WELCOME LETTER

Dear Colleague,

The 7th International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management 2017 (ICLTIBM-2017) will be held between the dates of November 9-11, 2017, Thursday through Saturday. in Marmaris, Turkey.

This year’s conference theme, “Social Inovation, Corporate Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Management” is part of the conference’s standing agenda of forging workable solutions from the convening of scientific study and practical experience.

The conference is organized by the International Strategic Management and Managers Association, Istanbul, Turkey, Yildiz Technical University and the Journal of Global Strategic Management(ISSN:1307-6205). The 7th International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management 2017 (ICLTIBM-2017) aims to be the general forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental and applied leadership, technology, innovation and business management. The conference will bring together leading researchers, economists, businesspeople, managers, engineers and scientists in this field of study from around the world. Our distinguished participants will have the opportunity to present their valuable scientific contributions and to establish an international network among those who volunteer to communicate and study together in the field of business management.

This year our conference will feature a distinguished keynote speaker: Professor Lütfihak Alpkan of Istanbul Technical Univercity and Professor Jamaladdin Hussain of Purdue University, Calumet, who will address the plenary session.

Conference proceedings will be published on-line by Future Academy, in their on-line publication European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences(EpSBS), which is indexed by ISI Thomson Reuters, and which may also be accessed through the link www.futureacademy.org.uk/library The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences volume of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Leadership, Technology, Innovation and Business Management will be submitted for consideration to be included in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson Reuters. Those conference papers that will be considered for publication in one of the academic journals listed below will not be submitted to the European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences; therefore, authors who indicate their willingness to have their papers to be thus considered automatically forfeit their right to publication in the European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Some of the papers will be selected and published in the Journal of Global Strategic Management, an internationally refereed journal published twice a year by the International Strategic Management and Managers Association. Please be advised that the Journal is expanding its base of indexes, which currently include Cabell’s Directories, International Scientific Indexing (ISI), and GIF, and is currently under consideration for EBSCO and Thomson Reuters.

Proceedings of the ICLTIBM-2017 will be published on-line by;

Prospective authors are invited to submit full and original research papers which have not been published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. All manuscripts should be professionally proofread before the submission. Authors can use www.editavenue.com for professional proofreading, editing, etc.

The conference sessions will be multilingual and the participants may present their papers in Turkish, English, French and German at their discretion. However, all the papers should be written and submitted in English.

Please submit your papers to [email protected]

For detailed information please visit,
www.isma.info

Chairman of the Conference
Editor in Chief, Journal of Global Strategic Management
Prof. Dr. Cemal ZEHİR

Co-chair
Prof. Dr. Lütfihak ALPKAN
Prof. Dr. Oya ERDİL
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet BAYANSALDUZ
Asst. Prof. Dr. Esra ERZENGİN ÖZDEMİR