9th International GSOM Emerging Markets Conference – 2022 will be held on October 5-8 at the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (GSOM SPbU). This year the main topic for papers and discussions is Business and Management in The Era of Change: Agility, Resilience and Sustainability. On the agenda: business, state and people interaction issues in the period of uncertainty, influence of economic and political turbulence on firms' strategies, international operations, marketing and human resource management.

The questions that have been addressed before, but must be reconsidered within the new settings are:

• How does environmental uncertainty affect firms’ strategy?
• What is the role of institutions for firms’ resilience and survival?
• Why firms opt for different strategies in a homogeneously difficult environment?
• How does current environment shape international strategies and global value chains?

Emerging Markets conference is a unique platform for dialogue between more than 2000 leading scholars and practitioners from all over the world. As the event organizer, the Graduate School of Management of SPbU encourages and promotes research on emerging markets and strives to create dialog between academics and practitioners about current trends in management, business, and economics.

The event will be held online. The Business School's academic and corporate partners, as well as doctoral students and students of the relevant programs are invited to participate. Paper submission deadline: 28 September, 2022. Registration: 1 to 30 September, 2022. Paper submission and registration: https://gsom.spbu.ru/en/research/conferences/emc/submission/.

 
Conference tracks (English):

• Doctoral Colloquium “Advanced Research in Management”
• Business strategy in emerging markets: firm and government perspective
• Managing human resources and talents in turbulent times
• Marketing in the era of turbulence
• Operations management and business informatics
• Public sector issues:
• On improvement of performance and efficiency in public sector
• Smart sustainable cities: challenges and opportunities
• What are the latest trends in public procurement and public-private partnerships?
• Healthcare: policy, management and innovations
• Re-thinking entrepreneurship in times of uncertainty
• Strategic finance

Round-table discussions (Russian/English): 

• Human resource management: current trends and issues (in Russian)
• How do climate and ecology influence firms' strategies and global value chains?
• Mathematical models and methods in management: history and current state. On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Leonid Kantorovich and 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University.
• Marketing in the era of turbulence
• Methods of monitoring of smart sustainable cities development
• University's contribution to the performance and efficiency of regional healthcare systems (hybrid format)
• Entrepreneurship in Russia: 15 years of research (in Russian)
• Responsible business and sustainable development: education issues