BALAS 2022 Annual Conference
Lisbon, Portugal

 June 10-13 th 2022 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 14 th., 2022

We cordially invite professors, researchers, and graduate students interested in Business and Economics Issues involving Latin and Ibero America to prepare and send their research to our BALAS 2022 Annual Conference, that will be held at the Carcavelos Campus of NOVA School of Business and Economics, in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal. The event will be conducted both on site and online, according to local and global sanitary guidelines.

The prevailing aspiration of business is performance, while that of society is progress. However, business organizations worldwide have been increasingly interested in becoming a force for good, giving rise to initiatives such as the B Corps or the United Nations (UN) Global Compact. The challenges opposing the social and environmental concerns to the financial profitability can thus be seen from a paradoxical lens, in a way to better understand how organizations can simultaneously address these apparent contradictory demands.

In LATAM, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been a growing priority for business leaders. Indeed, the number of LATAM participants in the UN Global Compact is only second to Europe when compared to other world regions, and yet its growth rate has been above the global average. To discuss this field of research, we suggest the exploration of answers to questions such as:

• How do leaders and organisations deal with paradoxical demands?

• What measures are being put in place to tackle both societal and profitability challenges?

Special Conference Tracks

• Embracing paradoxes: Organizational performance and societal progress
• Societal progress and Business School impact: Challenges for Business Higher Education and Management

General Tracks:

Accounting, Taxation & Mgmt. Control Systems	Information Systems, BI, Technology & Operations Mgmt.
Consumer Behavior	Management, HRM & OB
Corporate Finance	Marketing Management
Culture, Social and Ethical Issues	Asia and Latin American Business and Economics
Economics and Global Issues	Strategy, IB & Global Competitiveness
Entrepreneurship and Family Business	Teaching Cases and Management Education
Financial Markets, Investment and Risk Management.

Doctoral Colloquium Track

Track for doctoral students and candidates presenting their research

DEADLINE       February 14 th., 2021

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

BALAS Special Issues, Sections and Fast track publication opportunities are for several indexed journals and publication collections including de CLADEA-BALAS Case Conssortium with Harvard Business Publishing, ACADEMIA Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, RBGN, Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Sciences, and Emerging Markets Case Studies. Additional journals will be announced when we get the approvals by their Editorial Boards.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HERE

1.     Paper Submission Process

• Manuscripts must be submitted on-line via easychair.
• Create your user name and submit.
• During the on-line submission process please be prepared to enter in the title of the paper, abstract, keywords, track, and complete contact information for ALL authors. The information you submit during the on-line process will be used directly to create the program and proceedings, if your paper is accepted. So please be accurate and complete when entering this information. PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE AUTHOR INFORMATION IN THE FILE YOU UPLOAD TO EASYCHAIR to facilitate the blind review process.

2.     Language

• All papers must be submitted in English
• At the conference, all papers must be presented in English

3.     Blind Review

To facilitate the blind review process, the authors' names should NOT appear anywhere in the entire paper and NOT on the title page. Check headers and footers to be sure the authors' names do NOT appear.

4.     Paper format guidelines include

• Paper template. Please use the provided template.
• Maximum Length 20 pages of text + 3 pages for figures or tables. Longer papers will be requested to resubmit shorter versions.
• Use HEADINGS in CAPITAL LETTERS (e.g. INTRODUCTION, LITERATURE REVIEW, CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND HYPOTHESES, METHOD, RESULTS, DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS, REFERENCES
• Font: Palatino Linotype or Times New Roman no smaller than 11p, 1,5 spaces, completely justified. Or you may use this Paper Template
• References should use the template format.

5.     There is a US$35 paper submission fee for each paper. This is a honor commitment (at the BALAS.org website)

6.     Only manuscripts corresponding to the above guidelines will be accepted. In order to be included in the program at least one author needs to be registered in the conference before the starting date. Each paper has to have a different registered conference attendant to be included in the program!