DMI 2014 - 19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference

the 19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference to be held in London (UK) from the 2nd to the 4th September 2014.
We especially welcome early career researchers and PhD candidates with work in progress.
We are also seeking expressions of interest to conduct workshops.
The theme of the conference is Design Management in an Era of Disruption. The management of design has arguably never played such an important role as it does today. Changes to the business and social environment are making consumers more knowledgeable and discerning. 'Tribes' now demand their own types of products. Globally-aware consumers want socially-responsive and sustainable goods. Demanding customers want to be served immediately, if not sooner…
On the supply side, innovations and developments in new technologies make it possible to respond to these demands in the form of mass-niche, mass customised, or micro niche product strategies. In their turn these are leading to changes in business models and the location of manufacturing as consumers increasingly participate in the product design and development process. These are all indicative of major disruptions to the ways that products and services are designed, made, and distributed. The role of the designer is in many contexts transformed. The purpose of this conference is to explore how design management is changing in this era of disruption.
The conference is organised around 7 meta themes that are divided into 19 tracks:
Design in the creation of meaning
Transformational design management
Contextualised designing
Design management futures
Design thinking, leadership and impact
Educating design managers for strategic roles
Open Track
Submissions
Author names should NOT be identified in the abstract or the body of the paper. Authors should be referred to in the text or notes in the third person only. Full papers must be previously unpublished
Abstracts
Abstracts should be less than 500 words in length. They should summarise the paper, and should not provide any identifying information about the author(s).
Workshop Proposals
Workshop should be less than 500 words in length. They should summarise the workshop’s aims and objectives.
Full Papers
All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
Full papers should be between 4000?6000 words in length. We welcome any research approach or type of paper including conceptual, empirical and critical literature reviews. However, we expect high standards of scholarship within the papers in terms of establishing the theoretical context, explicating the methods of inquiry, and reporting results that may aid other researchers.
A Special Issue of the Design Managent Journal will be dedicated to the selected papers from the conference. Authors who present their papers at the conference will be invited to submit their paper for the Special Issue. Papers will be selected after a further double-blind review process.
Posters
Submissions that are deemed interesting and relevant, but not quite up to the standard expected of a full paper, will be invited to present their paper at a poster session.
Abstract and paper submission and handling process
All abstracts and papers need to be submitted via our conference management system. Abstracts will be assessed by members of the Academic Committee. If accepted, authors will be invited to submit a full paper. To submit your abstract, please follow these steps:
You will need to register on to the conference management tool and create your account.
Once logged in select 'Your Submissions' and then click 'Submission of Abstract'. First include all the authors and affiliations. Then provide the abstract title and the text of your abstract (maximum 500 words).
Please select the track(s) that you wish to be considered for, and provide keywords. You can include any comments for the Academic Committee. Then click Proceed.
Your abstract will be stored in the CMS and passed to the relevant track chairs for consideration.
If successful, you will receive an email notifying you and giving you details of any further steps.
If successful, you will also be also required to upload your full paper to the CMS following a similar procedure. Full details will be provided in due course
If you have questions please contact us at: research_conference-AT-dmi.org
Conference presentations
At least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference and present their work.
Key Dates
15 January 2014
Deadline for abstracts and workshop proposals
21 February 2014
Notifications of accepted abstracts
16 May 2014
Deadline for full Papers
28 June 2014
Notifications of accepted full papers
18 July 2014
Deadline for full Paper with corrections
18 July 2014
Deadline for author registration for early bird registration
2 September 2014
Conference opens
4 September 2014
Conference closes
Proceedings
Proceedings from the conference will be published digitally on the DMI website.
Information about previous Design Management Research Conferences, including the proceedings of the 2012 conference, can be found at: http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/conference/academic12/...