ECONOMIC RECOVERY, CONSOLIDATION AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: CRISIS-2-CRISIS EVIDENCE, DEBATE AND PROSPECTS

ISCBE 23/ 12-13 May 2023/ SEEU Tetovo, North Macedonia

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very excited to invite you to join us in Tetovo, Republic of North Macedonia, for the 6th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE 2023):
“ECONOMIC RECOVERY, CONSOLIDATION AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: CRISIS-2-CRISIS EVIDENCE, DEBATE AND PROSPECTS”.
The conference will address a wide range of areas relevant for contemporary business and economics issues such as economic shocks, high inflation, energy crisis, Covid-19, growth prospects, economic forecast, labor market, gender inequalities, migration, entrepreneurship and family businesses, firm development and innovations, technological transformation, etc.
Researchers will have the opportunity to discuss emerging challenges and perspectives of business and economics in the perspective of post-crisis economic recovery, consolidation and stability.
The conference will also organize a workshop on: “Carrying Out an Empirical Project”.
The conference also strongly encourages PhD and master’s students to participate.

Important Dates
Full-paper submission deadline – extended: ~~March 31, 2023~~
April 20, 2023
Notification of papers’ acceptance: April 10, 2023
Camera-ready (print version paper) submission deadline: April 30, 2023
YOU MUST REGISTER BEFORE YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR CAMERA-READY PAPER
Conference dates: May 12 – 13, 2023
Contact us on: iscbe@seeu.edu.mk

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Léo-Paul Dana is professor at ICD Business School of Paris, Groupe IGS, France. As well, he is a professor at Dalhousie University and a visiting professor at LUT School of Business and Management Lappeenranta University of Technology. He is also associated with the Chaire ETI at Sorbonne Business School. A graduate of McGill University and HECMontreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of
journals including Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of World Business, Small Business Economics, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Dr. Leon Eisen is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, venture partner at GSD Venture Studios, GVI Ventures and Network VC, Chairman of Oxitone Medical, Senator at the World Business Angel Investment Forum,
strategic adviser and keynote speaker with 20+ years of solid technology, business, and leadership experience. Leon is an affiliated member of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), a member of the Forbes Business Counsel, and an official mentor at the Israeli Export Institute. Dr. Eisen holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Weisman Institute of Science and studied business and entrepreneurship at
Harvard Business School. He invented and successfully commercialized the world’s first FDAcleared wrist pulse oximetry monitor and has more than 30 patents worldwide and 20 scientific publications

Dr. Andrea Caputo is Associate Professor in Management at the University of Trento, Italy, and at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, where in 2018 he co-founded with other academics the UNESCO Chair in Responsible Foresight for Sustainable Development. He received his PhD from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. His main research interests include entrepreneurial decision-making, negotiation, digitalization and sustainability, internationalization and strategic management of SMEs. He is the editor of the book series “Entrepreneurial Behaviour” (Emerald), and Associate Editor of the
Journal of Management & Organization, Management Decision and BRQ Business Research Quarterly. His award-winning research was published in over 100 contributions, including articles in highly
ranked journals, e.g. HRM Journal, J of Business Research, J of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, Int Small Business J, Int J of Conflict Management, Studies in Higher Education, Business Strategy & the Environment and IEEE TEM among the others. In 2021 and 2022, he was ranked among World’s Top 2% Scientists List of outstanding researchers prepared by Elsevier BV, Stanford
University, USA.

Conference Tracks

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Track 1: Economic Recovery,
Consolidation and Stability
▪ Economic recovery
▪ Circular economy and energy crisis
▪ Growth economics
▪ Green finance
▪ Consolidation
▪ Resource efficiency
▪ Sharing economy
▪ Environmental policy and
management
▪ Poverty Reduction Strategies
▪ Other related topics

Track 2: Economics and Finance

▪ Behavioral finance
▪ Financial auditing
▪ Financial reporting
▪ Investment banking
▪ Macroeconomic stability
▪ Challenges of monetary
economics
▪ Fiscal consolidation and
effective public sector
▪ Knowledge economy
▪ Migration and labor markets
▪ Other related topics

Track 3: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Business

▪ Entrepreneurship theory
development
▪ Entrepreneurial marketing
▪ Entrepreneurial finance
▪ Entrepreneurial education
▪ Women entrepreneurship
▪ Creativity and innovation
▪ Open innovation
▪ Knowledge spillover
▪ Green entrepreneurship
▪ Family business issue
▪ Other related topics

Track 4: Management and Marketing

▪ Management and leadership
▪ Operations management,
business logistics and supply
chain management
▪ Corporate governance and
corporate communications
▪ Human resource management
and organizational behavior
▪ Competition in specific/ different market(s)
▪ Human resources and tourism
labor market challenges
▪ Societal marketing
▪ Customer relationship marketing
▪ Social media marketing and digital marketing
▪ Other related topics

Track 5: Information and Computer Systems

▪ Computer architectures
▪ Real time systems
▪ Distributed systems
▪ Cloud computing
▪ Parallel processing
▪ Software engineering
▪ Computer networks
▪ Computer graphics
▪ Game development
▪ Information security
▪ Embedded systems
▪ Programming languages
▪ Human computer interaction
▪ E-learning
▪ Experiences with computer
science related research projects
▪ Other related topics

Track 6: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

▪ Databases
▪ Data mining
▪ Natural language processing
▪ Knowledge representation
▪ Data fusion
▪ Information retrieval
▪ Information visualization
▪ Web of data and internet
computing
▪ Social data analytics
▪ Robotics and automation
▪ Intelligent interfaces
▪ Optimization algorithms
▪ IoT and smart devices
▪ Streaming data
▪ Active learning
▪ Other related topics

All papers discussing other challenging issues related to the general topic of the conference will be considered as well.

Publication Opportunities*

* All submitted papers to the respective journals will undergo the review process according to the journals’ policies. These journals are indexed in Scopus & ESCI Clarivate Analytics.

The ISCBE 2023 qualified papers, after the peer review process, will be published in the Springer ISCBE Proceedings Book, without any publication fee.
This Springer’s proceedings series is indexed in Scopus

For all PhD and master’s students who will participate in the conference, without any additional fee, special issues will be organized and published by:

Submission Policy

One unique author should be registered for each paper or abstract accepted for presentation and publication.
One participant can be the author of one up to two papers. In case when a person is the author or coauthor of more than one accepted paper, each paper must have at least one unique author registration to be accepted for conference presentation and publication. If multiple, same-single-author papers or abstracts are submitted and accepted, registration fee must be paid for each of them in order to be scheduled for conference presentation and publication.

Review Policy and Proceedings

Submitted papers are subject to a double-blind review process which greatly assists in the elimination of
any perception of bias for or against an author or institution based on “name” recognition, country, gender, etc. Papers are evaluated based on originality, clarity, methodological standards of a research paper, significance of their findings, and clarity of exposition. The double-blind review for papers to be published in sponsored journals will be conducted by the sponsored journal itself.
Conference proceedings include full-length papers that have successfully passed the review process or
evaluation. The proceedings with be published by the renowned publisher SPRINGER in printed and electronic form and have all the features of an academic publication, including its own ISBN number which introduces it into a fully refereed conference publication.

Author Guidelines

All papers must be submitted online through EasyChair System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscbe2023
Authors are invited to submit full papers only. The paper’s length should be from 4,000 – 6,000 words.
(Times New Roman, 12, single spaced). Title page of the paper should include author(s) affiliation, email and short biography (100 words).

Paper Template

Download Template – ISCBE 2023

Online Participation Opportunity

For all participants out of South Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Türkiye) will be provided an online participation opportunity. The conference link (Google Meet/ ZOOM) will be sent to authors in due time.

Conference Fees

Registration Fee	Early – Bird Registration (April 30, 2023)	Standard Registration (May 12, 2023)
Participants	100 eu	120 eu
Students	50 eu	70 eu
Accompanying co-author	50 eu	70 eu
Additional paper	60 eu	80 eu

Registration fee covers:
▪ Conference materials upon confirmation of your registration
▪ Certificate of participation
▪ Conference proceedings
▪ Coffee breaks and cocktail
▪ Gala Dinner

Program Committee

Agron Caushi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Fitim Deari, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Gadaf Rexhepi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Jeton Mazllami, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Jusuf Zeqiri, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Rasim Zuferi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Sadri Alija, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Selajdin Abduli, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Shpresa Alija, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Teuta Veseli-Kurtishi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia

Best Paper Award Committee

Best Student Paper

(Master and PhD students)

Gadaf Rexhepi
Jusuf Zeqiri
Jeton Mazllami

Best Conference Paper

(Academics)

Abdylmenaf Bexheti
Hyrije Abazi-Alili
Veland Ramadani

Organizing and Scientific Committee

Hyrije Abazi-Alili, Chairperson
Veland Ramadani, Conference Secretary

Blerta Abazi-Caushi, Co-Chairperson
Shenaj Haxhimustafa, Co-Chairperson

Abdylmenaf Bexheti, Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts, SEEU, North Macedonia
Alfreda Šapkauskienė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Alma Braimllari-Spaho, University of Tirana, Albania
Andrea Caputo, University of Trento, Italy & University of Lincoln, UK
Arbana Kadriu, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia,
Besnik Fetai, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Besnik A. Krasniqi, Academy of Arts and Science of Kosovo & University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Cristina Fernandes, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Daphne Halkias, Cornell University, New York, USA
Dianne H.B. Welsh, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Douglas Cumming, York University, Canada
Esmeralda Shehaj, University of Tirana, Albania
Ewald Mittelstädt, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Fatmir Besimi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Fatmir Memaj, University of Tirana, Albania
Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Gadaf Rexhepi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Gheorghita Dinca, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
Givi Bedianashvili, Academy of Economic Sciences of Georgia, European University, Georgia
Gocha Tutberidze, European University, Georgia
Grisna Anggadwita, Telkom University, Indonesia
Heinz-Dieter Wenzel, Bamberg University, Germany
Hyrije Abazi-Alili, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Hussain G. Rammal, University of Adelaide, Australia
Iraj Hashi, Business School Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Jeton Mazllami, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Jiří Strouhal, Skoda Auto University, Czech Republic
Justina Shiroka-Pula, Academy of Arts and Science of Kosovo & University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Jusuf Zeqiri, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Khaula Alkaabi, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Laura Tampieri, Bologna University, Italy
Leo-Paul Dana, LUT University, Finland
Lilia Grigoroi, Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova
Llukan Puka, University of Tirana, Albania
Magdalena Mikołajek-Gocejna, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Mara Teresa da Silva Madaleno, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Massimo Bianchi, Bologna University, Italy
Mirjana Pejich-Bach, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Nicoleta Barbuta-Misu, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania
Nikola Milović, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Olga Domakur, Belarusian State Academy of Telecommunications, Belarus
Paul Sergius Koku, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Ramo Palalić, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Rodica Crudu, Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova
Rufi Osmani, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Sadudin Ibraimi, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Shpresa Syla, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
Srdjan Redzepagic, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University, Denmark
Shqipe Gërguri-Rashiti, Universum College, Kosovo
Tea Munjishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Teoman Duman, Epoka University, Albania
Tetiana Paientko, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Ukraine
Veland Ramadani, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia
William J. Bartlett, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Payment Details

Payment details in Denars:
Bank account details for the transfer in MKD

Name of the Partner Institution	South-East European University- Tetovo
Address of the Partner Institution	Str. Ilindenska no.335, 1200 Tetovo, North Macedonia
Name of the Bank	STOPANSKA BANKA
Address of the Bank	Bul. Marshal Tito nn Tetovo, North Macedonia
Tax ID number	4028003134292
Account number	200-001161622619

Payment details in Euro:
SEEU Bank account details for transfers in EURO

Name of Institution	South-East European University- Tetovo
Address	Str. Ilindenska no.335, 1200 Tetovo, North Macedonia
Name of the Bank	STOPANSKA BANKA
Address of the Bank	Bul. Marshal Tito nn Tetovo, North Macedonia
IBAN (European partners)	MK07200000900909026
Account number	0009009090
Swift Code SWIFT BIC:	STOBMK2X

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