Since the beginning of this century, strategic management and strategies have been before challenges and opportunities related to transition of both state and sector level, as well as the level of organizations themselves. A completely changed and completer environment represents challenges for strategy researchers in terms of presenting concept and theories for theories for their research, as well as new methodologies based on multi-level research, with the aim of recognising multiple external and internal changes to which the organisation is exposed. Such an environment creates a permanently strong pressure on organizations to overcome the fast-changing economic, institutional and social conditions and develop such sustainable development strategies that would secure growth and long-term survival of organisations. When seeking adequate solutions, organisations are in constant need of innovation, whether product, services, business processes or business models. Their transformation is especially conditioned by digital technologies as well, i.e. their implementation in business. The transformation comprises various activities, and all of them affect a change in strategies of organisations and their strategic business models. Old rules of strategic management, adopted through globalisation, are hard to implement in their unchanged form. It is therefore of special significance for our conference to see a change of experiences of researchers and managers from practice related to problems of de-globalisation, transition, innovation and transformation.

• Basic concepts and process of strategic management;
• Strategic decision making;
• Strategy formulation;
• Strategy implementation;
• Corporate and business strategies;
• Functional strategies – marketing strategy, finance management strategy, human resource management strategy, research and development strategy;
• Strategic performance management;
• Strategy in global and national environment;
• Innovation in strategic management;
• Entrepreneurship and strategy;
• Digital transformation strategy;
• Theory and structure of organisation;
• Business models and strategies;
• Business processes in strategic management:
• Business and digital strategy;
• Business intelligence and strategic management;
• Strategic management in non-profit organisations;
• Strategic management in service organisations:
• SMART strategies;
• Sustainable development strategies.

Presentations of papers will be organized in plenary, poster and parallel sessions. The discussion at the plenary session is centralized, while the parallel sessions are based on a specific thematic area. Prior to poster session, authors will briefly present their posters in specially organized plenary session.
The virtual session will be organized separately. Participants are given the opportunity to present papers without the immediate presence at the Scientific Symposium.
Organizers

• University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

Sponsors
Organizations and associations interested in presence at the Scientific Symposium and co-financing reduced registration fee for the participants.

Scientific Board

• Aleksandar Grubor, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia, president
• Nemanja Berber, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia, co-chair
• Predrag Matković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia, co-chair
• Dušan Bobera, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Agneš Slavić, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Slobodan Marić, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Bojan Leković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Maja Strugar Jelača, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Peter Harmath, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Jovica Đurković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Pere Tumbas, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Saša Bošnjak, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Zita Bošnjak, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Marton Sakal, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Laslo Šereš, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Zoran Ćirić, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Vuk Vuković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia,
• Lazar Raković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Оtilija Sedlak, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Radmilo Todosijević, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Božidar Leković, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Stevan Vasiljev, Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia
• Živan Ristić, University for Peace est. by United Nations, Beograd, Serbia
• Nabojša Janićijević, Faculty of Economics Beograd, Serbia
• Aleksandar Živković, Faculty of Economics Beograd, Serbia
• Jelena Kočović, Faculty of Economics Beograd, Serbia
• Dragan Đuričin, Faculty of Economics Beograd, Serbia
• Ivana Domazet, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
• Novak Kondić, Faculty of Economics Banja Luka,
• Vladimir Šimović, Sveučilište Sjever, Koprivnica, Hrvatska
• Ivan Brezina, Faculty of Economic Informatics Bratislava, Slovakia
• Tom Gillpatrick, Portland State University, USA
• Leland Buddress, Portland State University, USA
• Petr Fiala, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
• Adrian Cojocariu, Tibiscus University, Timisoara, Romania
• Peter Horvat, University of Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
• Oleg Roy, Omsk State University, Russia
• Ludmila N. Ivanova, Omsk State University, Russia
• Bojan Rosi, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Pawel Lula, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
• Vulnet Ameti, State University of Tetova, Macedonia
• Kosta Sotiroski, Faculty of Economics Prilep, Macedonia
• Ljubomir Drakulevski, Faculty of Economics Skopje, Macedonia
• Atilla Fabian, University of West Hungary, Hungary
• Qinghua Song, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
• Chen Zhiyong, Zhongnan Univestiy of Economics and Law, China
• Wang Hualu, Zhongnan Univestiy of Economics and Law, China
• Andreas Zehetner, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Organisational board

• Pere Tumbas, president
• Emina Đurković, secretary
• Mirjana Marić
• Olivera Grljević
• Radenko Marić
• Radmila Bjekić
• Branimir Kalaš
• Bojan Matkovski
• Aleksandar Vugdelija
• Aleksandar Vasiljević
• Ana Trbović

Who should attend?

• Representatives of universities and research organizations,
• Managers of business organizations, public companies, non-governmental organizations ...
• Doctoral students.

Venue

• Subotica, 17th May, 2019.

Language

• All papers must be written in English or Serbian language.

Important dates

• Deadline for submission of full abstracts of up to 2000 characters including spaces: 28 February, 2019.
• Information on the abstract acceptance: 11 March, 2019.
• Deadline for submission of complete papers: 12 April, 2019.
• Information on paper acceptance and deadline for registration: 3 May, 2019.
• Deadline for late registration: 10 May, 2019.

Registration

	In-Person participants	Virtual participants
Standard registration	100€ PhD Students 70€	60€ PhD Students 40€
Late registration	120€ PhD Students 90€	70€ PhD Students 50€

Note:
For direct presence at the meeting registration and payment of registration costs is necessary for each participant. Direct participation fee includes the following:

• Publishing paper in the electronic symposium proceedings (with ISBN label).
• Participation in the plenary and all separately organized sessions.
• Participation in the poster session.
• Copy of the conference program and the electronic book of abstracts, certificate of participation.
• Participation in the gala dinner on 16th May, 2019.
• Buffet-lunch during the break between the plenary and parallel sessions, refreshments during breaks.

Virtual participation fee includes the following:

• Publishing paper in the electronic conference proceedings (with ISBN label).
• Copy of the symposium program and the electronic book of abstracts, certificate of participation.
• Delivery of conference materials via courier service after the symposium.

Registration and submission of papers for the direct and virtual participation:

• The organizers of the Symposium will provide the plenary session papers. The presented papers should not exceed 10 pages, A4 page format, prepared according to the instructions on the Symposium Web site. After positive reviews, the papers will be published in the Book of Abstracts and the comprehensive electronic Symposium Proceedings in full scale.
• Papers should not exceed 8 pages, A4 format, prepared according to the instructions on the Sympsium Web site. The papers should be submitted on time. All accepted papers will be reviewed, allotted to parallel, virtual and poster sessions and published in the Book of Abstracts and electronic Symposium Proceedings.
• The best presented papers in English will be selected and submitted for double-blind peer review. Papers with positive reviews will be published in the International Journal of Strategic Management and Decision Support Systems in Strategic Management, ISSN 1821-3448.
• The best student papers are subject to special awards and certificates.
• Abstracts and full papers should be submitted to the Conference Secretary in electronic form according to the instructions on the Web site set www.ef.uns.ac.rs/sm2019

• Address: The Faculty of Economics, Subotica, Segedinski put 9-11, 24000 Subotica, Serbia
• contact: Emina Djurkovic, Conference Secretary
• Phone: +381 24 628 127
• E-mail: sm2019@ef.uns.ac.rs
• Web page: https://www.ef.uns.ac.rs/sm2019