Second International Conference ERPBSS

Second International Conference on
Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Sciences

Tuesday 26th – Thursday 28th November 2013 
Venue: The Address, Dubai Mall, Dubai UAE

Middlesex University Dubai takes great pleasure in announcing the Second International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Sciences (ERPBSS-2013). The resounding success of the First International Conference on ERPBSS has inspired us to plan our second conference. The first conference, which took place in November 2011, was attended by nearly 200 delegates representing around 100 world-wide academic institutions. To see photos taken during the 2011 conference, please click here.The conference sessions were extremely well attended and the quality of research presented was exceptionally high. Delegates commented on the natural way in which the conference proactively blended together social science and business-based discussion and argument in a purposeful manner. It was clear that the conference theme and its design provided a real opportunity for inter-disciplinary dialogue and forms of scholastic communication that transcended disciplinary and subject-specific boundaries.

Subsequently, we have decided to take forward these success factors and are now quite confident that academics across the world will be willing to share their research at the Second ERPBSS conference. It is our belief that events of the last three years will continue to dominate the ‘world of ideas’. The first ERPBSS conference was initially planned at a time when the world was, and in some regions still is, disrupted by the “Great Recession”. The economic recession that has held the world in its grasp has started to loosen its grip. Accordingly, academic discourse and practice could very well re-awaken to a different tune! Of course, there is no agreement at all on how such upheavals might be avoided in the future, especially in regard to their social, financial, cultural and psychological repercussions. One of the objectives of the forthcoming conference is to remind the academic world, and the world at large, of ways to proactively address economic and social transformation. Finally, it is our belief that knowledge does not suddenly change or turn dramatically, but slowly emerges and undergoes an incremental process of invention and re-invention – often simultaneously. Therefore, it is in this epistemological context that research paradigms also materialise and become accountable to academic inspection, introspection and deconstruction.

To see a list of participating institutions in the 2011 ERPSSS Conference, please click here.

Submit Your Paper

Instructions to Authors

Important Deadlines

• Submission of Full Paper :Wednesday 26th June 2013
• *Early Bird Registration:Thursday 11th July 2013
• Normal Registration: Friday 12th July – Saturday 26th October 2013
• Late Registration: Sunday 27th October – 19th November 2013
• Student Registration: Saturday 26th October 2013

*To qualify for the Early Bird rate, a full paper must be accepted, registration received, and full payment made by the deadline.

Daily Delegate Packages

Daily packages will be available for delegates who will not be presenting research papers but who would like to be a part of this unique event. Details of this option will be announced closer to the conference. Please note that that this facility will not be available to authors of accepted papers who will be attending the conference.

Scientific Advisory Committee