Postponement of the 11th Social Business Academia Conference

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from Yunus Centre!

We wanted to update you on the status of the 11th Social Business Academia Conference that was originally scheduled for 11th November 2023 in Berlin.

Due to some previously unforeseen circumstances, it has become necessary for us to postpone the conference to a later date, which will be sometime next year. We understand the importance of this event and its impact on the social business community, and we want to ensure that we can host it effectively.

While we regret any inconvenience this may cause, we are committed to delivering a conference that lives up to our standards of excellence. In the coming months, we will be announcing the new dates and location for the conference.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the Yunus Centre at ysbc@yunuscentre.org. We are here to assist you and provide any information you may need.

We will keep you updated as we make progress in rescheduling the conference, and we look forward to your continued support and participation in this important event.

Thank you for your understanding, and we hope to see you at the rescheduled Social Business Academia Conference next year.

Warm regards,
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Chair: Organizing Committee
SBAC

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CALL FOR PAPERS

11th  Social Business Academia Conference 2023

November, 2023

Social business is about re-organising the world not only for a more prosperous future but also a more dignified survival. SBAC is about supporting these aims through social business research and teaching. The need for such alternatives has never been greater. Within this century, the future of humans on this planet looks very dark indeed, unless some drastic actions are taken in the immediate years. After a potentially short period of time, the planet will enter the ‘red zone’, where the ongoing process of worsening will become irreversible. All actions to reverse the process will have no impact whatsoever. Within the little time we have, only extraordinarily bold and immediate actions can save humans and other life forms from disaster. Social Business has a role to play in this.

General Subjects for Conference Papers:

Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC 2023), an interdisciplinary conference, is to be held on 11 November 2023 in Berlin. This notice is to help give you time to prepare a submission. We invite academic papers, practitioner cases, and concept notes on innovative ideas on any issues related to social business.

In person and online presentations are allowed. You are highly encouraged to be present live to make the best use of the opportunity.

Our Scientific Committee organises assessment of abstracts in major Tracks of: Health & Sport: Education; Technology and Artificial Intelligence; Finance and the SDGs; Marketing and Entrepreneurship; Environment, Disaster Management and Pollution Control; Wealth Creation and Other Issues).

Also, when using the term ‘social business’, submissions should focus on Professor Muhammad Yunus’ definitions of such: Non-dividend company to solve human problems. The seven principles of social business are as follows:

(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.

This provides wide scope for themes of papers, which, in the past, have covered

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 the 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.
24. War, Peace and Economics: the Future of Human Being

Important Dates

Submission Details:

There will be a peer-review process to select submissions for oral presentation at the conference. Submissions can be in the form of an abstract or full paper. However, even if in the form of an abstract, if accepted, a full written paper is expected to be submitted at a later date. Once selected, authors will be notified about the specific sessions in the conference in which their paper 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 through the submission page of the Social Business Academia Conference 2023 (http://socialbusinesspedia.com/sbac/2023). Authors are requested also to see the instructions for authors before submitting. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at:

• Professor Cam Donaldson,Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics,Glasgow Caledonian University:Email:Cam.Donaldson@gcu.ac.uk
• Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury,Professor, School of Business and Economics, North South University Email:hannan.chowdhury@northsouth.edu
• Ms. Nazneen Sultana, Executive Vice Chairman, Grameen Communications,Email:nazneen@grameen.org
• Ms. Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director,Yunus Centre Email:lamiya@grameen.org