4th International Scientific Conference on IT, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture
ITEMA 2020October 8, 2020
ONLINE-Virtual
The aim of ITEMA 2020 conference is to bring together academic community (experts, scientists, engineers, researchers, students and others) and publication of their papers with the purpose of popularization of science and their personal and collective affirmation.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conference will take place virtually and ONLINE with 35% registration fee discount.
Program will combine presentations of the latest scientific developments in Information Technologies, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture, interactive discussions and other forms of interpersonal exchange of experiences.
The conference theme is
Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism,
Economics, Management and
Agriculture
Preliminary conference proceedings content of ITEMA 2020
This year we have 69 accepted abstract submissions authored by 124 colleagues from 22 different countries:
- Albania,
- Bosnia and Herzegovina,
- Bulgaria,
- Croatia,
- Czech Republic,
- Greece,
- Hungary,
- Indonesia,
- Italy,
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia,
- Portugal,
- Republic of Korea,
- Romania,
- Russia,
- Serbia,
- Slovak Republic,
- Slovenia,
- Spain,
- Sultanate of Oman,
- Ukraine,
- United Arab Emirates
All accepted full papers for the ITEMA 2020 International Scientific Conference will be placed in the ITEMA 2020 Conference Proceedings Pre-draft. Afterwards there will be three circles of full papers’ selection from the ITEMA 2020 Conference Proceedings pre-draft:
1st Circle – Selected papers will be published in the publication titled: ITEMA 2020 Selected Papers – the 4th Conference on IT, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture with an ISSN number. This publication will be submitted to indexation and / or publication and / or the listing at the ISI Web of Science (WOS) Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SCOPUS, EBSCO, CiteSeerX, ERA, ProQuest, Google Books, Google Scholar database and so on.
2nd Circle – Extended and improved versions of the selected papers will be published in a monograph as book chapters. There will be additional independent peer review process.
3rd Circle – Extended and improved versions of the selected papers will be published in highly esteemed partner journals published in different countries by different faculties and universities.
Journals’ acceptance rate for ITEMA 2018 conference was 48,89% (out of 180 full papers 88 were accepted for publication in partner journals) and for ITEMA 2019 journals’ acceptance rate was 27% (out of 71 full papers 19 were accepted for publication in partner journals).
Partner journals were indexed in:
- Web of Science – Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI),
- SCOPUS,
- EconLit – American Economic Association,
- CIRET – Centre International de Recherches et d’Etudes Touristique,
- Google Scholar,
- C.A.B INTERNATIONAL,
- LORETO Thesaurus,
- EBSCO Host,
- ProQuest,
- JSTOR,
- DOAJ,
- EconPapers,
- ResearchGate,
- HRČAK (Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia),
- RePEC (Research Papers in Economics),
- Index Copernicnus,
- SCIndex – Serbia Citation Index.
If the full paper is being published in one of the above named publications from the three circles, its abstract will be published in the ITEMA 2020 Book of Abstracts (ISBN and ISSN numbers will be assigned).
Other, non-selected full papers, but accepted for the conference, will be published in the ITEMA 2020 Conference Proceedings (ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will be assigned).
Full paper and abstract publication does not require online or virtual presentation.
Certificate of attendance will be send by regular mail to all registred authors after the conference.
Official language of the ITEMA 2020 conference is English. Papers may be written and presented in English.
Except conference registration fee, there are no any additional nor hidden publication costs.
In order to avoid high commission of money transfer by bank wire transfer which may go up to 35% of the transferred amount, participants may pay the conference registration fee via PayPal (5% commission).
All received papers prior peer review process will be subject of plagiarism check with iThenticate by Turnitin software. Afterwards, papers will be peer reviewed by the reviewers drawn from the scientific committee or external reviewers depending on the topic, title and the subject matter of the paper.
Selection of papers which will be presented at the conference day will be based upon quality, originality, and relevance.
Publication of one paper prior requires payment of one registration fee, regardless of the number of authors (is there one author or two/three co-authors). Each participant may submit a maximum of two papers. Number of co-authors per paper is limited to three.
Presentation mode for 4th ITEMA Conference
There are two options: virtual and online (live presentation).
1. Virtual: Participants who would like to join us via virtual presentation should email us their “voice over PowerPoint” presentation narrated in English in a duration of max 10 minutes (this short instructional video presents how the narration may be done, here you can find additional instruction on how to do it);
2. Online (live presentation): Participants who would like to join us via online (live) presentation will be able to present their papers live. Each presenter will have 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q/A.
Details about these options (software, submission deadline of “voice over PowerPoint” presentation, etc.) will be provided to participants after abstract submission.
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Special emphasis for ITEMA 2020 is given to the key topic:
Pandemic Crisis – Challenges and Forecasting for a Sustainable Future
The world is in a pandemic crisis. States, multilateral organizations, companies, entrepreneurs and citizens are in urgent need for strategies to fight, cope with and ease pandemic as well as to protect their societies and economies during and after the crisis.
We welcome empirical or theoretical contributions with general case studies and literature surveys which meet ITEMA 2020 conference criteria and deal with the key topic Pandemic Crisis – Challenges and Forecasting for a Sustainable Future. The following areas and key words are of the particular interest, but not limited to:
Information technology
- Digital transformation of the society: opportunities and challenges
- Technology and its values in the outbreak of coronavirus
Tourism
- Tourism in crisis: global threats to sustainable tourism futures
- Resilience of tourism city brands
- Local impact of pandemic on host-guest relationships in tourism cities
- Changes in travel behaviors and responses from tourism cities
- Innovation-based responses by smart tourism cities
- Virtual city tourism perspectives as alternative experiences to physical travel
Economics and Management
- Cross-country studies of pandemic impact on the economy
- Economic history of pandemic crisis
- Emerging markets and the pandemic
- European Union, the Euro Area and the pandemic
- Global competitiveness and pandemic
- Long-term socio-economic effects of the pandemic crisis
- Pandemic and employment
- Pandemic and financial markets
- Pandemic crisis and macroeconomic developments
- Pandemic crisis and sovereign debt
- Pandemic crisis and wealth distribution
- Private households and pandemic crisis
- The economics of shut down
- The relationship of state and markets to overcome the pandemic
- The role of multilateral economic organizations in a pandemic crisis
- The role of national and international development banks in pandemic crisis
- The role of the state in pandemic crisis
- International collaboration in the outbreak of coronavirus
- Policy reactions and implications to emerging countries
- What does the future hold in terms of social change (e.g., localization, new norms of behavior)?
- HR pandemic plan
- Pandemic Planning: How companies should respond
- R&D and innovation management during Covid-19
Agriculture
- Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural and food systems worldwide
- Post-COVID-19 agriculture and food security
The ITEMA Conference is Organised by
Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans headquartered in Belgrade – Serbia is a non-governmental and non-profit association, founded in 2014 to support the development of scientific thought in the region, development of management and economics profession, as well as education of its members and the general public.
The Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans currently has more than 200 members who came from more than 130 different institutions, more specifically, members from Balkans countries as associate members and honorary members from other countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, etc.).
PREVIOUSLY REALIZED PROJECTS
Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans with other partner institutions has successfully organized numerous international conferences.
ERAZ 2018
Second International Scientific Conference on Economics and Management: How to Cope With Disrupted Times - EMAN 2018
Ljubljana, March 22, 2018 - Hotel M
In the Conference Proceedings of the EMAN 2018 conference 106 double peer reviewed papers and 65 abstracts have been published on more than 1.000 pages. Besides that, 79 papers accepted for EMAN 2018 conference have been accepted for publication in conference partner journals also.
Participation in the conference took a total of 280 researchers with the paper representing:
- 21 different countries,
- 99 different universities
- 66 eminent faculties
- 8 scientific institutes
- 13 colleges and other
EMAN 2018
Second International Scientific Conference on Economics and Management: How to Cope With Disrupted Times - EMAN 2018
Ljubljana, March 22, 2018 - Hotel M
In the Conference Proceedings of the EMAN 2018 conference 106 double peer reviewed papers and 65 abstracts have been published on more than 1.000 pages. Besides that, 79 papers accepted for EMAN 2018 conference have been accepted for publication in conference partner journals also.
Participation in the conference took a total of 280 researchers with the paper representing:
- 21 different countries,
- 99 different universities
- 66 eminent faculties
- 8 scientific institutes
- 13 colleges and other
LIMEN 2017
Third international scientific conference titled: Leadership and Management - Integrated Politics of Research and Innovations - LIMEN 2017
Hotel Moscow, Belgrade, December 14, 2017
Other partner institutions: Faculty of Engineering Management - Belgrade, Modern Business School - Belgrade, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Faculty of Business Management and Informatics - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Business Academy Smilevski - BAS, Skopje, Macedonia, BAS Institute of Management, Bitola, Macedonia
Participation in the conference took a total of 203 researchers with the paper representing:
- 21 different countries
- 52 different universities
- 44 eminent faculties
- 8 scientific institutes
- 14 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.etc
In the Conference Proceedings of the LIMEN 2017 conference 97 double peer reviewed papers and 19 abstracts have been published on more than 800 pages.
ITEMA 2017
International scientific conference on Recent Advances in IT, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture - ITEMA 2017
Hotel Vitta Superior, Budapest, Hungary, October 26, 2017
Participation in the conference took a total of 248 researchers with the paper representing:
- 18 different countries
- 68 different universities
- 62 eminent faculties
- 5 scientific institutes
- 15 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the ITEMA 2017 conference 108 papers and 20 abstracts double peer reviewed have been published on more than 950 pages.
ERAZ 2017
Third international scientific conference titled: Knowledge based sustainable economic development
ERAZ 2017
Hotel Metropol, Belgrade - June 8, 2017
Other partner institutions: Faculty of Business Studies, Mediterranean University - Podgorica, Montenegro; University of National and World Economy - Sofia, Bulgaria; Faculty of Commercial and Business Studies - Celje, Slovenia; Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance, Belgrade.
Participation in the conference took a total of 132 researchers with the paper- representing:
- 17 different countries
- 46 different universities
- 45 eminent faculties
- 5 scientific institutes
- 10 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and
private enterprises, multinational companies,
associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2017 conference 77 papers and 6 abstracts have been published on more than 650 pages.
EMAN 2017
International Scientific Conference on Economics and Management: Globalization Challenges EMAN 2017
Ljubljana - March 30, 2017 - Hotel M
Other partner institutions: Faculty of Management Koper – Koper, Slovenia; Doba Business School - Maribor, Slovenia; Integrated Business Faculty - Skopje, Macedonia and Faculty of Management - Zajecar, Serbia
Participation in the conference took a total of 285 researchers with the paper representing:
- 17 different countries
- 56 different universities
- 69 eminent faculties
- 12 scientific institutes
- 14 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the EMAN 2017 conference 127 papers and 24 abstracts have been published on more than 1150 pages.
LIMEN 2016
Second International Scientific-Business Conference titled: Leadership and Management - Integrated Politics of Research and Innovations - LIMEN 2016
Belgrade, December 15, 2016 - Hotel Moscow
Other partner institutions: Faculty of Engineering Management - Belgrade, Modern Business School - Belgrade, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Faculty of Business Management and Informatics - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Business Academy Smilevski - BAS, Skopje, Macedonia, BAS Institute of Management, Bitola, Macedonia
Participation in the conference took a total of 192
researchers with the paper representing:
- 16 different countries
- 36 different universities
- 37 eminent faculties
- 5 scientific institutes
- 9 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public
and private enterprises, multinational
companies, associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the LIMEN 2016
conference 97 papers have been published on more
than 800 pages.
ERAZ 2016
International scientific conference ERAZ 2016 was held on June 16, 2016 in Hotel Palace in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was opened by Miro Simonič- PhD, professor at the Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences from Celje, Slovenia. Also in the opening session of the conference participants were welcomed by Vuk Bevanda - PhD, president of organizing committee of ERAZ 2016 international scientific conference and professor at the Faculty of Business Studies, John Naisbitt University from Belgrade, Serbia.
Participation in the conference took a total of 104 researchers - 28 from Serbia and 76 from abroad representing:
- 15 different countries
- 32 different universities
- 28 eminent faculties
- 2 scientific institutes
- 7 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and
private enterprises, multinational companies,
associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2016 conference 69 papers have been published on more than 600 pages.
LIMEN 2015
The organizers of the LIMEN 2015 conference - Faculty of Engineering Management - Belgrade, Modern Business School - Belgrade, Faculty of Business and Management Sciences - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Faculty of Business Management and Informatics - Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Business Academy Smilevski - BAS, Skopje, Macedonia, BAS Institute of Management, Bitola, Macedonia and Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans headquartered in Belgrade - Serbia – have recognized the problem that nowadays exists in most modern organizations: so much management and too little of leadership; so they organized International Scientific-Business Conference titled: Leadership and Management: Integrated Politics of Research and Innovations - LIMEN 2015 in Belgrade on December 10, 2015 at the Hotel Excelsior.
Participation in the conference took a total of 169 researchers - 77 from Serbia and 92 from abroad representing:
- 14 different countries
- 39 different universities
- 38 eminent faculties
- two scientific institutes
- 8 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and
private enterprises, multinational companies,
associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the LIMEN 2015 conference 95 papers have been published on more than 750 pages.
ERAZ 2015
Participation in the ERAZ 2015 conference took a total of 136 researchers - 67 from Serbia and 69 from abroad representing:
- 7 different countries
- 28 different universities
- 32 eminent faculties
- 4 scientific institutes
- 5 colleges
- various ministries, local governments, public and
private enterprises, multinational companies,
associations, etc.
In the Conference Proceedings of the ERAZ 2015 conference 73 papers have been published on more than 600 pages.
Participation in the mentioned conferences took more than 1000 researches representing more than 150 eminent universities from 21 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italia, Latvia, Libiya, Macedonia, México, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
In the Conference Proceedings 562 papers have been published on more than 4500 pages.
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