2025 BALAS Doctoral Colloquium
We cordially invite students from Business Doctoral programs to submit their dissertation proposals/research for the BALAS Doctoral Colloquium to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 8th, 2025. The BALAS 2025 conference is hosted by INCAE Business School.
The Doctoral Colloquium is an opportunity to discuss your research goals, methods, and results at an early enough stage to receive useful guidance to improve the research effort. Students will also have the opportunity to obtain guidelines for publishing papers on prestigious journals and academic publications. Doctoral research at different levels of development (previous, ready for, and after doctoral proposal defense) can be sent. We expect students to have finished their second year or to be at a later stage by the time of submission of the proposal.
Students should not have yet defended their dissertation/thesis before the colloquium. The Doctoral Colloquium will also allow participants to interact with other doctoral students as well as researchers and members of an academic network like BALAS from the U.S., Hispanic America and other parts of the world. The program includes two types of activities: discussion of research proposals and plenary sessions with key speakers.
Submission Link
The submission link is open HERE. The submissions deadline is November 15th, 2024.
All submissions MUST be through Easy Chair using your institutional email.
Doctoral Colloquium Registration
Doctoral students are expected to cover their own travel costs and register for the BALAS 2025 Annual Conference. However, there is a reduced rate for doctoral students attending the Doctoral Colloquium, which includes access to all activities of the main BALAS Conference. Click HERE to know about the key activities at the BALAS annual conference.
Participation in the BALAS Doctoral Colloquium is a one-time only opportunity reserved for emerging doctoral students. Individuals pursuing post-doctoral degrees are not eligible to participate. If your proposal is not accepted, you are welcome to submit again in the following years. Once your submission is accepted and you register for the Doctoral Colloquium, your future participation in the BALAS Conference can only be through the regular submission process in the track of your preference.
Doctoral Colloquium Accommodation Option
If you have questions, please send email to balas@balas.org with the subject “Doctoral Colloquium”