In its 10th year, the Quality and Business Management Conference is delighted to invite researchers, practitioners and academics from across the globe to present their research findings, case studies and conceptual work in areas related this year’s theme: Unleashing Innovation, Empowering Entrepreneurship. The Conference offers a valuable platform for academics and practitioners to explore and aid entrepreneurs in developing a sustained economy through innovation.


In line with the above theme, the Conference Committee is seeking contributions from scholars as well as professionals on all aspects and dimensions of innovation in business management, in the form of full papers, case studies, poster presentations, and extended abstracts. The call for papers is open for general debate on topics related to:

Track 1: Business, management and entrepreneurship
Focus Areas:
• Marketing luxury
• Managing for growth
• The contribution of practitioners toward Green Economy
• 3D Printing technology, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality: Is society at the tipping point?
• Unintended consequences of innovations and how to manage them
• Employee voice, engagement and loyalty
• Entrepreneurship in MENA region
• Creativity, innovation & entrepreneurship
• Sustainability and regional development
• Corporate social responsibility
• HR and sustainability culture
• Green HRM
• Successful practices to support innovation
• Services management
• Customer experience management
• Green marketing
• Sustainable tourism
• Accounting and financial reporting
• Integrated reporting
• Corporate governance and risk management
• Sustainability accounting


Track 2: Quality management and sustainability
Focus Areas:
• Emotional intelligence and quality
• TQM and CSR nexus: the role of transformational leadership
• Quality management and the national and international competitiveness
• Synergistic collaboration of management, knowledge management and total quality management
• Enablers of total quality management for sustainable development
• Managerial challenges and enablers for implementing sustainability-focused TQM
• Integrating sustainable thought into the business practices
• Creating and sustaining positive energy
• Intelligent quality tools and methods
• Service Quality
• New Practices in TQM sustainability
• Entrepreneur practices in quality focused organizations

Track 3: Islamic Banking, Finance
Focus Areas:
• Islamic economy and sustainable development
• Dubai the capital of Islamic economy
• Bridging the gap between theory and practice
• Islamic tourism & hospitality
• New and Innovative Islamic financial products
• Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions
• Performance & Growth of Sukuks
• Islamic Economics
• Takaful (Islamic insurance)
• Case Studies of Islamic Financial Institutions
• CSR: Islamic perspective
• Microfinance
• Islamic Contracts’ Arbitration
• Islamic business ethics
• Islamic capital market
• Shortage of experts in Islamic banking
• Absence of accounting (and auditing) standards pertinent to Islamic organizations
• Lack of uniform standards of credit analysis
• Provision of short term investment instruments

Track 4: Public Management & Government Service Excellence
Focus Areas:
• Sustainable cities and human settlements
• Innovation as a National Value
• Success Stories: Innovations in Government
• Entrepreneurship in the public sector
• Sustainable transport
• Smart Governments
• Nurturing Innovation
• Sustainability performance in the public sector
• Environmental sustainability in the public sector: leadership & challenges
• The Race for National Competitiveness
• Government as the Engine of Innovation