CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE BANQUE POPULAIRE CHAIR IN MICROFINANCE
OF THE BURGUNDY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
The 4th International Conference on Institutional and Technological Environment for Microfinance (ITEM 4)
Financial inclusion: Lessons between the South and the North
April 11 & 12, 2013
Le Comptoir Général, 80 quai de Jemmapes, 75010 Paris, France
http://item4.weebly.com/
microfinancechair@escdijon.eu
The ITEM4 conference will gather academics and practitioners working on financial inclusion in developed and developing countries. Participants will try to identify which lessons the North can learn from the South and the lessons the South can learn from the North. Debates will also be focused on financial inclusion as an economic instrument for social solidarity. Other microfinance related topics will be discussed in parallel and plenary sessions.
The conference will include papers in track for special issues of journal partners of ITEM 4 as well as other works in progress for publications in partner journals or others. At the conference presenters will be notified if their work is of interest for partner journals, indicated below.
Concurrent tracks will be held either in French or in English.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Jean-Michel Servet, Professor of development studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva.
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS:
The submission deadline is extended to February 15th, 2013. Papers for the conference will be reviewed anonymously and authors will be notified of the decision as soon as possible. Papers must be sent to microfinancechair@escdijon.eu
RECOMMENDED TOPICS
Examples of subjects in the streams include, but are not limited to:
Cost management in microfinance
Transaction costs in microfinance
Social costs of microfinance
Operational cost management in microfinance
Strategic cost management in microfinance
Innovation and cost management in microfinance
The use of technology to reduce microfinance costs
MIS (SaaS , cloud computing)
Online financing
Mobile banking
Quantitative credit risk evaluation techniques
Performance management in microfinance
Economic performance
Need for financial sustainability (independence from donors)
Social performance of microfinance institutions
Difficulties of double bottom line measures for microfinance
Conceptualizations in total performance or global performance for microfinance
Co-creation and the need for alliances to improve the performance of microfinance
Microfinance between State and market
· Impact of public policies on development of microfinance
· Public tools for financial inclusion
· Impact of private initiatives on development of microfinance
· Private tools for financial inclusion
· Issue of regulation on microfinance actors
o Special regulation vs. lack of regulation of the microfinance sector
o Special regulation of social and solidarity economic sector
o Outreach of regulation
· Microfinance: core of the social mission of economic actors
· Welfarist and institutional approaches of microfinance
Microfinance as a tool of inequality alleviation
· Empowerment of women through microfinance
· Development of Social Business
· Professional microcredit vs. personal microcredit
· Can microfinance remain a social tool while becoming capitalistic?
· Microfinance as a tool for social cohesion
· UN International Year of Water Cooperation
SPECIAL ISSUES
JournalTopicsStyleLangEditor / Guest
Cost Management Cost Management, performance management, strategic view Practitioner
To Paul Sharman /
Arvind Ashta
EurOrient Politic science, economic issues, society Academic
To Wafik Raouf /
Djamchid Assadi
International Journal of Technology and Human InteractionsTechnology and microfinance, e.g. MIS for microfinance, online lending and mobile bankingAcademic
To Anabela Mesquita
Chia Wen-Tsai
La Revue des Sciences de Gestion (LaRSG)Management, marketing, strategy, finance Academic
To
Philippe Naszalyi /
Laurence Attuel-Mendes
Strategic ChangeEntrepreneurial finance, all aspectsAcademic
To Carlo Milano /
Arvind Ashta
Contributors should indicate the journal they target.
ACADEMIC REVIEW BOARD
Dr. Azizah ABDULLAH, Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Dr. Arvind ASHTA, Professor (Finance), Holder of the Banque Populaire Chair in Microfinance, Burgundy School of Business, France
Dr. Djamchid ASSADI, Professor (Marketing and New Media), Burgundy School of Business, France
Dr. Laurence ATTUEL-MENDES, Professor (Law), Burgundy School of Business, France
Dr. Charles VINCENT, Professor and Principal Research, CENTRUM Catolica Graduate School of Business, PUCP, Peru
Dr. Mawuli COUCHORO, Faculty of Economics and Management, Université de Lomé, Togo
Prof. Louis DE KOKER, Chair of Law, Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Karl DAYSON, Deputy Head of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences School, University of Salford, UK
Dr. Glòria Estapé DUBREUIL, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr-HDR Pascal GLÉMAIN, ESSCA CeRESS and CIAPHS Rennes 2 Ueb, France
Dr. V. GOPAL, Dean (Academics) and Professor of finance, IMT Nagpur, India
Dr. Abdelillah HAMDOUCH, Professor, Polytechnic School - University François Rabelais of Tours, France
Dr. Samanthala HETTIHEWA, University of Ballarat, Australia
Dr. Marek HUDON, Professor (Microfinance), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Director CERMi, Belgium
Dr. Fredj JAWADI, Professor (Economics), University of Evry, France
Dr. Frank LENTZ, Researcher (IT), Burgundy School of Business, France
Mr. Onafowokan OLUYOMBO, Coordinator, Banking and Finance, Redeemer's University, Nigeria
Dr. Philipp OTTO, Researcher, European University Viadrina, Germany
Dr. Yvon PESQUEUX, CNAM, LIPSOR, France
Dr. Pritam SINGH, Director, Postgraduate Programme in International Management and International Relations, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dr. Dimitri UZUNIDIS, University of Greece, Université Littoral, France and University of Seattle, USA
Dr. Chris WRIGHT, Business School, Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia
PRACTITIONER REVIEW BOARD
Dr. Mostaq AHMMED, Managing Director, Green Housing and Energy ltd., Bangladesh
Mr. Mikhail CHERKAS, Director, Business Development CIS, Central and Eastern Asia, Microfinance Strategy sarl, Switzerland
M Puspadhar DAS, Chef division TI, Asomi Finance Pvt Ltd, India
Mr. Ryan EDWARDS, Adviser, Australian Public Service, Australia
Mr. Saleh KHAN, Manager, advisory services, MF sector, PWC, Luxembourg
Ms. Maria Jesus MARIÑO GOMEZ, Microfinance Consultant, Spain
Dr. Nzilu MUSYOKI, Director Marketing, Brand Kenya Board, Kenya
Ms. Marianne NOWAK, Consultant: Transaction Advisory Services - Financial Services, New York, USA
Mr. Krishna NYAPATI, Managing Director, Microsense Software Pvt Ltd, India
Mr. Paul SHARMAN, Editor in Chief, Cost Management, Canada
Ms. Isabelle ZIGLIARA, Partnership and sponsorphip, Fédération Nationale des Banques Populaires, France
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AT THE BURGUNDY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Dr. Stéphan BOURCIEU, Professor (Strategy), Dean (President of the committee)
Mrs. Marie-José ALBERT-BATT, International Director
Mrs. Isabelle DEMAY, Corporate Partnership Director
Mrs. Christine MARTIN, Marketing Director
Dr. Sophie REBOUD, Professor (Innovation) and Research Director
Dr. Arvind ASHTA, Professor (Finance), Holder of the Banque Populaire Chair in Microfinance
Dr. Djamchid ASSADI, Professor (Marketing and New Media)
Dr. Laurence ATTUEL-MENDES, Professor (Law)
Mr. Vitalie BUMACOV, Research Associate
Mr. Hayyan ALIA, Research Assistant
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