This conference will look at ongoing projects and remaining challenges for the development of competitive markets and secure, sustainable energy supplies for the region.

The conference will showcase research on these issues from (social) science and technology studies, and feminist and post-colonial studies under the framework of the project Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study (KNOWING, Framework Programme 6, www.knowing.soc.cas.cz).

Key topics: - The potential for Factoring in the significantly growing CEE Market - Achieving excellence in product and services - What does Cross-border Factoring look like? - Setting up a Cross-border Subsidiary – a complex task - Powerful Risk Management strategies and effective credit risk...

Financial services customers are using more and more channels – such as call centres, online banking etc. This trend looks permanent, but must be managed carefully and efficiently, as the cost of using more channels continues to grow. This year’s Efma Congress will therefore look at the...

The submission of research papers in the following fields is especially encouraged: - The Evolution of Retail Finance - Financial Retail Services Integration and Regulation - The Real Effects of Retail Financial Services

Some of the main issues that will be addressed by the conference include: • The right channels – Exploring the benefits of alternative sales channels, and looking at how to minimise the legal barriers involved in building thriving relationships with new business partners. • The right...

The topic of EURORURAL '08 conference includes wide scale of issues: 1. Rural landscapes, ecology, landscape planning 2. Rural settlement, small towns as centres of rural micro-regions 3. Rural sociology and demography, quality of rural life 4. Rural economy, role of agriculture, tourism and...

ISBIS-2008 will have particular emphasis on quantitative aspects of Finance, as well as its important contemporary statistical issues in business and industry. Many world leading quantitative financial analysts and industrial statisticians will be participating. It will provide a varied and...

FMA’s European Conference brings together academicians and practitioners with interests in financial decision-making. The meeting provides a forum for presenting new research and discussing current issues in financial management and related topics.

We aspire to create a lively discussion environment for any scholars who have been active in migration research, not just on the European scale. We would like the keynote speakers to bring fresh ideas that will be discussed by Ph.D. students and other scholars. We aspire to juxtapose multiple...