About the Conference
ABSRC is an important international gathering of business and business-related sciences
scholars and educators. ABSRC 2013 Venice will take place in conference facilities (the
venue hotel is Novotel Venezia Mestre) located in Venice, Italy.
Topics
Business and business-related issues are covered including the following topic groups:
Business strategy
Change management and organizational development
Conflict management
Critical management
Economic growth
Entrepreneurship
Gender, diversity and social issues
Human resource management and career development
Humanities and arts and business
Industry, area or region specific studies
Industrial organization
International business
Language in organizations
Law and business
Macroeconomics
Management consulting
Management education, training and development
Managerial and organizational cognition and psychology
Marketing and consumer behavior
Microeconomics
Natural sciences and business
Organizational behavior
Organizational information and communication systems
Organizations and financing
Politics and business
Production and operations management
Research methods
Social sciences and business
Technology and innovation management

Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be accepted until December 14, 2012 (papers). All submissions must be
entirely original, not previously published, and must not be under concurrent consideration or scheduled for presentation elsewhere. All papers must be submitted electronically by sending an e-mail to the conference chair (chair@absrc.org).
All submissions must be typed, single spaced with 2.5 cm or one-inch margins using 12 point Times New Roman font in a single MS Word file. All submissions must include a Title, Authors (names, affiliations, e-mails of all authors and a notation (*) of the corresponding author), an Abstract (no more than 150 words) and 3-5 Keywords and 1-3 Topic Groups. Paper submissions should not exceed 12 pages, including the Abstract, text body (Introduction, Theory, Methods, Findings, Discussion, Conclusions and Implications), Tables, Figures and References.
All paper submissions must include a discussion, which addresses the contribution of the
author’s work to the advancement of business and business-related science and practice in the
Conclusions and Implications section.
All submissions will be reviewed. Selections can be also based on preliminary submissions of
abstracts; paper submissions are preferred. Selection for inclusion in the conference program will be based upon quality, originality, and relevance, in the judgment of the review process.
Accepted submissions will be published in the ABSRC 2013 Proceedings. Specific
formatting requirements are provided in the paper layout section. Selected papers may be
considered for publication in selected academic journals.
Authors submitting papers agree that if accepted at least one author will attend the conference. In the extraordinary case of non-attendance, the corresponding author registered to the conference will receive the proceedings and the proofs of conference participation by mail.

Stand: 19.12.2012