CALL FOR PAPERS

9th Social Business Academia Conference 2020
Bogota, Colombia

November 5-6, 2020

A recent Oxfam report indicates that the world's richest 1% receive 82% of the global wealth. In the last 10 years, the wealth of the richest has increased dramatically. In contrast, public services have been suffering from persistent funding shortages. In many countries, access to better quality education, healthcare, and other basic necessities is increasingly becoming a luxury to the majority of the population. Around 32% of global children under five years of age are suffering from malnutrition. These have long-term implications for the future of children. Moreover, poor people are likely to die ten or twenty years earlier than rich people. The above-mentioned aspects contribute to the widening of the extent of inequality in societies. Consequently, the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs) becomes difficult. The concept of Social Business has been initiated and promoted by the Founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning “Grameen Bank” and Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus could be seen as the “solution” to the above-mentioned problems facing the world today. The details of the principles of social business developed by Professor Yunus are available HERE.

General Subjects for Conference Papers:

The 9th Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC 2020), an interdisciplinary conference to be held in Bogota, Columbia on November 5-6, 2019. We invite academic papers, practitioner cases, and concept notes on innovative ideas on any issues related to social business. We especially invite submissions on social business issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Papers in both English and Spanish are accepted. 

The regular and online presentations are going to be allowed.

The suggested themes for papers include:

1. The importance of social business in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Poverty and wealth concentration.
3. Promoting sustainable development including climate change, health improvement, plastic pollution control, and environmental sustainability.
4. Achieving UN SDGs through the application of the social business methodology.
5. Affordable healthcare for bottom-most people.
6. Application of technologies in achieving qualitative changes in the lives of the unreachable people.
7. Identifies the differences and similarities among the concepts of social business, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, social economy, social impact investment, corporate social responsibility, etc.
8. Issues related to the financing of social businesses including innovative financing techniques (potentials and limitations of various financing options, like bonds, venture capital, crowdfunding, philanthropic capital, etc.).
9. Various examples of the application of the social business concept.
10. Research and teaching methodologies of social business.
11. Measurement of social impacts of social businesses.
12. Emerging management methodologies for managing social businesses.
13. Social businesses in developed countries. 
14. Theoretical basis and practical experiences of establishing and operating social business funds.
15. From unemployment to entrepreneurship through social business funds.
16. Development of an ecosystem for the steady growth of the social business.
17. Social Business, marketing, and social marketing.
18. Social business and strategic alliances.
19. Social business, empathy, and active compassion.
20. Social business and education.
21. Social business and customer service relationship.
22. Application of Artificial intelligence and robotics in social business
23. Social business and sports.

Important Dates

Submission Details:

There will be a peer-review process to select papers for the presentation at the conference. Once papers have been selected authors will be notified about the specific sessions in the conference where it will be presented. At least one of the authors would have to register and be present at the conference for the presentation of the paper. If no author is available to present the paper, the paper will be withdrawn from the presentation list.       

Authors are requested to submit their papers (in PDF only) through the submission page of the Social Business Academia Conference 2020 (http://socialbusinesspedia.com/sbac/2020). Authors are requested also to see the instructions for authors before submitting the paper. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at:

-    Professor M. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (mjac@du.ac.bd);
-    Ms. Nazneen Sultana (nazneen@grameen.org);
-    Dr. Ashir Ahmed (ashir@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp).
-    Lamiya Morshed  (lamiya@grameen.org)

Venue & Location

Bogota, Colombia