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An exciting international program, with keynote speakers, amongst from the London School of Economics and KPMG and lots of opportunities for networking await you in picturesque Steyr, Austria!  An international consortium of leading Universities and Business schools collaborates on this conference for a broad variety of perspectives.

We also encourage PhD. students to submit a paper for presentation!
All Conference papers will be online published in the 12 Finance Perspectives Conference Proceedings (Cambridge Scholar Publishing) with ISBN and ISSN number and are indexed. In addition, selected papers will be eligible for publication (additional review round after conference) in the Q1/2013 of the academic peer-reviewed ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives (JoFRP), indexed in SSRN and searchable through Google scholar.

Please forward this call also to your colleagues/ students! So far, participants from over 40 nations have already registered.

yours, 

Othmar Lehner,   Heimo Losbichler

Editorial board, ACRN academic research network - Austria

Scientific Advisory:  Wim A. Van der Stede, London School of Economics, University of London, UK

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Theme: Finance, Accounting, Banking, Risk and Treasury Management in times of VUCA

VUCA, an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity has its origins in military operations. Influential speakers such as Alan Webber, former editor of Harvard Business Magazine and Fast Company, apply VUCA to describe today's environment after the several crises that hit the markets during the last decade. Volatility has since risen enormously, traditional planning and forecasting tools proved erroneous, complexity caused fatal and unforeseen impacts, risk once again became uncertainty, and ambiguity invalidated formerly reliable deterministic models on the micro and macro level. In order to cope with this changing environment, business leaders are forced to adopt their planning and decision models. We therefore invite scholars from a multitude of disciplines to contribute and (re)build theory of Finance, Risk and Treasury in times of VUCA.

Topics may come from a broad variety, for example from one of the following fields:

We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines and corresponding research methodologies. We also encourage PhD. students to submit a paper for presentation. Please submit your one-page abstracts to finconf@acrn.eu for peer-review, you will be notified within two weeks of submission! 


Keynote:
"Opportunities and challenges for management accounting and control research in the wake of the crisis"
Wim A. Van der Stede
CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management
LSE - London School of Economics, University of London, UK

Academic Sponsors:
Scientific Advisory board members, amongst from the:

ACRN, academic collaboration and research network – Austria is an extra-university research institution in the field of social and managerial sciences. We are a social enterprise furthering academic collaboration and research in various fields through partnering with leading universities, contributing to the European Union framework on cooperation in further education. All excess profit is used for grants and scholarships.