CALL for PAPERS

 

The 11th International Conference on ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS will be held in SAMARKAND (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/603/), Uzbekistan, from September 14 to September 16, 2026. The conference hotel is KOHINUR PLAZA HOTEL - https://www.kohinur-plaza.com/en/

The purpose of the conference is to provide an international discussion forum for research in economics and management of networks and digital platforms.

The following topics are invited for presentation at EMNet 2026:
Theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers from all areas in economics and management of networks and digital platforms (franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, consortia, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, clusters, international market entry through networks, public-private partnerships, the role of blockchain and AI in inter-organizational networks, DAO as new governance form, governance of blockchain- and AI-enabled platforms, linkages between interorganizational networks and ecosystems, blockchain-based international business governance, digitalization and governance of supply networks, sustainability and digital network governance, progress in the theory of networks and digital platforms) are welcome.

KEYNOTE: "Interorganizational Networks in the Digital Age"

ANNA GRANDORI
Professor of Business Organization, Editor in Chief, European Management Review
Università Bocconi, Department of Management and Technology

PUBLICATION POSSIBILITIES - SPECIAL ISSUE AND BOOK

 

1. SPECIAL ISSUE IN EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17404762

Topic: "GOVERNANCE OF INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DIGITAL ERA"
see here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17404762/homepage/calls-for-papers

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2026

Please submit the paper by using the submission system.

2. Edited BOOK in Springer:
"STRATEGY and MANAGEMENT of DIGITAL PLATFORMS and NETWORKS"

(eds. by J. Windsperger, A. Raha, Z. Yaqub)
The deadline for submitting the paper is February 28, 2027!

Please send the paper for the edited book to josef.windsperger@univie.ac.at.
Review Process for the edited book:
a.    In the first round of the review process the editors select a preliminary number of papers. The decision will be made within two weeks after submission.
b.    The selected papers are subjected to a second round double-blind review process. Only the papers that survive the second round of the review process will be accepted for final publication.

 

CONFERENCE FEES

Regular Conference Fees: 360 EUR (including reception, coffee breaks, lunch, conference dinner)

Reduced Fees:  PhD students, researchers from developing countries and Non-EU Eastern European Countries are requested to pay 260 EUR

DEADLINE for the payment of the fees: AUGUST 31!

PAYMENT

Please provide the payment to the University of Vienna account and indicate the project number: EMNet 2026, DP 380010. Please send a payment confirmation to josef.windsperger@univie.ac.at. In urgent cases, you can also pay in cash at the beginning of the conference.

"University of Vienna

EMNet 2026, DP 380010

Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien,

IBAN: AT08 3200 0000 0067 5447

BIC: RLNWATWW"

 

HOTEL

For conference participants the price for the room in KOHINUR PLAZA HOTEL - www.kohinur-plaza.com/en/ is:
115 $ for double room per night (incl. breakfast) and 90 $ for single room per night (incl. breakfast).

All participants must arrange their stay in KOHINUR PLAZA HOTEL by contacting the hotel: kohinur.plaza.hotel@gmail.com. Please also mention that you are participants of EMNet 2026 when making your booking, as this will help the hotel to identify the reservations correctly.

 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

 

Organizing Committee

• Josef Windsperger, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna (Organizing Chair)
• Aveed Raha, Faculty of Business, Eonomics and Statistics, University of Vienna
• Oksana Galak, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna
• Gérard Cliquet, CREM, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France
  
• Hussain Dildar, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France
• Nina Gorovaia-Zeniou, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus
  
• Muhammad Zafar Yaqub, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Scientific Committee 

Esther Calderon-Monge, Faculty of Economy and Business Studies, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

Antony Dnes, Florida Southern College, Editor-in-Chief of Managerial and Decision Economics, U.S.A.

Ilan Alon, School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 

Aveed Raha, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Oksana Galak, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria

Cintya Catalina Lanchimba Lopez, National Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador

Evelien Croonen, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Anne Marie Doherty, Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Magali Chauday, GATE, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, France

Manuel González-Díaz, School of Economics & Business, University of Oviedo, Spain

Manish Kacker, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Ben Lawrence, J.Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, U.S.A.

Anna Grandori, Università Bocconi, Editor-in-Chief of European Management Review, Department of Management and Technology, Milano, Italy

George Hendrikse, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Steven Michael, Lubar College of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A.

Jerker Nilsson, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Gérard Cliquet, CREM, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France

Claude Ménard, Centre d' Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Paris, France

Dildar Hussain, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France

Martin Ludvigsson-Wallette, Faculty of Business, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden

Tugba Gurcaylilar-Yenidogan, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

Muriel Fadairo, IREGE Lab., Université Savoie, Mont Blanc, French Alpes, France

Rozenn Perrigot, Université de Rennes, IGR-IAE, Rennes, France

Nina Gorovaia-Zeniou, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus

Muhammad Zafar Yaqub, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Marko Grünhagen, School of Business, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, U.S.A.

Maria Jell-Ojobor, Department of Business Administration, John Cabot University Rome, Italy

Farhad Sadeh, School of Business, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, U.S.A.

Josef Windsperger, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria