In the last few decades, emerging economies have grown at extraordinary rates attracting spotlights to their global competitive and comparative advantages. Additionally, technological advances are transforming the strategy and growth trajectory of organizations worldwide.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) compose a major part of organizations responsible for growth rates in countries. Economic, social, human, and natural resources conditions shape the bright and dark side of this relation. In the same way emerging countries are highly populated and present intense market power, they are also face poor infrastructure and fiscal issues that need to be addressed. Several emerging countries have a lot to offer in terms of innovative topics to be studied by researchers all over the world. For that reason, we provide a new academic and entrepreneurial environment to discuss the challenges and opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs in emerging countries. India, the host country of GCSMES 2021 is a key member of BRICS, and along with other developing economies, offer researchers, practitioners and policy makers a great opportunity to convene and deliberate on issues around the opportunities and challenges facing the sector in the new millennium.
Submissions in the form of case study, conceptual, empirical and practitioner papers are invited in the following (but not limited) tracks.
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Accounting |
B2B |
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Branding |
Competitiveness and Performance |
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CSR, Ethics and Governance |
Cross Cultural Issues |
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CRM and e-Business |
Customer Engagement and Relationship Marketing in SMEs |
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Entrepreneurial Marketing |
Environmental Quality Management and Sustainability & Green business |
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Family Business |
Finance |
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Franchising and Outsourcing |
Gender and minority issues |
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Healthcare services |
Human Resource Management |
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ICT and Innovation |
International Business/Management |
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Indigenous Entrepreneurship |
Knowledge Management & Entrepreneurship Education |
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Legal Issues |
Mindfulness & Entrepreneurship |
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Multinational and Transnational Enterprise |
Operations Strategy |
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Small Business Marketing Research |
SME/Entrepreneurial Marketing Strategy |
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Service Innovation |
Social Entrepreneurship |
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SMEs, Economic Development & Sustainability |
Supply Network Management |
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Tourism and Hotel Research
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Women-owned Businesses |
| Full Paper or Extended Abstract Submission* | February 28, 2021 |
| Early Bird Registration | March 20, 2021 |
| Final Registration and Final Submission (Proceedings Ready) | July 15, 2021 |
| Doctoral Colloquium and Industry Workshop | July 26, 2021 |
| Presentations (Parallel Sessions) | July 27 & 28, 2021 |
Notes:
* Extended Abstracts (between 1000-1500 words) will be published in the proceedings, as such authors who choose to publish extended abstract need not submit another full paper for the proceedings.
ALL SUBMISSIONS TO BE MADE THROUGH THE ONLINE SUBMISSION PLATFORM: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcsmes2021
(Note: If you do not have existing account with easychair, you can create a new account to make you submission).
Manuscripts must adhere to the following format:
- Times New Roman
- Maximum 10 Pages Single Spacing (for Full Paper)
- APA Referencing Style
All Conference and Visa enquiries to be sent to gcsmes7@dimr.edu.in (with cc to admin@gcsmes.org).
All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings with ISBN. Selected high quality papers will be processed further for publication in special issue of top-quality journals and a research book.