On 4-12 October Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University will host the 8th Emerging Markets Conference 2021. The conference will be held online.

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. In 2021, a comfortable presentation format is offered for business as part of the conference — snapshot from practitioners — one problem — one slide — one solution or discussion. 

"One of the outcomes of the current megatrends is the shift of economic power towards China, India and other emerging markets that become the new hubs of global economic activities and effective participants in overcoming the pandemic crisis. There is thus an ever increasing need to illuminate on the emerging markets debate in the frame of the mainstream international business and management discussions. At GSOM Emerging Markets Conference 2021 scholars and practitioners can closely look at the emerging market context for the management and business studies". 

EMC 2021 Welcome by Program Committee Vice-Chairman Professor Andrei Y. Panibratov.

The participation is free, to join, please, register for free and participate in conference's tracks as listeners. For more information, please, visit the conference's page at GSOM website. Participation in all conference events is free of charge. Registration is open until October 6 on Conference's page https://gsom.spbu.ru/research/conferences/emc/

CONFERENCE TRACKS

• 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

ASSOCIATED EVENTS

• 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 will take place.

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

GSOM Emerging Markets Conference has been organized by the GSOM SPbU, 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.