Track Chair:
Dr. Adeel Tariq, NUST Business School, ([email protected])
Description: Today fast-paced changes, grand challenges such as COVID-19, far-reaching technological developments, new digital platforms, and infrastructures (fintech, mobile business apps, new space economy, artificial intelligence, mixed realities. the internet of things, cloud computing, blockchain) are making a deep impact on businesses, societies, and economies. These unprecedented changes are drawing businesses inevitably into new digital economies where disruption is a new norm and resultantly, new creative industries have emerged, and others at least
have to change their traditional form of the business. Thus, the new context of digitalization and disruption, where disruption itself is disrupted, have offered space for new creations and opportunities and requires organization to embrace innovation as an integral part of their strategy to deal with changes and extend the opportunities for the business. Relevant topics to this track include, and are not limited to, Digital Transformation, Disruptive Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Digital Innovation, Fintech, Cloud and Big Data, Crowdsourcing and IT, Digital Innovation Leadership, Digital Strategy, Technology Transfer, Innovative Work Behavior, Creative Performance, New Product Development, Green Innovation, Product Innovation, Process Innovation, Social Innovation, Frugal Innovation, User Innovation, Design Thinking, Social Media and Mobile, Innovation Management, Innovative Start-Ups Innovation Ecosystems,
Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs Initiative.
Keywords:
Management of Innovation, Open Innovation, Innovation Networks, Digital
Transformation, Digital Strategy, Digital Platforms, Disruptive Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Cloud and Big Data, Crowdsourcing and IT, Technology Transfer, Innovative Work Behavior, New Product Development, Social Innovation, Frugal Innovation, User Innovation, Design Thinking, Innovative Start-Ups Innovation Ecosystems, Healthcare Innovation,
Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs Initiative.
Production and Operations Management
Digitalization, Disruption, and Innovation
Strategy, Leadership and Organization
International Business and Management
Work and Organizational Psychology
Marketing and Hospitality Management
Labour, Globalization and Economic Development
Peace, Conflict Management and Economic Development
Green Energy and Sustainable Finance
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