Conference Proceedings

2nd International Conference on New Business Models

Exploring a changing view on organizing value creation:
Developing New Business Models

20-23 June, 2017 | University of Graz, Austria

The conference proceedings will be published as the Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation, and Sustainability Research Report (former “ISIS-Report”, ISSN 2305-2511, print; ISSN 2308-1767, online) under a Creative Commons copyrights license.

Example of reports can be found here: https://isis.uni-graz.at/en/forschen/isis-reports/

These proceedings will include all abstracts that are going to be presented at the conference (PART A). The abstracts will be taken into account automatically. In case you do not want to have your abstract included, please let us know by sending an e-mail to nbm@uni-graz.at latest by May 5, 2017.

Optionally, you have the opportunity to submit a short paper, which will not undergo any further reviews but will be included in the proceedings as well (PART B).

Deadline: Revised abstracts or short papers have to be uploaded on ConfTool (https://www.conftool.com/nbm2017/index.php?page=login) latest by May 5, 2017).

Besides the proceedings of the conference, the authors have the possibility to submit full research papers to the Special Issue in the “International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility” (link to the Call for Papers: https://jcsr.springeropen.com/about) or the Special Issue in the Journal of "Accountancy & Bedrijfskunde” (link to the Call for Papers: https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/new-business-models/CfP_Accountancy
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General Information for Abstract and Short Paper Submission:

Abstract: 500-700 words, excl. references

Short Paper: less than 4500 words including references, abstract, figures, tables

Language: please write your text in good English (American or British English usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these)

Structure: clearly defined and numbered sections according to the template file. Abstracts and short papers generally should correspond to the following structure:

-	Introduction

-	Theoretical Background / Literature Review

-	Methodology

-	Results and Discussion

-	Conclusion and Implications

-	References

Tables & Figures: should be readable and in good quality

Title Page Information for Abstracts and Short Papers:

-	Title

-	Author’s names and affiliations

-	Corresponding author(s) incl. e-mail address(es)

-	Keywords: up to 5 keywords

Title of the Abstract or Short Paper
Sub-Title, if needed

First Author, Second Author, Third Author
Affiliations (including e-mail address of the corresponding author)

Abstract (for short papers only!)

Normally, the abstract will not have any citations (if essential, citations need to be added in full – not just explained in the reference section as the abstract needs to be a “stand-alone” text). In addition, an abstract normally contains just one paragraph of text.

Keywords (up to 5)

Keyword 1, Keyword 2, …

Heading styles – level 1

The main level in your report will be this one (Heading 2). A report typically starts with an introduction, providing information on the scope and the limitations of the activities presented. Note that we use two different formats for the text here.

While the first paragraph in each text starts at the upper left corner, the next and following paragraphs typically are indented (using the style “Standard_InParagraph”.

Heading styles – level 2

Note that subheadings (level 3) are possible – using styles for “Heading 4”. Further headings may be used but will not be shown in the table of content.

In the following text we will use the headings in order to present other characteristics of formatting.

Figures, Tables and Boxes

It shows good practice to support report texts with media like graphics or photographs (figures), or tables. Headings for tables (and boxes, if that style is used) will always occur above the respective table, figure “captions” always will be placed below the figures. In consequence, the formats for these two styles are slightly different (with figure captions leaving some more space below in order to differentiate from the regular text). All figures and tables should be specifically addressed in the text (“see Tab. 1” or “as shown in Fig. 25”). For large reports and continuous editing it may be useful to use the respective built-in functions of numbering tables or figures.

Here we show in Tab. 1 how shading can help guide the reader’s eye to the appropriate line. The format of Tab. 1 (Table_caption) is the recommended format to be used in ISIS reports.

Table 1: Example for tables (note that boxes will use the same style)

HEADING	Col 2	Col. 3	Col. 4
Text	1	2	Some text
Text2	3	4	Some more text
Line 3*	4.5	6.5	Text in 1 line
Line 4	empty

*)	Sometimes it may be useful to add an explanatory footnote to a table element

For Fig. 1 we use a slightly different version. Figures will have their captions underneath (use Figure_caption), so we need extra spacing after caption, before the following text. It may be useful to format figures to be aligned “within text”, and, in case of copying from an Excel spreadsheet, to paste as graph, in order to avoid excessive spreadsheets being embedded in the document.

Figure 1: A photograph representing the options of figures

The text underneath the figure caption will follow somewhat separated to allow a clear differentiation between the two. Some attention should be given to the proper sizing of figures and tables – there is some danger that copying/pasting from other programs might result in exceeding page dimensions, or that different size fonts may lead to haphazard line breaks. In both cases, proper correction measures are needed.

Quotes and references

Sources used for a scientific work need to be clearly stated. In some cases we just refer to a source and explain details on the source in the “Literature” section (see below). For this please use “Harvard style” citation method, writing in text last name of the author (or both authors in case of 2) and the year of publication. When there are 3 or more authors, write last name of first author, followed by “et al.” and year of publication.

In some cases, it will be useful to extract quotes of original text from the source. Short quotes should be marked with “quotes” (“”), longer quotes should be presented in separate format:

Longer quotes can use the “Quotation” style specifically prepared for that purpose. This will allow them to be clearly identified as text copied from elsewhere.

Such a differentiation is needed to separate own ideas and concepts from material taken from elsewhere. Good scientific work builds upon and uses considerable amount of material that has been published already, always referring to the respective sources. Not only does this give proper credit to others’ work, but it also moves the responsibility of possibly poor study results to those responsible.

This example includes references to United Nations (2005), Tilman (1998) and to Meadows et al. (1972). Note that in all cases the references in the text need to clearly connect to an entry in the literature chapter, and vice versa.

Literature

Meadows, D.H., D.L. Meadows, J. Randers, and W.W. Behrens III (1972). The Limits to Growth. Universe Books, New York.

Tilman, D. (1998). The greening of the green revolution. Nature 396: 211-212.

United Nations (2005). World urbanization prospects: the 2005 revision. Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York.