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FMOS 2024 Research Conference

At the crossroads of Finance, Marketing, and Operations for Sustainable Business

2nd Edition / 7th - 8th June 2024
FMOS 2024 is the second edition of our conference on Finance, Marketing, and Operations for Sustainable Business. FMOS 2024 gathers researchers, especially the forthcoming generation of scholars, and helps them disseminate their works on sustainability at the crossroads of finance, marketing, and operations. A fantastic occasion to meet and share ideas to shape a more sustainable business.

The conference will take place online from the 7th to the 8th of June, 2024. During the two days, presenters will share their work; renowned keynote speakers and other scientific events for young and more advanced scholars will also be held.
Conference Hashtag

Conference Topics

The conference is multidisciplinary and encourages discussion between researchers from different perspectives. Topics will include but are not limited to:
  • Post-pandemic sustainability
  • Diversity, equity & inclusion
  • New visions for transport
  • Innovation in transport
  • Artificial Intelligence & Sustainability
  • Metaverse and Sustainability
  • Poverty reduction
  • Responsible and sustainable tourism
  • Risk Management
  • Challenges in Retail Operations
  • Service Operations Management
  • Servitisation as a business model
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable solutions in Operations and Logistics
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Total Quality Management and Six Sigma
  • Sustainable operations
  • Emerging countries
  • Renewable energy production/solutions
  • Environmental recovery
  • Financial Technology
  • Post-pandemic sustainability
  • Diversity, equity & inclusion
  • New visions for transport
  • Innovation in transport
  • Artificial Intelligence & Sustainability
  • Metaverse and Sustainability
  • Poverty reduction
  • Responsible and sustainable tourism
  • Risk Management
  • Challenges in Retail Operations
  • Service Operations Management
  • Servitisation as a business model
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable solutions in Operations and Logistics
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Total Quality Management and Six Sigma
  • Sustainable operations
  • Emerging countries
  • Renewable energy production/solutions
  • Environmental recovery
  • Financial Technology

Important Deadlines

31st March 2024
Early Bird Registration
26th May 2024
Abstract Deadline
26th May 2024
Regular Registration Deadline
2nd June 2024
Late Registration Deadline

Registration and Conference Fee

Registration

and Conference Fee

Early Bird (until 31st March 2024)
CHF 25
Regular Registration (until 26th May 2024)
CHF 40
Late Registration (until 2nd June 2024)
CHF 50
Early Bird
(until 31st March 2024)
CHF 25
Regular Registration
(until 26th May 2024)
CHF 40
Late Registration
(until 2nd June 2024)
CHF 50
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Students and scholars from developing countries can apply for fee reduction or complimentary participation by writing to the organising committee at fmos@aus.swiss.

Keynote speakers

  • Dr. Barbara CZYZEWSKA

    Originally from Poland and educated in the UK, Dr. Barbara Czyżewska moved to Switzerland to head the Luxury Brand Strategy Specialization in Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland. She is also an independent luxury hospitality consultant and highly qualified learning and development specialist. She is a speaker and a published author of ‘The Story of Hilton Hotels" and several articles about luxury guest experiences. Expert in user experience design, luxury communication and buyer behaviour, she advises companies on creating unique customer experiences.

  • Dr. Mohamed Amine ISSAMI

    Professor Mohamed Amine Issami is a professor-researcher at the ISCAE Group, attached to the Finance and Accounting Department. He holds a Habilitation to direct research in Management Sciences and a PhD in Economic Sciences, Money-Finance-Banking option. As of April 2019, Professor Mohamed Amine Issami will take up the post of Director in charge of Development, International Relations and Communication at the ISCAE Group. He is a former senior researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zürich (ETH Zurich) and taught at IMD Lausanne as part of the MBA programme. In 2018, Professor Mohamed Amine ISSAMI won the Best Paper Award at the ICTO Conference in Paris Nanterre, published by Springer, and his course "Portfolio Management" is listed as an accredited syllabus by Bloomberg for Education, New York. Professor Mohamed Amine Issami is a member of the reading committee of the American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems and the Business Review of the IUG in Geneva. He is accredited by the CNAM INTEC Paris.

  • Dr. Sajal KABIRAJ

    Dr. Kabiraj is presently employed at the School of Business, Design and Technology at Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Finland. Through his teaching career in China as a tenured Full Professor and elsewhere, he has been awarded the Best Teacher Awards in 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2018 for academic research and teaching excellence. He has supervised theses at the postgraduate level, including MBA, MSc, and Doctoral students. He is a Ph.D. supervisor and examiner. He has strong international practice area and research experience in multinational corporations.


    Dr. Kabiraj serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at United Nations University-CRIS within the Regions and Cities Governance Lab (Re-LAB). At UNU-CRIS his research primarily focusses on strategic negotiations and sustainability for EU’s Future Governance at various levels. The research focuses on the question of how regional organisations, in collaboration with other societal actors, can contribute to the substance and ethical forms of transnational governance mechanisms and sustainable development as defined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research seeks to examine the interaction and reciprocal effects between regional organisations and the multilateral system. In addition to active publishing, he likes to be active in collaboration with societal stakeholders and create societal impact.


    He received the Outstanding Contribution Award for Research and Teaching from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, PR China in 2018. He has been awarded the highest honor to foreign

    experts “Xinghai Friendship Award 2015” by the Mayor of Dalian City, Dalian Municipal Government, PR China. Initiated in 1996, the Xinghai Friendship Award is the city’s highest honor for achievement by a foreigner in education, economic and social development.

  • Dr. Rahul Pratap Singh KAURAV

    Professor Dr. Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav is an Associate Professor with the FORE School of Management (FSM), New Delhi, India, where he is responsible for teaching, training, research, consultancy, and external communication and branding. His teaching and research interests include Marketing Management, Services Marketing, Research Methodology, Marketing Research, Marketing Analytics, and Tourism Marketing. He is a professionally acquired trainer for quantitative and qualitative research software. He has published 48 research papers in national and international journals of repute, 14 full papers as chapters in edited books, and more than 22 research papers in conference proceedings. He had Contractual Assignments with the online program of the University of Liverpool, UK, as a DBA thesis supervisor. He is also associated with the BITS-Pilani, India and Taylor’s University, Malaysia, as an adjunct faculty member.

  • Dr. Denis ROCHAT

    Dr. Denis Rochat has thirty years of experience in Marketing Research at Nielsen, a world leader, where he was the Managing Director for Benelux, i.e. Belgium-The Netherlands-Luxembourg. More recently, he has founded and is the Chief Executive Officer of 7Mind7, a Belgian consulting company. Next, he is a lecturer for executive education at HEG Geneva - University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, at EDHEC Business School, a leading French Grande École in Paris and Lille, and the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in Belgium. Dr Rochat received his PhD in Economics and Management at the Université of Paris Cergy in France, an Advanced Master’s in Economics and Quantitative Economics, and a Master’s in Economics at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in Belgium.

  • Dr. Domenico VITI

    Dr. Domenico Viti, Chair of Agri-Food Law at University of Foggia. Focus of research are comparative studies on the sustainable management of the food chain. Past President of the Apulian branch of the environmental and national heritage preservation association Italia Nostra.

  • Dr. K. MATHIYAZHAGAN
    Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan is the Chairperson of the Research Centre and Associate Professor at Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, holds esteemed editorial positions in leading journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier), Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley), Management Decision (Emerald), and Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal (Springer). He has guest edited special issues for renowned publications including Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), and International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM). Dr. Mathiyazhagan's contributions have earned him recognition among the Top 2% of scientists according to Stanford’s list and numerous research citations, with one paper receiving the Excellence Citation Award from Emerald Publisher Ltd. He is actively involved in editing international books for Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and Springer publishers, and has been invited for research collaborations and workshops globally. With a focus on Green and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, and Lean Six Sigma, Dr. Mathiyazhagan continues to drive impactful research and academic initiatives, including receiving grants for conducting Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) on topics like Six Sigma in Quality Management and Circular Economy. He also serves as a visiting faculty at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
  • Dr. Ahmed ELMASRY

    Professor Ahmed Elmasry is a Professor of Corporate Finance and Governance. He has a PhD in Finance from the Alliance Manchester Business School. He has been working in academia for more than thirty years. His research interests are mainly risk management, corporate governance, and stock market behavior, as well as Islamic banking & finance. Dr. Elmasry has a good track of publications in high-quality journals such as the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, the International Journal of Finance and Economics, the Journal of Operational Research Society, Expert Systems with Applications, the International Journal of Hospitality Management, the Journal of Travel Research, Computers in Human Behaviour, Economic Modelling, Manchester School Journal, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Maritime Policy and Management, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Currently, Prof. El-Masry is a member of the American Finance Association, the British Accounting and Finance Association, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and the British Academy of Management. He has been a Fellow at the British Academy of Higher Education (FHEA) since 2007.
  • Dr. Christopher GOH
    Dr. Christopher Goh worked in the banking industry for some 25-year over 6 different banks, experienced 6 different types of management styles and cultures.
    He has more than 20-year of corporate training experiences with clients from Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. He has secured an on-going ERM & Sustainability Consultancy project that used solution-focused executive coaching for both ERM &
    Sustainability team and Risk BoDs in South Africa especially this national electricity firm is implementing risk, environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies across enterprise-wide.
    Dr. Goh is also a visiting Professor to SP Jain School of Global Management and Sun-Yat Sen University, where his MBA students will conduct field research to gather data from companies, use predictive and prescriptive analytical tools to experiment the data to derive new framework and models for adoption in those companies as best
    practice.
    He holds DBA in Design Thinking for Enterprise Risk Management with UITM,
    Poland, DPhil in Finance, IMCA at Oxford, England, UK and an MBA from University of
    East London, UK. Dr. Christopher is currently the Head of Banking, Finance and Sustainability at the Swiss Institute of Management and Science (SIMS), Zug, Switzerland.

Organizing Committee

  • Giuseppe CATENAZZO, Head of Research at the American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland & Affiliate Professor at ICN Business School in Nancy & Paris, France.

  • Aleksandra ZAJĄC, Researcher at the American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland & Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Racibórz, Poland.

Scientific Committee

  • Khalifa AHSINA, Professor, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morrocco.
  • Mahmut BAKIR, Assistant Professor and Vice Director, School of Civil Aviation, Samsun University, Turkey
  • Debjani BANERJEE, Professor Economics & Strategy Associate Dean Quality Assurance and Accreditation, VES Business School, Chembur, India
  • Ruaa Omar BINSADDIG, Dean of Scientific Research at the University of Business and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Mélanie Florence BONINSEGNI, Assistant Professor, IPAG Business School, Paris, France.
  • Lucilia CARDOSO, CiTUR - Polytechnic University of Leiria, Portugal.
  • Giuseppe CATENAZZO, Head of Research, American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland & Affiliate Professor, ICN Business School, Nancy & Paris, France.
  • Seda ÇEKEN, Lecturer at Istanbul University, Turkey
  • Monica Maria COROȘ, Associate Professor, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • Iwona FLOREK, WSGE University of Applied Sciences, Poland
  • Giovana Goretti Feijó DE ALMEIDA, Researcher at CiTUR - Polytechnic University of Leiria, Portugal Visiting Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR, Brasil)
  • Luzia Arantes DE AMORIM, Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
  • Emmanuel FRAGNIÈRE, Professor, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HEG Valais/Wallis), Sierre/Siders, Switzerland.
  • Marta CZARNECKA-GALLAS, Researcher & Project Coordinator, Association of Sea Cities and Municipalities, Poland
  • N. Gülfem GİDENER, Assistant Professor, Dokuz Eylul University, İzmir, Turkey.
  • Olli-Pekka HILMOLA, Professor, LUT University, Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta, Finland, Visiting Professor, Taltech, Estonian Maritime Academy, Tallinn, Estonia & Visiting Professor, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden.
  • Sajal KABIRAJ, Principal Lecturer, Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Valkeakoski, Finland.
  • Mohammad KANAN, Vice Dean of Scientific Research & Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at the University of Business and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Angela MADAN, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Department of Marketing, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Vedran MILOJICA, PhD Candidate, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija, Croatia.
  • Rafael PEREZ PENA, Associate Professor, Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States of America.
  • Goran PERIĆ, Professor, Toplica Academy of Applied Studies, Blace, Serbia
  • Milena PODOVAC, Assistant Professor, University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia
  • Christophe RETHORE, Associate Professor & Director of the Marketing Department, ICN Business School, Nancy & Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany.
  • Domenico VITI, Associate Professor, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
  • Aleksandra ZAJĄC, Researcher, American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland & Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences, Racibórz, Poland.

Conference Journals

Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development

Journal of Knowledge Management Application and Practice

An International Journal

Advanced Engineering Technology and Application

Partner Journals

Journal of Modern Science
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on risk and financial management, published monthly online by MDPI.
Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development
Special issue on the Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development provides an international forum for a better understanding of best practices of management focusing on sustainable development. It offers an enthusiastic scientific platform that contributes to the Latin business society in sustainability transitions.
Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace

Research in Aviation Management (RAM)

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Please note that each journal has its own publication, review, fee, and paper selection rules that are independent of FMOS. Abstract or paper submission and presentation at FMOS do not guarantee publication in our partner journals' regular or special issues.

Academic Partners

  • University of Business and Technology

    The University of Business and Technology (UBT) is a private university located in Saudi Arabia that was established in 2005 and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business, technology, and science.

    UBT has a reputation for providing quality education and hands-on training to its students, with a focus on practical applications of business and technology. The university is recognized by the Saudi Commission for Higher Education (SCHE) and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) in the United States.