Call for Papers

University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences is organizing the 37th International Conference on Organizational Science Development. The conference will be held from 21st to 23rd March 2018 in Portorož, Slovenia.

Plenary sessions and research paper panels will bring together numerous professionals from the economy, research and education, healthcare, public administration, tourism, army, police, finance and insurance as well as other fields. As such, this conference presents a meeting point for different topics but with a common thread, namely organizational business process management, information systems, and human resource management systems.

This year’s conference programme will include additional education in the form of lectures, round tables, seminars, and workshops connected with the working title of the conference. Let this be an opportunity for you to present and discuss your work and your experience.

Submitted papers will be reviewed and authors will be notified of acceptance.

Accepted papers will be published in Conference proceedings (online version with ISBN).

The editors of the international conference proceedings will be:

  • Olja Arsenijević, Univerzitet UNION – Nikola Tesla, Fakultet za poslovne studije i pravo Beograd, Srbija
  • Iztok Podbregar, Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za organizacijske vede, Slovenija
  • Polona Šprajc, Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za organizacijske vede, Slovenija
  • Dragan Trivan, Univerzitet UNION – Nikola Tesla, Fakultet za poslovne studije i pravo Beograd, Srbija
  • Yvonne Ziegler, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

The best research paper written in English will be selected among all accepted papers by a three-member committee, consisting of editorial board members. The authors of the best paper will be invited to submit the extended version of the paper for fast-track review in the journal Organizacija.

Organizacija is covered by numerous Abstracting & Indexing services, including SCOPUS.


The following main themes will form the framework of the 37th International Conference on Organizational Science Development.

FORSEEN CONFERENCE TOPICS (SESSIONS):

  • Organization and Management
  • Social Responsibility
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Business Process and Production Management
  • Crisis Management
  • E-Learning
  • Ecology Management
  • Education Management
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Economics
  • Financial Institutions Management
  • Financial Management and Accounting
  • Health Care and Social Welfare Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Informatics
  • Innovation Management
  • Logistics
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behaviour
  • Project Management
  • Public Sector Management
  • Quality Management
  • Quantitative Methods for Management
  • Sport Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Tourism Management
  • PhD Student Session
  • Poster Session

We also welcome papers from other fields of management, organization and business studies.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require any further information through the Centre of Consulting and Education by e-mail: cis@www.fov.uni-mb.si or phone: +386 4 2374 245.

Paper submission is available here.