On October 4-12 Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University kindly invites scholars, practitioners and doctoral students to join GSOM EMC community at the 8th annual conference. The conference will be held online. Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2021. Registration deadline: September 26, 2021.

The topic of this year is Bridging countries, organizations and people in a new fragmented world. The global business context continues transforming, making people, firms, and governments seeking for new ways to create and sustain competitive advantage and dynamic capabilities in the conditions of an uncertain environment. The search for the ways to transform respective challenges into a source of potential benefit is now on business and academic agenda and will be discussed at the 8th International Emerging Market Conference in 2021. Conference details and submission form

We invite researchers and business to take part in the discussion. In 2021 we offer a comfortable presentation format for corporate partners – “snapshot from practitioners” (one problem — one slide — one solution or discussion). 

CONFERENCE TRACKS & EVENTS

• Business in society
• Business informatics
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management: New Opportunities and Challenges
• Human resource development in a new reality
• International business and emerging markets
• Managing Diverse Talent in a Divided World
• Marketing: current trends & challenges
• Public sector issues
• Doctoral Colloquium Advanced research in management in the context of emerging markets
• Joint Symposium: Language diversification in multilingual professional and academic contexts
• Books presentations, workshops, round-table discussions 

ROUND TABLES

• Diversity, female leadership, and firm performance
• Economy, politics, and culture: Three pillars of the Sino-Russian business relationships
• Personalization in Marketing
• Брендинг работодателя в пост-ковидном мире (Working language – Russian)
• Импакт-инвестиции (Working language – Russian)
• Предпринимательство и стратегическое поведение фирм малого и среднего бизнеса в период кризиса (Working language – Russian)
• Региональная система здравоохранения после пандемии (Working language – Russian)
• Умные транспортные решения (Working language – Russian)
• Устойчивый бизнес: трансформация стратегий (Working language – Russian)

Participation in the conference of GSOM SPbU, the flagship of Russian management science, is an opportunity to get the most relevant information about research, discuss professional issues with the leading scientists and share achievements and best practices with the expert community

Historical note: GSOM Emerging Markets Conference has been organized by the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University, a recognized leader in Russian business education, accredited by EQUIS and AMBA. GSOM EMC was first held in 2014 and has become a unique platform for discussing and sharing research ideas and experience in a wide range of topics and joined together more than 2000 leading scholars and business practitioners from emerging markets (including Russia, CIS and CEE countries) and all over the world. The conference encourages and promotes research on emerging markets and creates a dialog between academics and practitioners about current trends in management, business, and economics. During the pandemic times we need to protect and support our community, which is why this year's conference will be held online and registration fee for all the participants is waived.