AIMAC 2005

Call for Papers

Conference themes

This conference will address various sectors of the arts and cultural industries, such as:

performing arts and festivals
heritage
museums and visual arts
film production and distribution
book publishing
recording
broadcasting, audiovisual media and multimedia

Papers on all management approaches are welcome: marketing, strategic planning, production, organizational behaviour, accounting and finance, information systems. Contributions from social scientists are also welcome if they focus on management issues. For instance, the most recent conference included sessions on:

marketing and the arts
financial management
audience research
human resources management
consumption of cultural products
the Internet and cultural management

Conference participants

AIMAC is an academic conference that will be of interest to researchers in the field of arts management, social scientists working on issues related to arts management, and anyone else concerned with addressing arts management problems from a scientific point of view.

Conference proceedings

All papers accepted by the Scientific Committee will be published in the conference proceedings, a copy of which will be available at the opening of the conference and is covered by the registration fee.

Proposals, submissions, deadlines

All those wishing to present a paper at the conference must submit an abstract of 750-1,500 words (2-3 pages), along with the completed proposal form. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 October 2004. Abstracts may be submitted in English or French and must include:

research objective or questions
research methodology and theoretical perspectives
main findings or conclusions

Abstracts (with the completed proposal form) should be sent to:

Professor François Colbert
Carmelle and Rémi Marcoux Chair in Arts Management
HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal, Québec H3T 3A7
Canada
Telephone: (514) 340-6827
Fax: (514) 340-6432

The deadline for submission of final papers is 1 April 2005. Final papers should not exceed 20 pages (double spacing, around 6000 words) with appendixes and references included. They should be sent on both disk and hard copy to the same address.