VUCA 2012 - International Research Conference on Finance Perspectives

CFP - Call For Papers:
Theme: Finance, Accounting, Risk and Treasury Management in times of VUCA
Where: Steyr, Austria When: 2. ? 4. July 2012 Fee: ? 380, -
Info and registration: http://www.acrn.eu/finance
Abstract due: April 1st, 2012 - full paper due: May 20th, 2012
VUCA, an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity has its origins in military operations. Influential speakers such as Alan Webber, former editor of Harvard Business Magazine and Fast Company, apply VUCA to describe today’s environment after the several crises that hit the markets during the last decade. Volatility has since risen enormously, traditional planning and forecasting tools proved erroneous, complexity caused fatal and unforeseen impacts, risk once again became uncertainty, and ambiguity invalidated formerly reliable deterministic models on the micro and macro level. In order to cope with this changing environment, business leaders are forced to adopt their planning and decision models. We therefore invite scholars from a multitude of disciplines to contribute and (re)build theory of Finance, Risk and Treasury in times of VUCA.
Topics may come from a broad variety, for example from one of the following fields:
Corporate Finance
Economics and Global Finance
Behavioural Finance
Treasury and Liquidity
Financial- and Enterprise Risk Management
Accounting
Mathematical & Computational Finance
Investments & Portfolio Management
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
Banking and the Finance Industry Sector
We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines and corresponding research methodologies. We also encourage PhD. students to submit a paper for presentation. Please submit your one-page abstracts to finconf-AT-acrn.eu for peer-review, you will be notified within two weeks of submission! In addition, selected final papers will be eligible for publication in the ACRN Finance Conference Proceedings after presentation.
Inspiring keynote speakers, amongst from the London School of Economics, workshops on publishing and research as well as a great social side program will make this annual conference a rewarding journey to Austria.
Othmar Lehner Heimo Losbichler
Responsible Editors
Academic Sponsors ? University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria ? University of Jyväskylä, Finland - ACRN research network
ACRN, academic collaboration and research network ? Austria is an extra-university research institution in the field of social and managerial sciences. We are a social enterprise furthering academic collaboration and research in various fields through partnering with leading universities from all over Europe, contributing to the European Union framework on cooperation in further education. All excess profit is used for grants and scholarships.