ASAC 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS
June 4 -6, 2016
Edmonton, Alberta
Submission Deadline: February 2, 2016
Conference Chair: Mike Henry, (
ASAC@MACWEN.CA)
Conference Co-Chairs: Noufou Ouedraogo, (
OuedraogaoN@macewen.ca)
Etayankara (Murli) Muralidharan, (
MuralidharranE@macewan.ca)
MacEwan University’s School of Business in Edmonton, Alberta, is very excited to be hosting the 2016 conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). The conference theme is, “Global Perspectives in Business”, came from recognizing the importance of small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises growing and expanding into international markets. Such enterprises will need to maximize competitiveness, profitability, and long-term sustainability in the global marketplace. The Gender and Diversity in Organization (GDO) division welcomes submissions on this theme or on any other topic relevant to the division.
Paper Submission
Original papers, written in English or French and not previously published or presented elsewhere, should be submitted electronically to the appropriate division on the ASAC 2016 EasyChair submission site (www.easychair.org) or accessible on
www.asac.ca. To submit, you will need an EasyChair account. The submission deadline is 12:00 noon Mountain Standard Time on February 02, 2016. All contributions will be peer reviewed; best paper awards will be given by each division. Late submissions and submissions made directly to divisional executive members will not be considered. A style guide outlining the required formatting for submissions is available on the EasyChair submission site, as well as the ASAC website (www.asac.ca).
Case Division
The ASAC Case division has two streams: regular and cases in development. For the regular stream, empirical cases (i.e. non-fictional cases with clear decision focus) intended for use in undergraduate or graduate programs, including a teaching note, should be submitted to the Case division on the ASAC 2016 EasyChair submission site (www.easychair.org). To submit, you will need an EasyChair account. The submission deadline is 12:00 noon Mountain Standard Time on February 02, 2016. Submissions must follow the formatting specified in the ASAC Style Guide, available on the EasyChair submission site, as well as the ASAC website (www.asac.ca). All contributions will be peer reviewed, with awards recognizing the best case(s) submitted. For the cases in development stream, submit proposals according to the submission instructions on the EasyChair site by 12:00 noon Mountain Standard Time on February 02, 2016. Late submissions and submissions made directly to divisional executive members will not be considered.
Symposia and Workshops
Members interested in organizing a symposium or workshop should submit a proposal according to the Symposia and Workshop submission instructions available on the EasyChair submission site, as well as the ASAC website (www.asac.ca), and be submitted to the appropriate division on the ASAC 2016 EasyChair submission site (www.easychair.org). To submit, you will need an EasyChair account. The submission deadline is 12:00 noon Mountain Standard Time on February 02, 2016. Proposals can be jointly submitted to a maximum of three divisions; each division included in the proposal must be clearly identified in the submission.
Submission and Acceptance Criteria
1) Individuals can be associated with a maximum of three submissions in total (including case studies, papers and/or symposium proposals).
2) Proceedings Titles and abstracts of all papers accepted for the conference will be included in the conference Proceedings; this is not a published document and will be available to only the ASAC membership post-conference. Each division will select a maximum of 5 papers to appear in full-text in the conference Proceedings. The division will also give one Best Paper award and may also give a secondary award (Honorable Mention or Best Student award), as decided by the division. The authors of the award-winning papers may choose to not have the full text of their papers appear in the Proceedings. However, award-winning papers will be recognized as such in the Proceedings regardless of whether the full text of the paper is included.
3) By making a submission to the conference, the author(s) of each submission agree that at least one author of each accepted submission will attend the conference and present the paper.
The information for GDO divisional officers is provided below:
Division Chair: Salvador Barragan (
sbarragan@tru.ca), Thompson Rivers University
Divisional Editor: Samina Saifuddin (
samina.saifuddin@carleton.ca), Carleton University
Program Coordinator: Luciana Turchick Hakak (
luciana.hakak@ufv.ca), University of the Fraser Valley
We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you in Edmonton next year!
Kind regards,
Dr. Samina M. Saifuddin
Divisional Editor, GDO Division ASAC 2016