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CHAIN AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT - WICANEM 2018 - AGRIREGIONIEUROPA
13th Wageningen International Conference on

Chain and
Network
Management
WICaNeM 2018

Ancona, Italy | 2nd through 4th of July 2018                                                   Archivio fotografico della Regione Marche

Call for abstracts

                                              agriregionieuropa
                                              associazioneAlessandroBartola
                                              studi e ricerche di economia e di politica agraria
CHAIN AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT - WICANEM 2018 - AGRIREGIONIEUROPA
WICaNeM 2018

Sustainability and
Innovation in chains
and networks

                                                                                   Archivio fotografico della Regione Marche
Over the last two decades, WICaNeM       Sustainability and Innovation in
has become a well-known conference       Chains and Network.
regarding the management,
economics and organization of chains     Next to the academic tracks, which
and networks in a Life Sciences          will be held during all the days of the
context. Over the years,                 conference, on Monday July 2
representatives of business,             the discussions will focus on building
government and research discuss the      a sustainability and innovation agenda
latest issues of innovation and          from an academic and research
sustainability in chains and networks    perspective, while Tuesday the 3rd of
to build the sustainability agenda for   July will focus on building the
the years to come. It is the 13 time
                                  th
                                         sustainability agenda and the
we organize the WICaNeM                  innovations that are needed from a
Conference. Now we have joined           company and business perspective.
forces with the Università Politecnica   Wednesday the 4th of July will
delle Marche to create a European        conclude the conference with a
Platform in Ancona, Italy. This year’s   farewell reception.
Conference theme will be
CHAIN AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT - WICANEM 2018 - AGRIREGIONIEUROPA
Wageningen University and                 Conference theme
Research and the Università               • Managing Sustainability and
Politecnica delle Marche cordially          Innovation in Networks and Chains
invite professors, applied researchers,
managers, consultants, and policy         General theme tracks
makers interested in the                  • Multi-stakeholder governance
management, economics and                   mechanisms and wicked problems
organization of chains and networks       • Sustainable Entrepreneurship in
to present and discuss their most           Chains and Networks
recent advances in science and            • Responsible Innovation in Chains
business. The benefits of participating     and Networks
in this unique Conference are evident:    • Promoting sustainable and healthy
being on the cutting edge of chain          behavior: breaking old and building
and network science, meeting the            new habits
experts from all over the world and,      • Economics and Organization
finally, yet importantly, sharing           of Agribusiness
experiences with old and new friends.     • Social Network Analysis
                                          • European Innovation Partnership
                                            and agricultural innovation networks
                                          • Resilience of food networks in
                                            fragile areas
                                          • Recovery of food production and
                                            networks after adverse events

                                          Project-based tracks
                                          • Accelerating the Development
                                            of the Biobased Economy
WICaNeM 2018 offers conference            • Crop diversification and low-input
theme tracks, general theme tracks,         farming across Europe: from
and project-based tracks. Scholars          practitioners’ engagement and
and practitioners are also encouraged       ecosystems services to increased
to propose new tracks around specific       revenues and value chain
topics of interest and to invite their      organization
networks to attend. Tracks will run in
smaller or larger formats, dependent
                                                 agriregionieuropa
on submissions and wider popularity.             associazioneAlessandroBartola
The following tracks are currently
                                                 studi e ricerche di economia e di politica agraria

being organized:
Correspondence                          Social activities
Correspondence should be sent to
the WICaNeM secretariat or the track    Conference dinner
organizers:                             Monday, 2nd July 2018
Department of Social Science/
Management Studies                      Closing farewell reception
Wageningen University                   Wednesday, 4th July 2018
and Research
The Netherlands
E-mail: wicanem.mst@wur.nl              Important dates

Venue                                   15 January 2018
                                        Extended abstract submission
The Conference will take place at the   deadline
Università Politecnica delle Marche,
Ancona. Ancona provides plenty of       1 February 2018
opportunity for several types of        Notification of acceptance
accommodation.
                                        1 March 2018
                                        Full paper submission deadline
Fees
                                        1 April 2018
Regular participant                     Feedback on final paper
Early registration fee €395
                                        15 May 2018
PhD participant                         Final paper submission deadline
€345
                                        1 June 2018
These are for participation in          Early registration deadline
the conference and include all
lunches and coffee breaks, the          2nd through 4th July 2018
Welcome and Farewell Receptions,        Conference
as well as the conference dinner on
Monday 2 July.
Call for extended abstracts
and research papers

Academic and applied researchers,        The website www.ifamaeurope.org
participants from companies,             provides more information about the
research institutes, public offices,     expected content, format, track
NGOs and consultancy are invited to      organizers, and links to our new
submit (original) scientific or          online submission system.
business extended abstracts (1,000       All abstracts and papers will be
words, one Word page in English)         double blind-reviewed. The material
by January 15   th
                     2018. Conditional   submitted must be original and must
to acceptance authors will be invited    not have been published elsewhere.
to submit a full paper of around
10-15 pages (A4).

A full paper has to be sent by
March 1st 2018. These papers
participate to the “Best Paper
Award” competition. Best papers
will be selected for publication in an
issue of the ISI listed
International Food and
Agribusiness Management
Review (IFAMR) journal
(organized by Prof. Jacques
Trienekens at Wageningen University
in cooperation with Dr. Michael                   Ar
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Dentoni as IFAMR executive editors).
Organization
International Advisory Committee
• S. Bröring, University of Bonn, Germany
• T. Camps, Berenschot, University of Tilburg
• K.G. Grunert, The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
• A. Louw, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• C. Menard, University of Paris 1, France
• G. Schiefer, University of Bonn, Germany
• K. Wang, Nanjing University, China

Program Committee
• J. Bloemhof, Operations Research and Logistics, WUR
• A. Oude Lansink, Business Economics, WUR
• B. Tekinerdogan, Information Technology, WUR
• J. Trienekens, Management Studies Group, WUR
• H. van Trijp, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, WUR
• E. Chiodo, University of Teramo, Italy
• S. Coderoni, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Organizing Team
• Valentina C. Materia (chair), Management Studies Group, WUR
• Maria Carmela Annosi, Management Studies Group, WUR
• Franco Sotte, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
• Roberto Esposti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
• Linette Hoksbergen & Ina Versteeg, Management Studies Group, WUR

Department of Social Science/Management Studies
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands
E-mail: wicanem.mst@wur.nl

www.ifamaeurope.org
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