Call for Papers
8th International Conference
For Marketing, Management, Finance, Consumer Behaviour, Tourism and Retailing Research
Hosted by: University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Organized by: Faculty of Economics and Business University of Zagreb, Croatia
27th - 29th April 2011
The 8th (annual) International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research is organised by Centre for International Research in Consumers Location and their Environments (CIRCLE).
The Centre engages in interdisciplinary research and consultancy projects in order to explore and examine consumer behaviour in local, regional, national or international Contexts for a range of service industries including events, finance, hospitality, leisure, marketing, retailing and tourism. All research activities/projects/conference proceedings are disseminated with the dual purpose of assisting managers and practitioners who work in the industry as well as fuelling further academic study and debate in this important emerging research area.
Investigating international/global environment, the Centre is international itself – with 80 partner institution throughout the world. With more participants/members and more partnering institutions joining the CIRCLE, the sustainable quality development and positive competition will be the catalysts of fruitful academic and professional co-operation in the field.
The 8th International Conference for Marketing, Management, Finance, Consumer Behaviour, Tourism and Retailing Research has two goals. The first goal is to provide an international environment for different academic/professional approaches and discussions on recent development in consumer behaviour and retailing theory/practice in contemporary turbulent business arena.
The second goal is to provide the opportunity for young scholars, practitioners and PhD students to have their work validated and benchmarked within the benevolent academic and professional community of colleagues from different international contexts.
With more participants/members and more partnering institutions joining the CIRCLE, the sustainable quality development and positive competition will be the catalysts of fruitful academic and professional co-operation in the field.
Focus of the Conference will be on various aspects of contemporary political, economic, social and technological environment for international business practice(s) and their target market(s) with special emphasis on marketing, management, finance, consumer behaviour, tourism and retailing research.
