Call for Papers

General information

On behalf of the Business School at Mutah University, the organising committee is cordially invited to submit high-quality papers for oral presentations at the 6^th International Conference to take place on 27th–28th May 2024 on “Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Future in today’s Business World.”.

Since its launch in 2012, the business school’s conference has been trying to shed light on relevant grand challenges facing businesses and the public sector. The conference brings together distinguished researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to establish insightful and thoughtful discussions that can inform decision-making on sustainability in the business world. The conference provides an exceptional opportunity to present and receive feedback on your research, select your work for publication in leading Scopus-indexed journals participating in the conference, build up networks with researchers and professionals, obtain access for data collection, and establish research collaboration with colleagues from different countries.

We welcome papers addressing a variety of sustainability topics in business, management, and economics. Although the theme provides a special focus for the conference, we will be accepting submissions on all the broad areas of business, management, and economics that address sustainability as follows:

Accounting:

Sustainability reporting and disclosure.

ESG accounting and reporting.

Sustainability auditing.

Sustainability cost accounting.

Digital transformation in accounting and auditing.

E-business and Information systems:

Digital transformation and sustainability.

Advanced technologies and sustainability.

Digital inequality and inclusion.

Big Data analytics and sustainability.

Ethical considerations in IT use.

Entrepreneurship and innovation:

Social entrepreneurship.

Green entrepreneurship.

Women entrepreneurship for sustainability.

Frugal innovation and sustainability.

Green innovation.

Finance and Economics:

Green finance.

Climate risk and policy.

Carbon market and credits.

Fintech and sustainability.

Green economy.

Human resource management:

Green human resource management.

Employee engagement and sustainability.

Sustainability in performance measurement.

Employee training for sustainability.

Sustainability and employee-level outcomes.

Marketing:

Green marketing.

Corporate green branding.

Consumer behaviour towards corporate sustainability.

Digital marketing and sustainability.

Sustainable tourism marketing.

Operations and supply chain management:

Quality management and sustainability.

Green logistics and supply chains.

Circular economy and supply chains.

Social sustainability in supply chains.

Food supply chains.

Public administration and policy:

Sustainability in the public sector.

Circular economy.

The public sector and climate change.

Public policy development for sustainability.

Public governance for sustainability.

Abstract submission guidelines

• The abstract submission deadline is February 15th, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 25th, 2025.
• The abstract should not be more than 300 words. Abstracts exceeding the limit will be rejected.
• The abstract must be written in either formal Arabic or English. Authors may adopt either British or American English.
• All abstracts must be relevant to the conference tracks and themes. Authors will be asked to indicate the track, which relates most closely to the abstract.
• All abstracts must be submitted here. 

Full paper submission guidelines

• If your abstract is accepted, you will have to submit a full paper, and at least one of the authors will have to register to attend the conference by 30/4/2025.
• The full paper submission deadline is March 31st, 2025.
• The full paper should not have been formerly copyrighted, accepted, or published elsewhere.
• The title of the full paper must be the same as the one of the initial abstract.
• The paper must not exceed 20 pages (including abstract, references, and appendices).
• The paper should be written in Times New Roman, 12 font size, with 1.5-line spacing, portrait orientation with 2.54 cm for top and down margins, 3.17 cm for right and left margins, and fully justified text.
• The paper should use Harvard referencing style for all sources of information used.
• The full papers will be made available to the participants in the conference.
• All papers must be submitted here.