Doctoral Colloquium : New Trends and Developments in Marketing

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The Doctoral Colloquium provides outstanding doctoral students in an intermediate or advanced stage of their dissertation process concerned with new trends and developments in marketing. They will have 50 minutes to present and to discuss their work. They will receive suggestions on dissertation positioning, methodological approaches, data collection approach, dissertation process management and paper submission to journals.

The Doctoral Colloquium of the 11th International Marketing Trends Conference which will take place in Venice (Italy) on January, Thursday 19th 2012.

The Doctoral Colloquium provides doctoral students the opportunity to present their PhD research in an international and a friendly one-on-one environment, to refine research questions, to publish research, to receive guidance on future research directions, and to gain advice on building an academic career from a panel of leading academics.

During the Doctoral Colloquium, each participant will have 20 minutes to introduce his / her work (15 slides max) in English and 20-30 minutes to discuss their proposal with a panel of international academics.

The Doctoral Colloquium is chaired by Professor Elyette Roux from University Aix-Marseille II.

In order to submit a proposal for the Doctoral Colloquium, please click here

Selection Criteria:

The Scientific Committee will review proposals and provide developmental suggestions. Selection criteria will be focused on proposals concerned with new trends and developments in marketing as well as on quality and soundness of proposed method; and potential contribution to advancing the field. Preference will be given to doctoral candidates who have finished data analysis and discussion.
 

Deadlines for submission and registration to the 2012 Doctoral Colloquium:

18th October 2011:
Submission of proposal and requirements

18th November 2011:
Proposal acceptance

1st December 2011:
Registration deadline (please note a registration to the Doctoral Colloquium gives you access to the complete program of the International Marketing Trends Conference)

19th January 2012:
Colloquium Doctoral of the 11th International Marketing Trends Conference, in Venice (Italy)

Submission Requirements:

(Note that all documents must be sent in Word format in English)

• Proposal (5/10 pages max, 20 000 characters spaces non included, 1,5 spaced in 12 point font): provisional title, author information (university affiliation) abstract, keywords, academic and managerial marketing issue; research question, literature review; theoretical framework and hypotheses; proposed methodology, anticipated results or preliminary findings or results; conclusion, expected theoretical and managerial implication and anticipated contribution to knowledge, main references.

• Research Statement (2 pages max): name, university address, title, name of thesis advisor (s), date of enrollment and whether part-time or full-time, research agenda, whether at the early (theoretical development), middle (data collection) or late (data analysis and discussion) stages, next steps, one specific issue where you would like feedback from the panel.

• Curriculum Vitae (2 pages max): a brief CV, name, address, academic background, work experience, research interests and objectives, main publications.

• Letter of nomination: thesis advisor is supposed to send his approval with the proposal of the research and to confirm the research agenda.

Please note that no more than one student can be nominated from the same doctoral program.