retrospective to 2012:
2012 International Research Conference on FINANCE Perspectives took place in Steyr, Austria
at the location of our partner the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Read the full proceedings here. (warning full book download size)
Keynote Speaker: Wim A. Van der Stede, LSE - London School of Economics, University of London, UK
“Opportunities and challenges for management accounting and control research in the wake of the crisis”
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Theme: Finance, Accounting, Risk, Treasury and Management in times of VUCA
July 2nd - 4th 2012 in Steyr, Austria.
Social Side Program - City Walk
Prof. Dr. Wim van der Stede, LSE London
a diverse group, with participants from 40 nations
Prof. Dr. Othmar Lehner, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Prof. Dr. Asmah Aziz, Malaysia
Thank you all for coming, it was a wonderful event!
We are looking forward to seeing you at the:
2012 Theme:
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:
- Corporate Finance
- Economics and Global Finance
- Behavioural Finance
- Treasury and Liquidity
- Financial- and Enterprise Risk Management
- Accounting
- Mathematical & Computational Finance
- Investments & Portfolio Management
- Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Finance
- Banking and the Finance Industry Sector
Inspiring keynote speakers amongst from the London School of Economics, workshops on publishing and research as well as a great social side program will make this annual conference a rewarding journey to Austria!
All accepted (double blind peer-reviewed) conference papers can be published in the electronic ACRN Finance and Risk Perspectives 2012, with ISBN and ISSN number and are indexed and searchable.
In addition, some selected final papers will be eligible for publication in the special issue (Q1/ 2013) of the quarterly, academic peer-reviewed ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives (JoFRP), or the Routledge Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (ISSN 2043-0795), and are indexed in the SSRN with an ISSN.
Dr. Othmar Lehner, Dr. Heimo Losbichler
Responsible Editors
Keynote Speaker: Wim A. Van der Stede, LSE - London School of Economics, University of London, UK
“Opportunities and challenges for management accounting and control research in the wake of the crisis”
including the following Panels and PDWs:
KPMG Panel on Risk Reporting; Evening excursion to a big vehicle manufacturing plant, PDW on Islamic Banking and Finance Perspectives for the World, PhD students Panel, Panel on Sustainable Finance and Investment.
Academic Sponsors:
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- CUNY, City University New York, US
- Brno International Business School, Czech Republic
- ACRN research network
- London School of Economics, UK
- University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
- University of Linz, Austria
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- City University New York, US
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 from all over Europe, contributing to the European Union framework on cooperation in further education. All excess profit is used for grants and scholarships.