Free Markets and Social Inclusion: Towards a common goal
2013 BALAS Annual Conference
March 20-22, 2013 - Lima, Peru
Hosted by Universidad ESAN

Paper Submission Due Date November 1, 2012

Our economies are suffering the consequences of a free market without values. A combination of uncontrollable actions of the companies and government in North America and Europe has caused a crisis. We need to think about the mistakes of our economic model. What were the mistakes?, Why our system permit this to occur?, What actions we have to take as society when the “invisible hand” is not capable to protect us?. Adam Smith was a moralist, he was worried about the consequences of the human actions, in his book “the theory of the moral feelings” he points that justice is a virtue absolutely necessary in society. He states that free markets need virtue

Social inclusion is an act of justice and it must be the common goal of our society. For the BALAS 2013 conference we are interested in answering these questions we formerly point. We think, as Smith said that our human actions must carry sympathy to the effect in other humans. We expect contributions about social inclusion in the actions of all the stakeholders of our society from a Latin America perspective. We have practiced our individual free market model that for any reason, have protected us from the effect of the crisis, perhaps because we are in another cycle of life of the model or we are more collectivist than other societies, etc. Advancement of the implications for academic research, managerial practice and public policy are greatly welcome. Besides of inviting you to submit to the Conference Theme Tracks, BALAS also encourages submissions to the regular Conference Tracks. All papers submitted must focus on the business or economic environment of Latin America or the Caribbean. Paper deadline submission is November 1, 2012.

BALAS publishes a conference Proceedings of the papers accepted and presented at the conference. In addition the Journal of Business Research and Academia / Revista Latinoamericana de Administración will publish special issues with the best papers of the BALAS 2013 conference.

CONFERENCE THEME TRACKS
Asia Pacific with Latin America
Free Markets and Social Inclusion

GENERAL LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS TRACKS
Accounting, Taxation and Management Information and Control Systems
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Finance
Culture, Social and Ethical Issues
Economic Environment and Regional Integration
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Financial Markets, Investment and Risk Management
Human Resource Management
Information Technology Management
Marketing Management
Management Education and Teaching Cases
Supply-Chain and Operations Management

Programme Chair: Jorge Talavera, President Universidad ESAN

Organizing Committee: Nancy Matos, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Mariella Olivos, Undergraduate Program Advisor
Universidad ESAN

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