诚邀您参加华人学者管理科学与工程协会（CSAMSE）第九次国际年会

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　  由华人学者管理科学与工程协会（The Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE））主办、中国科学技术大学管理学院、合肥工业大学管理学院、国家自然科学基金委员会、美国哥伦比亚大学商学院联合承办的“华人学者管理科学与工程协会（CSAMSE）第九次国际年会”将于2016年7月16日-7月17日在中国科学技术大学管理学院举行。
　  本次年会的主题是“互联网+与科学管理”，秉承了协会创办以来的一贯宗旨，即致力于理论联系实际，通过创新和管理技术，应对企业运营管理过程中的新挑战，并特别关注中国企业的实际问题，我们诚邀您参会、提交论文、参加论文演讲。
 

华人学者管理科学与工程协会
中国科学技术大学管理学院
合肥工业大学管理学院
国家自然科学基金委员会
美国哥伦比亚大学商学院
2016年1月

The Ninth Annual International Conference of Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE)
Call for Papers
(The first call)
Internet Plus and Scientific Management
July 16-17, 2016, School of Management,
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
CSAMSE Official Website (under construction)

Host:
Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering
 Sponsors:
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
　　 School of Management, Hefei University of Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
　 China Business Initiative, Chazen Institute, Columbia Business School

1. Introduction

The ninth annual international conference of the Chinese scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) will be held on July 16-17, 2016, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
The Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering (OCSAMSE) is a highly recognized and rapidly growing community of scholars, from both overseas and mainland China, in the field of Management Science and Engineering (MSE), who are united by a common interest to promote the communication between academia and industry and to improve management theory and practice in China. In a short number of years, our annual conference has developed into a unique meeting place to understand the latest business developments in China and to keep abreast of the cutting edge research ideas in Management Science and Engineering. For information about the past conferences, please visit our new official website (under construction).
The theme of the 2016 CSAMSE conference, Internet Plus and Scientific Management, reflects our desire to focus on the new challenges for the management practice of the traditional industries in the background of internet and mobile social network, and the corresponding data-driven management techniques and tools. We invite scholars in MSE (broadly defined) from around the world to present their research at the conference. The conference seeks papers in broad research areas within MSE, including but not limited to following topics:

Supply chain management（供应链管理）
Logistics management（物流管理）
Electronic commerce （电子商务）
Internet service （互联网服务）
Mobile social network（移动社交网络）
Big data management（ 大数据管理）
Internet finance （互联网金融）
Supply chain finance （供应链金融）
Services operations management （服务运营管理）
Manufacturing operations management （制造运营管理）
Behavioral operations research （行为运筹学）
Behavioral operations management （行为运营管理）
Revenue management （收益管理）
Technology and service management （技术和服务管理）
Innovation management （创新管理）
Manufacturing strategy （制造战略）
Risk management （风险管理）
Information management （信息管理）
Decision analysis （决策分析）
Portfolio optimization （组合优化）
Financial mathematics （金融数学）
Operations management in financial institution （金融机构运营管理）
Marketing in internet （互联网营销）
Humanitarian logistics （人道救援物流）
Healthcare management （医疗卫生管理）
Product quality and safety issues （产品质量和安全问题）
Social responsibility and sustainability （社会责任与可持续性）

　  As in the past, we will invite world-renown scholars and industry thought leaders to give keynote speeches and lead panel discussions. The past keynote speakers include some of the most distinguished academic and business leaders from in and out of China:
Some of the past keynote speakers from academia (in the order of the year of the conference):

• Dr. Wei Zhang, then Deputy Director-General (2005-2010), Department of Management Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2008.
• Dr. Stephen C. Graves, Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science, Sloan School of Management , Massachusetts Institute of Techonolgy (MIT),  editor in chief of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2009 & Nanjing University, Suzhou 2012.
• Dr. Michael L. Pinedo, Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management,Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), editor of the Journal of Scheduling and department editor of Production and Operations Management (POM), at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2009.
• Dr. Marshal Fisher, UPS Professor, Wharton School, INFROMS George E. Kimball Medal recipient, at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, 2010.
• Dr. Gerard P. Cachon, Fred R. Sullivan Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wharton School, editor in chief of Management Science, at Tianjin University, Tianjin, 2011.
• Dr. Eitan Zemel, W. Edwards Deming Professorship in Quality and Productivity, Dean of Business and Engineering, NYU Shanghai, Vice Dean for Global and Executive Programs, NYU Stern, at Peking University, Beijing, 2013.

Some of the past keynote speakers from industries (in chronological order ):

• Dr. Gang Yu, co-founder and chairman of Yihaodian, one of the leading e-commerce sites in China, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2008.
• Dr. Weihua Ma, then President and CEO of China Merchants Bank, atShanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2009.
• Mr. Qinghou Zong, Chairman and CEO of the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2009.
• Mr. Weiming Sun, then CEO of Suning Appliance Co., Ltd, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2009.
• Mr. Edwin Keh, then Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Walmart Global Procurement, at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, 2010.
• Dr. Caishi Jiang, Senior Vice President of People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC), at Tianjin University, Tianjin, 2011.
• Mr. Amit Midha, Vice President of Dell, Chairman of Dell Greater China, President, Dell South Asia & APJ CSMB, at Tianjin University, Tianjin, 2011.
• Dr. Ping Lian, Chief Economist, Bank of Communications, at Nanjing University, Suzhou 2012.
• Mr. Dengcai He, Vice President of China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, Vice President of China Association of Logistics, at Peking University, Beijing, 2013.

　  The CSAMSE Young Scholars Colloquium will take place again at the 2016 CSAMSE conference.  It will be again co-chaired by Prof. Fuqiang Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis) and Prof. Rachel Chen (University of California, Davis). We cordially invite young scholars (assistant/associate professors and advanced doctoral students) to the colloquium that will feature panel discussions with leading academics who have extensive research and senior editorial experience. Past panelists included Dr. Stephen Graves (MIT) and the current Editor-in-Chief of MSOM and Dr. Fangruo Chen  (Columbia University, the founding president of CSAMSE), Dr. Michael Pinedo (NYU), Dr.Jingsheng Song(Duke University) and Dr. Wei Zhang (Tianjin University) and other renown scholars. The purpose of this colloquium is to bring together young scholars in the field of Management Science and Engineering to discuss the challenges they face in research and in the process of publishing in top-tier journals. To ensure the quality and the effectiveness of the colloquium, attendees are limited to 60 in total. Pre-registration at the conference website which will be included in the conference registration page is required for the colloquium and seats are assigned on a first-come first-serve basis.　
For updated information about the conference, please visit the 2016 conference website.

2. Conference registration and payment

Registration
All attendees of the 2016 CSAMSE conference, giving presentations or not, should first create an account and then register at the conference website (Under construction) 
 Note: We cannot guarantee space for on-site registrants.

Submissions
All attendees planning to make a presentation at the conference should submit an abstract.
To enter the Best Paper Award competition, please indicate so and submit an abstract and the full paper.
To register for the CSAMSE Young Scholars Colloquium, please indicate so in your registration. Please note only assistant/associate professors and doctoral students are qualified to register for the colloquium; and the seats are limited to 60 people and will be assigned on first-come, first-serve basis.

Payment

*Attendee’s registration fee will only cover the conference materials, coffee/tea break, lunch and dinner
*Guest’s registration fee will only cover dinner.
*Attendee’s guest is only limited to his\her family member or companion.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 10, 2016.
Deadline for full paper submission for the Best Paper Award competition: May 30, 2014

The abstracts, full papers if participating in the competition, and presentations must all be in English.

Full paper submission for Best Paper Award Competition
a. The best paper competition will be sponsored by the China Business Initiative of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University. The winners will receive a check and are given an opportunity to visit the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University for one year as a visiting scholar. 
b. All papers in the competition must be presented in the conference. The full paper is limited to 32 pages maximum. The award will be announced in the first day of the conference.
c. Participants in the competition can recommend 5 referees (excluding co-authors, colleagues in the same institution, former thesis advisors/students, relatives, etc.). If you choose to do so, please provide the referees’ contact information (title, phone number, and email address.) and send it to csamse2016@aliyun.com .
d. An Award Committee will be formed to determine the winners, with preference given to the papers addressing research questions related to the business operations in China, among other standard academic criteria.
The CSAMSE No-Show-then-Never-Show Policy
For the sake of the due respect to all who make the efforts to organize and attend the CSAMSE conference, it is our policy that if a person who submitted a paper to present but doesn't show up to present without arranging a replacement presenter and without a prior notice to, and obtaining approval by, the organizing committee, his or her submission/applications will NOT be accepted for any future CSAMSE conferences and events, including the CSAMSE Young Scholar Colloquium and the CSAMSE Best Paper Award Competition.

3. Conference Agenda
To be announced on the conference website.

4. Hotel
Please check for the hotel information at the conference website (under construction) to book room following the instructions.

5. Tour
To let all scholars enjoy more pleasure of participating in the annual event this year, we will arrange a tour to Huangshan Mountain, a world-renown particularly great place of interest in Anhui. Please see the up-date information about the tour in our conference website and undertake an additionally associated cost for tour if you are interested in join it.

Important Dates

6. Contact us
If you have any questions about the conference, please visit the conference website (under construction)  for the latest developments. You could also contact our organizers:

Dr. Sheng Ang
Secretary of Organizing Committee
csamse2016@aliyun.com
 

With warm regards,

Fangruo Chen (陈方若)
Founding President of CSAMSE and Conference Chair
MUTB Professor of International Business
Columbia Business School
Columbia University

 
Host:　　　　　 
The Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering

Sponsors:　　　
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
School of Management, Hefei University of Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Business Initiative, Chazen Institute, Columbia Business School