17^th IBIMA Conference
Milan, Italy, 14-15 November 2011


The 17^th IBIMA conference on Creating Global Competitive Economies: A 360-degree Approach will be held in Milan, Italy 14-15 November  2011.

Milan is the second largest city in Italy with estimated population of more than 7 million.  It is a great European center for fashion, Finance, and industrial atmosphere.  With hundreds of banks, publishing, advertising, and communications companies along with major fashion house,  the city is considered Italy’s glamorous and glitzy center.  Milan has many landmarks like the  Duomo (Milan Cathedral), the Vittorio Emanuele II shopping plaza and the La Scala Opera House. 

Come and see for yourself 

This major international conference will address a range of important themes with respect to Information Management, General Business, Marketing, Human Resources, Economics, and Finance in organizations.

The conference will include numerous papers and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe.  Conference participants are welcome to submit full papers, short papers, extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Submitted paper will be fully refereed and published in electronic formats.  Please refer to call for papers.

For those unable to attend the conference in person, virtual presentations are available. Virtual presentations allow participants to submit papers for refereeing and publication in the conference proceedings.   Virtual participants will receive a full copy of the conference proceedings in electronic format by mail.

Send all submissions to: italy2011@ibima.org

Submissions instructions: Submit 2 files (in Microsoft Word OR in pdf)
First file with just complete author(s) information and e-mail(s)
Second file with just the paper without author(s) information for review purposes

There is no paper format for submissions.  Once your paper is accepted by reviewers, authors will receive an acceptance package that includes IBIMA's format guildlines for camera ready publication.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If it takes long time to get travel request approved at your university, we recommend that you send your paper the at earliest possible to allow us to receive the manuscript to reviewers and get reviews back in timely fashion.  The review cycle time tends to increase if you submit your paper right on the deadline date due to large number of submissions around deadlines.


If you are submitting to a special track, please indicate that in your e-mail

Khalid S. Soliman
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
ksoliman@ibima.org