FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Conference
For Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research

Hosted by:
University of Applied Sciences Voralberg, Austria

16th - 18th April 2009

The 6th (annual) International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research is organised by Centre for International Research in Consumers Location and their Environments (CIRCLE).

www.leedsmet.ac.uk/international/the/circle.htm

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
the following partnering institutions: Leeds Metropolitan University (Tourism, Hospitality and Events, Faculty of Business and Law, Innovation North), University of Nicosia, Cyprus; Zagreb School of Management, Croatia; University of Applied Sciences Albstadt/ Sigmaringen, Germany; The Graduate School of Business & Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Austria; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia; University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein; University of Szczecin, Poland; University of Central Lancashire, UK; University of Gloucestershire, UK; University of Salford, UK; University of Rijeka, Croatia; University of Sarajevo, Bosnia; University of Calabria, Italy; University of Reggio, Italy; Business Academy Chalkida, Greece; University of Sapienza, Italy; University of Siena. 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 6th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research Conference 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. The young scholars, studying for their PhD are invited also to their symposium and to meet with their supervisory team.

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 retailing, hospitality, tourism and events.
The Conference Tracks will cover the following areas:

• Marketing Communications And The Impact On Consumers
• Innovative Practice And Methods In Marketing And Consumer Behaviour
• Role Of Relationship Marketing On Consumer Behaviour
• Marketing Concepts And “Tools” Within The International Context For Retailing, Hospitality And Tourism.
• Quality And Service Operations In Hospitality Management
• Changing Impacts Retailing Through Strategy, Marketing And Policy
• Inter-Cultural And Globalisation Aspects In Retailing, Hospitality And Tourism.
• Retailing And Merchandising For Local And International Organisations
• Sustainable Policy, Politics And Events
• Economic, Social, Technological, And Environmental Impacts
• The Pilgrimage Management And Religious Festivals
• Contemporary Cross-Cultural Festivals
• Costing And Pricing Strategies For Hospitality, Tourism And Events Organisations
• Higher Education Policy As It Relates To Education
• Enhancing Graduate Employability In Events, Hospitality, And Tourism
• International Forum Of Phd Students: Work-In-Progress Challenges

There is also the symposium for PhD students
- International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges

Paper submission and Review Process
Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words by 15th November 2008 to the Organising Committee. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Key words (3-5) should be enclosed to abstract. Please, provide full names, affiliations and up-to-date contact details (postal address, university/business address, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers).

Both abstracts and final papers will be double blind reviewed. Authors will receive abstract acceptance notice from the Organising Committee by 15th December 2008 - at latest. Full papers should be submitted by 5th March 2009. The following should be the correct format for the submission of abstracts and papers:

English is the official language of the 6th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research.

Submission format
All abstracts and final papers should be submitted in English, checked for correct grammar and spelling, both a hard copy and e-mailed to g.vignali@mmu.ac.uk in Microsoft Word format.

PhD Students

All participants in the status of PhD students will be contacted by 15th January 2009 and suggested to join the International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges – informal moderated workshop on PhD planning, methodological choice and data collection. In addition PhD supervisors will be there to discuss the research process and offer some thoughts for best practice.

PhD students can also present at the conference. For those students who wish to present their work formally, at the conference, please follow the Paper Submission and Review Process that has been shown above

Scientific committee
Members:

Professor Claudio Vignali Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Professor Juergen Polke University of Applied Sciences Voralberg, Austria
Razaq Raj Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Alexandra Kenyon Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Gianpaolo Vignali Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Georg Erdmann University of Applied Sciences Voralberg, Austria
Professor Dr. Leo Dana University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Professor Barry Davies University of Gloucestershire, UK
Professor Vitorio Ambrosio University Estoril, Portugal

Correspondence:

Gianpaolo Vignali MA, PG Cert HE, PG Dip., PG Cert, BSc (Hons)
Senior Lecturer
Consumer Behaviour
Manchester Metropolitan University

G.Vignali@mmu.ac.uk

Registration fee:

£300200 sterling exclusive of transport and accommodation. This will include the final meal and working lunches. All monies to be transferred to an Austrian account, once the paper has been accepted

6th International CIRCLE Conference Style Guide

Your file
Please supply the text of your article in a Microsoft Word file.
All of the words, punctuation and Italics must have the minimum of word processing features.
 
Give your article a title; and list all of the authors at the top of the page.  Include an abstract of no more than 500 words and also a list of keywords.
 
Attach the document in a email to the associate editor (g.vignali@mmu.ac.uk).
 
Paragraph features and layout
The text should be in Arial (size 12) using the following features:
• Single-line spacing
• Left-aligned text, unjustified
• A single space between sentences
• A single carriage return between paragraphs
• No additional paragraph formatting, e.g. Word headings or styles
 
Headings
If the pattern of headings is complex, please distinguish them by making main headings bold, the next level normal and the subheadings in italics.
 
Display features
Do not use any automatic features of Word-like blobbed and numbered lists.  Put theses in via your keyboard with the numbers, blobs and tab spacing.  Set up tables and figures as simply as possible so that they can be converted for typesetting.  Only cross-reference tables and figures in the main file; at the very least, put them on separate pages-ideally, send additional Word or Excel files.
 
Warning:  Do not, under any circumstances, send graphics or pictures embedded in Word Files.  Most Word graphics are inextricable from text files.  Please type out your captions separately in Word and send in a hard copy of how you would like the diagram to look,
 
The text
For the word, be as consistent as you can with spelling, references and nomenclature.
• Use English ‘connection’, ‘colour’, ‘capitalise’, spellings in preference to US ‘x’, ‘or’, and ‘z’.  If there is variable spelling, please use your word processor to check that you have used it consistently.
• Numbers should be words from one to ten and in figures thereafter using commas to separate large ones e.g. 1,000,000.
• Where you use a blobbed list, the entries should be punctuated as sentences – with capital letters and full stops – where they involve a verb , like this one.
• If the list is part of a sentence like the one for paragraph features above no punctuation will be required until the last blob.
• Punctuation should be kept to a minimum and full stops only left for genuine abbreviations like e.g. or ibid. (n.b. there is no extra space) For references please see below.
• Capitalisation of initial letters should also be kept to a minimum.  Only dignify titles with capitals where a specific managing director, professor or senior lecturer is mentioned.  The initial letters of proper names and titles of books and magazines are capitalised; the titles of articles and the headings in your article will not be.  Do not capitalise the internet.
• Only the initial letter of the first word of a heading or the article title should be capitalised – follow the style of this page.  No full stops at the end of headings.
• Spell out the contents of the acronym in brackets after it; the International Journal of Management Cases (IJMC).  For subsequent references, DSA is fine.
• Use en dashes – like these – without space for parenthesis.  Don’t worry if you cannot find these on your machine, they can be put in later.  All number series, particularly page references to articles in endnotes, should be separated by an en dash without space: e.g. pp 228 – 412.
• Use single ‘smart’ (i.e. curly) quotes for all quotations and inverted commas, except where there is a quotation inside a quotation, then use double ones.
• Use conventional abbreviations for quantities, without spaces between the number and the measure: so £10m, 35% or 25kg, and no extra full stops are required.
• Show percentages as a figure (35%) rather than spelling it out (per cent).
 
References
The list of books, articles and sources referred to is placed at the end of the article.  It is important that  the Harvard referencing system is adopted.
 
Note:
·      The handling of author initials
·      Of multiple authors if there are no more than three use et al (no full stops)
·      Book and journal article titles receive contrasting treatment
·      There is no full stop with p or pp
·      An en dash between the page numbers with no full stop at the end
 
Also, US spelling conventions are observed in the spelling of US references, following the original.
 
Pictures
Please send pictures as separate email attachments.  Colour or greyscale jpegs are fine, but they must be at least 300dpi in quality, and larger than you expect them to be reproduced.
 
If you are a guest editor we would like to publish your picture with your editorial and this photo must be no more than 4cm square.
 

5th International Conference
For Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research

President Professor Kaufmann, Vice President Professor Vranesevic, Emeritus President Professor Vignali

Hosted by:
The University of Nicosia
26th - 29th March 2008

Conference Chairs:
Dr Rudi Kaufmann, Dr Demetris Vrontis and Dr Alkis Thrassou

The 5th (annual) International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research is organised by CIRCLE, the Centre for International Research in Consumers Location and their Environments
Web: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/international/the/circle.htm

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 the following partnering institutions:

Leeds Metropolitan University (Tourism, Hospitality and Events, Faculty of Business and Law, Innovation North), University of Nicosia, Cyprus; Zagreb School of Management, Croatia; University of Applied Sciences Albstadt/ Sigmaringen, Germany; The Graduate School of Business & Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Austria; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia; University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein; University of Szczecin, Poland; University of Central Lancashire, UK; University of Gloucestershire, UK; University of Salford, UK; University of Rijeka, Croatia; University of Sarajevo, Bosnia; University of Calabria, Italy; University of Reggio, Italy; Business Academy Chalkida, Greece; University of Sapienza, Italy; University of Siena. 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 5th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research Conference has two goals. The first goal is to provide an international environment for different academic/professional approaches and discussions on recent developments in consumer behaviour and retailing theory/practice in contemporary turbulent business arenas. 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. The young scholars, studying for their PhD are invited also to their symposium and to meet with their supervisory team.

The Conference Tracks will cover the following areas:

• Marketing communications and the impact on Consumers
• Innovative practice and methods in marketing and consumer behaviour
• Role of Relationship Marketing on Consumer Behaviour
• Marketing concepts and “tools” within the international context for all service sectors and Higher Education
• Local Authorities and Events Marketing Strategy (e.g. Festivals)
• Motivations for Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
• Inter-cultural and globalisation aspects in retailing, hospitality and tourism.
• Retailing and Merchandising for local and international organisations
• Quality and service operations in Hospitality Management
• Communication and strategies for destination and location brands
• The Public Face of organisations through PR and Corporate Responsibility policies
• International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges
• Other contributions within the wider context of consumer behaviour not mentioned above

Paper submission and Review Process

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words by 15th December 2007 to Dr. Rudi Kaufmann (kaufmann.r@intercollege.ac.cy). Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Key words (3-5) should be enclosed to abstract. Please, provide full names, affiliations and up-to-date contact details (postal address, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers).

Both abstracts and final papers will be double blind reviewed. Authors will receive abstract acceptance notice from the Organising Committee by 29th December 2007 - at latest. Full papers should be submitted by 5th March 2008.

English is the official language of the 5th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research.

Submission format

All abstracts and final papers in Microsoft Word format should be submitted in English, checked for correct grammar and spelling, both a hard copy and e-mailed to: kaufmann.r@unic.ac.cy.

PhD Students

All participants in the status of PhD students will be contacted by 15th January 2008 and suggested to join the International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges – informal moderated workshop on PhD planning, methodological choice and data collection. In addition PhD supervisors will be there to discuss the research process and offer some thoughts for best practice.

PhD students can also present at the conference. For those students who wish to present their work formally, at the conference, please follow the Paper Submission and Review Process that has been shown above.

4th International Conference
For Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research

Hosted by:
Department of Science, Aziendali, Calabria, Italy
11th - 13th April 2007

The 4th (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 seven partnering institutions: Department of Science, University of Calabria; Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; University of Applied Sciences, Liechtenstein; University of
Applied Sciences Voralberg, Austria; Intercollege University, Cyprus; University of Canterburry, New Zealand; University of Sienna, Italy; University of Central Lancastershire, UK; University of Sulford, UK; University of Zagreb, Croatia and University of Rijeka, Croatia.

The previous three annual conferences took place in Leeds, UK (June, 2004) - hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University, in Liechtenstein (May, 2005) – hosted by University of Applied Sciences Liechtenstein and in Croatia at the Graduate School of Economics & Business University of Zagreb.

More information available at:
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lsif/the/circle.htm

The 4th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research Conference 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. The young scholars, studying for their PhD are invited also to their symposium and to meet with their supervisory team.

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 specific B2C and B2B
transactions/communications in retailing, hospitality and tourism. The three plus one main Conference tracks will cover the following:

• Marketing communications and the impact on Consumers
• Innovative practice and methods in marketing and consumer behaviour
• Role of Relationship Marketing on Consumer Behaviour
• Marketing concepts and “tools” within the international context for retailing, hospitality and tourism.
• Local Authorities and Events Marketing Strategy
• The Impacts of Festivals on local communities
• The Globalisation of Pilgrimage Festivals and Tourism
• Motivations for Religious Tourism, Pilgrimage, Festivals, and Events
• Inter-cultural and globalisation aspects in retailing, hospitality and tourism.
• Retailing and Merchandising for local and international organisations
• Quality and service operations in Hospitality Management
• Communication and strategies for brands in Hospitality, Tourism and Events
• Financial and Pricing Management
• The Public Face of organisations through PR and Corporate Responsibility policies
• Higher Education policy as it Relates to Education
• International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges

There is also the symposium for PhD students
- International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges

Paper submission and Review Process
Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words by 10 November 2006 to the Organising Committee. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Key words (3-5) should be enclosed to abstract. Please, provide full names, affiliations and up-to-date contact details (postal address, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers).

Both abstracts and final papers will be double blind reviewed. Authors will receive abstract acceptance notice from the Organising Committee by 1st December 2007 - at latest. Full papers should be submitted by 15th February 2007.

English is the official language of the 4th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research.

Submission format
All abstracts and final papers should be submitted in English, checked for correct grammar and spelling, both a hard copy and e-mailed to a.kenyon@leedsmet.ac.uk OR r.raj@leedsmet.ac.uk
in Microsoft Word format.

PhD Students
All participants in the status of PhD students will be contacted by 15th January 2007 and suggested to join the International forum of PhD students: work-in-progress challenges – informal moderated workshop. A Keynote speaker will be invited to discuss interesting elements of PhD planning, methodological choice and data collection. In addition PhD supervisors will be there to discuss the research process y and offer some thoughts for best practice.

PhD students can also present at the conference
For those students who wish to present their work formally, at the conference, please follow the Paper Submission and Review Process that has been shown above.

Correspondence:

Organising Committee
4th International Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research
School of Tourism, Hospitality and Events
F303 Leeds Metropolitan University
Civic Quarter
Leeds
UK

Fax: +44 (0)113 283 3111
Phone: + 44 (0)113 283 2600 extension 4930 for Alexandra Kenyon or
+ 44 (0)113 283 2600 extension 5877 for Razaq Raj

E-mail: a.kenyon@leedsmet.ac.uk OR r.raj@leedsmet.ac.uk
Web: www.efzg.hr/circle

Registration fee:
£200 sterling exclusive of transport and accommodation. This will include the final meal and working lunches.

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