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The Conference where research and practise become one calls for your contribution.

Come and start your life anew with us at Combi2010 in Vantaa, Finland, 7-10 October 2010.

The true power lies in you – let’s build up critical mass at Combi2010 to utilise the wisdom of many.

Contemporary Views on Business: Partnering for the Future" (Combi2010) is an important forum for knowledge co-creation and intellectual exchange emphasising partnering and international knowledge transfer as sources of competitive edge. In Combi2010, you are reserved plenty of time for lively dialogue, responsive thought transference and ideation.

Combi2010 joins the great minds of academics, business executives and other professionals from both private and public sectors to share and co-create knowledge on business-related topics. Furthermore, Combi2010 actively seeks to promote synergies between business and academia. Our international conference programme contains tailor-made modules to satisfy even the most demanding needs of faculty members, executives, entrepreneurs, and post-graduates.

Combi2010 is hosted by four Universities of Applied Sciences from the larger Metropolitan region (HAMK, Helsinki Metropolia, Laurea, LUAS) and being organised in collaboration with partners incl. e.g. ECR Finland, the Regional Organisation of Enterprises in Uusimaa and international scientific journals.

CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ARE OPEN FROM 4 JANUARY 2010 ONWARDS. Submit online at your

• competitive paper manuscript not exceeding 20 double-spaced pages and/or
• poster presentation abstract of 1500-5000 characters and/or
• work-in-progress presentation abstract of 1500-5000 characters and/or
• special session proposals of not exceeding 5 double-spaced pages

Combi2010 has 19 Tracks representing the subject fields of Business Studies, Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Please consult the attached Call documents for details.

Best Paper in Conference will be awarded. All the accepted papers will be published in the printed, ISSN/ISBN identified, Conference Proceedings and in an electronic format on a USB drive. In addition to this, the best papers chosen by Track Chairs are eligible for publication as double blind peer reviewed articles at least in the International Journal of Technology Diffusion and International Journal of Management Innovation Systems. The Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce will publish a special issue on Combi2010 Conference Papers.

Combi2010 Keynotes and Invited Speakers represent both business and academia, and come from prestigious affiliations and corporations worldwide. Join the presence of for example

• the awarded scholors Professor Richard A. Lancioni (Temple University) and Professor Mary Lou Roberts (UMASS Boston/Harvard Extention),
• the internationally recognised expert Professor Erkko Autio (Imperial College),
• the developer of Vision Into Action -management framework and toolbox Ph.D. (Hon) Tero J. Kauppinen (VIA Group),
• the famous speaker and Harvard Business School Europe Research Center Executive Director Vincent Dessain, and
• the specialist of user centric and network based development in the service and information system areas, Development Director Jukka Ahtikari from Logica Finland

Besides intriguing presentations and participatory workshops, Combi2010 offers you also hands-on experiences in developing your desk drawer manuscripts into a publishable article, cultivating your research proposals and plans, and crystallising your work-in-progress.

Please feel free to circulate this email and distribute the attached Call documents among your peers. We would be also delighted, if your home institution could post online the attached Combi2010 and link it to the Combi2010 website.

Keep your eye at for the latest developments.

The Calls close by the end of March 2010.

The Combi2010 Organising Committee awaits to see you in Finland next October!

E-mail: info@combi2010.fi URL:

Best regards
Olli Aaltonen
Member of the Organising Committee

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