ICEBM 2019: International Conference on Evidence Based Management Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Pilani, India, February 1-2, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/pilani/ICEBM2019/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icebm2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | December 12, 2018 |
Submission deadline | December 12, 2018 |
Last date for early bird registration | December 16, 2018 |
Last date for regular registration | December 28, 2018 |
In recent decades, a great deal of scientific research has been carried out involving issues relevant to management practices. Evidence Based Management means making decisions based on best accessible facts, that is, scientific findings and unbiased organizational facts. This is an emerging area in management which is based on critical thinking and best available contemporary and optimal evidence to explicitly use them in management and decision making process. This field of study has emerged from empiricism with the aim of applying scientific method to improve managerial decision making process.
The aim of this conference is to provide a platform to the researchers, scholars, academicians and practitioners from different part of the globe to discuss various methods of evidence based management. The conference will focus on various techniques and methodologies along with their application to provide some concrete evidences for better managerial decision making. Further, this conference will also provide the opportunity to interact with some of the renowned experts in the domain of management and other scholars from different parts of the world.
Submission Guidelines
The conference aims to facilitate deliberation on the importance and usage of evidence based management in Manufacturing, Health, Banking & Finance, IT / ITES, and Education in the area of Marketing, Finance & Economics, Operations, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management & Business Policy and Information Technology Management.
Interested participants should send their extended abstract by midnight of 1 Nov 2018 (IST) to icebm2019@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in. While submitting your paper, please mention in the subject line Industry and Area of specialization. Thus, the subject line should look similar to “Abstract: Industry Vertical - Area of Specialization” (e.g. “Abstract: Banking & Finance - Information Technology Management”).
Only a single file should be submitted for any particular paper. All submissions will go through blind review process. Hence, interested participants should not leave any identification opportunity in their submitted extended abstracts. Kindly remove all author information and document property from the submitted file.
All submissions should be accompanied by a cover page, which will be the first page of the submitted file. It will contain the title of the paper, name, designation, affiliation and contact details (physical address, landline / mobile number, e-mail ID) of all the authors. If you wish to acknowledge the contribution of anybody else apart from the authors, please mention the same at the bottom of the cover page. In the second page, please mention the title of the paper only, followed by the main text.
The extended abstract should contain section on the abstract of the paper (not more than 300 words), keywords describing the paper, introduction section, literature review along with hypotheses (if any), conceptual model, methodology, result, discussion, limitation, conclusion and references (and appendix, if needed).
Please follow the below mentioned guidelines while submitting your extended abstract.
· Page size: 8 ½ X 11 inch (single column only)
· Font family: Times New Roman
· Font size: 12
· Line spacing: 2
· Alignment: Justified
· Border: 1 inch on all sides
· File format: .doc / .docx / .pdf
· Citations and References: Academy of Management Journal Guidelines
· Page number: Upper right corner of each page
In case you need guidance in formatting the citations and references for your submission, please visit http://aom.org/publications/amj/styleguide/ and download the file.
Insert the images and figures where they are supposed to be in the final version of the paper.
You are advised to limit the headings to three levels. All headings should be boldfaced.
· Main headings: All capital letters, centred
· Second-level headings: Title style letters, left aligned
· Third-level headings: First letter of first word capitalized; indented; italicized; and run into paragraph
Please do not skip any level of heading before using a lower level. Any heading in the second or the third level should be used only when there are multiple such headings under their immediate higher level of heading.
Kindly use footnotes on respective pages. Use footnotes as less as possible.
If your paper contains hypothesis, please state each hypothesis separately, written in present tense. Use indentation and italicised font for hypotheses.
Kindly use abbreviations only after you have mentioned the full form earlier in the text along with the abbreviated form in the first bracket. Names of organizations should be written in full the first time they are mentioned. Name of highly popular software, tools or techniques may be used in abbreviated form.
Please ensure that the figures, images and tables are legible and are of high quality. Tables, figures and images should have titles and a short description. Write the titles along with the number, which should be consecutively increased for each type. This should be followed by a colon and a substantive title for each. The title of tables should be mentioned at the top, whereas the same for figures and images should be at the bottom. Authors are requested not to use colour in their tables, figures and images, to the extent it is possible. All tables, images and figures should be referred in the main body of the text.
If needed, you may use appendices, which should be titled “Appendix A”, “Appendix B” etc. followed by a colon and a substantive title.
Interested participants are suggested to download a sample paper from the “Download” section of this website.
Participants should ensure that the submitted abstracts are their original work and have not been published in any form (hard copy or soft copy) earlier. If the extended abstract has already been submitted to any other journal or conference, the same should not be available in any format before ICEBM 2019.
Failing to adhere to the guidelines may make your submission liable for rejection.
Committees
Program Committee
1. Prof. Jyoti Tikoria (Chair)
2. Prof. Anil K. Bhat
3. Dr. Nirankush Dutta
4. Dr. Rajesh Matai
5. Dr. Satyendra Sharma
6. Dr. Saurabh Chadha
Organizing committee
1. Dr. Arun Kumar
2. Dr. Jayashree Mahesh
3. Dr. Jyoti Tikoria
4. Dr. Neetu Yadav
5. Dr. Pratyush Banerjee
6. Dr. Praveen Goyal
7. Dr. R. Raghunathan
8. Dr. Udayan Chanda
Executive Assistants
1. Mr. Omkar Sahoo
2. Mr. Dilawar Ahmad Bhat
3. Ms. Bhanu Mishra
4. Mr. Himanshu Seth
5. Mr. Victor Saha
6. Ms. Ritika Khanna
Contact
All queeries related to the conference should be emailed to
Dr. Saurabh Chadha
Department of Management,
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Phone: +91-7017584058/01596-515334
Email: icebm2019@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in