-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] IFKAD 2017 St. Petersburg- call for papers to the special track on resilient SMEs Datum: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:15:53 +0000 Von: Isabel Ramos iramos@dsi.uminho.pt An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
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12th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics IFKAD 2017
Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
St. Petersburg, Russia | 7-9 June 2017
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Special Track : Resilient SMEs in turbulent times -Implications for Knowledge management and organizational learning
Organizers:
Klaus North | Wiesbaden Business School, Germany Susanne Durst | University of Skövde, Sweden Isabel Ramos | University of Minho, Portugal
Gregorio Varvakis | Federal University of Santa Caterina, Brazil
Stefan Güldenberg | University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Description:
To sustain competitiveness in turbulent environments SMEs face major challenges due to their limited human, organizational and financial resources and capabilities. On the other hand, family-like structures and informal decision-making enable adaptation to turbulent environments. Therefore, SMEs need to develop resilience to withstand current crises and agility to exploit and explore opportunities provided by changes in the business environment. The track will explore the specific challenges of and possible solutions to resilience of SMEs. We invite theoretical papers, cases and pragmatic approaches from practice.
Contributions are invited to address - amongst others - the following questions:
• What makes SMEs resilient?
• What is the interrelation of resilience, agility, and dynamic capabilities of SMEs?
• Which competitive strategies contribute to resilience?
• How to measure resilience or vulnerability of SMEs?
• How can knowledge management practices and organizational learning contribute to resilience?
• How can collaboration and networks enhance resilience of SMEs?
Guidelines:
Researchers wishing to contribute are invited to submit an extended structured abstract (in MS-Word format) of 500-700 words by January 15, 2017. The abstract should address theoretical background, research objective, methodology, and results in terms of expected contribution to Knowledge Management theory and practice. Authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for both extended abstracts as well as full papers available on IFKAD site www.ifkad.org
www.ifkad.org
Important dates:
• 15 January 2017 - Abstracts Submission Deadline
• 20 February 2017 - Acceptance notification to authors
• 15 March 2017 - Early-Bird registration deadline
• 10 April 2017 - Full paper submission deadline
• 10 May 2017 - Registration deadline
• 7-9 June 2017 - Conference sessions
For any further information, please contact the conference manager at info@knowledgeasset.org