwoda@strath.ac.uk

ISBM B-to-B Biannual Academic Meeting
August 3 - 4, 2006

(Just before 2006 Summer AMA Conference in Chicago)

Theme: Thinking Big, Thinking Different: Contributions and Challenges in B-to-B Research

Venue: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management Conference Center

Conference Objectives:

• Develop new ideas and new ways to address the most pressing issues at the interface of the B-to-B academic and practitioner communities
• Generate new research approaches and ideas to address these ideas
• Provide a forum for interaction amongst the world's leading B-to-B researchers

Special Feature: Up to $100,000 in research awards ..see

Academic/Practitioner Challenge: http://www.smeal.psu.edu/isbm/seminars/acachal06.html

Sponsors

• Penn State University's Institute for the Study of Business Markets
• Marketing Science Institute
• Georgia State University's Center for Industrial and Business Marketing
• Emory University's Zyman Institute for Brand Science
• Northwestern University's Center for Research in Technology & Innovation

To submit abstracts, special session proposals or to register see:

http://www.smeal.psu.edu/isbm/seminars/aca06.html

For other information, contact Conference Co-Chair Rajdeep Grewal: rug2@psu.edu

Haute école de gestion Arc de Neuchâtel organises,
in partnership with the chair ACME of Bordeaux Business School

The 1st Workshop Arts, Culture & Management in Europe
« Which Marketing for Cultural Organisations in Europe? »

Friday, September 15th 2006, in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

In presence of Mr Jean-Frédéric Jauslin
Director of the Office fédéral de la culture from Switzerland

Call for papers

Cultural organisations in Europe are undergoing drastic changes. They face an increasingly fleeting and demanding public, which allocates its growing leisure time among an abundant offer. But these organisations are also undergoing more constraining rules of management and new performance criteria
which accompany the amazing development of their supply. As a consequence, they adopt new marketing practices.

These observations serve as a backdrop for the upcoming workshop. The organisers wish to make this event a privileged opportunity for professionals of cultural organisations and European academics to meet. Special attention will be devoted to innovative marketing strategies, sharing new experiences and
establishing research networks. It is for these reasons that the organisers extend a special invitation to professionals as well as to emerging researchers to submit a proposal. In order to stimulate productive discussions, the number of papers and participants will be deliberately limited.

Scientific Committee

• Mr Roger Bennett, London Metropolitan University (GB)
• Ms. Michelle Bergadàa, HEC Genève (CH)
• Ms. Corinne Berneman, ESC Saint-Etienne (F)
• Ms. Dominique Bourgeon-Renault, Université de Franche-Comté and Université de Bourgogne (F)
• Ms. Antonella Carù, Université Bocconi (I)
• Mr François Colbert, HEC Montréal (CDN)
• Mr François Courvoisier, HEG Arc Neuchâtel (CH), coordinator
• Mr Guido De Brabander, Universiteit Antwerpen Management School (B)
• Mr Yves Evrard, HEC Paris (F)
• Mr Marc Filser, Université de Bourgogne (F)
• Ms. Anne Gombault, Bordeaux Ecole de Management (F)
• M. Rolf Keller, Université de Bâle (CH)
• Mme Catherine Morel, Audencia Nantes Ecole de Management (F) and Sotheby's Institute of Art (GB)
• Mr Andrea Moretti, Università degli Studi di Udine et Università Ca’ Foscari (I)
• Ms. Christine Petr, Université de Rennes I (F)
• M. Thomas Schmutz, Université de Neuchâtel (CH)
• Mr Paul Taylor, Fachhochschule Furtwangen (D)
• Ms. Liisa Uusitalo, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (SF)
• Ms. Nelly van der Geest, Utrecht School of the Arts (NL)
  

Organising Committee

• Mr François Courvoisier Professor, Haute école de gestion Arc de Neuchâtel
• Ms. Corinne Berneman Professor, ESC Saint-Etienne
• Ms. Dominique Bourgeon-Renault Professor, Université de Franche-Comté
• Ms. Fabienne Courvoisier Researcher, Haute école de gestion Arc de Neuchâtel
• Ms. Anne Gombault Holder of the ACME chair, Bordeaux Ecole de Management
  

Paper Selection Procedure
Paper proposals will be evaluated in a double-blind procedure, based on a 2-3 page abstract, which must
indicate the objectives of the paper, main theoretical, methodological, or operational contributions.
Selection criteria are based primarily on the innovative or operational character of the issues rather than
academic quality. Practitioners and researchers from countries having recently joined the European Union
are especially encouraged to send a proposal.

Proposals must be sent by electronic mail in Word format and include a title page indicating the names,
affiliation, postal address and electronic address of the authors to:

Ms. Fabienne Courvoisier at: fabienne.courvoisier@he-arc.ch

Deadlines
Deadline for sending abstract: May 15th 2006
Notification to authors: June 15th 2006
Submission of full paper: September 1st 2006

Publications
Papers selected will be published in the Proceedings of the workshop that will be distributed to
participants. Best papers will also be published in a special edition of the French journal Espaces,
tourisme & loisirs.

Venue of the Workshop
Haute école de gestion Arc
50, rue de Sainte-Hélène
CH-2009 Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 889 69 96
Fax +41 32 889 60 33
www.he-arc.ch

Practical Information
Registration Fee: 150 CHF or 100 €
This fee includes coffee breaks, lunch as well as a copy of the Workshop proceedings.

Hotel Reservations:
Rooms have been pre-booked at the Hôtel des Arts and Hôtel Alpes et Lac for a preferential rate for workshop participants (mention « HEG Arc » when booking)

Hôtel Alpes et Lac
Place de la Gare 2
CH- 2002 Neuchâtel
t. +41 32 723 19 19
f. +41 32 723 19 20
Web site www.alpesetlac.ch
E-mail hotel@alpesetlac.ch
Single room starting at 146 CHF (~ 95 €), includes buffet breakfast (service and taxes included)

Hôtel des Arts
Rue Pourtalès 3
CH- 2001 Neuchâtel
t. +41 32 727 61 61
f. +41 32 727 61 62
Web site www.hotel-des-arts.ch
E-mail info@hotel-des-arts.ch
Single room starting at 115 CHF (~ 75 €), includes buffet breakfast (service and taxes included)

Informal dinners have been organised for both Thursday 14th and Friday 15th September where participants will be able to have a taste of local specialties.
For further information, please contact:
Fabienne.Courvoisier@he-arc.ch
tel. +41 32 889 46 58

The chair ACME of Bordeaux Business School
The ACME Chair (Arts, Culture & Management in Europe) has been created in September 2004 by
Bordeaux Business School, with the aim to produce and share knowledge research in the field of arts
management in Europe. A network of twelve researchers from different European institutions is actively
engaged in research projects. These projects are organised around three audiences: academic
community, students, artistic and cultural organisations as well as companies which develop relationships
with these organisations

Haute école de gestion Arc de Neuchâtel
HEG Haute école de gestion Arc is part of Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale, a network of
higher learning institutions in the fields of management, engineering, industrial design and social-health.
As an applied sciences university, HEG Arc positions itself in the fields of arts management and territorial
marketing thanks to the involvement of a number of its researchers.

The Dynamics of Brand, Corporate Image, Identity & Reputation in the Knowledge Economies
2nd Annual Colloquium: the AM’s Brand and Corporate Reputation SIG
A Feeder Colloquium for Special Edition of European Journal of Marketing

September 7th – 8th 2006, at The Manchester Business School
University of Manchester, UK

General Information
The Brand, Identity and Corporate Reputation SIG is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Academy of Marketing (AM) in the UK. Our SIG’s Annual Colloquium is an important forum for presenting current research output and intellectual exchange. The goal for the 2006 Colloquium is to create a program that highlights topics with the potential to enhance the impact of Branding, Identity, Corporate Reputation and other Brand related scholarship on marketing and Business practice, public policy, and society at large. We feel that this objective is best served by careful scholarship, combined with rigorous, open and frank discussion of the implications of such scholarship for these three substantive domains. Thus, we encourage authors to present their best work at the colloquium, whether applied, theoretical, or methodological in orientation.

Submission Information
Papers are invited that present evidence of empirical investigations, explore new theoretical perspectives, suggest practical implications of existing theory, apply new tools to Brand Marketing, provide insights for research drawn from marketing practice and consumer behaviour, highlight advances in critical discourse, and/or insightfully synthesize one or more important bodies of literature relevant to Brand Marketing. Papers related to the conference theme of “The Dynamics of Brand, Corporate Image, Identity & Reputation in the Knowledge Economy” are especially encouraged.

In order to encourage colleagues to submit and present their best work at the conference, authors have the option of developing their works for consideration in a special edition of European Journal of Marketing. In addition, papers will be published in the ISBN numbered conference proceeding.

Please note that all submissions must be both in hard copy form (one copy) and in electronic form and must be directed to the address below.

The following pages provide detailed submission instructions for abstracts and papers.
The deadline for receipt of abstract is 21st March 2006.
Deadline for the full paper is 27th of June, 2006.

Awards at the Conference
Awards will be presented at the Conference for the Outstanding Doctoral Paper, plus the most prestigious award at the Conference - the Best Paper in Conference Award. A panel will select the award-winning papers based on nominations from the reviewers

A Special Invitation to Doctoral Students - Doctoral students are invited to submit Abstract and Work-in-progress and invited to attend the colloquium.

Procedures for Papers Submissions

Original papers are sought for presentation at the conference. The primary submission requirements are that the research be of high quality and that the manuscript not be currently under review, accepted for publication, or published elsewhere. Authors of accepted manuscripts must agree to register for the Conference and to appear at the Conference to present their work. A Discussant will critique each session’s papers. Authors of accepted papers will have the option of having their work reviewed for publication in a top marketing journal and in the Colloquium Proceedings, which will be available at the Conference.

Papers submitted for the colloquium will be evaluated using a double-blind procedure. Selection criteria include the general quality of the paper, the clarity of presentation within the paper, and the contribution of the paper to the understanding of Brand Marketing phenomena.

1. Please submit Abstract and full-papers in both hard copy form (one copy) and electronic form.

2. Send the abstract, on or before 21st March 2006, full paper on or before 27th of June 2006.

3. Prepare electronic documents in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. The electronic submission, of Abstract and Full papers, by e-mail attachment must be received by the SIG-Coordinator, Dr Temi Abimbola by 21st of March, 2006; 27th of June, 2006 Respectively.

4. Please plan your timetable for preparation and submission accordingly.

5. Full-paper submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that indicates the intention to publish the paper, if accepted. In your cover letter, please include complete contact information for all authors including name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. For the electronic version, the cover letter should be written into an e-mail message with the accompanying paper as an attachment as specified above.

6. Confirmation that your paper was received will be delivered via e-mail.

7. Submitted papers – including references, exhibits, and appendices – must not exceed 6,000 words and 15 double-spaced, word-processed pages prepared in 12-point font. Details regarding word processing of the final version for publication in the Proceedings will be provided later to authors whose papers have been accepted.

8. Because all papers will be reviewed using a double-blind procedure, author name(s) should appear only on the title page. Authors should avoid revealing their identities in the body or reference section of the paper. All identifying information associated with the digital version of the manuscript will be deleted prior to review to preserve anonymity.

9. Place the title of the paper, but not the author name(s), at the top of the next page, followed by a single-spaced abstract not exceeding 100 words. The remainder of the paper should be double-spaced and conform to the manuscript guidelines of the European Journal of Marketing).

10. Papers submitted for publication in the Proceedings as abstracts or as complete papers must not currently be under review, accepted for publication, or published elsewhere.

11. If your paper is accepted, at least one author must agree to (a) appear at the conference to present the paper and (b) return the paper or detailed abstract in the required final format on diskette by the due date to be provided later.

Colloquium Fees and Accommodation

The conference fee is £190 plus VAT (Total 223.25). The Conference fee for AM and AMA members are £170 pus VAT (199.75). The fee for Doctoral Researcher is £100.

These figures include registration fee, conference dinner on 7th of September and lunch and refreshments on 8th of September. You will also receive a Book of Abstracts and full papers on CD-ROM. Cancellations made 4 weeks or less prior to the conference will incur 50% of the full fee. This fee does not include overnight accommodation.

Marketing Dynamics Conference 2006
August 23-25, 2006
Los Angeles, California

Co-Sponsored by:
INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS)
Marketing Science Institute (MSI)
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
Columbia Business School

Organizing committee: Shuba Srinivasan, Dominique Hanssens and Randolph Bucklin

Program committee: Marnik Dekimpe, Tulin Erdem, Natalie Mizik, Prasad Naik, Koen Pauwels and Michel Wedel.

We invite all interested researchers to participate in this year’s Marketing Dynamics Conference, jointly sponsored by ISMS, the Marketing Science Institute (MSI), the University of California at Riverside, Columbia Business School and UCLA to be held from Wednesday, August 23, 2006 through Friday, August 25th, 2006 at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This mini-conference builds on the last year’s conference hosted by the University of California, Davis and the first conference at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. The purpose of this meeting is to
provide a setting for academic researchers interested in marketing dynamics to meet and discuss research in this area for an extended period, exchange ideas, and engage in collaborative work. The conference begins with a reception on Wednesday. The conference research program commences with a keynote address by Nobel Laureate, Sir Clive Granger of UC San Diego on Thursday, followed by research presentations by faculty and doctoral students, as well as discussion sessions, on Thursday and Friday.

Detailed information is posted on the conference website (please see link below).

Papers
You can participate either as an attendee or presenter. If you are interested in presenting your research, please email a two-page abstract to Prof. Shuba Srinivasan (shuba.srinivasan@ucr.edu) by May 1, 2006. Your presentation (approx. 30 minutes) will be followed by discussions (about 15 minutes) with the other participants. The topics will focus on marketing phenomena involving dynamic outcomes, actions, or processes (e.g., Bayesian learning, dynamic structural models, Hidden Markov models, time-series approaches, dynamic competitive games, dynamics in consumer learning, brand and corporate equity, customer management, or market response). The papers to be presented will be selected by the organizing committee based on quality, relevance to marketing dynamics, and diversity of topics discussed. In addition, papers written by junior faculty will receive preferential consideration. A completed manuscript of the paper to be presented at the meeting should be available by August 15, 2006.

Lodging and Transportation
The following is a list of hotels that will be available to you during your stay for the Marketing Dynamics Conference, August 23-25, 2006. We have blocked off a group of rooms with each hotel, EXCEPT the W Hotel. When making your reservation please inform them that you are with the group for the “UCLA Marketing Dynamics Conference.”
**Please note that all reservations must be made by July 17, 2006, in order to guarantee you a room.

1. UCLA Guest House
330 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1466
(310) 825-2923
www.guesthouse.ucla.edu
$105./per night (includes a queen bed, and continental breakfast)
$110./per night (includes a queen bed/kitchenette, and continental breakfast)
(The UCLA Guest House is located on the north end of campus and is the closest in walking distance between the Faculty Center and the Anderson School.)

2. Hilgard House Hotel
927 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 205-3945
www.hilgardhouse.com
$119./per night (includes a continental breakfast)
(The Hilgard House is a moderate walk onto campus, located in Westwood, across from the W Hotel; Shuttle service will be provided.)

3. UCLA Tiverton House
900 Tiverton Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-3013
(310) 794-0151
www.tivertonhouse.ucla.edu
$120./per night (includes a continental breakfast)
(The UCLA Tiverton House is closest to Westwood Village, located on the south end of campus; Shuttle service will be provided.)

4. W Hotel – Westwood
930 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 208-8765
www.whotels.com
$225./per night (must mention UCLA rate!)
(The W Hotel is located across the street from the Hilgard House, so shuttle service will be provided. We have not blocked off a set of rooms at this hotel, so if you choose to stay there please call them ASAP, and remember to request the UCLA Anderson School rate.)

Registration
The conference registration fee is US $295 before July 1, 2006. Late registration fee is US $350 (July 2 - August 15, 2006). To register for this conference, download the registration form from the MSI website and follow the instructions. The registration fee will be waived for all the attending PhD students. In addition, a limited number of financial grants are available for qualifying doctoral students who will present their research.
For details, please check the conference website http://www.msi.org/msi/meetings.cfm.

Ninth Retail Strategy and Consumer Decision Research Seminar
of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA)
(Nashville, Tenn., November 1st , 2006)

CALL FOR PAPERS

A one-day special topics in retailing seminar will be held prior to the Society for Marketing Advances Annual Meeting to held November 1st, 2006 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Research papers relating to one of these two tracks are solicited:
- Retail strategy formulation and implementation
- Consumer decision process related to the choice of retail organizations

The key characteristics of the seminar are:
- Limited number of participants (fewer than 25)
- Selected papers are eligible to be published in a special section of the Journal of Business Research following the seminar review process.
- High caliber papers
- Highly reputed speakers including a keynote address.
- Ph.D. students are invited to participate.

Location and Program
The seminar will be held in Nashville, TN, the Country Music capital of the world. Research paper presentations, workshops and other keynote presentations will highlight the conference. The seminar attracts a diverse and international audience. Special sessions on retailing outside North America are highly encouraged.

Topics
1. Strategy Formulation and Implementation in Retail Organizations.
Papers related to strategy formulation and/or implementation are invited. Submissions dealing with competitive positioning, industrial retailing, 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, 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?

Deadline for Paper Submissions
June 30, 2006

Special Sessions and Workshops
Robert A. Robicheaux
Marshall Scholar and ChairDepartment of Mgt., Mkt, and IDUAB
1150 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4460,
USA
Telephone (205) 934-4648
Fax (205) 934-0058
Rrobiche@cba.ua.edu

Consumer Decision Track
Jean-Charles Chebat
GECSeC Chair Prof.
HEC Montréal
5540 avenue Louis-Colin
Montréal (Qc).CANADA H2T 3A7
tel: 1-514-340-6846
fax: 1-514-340-6097
jean-charles.chebat@hec.ca

Retail Management Employee Behavior Track
Barry Babin
Professor of Marketing and Chair
University of Southern Mississippi College of Business
Hattiesburg MS 39406,
USA
Telephone (601) 266-4629
Fax (601) 266-4630
barry.babin@usm.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Submit manuscripts, special session proposals and workshop descriptions to the respective track chairs. Submit special sessions

2. Submit your manuscript electronically

on or before June 30, 2006

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

4. Manuscripts should not exceed 7,000 words in total.

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

6. Manuscripts should not have been previously published.

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

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND MARKETING ACADEMY

ANZMAC 2006 Conference

4-6 December 2006, Brisbane

Hosted by: The School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations,

Queensland University of Technology

Date: 4-6 December 2006 (Monday - Wednesday)

Venue: Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane

In 2006, the conference theme Advancing Theory, Maintaining Relevance challenges participants to break new ground and explore concepts in marketing, while demonstrating a strong connection to practice. ANZMAC 2006 brings together academics and practitioners to generate ideas, share knowledge, increase mutual understanding and build synergies across academe and industry.

A number of features in 2006 reflect the theme of Advancing Theory, Maintaining Relevance.

Along with a broad selection of conference tracks, the program includes breakfast roundtable discussions, poster displays, and academic and industry leaders as keynote and panel speakers. The theme is reinforced across all tracks as papers submitted must address the conference theme and reviewers will provide a score on relevance to theme during the review process.

The vibrant and energetic city of Brisbane in subtropical Queensland provides the ideal setting for a conference that will foster a spirit of collaboration and participation.

Conference Participation Opportunities

There are many ways to participate in the ANZMAC 2006 Conference, including those listed below. Information will be posted over the coming months as details are finalised.

Multiple tracks

Competitive papers and discussants to comment on papers presented at selected sessions.

Plenary sessions

Practitioners and academic speakers to discuss key marketing issues relevant to theory and practice in today's climate.

Breakfast Roundtables

Group discussion with focus on issues relating to relevance of theory and practice.

Poster Session

Session for doctoral and other students to showcase their research relating to the conference theme.

Queensland Marketing Event

Showcase of marketing departments by Queensland universities.

Research Symposium

Joint EMAC-ANZMAC Symposium stimulating the exchange of ideas on emerging, new and innovative research and findings of relevance to marketing academics and practitioners.

It's never too early to start making plans to attend the ANZMAC 2006 Conference. Start thinking about how you would like to participate.

Please visit this website frequently for updated conference information.

http://www.anzmac2006.qut.edu.au/