ICESAL 2012 - 9th International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics 2012

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Category Mechanical Engineering; Materials Engineering

Deadline: March 12, 2012 | Date: June 03, 2012-June 05, 2012

Venue/Country: CRETE, Greece

Updated: 2012-01-03 13:59:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The conference seeks to investigate thoroughly how the disciplines of Enterprise Systems, Accounting, Finance, Logistics, Management and Education or their interaction can enhance business performance in the contemporary complex and competitive environment. As was the case with previous conferences, presenters and attendees originate from a variety of disciplines, including Accounting, Logistics, Management, Strategy, MIS and/or Computer Science.

All submissions will be in English and will be double blind reviewed. The conference accepts completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, extended abstracts, workshop and panel proposals.

A best paper award, based on the marks assigned by the reviewers and the final decision of the conference chairs, will be awarded at the conference. At the author’s prerogative, this paper as well as other high quality papers will be considered for publication at a major scholarly international journal.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest fall into the following areas:

AREA I: ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

AREA II: ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

AREA III: LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND E-COMMERCE

AREA IV: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

AREA V: INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

AREA VI: EDUCATION

Topics into each area may include the following (list not exhaustive):

AREA I: ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

ES and Design Theory

The REA model

ES ontology

ES design/development methodologies

ES and competitive advantage

ES performance and evaluation

ES and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

ERP package selection and implementation approaches

ERP Management

Philosophical foundations of ES

Extended ERP: SCM / CRM / DSS / web-based ERP / ASP models

ERP and Industry Solutions such as Hospital Information Systems

The market of ERP: International vendors strategies / local ERP vendors' strategies / ERP software solutions

Behavioral and organizational aspects of ES: Organizational change / Leadership / Training and learning at work / Job redesign and new technology / User information satisfaction

AREA II: ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Contemporary accounting issues for the modern enterprise

Corporate performance

Financial Information Systems

Financial Decision Support Systems

Auditing and security issues of AIS

Sarbanes-Oxley impact on ERP and AIS

Management accounting techniques for ES appraisal

Accounting Applications Outsourcing

Accounting Information Systems (AIS)

ERP and Activity Based Costing

ERP impact on Financial Accounting and Controlling

ERP impact on Logistics and Supply Chain Management

ERP impact on Management Accounting and Management Accountants

ES and Enterprise Risk Management

XML, XBRL and financial reporting over the Internet

XBRL and continuous auditing

Cost Management and Performance Measurement Systems (PMS)

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Economic Value Added (EVA)

Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM)

Activity Based Profitability Analysis (ABPA)

Financial and non-financial measures of business performance

Balanced scorecards, IT and the accounting discipline

Financial data mining and business performance

Wide view of accounting as a discipline

Accounting and the virtual enterprise

Accounting and strategic management

Behavioral and organizational aspects of accounting

AREA III: LOGISTICS, SCM AND E-COMMERCE

Logistics applications

E-commerce design methodologies

BPR and business process integration

E-commerce and SCM impact on management control and performance evaluation

Supply Chain optimization

E-procurement models

B2B and B2C models

ERP and Supply Chain Integration

Demand Requirements Planning and stock control

Sales Order, Warehouse and Inventory Management

Purchase Order Management

Transport Management, Vehicle Routing & Scheduling

AREA IV: CRM and IS

ES and Customer Relationship Management

Foundations of CRM Systems

IS and Relationship Marketing

ERP and CRM

AREA V: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

The relationship between Acccounting and Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management Instruments

ES and Knoweldge Management

Performance Measurement, Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

AREA VI: EDUCATION

Case studies of Enterprise Applications and Education

Education standards

Education for professional accountants and auditors

Communication Technologies and Information Systems Education

Curricula and course outlines design, teaching methods, student assessments, and instructional materials concerning ES or/and Accounting

Introducing ES into graduate and postgraduate education

Is ERP education any different from IS education?

Skills required to be a competent ERP consultant

Virtual Classroom and ES or/and Accounting/Logistics

Which is the best way to teach ERP systems and other enterprise applications to undergraduate and postgraduate students of business schools?

Instructions to authors

The conference accepts completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, workshop and panel proposals.

Completed research papers: Submitted research papers (normally from 4000 to up to 10000 words) must not have been previously published anywhere. The format of the proceedings (DVD-ROM) allows the publication of larger papers if needed.

Research-in-progress papers: Research-in -progress papers should have the format of an extended abstract (2-3 pages). Objectives, methodology and expected or initial findings should be provided.

Workshop proposals: Workshops proposals should be between 1000-1500 words or they can be accompanied by a research or position paper. The duration of the workshop is one and a half hours.

Panel proposals: Panel proposals should be between 1000-1500 words or they can be accompanied by a research or position paper. Panels should include at least 3 panelists and will last one and a half hours.

Submissions of all the above catagories received by the deadline will be double blind reviewed. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, providing that at least one author registers and attends the conference. It is not permitted to non-registrants to present papers.

All submissions should be submitted as an e-mail attachment to the conference's secretariat; icesalicesal.org. Upon receipt of your submission, you will receive a notification by e-mail within 48 hours. Should you not receive such a notification, please contact the conference's secretariat.

Manuscript style

Please submit your manuscript electronically as an e-mail attachment to the conference's secretariat in Word for Windows document (.doc) or in Acrobat (.pdf) format. The accepted camera-ready version should be in a Word for Windows (.doc) document format. Please make sure your paper adheres to the following instructions:

1. Manuscripts should be typewritten in English using Arial 12 size fonts and including 2.54 cm margin on all four sides.

2. The first page of each submission should include the following: 1.paper title, 2.author name(s), 3.affiliation(s), 4.address(es), 5.telephone / fax number(s) and 6.e-mail address(es).

3. The main body of the paper should include the title (centered, using an Arial 16 size font, bold), the abstract (using an Arial 11 size font) and 3-5 key words, but no author identification. Section headers should be written using an Arial 14 size font, bold, left aligned and numbered. Figures and tables should be included in the text and not provided separately.

4. All references in the text must be included in the reference section and vice versa. References in the text should be of the following format: (Zeon and Dark, 2004; Paul, et al. 2003; Bartol, 1999). You should use “et al.” for reference to more than two authors. In the references section, entries should be ordered alphabetically, unnumbered and must be complete including the last name and initials of all authors. For journal articles, the author(s)' name(s) should be followed by date of publication in parentheses, journal title in italics, volume, number, month and pages. For references to books, include author(s) name(s), date of publication in parentheses, book title, publisher, city, country, year and page.