2014 IMRA-Kean International Conference
On behalf of International Management Research Academy (IMRA), London, United Kingdom and Kean University’s College of Business and Public Management, we cordially invite you to the 2014 IMRA-Kean International Conference on “Globalization and the Convergence of Creativity, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship”. Over the past year, the advisory council at IMRA, the academic and administrative staff members at the Kean University, the organizing committee members, the track directors, reviewers, volunteers and especially you have helped us build this conference. Everyone has worked relentlessly in
organizing the conference academic and social programme which we hope you will find both stimulating and interesting.
We are proud to be the co-chairs for the 2014 IMRA-Kean International Conference. For this conference, the planning started in June 2013 and the announcement was made in August 2013. We received more than 100 extended abstracts in the categories of competitive papers, posters and book presentations. The submissions involved authors from more than 30 countries in the first round of extended abstracts. Almost 15% of the extended abstracts were desk rejected for poor quality and misfit with the conference’s theme. The remaining 85% were put through a double-blind review process involving reviewers from all around the world. Most reviewers were chosen with a criterion of independence from submission process (i.e. they were not involved in the submission process as authors). The double-blind review led to rejection of nearly half the submissions (this is not unheard of at IMRA where we generally have a rejection rate of 50%). In total, 52 submissions were accepted after the double blind review of which 18 were asked to revise and re-submit.
The conference participants represent some of the most developed nations in the world such as Australia, the USA, the UK, Italy and the emerging economic powerhouses like Russia, India, Indonesia and Poland as well as smaller but significant emerging markets like the Philippines and Georgia and countries who are
fighting the battle at the bottom of the pyramid such as Ethiopia making this a truly unique global conference.
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