CARMA 2016 - 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics

Research methods in economics and business are evolving with the increasing availability of comprehensive sources of data. As these methods become more interdisciplinary, the 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA) aims to become a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and advances on how emerging research methods are applied to different fields of social sciences as well as to discuss current and future challenges.
Track 1: Web & Big Data in Social Sciences
Big data in official statistics
Public opinion mining
Internet econometrics
Business analytics with social media
Big data sources & web scraping
Privacy and legal aspects
Geospatial and mobile phone data
Information quality and assessment
Track 2: Qualitative and Comparative Methods
State of the art of QCA
Innovation and QCA
Knowledge sharing and QCA
Business models and QCA
Networks and ecosystems and QCA
Clusters and QCA
Management and QCA
Internationalization and QCA
Track 3: Advanced Regression Methods
Regression analysis
Partial least squares
Factor analysis
Structural equation methods
Applications to marketing and customer relationship
Applications to management and industry
Variable selection in advanced research methods
Multigroup analysis
Participants from all over the world are expected to present their latest and unpublished research findings. The program committee encourages the submission of articles that communicate applied and empirical findings of interest to social sciences researchers.
The CARMA 2016 conference will be held on July 6-7, 2016 at the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), which has been recently ranked as the best technical university in Spain by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2015.
Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital city of the Comunitat Valenciana region, which is major tourist destination in summer.
The organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you all to a fruitful conference with open discussions and important networking to promote high quality research.