Instructions for Authors
1. Definition of Social Business:
All papers to be submitted to the Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC) need to follow mandatorily the definition of social business given by Professor Muhammad Yunus (Nondividend company to solve human problems). The principles of social business are: (1) Business objective will be to overcome poverty or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society. (2) Financial and economic sustainability. (3) Investors get back their investment amount only; no dividend is given beyond investment money. (4) When investment amount is paid back, company profit stays with the company for expansion and improvement. (5) Gender-sensitive and environmentally conscious. (6) Workforce gets market wage with better working conditions. (7) Do it with joy.
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2. Linking Cases with Social Business:
For the case based papers, it is important to illustrate how the case is linked to the concept of social business defined by Professor Yunus. It is important also to explain clearly how the project mentioned in the case is going to overcome a specific human problem in any or several of the following areas, such as education, health, environment, technology along with poverty which threatens people and society. Moreover, it is also important to clarify how the project ensures its financial and economic sustainability.
3. Online Submission Guidelines:
To use SBAC system, you will need to sign in first. If you already have an account, please enter your email address and password in the corresponding fields of the form on the SBAC sign in page.
If you have an account but forgot your password, please put in your email address in email address/user ID field and click ‘Forgot your password?’; we will e-mail you the password reset link. Once you click the link, a password reset page will appear. You can reset the password by filling up mandatory fields.
If you do not have an account on the SBAC system yet, please click on the "Sign Up" link. Fill in the form and then click on the "Sign Up" button. Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk. We will email an account activation link. Once you click the link, your account will be activated on the SBAC System and you can sign in.
4. Review Process:
Acceptance of papers for the conference will be based on a review of a full pa per by two anonymous referees. Following acceptance, attendees will be expected to submit the final version of the full paper after incorporating the comments of the reviewers.
5. Submissions of Full Papers:
Manuscripts (.pdf) should be submitted online by signing in to the SBAC System following the submission guidelines. In order to facilitate the review process:
i. Authors are expected to submit the manuscript without any author names and affiliations, or any other information that could disclose the authors.
ii. A separate electronic document containing only a title page with the following information: (i) the full title, (ii) all authors’ names with affiliations, and (iii) the contact information (i.e., email and regular mail) of the corresponding authors. If authors want to include acknowledgments or disclosure notices, they should use this document (a second page) to include the necessary information.
6. Manuscript Format:
The entire manuscript must be single-spaced (including footnotes and references) and written on an A4 page format, with 2 cm margins all around. Indents should be created using the tab function (1.27cm left), not the space bar (spaces). The preferred font is 12-point Times New Roman.
Author(s): The "blinded" manuscript must not contain the name(s) of the author(s).
Abstract: The maximum acceptable size of the abstract is 300 words.
Keywords: All texts must be accompanied by a list of keywords: 4 to5 words or short phrases best describing the content of the papers. The keywords have to be arranged in alphabetical order.
Acknowledgments and Disclosure Notices: The manuscript must not contain any kind of acknowledgments or disclosure notices (as a footnote or within the text). They may provide information that can lead to a positive identification of the author(s).
Paper Size: The initial submission should preferably not exceed 4000 words.
References: References should follow the Harvard style.
Titles and Subtitles (Headings): Authors should use a maximum of three levels of headings:
Heading 1 – corresponding to the paper title (size 14, bold)
Heading 2 – for subtitles (size 13, bold)
Heading 3 – for sections (size 12.5, bold and italics)