-University of Manouba, Tunisia

Dr. Jouhaina Ben Boubaker Gherib, Professor of Management, jouhaina.gherib@uma.rnu.tn

Dr. Salma Dammak, Professor, salmadamak@yahoo.fr

Dr. Hamadi Matoussi, Professor, hamadi.matoussi@iscae.rnu.tn

Dr. Hamida Skandrani, Professor, hamida.skandrani@gmail.com

-Bournemouth University

Dr. Julie Robson, Associate Professor, jrobson@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Elvira Bolat, Senior Lecturer, ebolat@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Kaouther Kooli, Senior Lecturer, kkooli@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Juliet Memery, Professor, jmemery@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Hiroko Oe, Senior Lecturer, hoe@bournemouth.ac.uk

- Toulouse Business School

Dr. WAFA KHLIF, Professor of Accounting, w.khlif@tbs-education.es

- Brock University

Dr. Samir Trabelsi, Brock University, strabelsi@brocku.ca

- Laval University

Dr. Riadh Ladhari, FSA, Laval University, riadh.ladhari@fsa.ulaval.ca

-Anglia Ruskin University

Dr. Nektarios Tzempelikos, Senior Lecturer, nektarios.tzempelikos@anglia.ac.uk<

“DEEP TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF ORGANISATIONS"

6th & 7 th of December, 2019, THE PENTHOUSE HOTEL TUNIS, TUNISIA

Transformation is often associated nowadays with digitalization. Indeed, significant and substantial data are exchanged instantly and continuously within and between organizations as well as individuals. Accordingly, ninety per cent of the data in the world in 2017 were created in the last two years alone and the current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a day (iflscience, 2018). In this context, new opportunities as well as challenges, e.g. new markets, more efficient management strategy, stakeholders power balance, blurry organizational frontiers, constantly expose decision makers to new challenges. Hence, understanding digital transformation is becoming increasingly critical for decision makers. However, the central and deep transformations are twofold: financialization and globalization. For a decade now, “financial markets” shaped western societies and emergent countries. This led to financializing almost anything. Financializing the economy means remodelling the regulation of the economy and the logic of accumulation. The investor’s profile has changed and has become international. For this purpose, a huge effort has been spent on standardizing, on the one hand, financial and accounting systems and, on the other hand, governance practices. Globalization refers to processes through which events and decisions in one part of the world can have significant consequences for individuals and societies in distant parts of the world (Arnold and Sikka, 2001). Its impacts are noticeable on economies but also on societies. These deep transformations influence the way organizations design, perform and monitor many of their activities, e.g. financial and accounting reporting and auditing, accountability standards, human resources management, marketing management, information and knowledge management, information exchange regulations, ethical conduct, information privacy and security, etc. (Christen et al., 2019; Cordery et al, 2019; Deloite, 2019; Troshani, 2019; Bouwman et al., 2018; Parviainen et al., 2017; Riedl et al., 2017; Fanning and Centers, 2016; Lewis et al., 2014). Whilst a large number of organizations are adhering to this dynamic, many others are still lagging behind. In order to change, organizations need to implement creative management taking into account issues such as organizational structure, timeframe, expected outcome, their location/place/physical environment, their responsibility, among others. Such issues call for new insights and perspectives for both practice and theories. Addressing this gap calls for research that provides insights into how organizations from different backgrounds are surfing the complex realities. Insights from different stakeholders’ perspectives i.e. organizations, governments consumers, regulation organizations, education institutions, and others, are welcomed. Additionally, as Westley et al. (2017) have typified, the transformation phenomenon is: “rarely a clearcut, one-step change. But, it is messy, fraught, contested, and happens at different scales and in different domains” (c.f. in Blythe et al. 2018). This conference invites authors to consider a large spectrum of transformative phenomena, technology, environment, culture, social, politic, driven, and to dig into their impact on organizations and their stakeholders’ decisions making process, their attitude and behaviour. Papers addressing new methodologies in dealing with these issues are also welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Block Chain and corporate governance;
Data-driven approaches to organization management;
Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer, Government to Businesses and Gove rnment to Citizens and digital strategy and implementation;
Transformation and its impact on legislation;
Datafication work and accountability systems;
Digital Marketing and buyers-sellers relationships;
New organizational directions for sustainable societies;
Digital organizations and consumer protection;
Disruptive innovations and organization resilience;
Digitalization and financial and accounting reporting and auditing;
Ethics in the digital age and accountability requirements;
Governance and digital transformation;
Trust and technology-driven solutions success;
Methodological approaches and constraints to study transformations;
Internet and social media literacy and contribution to digital transformation;
Knowledge management and sharing and the role international partners in promoting and diffusing digital culture;
Digitalization transformation and human resources management;
Business complexity in a changing conditions context;
Modelling and forecasting stakeholders’ behaviours in the digital transformation era;
Political instability impact on digital transformation initiatives;
Regulations, norms and values in an on-going changing context;
Supply chain management and digital transformation;
The effect of digitalization on decision making process;
The not for profit organizations, social enterprise, sharing economy and central transformations;
The role of higher education, academics and researchers in fostering education transformation and efficiency.

Submissions Guidelines

Submissions addressing issues related to the Colloquium topics are highly encouraged. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. Authors should submit short papers to: colloque@ligue.rnu.tn. These later should be of a standard appropriate for highly ranked journals. Authors of selected best short papers will be invited to submit a full paper for a potential publication in special issues of two journals: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal (ABS, CNRS, Scopus) and Cogent O&A Business and Management (ABS). Manuscripts must be original and unpublished and not under review for publication elsewhere. Success in the review process will not guarantee publication in the special issues supporting this event, but to be accepted for special issue publication, papers need to be presented at the conference. Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines: Article files should be written in English and provided in Microsoft Word format. Please ensure that the text is in Times New Roman font style, font size 12, with 1.5 spacing. Articles files should include:

1- A cover sheet (page 1) including the title of the paper, the author’s name(s), title(s), institutional affiliations and contact details, with the primary contact person designated.
2- A structured abstract on page 2: authors must supply a structured abstract (maximum 250 words in total) set out under 7 sub-headings. The authors’ name(s) should not be on the abstract itself.
• Purpose
• Design/methodology/approach
• Findings
• Research limitations/implications
• Practical implications
• Social implications
• Originality/value
• Keywords: authors should provide appropriate and short keywords that encapsulate the principal topics of the paper. The maximum number of keywords is 4.
3- Starting from page 3, a short paper of 5 to 7 pages in length (not including references), prepared as follows:
● Introduction
● Key literature review
● Design/methodology/approach
● Findings/discussion
● Research limitations/implications

Important dates

30 September 2019: Full paper submission closes at midnight
30 October 2019: Review decision notified to authors

For further information, please contact

Prof. Salma Damak Ayadi (salmadamak@yahoo.fr)
Prof. Hamadi Matoussi (hamadi.matoussi@iscae.rnu.tn)

Conference Fees

Registration dates: 4th to 25th of November 2019

Academic	Students (PHD and MASTER STUDENTS)	Professional
150 Euro or equivalent in TND	100 Euro or equivalent in TND	170 Euro or equivalent in TND
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Information

Conference fees will cover coffee breaks, one lunch, and conference pack.
There will be no refund of the fees for cancellation.
At least one author of accepted papers are required to register for conference AND to present the accepted research at the conference.
Payment can be made via Bank transfer

Bank account details

Account Name: Association pour la Promotion de l’Innovation et de la Qualité (APIQ)
RIB: 04 021 107 0019 49398 0 81
IBAN – International Banking Account Number: TN59 04 021 107 0019 49398 0 81
Name of the Bank: Attijari bank
(**) For Tunisian researchers affiliated to a Tunisian university and residents in Tunisia, as well as professionals resident in Tunisia, the conversion rate is: 1Euro = 3 TND

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Institutional and Associative Partners

- University of Manouba

- ISCAE - Manouba

- ECCOFIGES

- Association pour la Promotion de l’Innovation et de la Qualité (APIQ)
- Association des Anciens de l’ISCAE

- The Academy of Marketing Business to Business Special Interest Group