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ACADEMIA AND ENTERPRISE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA

The official languages of CLADEA 2009 are Spanish, Portuguese and English, and so they are for the presentation of papers, bibliography and quotations. The papers must follow the rules established by the Modern Language Association MLA. All papers will be evaluated by specialists in each track, and in accordance to the “blind review” method. Those papers accepted and presented by their author/s at the Assembly will be published in the Congress´ Memoirs.
A selection of the best papers will be published in a special edition of ACADEMIA journal – Revista Latinoamericana de Administración (indexed No. 382007 by Thomson Reuters in Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Scisearch and Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition).
It is important to emphasize that the papers must be unedited and have to be inserted in the following tracks:

I

EDUCATION IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS

II

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONS

III

ECONOMY FOR DEVELOPMENT

IV

TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

V

SOCIAL CAPITAL AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

VI

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

VII

GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS

I          EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS
•           The best teaching and research practices in Business Schools at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
•          Business Schools and the challenges of the future.
•          Tools and experiences to increase efficiency and productivity of professors.
•          Evaluation and remuneration systems for professors.
•          Ethical parameters regarding the offerings of Business Schools.
•          Maintaining “Product and Brand” of Business Schools in a globalised world.

II         MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONS.
(PRIVATE  OR PUBLIC)
•          Strategies in organisations.
•          Corporate governance.
•          Managing investments in emerging markets.
•          Financial institutions of control, development and investments.
•          Consumer satisfaction.

III       ECONOMY FOR DEVELOPMENT
•          The insertion of the informal sector in the economy.
•           Organisations and actors of the informal sector interacting with the formal sector.
•          Models of micro-finance.
•          Micro-entrepreneurs as agents for development.
•          Productive chains and association.
•          Generating employment in the informal sector.
•           The role of Business Schools as promoters of development in the informal sector and micro-enterprises.

IV       TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.
•           Socio-cultural impacts of technological systems and information.

•          Decision making process.
•          The impact of introducing or not introducing technology in Latin America.
•          The social cost due to technological progress in Latin America.
•          Impact of the research on technology for development.
•          Technology transfer mechanisms.

V         SOCIAL CAPITAL.
•          Assessing social reality, individual or group, using new methods of project evaluation.
•          New index to measure local development.
•           The articulation of processes (values, norms and participation) aiming at social and economic results.

VI       SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
•          Responsibility in commerce and industry.
•          Social and environmental management.
•           Progress of Agenda 21, United Nations Environment and Development Conference.
•          Increased effectiveness and cleaner methods of production.
•          Articulating sustainable development policies within local socio-territorial areas.

VII      GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS
•          Latin American integration and globalisation.
•          Asia Pacific relations and the Pacific Basin.
•          Economic and commercial blocks.
•          Benchmarking, European Integration in relation to Latin America.
•           Strategies for designing and implementing bilateral academic agreements with international associates. Models, experiences and innovation.
•           Instruments and mechanisms for implementing a standard system regarding academic degrees and qualifications.

Format Structure


Paper Size

A4(11,69” x 8,27”)

Computer programme:

MS WORD – Windows 2003 or a higher version

Font

Times New Roman 12

Character spacing:

Double (2,0)

Margins: Left, right, upper and under

1 inch.

Titles

Black, font size 16, centralized

Subtitles

Black, font size 14 in the left margin, single space

The Text must:
Not contain the name/s of the author/s
Must have the following sections:

Quantity of pages: minimum 08 (eight) and maximum 16 (sixteen), included illustrations, bibliography and notes.
The Abstract must:

Submission format
In the page of the Cladea site you will find the link to submission of papers, where you will be asked to register data related to author(s) and paper before to send it.
           Title of the Paper
           Name/s of the Author/s
           University or Organisation
           Faculty, School or Department
           Address
           Country
            E-mail/s
           Phone Numbers (country code + city code + number)
Text
Abstract orPaper

Submission of papers
The delivery options will be available at the web site of the CLADEA XLIV Annual Assembly / Guayaquil – Ecuador, from the 2th of March 2009:
http://www.upacifico.edu.ec/CLADEA2009.html 

 Important Dates


Reception of abstracts and papers:

March 2th, 2009

Closing date for abstracts:

June 5th, 2009

Disclosure abstracts evaluation results:

June 30th.  2009

Deadline reception of papers:

August 3rd, 2009

Disclosure final evaluation results:

September 16th, 2009

Registration calendar
Deadline regular registration                            September 30th, 2009
Extraordinary registration                                 October 1st, 2009

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